The Noble Consort's Escape: Two Clever Little Treasures

In her previous life, she was a white-collar executive who rose to CEO and earned the nickname Iron Lady. Then she transmigrated and became a mother. They say women who transmigrate and become mothers all get a genius baby, but the child she raised turned out to be a little glutton and a poor student. Her son had an enormous appetite and could eat through an entire family’s savings in a day. Just keeping food on the table was enough to wear anyone out. Struggling to make ends meet, mother and son were abandoned in a shabby little courtyard in the countryside. Their life was quiet and simple, like a hidden paradise, and they were as carefree as immortals. Then one day, she stood up for someone in trouble and tried to rob the wrong carriage: the imperial carriage of His Majesty, traveling incognito. Inside the carriage, her thickheaded, vase-like son shouted on her behalf, “My mother’s here to kidnap someone!” Tears. Son, are you trying to give your mother away? At the time, he thought she was a female bandit, while her son thought he was a lecherous toad hoping to land a swan. He let her go only because he had a son of his own. He just never expected his son and hers to look almost exactly alike. The man narrowed his dangerous, dark eyes. “Why does your son look just like mine?” “My son is the little crown prince. Could yours be of imperial blood too?” “Is this some new scheme to climb the social ladder? A cloned crown prince!” She flared up. “Don’t flatter yourself. Even my son says you’re the toad dreaming of a swan. Wealth is precious, but freedom is worth more.” She was wrong, terribly wrong. The people all praised him as a benevolent and magnanimous ruler, but in her eyes he was a tyrant, cunning as a fox and skilled at cheating and swindling. First, his son tricked hers. One day, his son told hers, “At my house, you can eat all the flying creatures in the sky, the swimming creatures in the water, and even the peaches of immortality that the Queen Mother eats.” Her son: (ˉ﹃ˉ) Then the older one tricked her and her son. “Your son ate one of my family’s peaches of immortality. Each peach is worth a fortune, so the two of you will work in the palace to pay off the debt.” How long would they have to work? The man smiled like a spring breeze. “You think I’d let you escape after I’ve caught you?”