The Mute Servant Remarries with Her Child, and the Cold, Powerful Official Is Driven Mad with Regret

[Rekindled Romance + Ex Gets His Comeuppance + She Runs Away Pregnant + The Untouchable Falls into Bed for Love] Su Jian Yue faked her death and returned six years later. The man she had once served in bed was now her husband's elder brother. She thought he would recognize her. She waited all night, but when her husband introduced her to him, the elegant and dignified Chancellor Pei frowned. “She's coarse in her manners and vulgar in appearance. If she enters the household, she'll need strict discipline.” Su Jian Yue smiled, shielding her son, who bore a seven-out-of-ten resemblance to Pei Jingjue, and sweetly said yes. Later, Chancellor Pei heard that Rendong, the maid who had shared his bed and whom he had spent years searching for, had died. In a fit of rage over the woman he loved, he slaughtered more than a hundred people. Su Jian Yue watched from the sidelines and commented indifferently, “Oh.”

No one knew that Su Jian Yue was from Gusu, and that her original name was Rendong.

Pei Jingjue had always hated women with alluring figures, such as his younger brother's wife, Madam Su, and the mute slave Rendong who had once shared his bed. He treated Rendong very well. When people bullied her for having a birthmark, he kept her close at all times. Though a poison had robbed her of her voice, he never demanded that she moan more during sex. He had planned to earn military merit and then seek permission to marry her as a concubine. But when he returned to the capital in triumph, all he received was a farewell letter: “My heart belongs to another. We will never meet again.” Pei Jingjue remembered it for years, until one day his cousin, who had come to stay with him, won the favor of a princess and wanted to divorce his first wife. Pei Jingjue happened to overhear a deal.

“You may divorce her, but the child must still be registered under your name. You must not let Pei Jingjue discover that Yunli is his son.”

After that day, Chancellor Pei, whose heart had been frozen for years, changed. He knocked on his younger brother's wife's door every day, calling softly, “Rendong, it's me. I'm your husband's brother.”