My mother beat them all up, and from then on, no one dared to mention it in front of me.

Xiaoyue looked up at Liang Qi in the sliver of moonlight. His face was faintly glistening with a smooth, crystalline sheen. Xiaoyue wanted to reach out and catch the light, but ultimately suppressed the urge.

The soft, gentle voice from Liang Qi's end followed Xiaoyue's gaze and pierced her heart. It was like a drop of water splashing onto hot oil; her thoughts surged, affecting her heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys—every part ached, and she had no courage to cry out.

Only Liang Qi's voice was audible: "On the second night I stayed by my mother's side, she sat up, dismissed the female slaves guarding her, and told me about my father. She wanted me to find him and stop being Prince Qi."

She has dedicated her entire life to Murong Tianlang and doesn't want me to live the kind of life she did.

She told me about how handsome my father was when he was young, and how she took a liking to him at first sight. At that time, my father was still working as a spy under General Feng. My mother had already set her sights on him, so she sent someone to keep an eye on his activities. One time, when my father went out to try to find out about the Shiwei, he was caught by my mother.

At first, my father was stubborn, so my mother imprisoned him in her bedroom and deliberately let my uncle come over and find a man in my mother's bedroom. My father didn't want to ruin my mother's reputation, so he became a son-in-law who moved into her family home.

Later, my mother became pregnant with my father's child, and she stopped imprisoning him. In the end, my father still escaped, leaving my mother a letter before he left. The letter contained an address and said that if my mother came back to his hometown with him, he would marry her properly.