Chapter 78 Extra 2

Before meeting Shen Yingxue, Zhu Chengyu thought it would be a good idea to take over Qingyu Palace after dealing with Lin Ziwen.

After hearing Jiang Hanfeng say that Shen Yingxue was his father, he felt that it would be better not to go to Qingyu Palace and stay with his father.

Later, he understood the truth. Shen Yingxue was not his father at all. Jiang Hanfeng said that not because he wanted to tell him the truth, but to test him. He was not familiar with Shen Yingxue at that time, and was also kept in the dark. He did not know the truth. She approached him just to test him!

Zhu Chengyu was so angry that he could not help but resent Jiang Hanfeng and was too ashamed to face Shen Yingxue. He shut himself off for a while. He knew that Shen Yingxue was fighting with others outside. He even thought that it would be better if Shen Yingxue died outside. Then no one would know about his past. After the emotions subsided, Zhu Chengyu still couldn't bear to let him go. Instead, he couldn't help but worry about him. It was not until he was sure that Shen Yingxue was safe that he picked up his arrogant emotions again.

Zhu Chengyu still didn't want to see Shen Yingxue, so he left Zanhua Lane and went to Qingyu Palace, where he made his senior brother who had bullied him obedient. He sent some local specialties back to her during the holidays, but he didn't write to Shen Yingxue, nor did he mention going back to see her.

Shen Yingxue didn't even urge him to go back. Zhu Chengyu thought bitterly that he didn't want to go back. He might as well just die in Qingyu Palace. It would be best if they never met again!

But just as he calmed down, Han Jing brought people over and said to him, "Grandmother wants to see you."

Zhu Chengyu asked in confusion: "What grandmother? Which sect is she from?"

This name sounds like an old witch, maybe she is a newly cultivated talent in Zanhua Lane.

Whatever grandmother she was, it had nothing to do with him.

Zhu Chengyu sneered and refused: "I don't want to see her. No matter what she calls grandma, she is not my real grandmother. I am just an orphan with no relatives. What does Hua Shi's affairs have to do with me?"

Han Jing was ordered to come and take him back. He had been with Zhu Chengyu for some time before, and knew that he had complaints about his adoptive father, so he was prepared. Seeing that Zhu Chengyu was not cooperating, he stepped forward forcefully, grabbed Zhu Chengyu's clothes, and roughly took him down the mountain and stuffed him into the car.

Zhu Chengyu was quite skilled in martial arts and had beaten Han Jing during the battle. Han Jing felt annoyed and simply knocked him out to feel more at ease.

Seeing that they were about to arrive at Chuncheng, Zhu Chengyu stopped making a fuss. After recognizing the situation, she calmed down and asked Han Jing while lying on the carriage, "You haven't told me yet, who is that grandmother?"

Han Jing was silent for a moment, "She is my adoptive father's biological mother."

That day…

He was called over to join a family dinner. After the meal, the food was cleared away and a few people were chatting at the table. As a junior, Han Jing couldn't interrupt, so he just listened silently. The more he listened, the more shocked he was.

King Zhongxin is actually a woman!

He said that even if she had lived a life of luxury and had taken good care of herself as she aged, she shouldn't be so short and so white.

When she was the King of Loyalty and Faith, she did look a lot like Shen Yingxue, both in facial features and skin color. It was because of this that the sense of incongruity was blurred. She also put on makeup, so it was no wonder that she was unrecognizable.

But it was beyond his expectation that such a prince was actually a woman.

Han Jing looked at Jiang Hanfeng and found that his third senior brother was also very shocked. He asked in a low voice: "Did you just find out about this too?"

King Zhongxin looked at Jiang Hanfeng with a smile: "Why? Xue'er didn't tell you?"

Jiang Hanfeng shook his head slowly.

Shen Yingxue said innocently, "I forgot before... After you came, I wanted to tell him, but he never listened to me and always brought up the topic of taking medicine. It was really annoying."

The princess knew about Shen Yingxue's illness and understood why she hated it.

