His mother was his father's first wife, but his father divorced her and remarried after she became pregnant with him. In that era, how many divorced women could live well? But because of Mu Ruoyan, even after being kicked out of her home, she still worked odd jobs everywhere and gritted her teeth to support him.
Lin Xihe listened, her brows furrowed, a pang of sympathy rising in her heart. She could imagine a frail woman, with an infant child, struggling and suffering bullying. But it was Mu Ruoyan's mother who felt sorry for her, not Mu Ruoyan herself.
After enduring years of hardship, she was brought back to the palace only to discover that she and the eldest prince were born in the same month and year. This meant her father had been having an affair behind her mother's back. She was brought back because her mother's elder brother had distinguished himself in battle.
"It does sound terrible, but I'm not the kind of person who would hurt him and his mother..." Lin Xihe was filled with mixed feelings. Her initial disgust for Mu Ruoyan had turned into a touch of sympathy, but when she thought about what Mu Ruoyan had done to her, she withdrew that sympathy.
Later, his father tacitly approved of the other princes' mistreatment of him and his mother. As he grew older, his outstanding appearance attracted the attention of even powerful palace maids, who sought to force him into submission. That's when he began killing—openly killing palace maids, secretly killing princes, basically just killing. Only after this did his father begin to take him seriously. But a few years later, your beloved Gu Qinghuai entered their palace, and you know the rest.
As Lin Xihe listened to Mu Ruoyan's past, her heart was stirred. She truly felt that his experiences were tragic, and thought that if she were in his situation, she might be even more violent than him.
But right now, Mu Ruoyan is bullying her and Gu Qinghuai even more, making it really hard for her to empathize with him.
I have no sympathy for him!
"Just tell me how to deal with him. I'm worried he'll get more and more outrageous."
[Unless you try to understand him, given your current situation, nothing is likely to bring him down. He does have some kindness in him, but not much.]
“I’ve tried everything, from going to the moon to exploring science, but I still can’t get into his heart.” Lin Xihe was filled with helplessness and frustration: “You don’t know, he looks down on me and thinks I’m not good enough for him.”
Don't underestimate yourself so much. What if he has unique tastes and likes married women?
"That's unfortunate, I'm not married yet, so I can't really be called a wife." Lin Xihe was both angry and anxious, her face flushing. "Besides, I get scared just looking at him, I can't get close to him at all. Can you please stop thinking of these underhanded tricks..."
【This isn't my fault. I'm in a hurry, so don't keep calling me unnecessarily; I've been busy lately.】
"I also want to ask you, where is Lin Zhihao? And why is Mu Ruoyan, a prince of the Northern Border, able to target Gu Qinghuai in Nanzhao?" Lin Xihe hurriedly asked, her heart full of doubts, but the only response she received was the busy tone that the system had assigned to her.
[Beep...beep...beep...]
"Not human..."
The system then disappeared and never reappeared no matter how Lin Xihe tried to summon it.
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