She Holds the World After Being Reborn
Chapter 439 - 438: People’s Hearts Can Change, Especially Men’s

Chapter 439: Chapter 438: People’s Hearts Can Change, Especially Men’s

That night, Madam Sun’s lamp remained lit throughout.

"Have you really thought it through?"

The mother and daughter engaged in deep conversation, worry ever-present in Madam Sun’s furrowed brows, her fingers ceaselessly playing with a string of beads.

Yan Wanqing observed her mother’s flawless, porcelain-white beads being passed one by one in her hands.

After a long while, she touched her belly and nodded, "I do not wish to have regrets."

"But that’s the Imperial Family we’re talking about. Do you understand the dangers of entering the harem alone? Your sister, Sun Lianyi, nearly lost her life giving birth to the Prince. It was only by the grace of heaven that she dodged those calamities, and now you too want to enter the Palace... In the past, we finally distanced ourselves from those conflicts, my daughter, Wanqing... Since you were young, you’ve always had plenty of ideas, but as a mother, I truly do not wish for you to face the immense dangers of that harem alone!"

Madam Sun heaved a deep sigh.

Looking at her already protruding belly, she asked, "How many months?"

"Four months," Yan Wanqing replied calmly.

The child was one she had long awaited.

Her mother didn’t even know about the child she had lost previously.

Thinking of this, Yan Wanqing felt a tinge of self-reproach.

She truly was being unfilial.

Hearing it was already four months, Madam Sun calculated with her fingers, "This little one sure knows how to pick a birthdate, just in the sunny spring months of March or April, the most comfortable season when the grass is green and the orioles sing."

Hearing her mother speak this way, Yan Wanqing’s eyes, pretty as peach blossoms, twinkled, "...Mother, does this mean you agree?"

"What can I do when you’ve already made the child known!?" Madam Sun thought, and couldn’t help but curse, "I thought that boy was well-versed in the Four Books and Five Classics, but it turns out he is a disrespectful ruffian, acting first and reporting afterwards. He has played his hand most ingeniously!"

Just like his father!

Of course, this she could only curse in her heart.

Yan Wanqing’s face turned red with embarrassment.

Earlier on, she had never imagined she would emerge unscathed from those struggles. But after conceiving this child again, she had begun to cherish her life dearly.

She thought of how she had climbed back from hell and felt that there had to be something to prove that she had indeed survived.

This child was both redemption and a new beginning.

"I won’t go into detail about the filth within the deep palace. I reckon those people are no match for you. There’s just one thing I hope you will remember deep in your bones," Madam Sun hesitated.

She really didn’t want to instruct her eldest daughter in these matters.

Yan Wanqing was clever, but regarding matters of love, she was still too naive. She could easily give her whole heart away.

Madam Sun knew her daughter best.

Yan Wanqing looked at her with puzzlement, "Mother, please speak freely."

Madam Sun took off the bead string from her hand, placed it on the side table, and reached out to grasp Yan Wanqing’s hand resting on her belly. She gently squeezed it, feeling the calluses between the fingers of her eldest daughter. Her eyes grew slightly moist, yet her gaze was very steady.

"Never overestimate your importance in a man’s heart."

Upon hearing this, Yan Wanqing looked astonished.

Why would her mother say such a thing?

All along, the love between her father and mother had seemed deep, and the entire Yan Family appeared to be harmonious and joyful.

"I understand your doubts. Even for a child, to be together for ten years as though it were a day, to be life partners, is difficult enough in ordinary households, let alone for someone living behind those high red walls..."

Madam Sun knew that Yan Wanqing was proud. That Xiao Family young man must have promised her a lifetime of exclusivity.

Now she needed to teach Yan Wanqing that people change, especially men.

Once upon a time, she and the Marquis of Zhenguo were deeply in love. However, during a period of temper after childbirth, he got drunk and ended up in bed with her personal maid. He later knelt and begged for her forgiveness. Sun Qinglian, looking at the entire Yan Family, went along with the current and maintained a façade of harmony for many years.

