Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio

After they returned to the castle, He Xiyan carried Yuan Yuan into her own room and locked the door tightly. She set the password locked from the inside and locked the door.

Ye Hao lingered outside for a while and tried several passwords but to no avail.

He knocked hard on the door and shouted, “Yan Yan, open the door. Don’t give Yuan Yuan a fright.” Ye Hao was extremely anxious and he couldn’t understand what she was thinking at the moment. Her actions were beyond his expectations. He had assumed that she would cry or kick up a fuss, but he hadn’t expected her to behave so strangely.

There was no response, no matter how hard he yelled for her to open the door.

Xia Jingshu asked the driver to send her over from Qin Garden. She had heard about the verdict and knew that her daughter-in-law had fainted after that, and insisted on being discharged and was now home.

“Where’s Yan Yan?” Xia Jingshu asked Ye Hao when she arrived at the castle. She frowned when she saw how distressed he was and also started to worry for Yan Yan.

“She has locked herself up together with Yuan Yuan in the room,” he said as he looked at his mother, the worry and anxiety he felt were clearly reflected in his eyes. He went to knock at the door again but still didn’t receive any response.

In the bedroom, He Xiyan led Yuan Yuan to the windowsill. She didn’t speak as she stared out at the floating snowflakes that fell like downy feathers in despair. These snowflakes pierced through her heart like ice shards and robbed it of all warmth.

No one helped her!

This was her first thought when she entered the court today. The cold and unfeeling judges and relatives of the Mo family, her smug ex-mother-in-law and ex-husband, her lawyer who deliberately failed to put up a proper defence, her husband with his look of resignation – all these people seemed to look like her like she was a joke. They were all in cahoots but she was all alone. No one cared about what she felt, and no one wanted her to win the custody. They were all acting a scene from a play and she was the only tragic character in that particular play.

Yan Yan put her hand over her heart and waves of intense pain rolled through all. She was all too familiar with this feeling since she had felt exactly the same when she was abandoned by the Mo family and everyone ignored her and showed no concern for her.

From the beginning to the end, she had always been alone.

She had no status in the Ye family! Her title might seem glamorous and everyone called her Mrs. Ye, but no one in the Ye family truly accepted her nor Yuan Yuan. No one from the Ye family was willing to show up at court today, not even her father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Yuan Yuan looked up at his mother and bit his lips tightly. He suddenly wrapped his arms around his mother’s legs and wormed his way to stand in front of her when he saw how quiet she was.

“Ma ma…” he said, and there was a childish cuteness in his sweet voice.

He Xiyan’s heart clenched when she heard her child’s voice, and she looked away from the windowsill to look down at Yuan Yuan. This child was as important to her as her life, and this child’s arrival in her life had brought her hope and joy.

She picked the child up and held him tightly in her arms as though she never wanted to let go.

“Yuan Yuan, I’ll never let you go. Never,” He Xiyan muttered to herself and her eyes that had been looking up blankly earlier were now filled with determination, and tears brimmed in her eyes once more.

Yuan Yuan didn’t really understand what she was saying but he nodded his head hard, then kissed her cheek.