Transmigrated Genius: Fragile Heiress Reigns Supreme-Chapter 575 - 577: Strangers on the Road (Part 2)

"Impossible!" The Second Madam pressed her cracked lips together, her brows furrowed, eyes cold as a blade: "Call the Imperial Physician, I want to see the Imperial Physician!"

"Madam, Madam, please calm down, the Imperial Physician came early in the morning. You’re having a fever now; the Imperial Physician advised you to take good care of your health!" The young maid was full of fear, retreating several steps.

The Second Madam angrily shouted: "What kind of Imperial Physician did they call? My child was perfectly fine, how could he be gone, how could he be gone!" As she spoke, she pounded the bed with her fists: "Go and call Xiao Yanyi!"

The young maid dared not move.

"I told you to go, so go quickly!" The Second Madam scolded.

The young maid’s body trembled, shivering as she left the room, but she only stood in the main hall without going anywhere. Outside the door, Zijuan, holding her wound, asked, "Is the Second Madam awake?"

"Yes." The young maid nodded, looking at Zijuan: "Sister Zijuan, the Second Madam asked me to invite the Marquis, but..." But several hours have passed since the Second Madam fell unconscious, it’s almost dawn, and the Marquis has not visited. If I go to invite him now, it would surely be in vain, and I might even be reprimanded by the Marquis.

Zijuan furrowed her brows and said softly: "Just stay here, and report later that the Marquis is not in the residence."

The young maid’s eyes lit up, and she nodded: "Thank you, Sister Zijuan." At this moment, inside, the Second Madam seemed to hear the voices from outside, and harshly shouted: "Don’t think that just because I’ve lost my status, I have no power to deal with you. Even though I’m no longer the Second Madam of the Marquis Mansion, I am still the Commandery Princess of Great Zhou, and I have my ways to handle you."

Zijuan and the young maid exchanged a glance, the young maid shrank her shoulders and left the courtyard, running towards Lingbo Hall.

The Second Madam lay in bed dazedly, before her eyes, her child was running toward her with short legs, eyes red from crying, shouting: "Mother, mother... don’t you want me anymore?"

"No, it’s not like that!" The Second Madam shook her head, desperately shaking her head: "How could mother not want you, mother waits for you every day, misses you so much, how could she not want you."

The child continued to cry, becoming even more pitiful: "But mother abandoned me, I am so pitiful alone, it’s so cold... so hungry..."

"Child. My child!" The Second Madam held him, crying: "Mother will stay with you, always with you, never leaving you, just the two of us..." The small face broke into a smile through tears, nodding furiously: "Good, I want to be with mother forever!"

The Second Madam hugged him tightly: "Yes, yes, we will always be together, never apart!"

But in the next moment, the child suddenly dissipated like smoke, the anguished cries still echoed in the room, but she could not find the child. The Second Madam searched everywhere but couldn’t find him, she frantically pushed aside cabinets, threw the teacups and teapots on the table, searching the entire room for her child...

"It’s not that mother doesn’t want you, it’s not that mother doesn’t want you, it’s them, they are to blame, it’s all because of them, my son, don’t be afraid, mother is coming to accompany you, coming to accompany you!"

"Madam, Madam, the Marquis is here!"

In a daze, the Second Madam suddenly woke up from her dream, her eyes bloodshot, she screamed: "Child, child... Mother is here, don’t go!"

The young maid turned back, looking anxiously and uneasily at Xiao Yanyi, who nodded slightly to her, speaking coldly: "You can leave now!"

The young maid bowed and retreated.

The Second Madam was completely awake now, drenched in cold sweat, her hair stuck to her face, blotched and indistinct, only revealing a pair of eyes, staring icily at Xiao Yanyi.

Xiao Yanyi did not look at her, sitting opposite with an indifferent demeanor, showing no significant difference from before, but if observed carefully, one would find that the usual peace in his eyes was absent, replaced by a coldness akin to that of a stranger, no, even more indifferent than a stranger.

A chill that startled the Second Madam!

"Marquis!" The Second Madam reached out to Xiao Yanyi: "Marquis, our child... is gone." As she spoke, tears flowed again.

Xiao Yanyi’s gaze paused for a moment, a heavy pain flashing beneath his eyes, yet his face remained devoid of any emotion.

The Second Madam continued: "Marquis, I just dreamt of him, he looked a lot like the Marquis, clear and bright like the moon, with dimples at the corners of his mouth when he smiled, he nestled in my arms calling me mother..." Pausing with a sob, she said: "He blamed me, said I shouldn’t have abandoned him, said I was not good to him, Marquis... I feel so heartbroken, that was our child, the child you and I longed for so much."

Xiao Yanyi furrowed his brow, looking at the Second Madam: "It’s all in the past, let’s not mention it again!"

"No!" The Second Madam shook her head: "That was our child, how can we not mention it, Marquis, Marquis... you know, someone is framing me, they can’t bear to see me well, everything tonight was premeditated by someone..."

Xiao Yanyi said nothing, and the Second Madam hurriedly explained: "Marquis, think about it, Xing has been with us for over two years, if I had the intention to act, when wouldn’t I have done it, why wait until today, besides, if I were truly harming others, why would I harm my own child as well? Marquis, you must help me, clear my innocence, and avenge our child!"

"Don’t say anymore." Xiao Yanyi looked at her indifferently: "Whether you did something or not, you know it in your heart just as I know it in mine. I’m not here today to listen to you talk about this." He looked at the Second Madam: "I’m here, only out of consideration for the relationship we once had as husband and wife."

The Second Madam was greatly shaken, regardless of her physical pain, suddenly sat up straight, glaring at Xiao Yanyi, angrily asking: "What do you mean, Marquis?"

Xiao Yanyi waved his sleeve and stood up, coldly looking at the Second Madam: "You shall live here, always as my legitimate wife..." After speaking, he turned to leave.

The meaning of these words was clear to the Second Madam; living here, she would be his legitimate wife, and no one could shake that position, but from then on, she would receive nothing more beyond the title of legitimate wife!

The Second Madam’s heart suddenly grew cold, she threw off the covers, disregarded putting on shoes, rushed over and grabbed Xiao Yanyi’s sleeve: "Marquis, you can’t leave, you have to explain yourself, what does it mean to be your legitimate wife? I am still the legitimate mother of Xing, the mistress of the Marquis Mansion, the mother of our future children, and the daughter-in-law of mother... how can the Marquis say such things?"

Xiao Yanyi was compelled to stop, turning back to look at her, his eyes filled with nothing but disdain: "Chengning, why speak clearly of some things, just leave it be!" He was very tired and did not want to be entangled further.