After hearing the old woman's words, Dong Yunzhu felt dizzy and almost couldn't stand up.
"Miss!" The maid standing behind her was shocked and quickly reached out to support her.
"I always... I always thought my mother died giving birth to me, but I never imagined she was killed by that vicious woman!"
Dong Yunzhu was trembling all over: "She hadn't even married my father yet, and she already had this Gu Master harm my mother. They... she and my father must have had an affair long ago, which is why she schemed against my mother like this!"
She has been burdened with the reputation of being a mother-killer for many years, making it extremely difficult for her grandmother to find her a good marriage.
In the capital, there are very few women like her who are seventeen years old and still unmarried.
Everything was caused by Fahrenheit.
Of course, there's also her "good" father.
Dong Yunzhu gripped the hilt of the sword hidden in her sleeve tightly, her face filled with hatred.
"Miss, Master is back. He went to Madam's courtyard and sent someone to tell you... to bring this Gu Master over there." The little maid ran in and said cautiously.
"Send the person out of the mansion and hide them in the small courtyard I bought!" Dong Yunzhu ordered in a low voice.
"Yes!" the old women replied and hurried off.
Dong Yunzhu stood in the house for a while, calming herself down a bit, before heading to the courtyard where the Hua family lived.
When she arrived, Hua was leaning against Dong Ming's chest, weeping bitterly, while her three sons were also wiping away tears.
Upon seeing this, Dong Yunzhu's lips twitched, her eyes filled with disdain.
Hua had three sons, the eldest of whom was only two years younger than Dong Yunzhu.
A fifteen-year-old boy who cries so easily is truly despicable.
The other two are thirteen and eleven, respectively.
The sight of the mother and her three children crying and sobbing made Dong Yunzhu want to vomit.
When Dong Ming married Hua Shi, Dong Yunzhu's birth mother had been dead for more than a year.
If a man loses his wife, and he is a devoted lover who misses his deceased wife dearly, he probably won't remarry for several years.
Some men remarry within just a few months.
Dong Ming waited a year and a half before marrying Hua Shi. To outsiders, it seemed that he still valued his deceased wife very much.
No one has ever doubted that Dong Ming and the Hua family had long been in cahoots.
"You unfilial daughter, how dare you humiliate your mother like this! Kneel down before me!" Dong Ming was furious when he saw that his daughter did not bow to them after entering, nor did she care about Hua Shi, whose eyes were swollen from crying. Instead, she looked at his three younger brothers with that kind of gaze.
In the past, when her father favored Hua and her three children, Dong Yunzhu would get very angry and even make sarcastic remarks. Even if she would be punished afterward, she would still vent her anger.
But today, she was incredibly calm.
"Does Father know what the Hua family has done?" Dong Yunzhu asked.
"No matter what she did, she is still my legal wife, your mother, and the matriarch of the Dong family!" Dong Ming immediately stated his position.
After hearing his words, Dong Yunzhu felt a chill in her heart, but she was still somewhat unwilling.
"Does Father know that she has been keeping a Gu master in her backyard, and that he has been living in the side room disguised as a woman for half a year?" Dong Yunzhu asked.
Upon hearing this, Dong Ming remained calm: "You, as a daughter, dare to spout nonsense and slander your own mother. Do you want your father to send you to the manor? Or do you want to shave your head and spend the rest of your life practicing Buddhism in a nunnery?"
Upon hearing this, Dong Yunzhu laughed: "So Father knows everything. It seems that Hua has already told Father everything. Father is still on her side, protecting her and favoring her. Does Father really not care that she cheated on you?"
"You beast, shut up!" Dong Ming was trembling with rage. He grabbed a teacup from the side and threw it at Dong Yunzhu.
Dong Yunzhu is stubborn; in the past, she would not have avoided it.
She always felt that she was her father's only legitimate daughter, and that if it weren't for the Hua family's instigation, her father wouldn't have ignored her.
If she gets hurt, her father will definitely be heartbroken!
But only today did she realize how terribly wrong she was.
So she dodged the flying teacup by sidestepping it.
“Father, open your eyes and take a good look at your three sons. Which one of them looks like you? Hua Shi knew that Gu Master before she married you. Father, do you really not care at all? Are you willing to raise someone else’s son?” Dong Yunzhu said with a smile.
In the past, a well-bred young lady would never have been allowed to say such a thing.
But today, she's going all out.
Upon hearing this, Dong Ming trembled with rage. He pointed a finger at Dong Yunzhu, his face flushed an unnatural red: "You...you shut up...shut up!"
"Father, are you so angry because I hit the nail on the head?" Dong Yunzhu shook her head with a smile: "Father knows that Hua Shi betrayed you, yet you still protect her and raise the son she had with another man. It's clear that Father loves Hua Shi to the core. Since Father is willing to suffer this injustice in silence, I don't need to say anything more!"
"How dare you, a lady from a respectable family, utter such filthy words? Is this how your grandmother taught you all these years? You are simply unworthy to be a daughter of the Dong family!" Dong Ming stood up and shouted.
From beginning to end, he blamed Dong Yunzhu and his daughter for revealing the matter and making him lose face, but he did not say a single harsh word about his wife, Hua.
This makes one wonder if he has gone mad, being so unable to distinguish right from wrong!
"Father doesn't blame her, but blames me instead? It seems that Father really doesn't care whether those three sons are your biological children or not. As long as they come from Hua's womb, they are your own sons. You are so magnanimous. Your love for Hua is truly admirable. Even your daughter is moved!" Dong Yunzhu said with a smile.
After hearing her words, Dong Ming was so angry that he almost fainted.
"Husband!" Madam Hua, forgetting her tears, quickly reached out to soothe Dong Ming's sobs. "Husband, please don't mind her. Although Jin Wenqing and I were from the past, I was a virgin when I married you. Besides... I sent someone to Zhuwu Kingdom half a year ago to invite him here, and you know that he disguised himself as a woman and lived in the back courtyard of my house. I swear to heaven that I have never done anything to betray you. If I have uttered even the slightest lie, may I and my three children not have a good end."
"Of course I believe you. I'm just angry that this little beast is spouting nonsense and tarnishing your reputation!" Dong Ming grasped Hua's hand, looking heartbroken.
"Husband, don't be angry. In a few days, we will send her to the family temple to cultivate her character. We won't let her stay with Mother anymore. Mother has always spoiled her and has completely ruined her!" Hua said softly.
"Okay!" Dong Ming nodded in agreement.
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