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Commoners always harbor curiosity, envy, and admiration towards the royal family, and Qian Yixiu was no exception. In her previous life, she would pay attention to any news about Prince Charles, Prince William, Princess Kate... even the short-lived Princess Diana.
She believed that many, many people felt the same as she did.
However, when she delved deeper into her thoughts, the excitement was replaced by an inexplicable fear. This was not the great whatever country of her previous life; the palace struggles, battles for inheritance, and fights for position here in history were the bloodiest and most cruel.
Although she didn’t think that her mother was necessarily a victim of palace intrigue, she couldn’t completely rule out this possibility. To think that someone with such an adornment was reduced to wandering the countryside as an imbecile showed how powerful that enemy must have been and how dangerous her mother’s previous situation was.
The Qian family was a bona fide farming family; without help, a mere county magistrate could have annihilated them. If those who persecuted her mother found out, death was the only outcome.
In view of this, to protect her own and her mother’s lives, she must never reveal their noble lineage. Although it gave the somewhat vain Qian Yixiu a sense of walking in brocade at night, the safety of life and family was of the utmost importance.
She then settled on her next step of the plan, to hide her beautiful mother deeper and deeper, even deeper, much deeper.
Furthermore, she needed to make a fortune in silence, become a big landlord or a wealthy tycoon of sorts, find a backer with financial and influential power to protect her mother from the wicked, and prevent outsiders from discovering...
It wasn’t until the roosters in the courtyard began to crow that Qian Yixiu finally fell into a deep sleep.