Huabi's eyes were red, and she bit her lower lip tightly, not daring to make a sound or hide.
He let his mistress vent her emotions before letting go of her lips that had been bitten and were bleeding.
"Madam, Xixi doesn't dare to compete with the eldest lady for the emperor's throne. Is there...some misunderstanding?"
Hua Bi endured the excruciating pain in her body and tried to get to the bottom of the matter.
"Misunderstanding?" Lin Yi Qiu sneered and kicked Hua Bi hard in the stomach!
Huabi groaned, curled up and clutched her stomach tightly.
"The Emperor has personally sent someone here, how could this still be a misunderstanding? When your daughter comes back tonight, you'd better make her give up trying to climb the Emperor's high branch!
Otherwise, I will never forgive you and your daughter!"
Ying Xixi had no idea that the emperor was so cunning. He sent someone to the Ying Mansion to deliver a message, but the servant actually revealed his identity, which led to her adoptive mother being abused and threatened by the mistress.
At this time, she was sitting by the river with the emperor, grilling fish.
The emperor seemed very skilled in grilling fish, so Ying Xixi naturally praised him with a blushing face, which made the emperor feel better and feel better about himself.
It’s just that the fish grilled by the emperor is not very tasty.
The two chatted by the river for the entire afternoon until the sun set, and Ying Xixi said she wanted to go back.
"Xixi, I'm very fond of you. I wonder if I can have the chance to spend the rest of my life with you?"
The emperor played a straight ball and looked at Ying Xixi lovingly with a pair of dark circles under his eyes.
Ying Xixi lowered her head shyly, "I am also attracted to you, sir, but I am already married."
After saying the last sentence, Ying Xixi's expression darkened, and she looked as if she was being forced and helpless.
The emperor didn't care whether Ying Xixi was married or not.
As an emperor, he can get the woman he likes even if she is a married woman.
"Xixi, are you attracted to the other person?"
Ying Xixi smiled bitterly and shook her head, "I'm not afraid of being laughed at by you, but my stepmother betrothed me to a butcher in the capital who is twenty years older than me and who likes to beat women.
Because I am a concubine's daughter and have never been favored in my family since I was a child, I envy my elder sister who can enter the palace as a concubine, but I know that I am a concubine's daughter and am not worthy of entering the palace.
As long as my stepmother can promise me a good family, I will be satisfied.
But that butcher..."
Ying Xixi whispered, tears falling, "I don't want to be beaten to death by the butcher."
When the emperor heard this, displeasure and anger appeared in his cloudy eyes.
"Xixi, don't worry. Since you are not satisfied with this marriage, I can help you solve it."
The emperor was not aware of it for a moment and blurted out the name "I".
Ying Xixi looked up in surprise and helplessness, her wet eyes filled with shock and anxiety.
"You, you are the emperor?!"
The emperor covered his lips and coughed, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hide your intentions, Xixi, I am attracted to you, are you willing to enter the palace and become my concubine?"
Ying Xixi covered her lips with her delicate hands, and surprise flashed in her crystal clear eyes, but then there was a deep sense of uneasiness.
"Of course I am willing, but I am a concubine's daughter, and my mother will not agree.
Also, my elder sister has just entered the palace not long ago. If, if I also entered the palace, my father, mother and elder sister would blame me.
Your Majesty, please, please forget it. I don’t want my mother to be bullied by my stepmother in the Ying family because of this matter.”
Ying Xixi choked up and covered her face with her hands as she cried.
The emperor held Ying Xixi in his arms with a distressed look on his face, "Don't cry, it will hurt me. Xixi, don't be afraid. I am the emperor. As long as I issue an imperial decree, no one dares to disobey.
If you are worried about your biological mother, I will send someone to protect her in secret.
As for Lord Ying, if he knew you had entered the palace, he would only be happy and would not blame you."
Ying Xixi raised her eyes happily, "Really, Your Majesty?"
"Really? You go back tonight. Tomorrow morning I will send someone to the Ying family to issue an imperial decree."
After the emperor promised, he sent Ying Xixi back to Ying Mansion.
However, Ying Xixi did not go back through the main gate, but went around to the back door.
It is better to keep a low profile until you can successfully enter the palace tomorrow.
The back door of the Ying Mansion is closer to the side courtyard where Ying Xixi and Hua Bi, the concubines and the illegitimate daughter, live.
Therefore, Ying Xixi returned to her room smoothly without alerting the mistress's eyes.
But when she returned to the house, she saw her adopted mother with a worried look on her face and one of her cheeks was noticeably swollen.
"Mom, what's wrong with your face?! Who bullied you?!"
Ying Xixi strode forward and lifted her mother's chin to take a closer look.
Not only was one of Huabi's cheeks swollen, but the slap mark was also very obvious.
It was obvious that he was slapped!
Hua Bi's eyes flashed, and she turned away. "No one is bullying mother. Xixi, did you meet with the emperor? Do you want to enter the palace?"
Hearing this, Ying Xixi narrowed her eyes, pulled out a chair and sat down.
"Mother, did the mistress tell you that I met with the emperor and that he wanted me to enter the palace as a concubine?
So she was the one who slapped you? Did she ask you to persuade me not to enter the palace, or else she would be rude to you?!"
Ying Xixi asked calmly, word by word, and basically told the truth.
Huabi bit her lip and lowered her head to wipe away her tears.
"Xixi, mother is just a concubine, and you are just a concubine's daughter, we have to accept our fate!
Even if the emperor is interested in you now, how long can his feelings for you last?
There are three thousand beauties in the emperor's harem, including the eldest daughter. If you are no longer protected by the emperor, what will you do if she bullies you?
No one protected you at that time! But if the person you married was an ordinary person, it would be different!
You are the principal wife, no one dares to bully you! You can make the decision! "
Ying Xixi thought about the original owner's life and sneered.
“Indeed, after I married that butcher, I was his principal wife. Even if he took a concubine, his concubines would not dare to bully me.
But the one who can bully me is that butcher!
Mom, did you know that butcher was twenty years older than me? Did you know he was ugly, had a bad temper, and loved to beat women?!
Did you know he already beat a wife to death?!
This is the man the mistress wants me to marry!
She wants me to marry her and be beaten to death by a butcher!
Mother, from childhood until now, my mother and I have always been bullied by the mistress and the legitimate daughter!
Now I don’t want to accept my fate! If we accept our fate again, only death will be waiting for us! "
Ying Xixi said these words with red eyes and a trembling voice.
Hua Bi stared blankly at her daughter whose eyes were red and tearful, her lips trembling.
She has accepted her fate for more than 30 years. If she doesn't accept it now, then...what can she do?
"Xixi, you..." What else can I do if I don't accept my fate?
Hua Bi didn't say the rest of the words, or rather, looking into her daughter's eyes, she couldn't say it.
"Mother, I refuse to accept my fate! I want to enter the palace and become the emperor's favorite concubine! I want to trample all those who have bullied us under my feet!!"
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