Chapter 28

Qin Xiyi had long known her mother was no ordinary Empress.

Empress Zhang, before her marriage, had been a female general and the leader of the Butterflies, a long-lost secret service organization of the Zhao Kingdom.

Before her mother died, she had disbanded all her brothers and the entire organization.

Only this sword remained. The Butterfly members scattered across the country recognized the sword, not the person.

Qin Xiyi, gripping the sword, rushed out of the bedroom and was stopped in the main hall by the old wet nurse.

Tears welled up in the old wet nurse’s eyes.

Qin Xiyi’s eyes reddened, “Wet Nurse Du, please don’t stop me. Your daughter, Du Xiang, was killed by them. You were my mother’s wet nurse, you understood her. But you don’t understand me.”

“My mother thought I would be happy as long as I was safe.”

“My mother believed that as long as there was no revenge, the people of the world would be safe and sound. But look, are the common people of the entire Zhao Kingdom living well?”

“Wet Nurse, you can’t stop me. I want the people I care about to live.”

That day, an old man who had been hiding in Qin Xiyi’s mansion knelt down and told Qin Xiyi a truth.

The current Emperor Qin Yue was not Qin Xiyi’s biological father, but her uncle.

He was originally a prince. He had killed the princess’s biological father, his own elder brother, and then occupied Qin Xiyi’s mother.

At that time, her mother was already pregnant. Qin Yue ascended the throne and crowned Empress Zhang. Later, the imperial physicians discovered it was a girl. Empress Zhang endured humiliation and schemed several times, only then did she ensure Qin Xiyi’s safe birth.

Consort Liu, Qin Luo’s birth mother, had secretly drugged the already frail Empress Zhang.

The Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and all the elders of the royal family knew Qin Xiyi’s true identity, which was why this princess, not born to the Emperor, was treated with such coldness.

Qin Xiyi listened quietly, tears no longer flowing from her eyes.

The people she called family every day were all her enemies.

Wet Nurse Du shakily stood up, “Princess, the old servant speaks these words today to tell you. Your mother, the virtuous Empress of our Great Zhao, did not want you to endure forever. She left this sword to tell you, use it when you must.”

“My princess, go. Your mother also donned armor and went to battle back then. You look just like your mother. You can do it too. Thirty years have passed, go and see the wealth your mother left for you.”