sbdcsierra Chapter 780 Pearl
Chapter 780 Pearl
Just thinking about that possibility shattered her spirit, and her body trembled slightly uncontrollably.
Seeing her like this, Yu's mother was heartbroken and wanted to go over to comfort her, but before she could say anything, she heard Lu Yangyang say in a calm voice, "Sheng Yunzhu is dead. I killed her with my own hands."
"Wh-what?" Sheng Yunruo seemed to snap out of her grief and fear, looking at Lu Yangyang in a daze and disbelief.
Lu Yangyang continued applying the medicine to her, then looked up and exchanged a brief glance with her: "She's dead."
Sheng Yunruo stared at her in a daze.
Lu Yangyang applied the medicine to her, saying, "Although I pulled you back from the brink of death, you must avoid extreme joy or sorrow during your postpartum period. If you can't control yourself, you might experience convulsions. Do you really want to jeopardize the rest of your life for someone who isn't worth it in the past and won't affect you now?"
Lu Yangyang and Sheng Yunruo were not familiar with each other and had never spent time together, so naturally they would not immediately develop any sisterly feelings for each other.
She just felt sorry for Huo Yuhao.
Just as Sheng Yunruo had guessed, if she died, the person who would suffer the most in the world would definitely be Huo Yuhao.
He probably will never understand what he did wrong and why he harmed his mother.
The sins that Sheng Yunzhu committed should not be borne by such an innocent child on one day.
Madam Yu quickly sat down by the bed, pulled Sheng Yunruo into her arms, wiped away her tears, and gently coaxed her, "Miss, what Miss Yangyang said is right. We are now far away from the capital. The people and good things of the past are all in the past. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid at all. Think of your husband, think of the young master, and the two young ladies. They are all your family. The third young lady can no longer affect you in the slightest. We have already left the Duke of Sheng's mansion."
The years since leaving the Duke of Sheng's mansion have been the best days of Sheng Yunruo's life; every day felt like living in a dream.
She subconsciously rejected news about the capital and the Duke of Sheng's mansion. She tightly retreated into the small shell of Qingzhou, as if she could distance herself from and forget everything in the past if she didn't listen or think about it.
But this unexpected accident made her realize that she had never truly moved on. She had run away, yet she had not truly escaped. Everything she had experienced in the Duke of Sheng's mansion still affected her.
She never had a single day where she could truly relax.
Sheng Yunruo looked at Lu Yangyang, mustered all her courage, and asked her, word by word, "Is Sheng Yunzhu really dead?"
"Yes," Lu Yangyang affirmed firmly.
Sheng Yunruo couldn't hold back her tears and they fell down her cheeks.
“My aunt was originally my father’s concubine. After my eldest brother was born, my grandmother stopped giving her the contraceptive soup. After I was born, because I was the first daughter of the Duke’s mansion, my mother arranged for her to be promoted to concubine. My aunt’s health did not recover well after giving birth to me, and she passed away in less than two years. Before she died, she couldn’t bear to part with me, so she asked someone to spend money to buy me a pure white cat. It was very beautiful, just as beautiful as the pearl that my mother gave me on my birthday. So I named her Pearl. After my aunt passed away, my mother thought that I was still young, and since my second brother was the same age as me, she arranged for me to move to her courtyard so that it would be convenient for her to take care of me.”
Sheng Yunruo raised her hand to wipe away her tears. She had kept this past event in her heart and had never even mentioned it to her husband. But for some reason, she wanted to tell Lu Yangyang today.
“I moved to my mother’s courtyard with Pearl. My mother was gentle and treated me very well. But not long after, something happened in the mansion, which was when you were born. After my mother was rescued, she was injured and her spirits were low. She no longer had the strength to take care of us. My second brother moved to the outer courtyard, and I temporarily lived with my grandmother. I had no other playmates in the mansion. Pearl was my only friend and the only memento my aunt left me.”
“I thought Pearl would stay with me until I grew up. But I never expected that three years later, from the moment Sheng Yunzhu returned, my nightmare would begin. On her first day back in the mansion, she asked my grandmother why my eldest sister could live with her. She wanted to live with my grandmother too and asked if she could stay with her so she could show her filial piety. My grandmother didn’t care much about me to begin with, and as soon as she asked, the people around her immediately brought it up, saying that I was old enough to move out. So the next day, I was assigned a courtyard and sent away.”
“I was already old enough to understand things by then. My mother was fair, and even though I was living alone, I didn’t suffer any grievances, so I didn’t pay much attention to it. Until a few days later, I was playing with Pearl in the garden when she saw me. She was only three years old at the time. She grabbed Pearl and put her little hand on Pearl’s eyes. I was startled and asked her if she wanted to play with Pearl. She looked at me with a very strange look and asked me if her name was Pearl. I don’t know why I was a little scared at the time, but I said yes, her name was Pearl.”
"She returned the pearl to me, saying she liked pearls very much too and would come to play with them again when she had time. But that night, I heard pearl scream in agony. I went to the yard and found pearl dragging her injured leg back, which was covered in blood. I was terrified and rushed to find someone to help. The doctor said that pearl had broken her leg. The wound wasn't from an accidental fall; it was from being hit by a stone, hit many times, until it broke. I was extremely frightened. I didn't understand, I just couldn't figure it out. Why would pearl have her leg broken by a stone?"
"For the first time, I realized that the Duke's mansion was far from the peaceful place I had imagined. I used the excuse of tending to Pearl's injuries to keep her from going out, watching over her like my own eyes every day. But how could I possibly keep an eye on her? Whenever I went out to pay my respects to my grandmother or mother, or to go to school, I would always come back to find Pearl injured. Today it was a leg, tomorrow an ear, or a broken tail. I finally understood that someone was targeting me, and injuring Pearl was a warning to me. But I still couldn't understand who was targeting me. In the Duke's mansion, who would harbor ill will towards a neglected concubine's daughter like me!"
“I couldn’t bear to see Pearl get hurt any longer, and I even considered sending her away. It wasn’t until a maid reminded me that it might be because of Pearl’s name, since the Third Miss’s name also contains the character ‘Pearl,’ which is a big taboo. I suddenly realized that Pearl’s accident did indeed happen after Sheng Yunzhu learned of Pearl’s name.”