The general's eldest daughter has a spatial ability

"Your Highness, Consort De may have many faults, but you are, after all, her birth mother who carried you for ten months and gave birth to you! This is an undeniable fact; you and Consort De are indeed mother and son connected by blood!"

"Mother and son, ha! I'd rather not have a mother like her! Everything she's done, except for giving birth to me, has been for her revenge plan! What am I? Just a pawn! A dog! Summoned and dismissed at will!"

The word "mother"! She doesn't even deserve it! For so many years, I've been pretending in front of others, but who knows? I've actually lived a life worse than a dog!

No one knows how much I envy Nangong Li, not because his father is the emperor and his mother is the empress! But because his father and mother both love him very much!

When he was a child, he would always be in the Imperial Study. Whenever his father went there, he would test Nangong Li's knowledge first, and then pat him on the head and praise him. But he would always push his father's hand away in disgust!

Before I knew about my origins, I longed for my father to treat me differently, so I studied desperately! In fact, every time my father tested Nangong Li, I really wanted to tell him that I knew the answers to all his questions!

Until that day, I discovered my true parentage, and my world collapsed! Do you know how desperate I was when I found out I wasn't my father's son?

I'm a bastard, or more accurately, an illegitimate child! What right do I have to receive the Emperor's favor? What right do I have to compete with Nangong Liqu? If my true identity is ever revealed, death awaits me!

Since that's the case, what's the point of trying? From then on, I started to give up on myself and spent my days causing trouble in the Imperial Study!

Unexpectedly, the usually aloof Nangong Li actually came over to ask me what was wrong with me lately, and if something was bothering me. The next day, she even brought me some pastries made by the Empress herself! She said they were a birthday gift for me.

No one knows that I held that box of pastries and cried for a long time in the artificial hill in the palace. It was the first time I had ever received a birthday gift! I didn't eat a single piece of those pastries because I couldn't bear to part with them! They were the only warmth I had in the palace!

But when my mother found out that Nangong Li had given me some pastries, she slapped me twice and dumped the box of pastries on the ground, crushing them all!

No one knows that in my heart, she wasn't just stepping on the dessert! She was stepping on all my desires!

They made me memorize texts until the wee hours of the morning every day, and because they were afraid I would fall asleep, they even made me wear only a single layer of clothing in late autumn, saying that the cold would keep a person's mind clear!

Later, as she wished, I caught a cold, but she used this as an excuse to drug me. She went to my father crying and saying that I kept saying I wanted to see him while I was unconscious!

Fortunately, my father visited me in her palace every day during those few days, and she gave me the antidote, which helped me recover slowly.

Tell me, what am I, her son, to her? A tool for revenge? Or a means to win her favor? I'm her own son!

On the contrary, the Empress would send people to deliver nourishing soups and medicines every day, and as soon as the palace servants left, she would throw them all away in front of me!

Then they brainwashed me, telling me that the reason she treated me this way was all thanks to the Nangong family, and that I should hate them! They said that all my suffering was caused by them, and that only by reaching that position could I completely change my fate, and then revenge would be a piece of cake!

They even made me pretend to be close to Nangong Li and Nangong Chun, taking the opportunity to sow discord between them. But thinking about it now, it's funny. That fool Nangong Chun thought that just because he had a concubine as his mother, he could surpass Nangong Li!

At first, he dared to provoke Nangong Li at every turn, until that one time, my good third brother slapped him against the wall!

From then on, every time they saw Nangong Li, they would avoid him like the plague, like a mouse seeing a cat! They were terrified of provoking this dreadful demon!

In all these years, since I learned my true identity, there has only been one truly happy day! That day, Nangong Li was returning from the Southern Frontier when he was ambushed by my mother and poisoned by Li Luo! My mother was overjoyed that day and personally cooked several of my favorite dishes, specially inviting me to dine with her!

That day, my father ordered a royal proclamation to be posted to search for renowned doctors. The imperial physicians in the palace were completely helpless. In the middle of the night, I sneaked into Nangong Li's palace and saw him lying unconscious on the bed. Instead of being happy, I felt a deep sense of loss.

Thinking that if anything happened to Nangong Li, my only brother, the third prince who remembered my birthday, would be gone! I shed tears of sorrow, regretting and blaming myself for not stopping my mother's actions!

Later, in a moment of impulse, I rushed to my mother's palace and knelt down, begging her to give me the antidote for Li Luo. I said I could kill Mu Yuyan and Nangong Huan, and beg her to spare Nangong Li, who was innocent. I promised to do whatever she said from now on.

That very day, she cast a mother-child Gu venom on me, telling me that I was merely a tool for her revenge, with no room for resistance. She warned me that if I ever did anything to displease her again, I would experience the agony of being bitten by the Gu worms!

Nangong Li and Li Liuyun had different expressions after hearing Nangong Yu's words.

Nangong Li clenched his fists. He hadn't expected that Nangong Yu's poisoning was related to him. It turned out that the poison he had planted was indeed Consort De's doing. Thinking of this, Nangong Li's thoughts drifted back to his childhood and the scenes of spending time with Nangong Yu.

When Nangong Yu was a child, he liked to follow behind him. Even though he didn't pay much attention to him, whenever he brought the pastries made by his mother to the Imperial Study, his younger brother, who was two years younger than him, would always look at him with envy.

He told his mother about this, and from then on, whenever his mother made desserts, she would make extra so that he could share them with Nangong Yu.

Once, he overheard the nanny who came to fetch Nangong Yu mention that the next day was his birthday, but Consort De didn't seem to have any intention of celebrating it. So he asked his mother to make a box of pastries as a birthday gift for Nangong Yu.

Nangong Yu was overjoyed, his eyes shining. He hugged the box of pastries and said it was the first birthday gift he had ever received. The next day, Nangong Li asked Nangong Yu if the pastries were delicious.

He saw a fleeting sadness in Nangong Yu's eyes, and then Nangong Yu replied that it was delicious and sweet!

Nangong Li glanced at Nangong Yu and said nothing more. From then on, she never brought him any more snacks, because the snacks her mother made that day were not only sweet but also savory!

This shows that Nangong Yu didn't eat the pastries his mother made at all. Was it because he was afraid his mother would poison them, or for some other reason? He thought Nangong Yu was just putting on an act, but in reality, he couldn't bear to eat them! It turns out that he had been misunderstanding him all along.