After the eldest daughter was reborn, the whole family knelt down and begged for forgiveness

In a Buddhist temple, in a secluded meditation room.

The Zen door was half-open, the curtains were hanging lightly, a cool fragrance was floating in the air, and a man could be vaguely seen meditating on a cushion.

She pushed the door open with a brow covered in sweat, her breathing rapid and her steps unsteady, but she did not startle him and remained motionless.

Although it is just a back view, it is still stunning, with a lofty and elegant appearance, like a jade tree in a fairy forest.

Rouyi climbed onto his broad shoulders and whispered in his ear, her breath sweet as orchid.

The meditative man finally turned around, and she fell into a pair of deep and cold phoenix eyes...

……

Xiao Xuetang suddenly opened her eyes!

At this time, she was locked in a cold stone room with no ventilation on all sides. The air was getting thinner and thinner, and the feeling of suffocation was getting stronger and stronger.

What was even more terrifying was that she felt a dull pain in her abdomen that was getting stronger and stronger, and there was a pool of warm blood under her body.

She is eight months pregnant and the baby might be born prematurely!

"Is there anyone, please come and rescue me."

She banged hard on the locked stone door and shouted at the top of her lungs. The bloody scratches on the door were shocking.

Three days ago, she returned home from the palace to visit her family. She drank the sweet soup her mother sent her and fell asleep. When she woke up, she was in this secret room.

For three whole days, she hadn't had a drop of water and her body could no longer hold on.

She is the queen of Dayin and is pregnant with the emperor's son. Who wants to harm her?

Is it Consort Wang? Consort Yu? Or the new Concubine Liu?

Lack of oxygen made her brain a little dazed. She was thinking about her enemy, and the next moment she heard a "squeak".

Seeing the long sleeves of the dress embroidered with gold and phoenix spread out in front of her, and the intricate cloud patterns gleaming in the darkness, she felt even more dazzled. When she saw her face clearly, Xiao Xuetang's already pale face looked even uglier.

"It's you!"

She shouted in an angry voice.

Ye Jin, the adopted daughter of the Xiao family, has an eccentric personality. Unlike her dull and conventional personality, she has taken away the love of all the elders since she came to the Xiao family...

Even, he took away her childhood sweetheart!

A year ago, Ye Jin climbed onto Lin Shaoshu's throne under the pretext of entering the palace to tend to her when she was ill.

After their affair was discovered, Ye Jin knelt down and said that she was just in love with the emperor and was confused for a moment, and did not ask for a formal status.

At that time, Xiao Xuetang naively believed it, but she didn't expect that she had been waiting for several years for today...

Ye Jin stood in front of Xiao Xuetang and boasted: "Isn't this phoenix robe more suitable for me than for you, sister?"

Xiao Xuetang was sweating profusely from the pain, but her expression was extremely clear. She said sarcastically, "What qualifications do you have to call yourself my queen, an orphan girl of unknown origin?"

Ye Jin's sore spot was touched, and his originally smug expression instantly turned gloomy.

For Ye Jin, her background has always been a thorn in her heart.

In this era where birth is valued and clans are respected, her identity is not to be seen, so she cannot display her talents. Fortunately, her forbearance and planning over the years have not been in vain...

Then she adjusted the golden hairpins on her temples, raised a smile and said, "Xiao Xuetang, you are wrong. From today on, I am no longer a refugee. My parents have officially recorded me in the family tree. From today on, I will officially replace you as the eldest daughter of the Xiao family."

Xiao Xuetang felt a sweet taste in her throat, and she swallowed it down...

I should have thought of it earlier. Without the Xiao family's internal and external support, how could Ye Jin have attacked her so easily?

But no one expected that her parents would help an adopted daughter who was not related to her by blood to abuse and kill their own biological daughter.

There was a flash of despair in Xiao Xuetang's eyes, but for the sake of her child, she had to live!

but……

"I have taken away your parents and husband, so I will also take care of this evil child in your belly..."

She held a dagger in her hand and approached Xiao Xuetang with a ferocious look.

Xiao Xuetang subconsciously protected her bulging belly and gritted her teeth, "If you... hurt me and the child, Your Majesty, neither the Xiao family will let you go!"

She has nothing left, she must keep this child!

"Hahaha……"

Ye Jin burst into laughter and said, "Three days ago, Brother Shao Shu issued an edict to depose the empress, ordering father to erase your name from the family tree. There is no Empress Xiao Xuetang in this world anymore, only this palace, Xiao Ye Jin!"

"As for the one in your belly..."

Ye Jin raised a secret smile at the corner of his mouth, and said, "You don't think that the man in the Huguo Temple that day was the emperor."

