Listening to her daughter's heartfelt words, the pregnant Lady Hou went on a killing spree.

The old woman fell to the ground with a cry of pain, got up, turned around and ran away, afraid that Ji Yueru would have someone catch her.

Ji Yueru still remembered this old woman. She used to work in the main kitchen, but later she made a mistake and was punished by Chen to wash chamber pots.

Aunt Qiu sent this old woman to guard Chen Shi; it's obvious what she was up to.

"Don't ask, just break the door open."

"Yes, madam."

Mo Wen stepped forward, drew his sword from his waist, and slashed, breaking the chain on the courtyard gate in two and falling to the ground.

The courtyard gate was opened, and Chen, who was covered in filth on the ground, raised her head and met her second daughter's gaze at the door. She was immediately overwhelmed with excitement.

"Ru'er, it really is you! You've come to see your mother."

Compared to Chen's agitation, Ji Yueru appeared much calmer. In her mind, An'an kept talking about how badly Chen had treated her in the past, which made Ji Yueru feel both amused and exasperated.

Does An'an really think she has such poor self-control that she can be easily fooled by Chen and forget everything that happened before?

How could that be? If it were just her, it might be possible, but they were the murderers who indirectly killed An'an in their past lives.

"Ms. Chen was very excited, but it seemed that there was something wrong with her legs and she couldn't stand up. She could only crawl forward slowly."

"Ru'er, my daughter, I was wrong to you back then."

When you were born, your mother was in labor for three days and three nights before you were born. The doctor said that your mother's body was damaged when she gave birth to you, and she could never get pregnant or give birth again.

Your mother harbored resentment towards you back then.

But you are still my biological child, how could I possibly treat you badly?

I only just realized that it was that bastard Ji Xian and that bitch Qiu Yi who drugged me, which is why I had a difficult labor that lasted three days and three nights.

Ru'er, Mother knows she was wrong.

When you were a few months old, Ji Chunjiao's health was always poor, which was also their doing. Later, a wandering Taoist priest came to the mansion and said that you two sisters were incompatible.

They said that only if one of you is sent far away can the two of you grow up safely.

Mother believed it, believed the fake Taoist priest's words. At the time, Mother thought Ji Chunjiao was your biological sister. Mother had raised her since she was little, and there was that bastard Ji Xian trying to persuade her.

In the end, your mother had no choice but to abandon you and send you to your maternal grandparents' house.

But I never intended to treat you badly. I knew your maternal grandparents were well-off and would never let you lack anything in terms of food and clothing.

"Your maternal family is wealthy, so you feel free to write back home demanding money and things without any restraint?"

"Ru'er, what did you say? Since I got married, I have never written back to ask your maternal grandmother for anything."

After I send you there, I will have many things sent to your maternal grandparents' house every year.

When she got married, her family gave her a considerable dowry, so how could she have the nerve to write back and ask for more?

Later, she sent her daughter to be raised by her mother and several brothers. In previous years, she would have people send things back to Jiangnan two or three times a year.

Ji Yueru frowned. Chen Shi didn't seem to be lying. It was obvious who had impersonated her to ask her maternal grandparents for something.

Hmph! Her good father and Aunt Qiu are truly something else.

Chen seemed to have thought of something and felt very flustered.

"Ru'er, did someone write a letter in my name asking your maternal grandmother for things or money? Tell your mother."

"Every year, your maternal grandmother would receive letters from you asking her for money under various pretexts. When she was alive, she would bring you no less than 100,000 taels of silver notes from Jiangnan every year."

"Calculate how much silver she brought you when she died."

"Ten thousand a year, not counting the first twelve years, that's one million two hundred thousand taels."

How dare they!

"Tell your mother that I send you things twice a year, have you received them?"

"Since I arrived at my maternal grandfather's house, I have never received anything from the Ji family in the capital."

Ji's mind went blank for a moment.

No wonder, no wonder her daughter wasn't close to her when she came back; her daughter thought she didn't want her anymore.

But how could that be? How could she possibly abandon her own daughter?

Every year, she would send something to her second daughter, including clothes she made herself.

Because her second daughter wasn't around, she felt guilty whenever she thought about it, so she brought back just as many things as she had bought for Ji Chunjiao.

However, she never expected that none of these things would end up in her daughter's hands.

Thinking back to the day her daughter returned, she realized that because of a few provocative words from Ji Chunjiao and Ji Xian, she had actually slapped her second daughter.

Looking at her hands, Chen felt that she deserved to die back then.

The daughter, whom she hadn't seen for twelve years, returned home only to be slapped by her own mother.

Then, through repeated provocations from the two women, she repeatedly laid a hand on her second daughter.

Chen couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Ru'er, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for your sister."

"It's because I loved the wrong person and trusted the wrong person that I ended up like this."

Chen cried so bitterly that it moved all who heard and saw it to tears.

But Ji Yueru, standing opposite her, felt no unease whatsoever. She was past the age of needing love and no longer needed Chen's love. An'an's love was enough for her now.

"Because of you, my maternal grandmother did not get along well with her aunts in previous years."

I just hope you won't believe any more of those letters and disturb your uncles and aunts' lives. They don't owe you anything, and they have no obligation to keep covering for your miserable life.

Now, Chen Shi has no face to ask her brothers to back her up. She has already lost all face when Ji Xian and Qiu Yi impersonated her and asked for money time and time again. She has no face left in her family now.

"Mother knows. I'll deal with the mess I made myself. I'll find a way to pay back the money I owe your maternal grandmother."

"Don't ask, you stay by Madam Ji's side and return to the manor in ten days."

"Yes, madam."

After giving her instructions, Ji Yueru turned and left.

Mr. Chen was anxious.

"Ru'er, don't go!"

Ji Yueru paused for a moment.

[Mother, you can't be soft-hearted now, or I'll be unhappy.]

"Don't worry, Mother won't."

She left again, and no matter how much Hu Chen called out to her, she did not stop for a moment.

"Mother was wrong, Mother was really wrong, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..."

Ms. Chen didn't know what to say, so she could only keep saying sorry.

She has let down her family and her two biological daughters.

Afterwards, Chen Shi challenged Ji Xian and Aunt Qiu, and Ji Yue Ru felt much more at ease.

She never had a single good day in her past life, so how could those who bullied her live well? She wouldn't allow it, and neither would her daughter, An'an.

Once inside the Marquis's carriage, Ji Yueru lost all interest in wandering around outside and decided to head back home.

"Mother, there is someone in the carriage, hiding under your seat."

But don't panic, that person is injured and unconscious.

"An'an, do you know who he is?"