Chapter 3 — The day I returned, the entire General's Palace was afraid

“Get the hell out of here!”

My father, Lam Uy, pushed those useless families aside and personally held his sword and stepped forward.

"I, Lam Uy, have been brilliant all my life, guarding the southern border, but I did not expect to give birth to a daughter with a cruel heart, cruel actions, and disobedience to prison guards like you! Today, I will act on behalf of heaven and liquidate the gate!"

He put on a battle stance, the treasured sword that had experienced countless battlefield battles in his hand truly carried some prestige. I looked at him and suddenly felt a little funny.

"Brilliant light? Liquidate the household?"

I repeated what he just said, the sarcasm in my voice not hidden.

"You threw me in Miao Cuong for sixteen years, not listening or asking, letting me live and destroy myself. Now remember me, send someone to dig me out from the pile of dead people, not because of the deep love between father and son, but because that young Emperor wanted to give you a hand in marriage. You are afraid that Lam Thanh Tuyet, that impostor, if you marry there, the crime of lese majesty will implicate your entire General's palace."

My voice was not loud, but like a thunderclap in a clear sky, booming in the quiet hall. Lam Uy's face instantly turned pale. Mrs. Ly and her two brothers were also completely stunned.

“You…what nonsense are you talking about!”

Lam Uy is strong on the outside and weak on the inside, shouting loudly.

“Am I talking nonsense?”

I took a step forward, the tip of the knife almost touching his chest.

"Sixteen years ago, on the full moon day of the eighth month, you led your army to attack Nam Chieu, winning a great victory. Your wife gave birth prematurely in the capital, giving birth to a daughter. The midwife was bribed, swapped me, and threw me to Doc Long Dam thousands of miles away."

I used the tip of the knife to point at Lam Thanh Tuyet who was hiding behind Ly Thi, her face was pale and bloodless.

"Over the years, you have treated her like a pearl in the palm of your hand, cherished and pampered her, and used a life of luxury and honor to raise her. What about me? In Doc Long Dam, in order to survive, I had to compete with poisonous snakes for food and wild dogs for a place to live. When I was seven years old, I was thrown into a pit to raise an ancient king, along with more than a hundred other children raising an ancient king. Only the one survivor had the right to crawl out of the pit. there.”

I pulled up my sleeve. The top was covered with fierce scars, old scars overlapping new ones, with almost no completely healthy skin left.

“I crawled out.”

“I stepped on the blood of more than a hundred of those people, step by step.”

I raised my head, facing Lam Uy's shocked and scared eyes, saying each word clearly:

“I crawled out of the ancient pile in Miao Cuong and lived until today, not to return to the capital to listen to you explain the so-called 《Women》 and the three obediences and four virtues.”

"I came back to take back everything that belonged to me."

“My identity.”

“My deathbed.”

“My silver.”

“And you…”

I glanced at each person in this family.

“Don't let anyone bother me.”

“If not, I don't mind letting the soil in this General's mansion also taste the taste of human blood.”

My words are like an invisible blade, completely tearing apart the fake peace that this family has worked so hard to cover up for so long. The sword in Lam Uy's hand fell to the ground, making a "bang" sound. Mrs. Ly hugged Lam Thanh Tuyet tightly, looking at me with eyes like looking at a devil crawling out of hell. The two older brothers had even more complicated expressions, including fear, suspicion, and a trace of... guilt that was hard to detect. I'm too lazy to pay attention to their psychological changes. I walked directly in front of Lam Uy and held out a hand.

“What… what?”

Lam Uy instinctively took a step back.

“My monthly spending money.”

Let's say it briefly and clearly:

"The monthly spending amount is truly a thousand dollars, in the past sixteen years, not even a single penny has been missed. I don't ask for much, just based on Lam Thanh Tuyet's standards, calculate it and then pay it back to me."