She said to Jiang Hanfeng meaningfully: "Enough is enough. Even if you are a man, you should learn to be more considerate after marrying Xue'er." Don't always poke at his sore spots.

Jiang Hanfeng felt a little guilty: "You are right, I will remember it."

Shen Yingxue: “…”

Han Jing was bewildered and asked, "What happened to my foster father? Why did he need to take medicine? I didn't even know how serious the injury was, and I couldn't show my filial piety to you."

Could it be that he was injured when he was unifying the martial arts world?

Shen Yingxue suddenly felt that he had become the same generation as his mother. But except for him, no one thought there was anything wrong with Han Jing's words. The princess even showed a gratified expression, as if her own grandson had made progress.

Only Zhu Ling looked at Shen Yingxue nervously, "Brother is injured?"

Shen Yingxue was also at a loss: "No."

Jiang Hanfeng said, "It's the medicine he was taking before. After Yingxue's mood improved, Mao changed the prescription. Now this medicine works very well. He rarely gets confused like before. His memory has improved a lot, and he rarely has hallucinations."

Han Jing said blankly: "My foster father's madness... could it be true?"

Shen Yingxue said: "Could it be fake?"

He had really tried hard to play the role of the crazy Shen Yingxue, and had played dumb a lot. Han Jing's question was like a denial of his previous efforts.

After receiving Shen Yingxue's reply, Han Jing looked as if his worldview had been torn apart: "How is it possible... why would it be like this... godfather..."

How could his adoptive father, who was so talented and capable, be really a lunatic? He didn't realize it at all!

"Well, the past is in the past, there's no need to dwell on it." The princess was afraid that he would provoke her son to have an attack, so she stopped talking and looked at Jiang Hanfeng. "I was dissatisfied with you before, but now it seems that you care about Xue'er and have a good temper. It's just that you are too careless, and I'm afraid you can't take good care of him."

Jiang Hanfeng said humbly: "Yingxue doesn't like being served by strangers. I will pay more attention and take care of his mood."

The princess originally wanted to find another female wife for Shen Yingxue, even if she was not a legitimate wife, at least to leave a son and a daughter. But when Jiang Hanfeng said this, he looked very serious, and Shen Yingxue nodded, which seemed to be true, so she had to give up.

Jiang Hanfeng also understood what she said, and knew that it was good enough to take care of Shen Yingxue's self-esteem. The rest of the matter would be left to the two of them to work out.

The princess nodded and said to Shen Yingxue, "If he dares to bully you, just tell mother and I will do it for you."

Shen Yingxue: "...Thank you, mother."

The princess looked at her eldest grandson Han Jing again and asked, "Your name is Han Jing? You look good. How old are you this year?"

Han Jing felt uncomfortable under her loving gaze and responded with a few words. When the princess found out that he was much younger than Shen Yingxue and about the same age as Zhu Ling, she became completely interested and kept looking for him. She even wanted to change his last name so that she could take the same surname as hers, Zheng.

Han Jing didn't want to change his name at all. Knowing that Shen Yingxue intended to bring Zhu Chengyu back and let the princess teach him, he volunteered to step forward and capture Zhu Chengyu.

He looked at this brother without a proper status, with a guilty and sympathetic look on his face, "Although my adoptive father never said that he would adopt you as his adopted son, he has indeed always raised you as his own son."

Zhu Chengyu laughed and retorted, "He is 37 years old and I am 16 years old. How can we be father and son? Could it be that he can have a child at the age of 11? Excluding the nine months of pregnancy, he is only 10 years old."

Han Jing was very displeased with his expression and hit him on the back of his head. "I am thirty years old now, am I not also his adopted son? We are father and son, so what does age have to do with it? As long as he is qualified to be a father, it's fine. Can you say with a clear conscience that he is not a good father?"

Zhu Chengyu thought of the warm scenes when the "father and son" were together in the past, and found it difficult to say anything to slander Shen Yingxue.

