After my whole family overheard my thoughts, they went berserk.

Zheng Yueyue lay in the simple room, her face pale. She had been forced to have an induced labor yesterday, and her body was already very weak.

"Squeak!" The door opened.

She stood up expectantly, but when she saw a tall, slender figure walk in, she shuddered.

The person who arrived was indeed Lin Qingyu.

"What are you doing here? I need to see my uncle!" Zheng Yueyue moved back in fear, shaking her head desperately.

Lin Qingyu felt disgusted and repulsed upon hearing the word "uncle".

His eyes turned cold, and he strode forward, slapping her hard across the face.

"Your mother was a slut who seduced the master behind my back and got pregnant with your bastard child. I never thought you were a slut too, daring to seduce my son!"

"What do you mean?" Zheng Yueyue asked her, her eyes red.

Lin Qingyu sneered: "Did your mother never tell you that she was just a lowly maid in my courtyard? She slept with the master, got pregnant with your bastard child, and then sent you to bring disaster to my Rong family!"

Zheng Yueyue was struck dumb; she couldn't believe it was true, just as she had said.

Her mother had told her that she was an illegitimate daughter of the Rong family, and that she was sent to the palace because she was not favored by the Rong family.

However, she had asked her father, but she never brought it up.

This made her think of something even more terrifying: what if she and Rong Shenjing were...?

"Impossible, this is impossible, my mother never told me!" She couldn't accept it no matter what, thinking about the child she had just aborted.

"She's just a lowly servant girl. What good will it do to tell you? Will it make the master acknowledge you as his own?" Lin Qingyu's anger surged. Dream on!

It was when she was pregnant with Jing'er that that vile maid took advantage of the situation.

If she hadn't strongly objected, the old lady would probably have already taken her into the mansion as a concubine.

She would rather die than let her own maidservant share the service of a man!

"Since I am a daughter of the Rong family, I must see my father and be included in the Rong family genealogy!" Zheng Yueyue resisted desperately.

Now that things have come to this, even if she can't accept it, she has no way out.

She had to survive. Even if Lin Qingyu humiliated her, she would still enter the Rong family and find a way to make a living for herself!

"Included in the family genealogy?" Lin Qingyu scoffed, "How audacious of you to even dream of that!"

She winked at the two maids beside her, who hurriedly went over and hung a white silk ribbon on the beam.

"What are you going to do? I want to see my father! You can't do this to me!" Zheng Yueyue was terrified.

I witnessed her ruthlessness yesterday, but I never expected that she would resort to even more vicious tricks today.

"Let me go!" Zheng Yueyue was too weak to struggle.

Lin Qingyu's face was cold and indifferent, as if she were facing a beast.

Zheng Yueyue struggled on the white silk, accidentally kicking over a stool. A suffocating feeling pressed down on her throat, and her limbs struggled incessantly.

"Hmph!" Lin Qingyu scoffed.

For more than a decade, this mother and daughter have been a source of heartache for her, creating a rift between her and her husband.

Initially, because she stubbornly refused to be carried in, the old lady had many complaints about her, believing that she lacked the demeanor of a mistress of the house.

After enduring humiliation for more than a decade, she finally got her revenge!

Zheng Yueyue hung from the beam, lifeless.

"Yue'er!" Rong Shenjing rushed in and picked Zheng Yueyue up.

But she had stopped breathing; her face was deathly pale.

"Why is Mother so cruel?" Rong Shenjing asked, his eyes red, unable to bear seeing her die like this.

He had wanted her before, when she was by the Crown Prince's side.

Later, after experiencing her pleasure, he developed a special feeling for her. He didn't know what it was, but he just couldn't live without her.

Now, before she could fully savor her experience, she died just like that!

"You worthless wretch! You caused your father to lose his official position, and now you're blaming your mother because of this woman! Do you even know she's your sister?!"

Lin Qingyu's icy tone resonated throughout every corner.

Rong Shenjing found it unbelievable.

"Her mother was originally my servant. She became pregnant with her after she slept with your father. You and your sister have done such a thing. Don't you feel ashamed before your parents and the ancestors of the Rong family?"

Faced with Lin Qingyu's reprimand, Rong Shenjing looked at Zheng Yueyue in his arms and felt a chill run down his spine.

He actually... heard a terrifying ghost story!

Lin Qingyu refused to believe that it was her son who had provoked Zheng Yueyue; she had always believed that Zheng Yueyue had seduced him.

She had just scolded her son, but now her heart ached for him again.

She went over, helped Rong Shenjing up, and comforted him softly.

"Jing'er, don't blame your mother for what happened today. If your mother doesn't execute her, this matter will get out and you will be criticized for the rest of your life, do you understand?"

Rong Shenjing gradually calmed down.

When he learned that Zheng Yueyue was his sister, he lost all affection for her.

Thinking back on those details, he just wanted to vomit!

At that moment, he finally understood that he was only attracted to the beauty of her body, not that he liked her.

A cold glint appeared in his eyes; he no longer wanted to look at Zheng Yueyue.

"Pass down the order: Zheng Yueyue, unable to bear the humiliation, hanged herself in the side courtyard!" Lin Qingyu coldly commanded.

Soon, news of Zheng Yueyue's death spread throughout the Rong family.

Her body was wrapped in a straw mat by the servants and thrown into the back mountain of the Rong family mansion, a desolate and remote place where many broken bones were piled up.

The first crown princess of the Huayao Kingdom met her end by being left to rot in the wilderness.

And she never knew, until her death, that the pile of white bones beside her body was that of her deceased mother!

Back then, the Rong family was afraid she would cause trouble, so they dug a pit in the Rong family's ancestral grave and buried her mother. After she left, Lin Qingyu had her dug up and thrown into this back mountain.

If Zheng Yueyue hadn't come to the Rong residence that day, she wouldn't have met Rong Shenjing, and she wouldn't have ended up like this!

The emperor did not sleep all night and eventually fell ill from exhaustion. The imperial physician diagnosed that he had been overworked for a long time and needed to rest and recuperate.

He was resting in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, but Eunuch Lu was still unable to resist and came with Princess Lingyang.

"Brother Emperor!" Princess Lingyang's sweet voice rang out even before she entered the room.

That one word, "brother," made the already weak emperor's bones melt, and he couldn't help but shudder.

"cough--"

The Emperor, maintaining his imperial demeanor, said to Princess Lingyang, "I am still ill. What kind of behavior is this, barging in like this!"

Princess Lingyang came to see him because he was ill.

If he were sober, he might not agree.

"Your Majesty, my sister has come today with a request!"

The emperor frowned, looking somewhat annoyed.

Don't you even know what time it is? He's bedridden and sick. Why won't you let him go?

"Last time, my sister requested the Emperor's permission to allow Xing'er to marry the second daughter of the Si family, but the Emperor refused. Today, my sister wishes to request permission to allow Xing'er to marry the adopted daughter of the Marquis of Zhongwu's family. You should grant this request, right?"

The emperor waved his hand irritably: "It won't work anyway, it's all in vain who I marry."

Don't think no one knows her family's secrets!

Princess Lingyang's expression changed drastically, as if the Emperor had exposed a scandal in her household, and she was afraid she had misheard: "What did Your Majesty say?"

The emperor straightened his expression and realized he had misspoke.

"Well, what I mean is, he's perfectly capable anyway, so it doesn't matter who he marries." He waved his hand and said, "I approve of this marriage!"

To avoid endless nagging, with people coming to him every few days to ask for a marriage decree.