Chapter 726: Illicit Affair (Patreon)

Chapter 726: Illicit Affair

Shu Yu's hand holding the teacup froze abruptly as she looked at him in disbelief.

Meng Yunzheng didn't avert his gaze and wore a mocking smile on his face. "That man appeared kind and benevolent on the surface but was a wicked and treacherous person on the inside. My mother was just an ordinary girl from a common family, but she was exceptionally beautiful, known as a local beauty for miles around."

Shu Yu thought to herself that since Meng Yunzheng was so good-looking, his mother couldn't have been any less.

"That man saw my mother by chance and forcibly took her away. When she refused, he went to my maternal grandparents' house and bought my mother with money. My maternal grandparents were not good people; once they got the money, they didn't care about my mother's life. Moreover, that man held a high position and had great power."

High position and great power?

Shu Yu cautiously asked, "Is he... an official?"

"Yes, he is currently the Minister of Works."

Shu Yu widened her eyes. Damn, he really is an official. Meng Yunzheng must be from a noble family.

Wait, his mother was an ordinary girl, and that man was an official. It should be highly unlikely for her to become his legal wife.

"So, your mother became that man's..."

Before Shu Yu could finish her sentence, she heard Meng Yunzheng interject, "Concubine."

Concubine? After forcefully taking someone away, he didn't even marry her as his official wife and didn't take her as a concubine? What a despicable man.

Meng Yunzheng sneered. "That man was already married; he married the daughter of his superior. How could he dare bring another woman into his home just half a year after getting married? He bought a courtyard in a secluded alley in the inner city and settled my mother there. He also found a maid to serve her and would occasionally visit her."

"That's how they lived for a year. During that time, my mother became extremely emaciated, completely devoid of vitality, as if she was waiting for death. However, when my mother had already become numb, she discovered that she was pregnant."

"After a year, that man's vigilance towards my mother had relaxed. When my mother wanted to go out for a walk, he allowed it, but only to visit her maternal home. My mother detested her maternal home as well, but compared to the suffocating courtyard, she preferred to go out. So that day, she went back to the Song family with the maid accompanying her."

"Not long after arriving at the Song family, she had a heated argument with her eldest brother, which caused her to faint due to emotional distress. The Song family was worried about her well-being and called a doctor to examine her pulse, which led to the discovery that she was two months pregnant."

"The Song family was overjoyed; they thought that since she was pregnant, it would be an opportunity for that man to give my mother a legitimate status. So when my mother woke up, they urged her to return quickly and share the good news with that man."

"My mother went back, and that man thought she would spend the night at the Song family, never expecting her to return early. As a result, my mother caught him in the act of an affair with someone."

Shu Yu frowned, an affair? "Who?"

"That person is someone from the palace."

Shu Yu's eyes widened in shock. Someone from the palace?

Based on Meng Yunzheng's words, it couldn't be just a palace maid. It could only be...

a consort or a princess.

Damn, that man had the audacity to have an affair with someone from the palace.

Meng Yunzheng chuckled sarcastically. "Do you find it absurd? A woman of high status in the palace having an affair with a man who was just a Minister of Works at that time. It's the kind of thing that not only my mother but anyone would think is a hallucination."

Shu Yu nodded. "When your mother caught them, they wouldn't let her off, right?"