Chapter 389 - Who Does the Loyalty of the Previous Secret Guards Belong To? (1/2)

She heard matters regarding her mother before her marriage. She was anxious and frightened, with no idea how to handle the issue by herself. Furthermore, Mother had made a vicious vow on her life to Nanny Ming to prevent her from exposing this secret and to only answer when asked. She felt shamed by that her mother was so harsh and cruel to her.

Mo Xuetong didn’t want to admit it but she had to admit that she did not know how to deal with it when she first obtained the knowledge.

She merely wanted to suppress all the information in her heart and drown everything with her, as ignorant as she was like in her previous life. Since Mother hoped that for her, there was no need for her to search for the truth. Even if she did find it, the so-called magnificent scene of King Jin’s Manor was history too long ago for her.

It was so long ago that she completely could not remember the blood kins.h.i.+p and the vendetta she had with them!

Fighting for the throne was a game of battling royal. Without the initial defeat which turned into an underground movement with lesser forces and an unsuitable leaders.h.i.+p, the chances of success became almost nonexistent!

Since Mother made a vicious vow with her daughter’s life, she did not want her to be involved at all!

As a weak woman, she had no power to usurp the throne, and it would be pointless to overthrow the rule of Emperor Zongwen.

She was merely a little girl who died so miserably in her previous life, where no one lent a helping hand to save her from the abyss of suffering…

Thinking about this, sadness rose in her heart as her nose turned sore. Speechless, she felt that tears filled her eyes as she bit her lips to suppress the pain in her heart.

Feeling that the woman in his arms was stiff and quiet, Feng Yuran thought that there was something wrong with her and hence dropped his pretense of anger. He rushed to lift up her lower jaw and see her teary eyes, comforting her. “Tong’er was referring to the secret guards. OK, I know about it now and I’ll forgive you for now. But this is the only exception.”Read more at L isnovel

Forgiving her now meant that he would still want to settle accounts with her!

Mo Xuetong pursed her lips and thought about it depressingly. However, she did not argue further, choosing to lean further in his arms, asking depressingly, “How did you know?”

She wasn’t suspecting the power of Feng Yuran as she had long known that Feng Yuran was not the useless king in the eyes of others who only knew how to find prost.i.tutes. If there was a ranking for disguise, no one in the imperial city could match up to him. To complete his provocative image, he housed a large number of concubines in his manor.

She had only confirmed the existence of the secret guards today.

Before that, even though she had many guesses, she could not confirm her suspicions. How could he be so accurate to scare them in the bodyguard agency and to wait for her in Xiuning Workshop? This was obviously deliberately planned, and not a temporary measure.

Of course, she did not fully believe in what Shopkeeper Xing said. Out of the 100 secret guards, there was only one Shopkeeper Xing in Xiuning Workshop, with the rest all being women. Even though there could be women in secret guards, they should not form the majority. There were at most 30 to 40 individuals in the bodyguard agencies, which was not a sizable number in the imperial city. Where was the rest of them?

Mo Xuetong would not forget the unrestrained habit of Shopkeeper Xing, which showed that he did not tell her the complete truth of the matter. Perhaps he was waiting for the jade token from her mother, but anyway, none of that led Mo Xuetong to believe in the loyalty of these men. Loyalty was dependent on power, and her position as King Xuan’s Consort meant that she did not have the power that they respected, and hence they were still waiting.

“I had a few suspicions before, but I did not know where. At first, I thought they were in Cloud City… before I realized that it’s not the case. I then turned around and suspected this bodyguard agency. A bodyguard agency works in Jianghu and it was of no surprise that the people there would know martial arts. The strange thing was the reason why they had this agency at such a prosperous location. Unlike other businesses, a bodyguard agency needs not to have a shop in the busy streets.” Feng Yuran hugged her and pulled her dropping sleeves up, explaining causally.

As if he did not see her conflicted eyes, he patted her back.

“You suspected it long ago? Not just today?” Mo Xuetong laid in his arms, feeling his gentle touch and closed her eyes comfortably before asking coyly.

“A little bit today as well. Mo Lan was worried about you. She heard that those abducting you ran in this direction and remembered your matters, hence she ran and told me everything. Having all the lines connected made me understand the whole process. Tong’er, do you need these men?” Feng Yuran explained. Even though the last sentence seemed casual, Mo Xuetong could still see the nervousness and anger hidden in his eyes.

“I don’t want their protection. When I was in Cloud city, not a single one came to help me. They didn’t even come around when Mother was poisoned.” Mo Xuetong knew what he was worried about and bit her lips to give a response. Not only did those things happen, in her previous life, they never helped her even till her death, making it difficult for her to feel close to them.

For the last order of their master, they waited for thirty years, showing their loyalty. However, this loyalty was for King Jin or their little master who could realize the last wish of King Jin. A useless woman like her or her mother was long abandoned in their mindset. The legacies in their hearts were completely unaligned with the women in boudoirs.

Mo Xuetong did care about her mother forcing Nanny Ming to swore using her life, but she now felt that her mother was both pitiful and cruel. To not continue the hatred, or to obtain a better life for herself, she would rather have Nanny Ming bury everything from then on.

She had no power to solve anything. Hence, she let herself go naturally when she became aware that she was poisoned by the concubines. She was powerless!

Mo Xuetong did not believe that these secret guards would be completely unaware of the powerless behavior of her mother. However, they merely looked at the struggle of this weak lady, who sacrificed her life for the peace in Mo Manor…

They said that they would only see her if she avenged her mother. When King Jin’s consort escaped with her mother, these secret guards must be by their side. She only left that order to prevent her mother from dying without justice. If not for her exposure of Auntie Fang, the secret guards would not recognize her as their master!