Upon hearing this, Jiang Rou's eyes welled up with tears again. She grasped Ji Huaian's arms tightly with both hands, her voice trembling and incoherent, "It's my fault, it's all my fault. I made him like that."

Jiang Rou's face was covered in tears, with a hint of fear in her eyes. She seemed to be in a panic, and she kept blaming herself.

Ji Huaian sighed helplessly, put his big hands on her back to help her breathe, feeling the trembling body in his arms, Ji Huaian said, "This is not your fault, it's Fang Yuan's fault."

Jiang Rou didn't say anything, but just tightly grasped the collar of Ji Huaian's shirt. Ji Huaian continued, "He has killed countless decent women, and young girls are like jackals and tigers when they see him. He was wrong, and it is a good thing to punish the wrongdoer."

Ji Huaian paused and continued with a smile, "If those girls knew that you avenged them, I'm afraid they would come to thank you one by one, and the threshold of my courtyard would be trampled down."

He spoke in a relaxed tone, as if trying to ease Jiang Rou's emotions. Jiang Rou's voice sounded doubtful, "But he is completely ruined."

Ji Huaian held Jiang Rou's shoulders and said to her, "Everyone should be responsible for their own actions. He has proved that he will suffer for his own mistakes. If you are not the one who set the fire, you will be the next one."

"He is a bad person, and when bad people do bad things, they don't think about what others will do." Jiang Rou is too soft-hearted, and Ji Huaian is afraid that she will fall into self-blame.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Rou murmured, "I'm not wrong, he's the one who's wrong, right?" Ji Huaian nodded and said "yes" in an affirmative voice.

Hearing this, Jiang Rou nodded blankly. Seeing this, Ji Huaian gently rubbed the top of her head, his movements gentle as if to comfort her.

Here, as soon as Fang Yuan entered the door, he was stared at by all kinds of people. His strong self-esteem made him want to turn around and leave.

But he stopped when he touched the coffin in the middle. He couldn't believe that his loving mother was gone. He burst into tears and knelt down in front of the coffin.

When the mourners had left, his father, who had been kneeling beside him, stood up, took off his mourning clothes, and the sad expression on his face disappeared without a trace.

Just when Fang Yuan was confused, he suddenly heard Fang Xu say, "Yuan'er, I will take you to meet your mother." Fang Yuan was a little confused when he heard it.

With the help of the servant, he came to Fang Xuchuan's study. When he saw the person in the painting, Fang Yuan felt a little sad. "Is this when my mother was young?"

Suddenly Fang Xuchuan interrupted him, "That woman is not your mother, this one is." Looking at the woman in the painting and then looking at Fang Xuchuan, Fang Yuan looked very confused.

Fang Xuchuan placed the painting on the table. He looked at the person in the painting with tenderness and affection, and told Fang Yuan the story that made him sad: "Your mother was a gentle woman."

Fang Yuan listened to Fang Xuchuan's words in a daze with a dull expression. Fang Xuchuan's words made him somewhat disconnected from reality.

What does it mean that his mother died after he was born? What does it mean that his mother was murdered?

Fang Xuchuan did not tell the whole truth of the matter. He said that he was threatened because he worked for the King of Qi and killed his wife, and he also said that Qi Yan was the murderer of Cui Wan.

Fang Xuchuan came out of his memories, held Fang Yuan's shoulders and said, "After so many years, I finally avenged your mother. I just hope she doesn't hate me and that we can meet again in the next life."

His words hurt Fang Yuan's nerves. Fang Yuan kept shaking his head, veins bulging on his neck, and shouted, "No, it's impossible, I don't believe it, I don't believe it, my mother died in the fire, it wasn't her." After that, he swept the painting on the table to the ground. His throat had been destroyed in the fire, and the sound of shouting like this was very terrifying.

Fang Xuchuan's expression immediately turned cold upon seeing this, and he slapped Fang Yuan in the face, "You bastard, your mother risked her life to give birth to you, and you are so ambitious and have taken a thief as your mother. You are not worthy of being my son", without even thinking about his own mistake.

Fang Yuan was stunned. He stared straight ahead with wide eyes without saying a word. Too many things happened today. First, his mother passed away, and then Hou told him that his biological mother was someone else. He couldn't accept it and fainted.

Although Jiang Rou was coaxed by Ji Huaian, she was so emotionally unstable and depressed that she fell ill in bed.

Jiang Rou curled up in bed, holding the notebook that Ji Huaian had just brought her. Yingtao came in with medicine and said to her, "Sister Rou, take your medicine quickly."

Jiang Rou put down the book and smiled at Yingtao. Seeing that Jiang Rou looked pale and weak, Yingtao volunteered to feed Jiang Rou the medicine. Seeing the eagerness in her eyes, Jiang Rou agreed.

Cherry said to Jiang Rou, "My sister fed me like this when I was sick." Jiang Rou saw that she was thinking about sad things, so she rubbed her face and said, "Our Cherry has really grown up. Now she knows how to take care of others. Your sister will be happy to see you."

Cherry immediately smiled when she heard that and nodded continuously, "Yes, sister will be happy to see it."

Jiang Rou saw the foggy weather outside and said, "It's going to rain soon," her voice so quiet that no emotion could be heard.

Cherry nodded in agreement, "Brother Fuyun said that the Imperial Astronomical Observatory said that it will rain soon, so the people will have food to eat."

Cherry couldn't stop talking. After feeding the medicine, she asked Jiang Rou, "Sister Rou, do you like the prince?" Jiang Rou blushed when she heard that and pinched Cherry's little face.

"Why do you ask?" Jiang Rou's voice was a little shy. Cherry answered obediently, "Sister Rou is so beautiful and gentle. I believe the prince will definitely like Sister Rou." Cherry didn't say that she saw Ji Huaian secretly kissing Jiang Rou yesterday.

Jiang Rou was stunned when she heard that. The shyness on her face faded away. She smiled bitterly and shook her head, and said to Yingtao, "How could a man as precious as the prince like me? After the disaster relief is over, the prince should leave, and besides."

Jiang Rou saw the corner of clothes sticking out of the window out of the corner of her eyes, paused and continued, "And I already have someone I like." There was shy sweetness in her voice that reminded of her lover, and Cherry was disappointed for a moment when she heard it.

Jiang Rou saw the corner of the clothes disappear at the window, lowered her head and slowly smiled. Naturally, she would not cherish things that were too easy to get.

Ji Huaian didn't come to see Jiang Rou for several days, and the sky outside was cloudy for several days. Jiang Rou was carefree. She stayed in bed every day reading storybooks, embroidering flowers, and occasionally teasing Cherry.

But someone was feeling extremely tormented. Ji Huaian stood by the window, his mood was even gloomier than the sky outside. His eyes were fixed on the door, and when he thought of what he heard that day, his expression became even gloomier.

Whenever he thought about Jiang Rou crying to another man and smiling at another man in the future, he would become jealous and crazy.

Why? It was obviously him who saved her, and she should belong to him. Why could that man win her heart and make her so happy whenever she mentioned him?

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