Reborn as the Crippled King's Beloved-Chapter 261 - The Real and Fake Zhuo Yinzhu

Chapter 261: Chapter 261 The Real and Fake Zhuo Yinzhu

Chapter 261 -261 The Real and Fake Zhuo Yinzhu

Zhuo Yinzhu was indeed a person of the Second Prince.

Earlier on, she mentioned another source of support to Miao Wuxie, which referred to the Second Prince.

When the Zhuo family met with disaster, the Second Prince saw everything, and he was also aware of the Third Prince’s infatuation with Zhuo Yinzhu. So he guessed that the Third Prince would probably send someone to rescue Zhuo Yinzhu, and he sent people as well.

It just so happened that a flash flood occurred, and Zhuo Yinzhu was swept away by the floodwaters. It was the Second Prince’s men who saved her.

He saved Zhuo Yinzhu not just to keep an eye on the Third Prince, but before that, he didn’t know that the Third Prince and Consort Jing Pin were the Emperor’s favorites. He simply wanted to manipulate events from behind the scenes, keeping everything under his control.

Unexpectedly, fortune is fickle, and hence, Zhuo Yinzhu became much more useful.

He used Zhuo Yinzhu’s hatred for Jun Yuyan to incite the Third Prince to move against Prince Ling’s Mansion.

Being able to invite Divine Doctor Miao and his son to the Capital City raised Zhuo Yinzhu’s standing in the eyes of the Second Prince because her own medical skills were mediocre at best, able to use some poison but far inferior to Murong Jiu’s exquisite medical skills.

But now, with the relationship with Divine Doctor Miao and his son, even though Zhuo Yinzhu was driven out by the Third Prince, he still had someone secretly settle her and Miao Wuxie properly.

Most importantly, Miao the Divine Healer, because Zhuo Yinzhu was his lifesaver and also his childhood sweetheart, had deeply rooted feelings for her. He not only stayed with the disfigured Zhuo Yinzhu, but also took meticulous care of her. Such a person was too easy to manipulate.

Miao Wuxie was skilled in both medicine and poison, which would be very useful in the future.

Thinking of this, the Second Prince ordered his men to send more silver coin to Miao Wuxie, allowing him to have money to buy medicine to treat Zhuo Yinzhu.

A secluded small courtyard.

Zhuo Yinzhu lay in bed with her eyes open, her heart as dead as ashes, her eyes still filled with a dense hatred that could not be dissipated.

She was ruined, her face was ruined, her whole life was ruined!

She had schemed for many years, just to climb the highest branch, and now even her most prized feature, her beauty, was completely destroyed!

Yes, she had been scheming for many years, from the moment she met the real Zhuo Yinzhu at the age of seven, she had been plotting.

She was not the real Zhuo Yinzhu.

She was merely a serving girl bought by an old landlord’s family, a girl meant to carry shoes and wash feet for the young lady of the house.

She grew up in a small mountain village with three older sisters above her and two younger brothers below. The family put all the food towards the two brothers, and she herself often went hungry, even her name was Zhaodi, far from being cherished by her parents.

With many mouths to feed and barely enough food for one meal, she and her three sisters were sent to a broker by their parents.

Her sisters were much older and their features more developed; an old madam happily took all three away with a smile for ten taels of silver each.

She was lucky, sold to a local Old Financier to be a maid.

But the little mistress was cruel and overweight, taking pleasure in riding on her back, making her kneel and toil like an animal.

Two years as a maid, one of her sisters was accidentally killed by a drunken patron, a very miserable death. Another became an Oiran, and the last one, it was said, had her freedom bought by a patron, but her whereabouts were unknown.

And she, at the age of seven, had met the real Zhuo Yinzhu, who was trafficked and ended up in the Old Financier’s house as a maid. She was smart, pretending to have amnesia, purposely starving herself to look thin and gaunt, thus avoiding the same terrible fate as her sisters.

Being a maid was, after all, better than being a prostitute, wasn’t it?

When she saw Zhuo Yinzhu, she could tell she was different, not like the people from their small area. She instinctively treated her well, took a beating from the young mistress for her, and hence became Zhuo Yinzhu’s best friend, the most trustworthy person.

