The Deadly Hitwoman: The Heiress's Special Abilities-Chapter 292: Su Yu’s Past (Part 6)
Su Yaogeng really didn’t want to talk about these things with Han Jing, because even Su Yu himself might not remember clearly, but the impression was especially deep for her, as she couldn’t believe there could be such a Mother!
But being pestered by Han Jing and having no choice, Su Yaogeng told some of the events that happened back then.
She was six or seven years older than Su Yu. Her mother passed away when she was very young. She was gifted and intelligent, so the Emperor doted on her a little more. At that time, in the palace, she was considered someone no one dared to offend. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
She had seen plenty of the drama of consorts vying for favor, and there were quite a few who used their children to make trouble. This was common in the palace, and Su Yaogeng was more mature than other children from a young age. So she understood many things clearly, would not interfere casually, and certainly wouldn’t meddle.
Until one day, she was passing by Xia Ji’s palace. Xia Ji was a new favorite concubine brought back by the Emperor. She was stunningly beautiful, with a pair of jade-green eyes, exceptionally enchanting. Not just men, even women couldn’t help but be moved upon seeing her, making it hard to believe that such a fairy-like face could exist in this world. More rare was Xia Ji’s usually gentle temperament and her amiable demeanor towards others. Su Yaogeng didn’t like the other women in the palace, but she didn’t dislike Xia Ji because Xia Ji’s smile was like a breath of spring, reminding her of her deceased Mother.
But that day, outside her palace, she heard a child’s low sobs coming from within.
There was only one child in the palace, that was Xia Ji’s child, named Su Yu by the Emperor, the eleventh Prince of Nanyao Country. However, Su Yaogeng actually knew that he wasn’t the Emperor’s child, but she remembered that the child was very beautiful, and the Emperor liked him very much too. When Xia Ji came to the palace, she was already pregnant. She had secretly overheard the Emperor and Xia Ji’s conversation, knowing that the child was Xia Ji’s with someone else. But the Emperor’s love for Xia Ji made him not care who the child’s real father was, even saying he would treat him as his own son, wouldn’t shortchange him.
The sobbing was intermittent, not clearly heard, yet it sounded very real. Unable to resist her curiosity, Su Yaogeng sneakily slipped into the palace through a side door when no one was paying attention and went towards the source of the sound.
At that time, Su Yu was only half a year old. Su Yaogeng thought maybe the palace servants were negligent, otherwise why would he keep crying, but when she followed the sound, she was greatly shocked, unable to believe what she saw.
In the small garden of the palace, there was a patch of blood-red roses with thorns. Among the flowers lay a child wearing only a thin silk undergarment, with his whole body pierced by the thorns of the roses. The white undergarment had patches of red, indistinguishable between blood or rose juice. His cries were fragmented, as if in pain, or perhaps he no longer had the strength to cry.
And at this time, his biological Mother, Xia Ji, was sitting on a soft bed by the flower bushes, being served by a palace maid. She was leisurely enjoying having her nails painted with a freshly mixed rose juice blended with spices, red like blood. She even comfortably closed her eyes, lightly humming a tune unknown to accompany the fragmented cries.
