After Three Years as a Slave, the Entire Household Wept and Begged Me to Forgive Them

Su Yunshu had been cherished like a precious jewel since childhood, but everything changed after Zheng Mingwei entered the household.

For the sake of someone else’s daughter, her own father and brother tormented her until she was barely human.

They let her be falsely accused, then sent her straight to the palace as a servant, where she spent three whole years scrubbing chamber pots.

Her own brother paid a great deal of money and specifically instructed people to “take good care” of her.

The hands that once held a writing brush were covered in chilblains from washing chamber pots through the winter.

The pride she had cultivated through years of reading had long since been crushed by the nobles’ mistreatment in the palace. She had lost her backbone so completely that she would even kneel before a eunuch with a little real power.

At last, when she was allowed to leave the palace, Su Yunshu endured the pain and crawled all the way home on her knees, bowing her head to the ground with every step, just so she could fulfill her duty to her mother.

But she discovered that her mother had died two years earlier, and Zheng Mingwei’s mother was now the lady of the household.

Looking at the contemptuous expressions on her father and brother’s faces, Su Yunshu turned and walked straight into the Eastern Palace.

Because that was the only place where someone would stroke her head and tell her...