Palace.
Jiang Xiancao stood outside Shu Linyue's house. After hesitating for a while, he was about to turn around and leave when he heard someone inside say:
"Since you are here, please come in."
She hesitated for a moment and gently pushed open the door.
Shu Linyue was sitting on the rose chair in the outer room, holding a book in her hand.
Seeing Jiang Xiancao coming in, she put down the book in her hand, stood up and bowed to him, "Greetings, Your Highness."
Jiang Xiancao said quickly, "Madam Shu, please take a seat. I am sorry to bother you."
Hearing this, Shu Linyue raised her bright eyes and looked at her quietly.
Under the candlelight, these eyes are so moving, as if they are gentle and tender, yet there is a sharp edge hidden in this tenderness.
Jiang Xiancao felt a little nervous when she looked at him, and lowered his head to look at his hands as if to hide his feelings.
Shu Linyue suddenly smiled and said, "Let me pour you a cup of tea."
"No need, I came here to talk to my wife about something serious."
Jiang Xiancao pondered her words and spoke with a caution she didn't even realize. "The Empress and the Right Prime Minister were the culprits in the Shu family incident. The assassins from the Tianming Pavilion who hunted you and your grandmother were actually acting under their orders. The Jiang family was also involved."
Shu Linyue listened calmly.
She met King Zhan this morning and actually knew all these things.
"I want to uncover the truth of what happened back then and make everyone who hurt you pay the price."
Jiang Xiancao paused and said, "There are so many innocent souls in the Shu family who died with their eyes wide open, and they also need an explanation. But I won't force you to come forward to testify. If you don't want to bring up the past, I have other ways..."
Before he could finish his words, he was suddenly interrupted by Shu Linyue:
"Of course I'll testify."
Jiang Xiancao looked at Shu Linyue. Her expression remained calm, but there was a frightening sharpness in her eyes:
"These people killed my entire family and profited from my own flesh and blood. As the sole survivor, I was used as a sacrifice by that beast, Marquis Wen Ning, to feed the Jiang family. The Jiang family even abused and exploited my daughter in every possible way. How can I not stand up and demand an explanation?"
She had refused to mention these things in front of the Ninth Prince before, simply because she did not believe in the royal family at that time.
Because of distrust;
Because she knew that it was more wishful thinking for her to try to deal with the Great Sheng Dynasty with her own strength than for a gnat to shake a tree;
Because she was afraid that her daughter would be dragged down by her;
So she could only pretend to have let go of the past.
The Queen's strategy was very effective back then. For so many years, she had always believed that the deaths of her sister and other relatives were instigated by Emperor Yong, and that the so-called Tianming Pavilion was just a pretext used by the court to deceive the world.
But when Prince Zhan found her, he produced evidence to convince her.
Emperor Yong might not be considered a wise ruler, nor a good saint, but he had some genuine feelings for his sister, and he really had no intention of attacking the Shu family back then.
It was her sister who blocked the Queen's way after giving birth to the prince.
The Shu family was not implicated entirely because her sister was envied by the Queen.
An innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. The Shu family's wealth and treasures, as well as the secrets left over from the previous dynasty, have doomed the Shu family to never find peace no matter how they try to avoid the world.
But as a surviving member of the Shu family, after suffering so many years of abuse, since she has the hope of revenge for her relatives, she is willing to go through the mountains of swords and the sea of fire even if it means her body is broken into pieces.
And her last concern in this world is her daughter.
Shu Linyue looked at the handsome young man in front of her, but her eyes turned red.
She was silent for a long time before she said:
"Cao'er, why don't you recognize me?"
Jiang Xiancao's breathing stagnated.
She didn't expect that Shu Linyue actually recognized her identity!
"I..." Jiang Xiancao was a little anxious. Looking at her mother's eyes, she had thousands of words to say, but now she couldn't say anything.
Shu Linyue smiled as tears streamed down her face. "Mother and daughter are connected by heart. Even if we haven't seen each other for so many years, even if you are in someone else's body, you can't deceive your mother. In my eyes, you are you, my one and only Cao'er."
As the eldest daughter of the Shu family, Shu Linyue studied metaphysics with her father.
When she first met the Ninth Prince, she just felt that there was something wrong with her nephew, but she had neglected metaphysics for many years and did not see the real problem.
Later, as she came into more and more contact with the Ninth Prince, the strangeness in her heart became stronger and stronger, but this strangeness did not make her feel repulsed by this "nephew". Instead, it made her want to get closer to him more and more.
That kind of closeness comes from the instinct in the blood.
She originally thought that it was her sister's bloodline that had taken effect, but after she spent her heart's blood to use the Shu family's secret technique, she realized the truth.
After Prince Zhan came, she knew everything.
Jiang Xiancao blinked and tears flowed down her cheeks.
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