Xiao Xuetang's face suddenly changed, and he asked anxiously, "You...what do you mean?"

Ye Jin did not answer her. He leaned over to look at her and said to himself, "Do you know why the emperor has never slept with you in all these years? It's because you were kidnapped by bandits back then."

"Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven. How could he possibly want a woman who had fallen into a den of thieves to bear children for him?"

Xiao Xuetang felt like she was falling into an ice cellar.

She finally found out why Lin Changshu ignored her after marriage. It turned out to be because of that incident...

"So in order to avenge you, the emperor deliberately took you out of the palace and let a strange man spend the night with you. At that time, the emperor and I were in the meditation room."

"No... stop talking!"

Xiao Xuetang's expression finally collapsed...

Ye Jin knew that a noble lady like Xiao Xuetang had been following the rules for half her life and cared so much about her reputation, but she wanted to break the pride of this noble lady from a prominent family inch by inch and shatter her self-esteem!

"By the way, the emperor and I were not married a year ago... when you got married three years ago."

"You sit alone in front of a red candle till dawn, while Brother Shaoshu is making love with me in the study!"

"Ye Jin, you are shameless!"

Xiao Xuetang looked ashen, but her eyes were exceptionally bright...

She struggled to grab the corner of Ye Jin's clothes and said in a hoarse voice: "I know what you want, the secret recipe? Or the shop under my name? As long as you let this child go, I will give you everything you want..."

Her life was a joke. She had few relatives, was rejected by her parents, and betrayed by her husband. The only thing she had was this child in her belly who was connected to her by blood...

In the Weiyang Palace, which was like a cold palace, she felt every beat of her heart and the joy of new life, which brought new hope to her heart that was as hopeless as a tree.

She can die, but this child must live!

"Xiao Xuetang, you are dreaming..."

Ye Jin said with a strange and resentful look: "Only by erasing all traces of you in this world can I truly replace you!"

The dagger fiercely pierced through the back of her hand that was protecting her stomach, and with a "ripping" sound, it pierced into her bulging abdomen.

"No, my child!"

Xiao Xuetang screamed in despair.

She clearly felt a cramp in her abdomen, and the intense pain tore at her nerves. Ye Jin held the dagger and stabbed it deep in her abdomen several times...

Until the little life in her belly was completely dead, and she didn't even have the chance to see the world.

A maid came in holding a red sandalwood box. She turned a blind eye to the tragic scene in the secret room and just said, "Madam, the things have been found."

That box contains the secret recipe for treating the plague that Xiao Xuetang had researched with all his efforts!

Looking at the thick stack of secret recipes, Ye Jin felt both excited and jealous.

She had studied Chinese medicine for several years, but her medical skills were not as good as those of an ancient person, which made her very angry. But now...

"Now these secret recipes belong to me, Ye Jin. From today on, I will be the hero in curing the plague!"

Ye Jin looked at Xiao Xuetang and said very proudly: "With this secret recipe, my emperor will make me the empress, and those ministers from noble families in the court will not object, and you... will be completely useless."

After saying that, she waved her long sleeves and swept the oil lamp beside her down. The lamp caught fire as soon as it touched the hay on the ground...

Her life is a joke!

Her parents left home when she was young, leaving her alone to struggle for survival in the Xiao family's backyard, and she never had a moment of home warmth; she had been childhood sweethearts with Lin Shaoshu for more than ten years, and accompanied him in the cold harem, step by step from a young and unloved prince who lost his mother to the emperor, but in return she was ruthlessly abandoned...

"Ye Jin, Lin Shaoshu, if there is an afterlife, I will make you pay for your blood debt with blood!"

……

"Miss, it's already the 12 o'clock in the morning. We have half an hour to go into the city. I'm sure the Marquis and his wife have been waiting for you at home for a long time."

"Old Madam, you are such a fool. You knew that the Marquis and his wife would return to Kyoto today. You and your blood relatives have not seen each other for five years and you were waiting for today to reunite. Why did you have to go to the Huguo Temple to get the amulet today? Fortunately, we should go into the city quickly now. We should still make it in time..."

In the swaying carriage, Xiao Xuetang hadn't reacted yet. When she heard the words "Huguo Temple", she suddenly opened her eyes and a cold sweat broke out on her back...

"Quick, stop the car!"

Xiao Xuetang was the first to stop the car, pulled open the car curtain and looked outside...

The next moment, it was dusk and a group of masked men had surrounded the carriage.

The leading man held a knife and stared at Xiao Xuetang and his two servants with fierce eyes!