QT: TPE Chapter 3.2

Xu Lingyi calmed herself down, not wanting her family to notice anything amiss.

Once she was able to control her emotions, the first thing she wanted to do was visit her mother and sisters-in-law.

“Mother.”

When she actually saw her mother standing alive in front of her, Xu Lingyi still couldn’t hold back her emotions. She thought that she had prepared herself mentally and wouldn’t let her family worry.

“What’s wrong, Yi’er?”

Mrs. Xu quickly hugged Xu Lingyi, patted her back, and gently comforted her.

“Why are you crying all of a sudden? Who made you sad? Tell Mother.”

Mrs. Xu was a little anxious. She was a loving mother who always had the utmost sincerity and care for her children.

Xu Lingyi shook her head with tears in her eyes.

She couldn’t tell her mother that she had been reborn, nor could she tell her mother about what happened in her past life.

She can bear the pain alone; why drag her mother into it?

“I had a nightmare, a bit of a nightmare. I made Mother worry.”

Xu Lingyi came up with an excuse.

“How old are you?”

As Mrs. Xu said this, she gently patted her back, without any hint of blame in her words.

“We’re going to the temple to burn incense tomorrow. I’ll donate more then, so that the Bodhisattva can bless my daughter, ensuring you’re free from disasters and hardships, and that you have a happy and peaceful life.”

Xu Lingyi is Mrs. Xu’s youngest child and the only daughter among her four children, so she was doted on from a young age.

People love sons because sons can inherit the family business, stay by their side, and take care of them in their old age, while daughters always have to get married.

But unlike others, she and her husband didn’t cherish their sons. She already had three sons, which was more than enough.

Moreover, her sons were growing up and fighting away from home, so they had very little time together. Only her daughter had been raised by her side since she was a child, and she took care of her in every way.

So she loved this daughter the most.

Her sons are already married and have children, while her daughter has just coming of age this year. Her only worry now is her daughter’s marriage.

For a woman, this is a lifelong matter.

“Okay, I’ll go with Mother. I’ll also pray to the Bodhisattva to bless our family with peace and safety, and that nothing bad will happen to us.”

Xu Lingyi used to dislike going to temples and didn’t believe in gods or Buddhas, but now she has no choice but to believe, because her rebirth proves that such miraculous things do exist in the world.

She prayed that in this life, her parents would be healthy, the Xu family would be safe and sound, and that she would avoid the same fate she had suffered in her past life.

“Your father plans to return to the capital soon. After all these years, he’s finally coming back.”

Xu Lingyi felt a pang of anxiety when she heard her mother say that.

“Mother, can you please not let Father and my brothers come back?”

In her past life, when Princess Minghua saw her father and brothers, she became lustful, which led to the tragic deaths of her mother and sisters-in-law.

If her mother hadn’t gotten into trouble, she wouldn’t have gotten involved with Li Xu, and none of what followed would have happened.

“Don’t you want your father and brothers to come back?”

Mrs. Xu was somewhat surprised.

“Weren’t you looking forward to it yesterday? Who said she would cook for them when they got back?”

Mrs. Xu asked with a smile.

Yesterday, she remembered her daughter constantly whining and asking her husband to bring her things from the frontier.

“I’ve changed my mind, Mother. It’s best if Father and my brothers don’t come back.”

Xu Lingyi certainly couldn’t say that Princess Minghua would take a liking to her father and brothers; if she did, others would probably think that she was delusional.

Princess Minghua had many male concubines, but they were all of low status. In the eyes of the powerful and wealthy in the capital, these kinds of people were not even human. Although they were dissatisfied with the Princess, it was only because she was a woman. Women should behave properly and put their husbands first. They thought that the Princess was licentious, not because they felt sorry for these men.

They never imagined that the Princess would target the Xu family and be so audacious as to poison the wives of noblemen.

But that’s exactly what Princess Minghua did.

 

 

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