The imperial edict conferring the title of Marquis of Cheng'en on Jiang Yuan has been issued, and the emperor has also selected a house for Jiang Yuan, which is far away from the imperial city and is a first-class place.
On the day when Jiang Yuan was taken out of Wu'an Marquis Mansion, Jiang Yi also went there.
Everyone envied Jiang Yuan. He was clearly a fool, but he was so lucky. Just because his sister was favored, he was able to become a marquis.
But Jiang Yuan himself didn't quite understand. He only knew that he had moved to a new place. There was no Marquis Wu'an or his biological mother here, which made him feel very comfortable.
He was very happy. Pei Siliang asked him to call him "brother-in-law", so he obediently called him that many times.
He played with his brother-in-law for a while, and when he left, Jiang Yuan felt reluctant to leave.
Pei Siliang felt that this brother-in-law was very perceptive.
Then he rewarded Jiang Yuan with some things.
When they returned to the palace, it was already very late, and Cheng was brought before Jiang Yi.
Cheng used to still have some charm, but she suffered a lot in the Marquis' Mansion, and now she looks much older than before.
Cheng was no longer as arrogant as before. She knelt in front of her and kowtowed to her, begging her to spare her life. She looked as humble as possible.
Jiang Yi just felt that everything in front of him was so ironic.
Since she was a child, people in the mansion would talk about Cheng's affairs in front of her every day, with complete contempt in their words, and they would also say "like mother, like daughter", saying that she would definitely be like her mother in the future.
She looked a bit like Cheng, and her father often beat her for this.
Almost everyone would tell her that Cheng was her mother, and that her mother had betrayed her father and ran away with someone else.
She didn't really understand what it meant at that time, but she knew that Cheng was her mother and those words were not good.
Her father treated her badly, and after he had a stepmother, he treated her and her brother even more harshly.
She thought at that time, would things be different if her mother were there?
She had seen how gentle her stepmother was to her stepsister, and she had also seen how other mothers doted on their own children.
But she didn't have it, so naturally she couldn't enjoy this tenderness.
Because she had never seen it, she had imagined many times how her mother treated her.
No matter how terrible his mother was in the eyes of others, the young Jiang Yi once had great hopes for this mother he had never met.
She's just not here, not that she doesn't love herself.
If she were here, everything would be different.
It was this fantasy that supported her through those many years in the Jiang family.
When she was eleven years old, her grandmother, the only one in the mansion who treated her well, passed away. Her stepmother became even more extreme and even wanted to marry her off to an uncle who was over fifty years old and had more than a dozen concubines.
Although she was ignorant at that time, she still knew what getting married meant and what a concubine was.
Her stepmother brought her to the uncle, who was very ugly and looked very scary.
She tried hard to open her stepmother's hands and ran out like crazy, fearing that she would be caught.
She arrived at the gate of Wu'an Marquis's Mansion.
She had heard from others that Cheng was in the Marquis of Wu'an's mansion, so she had secretly come there several times.
I was fortunate enough to have seen Cheng from afar several times.
Her mother was very beautiful and very gentle to Gu Niaoniao.
She thought that such a gentle mother also belonged to her, and her heart became more full of anticipation.
But at that time, she looked at herself in tattered clothes and still didn't dare to go forward to meet him.
She was afraid that Cheng would dislike her.
But this time she was so scared that she didn't care about anything else. She rushed to Cheng and called her "Mom" in a trembling voice.
Cheng Shi had already stopped recognizing her. She waved her hand away, disgust evident in her eyes. She said, "Where did this beggar come from? Get out of here!"
She was driven out by her biological mother.
At that time, she actually still held a glimmer of hope, thinking that Cheng just didn't recognize her.
But she didn't dare go to Cheng.
It was not until later that Cheng found her for Gu Niaoniao and took her and her brother to the Wu'an Marquis Mansion.
At first, she didn't know Cheng's intention. She only knew that her mother came to see her, and she felt that her mother still had her in her heart. She thought that she was also loved by her relatives.
Later, Cheng broke her fantasy.
But Cheng spoke very nicely. She pretended to be pitiful in front of her, saying that all her hard work and helplessness over the years were because of her and her brother, the two children, which made the Wu'an Marquis Mansion have a deep prejudice against her.
At that time, she met very few people and encountered very few things, so she actually believed Cheng's words and even felt guilty about it, so she agreed to give birth to a child for Gu Niaoniao.
She naively thought that as long as she gave birth to a child for Gu Niaoniao, her mother would be happy and love her more.
Later she realized that love can never be obtained by humble and unprincipled concessions.
It is better to love yourself than to ask for love from others.
After her rebirth, she completely eliminated Cheng from her heart. She no longer expected to be her "mother" and she was filled with hatred towards Cheng.
She had been waiting for this day for a long time.
And when that day came, she felt truly happy.
Tolerance does not make people happy. Only when you see the person you hate crawling at your feet, wagging his tail and begging for mercy like a dog can you be happy.
Jiang Yi looked at Cheng coldly, as if he was looking at a stranger.
"Are you a beggar? Why are you begging like this?"
"Do you know that you look like a dog right now?"
The words came out of Jiang Yi's mouth with a biting chill, and her eyes were filled with ice that had not melted for years.
She came to Cheng's front, stepped on Cheng's hand with her beautiful shoes, and rubbed it bit by bit.
"Does it hurt?" she asked. "This is just the beginning."
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