He respected and cherished her, but that didn’t stop him from engaging with other women, even sharing a bed.

Who hasn’t been drunk before?

Mistaking a maid for one’s wife, after all, is just an excuse.

He really was drunk, then he couldn’t do anything.

If he was not drunk, then he just used being drunk as an excuse.

He just wanted to take revenge on himself, to anger her.

And he had succeeded.

Afterward.

Sun Qinglian had given the Marquis face.

But now, she didn’t want her eldest daughter to end up in the same situation as herself.

Men weigh the pros and cons, but women

They, the women, only have one true heart.

After being riddled with scars, they can never go back to what they once were.

"My daughter thinks he won’t do that," Yan Wanqing’s words brought Mrs. Sun’s thoughts back to the present. Looking at her eldest daughter, all she could see was trust in her eyes, which pained Mrs. Sun’s heart.

"We have been through a lot, and with every decision, every choice he made, he always put me first. That’s why I willingly entered the palace for this man. I understand Mother’s concerns, but do not worry, he is not that kind of fickle and unfaithful person."

Mrs. Sun certainly hoped that Xiao Family’s young man was different from other men and that he sincerely cared for her daughter.

However, having floated through life for so many years, having seen and experienced much, Mrs. Sun truly looked down on the affection of men from the bottom of her heart.

Yet, since her eldest daughter had such a guarantee, it could indicate that, at this moment, the Xiao Family’s young man did indeed value her daughter greatly.

Then let’s give it a try.

Hadn’t she herself done the same, determined to marry none but Yan Guozhong?

Everyone has to collide with their own wall.

"In that case..." Mrs. Sun paused, "invite that Xiao Family’s young man for dinner at our house tomorrow."

Upon hearing this, Yan Wanqing’s eyes moistened, "Thank you, Mother, for making this happen."

Mrs. Sun smiled and nodded her head.

She stood up and pulled Yan Wanqing’s head into her embrace, gently stroking it.

At this moment, Mrs. Sun wished so dearly that what had happened to her would never befall her eldest daughter.

Her eldest daughter, who had suffered so much.

After enduring countless hardships, she could have chosen to marry into a normal, innocent family, where life would have been comfortable and Mrs. Sun could have been at ease.

Why did it have to be someone from the Imperial Palace?

Moreover, the Crown Prince who would inherit the throne in the future.

Mrs. Sun was filled with unease about the future.

So when Xiao Pingfeng visited the next day, her gaze remained calm, but when she looked at him, there was a lot more intrigue in her eyes.

Xiao Pingfeng dared not act rashly, fearful of startling his future mother-in-law; thus, he strove to do everything well, even personally changing the water for the pond fish, all to make a good impression on Mrs. Sun.

After the bustling effort of tending to the pond,

Yan Wanqing hurriedly took a towel to wipe off his sweat for him, "Have some tea."

Xiao Pingfeng accepted the tea from Cong Ge, said thank you, and then drank it all down.

"My dear, there is something I want to ask you," the Crown Prince began, "Did Father Emperor offend Mrs. Sun previously, so now she gets annoyed when she sees me?" After thinking it over, he felt that it might be because of his Father Emperor’s indiscretions that he was suffering.

Yan Wanqing choked on her water when asked, and started coughing wildly.

She dared not say that it was because her mother felt he would abandon her in the future that she disagreed with the marriage.

If that were said out loud, the Crown Prince would probably become morose and agitated.

Finally managing to stop coughing, and seeing the Crown Prince more anxious than she was, Yan Wanqing gave a wry smile, "Mother is just used to the quiet, she isn’t quite accustomed to the house being this lively all of a sudden. You’re overthinking it."

After thinking it over, Yan Wanqing still kept this matter to herself.

She couldn’t let this issue create a rift between her mother and Xiao Pingfeng.

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