"I was too young to fight back then, so those years were truly difficult. Your Majesty probably can't imagine it. I had both parents and siblings, yet my life was nothing short of hell."
Feng Yi deeply empathized when he heard this, because he had gone through the same thing.
"And then? What did you do?" Feng Yi had only ordered an investigation into Song Yunzhao's recent years. The events of her childhood were difficult to look into, so he hadn't.
"No one in my family celebrated my birthday. My sister did, and so did my brother, but I never did. When I was five, my wet nurse took my monthly allowance. I wanted to buy a nice treat for myself but had no money. I didn't want to keep starving and being bullied, so on my birthday, I deliberately sent my maid to invite my father for a meal. Your Majesty can imagine what happened next, can't you?"
