My Foolish Husband Turned Out to Have a Hidden Identity Too

Chapter 69: Chapter 69 The Miserable Pair: Consort Ya (Part 2)

“Miss Ji, I’m already troubled enough as it is, so I don’t know if hearing your story will bring even more issues,” Mu Ruyue raised an eyebrow, not wanting to take on any more troubles.

Ji Ru Ya bit her lush, tantalizing red lips, her charming features filled with a faint sorrow.

“Miss Mu, rest assured, I have nothing that requires your aid; I merely seek an audience. Of course, should Miss Mu have the strength to assist me in the future, I would be deeply grateful. However, if you feel troubled, you can completely forget everything I say today. I won’t force Miss Mu to do anything for me.”

Her expression was resolute, her beautiful eyes intently gazing at the girl before her.

“Alright then, I’ll listen to Miss Ji’s story,” Mu Ruyue said, spreading her hands, “but if it proves troublesome, I will pretend I never heard it.”

What sort of stories could a woman from the harem have? It must be nothing more than a love affair. Given Ji Ru Ya was in the prime of her youth, it was not surprising she had admirers.

Ji Ru Ya gave a bitter smile as memories surged forth like a tide…

“I don’t come from a renowned noble family but from a humble household. Although our family’s status was not high, I was blessed to have a loving father and a gentle mother, including a cousin who lived with us. As children under our parents’ arrangement, my cousin and I were betrothed. Eventually, my cousin’s family fell into hardship, but my parents never scorned him and treated him as their own son.”

“However, because of a certain medicinal material, disaster befell my family…”@@novelbin@@

Clenching her fist tightly, Ji Ru Ya’s eyes flashed with hatred. “At sixteen, just two months away from marrying my cousin, my father acquired a millenary medicinal material while trading, which happened to be seen by Mu Qing passing by. For that thousand-year-old medicinal material, he didn’t hesitate to exterminate my family! I will never forget that day—the sky was stained red with blood, and my parents fell to the enemy’s hands trying to ensure my cousin’s and my safety! After which my cousin and I fled and got separated…”

“I hate! Every moment, I wish to personally slay my foes to avenge my parents’ deaths! To achieve this revenge, I spared no moment of my prime— forsaking the pact with my cousin, I entered the Imperial Palace during a civilian draft. Once inside, the palace felt as deep as the sea, and it might well keep me trapped for life, but for the sake of revenge, I harbor no regrets!”

“Five years, haha, it has been five years since that day. For five years, nightmares have plagued me nightly, the enemy always before my eyes yet unreachable for retribution. Even though the Dog Emperor dotes on me, he would decisively never exterminate Mu Qing for me.”

Five years—God knows what kind of days she had lived through these past five years.

Every night she would dream of her parents and the one hundred thirty-six members of the Ji Family appearing before her, their faces covered in blood, their agonizing screams tightening her heart so much that she wished to appease those departed souls with the blood of her enemies.

And a once happy family was ruined over a single plant, reduced to a fate of annihilation. If not for that incident, she might already have been married to her cousin, maybe even with lovely children.

“Even though I detest that Dog Emperor, I still have to greet him with a smile. I know this betrays my cousin, but to seek revenge, I’ve endured it all. The only thing I have done for my cousin is to preserve my chastity—for no man other than him shall touch my body.”

Ji Ru Ya covered her face, tears streaming down through her fingers: “But now I don’t want revenge anymore, what should I do? I no longer desire revenge…”