Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress

Chapter 724: Chapter 721: Punishment_1

“Later, Wen Juan transferred her affections… She deceived me by saying she wanted me to accompany her to clarify things with Fu Anze, but she set me up with him. I… had the intention to act according to circumstances, going along with her plan! I thought I was winning a good marriage for myself, fulfilling my wish to admire Fu Anze…”

Dong Tingfang choked up, starting to cry softly: “Who knew Wen Juan was so deceitful, entangling with others while telling Fu Anze that I was the one scheming against them, just to give herself a virtuous reputation! And that Fu Anze, appearing wise but actually blind-hearted, wholly believed Wen Juan, thinking I was a despicable concubine daughter trying to climb his family tree, ruining his marriage prospects, never seeing me favorably!”

In this marriage matter, as a mere concubine daughter, she originally didn’t match the legitimate eldest son of the Fu family. But because her father was the Minister of Judicial Review, and due to a familial connection with the Bai family in Dadu City, the Fu family reluctantly accepted her. Later, when Bai Qingyan was titled the Princess of Zhen, the Fu family finally found this marriage agreeable.

“Fu Anze’s mother, thinking that cousin was the Princess of Zhen… always wanted me to help arrange good futures for the Fu family’s eldest son’s children. I, Dong Tingfang, am just a concubine daughter of the Dong family. Besides, I am not as close to cousin as Tingzhen is, even if I were as close, I would not want to be manipulated like this by my mother-in-law! I feared even more that after marrying into the family… once the eldest son’s wife discovered I couldn’t secure futures for her children, my life would become hard! If Tingfang were to live this way all her life, I’d rather marry a farmer!”

Dong Tingfang spoke with heartfelt sincerity today. These words had been bottled up inside her. She couldn’t tell her tearful mother-in-law, nor her chastising father; naturally… not her authoritative stepmother either.

In fact, she knew… the life of concubine daughters in other households under their stepmothers’ watch might be even harder than under her mother, Mrs. Song!