Chapter 595

"Mother?!" Su Wanqing saw who it was, and her dim eyes were instantly lit up with surprise, as if a pool of clear spring water had been injected into them.

She stood up abruptly and threw herself into Hua Rumeng's arms like a swallow returning to the forest, her voice choked with grievances: "You're finally back!"

Hua Rumeng hugged her daughter with heartache and patted her back gently. After comforting her daughter for a while, Hua Rumeng took the topic and asked softly: "Qing'er, what is going on? Why are you suddenly entering the palace? What about that child Mingyuan?"

Mentioning the sad matter, Su Wanqing's tears rolled down like broken pearls: "Mother, don't mention Brother Mingyuan anymore. After the new emperor ascended the throne, he saw me at a palace banquet and insisted on taking me into the palace."

"I refused on the spot on the grounds that I already had a marriage contract, but not a few days later, news came that Brother Mingyuan... he... he accidentally fell to his death while out riding."

By the time she finished speaking, she was already sobbing uncontrollably.

Hua Rumeng was struck by lightning, and her body trembled violently.

She was also a person who had experienced storms, and she instantly understood the filth and inevitability behind this "accident."

An uncontrollable anger suddenly surged into her heart, making her fingertips tremble with rage: "Outrageous! This new emperor is simply lawless! Forcibly seizing a minister's daughter, and actually using such vicious means!"

She didn't expect that the imperial family had become so overbearing now!

Hearing her mother criticize the imperial family so bluntly, Su Wanqing turned pale with fright. She hurriedly pulled Hua Rumeng's sleeve, looked around nervously, and lowered her voice: "Mother! Be careful! You can't just say things like this; beware of walls having ears! And Father said this is also for the sake of the family's big picture."

"Big picture?" A fierce look flashed in Hua Rumeng's beautiful eyes, her tone carrying sarcasm, "It must have been your father who persuaded you like this, right? What big picture—it's nothing more than an excuse for cowardice and compromise!"

Seeing her daughter bite her lip and lower her head, tacitly agreeing with her guess, Hua Rumeng's disappointment and disgust for her husband instantly surged.

Having stayed by Li Chen's side for a long time, she had witnessed that kind of true dominance that looked down on the world and did whatever it wanted.

Looking back at her husband's behavior of only knowing how to endure when things happened, and even sacrificing his daughter's happiness to exchange for so-called "stability," she only felt incomparably stifled and angry.

It must have been her husband who used those high-sounding rhetoric to suppress her daughter, letting her bear this grievance alone!

She took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed her anger at her husband, turned her head to look at Li Chen, who was sitting calmly to the side, and a trace of apology appeared on her face: "I'm sorry, Young Master Li, family affairs are messy, and I've let you see a joke."

Li Chen waved his hand casually, his gaze still falling on Su Wanqing with appreciation, his tone flat but unquestionable: "No matter. I can help with this little thing."

Hearing this, deep gratitude and hope immediately surged in Hua Rumeng's eyes.

With these words from him, things were completely different.

Just then, a burst of slightly hurried footsteps came from outside the door.

It was the Prime Minister of the Qinglin Kingdom, Su Wenkang, returning from court. Hearing that his wife had returned, he didn't even change his court robes and hurried to the backyard.

As soon as he entered the main hall and saw his wife, whom he hadn't seen for many years and who was still beautiful and stunning, his gloomy mood due to his daughter's matter recently brightened up a lot, and a smile appeared on his face: "Rumeng, you're finally willing to come back..."

Before he finished speaking, he met Hua Rumeng's cold and even disgusted beautiful eyes, and all his words were stuck in his throat.

"Hmph." Hua Rumeng snorted coldly and turned her face away, not giving him a good look at all.