“If you don’t want to stay alive, I could help you,” Jun Hua said calmly. Her words are cold as ice, but her tone and expression didn’t change in the slightest. She’s dressed as Jun Min and in front of her is Concubine Sie.

Concubine Sie stared at the ‘young man’ before her. “How can you know that I’m planning to kill myself?”

“It’s easy,” Jun Hua said. Given that Concubine Sie always do anything for her daughter happiness to the point of enduring the harsh treatment with smile, she knows that Concubine Sie will do anything for her daughter. She knows that she might be used by Chun Maora to make Lin Yuan lives hard since the girl also loves her mother so she chooses a path to allow her daughter lives in happiness.

Jun Hua is not a mother (yet), but she remembers her own mother who will do anything for her too. She knows that her mother loves her very much and she will do anything to ensure her happiness. She had once experience all of it herself and hated herself for not able to safe her mother. She doesn’t want Lin Yuan to experience the same thing.

“Then, who’s the one who died on the fire?”

“A prisoner on death row,” Jun Hua answered.

Concubine Sie didn’t dare to ask how Jun Hua manages to take out a prisoner out. She kneeled on the ground.

“Thank you very much for saving my life.”

“I didn’t do it for you,” Jun Hua said. “I will send you to her husband residence as servants. Although that will be your status in front of other, they will certainly treat you well.”

Concubine Sie is shocked. “Do you know her husband family?”

Jun Hua nodded. They’re one of the officials whom her family has helped once. The relationship is not close, but they would certainly help on this matter as Concubine Sie is also the mother of the wife of their son.

“Thank you.”

Jun Hua nodded to Yamin and she sends Concubine Sie to the place where Lin Yuan stayed.

Jun Hua watches Concubine Sie who walks impatiently and she remembers her own mother. When she’s still a child, her mother will hold her gently and rock her to sleep. When she’s cold, her mother will hug her and share her warmth. Despite her mother hate towards her father, she still treats her fairly well all those years.

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Concubine Sie is similar in a way to her mother. Jun Hua can see that they’re mother who loves their daughter fully despite they come from the man they don’t like. She doesn’t know what Concubine Sie has experience all these years but she deserves a better live.

“Miss, it will be dark soon.”

“Yasha, why is it woman who always endured the most but they also the one who receive the littlest?” Jun Hua stares at the figure that has been away for a long time.

Yasha doesn’t know. He’s a man and his main job is guarding Jun Hua so he never thinks about this matter before.

Jun Hua looks at the sky. She was born as a woman but she has to live like a man all this years. Jun Hua sighed. Why should she think about this matter anyway? It’s better to return early. She might not be able to save her mother that year but she had helped another mother to live with their daughter. Somehow she feels her weight has been reduced.

…

“Mother…” Lin Yuan doesn’t know how to react. When she first heard the news that her mother had died, she was crying so much. She knows that her mother must have wished for her to have a good live so she cried.

But now that she found that her mother is still alive and well, she doesn’t know what she should say anymore. She’s really happy to see that her mother is still alive.

“Yuan’er, mother is fine. Don’t cry again, alright?” Concubine Sie hugs her daughter happily.

“Yes mother… Mom, please don’t do that anymore. Yuan’er doesn’t want mother to go again.”

“Mother won’t do it again. Mother promises you.”

Lin Yuan hugged her mother back. She’s happy to see her mother is fine. It is only later that she found out about the truth that Jun Min have helped her mother secretly. With her new identity, she doesn’t need to be worried with the abuse from Chun Maora anymore and could life her life happily.

Lin Yuan feels that she’s indebted deeply to Jun family especially Jun Hua and Jun Min. She doesn’t know the future but if it’s possible she wants to help them with everything she could.

…

“Have they met with each other?” Jun Hua didn’t turn her eyes away from her books as she asks to Yamin who slipped in.

“Yes.”

“That’s good. Tell Yasha to inform Chun family about their precious daughter. They deserve to know.”

“Yes Miss.”

Yamin disappears once more. Yasha is a man, so he’s not allowed to stay near Jun Hua rooms. At best he will protect the home where she stays.

“Xia, have you done with the book?” Jun Hua turned towards Xia who has been busy checking the income of that month. Since they’re staying at home, she wants to take a look but Xia is requesting to see it first. Jun Hua allowed it and waits for her patiently but it has been almost one whole day.

“Miss, the counting is hard and all.”

Jun Hua sighed as she took the book. She took a brush and circles every part where the counting didn’t match. It didn’t take her more than an hour to finish looking up at the entire book and she returned it back to Xia.

“Ask them why the counting is wrong and you do appropriate measure to solve it.”

Xia screened the book and she found out that her Miss is counting really quickly. She truly wonders what kind of mind her Miss had. Never mind, it’s better to give this book to the steward and asks him about it. If he cannot give satisfying answer then there will be some punishment ahead.