The legitimate daughter returns to the capital and embarks on a splendid life, tearing apart the fak

After bidding farewell to Lan Qi, Yun Jin took Dong Xue and returned to the Yun residence by carriage.

Upon returning to the Yun residence, she headed straight for the Qingshui Garden.

Seeing her enter, Chu Wanqing pulled her daughter to sit beside her and asked gently, "How did it go at the General's Mansion today?"

Yun Jin sat down beside her and briefly recounted the events at the General's Mansion.

After hearing this, Chu Wanqing angrily said, "Your maternal grandmother has always been kind and generous to the servants in the household, never shortchanging them on holidays. How dare they do such a treacherous thing! Have they lost all their conscience?!"

Yun Jin said softly, "Mother, there's no need to be angry. Grandmother is such a person; now that she's found those people, she naturally has ways to make them vomit their words. Mother, please rest assured."

Chu Wanqing was silent for a moment, then sighed and said, "Yes, your maternal grandmother has always been a very sensible person."

Then Yun Jin mentioned the profit-sharing with Lan Qi, saying that Juxian Pavilion and the hot pot restaurant had been doing well for the past two months, and they had received 15,000 taels of silver in profits.

Chu Wanqing smiled and patted Yun Jin's hand, saying, "Keep the money you earn yourself; there's no need to report it to your mother. With money in your hands, you won't be looked down upon after you marry into the Prince Yu's mansion."

Yun Jin smiled, hesitating about how to start the conversation. She had been thinking about it all the way, but still didn't know how to begin.

If this were in later generations, it would be easy to understand: the children are all grown up, what else can they do but accept it?

But this is a feudal dynasty, and she can hardly imagine what Chu Wanqing would do if she knew the truth.

Seeing her grave expression, Chu Wanqing's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly asked, "Jin'er, has something happened?"

Yun Jin thought for a moment and said in a low voice, "Mother, I have something very important to tell you. Please have Aunt Qinghe and everyone else in the courtyard leave first, and leave Dongxue outside the door. No one is allowed to come in."

Chu Wanqing's heart sank. She didn't ask any more questions, but simply nodded and sent all the maids and servants serving in the room out, and asked Dongxue to keep watch outside.

Once the door closed, leaving only the mother and daughter inside, she pulled Yun Jin aside and asked urgently, "Jin'er, what's wrong? What happened? Did Prince Yu bully you?"

Yun Jin shook her head and remained silent for a while before raising her eyes to look at Chu Wanqing. She said softly, "Mother, what I'm about to say may be hard for you to accept right now. But please control your emotions and listen to what I have to say first, no matter what you hear."

Looking at her serious expression, Chu Wanqing couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Don't worry, your mother is not the same as before. Now your mother is very clear-headed, and nothing can bring her down. Just say what you want to say. Even if the sky falls, your mother can hold on."

Yun Jin took a deep breath and said, word by word, "Mother, yesterday Jin'er and A Yan went to see someone. We caught the steward surnamed Chang who works for Yun Heting. He confessed to some things, about you, about your daughter, and also about Lang Ge'er."

The smile on Chu Wanqing's face faded, replaced by a cold expression: "What is it? Just say it, Mother is listening."

Yun Jin then recounted in detail the events of the previous night when she and Xiao Jingyan interrogated Steward Chang.

After listening, Chu Wanqing stared at her blankly, as if she hadn't understood what she said.

After a long pause, she finally managed to squeeze out a sentence: "You... what did you say? Lang-ge'er... isn't Yun Heting's biological son? You... aren't either?"

Yun Jin held her hand and could clearly feel her mother's trembling. She knew the truth was cruel, but she had no choice but to tell it.

She gently grasped her mother's hand, her voice soft yet firm: "Mother, I know this is hard to accept at first. But Steward Chang shouldn't be able to fabricate such a lie. Those details, and the sleeping potion... Yun Heting's attitude towards me and Lang Ge'er over the years, everything makes sense."

My daughter never understood why he was so cruel to me and Langge'er, but now this is the best explanation. Because he never considered us his own flesh and blood.

Chu Wanqing remained silent. She knew that Yun Heting was keeping a mistress, that he had conspired with Liu Zhixue to exchange Yunxiu for her Jin'er, and that he had poisoned Lang Ge'er's medicine.

She knew all of this, but she never imagined that Yun Jin and Yun Lang were not Yun Heting's biological children.

She never imagined that Yun Heting would collude with Liu Zhixue to have another man defile her body.

For so many years, what she thought was marital intimacy was actually a meticulously planned deception. The man who got her pregnant with Lang Ge'er was a complete stranger from who-knows-where.

She gritted her teeth and forced out a few words: "Yun Heting, how dare you humiliate me like this! How dare you humiliate me like this..."

Before she could finish speaking, she suddenly bent over, and a mouthful of scarlet blood gushed from her mouth, splattering onto the footstool in front of her, a horrifying sight.

Immediately, her body arched backward, and she fell softly backward.

"Mother!" Yun Jin rushed forward, wrapped her arms tightly around her, and held her head in her arms.

Chu Wanqing had lost consciousness; her face was ashen, and a trace of blood clung to the corner of her mouth.

Yun Jin forced herself to calm down and called out towards the door, "Dongxue!"

Dongxue pushed the door open and came in. Her expression changed when she saw the scene. Without asking anything, she took a few steps forward and helped Yun Jin carefully help Chu Wanqing lie down on the bed.

Yun Jin placed her fingers on Chu Wanqing's pulse. After a while, she confirmed that Chu Wanqing was simply suffering from a sudden surge of anger and blood stasis. She breathed a sigh of relief, took out a pill, fed it to Chu Wanqing, and then gave her a few mouthfuls of water from her spatial spring.

After doing all this, she said to Dongxue, "Go out and continue guarding; don't let anyone in."

Dongxue glanced at her worriedly, then left and closed the door behind her.

Yun Jin then took out silver needles and pricked each of Chu Wanqing's ten fingers, releasing a few drops of blood.

Chu Wanqing groaned and slowly woke up. Coming to her senses, she grabbed Yun Jin's hand and burst into tears, crying out, "I am the legitimate daughter of the General's Mansion, how could he... how could he treat me like this... Why... why..."

Yun Jin held her hand and gently comforted her, "Mother, it's not worth crying for him. You still have me, and you still have Lang Ge'er. No matter who your biological father is, I only recognize you, and I believe Lang Ge'er feels the same way."

She didn't reveal the matter of the Gu poison in Yunhe Pavilion. That Gu poison could control the mind, not evil.

Yun Heting had no intention of interfering, so why give him an excuse that he was controlled by a Gu worm?

Chu Wanqing cried for a long time. Suddenly, she let go of Yun Jin, raised her tear-streaked face, and her eyes surged with unprecedented hatred and murderous intent.

That gaze sent a shiver down Yun Jin's spine; she had never seen such a resolute look in her mother's eyes.

Chu Wanqing gritted her teeth and said, word by word, "Yun, He, Ting, I want him dead!"