...to be rid of Jiuqing, or her mother, or both of them. [she looks down at her hands.] My father had sworn for so many years that he would marry my mother, but he never did. Because of the two of them.
[her voice is tiny when she speaks again.]
Mother said that it would work. She would pretend to be pregnant, and it would look like they were scheming against his heir. Jiuqing's mother had never given him a son to carry on the family name, after all. She told me to bump into her so we both fell down... I didn't know she actually was pregnant.
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...to be rid of Jiuqing, or her mother, or both of them. [she looks down at her hands.] My father had sworn for so many years that he would marry my mother, but he never did. Because of the two of them.
[her voice is tiny when she speaks again.]
Mother said that it would work. She would pretend to be pregnant, and it would look like they were scheming against his heir. Jiuqing's mother had never given him a son to carry on the family name, after all. She told me to bump into her so we both fell down... I didn't know she actually was pregnant.