FSC [QT] Chapter 114.2

For Ling Zhuo, the status of her parents was irreplaceable. She was so selfish that she was unwilling to share even with her ‘biological’ brother. 

As a result, when her identity was just exposed and Ling Wu was found, Ling Zhuo did a lot of stupid things.

Now facing Ling Wu, who had suffered for eleven years on her behalf, Ling Zhuo was no longer so confident in wanting to monopolize her parents. 

She didn’t want the brother she had never met and only asked Ling Wu to give her some of her parent’s love.

She was really scared, afraid that one day her parents would no longer care about her as their daughter, just like those gossiping women in the Marquis’ Mansion said.

“Even if you snatch him away, my brother is still mine.”

Before, Ah Wu might not have had confidence, and she often worried that her brother would transfer the love that originally belonged to her to Ling Zhuo after knowing the truth. 

But now she is no longer worried.

Brother is still the same brother, the brother that belongs to Yu Wu.

“Sister Ah Zhuo, is the Seventh Sister angry with you again?”

After Ah Wu walked away, Ling Wei came over with Ling Ying.

Noticing the person coming, Ling Zhuo frowned. 

She recalled the conversation between herself and Ling Wu just now. The volume of both of them was not loud, and Ling Wei was far away before, so she should not have heard it clearly.

“Hmph!”

Ling Zhuo raised her head and pursed her lips tightly. Her eyes were filled with unspeakable anger and shame.

“Haha, who let her be the favorite of Eldest Uncle and Eldest Aunt, right, Sister Ah Zhuo?”

Ling Wei glanced at Ling Zhuo with a gloating look and thought that she also finally had this day.

“Don’t bother me.”

After saying that, Ling Zhuo waved her sleeves and left.

“Oh, Grandma is right. How can a pair of girls, who have exchanged identities by chance, live in harmony? One is a bastard who has occupied the magpie’s nest for many years, and the other is a wild girl who has been a phoenix in the water for more than ten years. How can they get along harmoniously? It would be strange if they didn’t fight.”

Seeing Ling Zhuo and Ling Wu parting unhappily again, Ling Wei’s smile became brighter.

Ling Ying, who was standing next to Ling Wei, looked at Ling Zhuo’s back and thought of the Seventh Sister, whom she didn’t get along with very often. 

She was really worried that they would fight as her grandmother planned.

***

“There is an additional concubine in the First Prince’s palace. It is said that she is very similar to Jin Ruyi, the eldest daughter of the direct branch of the Marquis of Chengyi’s mansion, who committed suicide for the sake of chastity.”

In a remote abandoned palace courtyard in the palace, there was an inaudible conversation.

“This news is of no use. The First Prince took the sin slave as his concubine and helped the sin slave fake her death to escape. Of course, it will make the Emperor angry, but it will be temporary.”

“On the contrary, once this news spreads and becomes a big deal, the people in the First Prince’s faction will be more convinced of him, and more people will think that he is loyal and righteous.”

His son took a sinful slave as a concubine, which certainly meant to challenge the imperial power, but would the Emperor kill his own son for this trivial matter?

At the most serious level, this was disobeying and rebelling against the emperor’s edict; at the most minor level, this was just a romantic affair of a man.

Not to mention, now that the Marquis of Chengyi Mansion had collapsed, Jin Ruyi, a woman, had long lost her value, but the First Prince was willing to protect her and keep her by his side at the risk of being reprimanded by the Emperor. In the eyes of many people, it was a manifestation of the First Prince’s loyalty and friendship. 

He was afraid that more people would rely on the First Prince.

“What a pity.”

There was another voice, with the hoarse and rough sound of a teenager on the stage changing his voice.

“There is also news that Concubine Yu is ill, and most likely it was tuberculosis. Now she has hidden this news, and few people know about it.”

Concubine Yu was a concubine when Emperor Qian was still a prince. After Emperor Qian ascended the throne, she was canonized as a fourth-rank beauty. 

She was one of the earliest women to appear around Emperor Qian. She was not from a prominent family and was two years older than Emperor Qian. 

After Emperor Qian ascended the throne, the harem was filled with a group of beautiful women. Concubine Yu was able to get very little favor, and she was lucky enough to give birth to the Sixth Prince. Unfortunately, the Sixth Prince died just after a full month. 

Concubine Yu was heartbroken. Emperor Qian also pitied her, so he promoted her to a second-rank concubine.

Although she was already a second-rank concubine, Concubine Yu did not have her own palace like a normal high-rank concubine. She still lived in the side hall of Yanxi Palace. 

In the past few years, she was like an invisible person in the palace. She was even impatient to attend various banquets in the palace. She stayed in her small Buddhist temple all day, chanting sutras for her child who died prematurely.

There was one thing worth mentioning here. The main hall of Yanxi Palace was occupied by Noble Concubine Jiang, who had the highest status in the palace.

She was the adoptive mother of the Fifth Prince Li Chenghe and the biological mother of the Seventh Prince Li Chengyu. The birth time of Li Chengyu and the Sixth Prince who died young was only less than half a month apart.

“Tuberculosis, it is contagious…”

The rough voice sounded faint, making people’s hair stand on end for no reason in the dark night.

 

 

 

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