Long Yi was stunned: "Wanyou, do you have to be so distant from me?"
Wan Niang said, "To me, the prince is just a stranger. How can there be any talk of estrangement?"
"You're blind and can't see me, and you've lost your memory and have forgotten me." Long Yi slowly approached her, "I'm telling you, you're my wife. You may not believe what others say, but you must believe me!"
Fu Ciyi took a step towards his mother, separating Long Yi and Wan Niang.
Long Yi's face darkened: "How dare you treat your own father like this?"
Fu Ciyi had a cold face and didn't say a word.
When he was young, other people had fathers who cared for them and taught them, but he didn't.
Now he came out to criticize him for how he treated him.
He was nearly engulfed by the flames in the fire, and what was he doing? He just watched.
Now that he has come to recognize me, it is really disgusting.
Yan Funing could see his displeasure. He was only five years old at the time, a time when a boy needed his father's love the most, but he experienced hardships that others had never experienced.
Let’s not talk about the fire in Prince Jin’s Mansion for now.
A five-year-old child had to flee all the way from the capital and suffered so much hardship on the way.
Just thinking about it made her feel heartbroken.
Seeing how the Prince of Jin was treating his mother-in-law with such sincerity and affection, she really couldn't understand. Was it because her mother-in-law didn't remember him?
If Prince Jin had really treated his mother-in-law like this more than ten years ago, how could they have reached this point today?
Putting aside these doubts for the moment, since Prince Jin was pretending to be affectionate, she had to ask, "May I ask, Your Majesty, is there any rare antidote in your palace? For example, after removing the poison, the blindness and amnesia can be cured?"
Long Yi looked at Yan Funing, his eyes darkening. "You, the daughter of the Yan family, are so rude! Didn't your grandfather, your father, and your mother teach you about respecting elders?"
Yan Funing choked.
Long Yi continued, "It's true that the Yan family's daughter cannot become my daughter-in-law, but given your current status, even if I don't recognize you as my daughter-in-law, shouldn't you call me Father?"
"What a contradiction." Fu Ciyi sneered, "You don't acknowledge her as your daughter-in-law, and yet you want her to call you father."
"Calling her father is polite. This is her business," Long Yi said. "Whether she recognizes her or not is my business."
Fu Ciyi said calmly: "Whether she recognizes you or not is my business. How she calls you is up to me."
"You kid..."
Long Yi raised his hand and pointed angrily at Fu Ciyi's face.
With Fu Ciyi's support, Yan Funing continued, "May I ask, Prince Jin, if you didn't answer just now, did that mean you admitted that there was a rare antidote in your mansion?"
"What rare antidote is there? If there was one, I would have brought it to you long ago." Long Yi frowned. "You are indeed a rude girl. You are indeed a descendant of the Yan family. You and I are naturally incompatible. If Wen Yu had lived by my side since childhood, how could you become his wife?"
"Don't say it. I don't remember the past, but my mother-in-law told me that she and I had arranged a marriage for our two children. It was you who broke them up at the palace banquet. Now they've finally become husband and wife, and you still want to break them up again?" Wan Niang was furious. "Get out of here! Get out of my Fu family!"
Her good upbringing prevented her from saying "get out".
Long Yi finally came to his senses. Wanyou didn't recognize him, and Wenyu didn't recognize him. The breakthrough might lie with the girl from the Yan family.
He suppressed his anger and said to Yan Funing in a firm tone, "Call me Father, and I won't mind your lack of etiquette just now."
"My husband doesn't recognize you, so it's useless for me to call you." Yan Funing took Wan Niang's arm, "My mother doesn't recognize you, so it's even more useless for me to call you."
Long Yi looked at the twins, hoping for a way out: "Nan Yao and Bei Mo, come here and call me father."
One of them turned his head to look east, and the other turned his head to look west, but they didn't call him.
"Well done, all of you."
Long Yi had never been treated like this before, and he walked away cursing all the way.
As soon as he left, Wan Niang slumped in the chair as if her soul had left her body.
"Mom." Four people rushed to her side.
"I'm fine." Wan Niang shook her head. "I want to go back to my room and be quiet."
"Okay." Fu Nanyao agreed.
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Ling was sent back to Prince Jin's Mansion.
After being kicked twice, she lay on the bed wailing.
When Long Lihui heard that his mother was beaten by his father, he immediately brought the court doctor to see her.
"Son, go find your grandmother quickly." Ling cried out in pain.
Long Lihui ordered the palace doctor to treat his mother, while he went to look for his grandmother.
A quarter of an hour later, the concubine came to Ling's courtyard.
"What happened?" The concubine saw the blood on the corner of Ling's lips. She had been observing the color for a while. "You didn't wipe the blood off the corner of your mouth. Are you showing it to me?"
"Mother." Ling cried out, "Mother, Aunt, the prince beat me."
"Why should I hit you?" The concubine sat on the edge of the bed and tucked in the quilt for Ling.
"The prince has been staying in that courtyard for the past few days. I originally thought Wanyou was dead, but she's still alive. Not only is Wanyou alive, but her son is also alive. Aunt, please speak up for me. I went to ask Wanyou to return home with good intentions, but the prince misunderstood me and even beat me..."
The concubine raised her hand to interrupt her: "You said Wanyou and her son are still alive?"
"She's alive, and not only that, she gave birth to twins. I guess the twins were fathered by some bastard, but the prince, in order to win back Wanyou's heart, said the twins were his. He beat me for that..." Ling shed tears, "Aunt, you have to speak up for me!"
The concubine frowned and murmured, "How did they escape from such a big fire?"
"I don't know either." Ling shook her head. "The prince also said that he would abolish my position as princess, and even abolish Li Hui's position as crown prince."
The Concubine Dowager seemed to be lost in thought for a moment before she said, "Your position as Princess is enshrined in the Imperial Jade Records. How can it be abolished with just one word from him?"
Hearing this, Ling finally smiled: "I knew my aunt was on my side."
The Queen Mother continued, "In terms of the number of years you've been the Princess of Jin, you've been there longer than Wanyou. Don't be so whiny when handling matters from now on. Don't you know that Long Yi doesn't like it?"
"I understand." Ling nodded.
Little did people know that after leaving the Fu family, Long Yi did not return directly to Prince Jin's Mansion, but entered the palace.
In the imperial study, the emperor was surprised to see Long Yi coming to find him.
"What do you want from me?"
"Wanyou is back. She is my princess consort. As for Ling, please ask my brother to remove her from the jade disc."
"Cross it out! Do you think you can do it just by talking? It needs the approval of the royal family."
"My Royal Brother is the Emperor, don't you even have this little bit of power?" Long Yi snorted coldly, "If my Royal Brother didn't even have this little bit of power as the Emperor, why did he try to steal my throne in the first place?"
If you seize his throne and don't kill him, you must be prepared to be harassed by him at all times.
The emperor was furious and slammed the imperial desk, but he said: "Okay, this matter will be settled today."
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