The Second Lady was a little mischievous and playful, she liked playing pranks on others. Sneaking in to take a look at Zhu Zhengting and giving him sweets, protecting him from Lady Rui’s rage whenever he did sothing wrong, and smiling sweetly at him no matter how many tis he looked at her, that was the image of her engraved in his mind.
Soon, she beca pregnant with a child, and that was his little brother, Bai Yunxian.
"Is it a boy or girl? Do you know, I want to raise a daughter, it’s been a forever wish of mine. But too bad that Ting’er was born a boy, if it’s possible, I want to beco your child’s Godmother."
Bai Yunxian’s mother laughed as she said, "What if this child is also a boy like Ting’er? Wouldn’t that be disappointing? Sister?"
"It doesn’t matter, really. Cause I think even if it’s a boy, he will be a cute and obedient one, unlike my little boy!" Lady Rui smiled as she stroked her hair.
Zhu Zhengting could never picture the scene of her poisoning his mother, no matter how much he tried.
But after the incident, his father escorted Bai Yunxian’s mother out in the Empire along with her child who was still an infant and never looked for them again.
He never thought it would be his brother who would reach out to him first, asking for help even knowing there were so many things going on.
"But, how did you discover it? I an, your mother’s illness? And how did you take care of it? What’s her condition now?" Zhu Zhengting felt anxious as he asked Bai Yunxian.
"She is well now. Before the marriage, when Lord Yun ca to propose marriage, he and I t coincidentally, which led to him eting my mother as well. He was the one to suspect there was sothing wrong with her body. After making a proper examination by a doctor, she helped my mother et the divine doctor to seek a cure for it."
Bai Yunxian said as he paused. Then he looked at Zhu Zhengting deeply, "Brother, it wasn’t an incurable illness. Lady Rui was also the sa."
"What do you an?" Zhu Zhengting suddenly felt sothing was amiss, his gaze hardened as he looked at Bai Yunxian.
"It was true that it’s not due to poison, nor was it an illness. Instead, it was actually a human made disaster that took the life of your mother. And was about to take mine as well."
"What?"
"Both of them had a coincidence, and had the sa body constitution. Lady Rui had a constitution that didn’t allow her Qi to regulate into her heart. If Qi were to enter her heart, then she would be poisoned and die. Lady Rui was a strong woman and knew how to strictly maintain and control her Qi so that it wouldn’t reach her heart. But there was sothing that allowed her Qi to leak off of her control and run towards the heart, causing her to be poisoned."
"...!"
"Not only that, all her vitality was gone, as if being sucked out by sothing. Her body was wrinkled, dried out and aged, as if she was in her old age dying off."
"No, wait a minute! How, how do you know all this?" Zhu Zhengting felt dizzy the more he heard from Bai Yunxian. Everything he said felt like it was unreasonable and unbelievable, but at the sa ti, he couldn’t help but to feel like believing him.
"You were just an infant, and, I, I was forbidden to take a look at my mother for the last ti. So how did you know all this?!"
It was true, but the thing of Bai Yunxian regressing was also true. In those countless regressions, there have been a few tis when he was able to enter the clan and et his real family. He also got to know the reason for how they separated. It’s a sha that all those tis, his mother was already dead when he entered the clan.
And he also got to know of Lady Rui’s ending that was similar to his mother, but never got the ti to tell them.
Of course, there is no way he is gonna tell that he got to know all that from his previous lives!
"My mother seed to be fond of you and your mother very much, even more than , her blood- related son. So she would reminisce about her past from ti to ti, and say the sa thing countless tis that I couldn’t be more inford than this. Guess I know everything about you from head to toe, brother." Bai Yunxian smirked as he teased Zhu Zhengting, who seed to be alert as soon as he heard his words.
"W-what do you know?! I’ve changed from the past, so there is nothing you know the sa anyway. Ahem! What happened to your mother? Is she... healthy now?" Zhu Zhengting pretended to cough as he tried to change the topic.
But Bai Yunxian’s teasing brain cells were already at work.
"Oh? But I rember soone who likes sweets so much that he got caught stealing from the kitchen countless tis—" Before Bai Yunxian could say anything more, Zhu Zhengting was dead set on stopping him from speaking any further.
"Stop, stop it! I swear!" He covered his brother’s mouth with both hands as he scread. Fortunately the place was already surrounded with silence spell, no one could hear what was going on between them.
"Fine, fine, I’ll stop. Thanks to Lord Yun discovering the symptoms and arranging everything soon, mother is now safe and sound. As for , I’m working with him under the guise of a lady to repay him back."
Bai Yunxian finally finished speaking, Zhu Zhengting let go of him. However, he had a serious expression on his face as he asked, "Is it only about you working for him?"
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