After losing and regaining her possessions again, she lost all her sanity and rushed towards Concubine Yan who was in a high position, shouting Sister Xi's name like crazy, hoping to get a response.

Facing her crying, Concubine Yan on the high seat just looked at her quietly without responding to her, but she saw the crystal in her eyes and became more certain that Concubine Yan was her sister Xi.

Out of consideration for her husband's face, the new emperor did not blame her for her misbehavior in the palace and even allowed her to talk to Concubine Yan alone.

Sister Xi, who had become Concubine Yan, readily admitted her identity and told her that the second Miss Yan was no longer alive and that the person living in this body now was a daughter of the Qian family.

She cried and asked why he hadn't contacted her for more than ten years when he was still alive?

Sister Xi said that only by dying and no longer being the daughter of her and Yan Yongchen could she live happily.

She didn't understand why Xi Jie'er didn't want to be her and her husband's daughter? They obviously loved her and wanted the best for her.

After knowing that Sister Xi was still alive, she always found ways to go into the palace whenever she had time, wanting to see and spend more time with her daughter.

Sister Xi became the emperor's favorite concubine after being divorced. At first, she thought Sister Xi was living a good life, but gradually she found that what she thought was exactly the opposite of the truth.

It seems that Sister Xi doesn't like the emperor. She is like a puppet being controlled and swayed. There is no warmth in her smile and she is always sick.

She wanted to find out, but she didn't know where to start.

Not long after the new emperor ascended the throne, Prince Rong proclaimed himself King of Dinh Bac and openly rebelled against the court. He later conquered Dai Viet and marched straight to the imperial city with hundreds of thousands of troops.

When she heard that Sister Xi was sick again, she asked the Queen for permission to enter the palace to accompany her.

However, Xi Jie'er refused to let her accompany her and drove her out of the palace coldly, saying that she had never received motherly love in her childhood and now she would no longer cherish the belated motherly love.

She cried and defended herself, saying that she loved her very much and had always loved her.

Xi Jie'er looked at her with complicated eyes, full of doubt, confusion, and more of sarcasm.

During the argument, the emperor came and angrily asked Xi Jie'er in front of her whether she was still thinking about King Dingbei.

When she heard that her daughter was involved with the rebel, she was so shocked that she stood there stupidly. It was not until she was driven out of the palace by the emperor that her frightened soul slowly returned to its place.

She questioned Yinxia, ​​who had been serving Xijie'er personally, why Xijie'er had an entanglement with King Dingbei.

Yinxia looked at her in the same way as Xijie'er, and the naked irony made her unable to hide. Yinxia asked her in return, did she really know nothing about what Yan Yongchen had done to Xijie'er?

She shook her head in denial as if in a daze. Her husband was Sister Xi's biological father. What could a father do to his daughter?

Perhaps seeing that she really knew nothing, Yin Xia suppressed the hostility in her eyes and told her that everything and all the misfortunes that Xi Jie'er had experienced since she was a child were caused by Yan Yongchen.

She didn't believe it, so Yinxia broke it open and crushed it to make her believe it.

Xi Jie'er was kidnapped when she was young because her father disobeyed Yan Yongchen and was warned; she hid her incompetence when she grew up to avoid being used as a bargaining chip for exchange of interests; she faked her death and divorced in order to get rid of control; she was forced to become the emperor's favorite concubine, which was also Yan Yongchen's hand...

Yinxia also told her that Sister Xi and Prince Dingbei were the ones who loved each other. Yu Jinzhou used dirty means to snatch Sister Xi away and kept her locked up in the royal private garden for three years. After he ascended the throne, he forcefully made Sister Xi the imperial consort. A big reason why Prince Dingbei seized the throne of Dafeng was to get Sister Xi back.

Yinxia's words were like sharp knives, stabbing into her heart.

To her, everything was too unbelievable. Her husband was Sister Xi's biological father. Why would he persecute his own blood? She felt that there must be a misunderstanding between father and daughter. She had to explain it to Sister Xi and not let the misunderstanding continue.

After the emperor left, she rushed into the inner hall and wanted to defend her husband, but when she saw her daughter in dishevel and like a rag doll, she could only break down and cry.

After her emotions stabilized, she told Xi Jie'er many interesting stories from her childhood, trying to ease the father-daughter relationship between Xi Jie'er and her husband.

Sister Xi said that she envied her very much. She envied her for being able to easily obtain happiness and joy, and that all her misfortunes and hardships could be borne by others.

Meeting her daughter's eyes that showed more sorrow than death, she suddenly felt extremely panicked and began to believe what Yinxia said.

In the middle of the night, many men in gray broke into the palace. They wanted to take Xi Jie'er away. She held her daughter tightly and refused to let go, so she was also taken away.

The mother and daughter were locked up by men in gray in a secret room under the Qianqing Palace. There was no sunlight in the room and she didn't know how long they had been locked up.

During this period, the emperor came twice. The first time, he talked to Sister Xi for a while and then left.

The second time, a masked man was brought into the secret room, and she and the deaf-mute maid were sent out. She could vaguely hear Xi Jie'er's crying and begging in the secret room. She wanted to rush in, but was restrained by the deaf-mute maid and could not move.

The crying and shouting in the secret room did not last long, and the stone door was opened. The emperor rushed out holding Xi Jie'er, who was in dishevel and spitting blood, and quickly walked out of the secret passage.

Her mind went blank and she followed him out of the secret passage like a puppet.

The emperor summoned all the imperial physicians from the Imperial Medical Bureau to the Qianqing Palace, and only then did Xi Jieer manage to save her life with great difficulty.

The moment she learned that her daughter survived, her heart, which had been tense for many days, broke and she fainted.

When she woke up again, she had returned to Yan Mansion. She had a feeling of not knowing what day it was. Looking at the familiar curtained ceiling, everything she had experienced before seemed as unreal as a dream.

But her drowsy brain and the pain in her heart kept reminding her that everything that had happened was real and her daughter was still trapped in the tiger's mouth.

When she learned that Yan Yongchen was at Fujuyuan talking to the old lady, she didn't even bother to dress up or wash up, and dragged her weak body to Fujuyuan to look for him.

She wanted to ask Yan Yongchen why he did such a harmful thing and why he treated their daughter so cruelly.

But the moment she saw Yan Yongchen, she was completely unable to control her suppressed emotions. She could not utter a word of questioning and could only cry and beg. She cried and begged Yan Yongchen to save Xi Jie'er, to save their daughter.

However, the old lady at the side told her in extremely cold words that Yan Yongchen could not save her daughter, because all her daughter's misfortunes were caused by Yan Yongchen, and it would not make sense for Yan Yongchen to harm others and then save them.

The old lady also said that not only she and Xi Jie'er, but also Su, Yan Muqing, Aunt Ge, Yan Muyun, and other aunts and children in the mansion were all pawns on the revenge chessboard of the mother and son. All of them were of lowly blood, and had never been cared for by Yan Yongchen, let alone worth Yan Yongchen's efforts to rescue.

She didn't believe a word the old lady said and looked at Yan Yongchen with hope, hoping that Yan Yongchen would deny it and tell her that he cared about her, loved her, and had never lied to her.

But Yan Yongchen remained silent and never responded. Her heart died little by little in the horrible silence. She finally understood why Xi Jie'er said she envied her, envied someone for bearing her misfortune and hardship.

It turned out that while she was enjoying false happiness, her father and daughter had been carrying the burden and moving forward.

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