It was in the afternoon now. By tacit rule, one shouldn’t pay a visit to another at the moment unless they were really close or anything urgent happened. Otherwise, it would be a disrespectful act for the latter.
Commandery Princess Qingjiang was Jian Xubai’s sister. Yet, Song Yixiao was still new to the family and didn’t get familiar with her. After careful consideration, Song Yixiao didn’t set off immediately but send a visiting card first to ask whether it would be convenient to her that she came by.
“Send my word to Ms. Zhao that she doesn’t need to come back in a hurry since Mr. You’s case has been just closed and she has a lot of family issues to deal with. She should take care of her family first.” Song Yixiao instructed, “As to Ms. Zhao’s daughter and grandson, send for a doctor to check on them. If they don’t have enough money, just take it from the accountant and put the expense under my name!”
Upon thinking of Ms. Zhao, Song Yixiao i
Jian Xubai remained stern until he went to sleep.After putting down the curtain, he didn’t even touch her finger, let alone cuddling her!Song Yixiao attempted to pull his hand but she was slapped away by him coldly. When she tried again, Jian Xubai didn’t slap her hand anymore. Instead, he just stared at her silently with disdain, as if he wished to distance himself from her.“Well! He still seems to be angry now.” Song Yixiao noticed his lingering anger so she gave up trying. She pulled up the quilt and closed her eyes, “In this case, I may as well sleep first. Maybe he will realize that he is making a fuss willfully and then will stop being angry?”However, Jian Xubai was still waiting for his wife’s consoling him...He stared at the top of the bed net and took a few deep breaths so as to hold back his impulse to push his wife off the bed!Over the night Jian Xubai kept turning over every once a while.
To be honest, Zhuo Ping’an didn’t look like an idiot at all.Like other high-fed childes, he was fair-skinned with regular facial features unlike Commandery Princess Qingjiang. He must take after his father. The disheveled hair on his shoulders was obviously delicately cleaned, which was black and long enough to reach his waist. He was wearing a brocade robe with blue background and the pattern of four kinds of flowers that bloomed in different seasons. His waist was loosely tightened. As a draught blew by, his robe hem swung slightly, showing the emptiness due to his bony appearance. In this way, his morbid state was revealed.“What a pity!” Song Yixiao looked him up and down, and couldn’t help feeling sorry for her sister-in-law, “Given his good look, if his brain were not ruined due to difficult labor, regardless of his talent, he could still occupy a foothold in court by virtue of his mother’s status! Unfortunately, something unexpected may happen any t
Jian Xubai left neatly while Commandery Princess Qingjiang and Song Yixiao were confused. Hence, they asked the eunuch to stay so that they could learn more about the sudden incidence.“It should be official business?” The eunuch racked his brains to recall what the errand-man of Marquis Boling said, “It seems to be related to Ministry of War.”Song Yixiao was relieved to hear that. Because of Zhiqin, she had no relish for Yuan Xuepei, but she still didn’t want to see anything untoward happen to him. After all, without him, Yuan Xue’e would have nobody to rely on.Now that the Yuan Family was okay, she shifted her focus onto bonding with Commandery Princess Qingjiang.However, after a while, another servant came to report, saying that Zhuo Ping’an was crying in the yard and that no one could stop him. Commandery Princess Qingjiang replied, “Never mind.” Yet, she was sitting on pins and needles. Song Yixiao realized that she couldn’
Song Yixiao felt headache to hear the suggestion, “Jian Xubai has no problem with that? Absolutely not!”He just told her to stay away from Su Shaoge the other day. He even ordered to give the malus spectabilis hairpin that Su Shaoge compensated her to a maid. If he learnt that she had a meal with Su Shaoge, how could he have no problem with it?However, the Su sisters didn’t know her difficulty. Both of them believed that it was a good solution.At the moment, Su Shaoling nodded her head, “If Madam Song can do me the favor to agree, we can ask our brother to pay for the meal!”“The best way to show respect is to obey!” Song Yixiao had owed Su Shaoge one before. Now that Su Shaoge’s legitimate sister even talked of “do me the favor”, she was too embarrassed to decline. Hence, she could only make up her mind and say with a smile, “But please allow me to pay for the meal. I haven’t thanked Mr. Su for his favor regarding Yiluo’s matte
Song Yixiao didn’t realize that the faked loving gestures between her and Jian Xubai had been revealed. After returning to Duke of Yan’s mansion, she learnt that Jian Xubai had come back. So, she handed over the newly purchased jewelries to Jinxun, “The necklaces and chrysanthemum hairpins are the gifts I am about to send out; as to the plum-blossom pearl hair ornaments, I will wear them myself. For the rest, you can share them.”Then she had some desserts prepared and brought them to the study to ask for information.“How can you come to apologize with a few plates of desserts that are even not made by you?” Jian Xubai was writing. Upon hearing the knock on the door, he said, “Come in.” Then he saw the tray on his wife’s hand, raising his eyebrows and sneering, “Do I look so easy to handle?”Song Yixiao put down the desserts and said casually, “I only had a meal that I couldn’t decline. It’s no big deal. Why do I have to apologize for that?”
This marriage was totally out of Song Yixiao’s expectation. She repeated subconsciously as she asked, “What did you just say?”“Miss Wei Chan will marry Third Young Master Lu.” Liyu reminded her as she continued, “Did you forget what had happened when we had been living in Hanxia Villa? Her Ladyship had been there for a short period.”It was not until Song Yixiao heard Liyu’s words that she made sure she had not misheard anything. However, she was not happy at all. Instead, feeling dubious, she contemplated for a while as she said, “Call Qiaoqin over here. I have some questions for her!”Qiaoqin was sent by her to help Ms. Zhao some days ago. After the case of Youhong was closed, she helped Ms. Zhao for two days. Only yesterday afternoon did she return to the mansion, so Song Yixiao gave her a two-day break.Qiaoqin was taking a nap in her room at that moment. After she was informed about Song Yixiao’s order, she got changed in a h
Wei Chan sobbed as she said, “If only I knew what I had done to irritate him. He sent somebody over here a few nights ago, directly informing me that I was not qualified to be a daughter-in-law of the Lu Family. If I was sensible and considerate, I should ask my elders to stand out and find an excuse to break off the marital engagement between us. Otherwise, he would strike out by himself, which probably would embarrass the whole Wei Family!”As Song Yixiao heard her words, she was astounded and said, “How come did that happen? How come did he request to break off a public marital engagement without any valid reasons? You’d better think about it discreetly!”Wei Chan, who was genuinely anxious, replied, “Based on how the current situation goes, if I insisted on playing dumb, I would certainly bring destruction upon myself.” After that, she simply stood up and left her seat. “Bang!” Kneeling down in front of Song Yixiao directly, she clutched at her knees an
Jian Xubai was so angry that he burst into laughter instead as he said, “Divorce letter?”Turning around all of a sudden, he pushed Song Yixiao, who had just stood up, staggeringly back to the couch. He bent over and stroked her cheek with one hand as he supported himself beside her with the other hand.His finger pulps, which were thinly horned, lingered on Song Yixiao’s smooth and tender skin for a while and stopped themselves at the corner of her eyes in the end. It was not until Jian Xubai stirred her curly eyelashes with his finger pulps that he said smilingly, “You seemed not to take what I had said to your heart, right? How come you dared to ask for a divorce letter from me?”As Song Yixiao thought of his words of “sudden death” last time, the look on her face changed dramatically. She stared at him indifferently and didn’t say anything at all.“You aren’t convinced by me, right?” Jian Xubai lowered his head and pressed his