"After I became pregnant with their child, to show their sincerity, they took me to live in their home, and I eventually gave birth to Mi Fen in secret."
"So Mi Fen is also your biological daughter. Although she doesn't have your genes, she is still formed from your flesh and blood. No wonder you risked your life to save her when the fire broke out."
Mi Shan smiled faintly.
She suddenly realized that all of this was Jialuolou's own doing, and she shouldn't pity her.
Who told her to be so foolish as to make this wrong decision?
At the same time, she felt that if her mother hadn't made that wrong decision, she might not have been born.
"And what about me? How did I come to be here? You and Mi Xiuyan..." Mi Shan frowned, "Wasn't Mi Xiuyan and Madam Qiao very loving? Why is that?"
"Perhaps I shouldn't have stayed at their residence to recuperate," Jialuolou said calmly, her eyes revealing a detached indifference to all worldly matters. "Or perhaps, possessing such a face is itself a sin."
This face once offended Li Shengyuan.
When I transformed into Mei Niang, my original wish was simply to be an ordinary cook in the Mi family. My greatest desire was to be able to hear news of my eldest son, Li Xuanche, from afar, and to watch Mi Fen grow up safely.
Unexpectedly, this ultimately attracted Mi Xiuyan.
That night, he broke into the woodshed.
Mi Shan: "..." She clenched her fists tightly, unable to bear it any longer, "Mother, are you stupid? Why don't you fight back?"
"Resist? Why should I resist?"
Even now, Jialuo Lou's tone remained indifferent, as if he didn't care about any of this.
"Did the cauldron devour your seven emotions and six desires? Otherwise, how could you be like this?" Mi Shan was taken aback, and then made a bold guess.
“I don’t know. I’m just tired of living like that, hiding and hiding. I just want to live. As long as I can have a new identity and regain my freedom, nothing else matters to me. But Mi Xiuyan’s actions have undoubtedly angered Qiao Fangyue. When he found out about my relationship with Mi Xiuyan, he kicked me out.”
"So, that's when I came into being?" Mi Shan gritted her teeth. "At this moment, I truly wish I had never existed!"
"Even Mother doesn't know."
What kind of answer is that?!
Mi Shan almost wanted to slam the door and leave immediately.
However, she realized that perhaps her mother did not want any of this to happen, and her thinking was clearly beyond the comprehension of a normal person.
She seemed to have no sense of shame or self-protection whatsoever.
Such a beautiful woman, seemingly devoid of soul, residing in one's own mansion, could indeed easily stir up evil thoughts in people's hearts.
Mi Shan didn't want to think about it too much, so she took a deep breath and asked, "And then what happened?"
"Later, I became a homeless person again. I wanted to find Xu Junliang, but he went to a faraway place to seek medical treatment and I didn't know when he would return. In addition, there was a war at the time, so my mother thought it over and decided to go back to the Western Regions."
"Yes, back then, after coming out of the furnace, Mother vaguely remembered things from the past. Mother didn't want to go back to that place, but she had no choice."
"Sure enough, my intuition was right. After Mother went back, she met another man who said he was the King of the Western Regions and promised Mother that he would take her back sooner or later."
Mi Shan: "Why is there another king from the Western Regions? Are you two... together?"
"Of course, otherwise, why would he help me for no reason? It's just that he always says strange things, saying that he lost me before, but this time he will definitely not let me run away again."
"Wait a minute, is it possible that I am not Mi Xiuyan's child, but this Western Region King's?"
"Does it matter? You're all grown up now, you can choose who your father is."
Mi Shan: "...Let's not discuss this issue for now."
She felt that her mother was furious and didn't care about this at all.
"And then what happened?"
"Later, the King of the Western Regions went back to be the King of the Western Regions. The Great Yue attacked, and my mother had nowhere to go. She waited for him, but he didn't come. So she had to flee everywhere with her growing belly. Later, in the chaos of the war, my mother was rescued by a noblewoman, who took her to the State of Qi."
"Your mother was by her side, working as a physician. She gave birth to you in the State of Qi."
"Qi State... So, I grew up in Qi State?" Mi Shan was stunned. "Is there a mountain in Qi State that is covered with red maple leaves?"
"Hmm? You remember, back then you were only three and a half years old at the oldest, right? You were just a little dumpling, how come you have such a good memory?"
Mi Shan was stunned.
So, does that mean the little girl in her dream was really herself?
It was her and Xie Ling!
"My mother's past is truly fascinating," Mi Shan said after a moment of silence, then quickly asked.
"Then how did we end up back at the Mi residence?"
"Da Yue attacked Qi again. At that time, one after another, large and small kingdoms were destroyed by Da Yue. Mother didn't want to see Li Shengyuan, so she took you and fled. Back then, because of this face, it always attracted covetous glances. It was the Queen of Qi who told Mother that she shouldn't let anyone touch her body. Mother then felt that being that way was really troublesome, so it was better to be an ugly monster. So after being burned, it wasn't that Mother couldn't heal herself, she just didn't want to care anymore."
And so, I lived in anonymity for so many years, and nobody paid any attention to me.
Jialuo Lou said, "When I escaped back then, the first thing I did was go to Xu Junliang. He was furious when he heard what I had done with Mi Xiuyan. He felt that I had broken my promise to him. He hated himself for realizing his feelings too late. He had planned to confess to me and ask me to be with him after I finished my time at the Mi residence. But when he came back, he learned that I had been having an affair with Mi Xiuyan and had run away. So when I took you and went to him with nowhere else to go, he wouldn't open the door and left us, mother and daughter, outside in the rain."
"He said he would rather die than accept us."
“I don’t know why he said that. Maybe my mother is just disliked, or maybe I bring bad luck wherever I go. So in the end, I could only return to the Mi family and continue to be a cook. Mi Xiuyan treats you as her own daughter and accepts you with joy. Actually, I don’t know whether your father is the King of the Western Regions or Mi Xiuyan.”
"No..." Mi Shan sighed, "From what you've said, neither of these two people are good people. Of course, you, Mother, are too... Sigh, I don't know what to say."
"Yes. That's the whole story. I'm doing quite well now. Although A-Qiu sometimes complains about me, her ugly mother, we depend on each other and live a peaceful life in this village. That's enough for me."
"Really? Then what about Jiang Zi? She's thought of you, her older sister, her whole life. You can ignore everyone else, but she's your sister. She's never forgotten you. Now she's about to die. Don't you want to see her one last time?"
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