Before confiscating their property, they emptied the imperial city and exiled them!

Besides, no matter what, Liu Cuizhu was his aunt, and he wasn't having an affair.

Gu Xingzhi looked at him sadly: "You mean you're blaming me for our daughter's injury?"

"If it's not your fault, who is it?" Liu Cuizhu walked in from outside with a gloomy face, carrying a bowl of hot porridge.

Seeing the strange expression on her face, Mu Qiyang immediately urged Gu Xingzhi to leave.

They were afraid that Liu Cuizhu might say something inappropriate.

However, Gu Xingzhi refused to leave. In her eyes, this was the reason Mu Qiyang had come up with to be alone with Liu Cuilan.

Liu Cuizhu walked into the room, placed the hot porridge on the table, and said to Mu Qingwan, "Wan'er, you just woke up, drink some hot porridge to warm yourself up first."

Mu Qingwan forced herself to sit up, and looked at Liu Cuizhu with a hint of gratitude in her eyes.

Mu Qiyang watched from the side, secretly relieved.

He turned to Gu Xingzhi and said, "As you can see, Wan'er is being taken care of. Shilan must still be worried about the situation here. You should go back first."

Gu Xingzhi bit her lip, glanced at Mu Qingwan with a complicated expression, and was about to turn and leave.

But then Liu Cuizhu said in a gloomy voice, "Stop! I have something to say."

Upon hearing Liu Cuilan's tone, Mu Qiyang knew that something terrible was about to happen.

So he pretended to be angry and looked at Liu Cuizhu, saying, "What could possibly be wrong with you? Hurry up and take care of Wan'er."

Liu Cuizhu completely ignored Mu Qiyang and stared directly at Gu Xingzhi.

Gu Xingzhi thought this was a provocation from her.

So he stopped and looked at her, saying, "Say what you have to say, I'll stand here and listen."

Seeing the situation before him, Mu Qiyang couldn't help but panic.

Mu Qingwan also felt uneasy.

She had a vague feeling that what Aunt Liu was talking about might be related to her.

Mu Qiyang shouted loudly, "Have you all made enough noise? Can't you let Wan'er get some rest?"

Previously, whenever he mentioned Wan'er, Liu Cuizhu would always make concessions.

But this time, the expression on her face was unusually firm.

She turned back and looked at Mu Qingwan gently, saying, "I am also to blame for the reason why Wan'er has become like this!"

My mistake was giving her to this heartless and irresponsible woman.

Gu Xingzhi was completely bewildered: "Wan'er is my daughter, how dare you offer her up?"

Liu Cuizhu turned to look at Gu Xingzhi and said almost frantically, "She is not your daughter, she is my daughter!"

After Liu Cuizhu finished speaking, Mu Qiyang also sat heavily on the stool.

After hearing this, Gu Xingzhi's mind went blank.

He said with disbelief, "How could that be? I carried Wan'er for ten months and gave birth to her."

How could I not know? You despicable woman, you not only stole my husband, but now you want to steal my daughter too?

Although she said that, she felt inexplicably flustered after seeing Mu Qiyang's reaction.

Liu Cuilan said with a wry smile, "You've already guessed it, haven't you?"

You had a difficult childbirth back then, and your child died on the spot after birth.

Mu Qiyang was afraid you wouldn't be able to accept the truth.

Then Liu Cuizhu looked at Mu Qiyang with red eyes and said.

"It was this heartless man who forcibly took my daughter, whom I had just given birth to that day, away from me."

This caused my daughter and me to be separated, and even though we spent every day together afterward, we couldn't recognize each other.

Mu Qingwan stared in shock at Liu Cuizhu's thin back.

She seemed to have no doubts whatsoever and believed Liu Cuizhu's words.

Perhaps it was because the way she looked at me before was too gentle.

Gu Xingzhi questioned Mu Qiyang in disbelief: "Impossible, she's lying to me, right?"

"Tell me, she lied to me!"

Mu Qiyang's eyes were full of pity for Gu Xingzhi. Seeing her injured state, he was at a loss for how to comfort her.

Seeing Mu Qiyang's reaction, Gu Xingzhi finally understood.

She looked at the family of three in the house in despair, and finally couldn't take it anymore and ran out.

In a panic, Mu Qiyang was about to chase after him, but Mu Qingwan stopped him.

"Father, so, are all these things true?"

Mu Qiyang didn't know how to answer his daughter, so he turned to look at Liu Cuizhu with eyes full of fury and said, "Is this your purpose?"

Seeing everyone suffering, are you happy now?

Facing Mu Qiyang, who showed no sign of realizing his mistake, Liu Cuizhu retorted defiantly, "Do you want to pin all the blame on me?"

You abandoned me for Gu Xingzhi, and to comfort her, you even took my child.

Nevertheless, you told me that the child would have a distinguished status with her, so I silently protected the child.

But now? She's hurting my child.

Mu Qingwan never expected that Liu Cuizhu was actually her biological mother, and that she had suffered so much for her sake.

Whether it was from falling into the water or from being traumatized, Mu Qingwan coughed up a mouthful of blood.

"Wanwan~!"

Upon seeing this, Mu Qiyang rushed to his daughter's bedside with a heavy heart. Seeing her weak complexion, he turned around and quickly ran out to find a doctor.

Liu Cuizhu held her frail daughter, her heart breaking.

Mu Qingwan weakly raised her eyes to look at Liu Cuizhu: "Are you really my mother?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Cuizhu stiffened. Faced with her daughter's question, she suddenly lost the courage she had just had.

She was just a concubine, of lowly status...!

But Mu Qingwan's next words completely put her mind at ease.

How I wished you were my mother!

Surprisingly, it actually came true! *cough cough*

"Alright, stop talking. I... I understand Wan'er's feelings. I was wrong. I shouldn't have been so cowardly!"

For a moment, Liu Cuizhu didn't know how to address herself, so she simply referred to herself as "I".

Mu Qingwan felt very safe and secure lying in Liu Cuizhu's arms.

With a smile on her face, she gradually drifted off to sleep.

Liu Cuizhu realized that the person in her arms had stopped moving and immediately panicked.

Only after seeing Mu Qingwan's chest rise and fall slightly did he feel relieved.

Before long, Mu Qiyang arrived with the doctor from the ship.

After taking Mu Qingwan's pulse, it was found that she was fine.

Vomiting blood is just a sign of emotional distress; once it's expelled, you'll feel better!

However, she is in poor health and needs to be taken good care of for a period of time.

Moreover, one should not be stimulated again in the short term, otherwise it will damage the body's fundamental health.

Looking at his weak daughter on the bed, Mu Qiyang suddenly realized what he had done wrong.

Mu Qiyang said in a low, weak voice, "Take good care of her, I'll be there in a bit!"

Liu Cuizhu did not respond, but Mu Qiyang knew that she would definitely take good care of her daughter.

He silently got up and left the room.

Inside the cargo hold, Gu Xingzhi simply lay on her bed and cried incessantly.

Mu Shilan didn't know what had happened and could only wait anxiously by her side.

Looking towards the entrance, he still didn't see Mu Qiyang appear.

She immediately felt anxious.

This had never happened before. Mu Qiyang cherished his aunt as a treasure and always took great care of her.

Could it be that someone else bullied my aunt?

Mu Shilan pondered in her heart and set her sights on Liu Cuizhu.