There Will Always Be Protagonists With Delusions of Starting a Harem

Part 7.5

After crying for a while, Yuan Hui calmed down. She lightly felt Ye Zhizhou's face and then got up after wiping her tears. She quickly walked over to Tao Dong and slapped her fiercely, "Slut!"

With such a hard hit, Tao Dong's cheeks quickly became red and swollen. Tao Dong's carefully maintained skin was cut by nails and rings, and several bloody scratches appeared. Tao Dong wanted to defend herself, but her mouth was gagged and she could only make vague whimpers. She didn't expect that after 10 years, Zou Ming's poisoned face had the possibility of recovery!

"Does it hurt?" Shen Tingwei waited for Yuan Hui to leave before he slightly twisted himself and extended his finger to gently touch Ye Zhizhou's face. He quickly retracted his finger, took out a small, delicate bottle and poured out some ointment. Carefully, he helped Ye Zhizhou apply it on his face, "So your name is Zou Ming? Were you the one that was engaged to me back then?"

The ointment felt cool and comfortable on his face as Shen Tingwei applied it. Ye Zhizhou withdrew the hand that was searching around his space, nodded perfunctorily to him and turned his gaze back to the show, glancing meaningfully at Zou Qing. He laced his voice with some spiritual power and described the events of that year in a simple and concise manner.

The more Zou Qing heard, the more shocked he was. After hearing all the facts, his shock turned into anger. He strode towards Tao Dong and angrily said, "Trying to mix up the di and shu bloodlines, Tao Dong, to think you would actually go this far. You're demented! Madam was right, I sure did take a good concubine!"

Tao Dong looked at him with tears in her eyes, shaking her head desperately, trying to arouse his pity. Seeing this action, Yuan Hui couldn't help giving her another slap.

"Someone come! Drag Concubine Tao away and shut her up in the ancestral hall!" Zou Qing turned his head away in disgust, not wanting to look at her. He walked back to Ye Zhizhou's side and hesitated for a moment before reaching out to gently pat him on the shoulder while saying, "Ming... Mingming, these years I have wronged you, rest assured father will take responsibility. In the future, there will be no Concubine Tao in this family."

Concubine Tao, who was currently being dragged out by a servant, whimpered in horror as she heard these words. She struggled wildly. Yuan Hui sneered and went over to help the servant. After she threw her out of the main hall, she closed the main hall door.

Seeing this, Ye Zhizhou deliberately paused for a moment before saying, "Thank you, father... Since Concubine Tao is... Then the real Zou Lan in the countryside... What is father going to do with him?"

Zou Qing frowned when he heard these words and a trace of embarrassment flashed across his face. What Concubine Tao did was indeed very evil, but Zou Lan was his son after all. The year when the children were swapped, Zou Lan was also young, he didn't have any evil intentions...

"There's no need to do anything. He wrote to me a while ago, saying that life in the countryside was more comfortable. Since that's the case, just let him stay in the countryside," Yuan Hui came over with a cold face. She sat on the other side of Ye Zhizhou and took his hand with a cold glint in her eyes, "Moreover, he's almost at a marriageable age. He can resume his status as a shu son and then get married into a similar family. The Zou family has been raising him as a di son all these years, we haven't treated him unfairly."

Zou Qing thought about it and then nodded in agreement to her proposal, "Then I'll leave it to you. Today's matter is too important, I need to inform my mother... This... Tingwei, as you can see..."

"Father-in-law doesn't have to worry about me," Shen Tingwei, who was eager to be alone with Ye Zhizhou, hastily said that he didn't mind.

"I'll go with you, husband." Yuan Hui thought of Old Madam Zou's favoritism towards Tao Dong and suspected that she was probably aware of the fact that the children were swapped. After listening to Zou Qing's remarks, she quickly got up and walked to his side, "As the first wife, having this kind of situation in the residence is my fault. I should go and ask mother for forgiveness."