Chapter 291 - 289: _1
Bai Qingyan did not refuse. After thanking the Eldest Princess on behalf of Ji Tingyu, she left the elegant courtyard behind the Royal Qing Temple with Bai Jinzhi.
Nanny Jiang escorted Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinzhi to the carriage, her eyes red, trying to speak several times but unable to find the right words.
Through the curtain hanging down in the green-encircled carriage, Nanny Jiang said, "Nanny knows that Eldest Young Lady is a sensible and understanding child. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have rushed to the southern border during Jin Kingdom’s crisis to relieve Jin Kingdom’s plight! But why can’t Eldest Young Lady understand her grandmother, the Eldest Princess? The Eldest Princess has cherished you dearly! She lost her husband, sons, and grandsons. The Eldest Princess is the one suffering the most!"
Rushing to the southern border, Bai Qingyan’s motive was never for the Jin Imperial Family but for the very survival of the Bai family and the pitiable border people. But such words... she could no longer tell her grandmother the truth.
Every time she thought of her grandmother, the Eldest Princess, her heart was filled with mixed emotions, hard to bear.
She knew and understood the Eldest Princess, but as a granddaughter raised personally by the Eldest Princess, sharing deep family bonds... she could not forgive her grandmother.
Bai Jinzhi turned to look at her elder sister, whose eyes were red but face remained calm, and softly called out, "Elder Sister..."
Bai Jinzhi did not understand why her elder sister did not tell their grandmother the news that their two elder brothers were still alive. If their grandmother knew... it might ease her pain.
But... Elder Sister always had her reasons for doing things, and Bai Jinzhi deeply trusted her.
"Perhaps it is because I once put all my trust and reliance on Grandmother, believing she was the most dependable person in this world, convinced she would never forsake the deep family bonds that should tie us! But Grandmother... she is first the Eldest Princess of Jin Kingdom, and only then our grandmother! Rather than believing in the deep family bonds and letting them be worn away by suspicion and calculation, turning us into ugly adversaries, it is better to cut ties swiftly."