Han Jing ran a few steps before suddenly remembering that the person Lianwu mentioned shouldn’t be Xia Ji.

If it were Xia Ji, Lianwu wouldn’t be her match either. If she really came, Lianwu wouldn’t be able to detect her.

Han Jing suddenly let out a sigh of relief, as long as it wasn’t Xia Ji, it was all good.

Han Jing guessed correctly. The woman who eavesdropped outside and then entered the room wasn’t Xia Ji, but rather Han Litong.

She didn’t come to Nanyao Country today, but half a month ago.

After seeing Han Jing, she couldn’t let it go for a long time. She thought she might have really been wrong, but she didn’t know where she went wrong, or why things ended up that way. In the end, her two daughters, one blamed her, the other... did Han Jing hate her? She didn’t know. She thought, Han Jing probably didn’t care about her. Yes, in Han Jing’s eyes, she was like a joke, and she never took her seriously at all.

She locked herself up and thought for a long, long time. Finally, she suddenly remembered Han Jing saying she only had one mother, thanking her for abandoning her so she could meet her real mother.

She suddenly really wanted to know what kind of person she was talking about.

She had heard of Su Yaogeng’s great name. To say the least, she and Su Yaogeng were around the same age. They’d never met, but being princesses of their respective countries, and both being the most favored, they had always heard some stories about each other.

When she was still in the boudoir, she had heard that the Nanyao Country Princess Su Yaogeng was a remarkable woman who later assisted her brother to ascend the throne, becoming the most esteemed woman in all of Nanyao Country.

She had once envied her, envied her good fortune.

And she could only shoulder the responsibility to marry into Dong Qin Country for alliances.

Though both were princesses of their respective countries, she wasn’t as carefree and unruly as Su Yaogeng.

She wanted to meet Su Yaogeng, wanted to know what kind of person she really was.

She frequently lingered in Nanyao Country for half a month and also gathered many rumors about Su Yaogeng in the Capital City. How she broke up with her childhood sweetheart and turned around to marry his younger brother, causing discord between the brothers and unrest between the two families. Years later, she almost caused the Duke Wei and his wife to divorce, leaving the old lady of Duke Wei fuming with anger. How she caused her own husband, Marquis Qing’an, to leave home and not return for years.

No matter how you hear it, she seemed like a troublemaker.

But she also had another side. She had a daughter who was so pampered that her beauty was notorious despite her ugly appearance from a young age, and she was the little tyrant of the Capital City. Borrowing the name of the Eldest Princess, she acted as she pleased with no one daring to provoke her, not even the Supreme Emperor who repeatedly backed up Princess Chenyu. She even ignored the gossip of the world and, after Princess Chenyu called off her engagement with Prince Ling, married Han Jing, who had lost her purity, to the most handsome man in Nanyao Country, Prince Yu Su Yu, much to the envy of all the women in the Capital City.

Su Yaogeng treated Han Jing with unparalleled kindness, and the world was divided on their opinions of her, with many unable to understand her deep love for this adopted daughter.

Han Litong also couldn’t believe it. She couldn’t believe how good a foster mother would be to Han Jing.

Until she accidentally saw Han Jing bring Xiao Xue back to the Princess Mansion.

She secretly stood outside the window, watching Han Jing cling to Su Yaogeng’s arm like a small child, acting spoiled, seeing them interact more like sisters or friends rather than mother and daughter. In truth, she couldn’t describe what it was like because it had never appeared in her life. She had never even imagined that such intimate feelings could exist between people.