Demoted from wife to concubine? Reborn, the mistress of a noble family plots another high-status mar

Chapter 713

I just didn't expect it to happen so soon.

"Please help Master Xiao." A palace maid brought over water, and a eunuch handed him a dagger, instructing him to cut his own blood.

Yun Xiaohan had already walked over and first cut his finger, letting a few drops of blood drip into the water.

My mother said it's fate.

Xiao Chen's face was very pale, and his hands were trembling. He was filled with regret and hatred for himself for not taking care of the mother and son back then.

If Xiao Liangshi hadn't taken her son away back then, perhaps she wouldn't have died, and today's tragedy wouldn't have happened.

If a blood test is performed, it will prove Xiao Han's identity.

The Xiao family and the young couple will be ruined.

Xiao Chen picked up the dagger, intending to slit his throat.

But Yun Xiaohan stopped her in time, asking, "What do you want to do?"

His face was ashen; doing this was a form of self-deception.

“You really are a coward, both in the past and now. Did you think that death would end everything? Let me tell you, the outcome will never change.”

Because of his cowardice, and for the sake of his past and the Xiao family, he ultimately abandoned him and his mother.

The Xiao family knew of their existence, but he was away from home most of the year, on the border or on the battlefield, and simply didn't have enough time to take care of the mother and child.

Madam Xiao, out of jealousy that he liked Xiao Liang, led her people into the courtyard.

They almost beat him and his mother to death.

In order to survive, her mother had no choice but to flee with her.

But what Xiao Chen heard was that Madam Liang was unwilling to be a mistress and deliberately provoked the Fourth Madam, so the Xiao family refused to acknowledge his status.

Liang then ran off with a wealthy merchant.

Xiao Chen believed it to be true and never contacted them again.

In truth, his mother never coveted his position as the principal wife; she simply wanted to survive.

He was only three years old when he left, and had never actually met his biological father. Xiao Chen had already gone to the border when he was born.

"I waited for you for three years and almost died in the alley courtyard... I had no choice but to leave. I went to the Xiao family in secret, but the old lady at the time did not recognize me."

In a fit of anger, Xiao Liang told her son that he had no father and that he had no relation to the Xiao family.

He believed the Xiao family was responsible for his mother's death and harbored resentment towards them, which explained his coldness towards Xiao Ling'er...

Xiao Chen was in tears; he could confirm that they were father and son without needing a blood test.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..."

"Han'er, I... I didn't mean to. I didn't even know you existed."

When they returned from the battlefield, Lady Da Liang was dead, and Lady Xiao Liang had run away.

Madam Xiao told him that Xiao Liang had a child with another man and then ran away.

They already had a misunderstanding in the past.

It is true that the Liang sisters, greedy for wealth and status, abandoned him and Lord Wan.

Xiao Chen was only angry at the time and never thought that his wife would lie to him out of jealousy and even almost kill the young Liang woman.

Madam Xiao Si will not admit it now.

I just cried, feeling pathetic!

If her husband keeps a mistress, is it wrong for her to beat the bastard child and that woman to death?

“I did nothing wrong. The Liang sisters are shameless for seducing married men. They deserve to be beaten to death.”

Yun Xiaohan looked at her with cold eyes and laughed, "What a pity that my worthless life has survived until now."

Madam Xiao's expression changed slightly.

"Fourth Madam, don't worry. I don't care about the meager inheritance of your Xiao family. No one will compete with your son for the family fortune."

Since the Xiao family has already admitted it, there is no need to conduct a blood test to determine kinship.

But the blood test for kinship still needs to be done.

After all, the Empress Dowager had already issued the decree.

Liu Muyuan felt confident of victory and was determined to ruin Yun Xiaohan's reputation today.

He then gestured for someone to grab Xiao Chen and forcibly dripped his blood into a bowl.

Everyone stared at the two drops of blood in the bowl.