Thinking of this, Jiaojiao couldn't help but feel her scalp tingling!

Shen Yuanbai was also stunned. He didn't know the specific plot of the original novel, so even after reading the letter, he didn't know that his mother had quietly deviated from the so-called original novel at some points.

He just saw his mother's madness and determination between the lines, so he sighed: his mother is just like him, she will not turn back even if she hits the wall.

"But where is the opportunity?" Jiaojiao murmured.

It was hard for her to imagine how Yu Liu, as a person in the book, could "awaken" without the intervention of external forces and quietly change the plot.

After all, up to now, whether it is Shen Yuanbai or his father, everyone's "awakening" is closely related to her, the book traveler.

When Shen Yuanbai heard Jiaojiao's murmur, his expression suddenly became extremely complicated.

He opened his mouth and said in a deep voice: "Maybe it's Di Zaiying."

"Di Zaiying?"

Jiaojiao's expression was shocked, and suddenly countless thoughts rushed through her mind, faintly connected into a line.

Di Zaiying was the first person to be killed in Shen Yuanbai's camp because his identity as a spy was exposed by the "rebound talisman".

His appearance made Xiao Si discover her special abilities. He was the first clue to Shen Yuanzhan's "awakening" and the most critical person in revealing Shen Yuanbai's false identity.

It can be said that the plot of the original novel really began to collapse with the death of Di Zaiying.

Yu Liu had planned such a big thing, it was naturally impossible for her to harm Shen Yuanbai, so it was very likely that she said something and did something contrary to the original work at a certain point in time, prompting Di Zaiying to enter the palace early and lurk beside Shen Yuanling.

Otherwise, according to the plot, Di Zaiying would have lurked in the Wenying Palace at a much later time, completed his first meeting with Shen Yuanbai, and then became a refined and selfless elder, accompanying Shen Yuanbai to the end.

While Jiaojiao was organizing her thoughts, Shen Yuanbai spoke again:

"In my mother's letter, in the first half she accepted her fate and was humiliated, but in the second half she made plans regardless of everything. The person who connected the two was Di Zaiying, and only Di Zaiying made my mother hesitate."

When Jiaojiao heard this, she could no longer suppress her urgency to read the letter. She looked around, and it was quiet all around. It would take the Northern Army a while to find her.

Her eyes fell on Shen Yuanbai's face again, and Shen Yuanbai had already nodded slightly.

He also wanted to know all the truth through the mouth of the "prophet" Qiao Jiaojiao.

The thunderbolt just now had split the thick clouds apart. The moonlight was now slightly brighter. Jiaojiao took out the thick sheets of letter paper with a serious expression.

She leaned forward slightly, and although it strained her eyes a bit, she could still make out the words on the letter.

It is a very delicate small regular script, and for Jiaojiao, who is becoming more and more accustomed to reading traditional Chinese characters, it is not a problem to understand it.

"My dear Yuan Bai, I am writing to you as if I had met you—"

Jiaojiao quickly immersed herself in the letter. She looked focused with a slightly furrowed brow. At this moment, she did not look like a three-year-old child at all.

Shen Yuanbai had already memorized the contents of the letter by heart. He looked at Qiao Jiaojiao's face in the moonlight and soon saw that her brows were getting more and more furrowed and her face was starting to turn pale.

Shen Yuanbai suddenly felt extremely disappointed.

Ever since he learned the truth about this world, he has been wondering, if he is the so-called "son of destiny", then are all the experiences of his mother deliberately made by "heaven" to pave the way for him?

My mother's chastity was taken away by her father when she was twelve years old.

The Northern King Jin Yongwang back then was a beast in human form with a beastly heart!

Only half a year later, my mother's elder brother, now Prince Jin Yu, could not wait to join them.

This torture lasted for four full years. My mother started out by resisting, going on a hunger strike, and attempting suicide. Later she collapsed and became powerless, until she became numb and got used to it.

During this period, in order to keep the secret, except for the mother's wet nurse Aunt Rou, all the other maids and palace servants were either poisoned or executed on a regular basis.

Jinzhu and Yinzhu were exceptions. At that time, my mother had already learned to be servile. She kept the two maids, Jinzhu and Yinzhu, but sent them away every time they were defiled.

Yinzhu has a good figure and good looks. Once her mother was unwell, Prince Jin Yu wanted to take Yinzhu away by force, but her mother tried her best to stop him. So Yinzhu knew about it early on and was devoted to her mother.

This was also the reason why my mother was able to hand over the suicide note to Yinzhu with peace of mind and let her go far away to the south before committing suicide.

My mother had originally accepted her fate, but when she was sixteen, she unexpectedly met Prince Di at a banquet held in the royal court.

In the letter, the mother used eight words to evaluate Master Di: A gentleman is like jade, upright and honest.

Shen Yuanbai could imagine how disgusted his mother must have been with men because of those two beasts, but Prince Di was the only exception.

It was also because of Prince Di that my mother once again began to think about rebelling.

At that time, she was treated as a concubine and had no power of her own. She heard that there were many poisonous insects in Nanli that could kill people without them being seen, so her mother asked Prince Di to lend her someone and then sent people to Nanli to find poisonous insects.

My mother said in the letter that what she was looking for was a killing and extinct Gu, and the mysterious soul-capturing Gu was an accidental gain, but she did not expect that it was this Gu that completely changed her life.

When Jiaojiao saw this, she understood that it was not an accident that the Gu fell into Yu Liu's hands, but King Nanli did it intentionally to disrupt the situation.

But Jiaojiao had always imagined Yu Liu as a powerful and capable princess, and thought that this Gu was what Yu Liu wanted. She didn't expect that after the truth was revealed layer by layer, it was full of coincidences.

Shen Yuanbai's thoughts continued:

At that time, Qiao Zhongguo had already led his troops to the Northern Kingdom. His mother knew that since ancient times, the ending of princesses of a fallen country was not good, and at that time she had already made up her mind to stay with Prince Di forever.

So she repeatedly advised her father and brother to make drastic measures in exchange for a chance to recuperate and make a comeback, but each attempt was rejected.

It was not until later when Qiao Zhongguo made rapid progress that those two cowards finally became afraid.

Prince Di was afraid that his mother would be sent to marry a foreign prince, so he revealed his intention to marry her during an audience with King Jin Yong. This made King Jin Yong jealous and furious, and he then found out that his mother had used Prince Di's power to steal the Nanli secret Gu.

Seeing that she could no longer hide it, the mother had to reveal the "Soul-Binding God Gu" that she had obtained by accident in order to cover up the unprecedented poison. However, the reason she gave was changed to be for the sake of the interests of the family and the country.

Those two beasts had vowed to protect my mother, but at the moment of life and death, they pushed my mother out without hesitation.

They threatened my mother with the silver beads and the life of Prince Di, forcing her to take the Soul-Catching God Gu into her body. My mother was silent for a long time and asked to meet Prince Di.

That year, on a hillside in the wilderness in the northern suburbs of Kyoto, my mother met Prince Di.

Prince Di was filled with joy at seeing his beloved, but he had no idea that his mother was filled with sorrow.

Shen Yuanbai thought to himself that perhaps this meeting might be the key to his mother's "awakening"!