The concubine is a man, and the illegitimate son of a divine physician has a spatial ability.

As they were talking, Granny Zhou continued with her work.

Yin Zijin couldn't help but think, "What kind of perverted place is this Great Sheng Dynasty? It's so terrible, it's like a collection of the dregs of various dynasties, forcing women to their deaths."

Then Yin Zijin thought again: "Alas! Perhaps the women here have already adapted, and those bound feet and bound breasts may have become objects of comparison for many women."

Just as in 16th-century Europe, where a slender waist was highly admired, Western women began to wear corsets. In order to make their waists thinner, some women even went without food for long periods of time. In more extreme cases, the corsets broke the ribs of women, and many women died from corsets.

In 18th-century European aristocratic women, natural beauty and the absence of makeup were considered beautiful. At some point, Western women came to find the appearance of tuberculosis patients beautiful, especially their pale complexion and teary eyes, which they considered fatally beautiful.

They all rushed to contract tuberculosis, trying every possible way to achieve this morbid beauty, because it was considered incredibly elegant. This thin, pale beauty, with slightly flushed cheeks like blush and teary eyes, even became the ideal of beauty for 18th-century European women, and their image at the end of their lives. This morbid beauty even became incredibly popular.

During the Rococo period, a new trend emerged in France that glorified high buns as beauty. Women wore their hair in incredibly tall buns, some reaching 0.8 meters in length, and some women even suffered neck injuries from the weight of the buns. Yin Zijing simply couldn't understand it. Wearing such heavy buns, not washing their hair for months, and having their heads infested with fleas and lice—was this really beautiful? And this terrible trend eventually spread throughout Europe. It's truly incomprehensible.

Yin Zijing thought for a long time but still couldn't figure it out, so she could only laugh softly at herself.

Granny Zhou glanced at Yin Zijing, her hands still busy, while comforting her, "Miss, please bear with it. No pain, no gain."

Yin Zijin couldn't help but say, "What does this have to do with me? I shouldn't have to bear this."

Granny Zhou's eyes turned cold, and she said seriously, "Sixth Miss, to put it bluntly, this old servant doesn't know if you are truly confused or just pretending."

With Madam's doting affection for you, we'll find you a good husband, and you can have a peaceful life, giving birth and settling down. This will be good for Madam, Concubine Li, Master, and the entire Yin family.

If any unspeakable secret gets out, young lady, do you think the master will punish you, or will he punish you as the mistress, for the sake of the Yin family's reputation?

Even if Madam has made mistakes, she is still the youngest daughter of the Zhang family of Luoyang, one of the four great families, and has been pampered since childhood. Out of respect for the Zhang family of Luoyang, Master will not punish her too severely.

Yin Zijing shuddered, thinking, "It seems I was right. Luckily, I didn't go to my father immediately, otherwise my future would have been bleak..."

Seeing that Yin Zijin was no longer moving, Granny Zhou assumed that Yin Zijin had given in and went even further.

Seeing Yin Zijing biting her red lips with a look of suppressed emotion, Granny Zhou quickly said, "Miss, it's alright, you can rest now."

Yin Zijing nodded, rubbed her wrist which was marked with red marks, and said, "Granny Zhou, you should go sleep on the daybed! I'm tired too, I need to rest."

Seeing that Yin Zijing's expression was not good, Granny Zhou said, "Alright, then this old servant will go to sleep first. If anything happens, just remember to call this old servant. Also, Miss, you must be careful not to hurt yourself, no matter what."

After saying this, Granny Zhou left the canopy bed and went to sleep on the daybed outside.

Yin Zijin had something on her mind, and she couldn't sleep soundly no matter what she did.

........................

At the beginning of the hour of Chou (1-3 AM), when the night was deep and everyone was fast asleep, Ruhe quietly got out of bed, put on her clothes in the dark, and quietly left her room. She went to the small garden in front of the second-floor attic to wait for Yin Jingyi's arrival.

Ruhe stood in the small pavilion in the garden, waiting for a long time. The hour of Chou had passed, but Yin Jingyi had not yet arrived. Feeling somewhat disappointed, she prepared to go back inside.

A man in black, displaying his lightness skill, moved like a ghost, his agile figure blending into the moonlight, and quickly landed in front of Ruhe.

Ruhe looked at the person in front of her and said in a low voice with a look of surprise, "Young Master, you've finally arrived! The young lady has been waiting for a long time."

Looking at the person in front of him, Yin Jingyi asked a series of questions: "Ruhe, is that you? What happened? Where is Zijing?"

Ruhe said anxiously, "Young Master, please ask Sixth Miss yourself if you have any questions! Sixth Miss is trapped in her own room, and Granny Zhou is guarding her. She can't get out."

"Think of a way to get Sixth Miss out. Remember, don't alert anyone else, especially Granny Zhou. Young Master, don't ask why. When you see Sixth Miss, she will tell you herself. Sixth Miss will tell you a shocking secret."

Yin Jingyi was shocked and puzzled by Ruhe's words, but he held back the question he wanted to ask and said to Ruhe, "I saw the look in Zijing's eyes today. It was as if she regarded me as her only lifeline. Zijing is my sister, and I will help her."

I'll go back first to get the sleeping potion. People who are drugged will sleep soundly until dawn the next day without any antidote.

"Alright, Ruhe, you should go back to sleep too! Leave the rest to me!"

