After the divorce, I pursued the Ninth Prince 100 times.

Shen Zhiyi stared at Aunt Qiu, her fists clenched tightly at her sides, her nails digging into the flesh and drawing blood.

Her mother is not someone else's concubine.

This has been her greatest wish since she was old enough to understand.

If her mother wasn't a concubine, then she wasn't a concubine's daughter. She could walk around with her chest held high, instead of being afraid to see people like a rat in the gutter.

She has no friends.

In fact, when she was a child, there were children in the neighborhood who were willing to play with her, and they also invited her to play together, but she always refused with a stern face and pretended to be cold.

Because she was afraid of people asking her who her father was, afraid of people coming to her house to play, afraid of the mocking looks they would give her after they knew she was the daughter of a concubine...

So when she saw Shen Nanxing being able to freely socialize with the daughters of various families, being able to walk proudly in the sun with Brother Yu, and holding his head high... her heart was filled with boundless envy.

For a while, she dreamed that her mother was not a concubine, but the legal wife of some man, even if it was from an ordinary family. She laughed and danced in her dreams, and was open and honest when interacting with others.

But every time I wake up from a dream, all of this will be broken.

Later, my mother was taken into the marquis's mansion by my father. She was no longer a concubine, but still a concubine.

In these wealthy families, concubines were the equivalent of slaves and had no status. The daughters born to concubines were considered concubines and also had no status.

What's more, her mother was a concubine who turned from a mistress, which made her even more embarrassed.

She felt inferior for many years because of this status which was not her fault.

Now I finally have the chance to get rid of this identity.

Dad said that Shen Beiyue was dead, and since the Marquisate had no legitimate son, there was no one to inherit the title. In order for my brother to inherit the title, he had to be made the legitimate son.

Then, you have to make your mother your equal wife first.

This matter is set in stone! How could anything go wrong?

But my mother's reaction at this moment clearly showed that something had gone wrong...

Shen Zhiyi's heart was icy cold, but she still couldn't give up. She tugged at Aunt Qiu's sleeve and said, "Mother, what happened?"

"Didn't you say that Grandfather had already agreed to this?"

"Who else could possibly be the one to get in the way?"

"Could it be Shen Nanxing?" Anger flashed in her eyes.

Aunt Qiu covered her mouth and shook her head, tears streaming down her face: "It's Your Majesty."

"On the day your father was about to take mother as his concubine, His Majesty issued an edict conferring the title of First Rank Consort on Xu..."

Shen Zhiyi's face turned pale, and he asked sharply, "Why?"

"Did Shen Nanxing's mother make any remarkable contributions to the Kingdom of Beiyue? Why was she granted the title of First Rank Imperial Consort?"

"What an honor! How can she be worthy of this? She's just a concubine who can't even keep her husband and has broken off relations with her family. What right does she have?"

"Because she has a good daughter!"

Aunt Qiu's expression was gloomy and unclear: "Because Shen Nanxing disguised herself as a man and protected the peace of North Vietnam for many years. Now that she is discovered to be a woman, she has been stripped of her general status and the credit for this achievement has been given to her mother..."

"But what about her crime of deceiving the emperor by disguising herself as a man? Why didn't Your Majesty punish her?"

Shen Zhiyi could no longer hold back and roared, "If we are to count her merits, then she should be counted for deceiving the emperor! You only count her merits and not her crimes... Why are you so partial to her?!"

Her fingers pinched the quilt on the side of the bed, her fingertips turned white, and the anger in her eyes almost turned into substance.

Aunt Qiu lowered her head, her voice so low that it was almost inaudible: "I heard that His Majesty once wanted to punish her. It was your grandfather who personally went to the palace to ask His Majesty for help. Your grandfather spent an entire afternoon with His Majesty in the imperial study, and since then His Majesty has never mentioned this matter again..."

"That's not my grandfather! He's Shen Nanxing's grandfather!"

Shen Zhiyi threw the quilt to the ground fiercely: "That damn old man only has eyes for his granddaughter Shen Nanxing, and he has never seen me! If he can do it on the first day, don't blame me for doing it on the fifteenth day in the future!"

Aunt Qiu couldn't stop crying when she saw her daughter like this: "I'm sorry, Yi'er, it's all because of me..."

She had seen how much injustice her Yier had suffered over the years because of her shameful identity, and although she felt heartbroken, she could do nothing about it.

As she cried, a hint of resentment flashed in her eyes: "Yier, just wait a little longer, mother will definitely make you a legitimate daughter of the Marquis's Mansion, definitely!"

......

Prince Jing's Mansion, South Garden.

Shen Nanxing called out the two maids that Fu Jiuli had given her.

"From now on, you will be called Nuan'an and Nuan'ning!"

"Thank you for the name, master!" The two maids responded one by one.

Shen Nanxing asked, "How do your two martial arts skills compare to Leng Feng and Leng Yue who are beside him?"

Nuan An said respectfully, "Master, if we only talk about martial arts, the two of us are on par with the other two."

The secret guards of the previous master all came from the same lineage. All of them had undergone careful selection, rigorous training, and strict assessments. Only those who passed the assessments could become qualified secret guards.

Yes, they were all trained to be secret guards.

So after they passed the assessment and became apprentices, they received orders to disguise themselves as maids and be sold to Prince Jing's Mansion by human traffickers to protect the new princess. They were puzzled at first.

I don't understand why, with such high level of skills, I can only be a maid. Isn't it a waste of talent?

But now, they understand...

The master just sent out the signal flare, and the former master came so quickly.

Furthermore, the master had just asked them to guard outside and not let anyone get close, but they had strong internal strength and extraordinary hearing. Although they had not seen with their own eyes how the former master and the current master got along, they heard everything they said.

I dare not think about it, I blush when I think about it.

The master must be the most beloved person of the previous master.

He originally thought that he was not valued, so he was sent to the backyard to protect a woman.

But now think about it, they must be the two most valued secret guards, and they accepted such an important task right after they set out!

Shen Nanxing smiled and said, "That's good!"

"Let's go! Let's destroy the place!"

Half a minute later, Shen Nanxing, along with Nuan'an, Nuan Ning, and a group of maids and servants from Prince Jing's mansion, a group of thirty or forty people, kicked open the door of the Tian residence.

In an instant, there was chaos inside.

"What are you doing? Are you blind? These are the things the prince bought for my young lady!"

"Don't take it! Be careful not to break the screen!"

"Ah! Stop hitting people! If the prince knew about this, he would definitely skin you alive!"

"Put it down, you can't take it away! That's my lady's jewelry!"

"..."

There was a crackling sound of things falling and a burst of crying.

A woman wearing only underwear and with messy hair walked out step by step, like a ghost.

"Shen Nanxing! What are you doing!"