When Fu Zhao heard the accusations that Fu Shi hurled her way, she knew that the girl still blamed her for what happened ages ago. She sighed heavily and then said to Fu Shi, "You are blaming me? I have already told you that what happened that year had nothing to do with me. Why is it so hard for you to understand?"
"Why is it so hard for me to understand? Mother, do you really not know or are you pretending to not know?" Fu Shi chuckled. "You knew that my father was pregnant; you knew that he was carrying your child but you never paid attention to him, which led to him losing the child."
"Isn't it because you were worried that my father will grow stronger with two daughters by his side? So you ruined him?"
Fu Shi was the crown princess but only she knew that this title was given to her only to please her father and his maternal family. Her father could have given birth to another daughter but because her mother was wary of her paternal grandmother, the child was killed before it could be formed and soon her father lost the ability to have any children.
All these years, Fu Shi had seen how bitter her father looked when he saw other mer concubines having more and more children while he could only have one daughter. It was then Fu Shi realised how unjust her mother was towards her and her father.
When Fu Zhao heard the complaint of her daughter, she shook her head. "Believe it or not, I never killed the child in the belly of your father."
"You are lying!" Fu Shi sneered and said to her mother, "since you dared to do it, then you need to admit it. Don't make me look down on you, mother."
"You think I am lying to you?" Fu Zhao arched her brow and tapped on the screen of her monitor; she played the video where the emperor's brother poured the abortion medicine in the solution that the emperor was about to drink. And stopped when her first husband finished drinking the medicines.
She looked at Fu Shi, whose face was filled with shock.
"This… why—how—"
"Are you asking me why I didn't tell the truth?" Fu Zhao curled her lips in a knowing smile and stated, "The reason I didn't tell your father was because he was already depressed after losing the child in his belly. I didn't want him to think that even his family was against him."
"Later he started to blame me and I didn't bother to correct him because it really didn't matter to me that your father looked at me with resentment. Never did I think that he would lead you astray."
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