Chapter 279 Green Light Cover

Chapter 279 Green Light Cover

The young man realized something was wrong, as did Madam Tong. She wasn't surprised by her lover's arrival; instead, after dismissing the servants with their various expressions, she asked him in astonishment why he had come to the Prince's mansion.

At this point, how could the young man not understand that he had indeed been tricked?

Logically, he should have left immediately to avoid being caught red-handed, but thinking of the contents of the note, the young man felt he had to give Tong a heads-up beforehand.

After hearing his few words, Tong felt a sudden dizziness.

She closed her eyes and almost fell over, but the young man, in a moment of panic, instinctively reached out and pulled her up.

Due to inertia, Tong's posture changed from leaning backward to lunging forward into the young man's arms.

Although the two only touched briefly before parting, the Prince of Nanyang, who had been deliberately lured there, still witnessed the scene of the two embracing and hugging.

The sudden appearance of a young, unfamiliar man in the inner quarters, coupled with his beloved concubine dismissing the servants and engaging in intimate acts with the stranger, made it impossible for the Prince of Nanyang to maintain his composure.

If it were any other concubine or maidservant, the Prince of Nanyang would have already had them and the stranger dragged out and tortured separately. But Tong's unborn child was his only hope for continuing the family line.

With a dark expression, the Prince of Nanyang pointed at the ashen-faced stranger and said, "Drag him away and torture him severely. I want to see this traitor confess the truth within two quarters of an hour."

Having already been greatly frightened by the young man's words, when she heard the Prince of Nanyang say that he would severely torture the young man, she, who already had a guilty conscience, rolled her eyes and fell backward again.

This time, however, the two maids she had previously sent away rushed over to support her.

However, for her, it was merely a matter of dying immediately or dying a little later.

Her lover was actually her cousin from her paternal aunt's family. The two had already begun discussing marriage before the old Princess of Nanyang intervened and offered her son a large sum of money to take a concubine.

However, because the Prince of Nanyang's mansion offered so much, her father sent her to the mansion without hesitation.

Originally, after entering the Prince's mansion, she had no intention of having any further involvement with her cousin. However, the Prince of Nanyang was impotent; she had been in the mansion for two years, but her belly remained flat.

Because the "master" clearly pointed out that she was destined to have many children, she always received slightly better treatment than the other concubines in the Nanyang Prince's Mansion, second only to the Nanyang Princess and the two secondary consorts.

Compared to her previous impoverished and arduous life, the past two years at the Prince of Nanyang's residence were like heavenly days for her.

As the saying goes, wealth and luxury can be dazzling. After enjoying the riches and extravagance of the Prince of Nanyang's mansion, how could Lady Tong be willing to stay until the end of her three-year term and then be sent back?

Putting aside her reputation at that time, and whether she would be gossiped about by her neighbors, she would absolutely not accept going back to her old, ordinary life.

As time passed day by day, she was still unable to conceive, and she finally came to the correct understanding of the Prince of Nanyang's "impotence".

In order to avoid being kicked out of the palace, she ultimately chose to take a risk and borrow a child from her former lover.

The young man still harbored feelings for her and had not yet proposed marriage. However, when her family made a slight suggestion, he readily agreed. As a result, Tong became the only concubine in the Prince of Nanyang's mansion to become pregnant.

If she hadn't become arrogant after gaining power, and even dared to covet the private property of the Princess of Nanyang, the Princess of Nanyang, who was certain that the Prince of Nanyang could not have children, would never have chosen to use someone else to expose her.

Compared to her and the child of unknown origin in her womb, Princess Nanyang disliked Xie Jingshu, who had always overshadowed her in terms of looks and family background when they were young, and Xie Jingshu and Prince Nanyang's child, Xie Wanniang, whom she had repeatedly targeted.

As long as it's not Xie Wanniang, she wouldn't mind at all abandoning the mother and keeping the child, raising a child who, although not the son of the Prince of Nanyang, could legally and reasonably inherit everything from the Prince of Nanyang's mansion.

Because as long as she registers this child under her name and treats him as the legitimate heir, she can rightfully become the old princess consort of the Nanyang Prince's Mansion. As for the cold-blooded and heartless Nanyang Prince and her mother-in-law who were so heartless when she got into trouble, they can just die.

As for the child's biological father, if he doesn't obey, then he and his biological mother can be eliminated together.

Even if the child's maternal grandparents were to act tactlessly, she could create an "accident" to send the whole family to the afterlife, so they could all cross the Bridge of Helplessness and drink Meng Po's soup together.

But now, because Tong is so arrogant, the Princess of Nanyang couldn't wait to make a move on her even before she gave birth.

Unlike the Prince of Nanyang and his wife, who still harbored illusions, the Princess of Nanyang was 100% certain that the Prince of Nanyang was infertile.

It wasn't that she was skilled in medicine and knew that the injuries the Prince of Nanyang had suffered were incurable; rather, many years ago, she had already bribed the Prince of Nanyang's preferred doctor to administer a fertility-inducing drug to him.

Unlike the Prince of Nanyang and the old Princess Consort, she didn't mind adopting children from the Yuan clan at all. On the contrary, she would never give any chance to those women who acted recklessly in front of her because of their youth and the high hopes placed on them to carry on the family line.

On the contrary, for the Princess Consort of Nanyang, it was a woman like Lady Tong who dared to borrow a child from someone else. The child in her womb was not the biological child of the Prince of Nanyang. It was like a pie falling from the sky.

Because this child, who is nominally the biological son of the Prince of Nanyang, will inevitably receive everything from the Prince of Nanyang and the old Princess. As the legal mother, as long as she acts as if the child is her own, she can smoothly register the child under her name after the child loses his birth mother.

There is a big difference in the titles that can be inherited between legitimate and illegitimate children. She believed that even if the Prince of Nanyang and the old Princess were only considering the title, they would agree to register the child in her name.

She knew very well that this child was not the biological son of the Prince of Nanyang. Therefore, she had a fatal weakness over this child. As long as she lived, this child would always have to be subservient to her and obey her every word. This was much more cost-effective than adopting other children.

But now, her wishful thinking is clearly not going to work out.

Although Tong was destined to "die unexpectedly" because her affair was exposed, she only slightly improved her situation and could not be considered to have achieved great success.