At this moment, in Yiran Courtyard, Sun Si personally brewed tea and handed the white porcelain teacup with orchid decoration to Sun Bindan, respectfully saying, "Daughter thanks Father."
"We're family, so let's not speak like strangers. Even though you're married, you're still your father's precious jewel. Has His Highness treated you poorly?" Sun Bin took a sip of tea and said with a relaxed smile, clearly very kind to his daughter.
Sun Si smiled sweetly and shyly, "Your Highness, that's excellent."
Seeing his daughter like this, Sun Bin felt that everything was worthwhile. Moreover, he would soon be able to get back the 50% of the business, and he might even get Sun Yun's shares in Sanguzhai and Chunyuan. Thinking this way, his smile became even wider.
"Father, are you sure Fourth Uncle will make that bitch Sun Yun return everything?" She was somewhat unsure. Once they had the money and power, would they really give it back?
Compared to her worries, Sun Bindan was much more confident. "You don't understand your fourth uncle. What your fourth uncle values most is face. Father guesses he must have gone crazy from studying too much. In the past, when Ma was beautiful, he insisted on marrying her. Your grandmother disagreed, but she couldn't persuade him otherwise, so she had to agree to let him marry Ma. He got the beauty, but he lost face. He got the beauty, but he never got face. Don't worry, this time the beauty is old and faded, he will definitely choose face."
"Father still has the best ideas," Sun Si flattered.
Sun Bindan shook his head. "It was your grandmother who had the solution. I didn't know the secret either. It was your grandmother who told me, and that's when I understood. Don't worry, my dear, your fourth uncle will help you get revenge."
After saying that, he continued with great pride, "You can't talk to your fourth uncle. You just have to ignore him, treat him as if he doesn't exist, and he'll know what to do."
Sun Binhuai, who had been coerced into coercing Ma Shi with emotional violence, was startled when he saw Ma Shi lying in a pool of blood. He became fully awake and wanted to go over to check on her, but he was frightened by Sun Yun's bloodshot eyes.
"Don't come any closer!" Sun Yun seemed to use all his strength to say those words.
Held in her arms, tears streamed down Ma's face, dripping onto her cheeks. Perhaps burned by the tears, she slowly opened her eyes just as Sun Yun shouted, "Quickly, go and fetch a doctor!"
"Yun'er." She was barely breathing, on the verge of death. The collision had broken her head, and her forehead was covered in blood, staining Sun Yun's entire body.
"Mother, don't speak, don't speak, the doctor will be here soon." Madam Ma kept vomiting blood. She thought that if she didn't speak, she would stop vomiting blood. She was completely at a loss.
Seeing her crying so sadly, Ma Shi slowly reached out to wipe her face. However, her hands were stained with blood, and when she touched Sun Yun's cheek, she only smudged Sun Yun's fair face, making her look even more pitiful.
"Don't cry, Mother won't let him marry you off so easily." She looked greedily at Sun Yun's face, afraid that she would never see him again, afraid that when she went to the underworld and drank the Meng Po soup, she would not remember her only daughter.
Sun Yun cried even harder, "Mother, no, they wouldn't dare, they wouldn't dare."
"I can't protect you, and I don't want to be a burden to you." Madam Ma turned her head away from Sun Binhuai with tears in her eyes and said softly, "You go out first, I have something to say to Yun'er."
Sun Binhuai hadn't expected Ma to pull this stunt. His earlier anger subsided somewhat, and he went out the door almost unconsciously.
"Mother, don't speak, the doctor will be here soon," Sun Yun said, choking back tears. She had worked hard to earn money, and she had been away from home for five years, all so that she and her mother wouldn't have to be subservient to others in the Sun family. If her mother were gone, what would be the point of all her efforts? The person she needed to protect the most would be gone; what would be the point then!
Madam Ma lovingly wiped away her tears with her other hand, smiling gently as she said, "Don't cry, go find your uncle, listen to your mother... don't cry." As she said "don't cry," her own eyes filled with tears, blurring her vision. She didn't know if it was the tears that blurred her vision or if her time was coming to an end.
"Don't be like your mother, your mother's life... has been wasted..." She began to lose her mind, and couldn't remember the first sentence after saying the second. "Go find your uncle, she will take care of you in your mother's place."
He coughed up mouthfuls of blood. He was already weak, and in the end he didn't even have the strength to hold onto Sun Yun's sleeve. His hand slipped and he fell to the ground. Sun Yun was so frightened that his heart jumped up and down. He kept looking towards the door, but the doctor still hadn't come.
Suddenly, as if in a final burst of energy, Madam Ma felt much more alert and said with a smile, "Yun'er, listen to your mother, if you can walk, then walk." All she could think of was escaping.
"No, Mother, you can't leave, you can't hide." She shook her head with tears in her eyes, her heart filled with sorrow. Even now, her mother was still telling her to hide.
Seeing her shake her head, Ma's smile faded, and she said sternly, "Listen to me! Go!"
Perhaps her time was truly up, for her eyes were unusually firm and sharp as she stared intently at Sun Yun, as if she wanted him to remember her instructions forever—deep, stern, and pleading.
"Promise me, Yun'er, promise me!" She raised her hands and held Sun Yun's arms tightly, shaking her. She didn't care that her abdomen was bleeding, and all she wanted was for Sun Yun to leave according to her will.
Sun Yun felt powerless. Since she could remember, she had made many efforts to remember everyone in her own clan and other clan genealogies and their backgrounds, to learn poetry, songs, music, calligraphy, painting, and chess, and to do everything her parents wanted her to do. But all her efforts were in vain. She was still not favored, her grandmother still made things difficult for her, and she still disliked her mother.
People say she's aloof, cold, and unsociable, but so what? As long as she can protect herself and prevent her mother from suffering, she's willing to do anything.
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