"How dare she attack me? It was Concubine Ruan. The ointment that the evil monk gave me was a poisonous insect. Concubine's face was ruined." Lin Yuanyue cried and accused.

Xu didn't expect that Lin Yuanyue was in trouble in the Ninth Prince's mansion. She suddenly thought of Lin Xi and quickly grabbed her hand and said, "It's okay. Now that Lin Xi can be with the Queen, we can find a way to let Lin Xi speak for you in front of the Queen. Concubine Ruan is only a concubine. How can she be more powerful than the Queen?"

Lin Yuanyue didn't expect Xu to say such words. How could she be willing to bow to Lin Xi again? There was still a lot of anger in her heart. She always felt that Lin Xi's luck should not be better than hers.

She is the lucky one, but everything now tells her that she has no hope in this life, so under the current circumstances, no one knows what will happen.

She was unwilling in her heart and didn't want to bow to Lin Xi.

Xu was her mother, so how could she not see that she was unwilling, so she could only patiently comfort her, saying: "Now, this Lin Mansion is no longer your mother's decision. Your father is very proud of having a little son. If your father knew that you came back, and came back secretly, he would definitely be furious and send you away, so you can only behave yourself now."

Lin Yuanyue was obviously stunned for a moment. She didn't expect that her father would have someone else around him now. In her impression, her father had always had a deep relationship with her mother and was always in love with her. How could he have a child with someone else?

Besides the differences, she was even more afraid in her heart. Her brother was now useless. Would her father abandon her and her brother?

After all, father can now train other heirs?

However, Lin Yuanyue was never willing to admit in her heart that she had even lost her father's love.

After being disciplined by Concubine Ruan, she had now learned to be more obedient and to hide her emotions, so after Xu comforted her for a while and thought she was better, she went about handling the affairs of the mansion as normal.

It was during this time that Lin Yuanyue ran to the outside of Madam Wen's yard and secretly saw her father, Lin Hewen, lovingly holding the baby and teasing him.

This scene shocked her greatly. The loving care in her father's eyes had always been shown to her before, and he rarely showed it to her younger brother. How could he possibly show it to this little child?

She now hated even the little child completely.

Why does she have to keep her tail between her legs now?

She must find a way to return to her original position, so that everyone can bow down at her feet and rely on her to survive.

When she thought of this, she made up her mind to find the old monk, or at least understand why he abandoned her.

She had followed her mother since she was a child and believed in his words wholeheartedly. Why, why did he lie to her?

Madam Wen in the house became more vigilant than usual after becoming a mother. After all, she knew that Xu had always had ill intentions towards her children. It was only because Lin Hewen was here that she had no chance to take action, so she was always very cautious.

From the beginning till now, she has been feeling uncomfortable, always feeling that someone is watching her in secret. Coincidentally, when she turned around, she saw someone acting suspiciously outside the door, so she took her maid with her and went out to investigate.

However, when she was about to go out, she could only see a vague shadow. She did not want to alert the enemy now. After all, the master was still in the house. If she became too nervous and it happened too often, the master would definitely get tired of her and would dislike her as well.

With the help of Xu's trusted nanny, Lin Yuanyue secretly left the Lin Mansion. She knew that if she was worthless, her family's affection for her would gradually decrease, and they would only think of her as a burden.

Now, she only thought about finding the holy monk. There were many things that she believed in her heart that the holy monk could definitely solve.

If only he could be found.

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After staying in the palace for many days, Lin Xi successfully let Ruan Liuying leave the palace, and she also successfully passed the female official assessment and became a female official who handled official documents beside the queen.

After leaving the palace, Zhuang Sheng took his clan members to the Shen family's mansion to make a scene, saying that it was the young lady of the Shen family who deceived Zhuang Sheng's feelings and hurt his body.

This piece of gossip instantly swept across the entire capital, and everyone was talking about it.

After all, the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion has always been strict in household management, and even men are not allowed to take concubines. They just didn't expect that someone would come to the door this time.

