TFDC Chapter 39.2

Chapter 39.2 - The reason for rejecting marriage

2nd sponsored chapter from Giacomo A, 2 more to go in a few hours + maybe bonus chapter if I'm fast ♡♡♡

The rumours back then said that Mu Yunqing had rejected their offer for marriage.

Then, what reason made him change his mind?

There’s no way that he fell in love with Li Xiangluan in just a few short days, so if it wasn’t that …

“Thousand Face, go towards Jiangyin county and investigate if Mu Yunqing had any family back when he was the top scholar around six years ago?”

To let a man actually reject a prime minister’s offer for marriage would mean that he either had a wife or he had someone in mind that he wanted to marry.

Thousand Face Lord seemed to have also thought of the same possibility because his eyes brightened, “Yes, I’ll go investigate now!”

As long as they found a single thread, then that would be an opening.

And once they cracked open Mu Yunqing, then they’d be able to investigate what happened to the Tang family all those years ago.

At the same time, in contrast to the silence of the Leaning Wind Pavilion, second madam Ruan Zhen was in her brightly lit Prosperous Fortune Pavilion.

Ever since Lou Lianxin had been brought back and woken up, she had been cursing and screaming non-stop.

She had thrown and broken nearly all of the everyday furniture in the Prosperous Fortune Pavilion.

Waiting for her to finally let out enough steam, Ruan Zhen then walked in with her senior aide supporting her.

Her cloud shoes stepping on the broken porcelain, she looked at the ragged and tired Lou Lianxin from high above, “Are you done yet?”

“Mother! I’m upset! Really upset! Why is it that everything was going well and the emperor was about to bestow me the title of “Number one talented girl” that that painting scroll suddenly changed?”

Furthermore, it changed to Lou Qingwu, that sl*t, gaining the emperor and empress’ favour.

That was what made her the most angry and frustrated.

Why, why was it that when Lou Qingwu came back, she was better than her at everything?

Where was she lacking compared to her?

And that damn embroidery store, to actually embroider such a disgraceful piece for her!

She definitely wouldn’t let them go that easily!

“Upset?” Ruan Zhen laughed coldly, “Even if you are upset, you better hold it in.”

“Mother …”

“To achieve big things, you have to learn to restrain yourself.” That year, she willingly suffered to become a concubine was all because of the word “restraint”.

But who knew that all of her efforts, after all these years, would become wasted in one night.

So, no one could blame her for being too vicious.

“Of course, even if you can’t restrain yourself, you can’t show it on your face. There are a lot of methods to allow for that sl*t to completely disappear.”

When she spoke, her finely made up face showed a sinister expression, an expression that made even Lou Lianxin shudder in fear.

“Mother, what do you mean?”

“What do I mean?” She laughed coldly again, “It means that she won’t be coming back tonight back to the Lou residence.”

As if she wouldn’t be angry?

The first moment the news spread from the palace, her big brother had fainted from anger.

She didn’t even have to imagine how he’d react when he woke up the next morning.

One hundred thousand gold ingots was definitely the heaviest attack on the Ruan family in a hundred years.

Furthermore, a single word from the emperor had destroyed all of her efforts to become the legitimate wife.

She had lost everything in a single phrase, how could she not be upset?

So of course she was upset … but she wouldn’t clearly fight Lou Qingwu, she’d just … make her die without a complete corpse.

Ruan Zhen’s icy cold hands touched Lou Lianxin’s small tear stained face, her low voice sinisterly comforting her, “Lian’er, don’t worry. Mother will give you the best. Anything that blocks your path, mother will, destroy it -- all for you.”

Lou Lianxin had been scared by Ruan Zhen’s expression, and had completely forgotten her own anger and frustrations.

She could only dazedly nod.

It was only a pity that before she could react, Ruan Zhen’s personal senior aide had already rushed in, frantic and panicking.

She hurriedly said a few things in a low voice in Ruan Zhen’s ear and Ruan Zhen’s originally solemn face became incredibly fierce and vicious, “What did you say?! How could that be?!”

*

TL note:

Ruan Zhen’s super creepy and sinister. I almost pictured her like Gollum, petting Lou Lianxin's face and whispering, "My precious."

Leave a comment and follow for shock and anger at Lou Qingwu not being dead xx

Previous chapter | Contents page | Next chapter