"Why is that idiot so quiet? Could he be dead?"
"It would be best if they died, then we wouldn't have to stay in this barren village."
"Then we really don't care, what if the Marquis blames us?"
"Go ahead and take care of it if you want. I won't save you if a fool goes crazy and bites people. Besides, so many years have passed, and the Marquis hasn't asked about it. There's no reply to the letter I sent. I'm afraid he's long forgotten that there is such a legitimate wife..."
Perhaps it was a last burst of energy. Xie Wanyun had been crazy for half his life, and he woke up at the last moment of his life.
She lay in the iron-cold quilt, listening to the maid's gossip, and the black smoke from the burning charcoal around her aggravated her cough.
"Cough cough..." I finally stopped coughing.
There was no sound outside.
Someone pushed the door open and came in. It was a tall and strong man, her husband Yuan Xinghou. He was wearing a dark-colored fancy clothes. He looked more stable than when he was young and had white hair.
The two got married by accident due to an accident at a banquet that year. Over the years, they did not respect each other as guests, but only disliked each other.
Unexpectedly, the man would come to see her off when she was dying.
"Cough..." She suppressed the cough in her throat, "You're here."
Yuan Xinghou looked at his emaciated wife and felt only disgust.
The two were not much different in age. She was still in her prime, but Xie Wanyun was already old and frail, with wrinkled skin and white hair. Her eyes were filled with turbid yellow water. Her hair had not been combed for a long time. One could smell a disgusting odor even from a distance. She no longer had the charm of the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo.
"Yunniang asked me to come." He said coldly.
Xie Wanyun nodded.
Should have thought of it.
The man had no feelings for her and gave all his love to that person.
But what you didn’t get when you were young, you won’t ask for when you are old, and you won’t have any resentment.
"Cough cough..." She coughed violently a few more times, and this time she coughed up blood.
Marquis Yuanxing looked at the coughed-up blood with a frown that could have pinched a fly to death. However, thinking about how he had gained support from many of the Xie family's former subordinates in the court over the years because of his marriage to Xie Wanyun, he still had some conscience and asked, "Do you have any unfulfilled wishes?"
Xie Wanyun's breathing slowed down a bit. "I do have something to ask you."
"Ask."
"Our children..."
When she mentioned the child, her frail body almost struggled to sit up, "Is our child really dead?"
Yuan Xinghou's expression finally showed a wave of anger. "I've told you so many times, you're dead! You died the moment you were born!"
"Impossible, I clearly heard him crying, crying so loudly..."
That was the child she gave birth to after ten months of pregnancy.
The entire Xie family sacrificed their lives for the country, leaving her as the only blood relative left in the world!
Every time the doctor took the baby's pulse, he said the fetus was healthy. How could it die before birth?
Marquis Yuanxing was furious. "You've been crazy and stupid for a bastard for half your life. Now you're about to die, why are you still thinking about that bastard?"
Xie Wanyun was also angry, "You...how can you say that about our child!"
"Our child?" Marquis Yuanxing sneered, "He's not my child at all!"
"What did you say?" Xie Wanyun's pupils shrank rapidly.
At this point, Marquis Yuanxing could no longer hold back. He gritted his teeth and said, "It wasn't me who had sex with you at the banquet back then! I've already done my best by marrying you. Do you still expect me to bear your illegitimate offspring?"
"Impossible..." Xie Wanyun was struck by lightning.
When the eldest princess held a banquet, she was framed and taken by a maid into a room filled with love incense. When she woke up, she had lost her virginity.
The only male guest in the backyard that day was Qin Su'an, who fell into the water during the banquet and is now the Marquis of Yuanxing.
"Then why did you admit it?" she asked tremblingly.
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