Ruhe nodded and walked towards her room. Halfway there, she stopped below the attic, thinking to herself, "Although there's hardly anyone around at this hour, it's still best to be careful. I'll keep an eye on things for the young lady. If anyone does appear, I can inform her..."

The moment Ruhe turned around, Yin Jingyi had already vanished into the dark night with the lightness of a swallow.

Yin Zijing quickly entered her room, took out the sleeping pills, thought for a moment, then took out a black cloak from her cabinet, and quickly disappeared into the night.

Soon, Yin Jingyi quietly arrived at the entrance of Bihe Pavilion. He quietly opened the door and put the sleeping potion into the room. After a while, feeling that the time was about right, he gently pushed open the door and went in. When he entered the inner room, he checked on Granny Zhou and found that she had already fainted, so he was relieved.

Stepping into the canopy bed, Yin Jingyi glanced at the unconscious Yin Zijing, then lifted the thin blanket covering her, covered her with the cloak he had just brought, picked her up horizontally, and quickly walked out of Bihe Pavilion.

Using his light-footed skill, he landed nimbly in the small garden in front of the pavilion. There was a small pavilion in the garden. Yin Jingyi quickly placed Yin Zijing on the bench in the pavilion, then took out the antidote for the sleeping drug and fed it to Yin Zijing.

Not long after, Yin Zijing heard someone calling her and woke up groggily. When she saw that it was Yin Jingyi, Yin Zijing was very happy and said excitedly, "Brother, you've finally come. Are you here to help Zijing?"

Seeing that Yin Zijing was a little agitated, Yin Jingyi quickly comforted her, "Zijing, don't rush, speak slowly. Your brother is listening."

After calming down for a while, Yin Zijing blurted out what she had prepared: "Brother, what I'm about to say will overturn your imagination and will also be related to Mother. If you think what I say is unbelievable or slanders Mother, I have no complaints. You can tell Mother. I just want to find a way out for myself. I really don't want to go on like this anymore."

Yin Jingyi gently wiped away Yin Zijing's tears and comforted her, saying, "Zijing, tell me! I'm listening. I'll do my best to help you if I can. If Mother does anything shameful, I won't take her side."

Yin Zijing paused for a moment, then said, "Brother, you've always lived in the front courtyard, so you've never been exposed to those sordid things. But I've lived in the back courtyard for five years, and I've experienced everything."

Yin Zijing hesitated for a moment before dropping a bombshell: "Brother, actually, Zijing is a man just like you..."

Yin Jingyi froze, his eyes wide with surprise and disbelief. "What? Zijing, what did you say? Say it again, you said you're a man. How could that be?"

Yin Zijing supported herself and gave a bitter smile, saying, "Brother, if you look closely, you'll discover Zijing's true identity."

Before Yin Jingyi could recover from his initial shock, he was stunned again by Yin Zijing's actions. He calmed himself down and said, "Yes, Zijing, you're a man, so how could you..."

"How could it not be? Zijing is a man, and all of this is thanks to his mother."

At the moment Zijing was born, Aunt Li was favored. Fearing that Zijing would threaten her brother's position, her mother told others that Zijing was a girl. In order to keep the secret, her mother raised Zijing herself.

Her food, clothing, and daily necessities were the same as those of a young woman. From a very young age, her mother obtained various moisturizing ointments from the palace and used them all on Zijing. Therefore, Zijing's skin was fair and delicate, indistinguishable from a woman's. So, to outsiders, Zijing appeared exactly like a woman. Even her brother didn't notice, did he?

Yin Zijing gave a self-deprecating laugh. Seeing that Yin Jingyi didn't react, he continued, "Brother, Zijing is a man. There's nothing I can do about my body being treated like this. If my feet are bound again, I'll be driven mad. At that time, I might be trapped in my boudoir forever, becoming a young lady from a respectable family. But I'm not willing to accept that. I'm a man!"

As she spoke, tears welled up in Yin Zijing's eyes. She thought to herself, "If I didn't have my modern memories, I might accept all of this. But I've lived in the modern world for over thirty years and experienced so much. How can I accept this?"

In the time-travel novels I used to read, the male and female protagonists who traveled to the past were like gods, pontificating about the world.

But is that really the case? The environment here oppresses you; how can you resist? If you stand out, you'll only be seen as a monster, as a madman. Cattle and sheep graze in herds, while wild beasts roam alone; a single tree cannot make a forest; a tree that stands out in the forest will surely be felled by the wind.

Perhaps I'll be assimilated by the environment of the Great Sheng Dynasty, but until that happens, I can't go back to the present. I want to give it my all! I just want to escape my current situation, live a good life, and have a good time.

Yin Jingyi listened silently to Yin Zijin's accusations. Every piece of news shocked him. Seeing Yin Zijin crying so hard, Yin Jingyi comforted her, "Zijin, don't cry. After hearing what you said, I never thought my mother was like this. She was so good to me."

But Zijing, I believe what you said. Otherwise, you wouldn't have taken such a big risk to find me. Zijing, what are you thinking now? What do you want to do? Your brother will help you as much as he can.”

Yin Zijing wiped away her tears and sobbed, "Brother, Zijing won't make things difficult for you. Zijing just wants to leave this place of trouble. Zijing doesn't want to be bound by fate."

Yin Jingyi said, "How do you plan to leave? How will you survive if you leave the Yin family?"

"Your body is in this state now. If someone with ulterior motives discovers it and sells you into a brothel, you will become a plaything for the powerful and wealthy."