Chapter 726 Adultery
Shu Yu's hand holding the teacup suddenly froze, and she looked at him in astonishment.
Meng Yunzheng did not look away, a mocking smile on his face. "That man, on the surface kind and benevolent, is actually a treacherous and vicious person. My mother is just the daughter of an ordinary family. She was very beautiful from a young age and was a famous beauty in the surrounding area."
Shu Yu thought, Meng Yunzheng is so good-looking, his mother must be pretty good-looking too.
“That man had seen my mother once by chance and forcibly took her away. My mother refused, so he went to my maternal grandparents’ house and bought her with money. My maternal grandparents’ family is not good; once they got the money, they didn’t care about my mother’s life or death at all. Moreover, that man is in a high position of power.”
High position with significant weight?
Shu Yu asked cautiously, "Is he... an official?"
"Yes, the current Vice Minister of Works."
Shu Yu's eyes widened. Holy crap, he really is an official. Then Meng Yunzheng must be from an official family.
Wait a minute, his mother is from an ordinary family, and that man is an official, so it's unlikely that he would marry her as his legal wife.
"So, your mother became that man's..."
Before Shu Yu could finish speaking, Meng Yunzheng interjected, "A mistress."
A mistress? He forcibly took her back, not even taking a concubine, let alone a legal wife? What a scoundrel.
Meng Yunzheng scoffed, "That man is already married, and his wife is his superior's daughter. How could he dare to bring another woman home after only six months of marriage? He bought a courtyard in a secluded alley in the inner city to settle my mother, and hired a maid to serve her. He only visits her occasionally."
"A year passed like that. She became extremely thin that year and had no energy at all. It was as if she was just waiting to die. However, just when my mother had become numb, she found out that she was pregnant."
"Over the course of a year, that man also lowered his guard against my mother. When my mother wanted to go out for a walk, he allowed it, but only when she went back to her parents' home. My mother also hated my maternal grandparents' home, but she preferred to go out for a stroll rather than stay in that stuffy little courtyard. So that day, she went back to the Song family with her mother-in-law."
"Not long after arriving at the Song family, she got into an argument with her brother from her maternal family and fainted due to emotional distress. My maternal grandparents were worried that something had happened to her, so they called a doctor to come to the house to take her pulse, and that's how they found out that she was two months pregnant."
"The Song family was overjoyed. They thought that since my mother was pregnant, it would be a good opportunity for that man to give her a proper status. So after my mother woke up, they urged her to come back quickly and tell that man the good news."
“My mother went back. That man thought she was going to stay overnight at the Song family’s house and never expected her to come back early. As a result, my mother caught him having an affair with someone.”
Shu Yu frowned. An affair? "Who?"
"That person is from the palace."
Shu Yu's eyes widened suddenly. Women in the palace?
Judging from Meng Yunzheng's words, she was definitely not just a palace maid. It could only be... a concubine or a princess.
Holy crap, that man is so bold, he's having an affair with someone in the palace.
Meng Yunzheng scoffed, "Doesn't it seem absurd? A concubine of considerable status in the palace having an affair with a man who wasn't even the Vice Minister of Works at the time. Let alone my mother, anyone who reads this would think they're hallucinating."
Shu Yu nodded. "Your mother caught them in the act. They won't let her off the hook, will they?"
(End of this chapter)
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