Han Jing said, "I know you've suffered a lot in the past, and you have a disability, so it's inevitable that your personality has changed. Your adoptive father has always been thinking about this, and hopes that you can get on the right path, so he wants your grandmother to teach you."

"How come I didn't know he had a mother?"

"You have met her. Her grandmother is King Zhongxin."

Zhu Chengyu was stunned. After the sinister look faded from his body, he turned back into the glass-like person. His dazed look was particularly pitiful.

But his heart was not as pure as he seemed. Zhu Chengyu immediately thought of some people he had met before.

Some men have special hobbies, dressing up like women and pretending to be women. It is not a glorious thing for a man to dress up like a woman. Zhu Chengyu has seen some dignitaries who conceal their identities and do this deliberately, and even find young men to ask for sex like women.

Could it be that King Zhongxin is also such a person?

He is Shen Yingxue's father. Jing'er calls him grandmother, which must have been with Shen Yingxue's consent.

Zhu Chengyu knew that Shen Yingxue hated those dirty things and would not send him to King Zhongxin, but he still shuddered.

He thought about the appearance of King Zhongxin. He was blind and had never seen King Zhongxin before, so he could only imagine him. King Zhongxin was not as tall as Shen Yingxue, but probably about the same height as him. Judging from his voice, he should be a little weaker, not strong. He was at least 40 or 50 years old, with silver hair and a beard. After dressing up as a woman, he should be no different from the men he had seen before, with a stilted posture and a hoarse voice, like a eunuch.

Speaking of which... ever since Shen Yingxue became more ambitious, Jing'er changed into men's clothes and her voice also changed.

Could she be one of those women with strange quirks?

Three generations of the family, including Shen Yingxue who likes to pretend to be a flower scholar, are not normal.

"Are you surprised?" Han Jing said with understanding, "When I first found out she was a woman, I was more surprised than you. But at that time, in front of so many people, I couldn't be as open about it as you are."

Zhu Chengyu said: "Have you ever thought about..."

Han Jing uttered a nasal sound: "Hmm?"

Zhu Chengyu felt that Han Jing didn't seem to care much. It was indeed not as shameful for a woman to dress as a man as it was for a man to dress as a woman, so she said bluntly: "He may be like you, who changed his gender after dressing up."

Han Jing thought he was talking about the time when he dressed as a woman. That period was his dark history and he didn't want to mention it at all.

Zhu Chengyu sneered: "He is not a woman at all. Even if he cuts that thing off, he will not be a woman."

Han Jing thought Zhu Chengyu was very rebellious. Boys of this age always like to go against adults, but what Zhu Chengyu said was too much. Han Jing said, "She is indeed a woman. Her real identity is the Princess of Zhongxin. Because of some things, she had to pretend to be the King of Zhongxin..."

He explained the reason why the princess was dressed as a man, and told Zhu Chengyu that it was not a man dressed as a woman. This child is blind, and if he really sees his grandmother, he will speak without restraint, and neither his grandmother nor his stepfather will be happy.

After hearing this, Zhu Chengyu accepted the fact and asked Han Jing in a malicious tone: "What about you, Sister Jing'er? It's true that you are disguised as a man. Is it to inherit Shen Yingxue's Hairpin Flower Lane?"

"..." Han Jing's fist hardened, and he held back for a long time before hitting him in the face, "What are you talking about? I have always been a man! I am Han Jing, a former junior of the Demon Sect, then a junior master of Yuding Villa, and now a resident of Zanhua Lane! I only dressed as a woman to confuse people, and I had no choice but to do so! Watch your mouth, or don't blame me for being rude!"

Zhu Chengyu: “…”

None of his guesses were correct!

Shen Yingxue revealed her identity, and Zhu Chengyu's speculation that Shen Yingxue inherited the throne of King Zhongxin and Hua Shi killed Shen Yingxue and he became the crown prince was no longer valid.

In order to become a qualified prince, Zhu Chengyu studied and learned to read every day. All his efforts were in vain.

Now even Sister Jing'er's gender is fake.

What is real in this world?!