Chapter 12 — The day they married into the National Palace, I personally tore apart their dignity

Her fingers were tightening around her sleeve. The fingernails were deeply embedded in the palm of the hand.

“Eleven years.”

She said softly.

“I have been in this palace for eleven years.”

“I always thought she was my benefactor, my only relative.”

“I always think that all the promises she made to me are true, not a single sentence is false.”

"In the end, I'm just a girl that she spent thirty taels of silver to buy."

“If she wants me to be her concubine, I have to be her concubine. If she wants me to be her concubine, I have to be her concubine.”

“If you want to force me to kneel down and drink tea for someone else, I can only obediently kneel down.”

“Because my half-life contract has always been in her hands.”

“I... am just an object that belongs to her.”

After saying those words, she slowly raised her head and looked straight at me.

“Sister, that day you told me that I should not become a knife in her hand.”

“You are very right.”

“But now I don't want to continue being a knife anymore, I just want to be a human being.”

I gently put down the tea cup in my hand, then slowly stood up.

“What are you going to do?”

“I want to get back my prostitution contract.”

“What happens after that?”

“After that... I want to leave this palace.”

“Where are you going?”

“I don't know.”

At this point, a very slight crack finally appeared in her voice.

“I have nothing, no money, no relatives, and nowhere to go.”

“But I really don't want to stay here anymore.”

I looked at her, silently thinking for a long time.

“I will help you about the half-life contract.”

“But not now.”

“Please wait a few more days.”

“In a few days, there will be a huge upheaval in this government.”

“After that upheaval is over, your half-life contract will naturally be returned.”

“Do you believe me?”

She looked at me, looked at me for a long, long time.

“I trust you.”

“In this whole palace, you are the only one willing to tell me the truth.”

She left. I stood in the yard, quietly looking at her back. A girl who was only seventeen or eighteen years old, when she walked, her spine was still straight. Clearly there was nothing left in his hands, but he still refused to bow his head. That bone energy alone is much stronger than Tham Nghien Chi. That night, I arranged everything in my hand and reviewed it once again. Ton Ba Vien's letter, the handwriting comparison record of the secret note that my father investigated, the government's books over the past three years, and all the evidence detailing the embezzlement by manager Chu. Those four things are neatly displayed on the table. I told Thanh Hoa to invite Tham Nghien Chi to come. After he arrived, I pushed all four of those things in front of him.

“Tomorrow, you bring all of these to Dai Ly Temple.”

"Your uncle is guilty of falsifying secrets, slandering loyal people, and at the same time invading the property of Ninh Quoc Cong's palace."

"As long as Dai Ly Tu officially accepts this case, the court will be forced to reinvestigate the entire case of your father that year."

“As long as everything is investigated clearly, your father's crimes will be overturned, and the government's title will also be smooth. inheritance.”

He picked up each item and looked at each one very carefully. His hands were still shaking slightly, but his eyes were completely steady, no longer wavering.

“My mother... what should I do?”

“She is your mother, not mine.”

“That matter, you decide for yourself.”

“But I remind you of something.”

"If the trap that your uncle set is completely unknown to her, then she is just a victim. At that time, you can just ask her for a few words of love."

“If she knew everything…”

Let's stop for a moment.

“Then she is an accomplice.”

“What will be the outcome of your accomplice, you must consider carefully for yourself.”

He carefully put all the things on the table away, then stood up. Walking to the front door of the room, he suddenly stopped.

“Thank you.”

This is the first time since I married into the palace that he opened his mouth to say the words "thank you".

“No need to thank me.”

“I didn't do all of this for you.”

“But for myself.”

“This government absolutely cannot collapse.”

“If this palace really collapses, I won't be able to get my dowry back.”

He smiled softly. The smile is very faint. But it was a real smile that came from the bottom of my heart.

“She's such a person... she deliberately says every sentence to make it difficult to hear.”

“Hard words are the true words.”