Just a Wet Nurse, Just a Plaything? Everyone Wept After My Death

[Stunning Wet Nurse + Faked Death + Everyone Regrets It + Face-Slapping Comeuppance]

Everyone in the capital knew that Xie Lanzhou, the Heir to the Marquis of Dingyuan, was cold, aloof, and indifferent to women.

But no one knew that, night after night, he would corner the lowly abandoned wife who served as a wet nurse, his eyes burning red as he took from her without restraint.

From his lofty position, he offered her what he considered mercy. “Become my kept woman. I’ll give you everything except a proper title.”

Shen Yingyue smiled. Then she took her daughter, faked her death, and left, becoming a wet nurse at the General’s Manor.

Later, the rough-hewn general Huo Xiao claimed her for himself, pursuing her with fierce and wholehearted devotion.

Yet his blind filial obedience left him unable to protect her. He could only watch as she was sent deep into the imperial palace.

There, the emperor Xiao Jingheng forced her into his bed but never gave her even a sliver of his heart.

Then a great fire reduced the Cold Palace to ashes, leaving no trace of Shen Yingyue’s remains.

The three men were driven completely mad. They would have dug three feet into the earth if it meant recovering her bones.

Three years later, amid the misty rains of Jiangnan…

During an imperial tour of the south, the emperor was stunned to see the consort who had supposedly died years ago gently wiping the sweat from a schoolteacher’s brow.

Consumed by jealousy, the emperor brought soldiers to seize her. “Will you leave with him, or return to the palace with me?”

The mild-mannered schoolteacher suddenly turned unyielding. Behind him, one hundred thousand cavalrymen from a neighboring kingdom pressed toward the border with unstoppable force.

“Gu Qinghe, Hidden Crown Prince of Great Yan, respectfully welcomes the Crown Princess home! Who dares lay a hand on my wife?”

Only then did her former husbands understand: the wet nurse they had treated like dirt had long since become the precious jewel in another man’s heart.