[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law":3,"chapter-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-865":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1544100,2006,"Chapter 865 - 865 859 A Night Visit to Madam Ru","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-865",865,"\u003Cp>865: Chapter 859: A Night Visit to Madam Ru 865: Chapter 859: A Night Visit to Madam Ru “Madam, it’s well past midnight; why aren’t you asleep yet?” The maid attending to Madam Ru fought back her drowsiness, but if Madam Ru didn’t sleep, they wouldn’t dare to either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You all go to sleep, I’ll sit for a while longer,” she said, gently stroking a sash in her hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could she sleep when her son was right in the next room?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What sort of potion had they fed him to make him act like a fool?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The night wind was strong, blowing open the decrepit window, and a pale silhouette stood by it in the moonlight, staring straight into the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A maid shielded the candle flame while another rose to close the window that the wind had blown open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She screamed in fright upon seeing the person outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Startled by the scream, Madam Ru inside and another maid turned their heads, and the sash Madam Ru was holding dropped to the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ziyuan…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two maids, confidants of Madam Ru, quietly exited the room upon seeing the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Ziyuan leaped in from the window and shut it behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why are you here?” he asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Ru’s shock turned into joy as she replied, “Are you better?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Ziyuan furrowed his brow; he knew he had been drugged, and when the drug took effect, he even lost his memory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t answer her but looked at her intently, awaiting her response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Ru seemed uncomfortably evasive as she said, “I…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had learned of your father’s whereabouts a few days ago, and I was just about to bring him back.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bring him back where?” Jin Ziyuan sneered derisively, “To Jin Mocong’s place?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To have your current husband help bury your former one?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Ru’s face turned ashen, her eyes welling up with tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Ziyuan scoffed mercilessly, “Save your tears; they’re worthless to me and only make me despise you more.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s not what you think,” Madam Ru said weakly in her defense, “In that situation back then, I had no choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I hadn’t done that, we would not have survived.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But so many women in the Prince Residence would have bravely faced death; why was it just you who feared death so much?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Father loved you the most, and yet it was you, the only one who betrayed him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hate filled Jin Ziyuan’s eyes, and his words felt like an invisible hand strangling her, leaving her with no room for rebuttal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It was you, the noblest woman in the Prince Residence, who was the first to betray us when trouble befell us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, the other women, lowlier than you, even the humble maids, hanged themselves within the Prince Residence to avoid disgrace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To this day you’re still making excuses for your cowardice?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it’s not what you think; I’m not like them; I couldn’t die, I…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Silence,” Jin Ziyuan interrupted, “If you had any dignity, you should have hanged yourself right then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But your cowardice led you to offer up to Jin Moning the imperial edict, once treasured by our father as his prized possession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The edict left by our imperial grandfather was the only thing that could have vindicated us, but you traded it for your own glory and riches.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I had no choice; I couldn’t die!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You can’t hate me for that reason…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I really want to kill you with one strike!” said Jin Ziyuan, “And how dare you now say you wish to retrieve Father’s remains?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let me tell you, there’s no need; I buried Father with my own hands, and I’m sure he would never wish to see you again.”\u003C\u002Fp>",621,"2026-06-06T06:55:00.784Z",1,"novelbin.me","a958844f81bd1b6904086e9183fda120a7cb7b2d73c8c8f56b49e3fcdc6cd4c4","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-866","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-864",1812,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-cover.jpg"]