Shen Yi Di Nu, Divine Doctor: Daughter Of The First Wife

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You Have All Gone Insane

Zi Rui was pulled sideways by Yao shi. He managed to regain his balance and avoid falling. Upon looking up, he saw a trace of a ferocious look on Yao shi’s face that gave him a fright.

He subconsciously took a couple steps back then looked at Feng Yu Heng before resolutely telling Yao shi: “Elder sister is elder sister.”

Yao shi stubbornly shook her head: “She’s not!”

“Enough!” Feng Yu Heng could not bear to continue listening and suddenly slapped the stone table before standing up. She had used a little too much force and ended up cracking the stone stable.

Yao shi looked at the crack and said to Zi Rui: “Look at the martial arts that she knows, how could your elder sister know this?”

Zi Rui began to argue with Yao shi, and the two went back and forth: “What of martial arts? Martial arts are learned. I can now pick up a sword and fight a few rounds with others. Does mother also feel that Zi Rui is not your son? Elder sister had a fortunate encounter in the Northwest, and this is a truth that even the Emperor acknowledges. Why do you not believe it? Moreover, is it not good that she learned martial arts? Without her skills, how could she had protected us? How could we have ended up living in an imperial daughter’s manor? Mother, why do you not think about how the current elder sister is better than before?”

The mother and children argued causing the servants to not dare make a sound. They all hid far away, not wanting to hear nor see it. Even Wang Chuan and Huang Quan hid in Feng Yu Heng’s courtyard. The gatekeeper closed the manor’s gates and told the imperial guards outside that the imperial daughter’s manor would not be receiving any guests.

Yao shi could not accept that her son and daughter were both falling out with her. Sitting paralyzed on the stone chair, she stared blankly, as she desperately tried to stop tears from spilling out. She also wanted to live happily with her children, but the change in her daughter was too sudden and had already become a thorn in her heart, and this thorn had pierced quite deep. There was no way of pulling it out. She also knew that Zi Rui was right. The current A-Heng was better than the previous, but the previous… the previous was more intimate. She was much closer to her heart.

She did not know what exactly happened. It was clear that Feng Yu Heng’s appearance had not changed, but as a mother, she had given birth to her. There was not a single person that was more sensitive to the slight changes. She was certain that they were two different people. This thought continued to progress until it was deeply rooted.

But could her original daughter come back?

Looking at Feng Yu Heng in despair, Yao shi took a deep breath and did her best to slightly adjust her mindset to a state where she could manage to accept it. When she spoke up once more, however, she said: “Since you are my daughter, then uh, if someone can be spared, spare them. So many people in the Feng family have died. It’s enough. He is your father. If you kill him, you will… you will be punished by the heavens.”

Feng Yu Heng did not know where Yao shi had found this sort of logic, and she was even more uncertain as to why she was so certain that she wanted to kill Feng Jin Yuan. She had just sent that person into prison. It was just the usual government prison. How could that even remotely be related to the word “death?”

She looked again at Yao shi and saw a bit of determination in this mother’s eyes for the first time. Or perhaps it was not the first time. Back when Yao shi had held the imperial decree from the palace and demanded a divorce from Feng Jin Yuan, she had also revealed this determined look. Unfortunately, how long had it been, yet the determined look would appear once more to beg for Feng Jin Yuan’s forgiveness.