An Donglin frowned, but still said: "Tingyu, Rongxin is your sister after all. Let's discuss this matter again. Once the Queen Mother and the Emperor intervene, there will be no room for maneuver."
Hearing this, Sun and An Rong were secretly proud. They said that An Donglin would not agree, and it turned out to be true.
Such cold words made An Tingyu laugh, a laugh that was extremely sarcastic, "An Donglin, looking at my face that looks like my mother's, and saying these words to my dead mother, tell me, don't you feel a bit guilty towards me?"
If he wanted to discuss it and didn't want the Empress Dowager and the Emperor to interfere, it meant that An Donglin already knew the truth of the matter. He already knew that this was caused by An Rongxin, but what did he say? Discuss? Why didn't he talk about discussing it when An Rongxin was harming her?
Before he could speak, An Tingyu said coldly, "Why did my mother die? It was because of your incompetence. But now, as the Prime Minister of a country, you are so majestic in front of outsiders, second only to the emperor and above everyone else. But you can't even protect the child born to the woman you love. What's the difference between you now and you were back then? You are still so incompetent and so cowardly."
The sharp accusation startled Anton Lin, and he slumped down in his chair, as if awakened from a dream. Incompetent? Cowardly? Had he done something wrong again?
"An Rongxin, for Grandpa's sake, I wanted to let you go, but unfortunately..." An Tingyu changed the subject and said sharply, "You should also send An Rongxin to the palace. As for Sun, a loving mother often spoils her child. She tried to cover up everything with one hand, so she should be confined to the ancestral hall for three years."
"Three years? Why are you punishing me?" Sun refused to agree. Even if her daughter had no room for maneuver, why did An Tingyu treat her like this? She was her elder, her aunt, and An Tingyu had no right to do that.
"If I remember correctly, you were the one who said they were thieves just now? How did you know they were thieves? Or are you an accomplice?" An Tingyu sneered. Sun was An Rongxin's mother. How could she not know what An Rongxin had done? Putting her in solitary confinement for three years was already too easy for her.
"You're talking nonsense!"
"Grandpa, do you have any objection to the way my grandson handled it?" An Tingyu ignored Mrs. Sun and turned to speak to Grandpa An.
"Just do as you say!" Old Master An said this, and both Sun and An Rongxin's faces turned pale. It was over, everything was over...
On that day, news came from the palace that the empress dowager sent An Rongxin to Yihongyuan, where she became a woman that anyone could ride. However, a month later, An Rongxin escaped from Yihongyuan. The emperor was furious and raided Yihongyuan, leaving no one alive.
"How cruel!" In Zhuchun Pavilion, An Tingyu raised her lips with a half-smile.
On the side, Dang Yan said with a hint of meaning, "Miss, you are doing this on purpose, right? Are you testing the Empress Dowager and the Emperor? Why?"
She could have handled it herself, but An Tingyu sent An Rongxin into the palace and secretly let her go a month later. Wasn't she clearly testing the mentality of the Empress Dowager and the Emperor?
An Tingyu raised her eyebrows lazily and whispered calmly, "Everyone says that the Queen Mother and the Emperor love me, but I never understand why they do this? What kind of existence am I to them?"
"The Queen Mother didn't kill An Rongxin, but sent her to Yihong Courtyard. From this point of view, the Queen Mother wanted An Rongxin to suffer a fate worse than death. As for the Emperor, as soon as An Rongxin escaped, he executed the entire Yihong Courtyard, which shows that the Emperor was also very angry. Their behavior just proves one thing: they really love me, but I still can't understand why."
An Tingyu glanced at Dang Yan who was silent beside her, and said, "I know you don't want to say it, or you can't say it, but it doesn't matter. One day I will figure it out."
Letting An Rongxin go was not because she was kind, but because she had something she wanted to know more. An Rongxin was just a chess piece she used, and An Rongxin could no longer return to the Prime Minister's Mansion. She was like a stray dog, and it made no difference whether she was killed or not.
Time passed quietly, and seven months passed in a flash. On this day, An Tingyu quietly walked into Prince Jing's Mansion with her ugly face.
ugly?
Yes, it was ugly. Although An Donglin, Sun and others had seen An Tingyu's true face, Old Man An insisted that An Tingyu disfigure herself. Helplessly, An Tingyu had to continue to bear that "ugly" face. Of course, anyone who saw An Tingyu's true face was given a death order not to spread it out. Anyone who violated the order would be killed!
An Tingyu walked into Jing Aotian's room with her big belly. A gust of warm air hit her face. She rubbed her hands and complained, "Damn, this kind of weather is really not a good day to go out. Hurry up and bring me a glass of water and prepare some snacks. I'm hungry."
"Yes!" Jing Aotian's personal maid Linglong responded as if she was used to it. She was no longer surprised by An Tingyu's behavior of coming and going as she pleased.
"It's already winter, and it's drizzling today. Why don't you put on more clothes?" Jing Aotian frowned slightly, put down the scroll in his hand, and ordered: "Dong Ping, go prepare some clean clothes for Miss An. Also, ask the cook to make some ginger soup to help Miss An drive away the cold."
"Yes!" Dong Ping responded respectfully and hurried out.
An Tingyu chuckled, "Prince Jing, you are almost becoming my mother... no, my father."
This wasn't the first time Jing Aotian had heard An Tingyu say such inexplicable things. He was no longer surprised. "You're already a mother-to-be. If you didn't know how to take care of yourself, why would I care about you? I don't want you to die and my legs to be crippled with you."
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