Chapter 608 Her face was covered in pockmarks
Three days later, Miss Ren's injuries were greatly healed. She remained unconscious for two days before slowly waking up on the night of the third day.
The first thing I do after waking up is look in the mirror.
She had her maid light candles, then hurriedly got out of bed, shouting, "Quick, quick, bring me my mirror!"
The maidservant lowered her head, not daring to look at her. After being scolded by her, she could only obediently go to get the bronze mirror.
Miss Ren loved looking in the mirror. The mirror in her home was made of brass and was engraved with lifelike peonies.
She held the mirror in her hand and looked at it with great trepidation.
All I could see was a sallow face covered with freckles.
"Ah! My face!" Miss Ren exclaimed in surprise as she looked at herself in the mirror, holding her face in her hands.
"How did my face become like this! My face!"
The maidservant stood to the side with her head down, not daring to speak.
Miss Ren looked just like this when she lived in the old house. Although her features were quite delicate, her skin was just like her mother's. She had been sallow since childhood. She tried many remedies, but in the end, not only did she not get better, she also developed a lot of freckles, just like the sesame seed cakes sold on the street.
Later, she went to Qilin Mountain and used some kind of prescription, which not only cured the freckles on her face but also gave her snow-white skin and made her features much more refined.
This time, being stung by a wasp brought me back to square one overnight.
Miss Ren had long forgotten what she looked like. When she blinked, she thought her face had been stung by a wasp.
She slammed the mirror to the ground and forcefully pulled the kneeling maidservant beside the bed away. "Go, quickly go and fetch a doctor for me, quick!"
The maidservant trembled and stammered, "Yes, Miss, I'll go right away."
Miss Ren then released her.
The little maidservant scrambled away from the place.
Miss Ren cupped her face in her hands and began to cry softly.
Her cries alerted Lord Ren.
Lord Ren was already angry because of her wickedness. He strode over and said, "What are you crying for? This is all your own doing. I told you to stay at home, but you wouldn't listen and insisted on going to provoke the little princess."
“I did want to support you to become empress, but I never taught you to kill and commit arson. Yuting, you weren’t like this before, how did you change?”
In Lord Ren's eyes, his daughter was well-behaved and obedient when she was young, and she was very friendly to the servants in the mansion. Later, she left home for many years and went to the old house. When she returned, her appearance had become more beautiful, but her personality had also changed.
Not only was she ruthless, but she also often mistreated her maids, and several of them were beaten to death by her.
If Lord Ren only had this one daughter, he would have sent her back to the old house long ago.
Miss Ren got off the bed and knelt in front of her father, pitifully saying, "Father, I'm doing this for the sake of our Ren family. If the little princess doesn't die and the eldest and second princes aren't crippled, the emperor won't agree to marry another empress. Even if I enter the palace, I can only be an ordinary concubine."
“In what way is our Ren family’s family background inferior to that of Du Wanchun? Back when the Emperor was still the magistrate of Zhou County, wasn’t it my father who was busy running around with Lord Zheng? Otherwise, he wouldn’t be where he is today.”
“Father, if I become the emperor, our Ren family will rise to prominence and be remembered throughout history.”
Lord Ren was somewhat moved by her words, but his moral principles and sense of righteousness still restrained his evil thoughts.
"Enough! If the position of Empress requires stepping on human lives to obtain, then I don't want it. Tomorrow I will go to the court and report to His Majesty, ordering him to appoint Du Wanchun as Empress. No one else can even think about it!"
After he finished speaking, he forcefully pushed his daughter away, saying, "Take good care of your injuries. I will definitely find you a good marriage in the future, one that will be no worse than going to the palace."
"Father!" Miss Ren looked at Lord Ren in disbelief, unable to believe that he would give up so easily. "Father, you can't do this, Father!"
Lord Ren didn't want to look at her anymore, so he turned around and said, "The doctor will be here soon. Have him take a good look at your face and get it treated first."
Miss Ren was stunned upon hearing this, and touched her face in horror.
To dispel his desires, Lord Ren said mercilessly, "With your face now, it would be difficult for you to be an empress, let alone a concubine. Who can accept that the mother of the nation is a pockmarked woman?"
Miss Ren bit her lip, her eyes were red, and tears welled up in her eyes. She didn't say anything more.
Lord Ren then left.
Although he spoke harshly to Miss Ren on the surface, she was, after all, his only daughter, and he still felt sorry for her. After leaving Miss Ren's courtyard, he specially instructed the kitchen staff to prepare some of her favorite dishes for her. He then sent several attentive maids to take good care of her.
The doctor arrived quickly.
After examining Miss Ren's pulse and the injuries on her face, the doctor slowly said, "Miss, your injuries are almost completely healed."
Miss Ren didn't believe it. "Completely healed? Completely healed, so why does my face still look like this?"
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