This is the reason that Lord Yang gave for his stepmother.
As husband and wife, Madam Yang naturally understood that her husband was making up an excuse because he didn't want his stepmother to look like this, so she didn't expose him.
only……
"Did Mother tell you? She told Zhuang Jie to go to her courtyard, and that if Chang Sheng doesn't come back in a day, Zhuang Jie will have to stay there."
“Let them go. Before we found our eldest sister and the others, didn’t we always want Sister Zhuang to stay with Mother? With Sister Zhuang around, Mother might gradually stop being so obsessed with immortality.”
In Lord Yang's opinion, none of this mattered.
After all, the stepmother wasn't a vicious person; she just liked children.
"...Since you're willing, sir, then go and talk to your son." Madam Yang didn't object, but she didn't want to get involved in the matter either.
and……
Madam Yang laid it all out in advance: "Have you thought this through? If one day your mother really does something foolish with Sister Zhuang, how will you explain it to your son and daughter-in-law?"
"Impossible! What kind of person is your mother in your heart? She never persecuted her illegitimate children back then, so why would she harm children now? Don't have too much prejudice against your mother."
Lord Yang subconsciously rejected it.
In his heart, his stepmother was still the same perfect image she had always been.
Madam Yang was a little angry, but then thought it was unnecessary: "Fine, I'll do whatever you say."
Perhaps I was just being petty.
The legal mother is at most a threat; she can't actually do anything.
But when it actually happened, no one expected things to turn out so badly...?
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