Chu Changge had just reached the entrance of Murong Mansion when a sweet "Chu Lang'' came from his left, causing him to have goosebumps all over his body. He stopped for a moment, looked at the woman in pink, and continued to walk forward.
"Chu Lang, don't you remember me? It's me, Hong Yi!" Hong Yi ran forward, trying to hold onto Chu Changge.
Chu Changge turned around, avoiding her touch. He twisted his eyebrows with disgust as he warned, "If you don't want to die, don't touch me."
"Chu Lang, you...how can you turn your back on me!" Hong Yi's eyes were brimming with tears.
Chu Changge hated this kind of inexplicable woman the most in his life. Without even looking at her, he walked quickly towards the mansion.
When Hong Yi saw the four other people who had returned with Chu Changge, she begged, "Four gentlemen, please, let me in. I don't want to compete with Miss Murong for anything, I just want to be able to serve Chu Lang."
The four gentlemen North, South, East and West looked at each other in disbelief. When had the Leader ever abandoned such a person?[+]
At this time, Fairy Yaoyue came out in a flash and smilingly said, "Hong Yi ah, what brings you here? Come, come in quickly. Let Mom take you to see your Sister."
"Mom——" Hong Yi's brows raised in delight, her eyes laughing. Then, she entered the mansion together with Fairy Yaoyue.
Seeing the 'touching' scene of the reunion between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the four South, East, North and West's faces were full of black lines. They sighed together in their hearts: The Old Madam really won't let Madam off and her drive is truly praiseworthy ah!
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As soon as Chu Changge returned to the mansion, he went straight to Murong Yunshu's study.
"You're not planning to stay in the study all day long, are you?" Chu Changge raised his eyebrows as he asked.
Murong Yunshu leisurely put down the scroll in her hand, then looked up at him and asked back, "Do you any problems with that?"
"I do have a lot of problems with that." Chu Changge nodded and questioned, "Don’t you feel bored by staying at home all day?"
Murong Yunshu's heart sank, "Do you feel bored?"
"I'm talking about you." Chu Changge emphasized.
No affirmation, nor denial coming from her either. Murong Yunshu looked gloomy as she indifferently stated, "I've been living like this for more than ten years that I'm already used to it."
Chu Changge suddenly felt somewhat distressed. For her to be born into such a family, her childhood must have been as dry as sawdust. No wonder she always looked uninterested in anything even at a young age. There was a price to be paid for having an old head on those young shoulders. "Tomorrow we'll go to the lake." Chu Changge suggested.
Murong Yunshu was about to nod when she suddenly changed her tune as she commented, "I still need to look at the accounts tomorrow."
Chu Changge complained, "You've been looking at the accounts every day since you returned to Jinling. When will this ever end?"
Murong Yunshu pursed her lips and responded, "It will end when the money bank closes, and Murong Mansion declines."
"..." She didn't hold back at all.
"Someone came to see you today." Murong Yunshu brushed over the matter.
“Who?”
"I don't know. It was said that this person is seeking you to take responsibility." Murong Yunshu continued to look as if it was none of her business. She simply stated the matter as facts as if it had nothing to do with her at all.[+]
Chu Changge was puzzled when Hong Yi suddenly barged in.
"Chu Lang, Sister." Hong Yi walked towards Chu Changge and Murong Yunshu with joy. She barely lifted her leading foot over the threshold and had not landed it yet when she heard a flat out ‘get out’. She shivered with fright and retracted her foot subconsciously with an aggrieved expression.
The one who said the word 'go out' was not Chu Changge, but Murong Yunshu, who always acted like the clouds were pale and a light breeze was blowing. Her voice was not that loud and it did not carry too much emotion, but it was this quite insipid sound that almost scared Hong Yi out of her wits that she did not dare to take another half step forward.
"Didn't you see the writing outside the door?" Murong Yunshu asked coldly.
Hong Yi retreated a few steps, and indeed found a sign outside the door, which read 'This study is an important place. Unimportant people are not allowed to enter'.
"But I..." Hong Yi looked at Chu Changge pitifully. She wanted to say something but hesitated.
Chu Changge, however, completely disregarded Hong Yi's full of tender affection eyes and diligently poured a cup of tea as he handed it over, "Madam, have some tea."
Murong Yunshu took the tea as if nothing had happened, and drank it leisurely.
Hong Yi spoke up again, "Chu Lang——"
Chu Changge impatiently silent her with a cold glare.
Hong Yi shrank her neck in fear and said affectionately: "Chu Lang, since my innocence has been given to you, I am yours. Whether you want me or not, I am yours for life and I will even be your ghost in my death."
When he heard this, Chu Changge was afraid that Murong Yunshu would misunderstand him and he was about to explain to her. However, when he saw the leisure look on her face, as she put down her cup and changed her position to continue reading, she was obviously not taking this inexplicable 'rival in love' seriously, or, she was not taking him, her husband, seriously.
This time, Chu Changge also mourned. "Madam, don't you have anything to say to this?"
