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Cheng Yumo was leaning on the bed. She was so skinny that her body was only skin and bones, and her pale face was tear-stained.
Ruan-shi also sat on the side of the bed, wiping her tears: “Mo’er, you and the Marquis are still young. There will always be opportunities in the future.”
This sentence poked into Cheng Yumo’s pain, and her already calm emotions were agitated again. These past two days, Cheng Yumo had cried too much. Grief and pain overwhelmed, and she seemed to have exhausted her tears. Her red eyes were so painful, almost as if she was going to be blind. Even now, she was wailing, but no tears came out.
Ruan-shi became even sadder seeing her daughter like this. She held Cheng Yumo’s hand tightly and said, “Mo’er, you can’t be like this. The Marquis didn’t mean to harm you. It must be the child’s fate for coming at such an untimely moment. No one knew that you had been one month pregnant, which is very tragic. Maybe the child is here to block catastrophe in your place. He is gone, and the catastrophe that was about to befall you has now been solved.”
“Mother.” Cheng Yumo clutched her chest tightly, as if she wanted to dig her heart out, “I know, but I cannot help but hate. My still unformed baby, gone just like that! I have been looking forward to him for one year!”
Ruan-shi cried again. Cheng Yumo let out another dry wail, still unable to shed a single tear. Her eyes were red and full of despair. She suddenly grabbed Ruan-shi’s hand. Caught off guard, Ruan-shi was startled: “Mo’er?”
“Mother, all is that wicked woman fault! I hate her!” Cheng Yumo grasped Ruan-shi’s hand violently. Her eyes were full of hatred, as if she couldn’t wait to devour her enemy. Ruan-shi looked both distressed and frightened. She hurriedly took her daughter’s hand and said, “Mo’er, mother knows that you feel bitter, but she is your mother-in-law. You can never say such things.”
It was precisely because Huo Xue-shi was Cheng Yumo’s mother-in-law that Huo Xue-shi could scold her openly when she failed to get pregnant. When Cheng Yumo was pregnant but unexpectedly miscarried, Huo Xue-shi scolded her again for losing the child. Cheng Yumo suddenly felt another cramp in her lower abdomen, and she couldn’t help bending down. Ruan-shi was frightened: “Mo’er, what’s wrong with you?”
Cheng Yumo clutched the bedding tightly. In just a few days, she had lost a lot of vitality because of the miscarriage, and she looked almost like a different person. Cheng Yumo opened her mouth, but was unable to cry. She could only hold her mother’s hand and repeated: “Mother, my child is gone, he is gone! But the wicked woman still refuses to give up, and she wants to give the Marquis a concubine!”
“My poor Mo’er!” Ruan-shi’s tears couldn’t stop falling. She hurriedly wiped her tears with a handkerchief. After quickly looking around, she leaned over and whispered to Cheng Yumo, “Mo’er, everything started from that vixen surnamed Su. She behaves timidly and speaks weakly, but who doesn’t know what she is thinking about? Mo’er, precisely because of her attitude that you cannot fall behind. If you become cold with the Marquis, isn’t it just what your mother-in-law and that surnamed Su want?”
When Cheng Yumo heard this, she was both sad and aggrieved. Obviously, she and Huo Changyuan were in love. Obviously, she was the one who had rescued Huo Changyuan in that snowy mountain. Obviously, she was Huo Changyuan’s first and only wife in this life. Why did things turn out like this?
“Mother, but Su-shi is Marquis’ maternal cousin, and she is backed by mother-in-law. I just lost a child and can’t even get out of bed. What should I do?”
Ruan-shi hugged Cheng Yumo distressedly. It was as if her heart was pierced by a knife, painful and bloody. Ruan-shi gritted her teeth, brought her lips near Cheng Yumo’s ear, and said in a low voice: “You can’t do anything to your mother-in-law, but there is still the Crown Princess.”
Cheng Yumo was shocked. Maybe Ruan-shi didn’t notice her daughter’s reaction, or maybe she didn’t care, but she continued: “You are Crown Princess’s younger sister. If Huo family doesn’t give you a face, it is equivalent to not giving the Crown Princess a face. Fortunately, the Mid-Autumn Festival is soon. We can tell your grievances to the Crown Princess after the banquet. Why should you fear that Huo Xue-shi?”
Cheng Yumo closed her eyes in despair. Seeing the lack of answer, Ruan-shi couldn’t help but urge: “Mo’er, mother is talking to you.”
Cheng Yumo paused for a long time. Her voice was as dry as sand: “…Okay.”
