FSC [QT] Chapter 95.2

It was as if the real daughter of the Marquis’s Mansion who had not yet come back had already taken away everything from her in advance.

At this time, Ling Zhuo thought of pretending to be sick.

She remembered that when she was sick as a child, her parents would satisfy her request. Every time she got sick, the whole family would focus on her alone.

At first, this method really worked. Her parents invited the imperial physician to inquire about her physical condition with concern. During that time, it was like going back to the past.

But Ling Zhuo’s body had recovered a long time ago. In order to make the illness more real, she had to deliberately wet her clothes and open the window to blow in the cold wind until her body could no longer bear it.

For the first time, her parents believed it.

The second time, her parents still believed it.

But the third time, the fourth time…

A person who had taken good care of her body began to get sick frequently. Ling Yaodong and Mrs. Fan were not fools, and they quickly guessed the reason. Ling Zhuo deliberately made herself sick in order to attract the attention of her parents.

The truth was exposed.

Because there was a biological daughter outside the house who had never been found and whose life or death was unknown, Ling Zhuo’s behavior naturally aroused the displeasure of Ling Yaodong and Mrs. Fan.

It was just that they understood that their behavior during this period made the child uneasy, so she did such a wrong thing.

After self-examination, the two of them did not blame Ling Zhuo, but they just gave her a few words of advice.

Obviously, Ling Zhuo’s uneasiness could not be dispelled by a few words of admonishment or a few promises.

Before the arrival of Ah Wu, the real daughter, Ling Zhuo had already developed a very strong hostility toward her.

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“Zihuai, I heard that your estranged sister has been found. Your younger sister and Sixth Young Lady are twins, aren’t they very similar?”

After school in the academy, Ling Zihuai was stopped by several friends to inquire about the breaking news that was most widely circulated in the capital during this period.

This was a story that Ling Yaodong and Mrs. Fan made up in advance for Yu Wu’s return.

In this story, Yu Wu was also taken away by the wife of a scholar during the chaos, only because the woman listened to the fortune-telling of a Taoist priest and learned that the child left in the temple that day was blessed by the star Wenquxing.

If she lived with this child for a long time, she would be able to protect the boys in her family who were studying for the imperial examinations.

After Yu Wu was taken away, the woman’s husband indeed passed the imperial examination and became a scholar.

Unfortunately, he was in poor health and could not withstand the long journey, so he finally stopped at the level of a scholar. He had been teaching in the countryside in recent years, and his family lived a relatively affluent life.

Also, because the woman firmly believed that the reason her husband, who had failed in the imperial examinations many times, was able to pass the imperial examination was a blessing brought by Yu Wu, she had been kind to her over the years.

It was not the behavior of Ling Yaodong and Mrs. Fan to beautify Mrs. Yu. However, the reputation of a child who was abducted by a bad guy for eleven years but had a blessed fate and lived in a scholarly family was much better than that of a child who was abducted and then killed her adoptive parents.

In the beginning, Ling Yaodong and Mrs. Fan had thought about declaring that the child was raised outside the mansion because of poor health or because of conflicts between her fate and her family members.

However, physical weakness and bad fate had always been taboos for wealthy families in choosing wives. Such excuses were no better than the former.

On the contrary, the former could still gain a lot of sympathy. At that time, even if the couple treated the child extra well, others would not comment.

After all, this was a good thing, and it was also compensation for losing her for eleven years.

Ling Zihuai is the eldest son of Ling Yaodong and Mrs. Fan. He is seven years older than his sister Yu Wu. The few years after he was born were the time when Ling Yaodong and Mrs. Fan were at their most indifferent.

Because Ling Yaodong took the woman he loved as a concubine and had a pair of illegitimate children with the concubine, which gave the concubine enough confidence to think that she could challenge Mrs. Fan, the main wife, and even wanted to kill Ling Zihuai, the eldest son, and make her illegitimate son Ling Ziyu become Ling Yaodong’s only son.

It was also that time that Ling Yaodong saw clearly the character of his beloved woman and realized that his actions had put his eldest son into a similar predicament as himself.

The concubine who was once extremely favored was sent to a farm in the countryside, and several concubines that Mrs. Fan had used to share her favor were also dismissed.

The relationship between the couple gradually eased, and this led to the birth of Yu Wu.

Perhaps because of the experience of being almost killed as a child, and because his younger sister Ling Zhuo was often ill and took away most of her parents’ attention, Ling Zihuai’s relationship with his parents became somewhat distant.

In addition, when he was young, he was mostly taken care of by his grandfather and received the same education as his father did when he was a child, so he was even less close to his parents and sister.

Especially his younger sister, who had a strong desire to monopolize the love of her parents, and even her own brother could not share the love.

Over time, Ling Zihuai became less and less close to her.

In fact, before this younger sister was born, he was also looking forward to her arrival.

“Not all twins look alike.”

Of course, Ling Zihuai knew the truth.

The girl who would return home in a few days was the biological sister he had been longing for. Would this sister be different from the one at home?

Ling Zihuai said goodbye to several friends with complicated emotions. Because he was in a trance, he bumped into someone when he left the academy.

“The Fifth Prince.”

Seeing the person coming, Ling Zihuai quickly bowed and apologized.

Although he was born from a palace maid and a prince who was not valued by the Emperor, he was not someone who could be easily offended.

His grandfather taught him never to underestimate anyone.

 

 

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