Shen Qingran in the palace had never expected that things would come to this. Her face was gloomy and Shen Ran was kneeling beside her crying. She had never expected that Zhuang Sheng would actually throw dirty water on her.

Obviously, she didn't do anything that night.

Shen Qingran spoke coldly and asked, "Did you leave him any personal belongings?"

Shen Ran cried and said, "Sister, why would I leave him any personal belongings?" She said this with confidence, but she still had a glimmer of fantasy in her heart, and asked, "Sister, could it be that he listened to the instigation of the traitor and mistook it for me? Just let me meet with him and explain the misunderstanding."

Shen Qingran didn't expect that at this time, her mind was still so unclear. She wanted to slap her in the face, but finally she held back. She closed her eyes and didn't want to see her at all.

"Qingran."

When she heard Lin Xi's voice, she immediately opened her eyes, "Lin Xi."

When she saw Lin Xi walking up to her, her heart softened all of a sudden.

"Don't worry about this." Lin Xi knew that Shen Qingran would definitely worry about this, so she rushed over to comfort her, "Madam Zhenguogong, the case has been reported."

Shen Qingran could understand that this was her mother's style, but Shen Ran became nervous. She said in a panic, "Aunt, what's going on? Don't you care about my reputation?"

At this point, Shen Ran was already panicking.

Shen Qingran could no longer control his temper and scolded her, saying, "If it weren't for your random friendships, why would such a scandal have happened? Trying to cover it up now will only bring disgrace to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion. Now I can only announce to everyone that the person that night was not you. Do you understand?"

"Mom, when will you stop thinking about him? Can you ever think about Xuxu on weekdays? She's still so young, are you letting her follow you here to beg for food? Are you planning to wait until she's older and then sell her off like I did?"

Liuyun never expected that her mother never considered what would happen to her and her sister in the future. Now she was really disappointed.

"Mom, there is nothing we can do. Your dad will get better. Yun'er, do you have any money? I'm so hungry, Xuxu is hungry too, and we haven't had a proper meal in days." Liuyun's mother looked at her with hope in her eyes. She excitedly pulled her clothes and looked at her from beginning to end.

Liuyun didn't expect that her mother still had hope for her father who was lazy and loved playing mahjong. She shook her head and said bluntly: "I gave you all the money I earned from entering the palace. Now I have no money. If you want to buy a house, you can only wait until I leave the palace and buy a house in a brothel."

She gritted her teeth and continued to say to her mother: "If you are cruel, you can sell Xuxu to a brothel right now."

"Snapped!"

Her mother slapped her.

There were more fingerprints on Liuyun's face.

"How can you say such things? We are all family. What's wrong with you giving a little more money to the family? When you get married, won't you belong to someone else's family? You are dressed so well now, you must have money on you. Take it out, quickly!" Her mother said anxiously, her eyes staring straight at Liuyun's pockets, as if she wanted to see through the material of the clothes to see how much money was inside.

Liuyun suddenly remembered that day when she tricked him into the palace, she also looked at him straight in the eyes.

"I won't give you any more money." Liuyun said bluntly, "Even if I give you money, it's only for Xuxu. If you don't even care about Xuxu, just give him all the money to gamble."

When her mother saw Liuyun wanted to leave, she rushed over and pulled her back, "Don't even think about running away. What's the use of entering the palace? Since you came out of my belly, you have to make money to support us for the rest of your life."

When she said this, she didn't notice Xuxu's frightened expression in the corner.

Liuyun looked at his mother in front of him, whose facial features were distorted. He was so angry that he was shaking all over. He gritted his teeth and asked, "Why? Do you want me to be like Nezha? To remove my flesh and bones, so that I can repay your kindness?"

"There's no need for you to remove the meat and bones, Yun'er, think about Xuxu, think about Xuxu." She thought Liuyun had softened, so she hurriedly pulled Xuxu out and stuffed it in front of her.

Xuxu was so scared that he could only grab her.

Liuyun was so angry that he laughed and didn't want to say anything.

"Sister, please take out the money! We haven't cooked at home for a long time, and Dad is hungry." Xuxu looked up and said to her.