And so she learned Zhuo Yinzhu’s secret, learning that she originally came from the distant Capital City, under the feet of the Son of Heaven, and that her father was a very high-ranking official, many times more powerful than the local County Lord. She said that when she grew older and had saved enough money, she would follow the escort agency back to Capital City, and if she wanted, she would take her along too.

She also said her parents were surely looking for her, and that perhaps they would find her before she had saved enough money.

Zhaodi, of course, wanted to go.

Who would want to be trampled underfoot like cattle by a fat young lady for the rest of their life?

When the young lady was reading with her tutor, Zhuo Yinzhu quietly taught her how to recognize and write characters.

She and Zhuo Yinzhu grew increasingly close, so much so that she knew how many people there were in her family, whom she was closest to in her family, and what books she had read.

Zhuo Yinzhu indeed was intelligent; it took her more than a year to travel from Capital City to Xiangxi, arriving at the old financier’s home when she was just over six years old, which meant she had been abducted at the age of five, yet remembered everything and even knew how to feign amnesia.

To Zhaodi, who treated her kindly later, she became like a sister.

Zhaodi originally never thought about replacing Zhuo Yinzhu. She didn’t have such lofty aspirations; all she did was enviously watch Zhuo Yinzhu fondle a small embroidered pouch in her hands, one that her mother had made for her, while her own mother did nothing but hit and scold her, and even snuck to the financier’s house on occasion to ask for money claiming her younger brother at home had grown thin from hunger.

She didn’t scheme for anything else, at most hoping that Zhuo Yinzhu would treat her better and teach her more characters.

Until, a year later, the old financier somehow offended someone—perhaps the bandits from the mountains—and one night they suddenly came in with knives, killing anyone they saw.

She knew of an abandoned cellar and dragged Zhuo Yinzhu there to hide; they hadn’t reached the spot when they were discovered. To save her own life, she pushed Zhuo Yinzhu into the path of the bandits’ knives.

Many years later, she still remembered the incredulous look on Zhuo Yinzhu’s face when she fell to the ground after being struck by the knife.

She managed to escape, hiding in the cellar until the commotion outside ceased. Climbing out cautiously, she searched Zhuo Yinzhu’s body and found that embroidered pouch.

Next, she found the silver and jewelry that the young lady had hidden away and that the bandits had not yet stolen. Then, she set the financier’s house ablaze.

After that, she was known as Zhuo Yinzhu.

At that time, she was just eight years old.

Luck was on her side; after escaping, she met Miao Wuxie who was saving youngsters during his own youthful days, and she replaced Murong Jiu, becoming Miao Wuxie’s lifesaver, residing in the Miao Family, and learning medicine and poison techniques under Divine Doctor Miao.

She originally thought she would go to the Zhuo family in Capital City to claim her identity as their daughter after she had finished her studies, but the Zhuo family found her just two years later.

Since then, she indeed lived a life of luxury, constantly surrounded by servants.

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But the Zhuo family, thinking her less pure due to her disappearance, feared her influence on the reputation of the other sisters in the family, making it harder for them to select outstanding husbands—especially since her elder sister Zhuo Jinzhu had an excellent reputation and might become a Princess Consort. Thus, they restricted her, rarely allowing her to leave the Zhuo family’s doors.

If the Zhuo family did not wish to find her a suitable husband, then she would find one herself.

She fell in love with Jun Yuyan at first sight when he returned in triumph. Such a handsome War God stirred many a heart.

She planned for days, specifically using fragrant honey to attract butterflies on Imperial Hunt Day, all to draw Jun Yuyan’s attention; however, she ended up attracting the less favored Third Prince instead.

She despised the Third Prince, setting her heart on marrying Jun Yuyan, but Jun Yuyan never spared her a glance.

Seeing her father intending to marry her off to the Third Prince, she hatched a wicked plan to force the issue by presenting a fait accompli.

But her plan backfired; she underestimated Jun Yuyan’s fury, causing the entire Zhuo family’s downfall!