His face turned livid as he pointed at the son he had always valued. "The evidence is irrefutable, yet you still dare to argue? Open your damn eyes and take a good, careful look! What exactly do you think all this is?"
After berating his eldest son, he turned to his legal wife. "And you—stop treating me like a fool and playing me for fun. You know exactly what happened back then."
"Like mother, like son. Yihan was absolutely right. Look at what you've done all these years, and look at the kind of son you've raised."
He had never expected both his sons to be ruined by her.
The more Marshal Chu thought about it, the angrier he became. He wished he could kick this wretched woman to death.
"If I'd known this would happen, I never should have married you."
"After marrying you, not a single one of my concubines in the household ever conceived. Only Yihan's mother, who was an outsider, happened to become pregnant before she even entered the residence. Otherwise, I might not even have this child."
Madam Chu had been kicked and cursed at until she was completely dazed. With reddened eyes, she stared blankly at her husband. "You... you suspect me?"
"I've followed you for over twenty years. In the early years, I traveled all over with you and never complained about hardship. I lived every day in fear and never once complained to you. Yet now, because of these baseless matters, you actually suspect and resent me?"
Marshal Chu would never believe her lies again. "Whether they're baseless matters or not, you know that best yourself."
Why was it that none of the four or five concubines in the household had ever conceived, while an outsider had gotten pregnant at the first