"Money?" Liuyun didn't expect her to say such a thing. "Aren't you afraid that your father will sell you out too?"

Xuxu flinched, and her mother quickly held Xuxu in her arms, whispering in her ear: "No, Xuxu, your parents will not sell you out."

Liuyun shook her head. She knew that her father and mother both valued their son. If her mother had not been injured while giving birth to Xuxu, they would definitely not have kept Xuxu by their side.

However, they did not expect that after keeping Xuxu, they could go to another family to adopt a son who looked exactly like his father.

But she doesn't care about these people now.

Liuyun shook his head, his voice cold, and said: "I don't have any money. You asked me for it, but I don't have any, and I won't have any money to give you in the future. What's more, I am in the palace now, and I am a member of the palace. I can't leave the palace often. Don't write to me anymore, I won't read it."

Having said that, she turned and left.

"Don't go, you can't go." Her mother hugged her legs.

It's really not worth it for Liuyun to have such nice clothes stained all over.

In the past, I thought that selling myself was a small contribution to my family. Now they are still thinking of lying on top of me and sucking my bones and marrow out of me.

"Let go and don't touch me again."

"Sister, sister, Xuxu is hungry, please buy Xuxu some food! My brother and dad are also hungry. Dad said that you have to give money to the family. If you don't, you are a ruthless person."

"Sister, please take out the money! Only if you take it out, we can be a family."

Liuyun didn't expect that Xuxu followed them and learned their kindness.

"What are you doing?"

Jiang Zhong, who was patrolling nearby, saw the situation immediately. If he didn't shout them down, those two men would probably strip the girl's clothes off in public.

Seeing the burly man, Liuyun's mother and Xuxu quickly let go of their hands. Only then did she have a chance to catch her breath. She quickly lifted her skirt and walked several steps in the direction of Jiang Zhong, away from them.

She had never heard such disgusting words before. If she didn't give them money, did she not deserve to be their family?

She really didn't want such a family.

Jiang Zhong simply drove the person away.

When Liuyun saw him, he thanked him and returned to the palace.

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Lin Xi was in Ziyuan and heard the noise outside the house.

"Liuyun, you're back?"

"Yeah!" Liuyun walked in with a dejected look, and she nodded in response.

Lin Xi noticed something was wrong at first glance, so she asked, "What's wrong? Are you unhappy about going home?"

She also saw that Liuyun changed his clothes when he came back, "It's okay if you are unhappy, go down and have a rest today!"

As soon as Liuyun returned to her bed, she saw someone waiting for her. She didn't know this person, so she turned around and tried to avoid him.

The man said directly: "Liuyun, your family is now in the hands of my master. If you want them to live, you should put this medicine into Miss Lin's food."

Immediately, the young eunuch took out a white porcelain bottle with determination.

Liuyun couldn't help but roll his eyes, walked away from him, lay down on his bed, and covered himself with the quilt.

The young eunuch had never seen such a situation before. He tugged at Liuyun's cup, but found that he could not move it. He then asked, "You didn't stand up to what I just said?"

"heard it."

She said listlessly.

It would be better if you died.

The young eunuch didn't expect that she didn't care at all after all the trouble she had gone through. He was ready to try harder, "Your family is in our hands. Didn't you hear me? Don't you want their lives anymore?"

Liuyun was annoyed by him and stretched out a hand from under the quilt, "Give it to me!"

The young eunuch then placed it in her palm with satisfaction: "After the matter is accomplished, your family will be safe and sound."

How could she possibly care about that group of people?

Liuyun turned over in the quilt, closed his eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.

Lin Xi didn't know what happened to Liuyun.

When Ruan Liuying heard the servant's report, she smiled and said to her confidant Qin Su, "I don't know what she has done to get the attention of the Queen."

"She and Shen Qingran, both are annoying."

Ruan Liuying squeezed the grapes in her hand and burst them, leaving her hand full of juice.

But Qin Su saw this and skillfully took out the handkerchief in her arms and gently wiped her fingers dry, "They are not to be feared."

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