PFC Chapter 164 Living in Conspiracy
Chapter 164 Living in Conspiracy
After Ren Zhihai got married, he came to the capital to take the imperial examination. Although his talent might not allow him to make it into the top three, he was confident that he would win the title of Jieyuan.
It’s a pity that cheating in the imperial examination was rampant at that time. No matter how talented and capable he was, he still failed to make the list and lost to reality.
He was too ashamed to return home, and even sent a letter and a divorce letter back to his newly-married wife, urging her to find a reliable man to marry.
His biological wife was his cousin, with whom he grew up together. They had a very deep relationship and his cousin naturally did not want to marry anyone else. After receiving his letter and divorce letter, she went to the capital alone to find him.
What's even more surprising is that he actually found a shortcut for him to bribe the examiner so that he could pass the imperial examination without any worries.
The cousin chose a wealthy businessman for him in her hometown, and bribed the maidservant of the wealthy businessman's daughter to put her in danger, and let her husband perform a heroic act to save the beauty.
Afterwards, she was willing to keep her identity secret and watch him marry into a wealthy businessman, and use the businessman's wealth to go all the way from the imperial examination to the position of Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites.
Ren Zhihai had always been deeply in love with his cousin, and she was willing to follow him in secret without any status in order to help him advance his career, but he could not even give her the status of a co-wife.
Out of genuine affection and a feeling of guilt, Ren Zhihai placed her in a place closest to him and raised her with fine clothes and delicious food.
He kept getting Madam Ren pregnant, and then moved her to another hospital under the pretext of letting her take good care of the baby, but in fact he did it so that he could have more time to accompany his beloved cousin.
Mrs. Ren often stayed alone in the empty room, but the two of them were always affectionate and romantic.
Although it was his cousin who suggested and insisted that he marry into a wealthy businessman, she was still quite traumatized when she saw him getting married with another woman. She had just gotten pregnant but had a miscarriage and was so injured that she couldn't get pregnant again.
So when his cousin finally became pregnant with their child, Ren Zhihai felt the ecstasy of becoming a father for the first time and was full of expectations for the child.
During those ten months, he even lived in the study room under the pretext of being busy with work, but in fact he would sneak out every night to be with his beloved.
But he forgot that Mrs. Ren was also pregnant during that period, and because of her overreaction she couldn't eat or sleep, but she kept silent about it for fear of affecting his work.
But no one expected that just because Mrs. Ren was pregnant, the cousin would start to set her sights on the unborn child again.
She insisted that Ren Zhihai switch their children. When Ren Zhihai disagreed, she cried and complained about her miserable life, how she had no name or status, and how she had finally had a child after many years. This body might only have one child in this life, but she didn't expect that the only child had the same miserable life as her, how nameless and without status, and how it would be better for the mother and child to die together.
Ren Zhihai already felt guilty towards her, thinking that Madam Ren and the sons she gave birth to were enjoying all the glory brought by his official career, but his beloved woman and the children she gave birth to could only live like ants all their lives. Why?
So he agreed to his cousin's suggestion to switch the children.
In order to facilitate the implementation of their substitution plan, Ren Zhihai rushed back home on the day Mrs. Ren was about to give birth to play the role of a good and responsible husband. He was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling until Mrs. Ren successfully gave birth to a daughter.
The reason why he was happy was not because Mrs. Ren finally had a daughter, but because his cousin also gave birth to a daughter for him, which made it easier to exchange the two children.
That day, Mrs. Ren drank the water he brought to her mouth and fell asleep. That sleep was not just a short moment as she thought, but she slept for three days and three nights.
During these three days, Ren Zhihai continued to play the role of a good husband and a good father. He also used the excuse that Mrs. Ren was weak after giving birth and did not allow anyone to disturb her.
Even such a big event as his daughter's third birthday was refused by him on the grounds that he did not want his newborn daughter to lose too much blessings.
Anyone who sees this will sigh at his deep love for his wife and his great fondness for his new daughter.
The maidservant who had been bribed by him secretly took Mrs. Ren's daughter away to be raised by her cousin. However, Ren Zhihai himself could not have imagined that his cousin, who hated Mrs. Ren to the core, did not want to raise the daughter of her enemy and directly ordered someone to take the child away and drown her.
It was the maid who betrayed Madam Ren who still had a conscience and risked her life to rescue the baby girl.
"She stole my husband. I don't even have a respectable status. I have no choice but to give my child, who I gave birth to with great difficulty, to her to raise... She has already taken my husband and daughter away from me, and you want me to raise the daughter of my sworn enemy?"
"If that's the case, you might as well just take a knife and cut my heart out piece by piece. I will be spared from all this pain if I die."
Ren Zhihai was also quite angry after learning the truth, but his anger subsided after his cousin cried and complained. He held her in his arms and comforted her softly: "I know you have been wronged. Don't worry, I will love our daughter even more and make her the most beloved woman in this capital."
"When I achieve greater success in the future, I will definitely let you and your daughter stay with me openly, and I will definitely let Yuan kneel in front of you and serve you tea and water!"
At that time, he was just a minor official of the seventh rank in the Zhanshi Mansion. He was still struggling in the Zhanshi Mansion and still needed the financial support of the Yuan family.
He swore that once he became a high-ranking official in the court, he would return all the humiliation inflicted on him by the Yuan family and make up for all the grievances suffered by his cousin.
As for the daughter born to Yuan, let her be drowned. Who made her so unlucky to be born in Yuan's belly?
But the fact that the child was not drowned and was rescued by the maid would have caused endless troubles. Even if he had a little bit of soft heart, the child would have to die now.
Later, after Song Yunxi knew everything, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart: [Look at this cheap man who eats soft rice and does nothing, he is really a fighter among the garbage! ]
[Although the old emperor also eats Tong's soft rice, but at least he has a good attitude! He also knows that he has to sell his body to get the corresponding reward. Although he doesn't favor Tong Fei, he has never been harsh or deceiving. At least he has placed her in the harem and provided her with good care! ]
[The superior follows the example, why don’t the old emperor’s ministers learn the correct attitude of living off his wife? 】
Emperor Qinglong, who was criticized by her for selling his body and looks, was so angry that he rolled his eyes to the sky: Thank you for your compliment, but please don't compliment me again in the future!
Ren Zhihai and his cousin who was as close as a traitor would never have dreamed that the maid who seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth would reappear, and that their affairs and the child swap would be dug up.
Madam Ren's eyes were bloodshot: "Ren Zhihai, I will kill you!"
She never dreamed that the conspiracy began from the moment she went out to relax, and she never thought that everything about her was a conspiracy!