Chu Yan said calmly: "I don't understand what Miss Chu is talking about."

Chu Chi said with tears in his eyes: "When I was ten years old, I saw you in Chang'an and called you daddy, but you didn't recognize me. Don't you recognize me now?"

"My father loved Ah Chi the most when he was a child. He said Ah Chi was his most precious treasure."

"Why don't you acknowledge us? Why did you leave us when mother was pregnant with fourth brother? Do you know how pitiful fourth brother was when he was just born? Mother had to be the wet nurse of the little princess to feed us, so brother Che could only grow up by borrowing milk from here and there.

Every time the fourth brother wanted mother to hug him, he could only wait until the little princess no longer wanted mother to hug her, and then he could hug him for a while.

Why did you leave us? Why?"

The first time ten-year-old Chu Chi made a scene was because he saw his father, but his mother said he was not his father.

Twenty-year-old Chu Chi still couldn't pretend not to know his father when he saw him.

Chu Yan said: "You should rest here and recuperate. When you are well, you can leave. Chu Chi, I am not your father."

Chu Chi wiped away the tears in front of her eyes and said, "Haven't you always wanted to make the daughter of the Chu family the queen? Now that I am going to become the queen, you would rather let your niece enter the palace than recognize your own daughter? Why?"

Chu Chi looked at Chu Yan and asked, "Does mother know that you are still alive?"

"Mother must have known about it. No wonder she loved father so much before, but never visited father's grave, and didn't worship father during festivals. It turns out you are not dead!"

"Why didn't you die? You might as well have died! At least if you died, the father in my mind would be the one who loved me. Whenever I couldn't make it in the palace, thinking of the father who was gone would be the comfort in my heart."

Chu Chi felt so heartbroken that he fell asleep as soon as he finished speaking.

Chu Yanlian invited a doctor to check Chu Chi's pulse. The doctor said, "This girl was drugged and fainted because she was so angry."

Chu Yan sighed.

After Chu Chi woke up, she did not stay in the small courtyard in the middle of the lake. She just said to the maid: "Either give me a boat, or I will jump into the lake and swim across. If I can't swim halfway and drown, you can't bear it."

The maid released a pigeon, and soon after, Chu Chi saw a boat coming.

Chu Chi took a boat and walked towards the gate of the Chu family. She saw a noble lady dressed gorgeously and frowned slightly. Chu Chi naturally knew this person. She was the wife of the head of the Chu family and the daughter of the Ning family.

He can be said to be a perfect match with the head of the Chu family.

But for Chu Chi, she was not even a bit comparable to his own mother.

After Chu Chi left the Chu family, he went to the princess's mansion, Yuemiyuan.

In Yuemi Courtyard, Lu Yiling was practicing sword skills with Chu Che. Because Chu Che defeated her in one move, Lu Yiling snorted in anger.

"Chu Che, I will never talk to you again. I will ignore you for five days this time. How can you beat me? You can't beat me."

"I can give in to you in chess, but not in martial arts. If you think you are a martial arts expert, and then you go out and get beaten up, and then people find out that you are just a show-off, that would be a disaster."

"Chu Che, if you dare to say that I am just a show-off, you are dead. I will let you see my true abilities."

The small peach wood sword in Lu Yiling's hand had long been replaced with an unsharpened real sword.

Chu Che saw Chu Chi at the gate, put down the sword in his hand and said with a smile: "Big sister, you are back? What happened to your face?"

Lu Yiling looked at the ointment on Chu Chi's cheek, "Your face is injured? Who did it? Who dares to hurt your beautiful face? Tell me, I will help you get revenge!"

Chu Chi smiled at Lu Yiling and said, "Thank you, Princess. I just fell down by myself. No one hurt me. I have something to do with my mother. You guys can have fun."

Chu Chi entered Ye Li's room.

Lu Yiling noticed something was wrong and Chu Chi's expression was not right, so she pulled Chu Che to the back of Ye Li's house to eavesdrop.

Chu Che felt that eavesdropping on the conversation between his mother and sister was inappropriate, but he did not dare to go against Lu Yiling's wishes.

"Mother, why didn't you tell us that father was still alive? Why do we have to suffer so much when he is still alive?"

"How could he be so irresponsible and leave before my fourth brother was born, leaving him to suffer so much? Just now the little princess was bullying my fourth brother!"

Ye Li said: "Lingling's behavior is not considered bullying. Besides, your father is dead, and the man you saw was not your father."

Lu Yiling was eavesdropping outside, feeling somewhat guilty. It was true that she seemed to have been bullying Chu Che since she was a child. "I won't bully you anymore."

"I like the princess to bully me."

Lu Yiling smiled and said, "I like to bully you, too, but how come your father is still alive?"

Chu Chi in the room raised his voice and said, "Mom, you still want to lie to me. You said that Chang'an was not my father that time, but he is my father. I am not so stupid as to not even recognize my father!"

"Chi'er, the wound on your face..."

Chu Chi took off the plaster on her face, revealing the hideous wound. She said with tears in her eyes, "It was the only eldest daughter of the Chu family who scratched her. The only eldest daughter of the Chu family, what a only eldest daughter of the Chu family!"

Chu Chi thought of Chu Liuli's condescending words yesterday and found them ridiculous. "Mother, why have you endured all these years? Why didn't you go find father?

Do you know how difficult it is for my second brother and I to be in the palace? Do you know why my third sister is so taciturn? Do you know that when my fourth brother was young, he would cry and ask mother to accompany him to sleep every night. Unfortunately, you had to accompany Princess Lingling, so my fourth brother could only cry until he was tired and fell asleep. If Daddy was here, we shouldn't have suffered so much!"

"Dad, he is the head of the Jiangnan Chu family! Why don't you go find him?"

Ye Li sighed deeply and said, "You also know that he is the patriarch of the Chu family! How could the patriarch of the Chu family admit that he had four children with a slave? How could he acknowledge you? Just treat him as dead. At least treat him as dead. In your eyes, he is still a good father."

Chu Chi went forward and hugged Ye Li, crying in Ye Li's arms, "Mom, are you feeling very uncomfortable?"

"The time Changan met your father, mother understood everything. At that time, you kept making a fuss about calling him father. I felt very uncomfortable. I hated myself for being incompetent and how I had such a miserable life to meet him. Later, I stopped hating him and I didn't feel uncomfortable anymore.

Mother still has you. As long as you four siblings live well, your father is dead. Chi'er, your face... Mother will make the decision for you. You must give him an explanation no matter what. Even if he doesn't recognize you, you can't let the Chu family bully you like this."

Ye Li reached out her hand to wipe Chu Chi's tears and said, "Don't cry. Mother will seek justice for you right now."

Chu Chi looked at his mother and shook his head, "No need, mother, don't go see him again."

The person who must be the saddest about this matter is his mother. Chu Chi doesn't want his mother to see that unfaithful man again and be sad.

Lu Yiling, who was eavesdropping outside, handed the sword in her hand to Chu Che and said, "Go, sharpen the sword. I want to use Chu Yan's blood to sacrifice my first sword!"

Chu Che frowned, he had been without a father since childhood, what he envied most was that the little princess had a father who loved her. When they went out to play, the Regent would let the little princess ride on his neck and look into the distance.

He envied Master Han even more. Master Han was almost born without a biological father just like him, but he had a stepfather who still loved him. He was even held in his arms by his father when he was young...

Chu Che never thought that he also had a father, and his father was still alive.

Chu Che took Lu Yiling's sword and said, "Okay, I'll sharpen it now."