Outside the dilapidated wooden house, under an old tree, Lin Chen looked at Gu Caizhi in confusion, wondering what she wanted to say to him.
"Actually, I... lied to you before."
Gu Caizhi lowered her head and spoke in a low voice. She glanced at Lin Chen and found that Lin Chen's expression was calm. She thought to herself, as I had guessed, he had already guessed that I had not told the truth before.
But even so, he had no intention of forcing me to speak.
"Then are you willing to tell the truth to me now?"
Lin Chen came here because of the Lingyan Clan's complete talent and secret method. Seeing that Gu Caizhi was willing to tell the truth, he was naturally very happy that there should be clues about the Lingyan Clan next.
Gu Caizhi apologized: "I wasn't completely lying before. I have indeed never heard of the Lingyan Clan, nor do I know any complete secrets of talent, but...but in fact, I don't have any elders."
Lin Chen didn't speak, and listened with a calm expression.
Gu Caizhi fell into memories, adding a bit of sadness to her voice: "Since I can remember, my mother and I have been living together in a small village.
My mother was originally a child bride of a family in the village, but later... she got together with someone else and became pregnant with me."
Lin Chen narrowed his eyes and thought to himself that the "other person" in her mouth was undoubtedly her father. However, Gu Caizhi called that person "other person" and probably didn't have a good impression of this father.
“The family that raised my mother as a child bride was very angry when they found out that my mother was pregnant. However, they were actually nice people. They didn’t beat my mother, they just kicked her out and gave her a simple place to live.
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People in the village hated my mother very much because no one knew who the child in her belly was after she was pregnant. So, growing up, I heard people call her an ungrateful bitch countless times...
She paused for a few seconds before continuing: "I have been called a bastard by the children in the village since I was a child. I have been ostracized. I have not had any playmates since I was a child, and I have been bullied all day long."
My mother's health was not very good and she died when I was 7 years old.
Before she died, she told me about my life experience."
She smiled sadly and laughed at herself: "You won't believe it if I tell you. My mother actually said that my father, whom I have never met before, is the second prince of the Yanhua Kingdom royal family! Back then, the second prince was out training and met my mother by chance. He talked sweetly
He coaxed my mother into not caring about anything, and when I left, I told my mother that I would come back to her in a short time."
Gu Caizhi seemed to believe that Lin Chen understood what the royal family of Yanhua Kingdom meant, so he did not explain it.
Although Lin Chen didn't know anything about Yan Hua Kingdom, he could tell from her words that the second prince of Yan Hua Kingdom had a distinguished status, and in short, he was not from the same world as Gu Caizhi's mother.
"Then he never came to see your mother again?"
Lin Chen was very familiar with this plot of a pretty young man coaxing an innocent little girl. Similar situations happened everywhere every day.
Women always like to imagine that they are a lucky Cinderella who can meet Prince Charming, but unfortunately most of the time fantasy and reality are opposite.
Just because the prince is willing to sleep with Cinderella does not mean he is willing to marry her.
Gu Caizhi was in a low mood: "It's true that he never came back, but someone else came.
Not long after he left, my mother found out that she was pregnant, and she was thinking about him again, so she planned to go to the Imperial City of Yanhua Kingdom to find him.
Before she could leave, a woman arrived with a group of guards.
The woman told my mother that she was the maid of the second prince's wife. She came here to warn my mother and never go to the imperial city to entangle her.
It was said that the second prince was a womanizer by nature, and would hook up with many women every time he went out. If these women came to the imperial city, they would tarnish the royal family's reputation.
She warned my mother that if she didn't obey her orders, she would make her disappear from this world.
She also said that she had dealt with similar matters more than once.
My mother had no idea that the man had a family, and she didn’t believe what the woman said was true. But she was frightened by what he said. Thinking of me in her belly, she finally had to promise that she would never go to the Imperial City.
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She looked at Lin Chen, her smile full of ridicule and bitterness, "My mother was still dreaming about that man coming back to find her until she died.
She waited and waited, until her health got worse and worse, until she was scolded as a bitch who hooked up with a wild man and gave birth to a wild son. In the end, she did not wait for the man, but waited for the end of her life.
I guess no matter how reluctant she is to admit it, she already understands deep down in her heart that what the woman said is true.
Anyway, that man is the second prince of Yan Hua Kingdom. If he wants to come to my mother, unless he is dead, how could he not come after all these years?
The most ridiculous thing, do you know what it is?
Before she died, she told me that her last wish was to be buried in the Yan family cemetery, and that one day in the future, she could be buried with that man and never be separated."
"Your mother is an infatuated woman."
Lin Chen sighed. He already understood why Gu Caizhi said before that she had no father, no mother, and no elders.
To her, are people from her father's side still considered elders?
Gu Caizhi laughed out loud, with a mocking look in her smile. She didn't know if she was mocking Lin Chen's words, her mother's life, or her own destiny.
"After listening to her words and learning about his life experience, I was filled with anger, and deep down, I longed to see him.
So, at the age of seven, I took her ashes and left the small village to go to the Imperial City of Yanhua Kingdom.
Finally, on a rainy evening, I arrived at the palace of the royal family of Yanhua Kingdom.
When I saw the palace, I was shocked.
How can the houses that people live in be so big, so majestic, and so magnificent?
Compared with the thatched house I lived in when I was a child, it is a completely different world.
I told the guard at the entrance of the palace who I was and what I was doing here. Not long after, a lady appeared in front of me with a girl about the same size as me."
The scene at that time appeared in Gu Caizhi's mind.
The woman was dressed luxuriously and looked dignified. The little girl was held in the arms of an old woman, wearing a thick and beautiful cotton-padded jacket. When she saw herself, the little girl asked the lady doubtfully: "Queen mother, who is this stinky beggar?"
The lady looked at Gu Caizhi and said calmly: "What a nasty little bastard.
She thinks our Yan family is a cesspit, she can tolerate any dirty and smelly things, and wants to get close to us.
I used to only know that the world is full of despicable women who have no self-awareness, but now it seems that the daughters born to despicable women are also generally despicable."