Farm Girl's Manor

At that time, Yun Zhao’s father had already firmly established himself as the Family Head. His career in the government was going nowhere, and he grew increasingly discontent with his wife. Ultimately, despite her having borne him a son and a daughter, he cruelly arranged for her to "succumb to illness" and remarried Mrs. Song.

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Mrs. Song was far from magnanimous. Noticing that her husband did not care much for the Yun Zhao Siblings, she harbored thoughts of rendering them useless. Her scheming escalated especially after she later became pregnant.

However, Yun Zhao had a Loyal Servant left by his mother who always reminded him. He was not led astray by those Mrs. Song had sent to corrupt him. Instead, thanks to his natural intelligence, he earned the affection of his teachers at the family school who taught him with even greater dedication. The Mu Family school was controlled entirely by the Mu Family, and Mrs. Song, even as the Lady of the House, could not reach into it.

Seeing how Yun Zhao grew ever more outstanding and how even her husband started to gradually set aside the grudge against Yun Zhao’s mother from the Yun Family, he began to take great interest in Yun Zhao. Mrs. Song could no longer stand idly by; she secretly sent someone to reveal the truth about the death of Yun Zhao’s birth mother in an attempt to sow discord between father and son.

Yet this attempt failed. At that time, Yun Zhao wanted to confront his father directly but was stopped by the Loyal Servant. After analyzing the pros and cons, Yun Zhao hid his hatred for his father deep within his heart and devoted himself more earnestly to his studies. He knew that only by standing out could he truly seek justice for his mother.

This only intensified Mrs. Song’s resentment. In order to secure the position of Family Head for her son, she took advantage of the Lantern Festival, when the Yun Zhao Siblings were admiring the lanterns, and secretly sent men posing as traffickers to kidnap and sell the siblings far away.

But she underestimated the loyalty of the Loyal Servant to the siblings. Eventually, at the cost of his own life, he rescued the two young masters from the hands of the traffickers. Before dying, he repeatedly warned them not to return to the Mu Family; as they were still young and helpless, they were no match for Mrs. Song, the Lady of the House.

So it was that Yun Zhao, harboring hatred for his father and stepmother, hid with his sister around the capital to avoid being discovered by the Mu Family or Mrs. Song’s people.