Chapter 233 You should also pay the price for your sins
The crowd was in an uproar, never expecting that the truth behind the long-standing saga of the real and fake heiresses was actually like this!
It was Yu Chunyue and his wife who recklessly offended the Martial Alliance, causing the Alliance Leader's sister-in-law to almost lose her life along with her unborn child!
Then, in order to survive, he forcibly took the little girl with him!
After the girl was no longer useful, they turned the truth upside down, falsely accusing her of having an improper background and smearing her reputation.
"This couple is so despicable!"
"Waaah, I feel so sorry for Doctor Yu. She was so young back then, yet she was burdened with a false accusation. How heartbroken and sad she must have been!"
"I once insulted her, and I want to apologize to her. I'm sorry."
Are you sad?
Are you sad?
Yu Zhiyi felt as if she had returned to that rainy day ten years ago.
On what was otherwise an ordinary rainy day, she was practicing the rain-controlling talisman her master had taught her.
She thought that if she could successfully stop the rain, she would run to her parents and perform for them to make them happy.
However, when she managed to stop the rain and happily ran to Zheng's courtyard, she was coldly led to the Jingzhao Prefecture by the steward.
She was only ten years old at the time, and she had always heard that the Jingzhao Prefecture was a place for interrogating criminals, so she was inevitably afraid.
She stood in the cold main hall of the Jingzhao Prefecture, where the woman who claimed to be her mother hugged her in public, saying that the other party had used a trick to switch her with Yu Jiaojiao so that she could have a better life.
The woman said many more ambiguous things, leaving all the blame on her, before she smashed her head against the wall and died in the lobby.
Ten-year-old Yu Zhiyi never imagined that people could be so wicked, able to drag an innocent little girl into the mire without any burden. In addition, she was shocked, so she did not go forward to check on Qiao's condition.
Shortly after Qiao was carried away, someone came to report that she had died.
In order to demonstrate their benevolence, the Yu family took over the funeral arrangements for Qiao Shi, and Yu Zhiyi never even saw the remains of that "mother".
Looking back now, it was indeed full of flaws.
Her gaze swept back and forth between the Yu couple, finally settling on Madam Zheng.
In those years, it was always Zheng who took care of and taught her. Her relationship with Zheng was much closer than her relationship with Minister Yu.
Of course, this is all in her own opinion.
She looked intently at Zheng Shi, and now she finally had the answers to many things she hadn't been able to understand in the past.
"So, it was never me who stole ten years of Yu Jiaojiao's life, but your Yu family who stole seventeen years of my life. I don't owe you anything, you owe me."
Zheng's lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but she couldn't open her mouth under his clear, spring-like gaze.
Yu Jiaojiao was also shocked by this truth.
She died young in her previous life and had no idea that Yu Zhiyi's background had such a complicated history.
She quickly realized that she absolutely could not let Yu Zhiyi stand on the moral high ground, otherwise the Yu family's path to revival would be even more hopeless.
"Sister, you can't say that, can you?" she stammered. "Back then, it wasn't Father and Mother who wanted to steal you away; it was a mysterious person who delivered you into their hands."
"Besides, if the Martial Alliance hadn't been relentlessly pursuing us, Father and Mother wouldn't have resorted to such a desperate measure."
She thought her words were reasonable and well-founded, but before Yu Zhiyi could even speak, someone in the crowd retorted, "Wasn't it because Madam Yu abused her power and almost caused the death of Doctor Yu's mother and unborn child that things escalated to the point of no return?"
"Besides, even if you were trying to escape, you could have secretly returned the child to Shengjing after you got back. Instead, you kept her imprisoned by your side for so many years and even tried to smear her. Now that the truth has been revealed, you still want to shift the blame to the Martial Arts Alliance? Are you kidding me!"
"This is like wanting to be a prostitute while also wanting to maintain a virtuous image."
The crowd chimed in with their comments, making Zheng feel so ashamed that he wished he could disappear into the ground.
Yu Jiaojiao tried to use clever words, but Yu Zhiyi directly slapped the truth talisman on her head.
So Yu Jiaojiao's attempt to argue back turned into: "That woman deserved it because she wouldn't give the room to my mother!"
"Not only would she refuse to give up her room, but she also caused so much trouble afterwards. How could she be so vicious!"
"My mother was too kind. If she had just killed that woman back then, none of this would have happened."
"What's ridiculous is you ignorant commoners. My father is the Minister of Revenue. This little bitch Yu Zhiyi has been able to live for seventeen years under the name of the Minister's daughter. She's clearly the one who's profited!"
"If my father hadn't been at the crucial moment of his promotion from Vice Minister of Revenue to Minister of Revenue back then, how could this little slut have been able to stay in the Yu family for so many years?"
As soon as she uttered her first words, Yu Jiaojiao quickly covered her mouth.
Unfortunately, it was no use. No matter how hard she tried to cover it up, she still said the hurtful things.
Although she didn't think her parents had done anything wrong, she knew she shouldn't say those words.
Her eyes turned red with anxiety.
As Zheng listened to her daughter's honest thoughts, which defied moral standards, and saw her daughter's shameful and indignant expression, she felt both anxious and heartbroken.
She knelt down with a thud: "Yi'er, we were indeed wrong in this matter, but no matter what, we still raised you without worrying about food or clothing. Even if we didn't give you life, we still raised you."
"I don't ask you to treat us as your family, I only ask that you be merciful and let your father and sister go."
Yu Zhiyi looked down at the noblewoman in front of her.
Whether in her past life or this one, Zheng always maintained a gentle and noble demeanor.
If Yu Chunyue hadn't explained it to her personally, she wouldn't have believed that this woman could be so vicious.
Because of her, he and his biological mother nearly died during the Water Prayer Festival seventeen years ago.
And yet this person, who is all show and no substance and caused me to be separated from my biological mother for seventeen years, has the audacity to say that she raised me.
LOL.
She actually laughed.
“If you hadn’t insisted on severing ties with me back then in the palace to make me take the blame, I might have let them go today because of that so-called kinship.”
She smiled slightly, her clear eyes devoid of hatred, as if the person in front of her was just an ordinary stranger.
"People who do wrong should always pay the price. This is the principle you have been trying to brainwash me for the past seven years."
"Because of this principle, I have endured much that I didn't have to, and now..."
Her smile vanished abruptly.
She felt sorry for the version of herself who had worked so hard to gain the approval of the Yu family.
I feel sorry for the version of myself that thought my birth was a sin.
So I stopped laughing.
Because it's not funny.
"They should also pay the price for their mistakes."
As she finished speaking, both truth-telling talismans transformed into specks of starlight, but instead of scattering in the wind, they all entered the bodies of Yu Chunyue and Yu Jiaojiao.
However, the starlight was invisible to the general public.
Only Yu Zhiyi knew that for the next year, these two people would only be able to tell the truth and would no longer be able to use their silver tongues to deceive others.
And if someone asks them about the bad things they've done, they have no way to hide it.
For scheming individuals who stop at nothing, this is the most terrible punishment, accompanied by endless calamities.
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