Twenty-six years ago, Miss Xu was favored by the Emperor for her outstanding beauty and was made a concubine, known as Consort Min. However, Xu Min did not like the Emperor. When she was young, she was in love with Prince Qi Yun, who was not related to her. Coincidentally, Qi Yun also liked her. Even though Qi Yun had already married his principal wife and had no concubines, everyone said that Qiao Wan was lucky. Qiao Wan also thought so. Except for the fact that her husband did not love her, everything was perfect. Moreover, she did not need her husband's love to survive.
Qiao Wan knew about Qi Yun and Xu Min's affair. She also knew that during the year that Xu Min used the excuse of practicing and praying at Linggan Temple, Qi Yun would always go out to meet with Xu Min in secret. But she never cared. What is yours can't be taken away by others, and what isn't yours, you can't hold onto. Qiao Wan had always been very open-minded. But then things happened.
That year, a plague broke out in the city, and Luo City was completely sealed off. The medicine that could cure the plague was becoming less and less available, and medicine from outside the city could not be transported in quickly. Just at this time, Qiao Wan and Xu Min gave birth to two boys, both of Qi Yun's flesh and blood. The people around Xu Min were very loyal, and at least no one on the emperor's side knew about the birth of the children. So a dramatic scene unfolded: the newborn children were weak and both of them contracted the terrible plague, and Qi Yun only had one medicine.
Qiao Wan had never begged him before; that was the first time she had asked him to save her child. In fact, Qi Yun did save the child, but he saved Xu Min's child. He told Xu Min that their child had died, and then brought Qi Duan back to Qiao Wan, saying, "This is our child."
The moment she held the child in her arms, Qiao Wan smiled happily, but her heart turned completely cold. No mother would mistake her own child, at least not her.
Later, Granny Guo returned with Qi Mu, whom she had dug out of the grave. The tiny Qi Mu was barely breathing. Qiao Wan, keeping it a secret from everyone, took the child to Linggan Temple and knelt before Master Jianyuan's door for a day and a night. Just when Qi Mu was about to give up, Jianyuan came out.
Jianyuan said he wasn't sure if the child would become the one who committed repeated killings in the future, but he couldn't let him lose his life because of an uncertainty. This was why Jianyuan thought about it for a day and a night before taking action. But it was too late. The child's life was saved, but he was left with a lifelong regret: he was blind.
Qiao Wan thought she would love this child even more, but she secretly raised him in an abandoned house. She wanted revenge and was waiting for this child to grow up so that they could take revenge together. At first, she really took good care of Qi Mu, even though Qi Mu was a child with a defect. But when she saw Qi Duan becoming smarter and more perfect, she suddenly became twisted.
"In order to keep the prince from knowing that I had discovered the truth, I treated Qi Duan like a loving mother. But when facing Mu'er, I treated him like a machine for revenge. I tried my best to make him do the best. I would ask Mu'er to do the same problems that Qi Duan had done. If he was even slightly inferior to Qi Duan, I would lock him in the darkest room in the deserted house. He would cry and then stop crying. I was happy to think that he had become stronger. Until later I realized that he only ever smiled at me."
Qiao Wan spoke absentmindedly, but suddenly threw away the Buddhist prayer beads in her hand. The resentment in her eyes made her face tense. "I believe in Buddhism to alleviate my guilt towards Mu'er, but chanting sutras and reciting Buddhist prayers every day only makes me regret what I did to Mu'er in the past. Xu Min, are you happy? He chose your child back then, but your child calls me 'mother' every day. How ironic."
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