My Inner Thought is Exposed! The Villain Family Defy Their Fate!-Chapter 142 - 67: He Really Ought to Be Drowned in a Pig Cage
"But I guess it was Prince Jing who brought her back."
"Now that the late Emperor has passed, the Emperor respects Prince Jing, his royal uncle. After all, she’s just a courtesan. If Prince Jing insists on bringing her back, the Emperor probably won’t make it difficult for him."
[Princess, you really guessed wrong. Yin Menglan was truly not brought back by that scoundrel Prince Jing.]
[He wanted to, but he’s just a leisurely prince, with neither a fief nor real power. During the late Emperor’s reign, because of the disgraceful things he did to Yin Menglan, the late Emperor held him in contempt and never showed him any kindness.]
[Therefore, the sharp-minded generals and soldiers at the border didn’t take him seriously. He wanted to fish someone out, but it wasn’t that easy.]
[Yin Menglan was a stunning beauty, and as soon as she entered the military camp, she captured a general’s heart, becoming his exclusive favorite, with the other soldiers not even having a chance to take a second glance.]
[Later, that general won several small victories, delighting the late Emperor, who planned to reward him. But he refused any reward, instead asking for Yin Menglan.]
[The late Emperor agreed without hesitation, and thereafter, Yin Menglan became that general’s secondary wife.]
[It was a disgraceful experience to be made a military prostitute. The general didn’t make a noise about marrying her, and after marriage, he kept her hidden in the back courtyard, so almost no one in the capital knew that Yin Menglan had left her lower status.]
[Perhaps the cold hardship at the border took a toll on her health, as Yin Menglan couldn’t bear children after marriage. Then the general died in battle, leaving her without a child for support, drastically lowering her status in the household until the main wife drove her out.]
[It was when she was driven out that Prince Jing encountered her.]
[After not seeing her for many years, Prince Jing recognized his old flame at a glance. The intense love from his youth erupted, and his relentless devotion couldn’t be quelled, so he kept Yin Menglan outside.]
[That support lasted four or five years.]
[Initially, Yin Menglan hadn’t thought much about it, feeling that having peaceful days was good enough, so she obediently and quietly became Prince Jing’s docile mistress.]
[Ironically, after more than a decade with the general and never conceiving, she found herself pregnant during the third year with Prince Jing.]
[With a child, Yin Menglan couldn’t help but develop ambitions to rise in status, and after giving birth to a son, her ambitions grew sharply.]
[...]
Yun Wanqing couldn’t help but recite this story in her heart, even knowing no one could hear it.
As she recited it, she couldn’t help contemptuously dismissing Prince Jing again.
[Sigh, the wife is not as good as the concubine, the concubine is not as good as the stolen, the stolen is not as good as the untouchable. What you can’t have is always in turmoil; men, always foolish.]
[If it weren’t for the imperial decree forcing her to marry him back then, the Princess would also have been a woman he’d never have. Who knows if he had truly married Yin Menglan at the time, what it would be like when meeting the Princess now.]
Mo Yunhan: "..."
Lady Yun: "..."
Lady Yun was utterly shocked by the words her little child occasionally blurted out.
The wife is not as good as the concubine, the concubine is not as good as the stolen, the stolen is not as good as the untouchable. What kind of phrases are these?
Where did she learn them from?
And is this something she should be thinking about at her age?
Um, this feeling is really strange.
But indeed, there’s some truth to it.
She came back to her senses, looking worriedly at Princess Jing, and said, "So, now that this has happened, what are your plans for the future?"
Princess Jing shook her head, looking lost and pained, "I don’t know either."
"Sister Ye, if he truly likes that woman, he could just tell me. Whether he wants to bring her in as a concubine or whatever, I wouldn’t mind, but why must he do this?"
"Why must he deceive me, cheat me, humiliate me..."
’With a soft thud,’ with her words, teardrops the size of beans fell again, heavily landing on the back of her hand.
At this time, Princess Jing was surrounded by a sense of indescribable despair, making those who watched feel both sad and pained.
"Mother, don’t cry."
Suddenly, a small child came running over from not far away, standing in front of her and looking up at her. Upon seeing those dark, bright eyes, like black jade, Princess Jing felt even more sorrowful, her heart aching terribly. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
But she hurriedly wiped away the tears on her face, trying hard to lift the corners of her mouth into a smile uglier than crying, her voice thick with the sound of sobbing.
