Zhu Feng stared at her mother. She looked almost the same but her beautiful blonde hair was now raven. She was skinny and looked sick. "M-Mommy?" Zhu Feng was surprised by how young and course her voice sounded. Zhu Fang was taken aback. In this time period the young called their parents mother and father. Or auntie if she was a concubine. Mommy was something that wasn't heard of yet. Zhu Fang took a shaking step back. "Feng'er?" Zhu Feng nodded with tears in her eyes. "Yeah, its me... your gongzhu! I-it's really me!" She was now crying hysterically. "Its me momma. Song Feng" The mother daughter pair hugged with tears pouring like rivers. Zhu Fang and Song Bo had called her their gongzhu because it meant princess. So when she heard the familiar calling she was overcome with joy. They were still hugging when a woman burst through the already decaying door. The woman was short and plump. Seeing the mother daughter pair crying and hugging she sneered. "Zhu Fang don't think that just because Zhu Feng woke up that you can get out of doing your chores and the marriage. She will take Xiaofan's place. We have already discussed it with His Majesty and he said as long as there was a wedding he wouldn't care about the matter. The Empress only wants a wife for her ninth son to take care of him till he dies. She's even willing to overlook the fact that you have no dowry." The short woman went to rip Zhu Feng away. "NO! S-she's not well enough. She just woke u-" PAK. A crisp smack sounded and a red chubby hand print began to surface on Zhu Fangs face. "Who do you think you are to speak to me like that? The only reason either of you are alive is because my husband and I took pity on you and hired you as a maid. Zhu Feng WILL marry the ninth prince as a thank you for keeping you ungratefuls alive!" After that she stomped out of the room slamming the door and breaking it more. A gust of cold swept in the room as a cold glint flashed across Zhu Feng's eyes. Even though they were no longer the soul piercing green they used to be they were now a brilliant shade of red. A single name passed through her thin and cracked lips, "Zhu Daiyu" Zhu Fang looked at her daughter without a tear in her eyes. "I wanted to wait for you-uh- for Zhu Feng to wake up before i changed too much. I figured that if I changed after she got sick it wouldn't be too surprising. Now that you're here and awake I can finally get back what belongs to my host. Before she left for good she told me she wasn't the Zhu's biological daughter," She paused "Feng'er... I have been here for a while now and I've heard about the ninth prince. He's very sick and his face is ruined and he also is unable to get out of bed or even think about touching a woman. You wont lose out if you marry him. At least for the time being you wont be hurt by this despicable family. Anywhere is better than here." She now had tears in her eyes once again because she had just regained her daughter and now she was going to lose her once again. She pulled a small change purse from her robe. "The money is different here." She poured out some silver and copper chunks. "The silver is worth more than the copper. Each coin here is called a tael. Gold is rare here, Only the rich and royals have it. 100 copper coins is worth half a silver tael. And 1,000 silver is worth 1 gold tael. 10,000 gold taels is 1 gold ingot also called a yaunbao. I have saved up everything I could but i still only have a few silver at best." She handed the money to Zhu Feng. "We need to go shopping so you can at least look presentable for your h-husband" Zhu Fang blushed at the thought of her daughter getting married. Now that she was in this Zhu Feng's body she was now only 16, even though her soul was already an adult it was still weird because Zhu Fang died when Zhu Feng was only a small child. Zhu Feng had a cold glint in her eyes again. "The only man I would ever marry is not in this world... I really cant marry..." She looked sad. She thought back to her senior brother. She was his wife in their past life and they had just regained those memories when they were separated again. She and him had a feeling whenever they were close together, like a small tug in their direction. Mother Zhu looked at her daughter and wondered if that was what she looked like when she thought of her husband. A single tear slid down her face again. "Gosh...look at what today has brought." she wiped her face and stood up. "I know you don't want anyone else but for right now you're going to have to make an exception. Besides I heard that Zhou Ming was mute until a few months ago-" "WHAT?" Zhu Feng stammered. "W-what's his name?" Mother Zhu looked shocked at her daughters sudden outburst, "H-his name is Z-Zhou Ming... Feng'er w-what's going on why do you look scared?" Zhu Feng couldn't believe it. "He has the same name as senior brother..."She looked up in a flash "I need to meet him!" She stood up and rushed to get ready as Mother Zhu looked at her like she was crazy, but then she stopped after failing to jump out the window. She looked around desperately and could only walk towards the door. She went to open it but was stopped by Mother Zhu. "We can't... we can't leave the house unless we have permission...I-I'm too weak..." She looked down at her shaking hands and felt the warmness of her tears yet again.