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One moment Nicolas was standing in that despicable woman's room and in the next he was in a beautiful clearing next to a lake. It was a very picturesque scene, the sun glinting off the water, wildflowers everywhere you look and two of the loveliest women that you could ever imagine.
One would think that this would be one of the most serene images a person ever laid eyes on. Well, that person would be wrong because the two women we're the legitimate wife and the body Nicolas was inhabiting mother.
"Ana, when, where are we?" Nicolas asked still looking around curiously.
'We are currently 8 years from the point where we were in that woman's room. As for the where Wei Yui's father took the whole family hunting.'
"Oh, I see, but what why are they both together? I thought legitimate wife hated Wei Yue's mother.'
'She does, big brother. Her hatred of Weird Yue's mother has been simmering for these last 8 years. After learning from a spy she planted near her husband, that he wanted to ask the emperor to give Yue's mother a title so her status wouldn't be that of a lowly maid anymore. The legitimate wife understood that with that title if something were to happen to her than Yue's mother could be the legitimate wife.'
"So the Yue's father is planning to get rid of that evil woman."
'Being the nice person he is he didn't plan on killing her, just cripple her. If she was no longer able to take care of the household than he could replace her. After learning of his plan the legitimate wife hatred for Yue's mother began to boil and she hatches a plan of her own.'
"Let me guess, she's going to get rid of Yue's mother."
'Your guess is correct, big brother. This scene that you are about to watch is of Yue's mother's death.' Ana snapped her fingers and the scene started to play.
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"Why have you called me here, Wei furen." Yue's mother asked warily.
With a slight smile, the furen replied, "I just wanted to speak with you. All these years I have been at odds with you. Wasting my energy competing you, for what a man who doesn't love me? It needs to stop."
While the furen was speaking Nicolas took the time to look through Yue's thoughts, he learned she was a genuinely nice person. She was happy that the furen was moving on and thought that maybe they could all live in peace now. She even thought they could be friends.
Nicolas left her thoughts as he shook his head at how naive she was. After everything that woman did and she was still giving her the benefit of the doubt. Nicolas just couldn't believe it. With a sigh, he continued to watch.
With hope in her voice, Yue's mother replied, "You are right furen, this needs to stop. Even though husband doesn't love you he still cares for you. We don't need to fight, there should be peace in the fu."
"I see now." The furen laughs bitterly before continuing. "This is probably the reason why he loves you so."
"What do you mean?" Yue's mother asks confused.
The furen just ignores her and claps her hands two times. Two men in black suddenly appear next to her.
Sensing danger Yue's mother tries to get away but is grabbed by the men. "Furen, What is the meaning of this?" She asks scared.
"Fei yiniang did you know that for years I tried to win our husband's love, and never once succeeded." The furen said as she walks over to Fei yiniang's struggling body. She caressed her cheek, staring at her thoughtfully before out of nowhere grabbing a pin out of hair and stabbing it into the other woman's face.
The only sound that could be heard from Fei yiniang was her muffled screams. She tried to get away but the two men were just too strong. Tears began to escape her eyes because she knew that she wouldn't be able to escape this.
"I have always wanted to do that." The furen said maliciously. "I always hated your face, for a lowly maid to dare look better than me is such an insult."
The furen harshly pulls her pin out of Fei yiniang's face and for a moment just watches as the blood drips off of it. She then looks up with hatred unconcealed hatred in her eyes and stabs Fei yiniang once again.
"All these years, I thought that even with you there, I could gain my husband's love. I'm clearly better in every way, but it seemed that I was wrong. He still only looked at you. That's when I had a thought if you're not there anymore, wouldn't he look at me?" The furen said as a beautiful smile graced her face as she twisted the pin out. "All I had to do was ask my father to lean me some of his men and wait for the perfect time."
Fei yiniang screamed and struggled with all her might, but it did nothing. She couldn't get away no matter how hard she tried. She didn't want it to end this way. If only she hadn't been so naive, she should have brought someone instead of coming here alone.
"Get on with it." The furen said to the two men.
The men dragged Fei yiniang's struggling body over to the lake and began to drown her as the furen gleefully watched. Before Fei yiniang's last her thought was how she would never see her son grow up.
"Leave her slippers floating on the water so people think she accidentally fell in, but her body should never be found." The furen told the two men before throwing her pin into the water.
The two men starting doing her bidding, after seeing everything was taken care of the furen left with a smug smile on her face, and with that, the scene ended.
Nicolas just shook his head, that was a very terrible thing to see. People can be so cruel.
"Ana is that furen the evil soul we are after? Because I wouldn't mind taking her down."
'No, big brother, that woman although an evil soul is not the one we are after.'
Ana than proceeded to take Nicolas through other scenes such as the prime minister discovering Fei yiniang missing, and having everyone search for her. To finding her shoes in the water and concluding that she drowned.
Then to a scene with the prime minister who was having doubt's because even though they searched the water her body wasn't found. So he questions Fei yiniang's maid as to why she wasn't with her at the time. For him to learn that Fei yiniang had gotten a note and told her maid to stay here that she would be back soon. After questioning other maids that were at the hunting retreat he found that one saw the furen coming back to tents alone from the direction the lake was in. Although that wasn't much to go on it still made him suspicious of her.
Nicolas saw other scenes that pertained to Wei Yue and how his life was after his mother died. The furen's children bullied him behind their father's back. The furen treated him worse than a servant and told him if he said anything to his father, she would make his life even more miserable.
Wei Yue grew up to be timid and weak. Even though his father gave him the best tutors he pretended like he was dumb so he wouldn't make the other children look bad in fear of what they might do to him.
Nicolas could understand the logic of the boy's actions, but he also knew that playing dumb around people such as these can cause dreadful consequences.
"Ana how much more do I have to see?"
'Don't worry, big brother, it is almost over.'
"Alright let's go to the next one," Nicolas said looking forward to seeing what will happen next.
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