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As the rain fell in the clear sky, Third Prince walked on the stone road of Linhan Palace as he walked on the wet weeds. Not far away was a lonely grave, in which a beautiful woman was sleeping.

Third Prince had promised to give his mother a nice place to build a unique small palace. Thus, Lady Imperial Consort Mu became the only concubine in the palace to have two places to live. She had been in the limelight all this time, but she knew clearly behind the scenes that this palace was not built for her.

It was built for another woman. Some of the sights were taken care of by Third Prince himself. The woman was called Lin Yue. She married Grand Preceptor Mu 20 years ago.

Born in Jiangnan province, Lin Yue was a gentle and well-educated niece of the county magistrate. Her marrying Grand Preceptor Mu was the order of her parents, but after seeing Grand Preceptor Mu, Lin Yue fell in love with him.

In that masculine era, Grand Preceptor Mu was no exception to the many people fighting over him. When he was young, he caused a lot of trouble for Grand Preceptor Mu, and the emperor was one of them.

The emperor had promised Grand Preceptor Mu that if he was willing to enter the palace, the emperor would surely add him to the ranks, but Grand Preceptor Mu had tactfully refused. It wasn't that Long Yang was a bad person, but those people were not his people.

Lin Yue never thought of getting even a little bit of a position for herself. She only wished that she could live a peaceful life. Occasionally, when she saw Grand Preceptor Mu, she would feel satisfied.

Grand Preceptor Mu's side room was called Mu Wan'er, Imperial Consort Mu's sister, and later on, she married a woman. That woman never stepped out of the room, and even until the very end, the servants never saw her.

The woman was pregnant at the same time as Lin Yue and gave birth to a male baby almost at the same time. However, Grand Preceptor Mu went straight to the woman's side room and carried away the fearsome Mu Xueshi. Meanwhile, the other equally handsome and charming young master was secretly sent to the palace, becoming Imperial Consort Mu's sacrifice to fight for power.

After the woman who never went out of the room gave birth to Mu Xueshi, she died in the room. Thus, someone told her that she had once left the house because she was extremely ugly. Otherwise, she would not have given birth to such a corrupt son. However, there were also people who brazenly claimed that they had seen this woman before. She was beyond beautiful.

Mu Xueshi passed on his inheritance to Mu Wan'er. Two days later, Lin Yue mysteriously died, and the "daughter" she gave birth to was also passed on to Mu Wan'er. Ever since Mu Xueshi was born, he had always thought that Mu Wan'er was his own mother, and his own sister was the daughter of Imperial Consort Mu, Mu Yuan. As the flesh and blood of Mu Wan'er's elder sister, Mu Chuang was naturally taken care of. Mu Xueshi was ugly, and everyone in the mansion, including Mu Wan'er, treated him coldly.

Third Prince had lived in the palace since he was young. He had heard that the Emperor liked him from the first moment he saw him and had been doting on him ever since. It wasn't just because Third Prince was handsome, it was more because he was similar to Grand Preceptor Mu, whom the emperor had always admired.

However, Third Prince had never remembered these favors in his heart, or perhaps it was the will of heaven. Third Prince had remembered Lin Yue's appearance from the moment she was born. After a long time, only Lin Yue remained in Third Prince's heart.

At that time, the Linhan Palace had yet to be built, and that place was only an ordinary green grassland. Third Prince was a teenager. He always wanted to know what kind of world was outside the palace walls. He secretly dug out a small hole at the bottom of the palace wall. As time passed, the crack became bigger and bigger, until it became a small hole that he could squeeze out of.

It wasn't until Third Prince drilled out of the small hole that he found out that it was just a piece of moorland. Beside the small hole, a woman with a maimed body was kneeling on the ground. Her body was completely black. When she saw Third Prince, she quickly used her incomplete hands to crawl away. Third Prince recognized his own mother at a glance, so he chased after her with a sway of his small body.

That period of time was Third Prince's only happy memory. Although Lin Yue had been persecuted beyond recognition by Imperial Consort Mu, the smell and feeling of intimacy from her body was immediately discerned by Third Prince.

Back then, Lin Yue had been dragged into the wilderness by the orders of Imperial Consort Mu and Mu Wan'er. She had thought that Lin Yue had died and wanted to burn her bones to ashes. However, once the fire was ignited, a torrential downpour came. Imperial Consort Mu's subordinates were impatient, so they left without permission to avoid the rain.