The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

He Sangrou followed her father back to her mother's home crying.

General He had already learned from the eunuchs what his once-beloved little daughter had been involved in. Under his gray beard was a dark face: "Why are you crying? How can you still have the heart to cry?"

He Sangrou's sobbing paused: "Dad... I..."

General He looked at his worthless daughter and sighed heavily, "What on earth have you and your husband been doing recently? Tell the truth!"

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He was angry at how bold and stupid He Sangrou was. She was so easily taken advantage of. She even thought she could plot against the Queen's cousin in the Imperial Palace!

Seeing the anger on her father's face, He Sangrou didn't dare to make excuses as she did before when facing Chen Peiluan. Instead, she told him everything she had heard from Mrs. Dong Er's "trusted maid", and explained the plan she and Yao San had planned to reveal Lin Qiao's true gender during the Spring Examination.

She explained the information and steps in great detail and clarity, which succeeded in further fueling General He's anger: "Idiot!"

"Idiot!"

General He cursed her several times, and paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back. He then stamped his feet and turned to He Sangrou: "You don't have to go back to the Yao family. Ask someone to write a divorce letter and send it over immediately. You - stay at home honestly from now on. When the storm is over, I will send you out of the capital and marry someone else, so that you don't have to stay in the capital and get in the way of others!"

He Sangrou had no idea how things had developed to this point. She looked at her own father in disbelief, "Dad! It was clearly Lin Qiao who deceived the world and committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. My husband and I were just trying to set things right. I am your biological daughter! It's fine if you don't support me, but how could you do this to me?!"

General He narrowed his eyes and stared at He Sangrou for a while, which made the latter's back shiver. After a long time, he finally heard his voice: "Isn't it because you are my biological daughter that I am willing to sacrifice my old face and save you?"

"Dad?!" He Sangrou couldn't understand the logic at all, or rather, she subconsciously didn't want to understand it. "If I divorce my husband, how will you let your grandson cope with it?"

"Yao San's heart has been seduced by outsiders these years. If I divorce him, he will definitely marry someone else. Then... then he will definitely not treat our child well."

He Sangrou held her handkerchief and started crying again.

General He was unmoved and said in a cold voice: "Don't worry about this. Soon, Yao San will not be able to marry again. As for your two children... as a mother, you can only keep your life so that you can continue to take care of them as a daughter of the He family in the future, right?"

The worldly-wise General He has figured out from his daughter's words that this "trusted maid" and "woman disguised as a man" are probably the work of a dark force behind the scenes for some unknown purpose - of course, General He already has his suspicions about who this dark force is.

He was concentrating on thinking.

He Sangrou subtly misunderstood the point: "My husband will die?!"

"How is it possible..." She panted quickly and shook her head in a daze, "Dad, please help your daughter again. My daughter can't live without a husband, and my child can't live without a father!"

General He felt a headache as he watched his daughter's expression gradually become stubborn.

This daughter is good in every way except that she has a weird view of men and is easily overwhelmed. Once overwhelmed, she is more stubborn than a donkey. Back then, she fell in love with Yao San, and General He was not going to agree. However, she cried, made a scene, and even threatened to hang herself. She even wanted to hit the coffin of her mother who had just died not long ago when she disagreed with him...

Just for a man.

General He sighed for the umpteenth time today, his brows knitted tightly together, "Okay, you can't live without your husband, so go back to the Yao family now, and the four of you can reunite in the underground. That way, you can still have a husband, and your children can still have a father!"

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"I don't know what grandfather and aunt said." Chu Liupo and other descendants of the He family were waiting for news from General He's courtyard.

After an unknown amount of time, her usual nanny came over with an expression as if she had seen some shocking gossip: "Madam, this is unbelievable, my aunt is going to sever the father-daughter relationship with the old master?!"

"Really?!" Chu Liupo stood up suddenly. "Is she crazy? Without the He family, what is she?"

The same shock and doubt echoed in Yao San's heart.

He asked He Sangrou again in a daze. After getting his wife's affirmative answer, he looked at He Sangrou's face full of "I did this all for you" and immediately felt like he had eaten a fly. His facial features became distorted: "I want to marry the daughter of the He family! The daughter of General He! How dare you break off your relationship with the old general, you——"

He Sangrou wiped her tears with red eyes, looked up at her husband who had accidentally blurted out the truth, and tried to ask him to explain, but Yao San had lost his patience with this worthless woman. He raised his hand and threw He Sangrou to the ground, pointed at her nose and said viciously: "You stupid woman! Stop crying, come with me to your father-in-law's house and apologize! Beg him to forgive you!"

He Sangrou got up in a very embarrassed manner: "My father doesn't even recognize me, what am I going back for? Do you care about my face at all?!"

"Your face?" Yao San sneered, "What face do you have left?"

"You have been deprived of your imperial title and kicked out of the He family. Tell me, what use are you left with?"

Yao San complained: "I asked you to beg my father-in-law to help me get a real job again, but you didn't do anything. I finally got a chance to make a name for myself, but you lost the imperial decree?!"

"I only have a minor position now, and it's hard for me to even enter the government office. Even if I do, whether they will pay attention to me is another matter. If you still have the imperial edict, you can submit a petition to the Empress Dowager to help me... What about now?"

He cursed: "Tell me what else can you do besides holding me back?!"

He Sangrou fell to the ground, tears rolling down her cheeks: "I did all those things for you. Do you know that my father wants me to divorce you?!"

"Then let's get a divorce, you useless piece of shit. It's all my fault that I was blind to pick up a girl like you who no man wants." Yao San left his wife behind and hurriedly took people to the He Mansion to inquire about the news.

He Sangrou cried for a while, then looked up and saw her son and daughter hiding not far away and secretly looking at her, so she waved to them to come over.

Unexpectedly, her two children asked her, "Dad always says mom is useless. Mom, it seems that dad has lost patience with you. Will he change us to a more useful bride?"