Chapter 15 — A Woman Who Can't Change

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The moment the silver needle fell, even my cry was choked in my throat. Mrs. A was clearly too weak to sit up, but suddenly opened her eyes. I don't know where she got her strength from, she reached out and pulled me into her arms. The silver needle grazed the back of her hand and pierced the mattress. The nanny's face changed dramatically and she turned around and wanted to run. Thai Chi hid behind the screen and rushed out, hugging her legs tightly.

“Where are you?”

“She wants to harm you!”

When Vu Lam guards rushed in, the nanny was pressed to the ground. In her mouth, she hid poison. Just as she was about to bite it, the female official dislocated her jaw. A Nuong hugged me, there was a small scratch on the back of my hand. The blood from the wound quickly turned black. The doctor's face changed greatly.

“There is poison on the needle.”

My cry finally came out. Not out of fear. But because of A's mother, she blocked my death once. The doctor immediately injected blood and applied medicine to Lady A. She was in so much pain that she was shaking all over, still looking down at me.

"Minh Duong is fine."

I cried in her arms until I couldn't breathe. If I can say it, I will definitely ask you to stop protecting me like that. But I'm just a newborn baby. I could only use my small hand to grab her shirt, squeezing until my fingertips turned white. When Tham Nghien Chu returned to the Marquis Palace, he almost fell into the delivery room. Seeing the black blood on the back of A Nuong's hand, his eyes immediately turned red.

“Van Hanh.”

The lady gently shook her head at him.

“I'm still alive.”

Tham Nghien Chu knelt beside the bed, hugging both her and me in his arms. The man in the court was as tough as iron, and at this moment his voice was so hoarse that it was almost unrecognizable.

“From now on, there will be no more such things.”

“I will not let anyone near you and your mother anymore.”

The story in the palace also ended quickly. The nanny claimed that she was someone Vinh Thai Concubine installed in the Marquis Palace many years ago. I originally intended to wait a full month before making my move. But Vinh Thai Phi failed, so she passed the death order, forcing her to take action today. She thought everyone in the palace had left, and there was only the weak A woman left in the delivery room. She didn't expect that even if she only had one breath left, Ms. A would still stand in front of me. Vinh Thai Phi was stripped of her title, imprisoned in the cold palace, and died three days later. Phung ma ma and the old gang of Chieu Minh palace were all sent to prison. Mrs. Bui, for kidnapping the Ninh family's daughter, buying and selling children, concealing her identity, drugging her, swapping daughters, and plotting to harm newborns, was sentenced to death after the fall. Lieu Thua An killed his wife, swapped children, prepared a coffin to harm the newborn, another level of crime. The day he was taken to the execution ground, the whole capital scolded him. Mother Lieu, the midwife and all those involved were all punished according to the crime. That small coffin was personally destroyed by Mrs. Ninh and burned in front of the Marquis Palace. She said, the Ninh family's daughter does not enter that type of coffin. Minh Duong of the Tham family also did not enter. Liu Nhuoc Vi is still alive in the end. Lady A does not keep her in the Marquis Palace. She was taken to Lady Lieu's mother's house and raised by a foreign family. Mrs. A said that an adult's sins should not be immediately borne by a newborn child. But she also will not allow anyone to continue to step on me and live. On my full month, the Marquis did not hold a big party. A Nuong's body is still weak, she just hugs me to dry in the sun in the ovary pavilion. Mrs. Ninh sat next to her, holding a full moon jade button in her hand revise. She quietly asked A Nuong:

“Xu Nhi, are you willing to return to the Ninh family family tree?”

A lady was silent for a long time. Finally, she held Mrs. Ninh's hand.

"I am willing to accept my ancestor."

"Also willing to return to Ninh family."

“But the name Ta Van Hanh, I will also keep.”

“It followed me through those years.”

“From now on, I am not a daughter to be bought by anyone, nor a chess piece for anyone to change my fate.”

“I am Ninh Xu, also Ta Van Hanh.”

Ninh old lady's tears were like rain. Tham Nghien Chu stood by the window, looking at Mrs. A, her eyes were as gentle as spring water. I lay in A Nuong's arms, smelling the familiar scent of medicine and the warm sunshine, and finally fell asleep with peace of mind. Many years later, people in the capital still talk about that night. They said that as soon as the Marquis's daughter was born, she cried and broke up the plot to swap children. They said that Mrs. Hou lay on the birthing bed to protect her daughter, stubbornly exposing the twenty-one year old case to the sunlight. They also said that Tham Minh Duong's fate was strong, and that even the death plan set by the Thai Concubine could not crush her to death. But I know, I'm not destined to be stubborn. It's just that I finally waited for Ms. A to wake up. The bracelet that I waited for all my life in the firewood room in my previous life. In this life, Mrs. A raised her hand from the blood in the delivery room and hugged me back to the human world. END OF STORY.