Upon learning of her pregnancy, Masako Izumi was both overjoyed and anxious. She knew that due to the relationship between the public and private families, the child in her womb was not allowed to be born.
However, Izumi Masako was reluctant to part with the child in her womb, so she came up with a plan. She made an excuse to go to the temple to pray for the general for a year, hoping to secretly give birth to the child.
As long as the child is born, it doesn't matter if I can't raise her myself. At least she has her own flesh and blood in this world, and I have something to care about.
With a new woman entering the household and no one in the shogunate having become pregnant in recent years, the child in Tsukimi Nami's womb became the sole focus of Tokuyoshi Yasuhito's attention.
As for Izumi Masako saying she wanted to go to the temple, he knew but didn't care and just agreed.
The temple no longer held the same novelty for him. Going to the temple was fine, as it would allow her to pray for Nami's unborn child.
Izumi Masako and Chinatsu stayed together in the temple, undisturbed, and had a very pleasant time, during which the child slowly grew in her womb.
But all of this was disrupted by the appearance of Tsukimi Nami.
When Izumi Masako was five months pregnant, Tsukimi Nami, for some reason, suddenly had the idea to go to a temple to pray for the child in her womb.
On this trip, her maid accidentally saw that Izumi Masako was heavily pregnant and told Tsukimi Nami the news.
When Izumi Masako found out, she knelt before Tsukimi Nami and begged her to spare her. She also promised that she would send the child away after it was born and would never let the shogun know about it, nor would she stay in the shogunate to compete with her child for anything.
How could Tsukimi Nami allow anything to harm her unborn child, especially since the other party was Midai-sho?
What followed was naturally that Izumi Masako was forcibly taken back to the shogunate, and her child was lost.
As a mother herself, Tsukimi Nami witnessed Izumi Masako being brutally aborted, suffering unbearable pain, before she could leave with a smile, relieved.
The person who harmed Izumi Masako was also arranged by Tsukimi Nami. She could have simply forced Izumi Masako to drink a bowl of medicine, but instead, she secretly had someone torture Izumi Masako by rolling a stick on her abdomen, causing Odai-sho to be unable to conceive for the rest of her life.
How could Masako Izumi forget such a grudge?
Later, after Tsukimi Nami gave birth to a son, he became the shogun's only child and naturally received preferential treatment.
After losing her child, Masako Izumi was considered an unlucky person, and the general forbade her from getting close to Nami Tsukimi and Yusei Tokugi.
At that time, she had no will to live. If it weren't for the appearance of that child, she would probably have left this world long ago.
She lived because she felt that as long as she was in the shogunate, she would always have a chance to help this child.
As a member of a noble family, Masako Izumi could not possibly be completely ignorant of matters of state.
She thought that once the child grew up, she would do everything in her power to help him, even at the cost of her life.
The appearance of Su Ruojin and her group gave Izumi Masako an opportunity.
Tokugi Yusei is now quite old and often goes out, so it's naturally easier to approach him outside than inside the shogunate.
Eliminating Deyi Yongcheng would not only avenge his son but also clear some obstacles for that child.
Now that she has achieved her goal, Masako Izumi has nothing left to worry about.
“But Odaidokoro…” Ueno Chinatsu wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Izumi Masako.
"Chika, I'll live one more day as long as I can now, it's alright. I'm tired, I'll rest for a while." After saying that, Izumi Masako lay down and stopped talking.
Thinking about everything that Odai had gone through today, she must be tired. Ueno Chinatsu said nothing more, quietly withdrew, and closed the door.
Night falls.
It was just past midnight.
Xiao Yanchu, who was sitting and pretending to doze off, suddenly opened his eyes and gently touched Su Ruojin, who was sitting next to him.
Just in case, all four of them stayed in one room, but none of them actually went to sleep.
However, Su Ziyang was no longer in the room.
Huanzhi also woke up and immediately went to Su Ruojin's side.
Su Ruojin looked at Xiao Yanchu with some confusion. Xiao Yanchu made a shushing gesture and pointed outside.
Su Ruojin held her breath and listened for a while, but there was no sound at all. The whole courtyard was so quiet that even the chirping of insects could not be heard.
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