Chapter 576 - 573: Won_1
If it weren’t for the Crown Prince’s favor, at worst she would be reprimanded and punished. But if she had the Crown Prince’s favor, who in the Dong family would dare to punish her and offend the Crown Prince? That’s why Dong Tingzhi dared to act so boldly.
As Madam Dong said, she did not have enough confidence in her beauty. If it were about beauty... that cousin from the Bai family, Princess of Zhen, Bai Qingyan, truly possessed stunning beauty. She didn’t think the Crown Prince was foolish enough not to see through her deliberate attempts to attract him. All she wanted was to send a signal to the Crown Prince that the Dong family had a girl willing to serve him.
But just as she stepped out of the Bajiao Pavilion, she was bound by Nanny Wang’s people and brought directly to Madam Dong. It seemed Madam Dong wouldn’t give her the chance to serve the Crown Prince.
She struggled and screamed, wanting to argue, to tell Madam Dong that sending her to the Crown Prince was a good thing for the Dong family.
But Madam Dong had no intention of removing the cloth from her mouth. She gazed sharply at the kneeling Dong Tingzhi. "Once, your grandfather said... the Bai family in Dadu treats its illegitimate children well, not allowing them to see their birth mothers from birth, raising them with the legitimate mother instead! My woman’s compassion was too weak to bear it, and it led your aunt to raise you into such a character."
Hearing her aunt being implicated, Dong Tingzhi’s eyes widened, and she kowtowed to Madam Dong for mercy.
Dong Tingzhi knew her aunt had cunningly entered Dong Mansion, using the connections of the third master of the Dong family, and was sent to her father by him. Thus, she and her mother were not favored in the Dong Mansion, and her aunt lived a very hard life. She had racked her brains many times to let her aunt live a better life.
"You’ve made many mistakes from childhood. Your grandmother has been lenient due to your youth. Now... I don’t want to waste my words teaching you any longer. From today... you and your aunt, one will go to the family temple for seclusion, and the other will live out her remaining years at Qing Temple." Madam Dong didn’t want to look at Dong Tingzhi anymore. She closed her eyes and waved her hand holding the Buddha beads. "Nanny Wang, take her away! Prepare the carriage immediately... send them to the family temple without delay."