Chapter 462: Bonus Chapter Song Que (1)
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
My name is Song Que. When I was born, my parents and grandfather had high hopes for me.
Song Que is the name my grandfather personally picked for me.
He hoped that I could inherit his literary talent and have some attainments in the literary world.
The memories of my childhood are too long ago. I can’t remember them clearly anymore. I can only remember that Grandfather loved me very much. Whenever he returned to the residence, he would often carry me around and play with me.
I was only four years old when the incident happened in the Prime Minister’s Residence.
On that day, a large number of guards suddenly appeared outside the Prime Minister’s Residence. After Grandfather returned from outside, he became seriously ill.
Thereafter, he passed away very quickly.
Father took Mother and me and we fled overnight from the capital.
After numerous stints in various places, we finally went to Brook Falls Village.
Following that, we settled down in Brook Falls Village.
Mother told me to forget the past in the capital. She wanted me to integrate into the village and become a part of it.
I did as she said.
As time passed, the memories of the capital faded away and I almost thought that everything in the capital was just a dream.
Even so, because of our incongruous appearance, it was difficult for our family to integrate into the village.
The children in the village who were the same age as me would look at me strangely and even bully me. They treated me like I was a girl.
I put up with all of this.
However, what 1 got in return was even worse bullying and they started taunting me with words.
And so, I finally made my move.
Anyone who bullied me or offended me, I would not let any of them off.
Some of them were framed by me for destroying the crops in the fields and they ended up getting beaten up by the adults in their families.
Some of them were instigated by me to fight with other children.
As for the one who bullied me the most, 1 plotted against him and sent him into River Ringwaters.
At that point, I was standing by River Ringwaters and watching him struggling in the water, sinking to the bottom again and again.
There was a bamboo pole by my feet.
If I were willing, I could have saved him at any time.
However, 1 didn’t want to save him.
I actually enjoyed watching him struggle in the water.
If I hadn’t suddenly realized that someone had seen me, I think I might have really watched him drown in the end.
Yes, I saved that child in the end. And I even became a great benefactor to him and his family.
That child never caused me any more trouble after that. Instead, he became my bodyguard.
As for the child who saw me harm that child and witnessed the entire process, he was also frightened by me.
He didn’t dare to tell anyone about what he saw that day, nor did he dare to approach me again.
Actually, even if that child told other people about it, I was not afraid.
After all, I was the “good child” in the eyes of the neighbors. How could 1 do such a ruthless thing?
As long as I refuse to admit it and then cry piteously, how would the adults believe him?
After that incident, under that child’s “protection,” I finally lived a peaceful and smooth-sailing life.
This lasted until my father suddenly decided to send me to the academy in town.
That was right. Before I turned fifteen, I studied under my father in the village. In fact, I almost never left Brook Falls Village.
Father and Mother also rarely left the village to go to town.
After I started going to Cirrus Loft Academy, due to my good talent and my father’s diligent coaching, I quickly gained the favor of the teachers.
In addition, my increasingly beautiful appearance attracted the attention of many young girls.
My name spread quickly throughout Mountain Spring Town.
Back then, 1 received presents almost every day.
Whenever I went out, 1 would attract many people to gawk at me.
Among them, the one that left the deepest impression on me was an extremely fat girl.
That girl was extremely bold. She actually confessed her love to me in front of everyone.
She even attacked other girls who liked me.
On the one hand, I hated her.
On the other, I also willingly allowed her to help me get rid of those love-struck women.
However, I didn’t expect her to target my family.
Moreover, when my father was seriously ill, she took advantage of my absence to collude with a traveling doctor to plot against my mother.
When I found out about the situation, Mother had already taken her money and bought medicine for my father.
After that, Father’s life was not saved.
Then, just as 1 predicted, that woman brought her family over.
They actually wanted me to marry that fat woman.
For the sake of my mother and my younger siblings, 1 could only compromise.
Qin Sanya, that damned woman. She actually became the only person who succeeded in scheming against me in the past 18 years.
Not surprisingly, how could I let her have it easy?
After we got married, I thought of dozens of ways to kill her.
Unfortunately, before I could take action, she revealed her true colors and started acting like a demon.
That vicious woman actually wanted to sell Yun’er and Ye’er off.
That day, I was forced to go up the mountain.
Unfortunately, I encountered a pack of wolves unexpectedly.
If it wasn’t for Hunter Huang from the village who saved me in time, I would have died in the mountains.
However, even though I didn’t die, my leg was injured.
My leg injury was extremely serious, but my family didn’t have the money to help me treat it.
Under such circumstances, that woman was still making a scene. She even wanted to hang herself in my room.
Of course, I didn’t believe her threat and knew that she just wanted my heart to go soft on her and placate her.
However, my tolerance for her had already reached its limit. How could I still placate her?
In the end, she really hung herself.
Although she didn’t really want to hang herself in reality, an accident happened.
When she fell, she hit her head on the stool and died.
I was very surprised at that time, but after that, I only felt happy in my heart.
Even if this woman didn’t court death that day, 1 would have thought of a way to kill her.
However, after the initial glee, trouble soon came.
That woman’s father and brothers quickly came to look for me and wanted to kill me to compensate for that woman’s life.
Fortunately, her stepmother stopped them and the other villagers helped us. Thus, our family was saved.
Nonetheless, I still had to make a trip to the government office.
The investigation at the government office confirmed that the woman had indeed died from a fall.
After I told them they had to bear the blame for that woman’s death, the woman’s family stopped pestering me.
Thereafter, that woman’s matter was resolved.
However, my life was also ruined.
My leg became crippled and I could no longer have any hope of taking the Imperial examinations.
In the past, I was so proud and so sought after. At that juncture, I was in such a sorry and pitiful state, despised by others.
I… hated those people who looked at me with pity.
However, I was like a person who had fallen into a quagmire and could not get out at all no matter how I struggled.
A few months passed like that, and Zhao County began to suffer from a drought.
Even though Brook Falls Village was right beside the River Ringwaters, it was not spared.
The drying up of River Ringwaters caused all the families to have a poor harvest.
Toward the end, everyone did not even have enough water to drink.
It was then that Mother and Yun’er met with an accident.
The two of them went to River Ringwaters to get water and lost their lives.
After the accident, 1 was extremely sorrowful and regretful.
It was because I had abandoned myself to despair that Mother and Younger Sister lost their lives.
Mother’s health was not good, to begin with, and she still had to do embroidery work to support the three of us.
If it wasn’t for the fact that they didn’t have enough food and didn’t have the strength, she and Yun’er wouldn’t have fallen into the water and couldn’t climb out.
My leg might be crippled but my hands were still fine! I could have copied books to earn money!