…
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, Cheng Yujin changed into the crown princess’ yanju formal dress and attended the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet with Empress Yang. Empress Yang wore the empress’ formal dress with a red juyi shirt inside, a bright yellow wide-sleeved blouse outside, and a red tasseled cape with gold embroidery on the outermost layer. Cheng Yujin’s attire was very similar to Empress Yang’s, except that she wore a blue juyi shirt, embroidered with Luan bird1 and auspicious cloud motif on the chest and back. Outside, she wore a red blouse, with sleeves wide enough to almost hang down to the ground. Her shoulders were draped with a dark blue tasseled cape, also embroidered with gold thread, very solemn and long enough that it almost touched the ground.
This kind of wide-sleeved blouse and long cape was very challenging to wear. If the wearer was not good enough, she would be overwhelmed by the attire’s grandness and look unpretentious. However, when such heavy attire was worn by Cheng Yujin, they looked elegant and grand. Different garments were layered on top of another, and from a distance, it looked as if she was wearing a stack of gorgeous clouds.
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12 comments on “GNU Ch 109 Part 1 – Miscarriage (I)”
Rachel Kim
Thank you for updating!!!!
Nea-er
Thanks for the chapter.
I don’t know how I feel about Yumo, she is yes a spoiled brat and wants to be the center of attention, but at the same time I think her husband and mother-in-law have gone way too far. I hope that she can change for the better with this wake up call.
I am looking forward to seeing how our MC is doing against the empress and dowager empress 😉
Tang PS
Since her hubby is not always in the house and also in those time, it is women’s world in the house whereas men is outside the house; poor Yumo is just one person against the MIL. Wonder why she jumps for it when she is rebirth first.
Sui Rei
Hopefully Yumo doesn’t drag down her sister while wallowing in self-pity and envy. Her situation is tragic but the difficulty level doesn’t compare to fighting off the Empress and Empress Dowager.
Avis
I think theres actually quite some contrasting irony here.
Initially it’s often believed that Yujin has the ability to please mother-in-laws but not the husband, and Yujin herself believes the importance of this. But in the end, the reason why she’s doing so well now is because she has the support of her husband in spite of her in-laws who hate her.
Whereas Yumo, whose personality was livelier and supposedly appealed to men more, doesn’t have the support of her husband and is this faring badly against her in-laws.
Anonymous
It’s a pity.. i really hope Yumo can atleast think ahead to live for herself instead getting crushed by her sister.
socialberry
Thanks for the update. I honestly do not care about Cheng Yumo’s side of the story. Although, she definitely does not deserve to lose her child in such a callous and insensitive way with no remorse from the husband and his crazy mother.
Ela
Thank you!
I don’t like Cheng Yumo but I think her mother in law is worse, I can’t believe they put the blame on her and doesnt even feel guilty or apologise
Anonymous
This story really show us the difference between two marriages and how yujin will be the winner because her abilities and her way of thinking
chinesefanreader
Oh author I really wanted to see how that scum husband tries to suck up for forgiveness but you skipped to days later🤦🏻♀️ And why doesn’t he stop his mother from abusing her after the loss😵💫!!! He’s a lost cause and deserves his non harmonious home🤨
Thanks for the chapter
ChengYumoIsn'tEvil
I take long breaks between reading these chapters, so I’mma be honest, I don’t really remember what Cheng Yumo might have done before. I know she’s jealous, but we need to remember that, for whatever reason, she believes Cheng Yujin maliciously stole her husband from her. This is enough to make her the MC of a different book. My point here is, I really really hope that all of this disturbing stuff isn’t the authors “Haha, now we get to see Yumo suffer in revenge,” arc or whatever. I want this to be a wake up call for Yujin to help her or for Yumo to live for herself or for her husband to realize how he’s wronged her and begin to love her faithfully. Otherwise, this is really disturbing. I know this is a revenge/”haha look where I am now” kinda novel, but this really doesn’t constitute mere revenge against a petty and jealous sister, this is just sickness.
tenshineko
When someone is delusional, I don’t agree that her belief that she was wronged is enough to make her actions legit. She has persistently blamed her sister for everything wrong in her life without even trying to be better herself. Her situation with the crappy MIL is unfortunately not uncommon at this time, but instead of learning to deal with it, she only leans on her husband and complains, which gets her a harsher treatment from MIL – partially because her husband sucks and she’s trying to force him to choose between his mom and her, but her relationship with him isn’t deep enough for that yet, he’s going to support his mom. It sounds like her original marriage with him also sucked and instead of reflecting that maybe it’s because his family was crap, she blamed that on her sister 🙄