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The once famous Zhenguo Marquis's Mansion had been washed over by time. Now it was just an ordinary courtyard, and the door was often closed. This mansion was even more inconspicuous in the most prosperous place in the capital.
A carriage slowly stopped, and Qi Jin slowly got out of the carriage. An old woman hurried out of the door and said, "You're back!"
"Has Xi 'er been well-behaved these days?" Qi Jin asked the old woman who was holding her arm.
"The young master is very well-behaved. He completes the homework assigned by the teacher every day, and he doesn't slack off in the morning to practice boxing." The old woman said with a smile.
Qi Jin nodded with a smile. "This child is becoming more and more sensible."
The master and servant walked up the stairs. When they were about to push the door open and enter, a familiar yet strange voice came from behind them.
"Mother."
Qi Jin stopped and turned back with a stiff expression. Her eyes fell on the woman's face. The once beautiful and tender face had been a little weathered, but she still recognized who the woman was at a glance.
"Xiu Gu, close the door." Qi Jin turned her head and walked into the mansion with a cold look in her eyes. She ordered the old woman to close the door.
"Miss, it's the young lady." Xiu Gu's eyes were a little red, and she looked at Qi Jin excitedly. "The young lady is back."
Qi Jin said expressionlessly, "She's dead."
"Mother, after so many years, are you still not willing to forgive me?" The woman came over and asked helplessly as she looked at Qi Jin's back.
"Miss Ruoshui, when did you come back?" Xiu Gu looked at the woman and then at Qi Jin, for fear that the mother and daughter would quarrel again.
Qi Ruoshui glanced at Xiu Gu with a smile. "Xiu Gu, long time no see. You don't seem to have changed."
Xiu Gu raised her hand to wipe the tears from the corner of her eyes. "How can I not have changed? This servant is old."
"Xiu Gu, tell her to go." Qi Jin entered the mansion without looking back. Her daughter had died more than 20 years ago, and she didn't want to look at Qi Ruoshui at all.
"Mother, if you don't want to see me, then let me see Xi 'er, okay?" Qi Ruoshui frowned slightly, and her lazy and hoarse voice sounded a little helpless.
Qi Jin turned around abruptly and looked at her coldly. "Do you think Xi 'er is something that you can summon and dismiss at will? Since you cruelly abandoned him at that time, so what if you see him now? If you still have a little bit of heart, you shouldn't have come to see him."
Qi Ruoshui looked at Qi Jin and asked, "Back then, you were the one who drove me out of the family. You were the one who wanted to sever our relationship as mother and daughter. Now, it's all my fault. Could it be that all these years, you've been telling Xi 'er that his mother is already dead?"
"That's right, that's what I told him. Even if you appeared in front of him, he wouldn't treat you as his mother." Qi Jin coldly said.
Qi Ruoshui frowned, "After so many years, you still haven't changed at all."
"Miss, Miss Ruoshui, if there's anything you want to say, sit down and talk it out. You're mother and daughter, not enemies. Are you really going to not recognize each other for the rest of your life?" Xiu Gu excitedly tried to persuade them.
"Xiu Gu, you don't have to persuade her. In my mother's mind, only her way of thinking is right. I'm unfilial if I refuse to marry the person she has chosen. For so many years, she refused to tell me about my biological father. If it weren't for her, how would I have ended up like this?" Qi Ruoshui's calm eyes flashed with a touch of hatred.
Qi Jin's expression suddenly changed, and she screamed, "Shut up! You're not allowed to mention that matter! Qi Ruoshui, if you dare to say a word of nonsense in front of Xi 'er, I won't let you off!"
"Guilty? In this life, you can only live with your own guilt. You're the one who let me down, so don't put on the airs of a mother in front of me. Today, I came here to see Xi 'er." Qi Ruoshui said lightly.
"Miss Ruoshui …" Xiu Gu looked at her sadly. These words were like stabbing at her miss's heart.
Qi Jin looked at Qi Ruoshui coldly, "Why should I feel guilty? You don't know how to love yourself and do such a thing behind my back. Is it my fault?"
"If it's not your fault, then is it my fault? If you told the truth from the beginning instead of deliberately hiding it, then there wouldn't have been such a thing. This is your fault. Even if you die, I won't forgive you." Qi Ruoshui's voice had returned to normal, but the hatred towards Qi Jin in her tone was overwhelming and did not weaken in the slightest.
Qi Jin's face turned pale. She seemed to have been hit by something and suddenly lost all her strength. Even her voice became weak, "Do you plan to see him and then leave, or do you want to take him away?"
"Where can I take him?" Qi Ruoshui asked with a smile, "I just want to see him."
"Xiu Gu, take him to see Xi 'er." Qi Jin stared at Qi Ruoshui with red eyes, "He has long thought that you are dead. If you dare to say a word in front of him that you shouldn't say, I won't let you go."
Qi Ruoshui faintly smiled, "What should be said, what shouldn't be said, I know better than you."
Xiu Gu looked at the mother and daughter who were at each other's throats. She was so sad that she didn't know what to say. "Miss, this servant will take you to see Young Master Xi 'er."
"Thank you, Xiu Gu." Qi Ruoshui faintly smiled and followed Xiu Gu a few steps. She looked back at Qi Jin, and in her eyes floated a touch of ridicule and indifference, "He is dead. He died in my arms. He committed suicide."
Qi Jin's face instantly turned pale, and she stared straight at Qi Ruoshui.
"Did you go with him that year?" Qi Jin asked, gnashing her teeth. Her eyes were almost spewing fire.
"Yes." Qi Ruoshui smiled and nodded.
Qi Jin clenched her teeth so hard that she almost bled, "Qi Ruoshui, do you have any shame?"
"When you gave birth to me, why didn't you think of the word 'shame'?" Qi Ruoshui's two-colored eyes charmingly and mockingly glanced at Qi Jin. She was so flirtatious that it could make people fall head over heels for her.
Seeing her daughter's eyes, Qi Jin naturally thought of another person. She clutched her heart in pain, "Get out! Get out!"
Xiu Gu hurriedly went to Qi Jin's side, "Miss, are you okay?"
"Take her away, I don't want to see her in this life." Qi Jin screamed.
"If it wasn't for Xi 'er, I wouldn't be here." Qi Ruoshui said lightly, "Xiu Gu, where is Xi' er? I'll go see him myself."
Xiu Gu was worried about Qi Jin, so she said to Qi Ruoshui, "Young Master Xi 'er should be doing his homework in the study at this time."
This was the place where Qi Ruoshui used to live, and there hadn't been any changes over the years. She naturally knew where the study was. She didn't look at Qi Jin again, and slowly walked to the backyard.
Qi Jin's whole body collapsed on Xiu Gu, "Sin, this is sin! I shouldn't have given birth to her, I should have strangled her to death!"
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