Chapter 7 — At the Longevity Party That Day, I Took a Fake Thien Kim Mask

I immediately understood that this was the opportunity that my grandfather intentionally gave me. After what happened to Tan Chan Hai and Tham Du An, my grandfather no longer dared to put my future in the hands of any man. Instead of letting our destiny depend on others, it is better to let ourselves be capable of holding everything. Asking for His Majesty's decree to allow a woman to participate in government affairs is absolutely not an easy task. In exchange for that result, my grandfather must have spent countless efforts and endured a lot of pressure from the royal court. Thinking of this, I did not hesitate and immediately nodded in agreement. However, after this news spread, the person who could not accept it was Tan Chan Hai. For many years now, he has been using my name to trick his great-grandfather and great-grandmother into providing him with a lot of money. He has long gotten used to a life of lavish spending, squandering money like water. Now, not only was the official dismissed, even the source of money in hand was cut off, and Tan Tu Uyen had to be supported, and in just a short time, he fell into poverty, struggling to survive. When he learned that His Majesty, despite the objections of many courtiers, still decided to appoint me Princess Lam An and at the same time specially allow me to participate in political affairs, he completely collapsed. He ran straight to the gate of Uy Vien Hau palace, pointed inside and cursed loudly:

"Just a girl with a smelly mouth, how can she take over such a large Uy Vien Marquis palace?"

“If the Uy Vien Marquis palace is handed over to it, sooner or later the hundred-year-old inheritance will be destroyed!”

The response to those screams was not anyone's anger, but a decisive elbow from the guard. Several guards immediately rushed forward to control Tan Chan Hai, forcing him to kneel on the ground. Grandfather stood next to me, coldly looking down at Tan Chan Hai from above, his voice was calm but full of majesty:

"Ngoc Le is the only bloodline of the Uy Vien Marquis palace. Even if one day the Uy Vien Marquis palace really fails in her hands, I will absolutely not let this inheritance become a tool for outsiders to take advantage of and then come back to bully Ngoc Le."

"What's more, now that Ngoc Le has been given special permission by His Majesty to participate in political affairs, even the courtiers in the court have gradually changed their view of her."

“And you…”

"A useless person like you, what qualifications do you have to compare with Ngoc Le?"

Amid countless chatter from passersby, Tan Chan Hai was dragged out into the street by the guards, then thrown hard to the ground in an extremely disheveled appearance. After that incident, Tham Du An and Tan Tu Uyen many times came to the Marquis of Uy Vien to see me, but each time the housekeeper blocked them right outside the door and never had a chance to enter. I know very well that with their personalities, they absolutely will not give up easily... Sure enough, not long after, on my way back to the palace, the carriage that was running suddenly lost its balance and overturned. Everything happened so suddenly, I had absolutely no time to react. Consciousness quickly sank into darkness, and before closing my eyes, the last image I saw was Tham Du An's insidious, cruel eyes. When I woke up, I discovered I was tied up in a long abandoned house. Standing in front of me is Tan Tu Uyen. She I no longer have the noble appearance of the old lady. His face was haggard, his expression haggard, he was only wearing cheap coarse clothes, and his eyes looking at me were filled with resentment.

“Canh Ngoc Le, you're finally awake.”

Just as the knife in Tan Tu Uyen's hand was about to strike, Tham Du An suddenly rushed forward and reached out to stop her.

“Are you crazy?”

Being stopped, Tan Tu Uyen immediately turned her head and glared at him, loudly shouting:

“Why are you stopping me?”

"What's wrong? Now that you like her, you don't want to let her go anymore, right?"

"I tell you, if it weren't for her, I insisted on an annulment of the marriage, you wouldn't have been scolded by your father, and people wouldn't have discovered that you were just an illegitimate child."

“Otherwise, we wouldn't be in the pathetic situation we are in today!”

Hearing that, my heart couldn't help but be shocked. It turns out that Tham Du An is not at all the biological son of Mrs. Tham, but is an illegitimate child born of Mrs. Tham's affair with someone else.