Chapter 5 — The Queen Likes to Eat Melon Seeds

I bowed my head, the corners of my lips could not help but curl up slightly. Yen Vuong really blamed the wrong person - Compared to him, my father is even more deceitful and malicious! Just a few simple sentences on my side made me unable to open my mouth to even say a single word of reproach. Even though my father spoke up, it was just... speaking out. It doesn't change the fact that - I still have to be sent out by my mother to kneel in the snow like Du Nhu Quyen. Even because my father seemed to defend me, Du Ninh Xuyen was not willing, so angry that he sent someone to bring a horse whip, intending to attack me. It's just that - before the whip could be swung down, Du Phong Minh quickly stepped forward and shouted loudly: "Sister! Father! Mother! King Yen is here!" No one expected Yen Vuong to suddenly visit. His father and mother quickly walked to the front yard to welcome them. Du Ninh Xuyen embarrassedly let go of the whip, blushed and turned around to go back to his room to change clothes and put on makeup. But before she could take many steps, she suddenly turned around and turned back. The eyes looking at Du Phong Minh were full of sarcasm, half smiling and half not: "It's really the right time for you to report the news... Maybe you don't know yet, right?" "Your older sister came to Yen Vuong's palace today to cause trouble, and still had the delusion of robbing my fiance!" Du Phong Minh was stunned, his eyes were vague, but under Du Ninh Xuyen's suggestive gaze, he finally bent down to pick up the whip. A whip falls straight down on one's body — But... it doesn't hurt. I looked at Bach Dao - the little girl who had used her body to protect me, hugged me tightly, firmly taking the entire whip for me - her eyelashes trembled slightly, slowly reaching out to hug her. Du Phong Minh threw the whip away, his face turned red with anger and humiliation, gritted his teeth and shouted: "You really have no shame! Don't hurry back to your courtyard, don't let Yen Vuong see you again!" Du Ninh Xuyen was even more cruel, coldly commanding: "I just knelt down! Where are you? Watch carefully for me, it's not time to turn off the lights tonight - you're not allowed to get up!"
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Kneel down at night and turn off the lights? How is that possible? Waiting until those people left, my body staggered a few times, then fell flat on the snowy ground. The powder on my face was already very thick, now lying in the snow, that white color mixed with the color of the snow. At a glance - it really was no different from a corpse that had lost its breath. Bach Dao immediately took the opportunity to cry, his screams were as loud as someone in mourning, so loud that even the servants watching over them panicked. Although I am not favored, I am a decent master after all. If something real happens, they absolutely cannot bear the responsibility. So everyone had to let Bach Dao help me back to the hospital, some people even rushed to call the doctor. Du Nhu Quyen stood dumbfounded looking at that scene, her face full of surprise. Then she glanced around - seeing that no one was paying attention anymore, she immediately jumped up from the ground and gingerly followed me. As soon as she entered my room, she looked heartbroken, used her sleeve to pretend to wipe her tears, her voice full of concern: "Second sister, are you okay? "It's all because you reacted slowly... Otherwise, that whip must have been shouldered by me for you! After all, my second sister used to treat me very well..." I was urgently checking Bach Dao's injuries. Faced with her "late pity" words, I only glanced coldly.
“I still have to see Bach Dao's wound. You're not leaving yet, are you planning on waiting for me to buy you tea?!”

She was startled by my yelling, so she immediately pursed her lips and ran out of the room. Everything... was just because at first I couldn't see through her, I thought she was in the same situation as me, and seeing that she was still young, I spoke up to protect her many times in front of my mother. What about the results? Because of her, I have had to endure many more scoldings and insults. Yet in order to please Du Ninh Xuyen, she constantly secretly interrupted the relationship between me and Du Phong Minh. Finally, she got what she wanted. Du Phong Minh and Du Ninh Xuyen are now as close as brothers and sisters. As for her - she was thrown away after being used by Du Ninh Xuyen, and now she humiliatedly turned back to me, tears in her eyes, showing remorse. But I — have never tolerated traitors. Opportunity, we only give others once. In the room, a brazier was lit. I lifted up Bach Dao's shirt to check the wound. Fortunately, this little girl usually dresses very thickly, and her body is as round as a small dumpling. The whip hit her and caused her pain, but it did not cause serious injury. All I could see on the white skin exposed behind me was a long whip mark, bruises mixed with red marks on the skin, looking painful to the eyes. This is the little girl I raised with the best things - good food and warm clothes, I have never said a harsh word to her once! Bach Dao saw my face darken, and foolishly reached out to hold my hand to comfort her: "Miss, it's okay, don't be angry anymore." I sighed softly, reaching out to pat her head. This girl - when she was young, her parents sold her to human traffickers, went through hundreds of hardships, and then ended up in the Minister's Palace. The day I first stepped into the palace, my mother did not have a pleasant face. She ordered her mother next to her to instruct her maid to serve me - but there was only one person who volunteered to follow. It's Bach Dao. She said, I am like the only sister who has ever treated her well in the family. Unfortunately, she got married early and later died because of difficulty giving birth. She saw that I could be a good master, so she gathered all her courage and courage for herself for once. I cannot betray her. Du Phong Minh is the mother who once told me to take care of and raise him. As for Bach Dao - they hand-picked and raised them themselves. I told her seriously: "From now on, when there are no outsiders, you just call me big sister. In this world, I no longer have a younger brother - only a younger sister." She looked at me in shock for a long time, then finally shed tears and called out in a trembling voice: "...Sister." That night, I kept her sleeping in the room. The night sky was quiet, snow outside the window was falling, large, heavy patches of snow covered the entire yard. The charcoal stove was still burning red, under each person's feet was a warm compress, on that cold winter night - she and I quietly leaned on each other. Each of us talked a lot and were drifting off to sleep when someone suddenly opened the window, a few snowflakes drifted in with the wind, and a tall, dark figure suddenly appeared in the room. Bach Dao immediately sat up, blocking people's way, almost screaming. I quickly put my hand behind her to cover her mouth, stared at that shadow for two seconds, then said both angry and helpless: "Don't cry, it's Yen Vuong."