The General's Daughter Doesn't Want to Get Married!-Chapter 125: Unknown Past (1)

"Yun Shu? That guy is a creep who wouldn’t help others. unless there is something he needs from them." Zhu Zhengting still didn’t trust Yun Shu, getting a slight smile from Bai Yunxian in response.

"Well, I’m grateful that I had the exact thing he needed. We are, in fact, not an ordinary couple."

"My Lord and I are bound by a marriage contract, a beneficial contract from where we will take our benefits as we agreed on."

"What do you mean? A contractual marriage?" Zhu Zhengting was shocked by his declaration.

"That’s right." Bai Yunxian smiled bitterly as he confessed the truth. "And Lord Yun also helped me, bringing my mother back from the brink of death. Honestly, till now all the disasters that we faced, natural or human made, after he came into my life, he became the iron shield protecting me with his own life. I owe him so much that I can’t do anything to repay him."

"B-but, what happened with your mother? Wasn’t the Lady completely fine before she was sent to the Empire? What’s wrong with her almost dying?" Zhu Zhengting asked anxiously, for some reason, he felt as if there was something going on that even he couldn’t understand.

"I guess you know the reason why my mother and I were sent to the Empire, right, brother?" Bai Yubxian asked in a dry voice, looking straight into Zhu Zhengting’s eyes.

"Of course I know. Father sent the Lady and you to protect you guys from—"

"Not that one, brother. I’m asking the real reason. You knew it anyway, so no need to hide it anymore." Bai Yunxian waved his hand to interrupt Zhu Zhengting, glaring at him sharply.

"That..."

"At that time, the real reason why mother was sent to the Empire was because everyone, including father, suspected that she poisoned the Lady, Your Mother. Isn’t that right, brother?" Bai Yunxian gave out a dry smile, but his brother was able to see the pain hidden beneath that expression clearly.

"Yunxian, I always told my father that there’s no way a sweet Lady like her would do such a thing."

"Your mother is our father’s second wife. And we both grew up like siblings from the same womb. The relationship between our mother’s was also very harmonious like sisters, even if they both were father’s wives. However, after what happened to my mother, no one was in their right mind to think of what was right or wrong... I... I don’t know how I should apologize." Zhu Zhengting felt nauseous after remembering some certain memories he didn’t want to remember. The things that he absolutely despised....

"I know how much pain you were in after losing your mother, brother. I also felt the same pain, too. Because Lady Rui was also a mother figure to me. However, my mother was the first suspect in this case for murdering Lady Rui and exiled in this mess."

"..."

"Do you know what happened to us after that?"

"..."

Zhu Zhengting had no words to offer Bai Yunxian, because his father forbade their man to take news of this mother and son pair for years.

He neglected them, and they suffered so much. All because of a certain misunderstanding in the past.

He was ashamed.

"Lady Rui died of a certain disease that was later diagnosed as something coming from an external source, thus they blamed my mother. What’s the funny thing is, after coming to the Empire, my mother also fell ill and started to show the same signals as Lady Rui... she also got infected by this disease and was on the verge of death!"

"WHAT? W-what did you say?" The table in front of them shook violently as the tool Zhu was sitting on tumbled down on the floor, rolling around. His face showed the shock he faced just now, which seemed to be unbelievable.

"Was it that shocking? I was also put on edge by a bunch of scoundrels in that place, a bunch of guys courting me relentlessly and even forcing themselves onto me."

"I didn’t learn martial arts or anything like that because my father put a spell on me and my mother, forbidding me from learning anything."

"At that time, if Lord Yun didn’t extend his hand to us. Then we might not have been alive by now." Bai Yunxian sighed as he finished his sentence.

This was partly true because if it weren’t for his fate to change and Yun Shu coming to the limelight, he would’ve died a lot of times by now, forget about sitting here and reminiscing about their agitation here with his brother.

"T-then, your mother also... haaa, I can’t believe it..." Zhu Zhengting felt mentally exhausted after hearing all these unbelievable stories.

It’s true that their mother wasn’t the same, Zhu Zhengting was the first born son of the family from the Madam of the household. Their father also loved her very much. However, due to her weak constitution, after giving birth to him, the Lady was diagnosed that she couldn’t take another child for the rest of her life.

But Lady Rui was very eager to raise another child. The Elders of the Clan refused to take in any child from the Orphanage or to let their father adopt another child.

All because they wouldn’t be of the noble bloodline, so his father fell into a predicament.

After much consideration and persuasion of his mother, his father remarried a concubine, and that woman was Bai Yunxian’s mother.

At that time, Zhu Zhengting was four years old, the second Lady of his father had a harmonious relationship with Lady Rui, she was a kind hearted soul who loved him too.

The Second Lady was a little mischievous and playful, she liked playing pranks on others, always carrying a carefree look on her face. Sneaking in to take a look at Zhu Zhengting and giving him sweets, protecting him from Lady Rui’s rage whenever he did something wrong.

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