Zheng Quchi had heard Wei Yao mention this before, so he wasn't as surprised as he had been when he first heard it.
She looked at Steward Chang in confusion. Wasn't Chang Yue someone that Yuwen Sheng brought back from outside after the old patriarch died?
How come in his mouth it became that Yuwen Sheng was someone he watched grow up?
Is there a reason for this discrepancy, or is Steward Chang making up lies to deceive her?
Chang Yue recalled the past, his voice calm: "When we saw such a child back then, the servants in the mansion were only afraid. No one dared to approach him. They always felt that he was not a normal person, except for the old lady."
Old lady?
"...Is she Yuwen Sheng's biological mother?"
"Yes, the old lady went mad for nearly five years after giving birth to the General, and the General was locked up by the old patriarch when he was an infant for a full five years, until that day, the old lady seemed to sense something, and suddenly she regained her senses..."
"She told the old patriarch that she wanted to see her child. The old patriarch always granted the old lady's requests. It was at this time that the old patriarch released the general who had been hiding in the shadows."
Whenever Zheng Quchi heard the name of Yuwen Sheng's father, he felt an inexplicable discomfort in his heart. Perhaps it was because he could be so cruel as to ignore an infant, imprisoning and neglecting him, especially since the infant was his own child.
But Zheng Quchi did not interrupt. She let Chang Yue continue: "In the following years, the old lady taught the general to speak and read little by little. She also taught him to laugh. He should laugh when he was unhappy, when he was sad, when he cried, and when he was in pain. But he should not laugh when he was happy and joyful. He should hide it."
Zheng Quchi felt suffocated just listening to these words.
"Why?" Why teach a child these things that go against human nature?
Laughing when happy and crying when sad are normal emotions that people should have, and they are a normal way for people to feel and express their emotions.
She had thought this mother had come to give Yuwen Sheng love, but it sounded as if she had come to foreshadow his days of suffering.
"Why?" Chang Yue's face twitched a few times, as if he was trying his best to control some of his emotions. He slowed his breathing and said, "Perhaps it's because the old lady... she couldn't control the resentment in her heart, so she turned a blind eye to the general's innocence."
Zheng Quchi didn't quite understand the meaning of those words.
Why would a mother resent her child, just as she doesn't understand why a father would cruelly abandon his child?
But Chang Yue didn't intend to explain more about the matter to her. He said, "The General is very smart, so smart that he can learn anything he is taught. He did learn to laugh, and he always remembered to laugh after the old lady died. He never shed a tear. Even after his parents died, at the funeral, he acted like a strange person who was laughing. Because of this, everyone was afraid of him, feared him, and ran away from him. No one ever dared to get close to him, care for him, or feel sorry for him."
"He was lonely, desolate, and pitiful. But he himself was unaware of these things."
"Back then, this old servant was expelled from the Yuwen family by the old master for making a mistake. This old servant failed in his duty and failed to keep a good watch over the General for the old lady. When I saw him again, several years had passed, and everything had changed."
Everyone thought the General was terrifying, insane, and addicted to blood, but this terrifying man was actually part of the old patriarch's revenge plan.
As Chang Yue spoke, the image of that small figure seemed to reappear in his eyes. He was not even half the height of the coffin, dressed in a plain white robe, staring straight at his mother's coffin. A smile was on his thin face, but his large, dark eyes were empty, as if he could not understand anything in this world, yet he had been forcibly dragged into a vortex of hatred belonging to the adults.
Zheng Quchi admits that she has a sentimental side, which makes her feel sorry for and heartbroken for Yuwen Sheng when he was a child. However, she is also a rational person. She understands that the adult version of Yuwen Sheng no longer needs the "candy" he wanted as a child, nor does he need anyone to pity him.
After all, he's the one who pities others now.
“But madam, people may learn to be alone and enjoy solitude, but they can’t be alone forever, especially when someone they care about appears in their life, they will unconsciously start to reach out to them…”
How about reaching out?
Those who know how to love will reach out to embrace, and if the other person takes a step back, they will let go gracefully and with blessings.
But those who don't know how to love will only be like ignorant children, stubbornly holding on and refusing to let go, until death do them part.
"The path that was set for him in the first half of his life has been completed by the General. He has also fulfilled all the promises he made to the Old Madam. I thought he would be driven completely mad by the torment, drag Ye Kingdom down with him to prison, and destroy this century-old foundation. I know that he has been thinking this way all these years. But I never thought that someone else would appear in this world who could make the General pull back from the brink."
"The general learned to laugh from the old lady, but she taught him how to forget to laugh. This old servant has noticed that when it comes to the old lady, he gets angry, happy, or even sad. He is becoming more and more like a normal person. Perhaps it is imitation, or perhaps it is learning, but he is really getting better."
He was sincerely grateful for Zheng Quchi's appearance. She had awakened the general's inner emotions, prevented a calamity for the Ye Kingdom, and stopped the general from self-destruction.
"No, I don't understand. Hasn't he always been the guardian deity of Ye Kingdom? Why would he want to destroy Ye Kingdom?" Zheng Quchi became more and more confused as he listened.
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