Thousand Miles of Bright Moonlight

Chapter 146

Li De's eyes snapped wide open and his hands trembled.

Li Xuanzhen's face was expressionless.

Li De took a step forward and clutched Li Xuanzhen's collar tightly. His pale face was violently distorted, no longer carrying his usual air of calmness.

"You are crazy, to besmirch your mother like this!"

Li Xuanzhen returned his gaze, "You will never know how much pain Aniang and I have suffered."

Li De's face was sickly, somewhat resembling a demon. His teeth hit each other as his hand released his clothes and stumbled backward.

Li Xuanzhen looked straight at him, "Aniang went through so much. She thought it would be fine as long as she found you. And then, we found you... You were marrying the Xie family's daughter. In my Aniang's face, you told the Xie family's daughter 'to be one, never to part.'"

'To be one, never to part' was the oath that Li De personally made to Tang Ying on the night they got married.

Li De could not stand steady. With a thump, he fell to the ground in front of the imperial case, knocking over the mythical beast incense burner. His features twisting, "Why didn't she tell me? Why?!"

"Tell you?" Li Xuanzhen's gaze was icy cold, "Tell you when you were welcoming your wife to then be abandoned by you?"

Tang Ying no longer trusted Li De. She stayed by his side only because she recognized her reality.

Therefore, when she argued with the Li clansmen and the Xie family's maidservant and heard the Li clansmen insinuate that she was unworthy of being a wife, she was alarmed and angry, suspecting that the Xie family knew what had happened to her on her escape.

Li Xuanzhen said slowly, "Aniang was just an ordinary woman with little insight. She was too scared and ended up moving her fetus and miscarrying. The child did not take a single breath after birth."

Li De's face was pale, his lips trembling, unable to say a word.

Ying niang had a miscarriage?

"Aniang had already made plans at the time and had people bury the child. Later, my wet nurse told me that if everyone knew that Aniang had a miscarriage, they would only think that she took her life because she was sad and depressed. In that case, how could you miss her for the rest of your life? So she asked the wet nurse to hide it for her and set fire to her courtyard on the day you returned home. Only so could she make you remember her in your heart and bones, guilty for the rest of your life."

She died, preserving her reputation and securing the shizi position for Li Xuanzhen.

Li De could not forget her for the rest of his life.

Li Xuanzhen picked up the sword on the ground, "Aniang got what she wanted... But Aniang never asked me if I wanted to be the shizi?"

In the midst of the chaotic world, he had nothing else to ask for. He only wanted to live well with Aniang and persuaded Tang Ying not to fight with Xie shi. His sole wish was to be able to end the chaos in the world as soon as possible, so everyone could experience peaceful and stable days.

When he learned that Aniang was pregnant again, he was ecstatic.

He was the elder brother. He would love and care for his younger siblings, hold up the sky for them, and let them grow up carefree.

His sister died just as soon as she came into the world, no time to grow up.

Aniang also died, and when she died, she was crazy and wanted him to avenge her.