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?"
"Dad loved Ah Chi the most when he was little. Dad 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 in order 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 hold him, he could only wait until the little princess no longer wanted mother to hold her, and then he could hold 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 see his father again and pretended not to know 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 her eyes and said, "Haven't you always wanted the daughter of the Chu family to be your queen? Now that I'm about to become queen, you'd rather let your niece enter the palace than acknowledge 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 this. No wonder she loved Dad so much before, yet she never visited his grave and didn't offer sacrifices to him during festivals. So you're really 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 was heartbroken and fell asleep as soon as he finished speaking.
Chu Yanlian asked a doctor to check Chu Chi's pulse. The doctor said, "This girl was drugged and fainted because of her anger."
Chu Yan sighed.
After Chu Chi woke up, she didn't stay in the small courtyard in the middle of the lake any longer. 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 to the gate of the Chu family. She saw a gorgeously dressed noble lady 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 is a perfect match for 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 with Chu Che. Because Chu Che defeated her in a move, Lu Yiling hummed 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're a martial arts expert, and then you get beaten up and people realize you're just showing off, that's going to be bad."
"Chu Che, you dare to say that I am just a show-off? You are dead. This princess 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 his sword 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 such a beautiful face like yours? Tell me, I will help you get revenge!"
Chu Chi smiled faintly at Lu Yiling, "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 looked very uneasy, 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.
"Mom, why didn't you tell us that Dad was still alive? Why do we have to suffer so much when he's still alive?"
"How could he be so irresponsible as to leave Fourth Brother before he was born and let him suffer so much? Just now, the little princess was bullying Fourth Brother!"
Ye Li said: "Lingling's behavior is not considered bullying. Besides, your father is dead. The man you saw was not your father."
Lu Yiling was eavesdropping outside, feeling a little guilty. It seemed like she had always bullied Chu Che since she was a child. "I won't bully you anymore."
"I like the princess bullying 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 lied to me that time in Chang'an. You even beat me and said that was not Daddy, but he is my dad. I am not so stupid as to not even recognize my dad!"
"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 Daddy?
Do you know how difficult it is for my second brother and I to live in the palace? Do you know why my third sister is so silent? Do you know how my fourth brother used to cry every night when he was young and asked mother to accompany him to sleep? Unfortunately, you had to accompany the little princess Lingling, so my fourth brother could only cry himself to sleep. If father were here, we wouldn't have to suffer so much! "
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