The Qian family mansion.
Qian Tonghai took the whip and lashed the pregnant woman hard.
"You bitch!"
"I'll beat you to death!"
The whip fell, and Lin Muya screamed in pain, "Ah!"
"Shut up!"
Lin Muya trembled all over, biting her lip tightly, afraid that if she made the slightest sound, he would hit her even harder.
"You shameless woman! You want a child so badly? Why not act like a proper mistress of a noble family instead of having a child?"
"I'll beat you to death, you slut, for daring to cheat on me!"
"Smack!"
"Smack!"
"Smack!"
The rattan whip lashed at Lin Muya's body again and again until she trembled all over and her skin was torn and bleeding, only then did Qian Tonghai stop.
"My husband, I was wrong, I will never do it again."
Lin Muya curled up in the corner, clutching her stomach tightly, afraid that the man in front of her would hit her.
Seeing how she protected the child in her womb, Qian Tonghai became even angrier.
"Husband, we don't want this child anymore, please don't be angry..."
"Give birth! Give birth to it for me!" He was so angry that his eyes turned bloodshot.
Once the child is born, the parents will stop pressuring him to have children.
His secret remained undiscovered, and as for the child… he narrowed his eyes slightly.
Lin Muya huddled up in grief, her body trembling uncontrollably.
Suddenly, a sharp pain shot through her abdomen, causing her to gasp.
"ah."
"pain……"
"pain……"
"stomachache……"
She cried out several times, her forehead beaded with sweat from the pain, and Qian Tonghai realized that she seemed to be about to give birth.
He glared angrily at her battered body, reaching out to grab her disheveled hair: "Change your clothes, or you can forget about giving birth!"
Lin Muya bit her lip tightly, looking at Qian Tonghai with sorrow, "Husband, I... can't get up, please... help me up?"
Enraged, Qian Tonghai stomped on her stomach. "Pull you up? Don't even think about it!"
"Your filthy body deserves to be trampled under my feet!"
"ah--"
...
After Liu Ruyan and Lin Shixuan finished serving tea, they returned to their courtyard.
A short while later, a servant brought in a maid.
Lin Shixuan glanced at Liu Ruyan and said gently:
"Ruyan, you've already suffered a loss by marrying me, and now you only have one maidservant by your side. This is a maidservant I bought from outside a couple of days ago. She's skillful and clever, so she'll serve you alongside me from now on?"
Upon hearing this, Liu Ruyan looked gratefully at the considerate Lin Shixuan.
"Thank you, my husband."
The maid was clever and quick-witted. Upon hearing that Liu Ruyan had accepted her, she immediately bowed to her and said, "Greetings to the young mistress. My name is Dingxiang."
Liu Ruyan glanced at her and responded with a faint "Mm".
Lin Shixuan recalled the passionate night before and suddenly fell in love with that feeling.
He suddenly felt a sense of anticipation, wondering if Chen Lanxue would arrive tonight.
After waiting for several days without any news from Shen Lanxue, he wrote a letter and had a servant secretly deliver it to the Shen residence.
Ye Lanyin looked at the contents of the letter and sneered.
"Send it out."
The servant nodded. "Yes, Madam."
This servant was given to her by her elder brother. She had risked her life to send him to Yifeng Residence to do cleaning, but she never expected him to gain Lin Shixuan's trust so quickly.
It seems that the eldest brother is indeed very skilled at training people.
[Mom is so amazing!]
[My mother is so charming after she turned evil.]
I want to stick it on...
Nine-month-old Lin Wanwan was already able to stand up while holding onto things. She forcefully pulled Ye Lanyin's body, then wrapped her arms around her neck and kissed her hard.
'smack'
[Mommy smells so good...]
Ye Lanyin couldn't stop laughing.
He reached out and affectionately patted her little head.
These days, she heard about Lin Wanwan's past from ten thousand years ago through her inner voice.
It turns out that before she became a goddess, she was an abandoned baby who grew up eating food from many families. In order not to be a burden on the villagers, she left for another place to make a living at the age of sixteen.
They later took in many animals and hundreds of orphans, raising them to adulthood.
She accumulated good deeds and never married. Because of her perfect merits, she was directly deified after her death.
After a thousand years, she cultivated herself into a Celestial Venerable, and the alignment of the nine stars was her creation.
Just as she and Lin Wanwan were having a great time, Hua Mei came to report:
"Madam, Lin Muya has given birth."
"The Qian family just came to report that she went into premature labor."
[Oh, premature birth?]
What goes around comes around.
Ye Lanyin's heart sank. "Why would she be premature?"
"They said she accidentally fell, which led to her premature birth."
"Fell down? A pregnant woman, the Qian family doesn't even keep an eye on her. Go, get some tonics and send them over."
Hua Mei bowed and said, "Yes, Madam."
"etc."
Hua Mei turned around, "Madam, what's wrong?"
"Take the maids from your mother's courtyard with you."
Upon hearing this, Hua Mei smiled and replied, "Yes."
Ye Lanyin had already guessed this outcome.
For the past few months, her family has had no news of her whatsoever; Qian Tonghai must have blocked it.
However, she never expected that Qian Tonghai would actually keep the child in her womb.
What did Wanwan mean by "fortune changes like the wheel of luck"?
She sighed softly, glancing at her out of the corner of her eye, "Poor thing, she was born prematurely just like me."
What's there to pity?
That wicked woman always gives my mother medicine a month in advance; no wonder she went into premature labor.
[Waaaaah, my beautiful and kind mother, you pity the bad guys but don't pity yourself at all.]
The little guy pouted and looked at Ye Lanyin, as if he had suffered a great injustice.
Ye Lanyin's heart melted at the sight of her, and she immediately pulled her into her arms.
He thought to himself, "So it was her doing!"
No wonder she gave birth not long after drinking the sugar water.
She was truly blind; how could she have been so kind to someone like that, even giving her money every month?
After Hua Mei left, Ye Lanyin carried Lin Wanwan to the ancestral hall.
As soon as she entered the ancestral hall, she saw Lin Shiming fast asleep inside, completely unaware that the door had been opened.
Seeing his condition, Ye Lanyin quickly tucked the blanket over him.
"Shiming, you can leave the ancestral hall tomorrow. It's all my fault for making you suffer."
“These days, Mother has also been feeling unwell. Yesterday, your eldest brother got married, and Zou Shuang’er deliberately caused trouble, making Shixuan’s wedding banquet a laughing stock.”
"I really couldn't find the time to come see you..."
As Ye Lanyin spoke, her eyes reddened.
Lin Shiming wasn't actually asleep; he was just too ashamed to face anyone, which is why he kept his eyes closed and didn't dare look at her.
"Shiming, Mother is gone."
With that, Ye Lanyin stood up and walked towards the door.
Lin Shixuan couldn't help but open his eyes, watching her departing figure, and clenched his fist.
"Mother, your son will always remember your kindness in raising me, but I cannot leave the Marquis's mansion. I do not want to live the life of a servant!"
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