TFDC Chapter 15.1

Chapter 15.1 - Glutton for punishment

Behind her, second madam Ruan Zhen, who is Lou Lianxin’s birth mother, strangely looked at her husband.

Why did he suddenly stop talking?

She stopped embracing Lou Lianxin and walked forward two steps, stepping past Lou Qufeng’s tall figure to see the Lou Qingwu who had been blocked by him.

But only seeing her for a second made her heart gulp, suddenly filling up with resentment and jealousy.

No wonder, no wonder!

No wonder laoye suddenly became strange, damn that woman, even though she’s gone, she can still affect laoye like this? Vile!

Those who came to watch the show, third madam Xia Zhuling and fourth madam Chi Mei’er also saw and looked at each other.

Unable to restrain from smiling, there really was going to be a good show today!

When they came to the residence, the eldest madam was already ill for a long time so they never saw her in person.

But in laoye’s office, there was a painting hung on the wall which they had all seen.

Laoye’s heart had a place that even the most doted on second madam couldn’t touch.

Second madam normally depended on that doting affection to bully them so who knows how she was feeling at this time!

Lou Qufeng’s reaction was within what Lou Qingwu was expecting but unexpectedly, Lou Qingwu acted as if she didn’t see Lou Qufeng’s anger, her tone still calm, “Father, why are you so angry? The moment you stepped into Leaning Wind Pavilion, you were already yelling at your daughter. But your daughter just wanted to ask exactly what did I do to make you so angry?”

Lou Qingwu’s voice made him return to his original expression, his face changing subtly.

But he already wasn’t so angry, his chest moving up and down a bit to finally calm down, “Look at what you’ve done!”

Lou Qingwu followed his line of sight to see Lou Lianxin, who at this time was covering her face and crying to the point where her eyes were both red.

She looked gentle, pitiful and weak, her eyes still had tears hanging on them.

If she hadn’t previously witnessed how vicious she could be, Lou Qingwu really could be easily duped by her.

Emotionlessly, she watched Lou Lianxin remove her face, revealing a clear hand print.

Lou Qingwu’s pupils tightened but as she looked closely, her eyes slowly narrowed. Her little sister really was asking for death.

Changing her expression to be surprised whilst caring and gentle, “Ah, what happened to little sister’s face?”

“Big sister, you …” Lou Lianxin’s eyes became even redder, crying softly.

“Even though I know that I wronged you in the past, I was young and ignorant. But I’ve already apologised to big sister. It’s already been three years, so shouldn’t big sister stop being so angry at me? Even though you can hit Lian’er normally, tonight is the emperor’s birthday and the empress gave an edict for Lian’er to attend.

How could you let … let Lian’er see people like this? Big sister, even though you destroyed Lian’er’s reputation in front of everyone as a way to retaliate for what I did back then, I only retaliated with a few words. Then big sister … you actually …"

"Wuwuwuw, mother, your daughter won’t go out and make you lose face!”

Hearing this, Lou Qufeng became angry again, “Qingwu, you were too much this time!”

“I was too much?” Lou Qingwu coldly laughed.

She stood there as she calmly spoke, “Father, whilst you were rebuking me, why don’t you go out to the tea rooms and see exactly how I spoke about that year’s events. Or was it little sister who accidentally spilled it out? All you have to do is ask to find out.”

She spoke and then continued to stand calmly, letting people somehow feel cold.

“Oh, I nearly forgot, little sister only accidentally spilled it out because she thought that I was trying to seduce General Li. Back then, General Li was there too so why don’t we all go visit the Li residence? En?”

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TL note:

Lian’er - cute way of Lou Lianxin to call herself, makes her more approachable and cute

‘Laoye’ just means ‘old gentleman’ in a really respectful manner. There’s no way the madams would call him ‘him’, they always refer to him as ‘laoye’ because of his rank as the head of the house and how they have to depend on him for their livelihoods.

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