Murong Yunshu raised her eyes upon hearing his words. She looked at him for a few seconds, then lowered her head back. Her eyes were focusing on the scroll, as she nonchalantly warned, "Don't step into the study for even half a step. If you take one step in, I'll chop one of your feet off. If you take another step in, I'll chop both of your feet." These words were for Hong Yi and from Murong Yunshu's tone, she still judged the matter as it stood.
"She said I had ruined her innocence." Chu Changge emphasised the point. His meaning was to remind a certain someone to be a bit more aware of the main crisis.
Murong Yunshu calmly stated, "That's her business."
Chu Changge was taken aback for a moment, then laughed, "That's right. That's her business."
The Four Great Guardians, who had followed Hong Yi in, with watching the fun kind of attitude, all had a look of admiration on their faces. She was worthy of being the wife of our Mojiao Sect's Leader. She didn’t need to use frigid irony and scorching satire nor did she need to be overbearing. With just one sentence ‘that’s her business’, she had kicked and killed the other party off.
That’s her business——it has nothing to do with me, nothing to do with you. It’s only concerned her. What a simple and deadly phrase!
This was her extending her boundary!
The Four Great Guardians felt that if they didn't do anything at this moment, they would have to suffer disappointment from their adored Madam. Hence——"Leader, messing around with her first, then abandoning her is not our Mojiao Sect style of doing things. At any rate, you should give a clear explanation to the others." East Guardian said mischievously.
"Do you want an explanation?" Chu Changge smiled grimly and said to Hong Yi, "You insist on being mine and become my ghost when you die. Unfortunately, I do not want your life nor your ghost. Therefore, you should continue living rather than dying." Once he finished speaking, he spoke to South, East, North and West, "Do you understand what I mean?"
Of course, they understood. It was about making her beg for her life while not being able to die, right? Though the Four Great Guardians shook their heads together as they spoke in unison, "We don't understand."
"Oh?" Chu Changge raised his dashing eyebrows, "Then I will have to waste some more of my time to explain it to you. Who wants to be the first one?"
The four of them shook their heads together. Once they thought about it, they realised, Leader's ‘explanation’ was definitely not going to be a verbal explanation. Everyone knew that the Mojiao Sect Leader had always kept his mouth shut…
"For the Guardians of the Mojiao Sect to not know what it's like to beg for one's life while not being able to die, if this matter gets out, how can this Leader still have the face to walk in the jianghu in the future?" Chu Changge asked with a smile.
Chu Changge smiled gently, while the Four Great Guardians had a bone-chilling moment when they heard his words.
"You don't have to strain your good self to train us, Master. We'll just be fine by torturing each other." East Guardian spoke up with a forced smile. The remaining three also nodded their heads one after another. We'll torture each other, really torture each other...
Chu Changge hooked the corners of his mouth in satisfaction as he responded, "Alright. But before you torture each other, you should dispose of this person first."
Dispose...dispose...why did it sound like he wanted them to wipe out the evidence by destroying the corpse...
The Four Great Guardians were tempted to nod their heads, but this woman was the Old Madam's 'favourite daughter-in-law' that they didn't dare to act rashly!
Just as the four of them were in a dilemma, a saviour appeared.
"Hong Yi, why are you standing here without going in?" Fairy Yaoyue smiled as she approached, while still asking her despite knowing the answer.
Hong Yi was so relieved when she saw the appearance of her saviour appear as she answered, "Sister won't let me in."
Fairy Yaoyue shrewdly smiled and said, "Yunshu is not a stingy person. She will never deny your entry. Don't be afraid. Go. Just go in and pour tea for Ah Chang and Yunshu." With that, she took Hong Yi's hand and lifted her leg to enter the door.
"This is the study." Murong Yunshu slowly looked up at the Fairy Yaoyue and added, "It's not a teahouse."
Fairy Yaoyue suddenly remembered the last time she came to the study and was thrown out by her. She suddenly laughed resentfully, took two steps back while saying, "You girl, how stubborn. Come, come, let's change places. We can just go to the pavilion. It has a good view and is much suitable for us to have a family talk."
Murong Yunshu did not object. She said to Lu-er, "Go and prepare tea for the guests."
The guests...Fairy Yaoyue's mouth immediately twitched fiercely as her heart was filled with resentment. The mention of this matter had made her belly full of fire! That Chief Steward Qian even actually asked her to pay a hundred taels of silver for one night. How dare he charge her 100 taels of silver for a night! If she had known that, she would not have said such nonsense as 'breaking off her relationship with her son'. She never thought that Yunshu would really charge her for the room...
"Aren't you going?" Fairy Yaoyue asked the unfilial son and the unfilial daughter-in-law who were still sitting inside the room.
"No." Chu Changge's answer was brief and concise.
Murong Yunshu followed up with a question, "She's your guest, so why should we need to be there too?"
Fairy Yaoyue's two beautiful willow eyebrows twitched up fiercely. How would they be able to sing in this drama if both of them didn't plan to go there? Other families' daughters-in-law would have cried their hearts out when they saw their mother-in-laws treating the 'outside woman' well. How come the one from her family did not have any reaction at all? Not only was her daughter-in-law not angry or annoyed, but she even asked her maid to pour tea for them!
Strange, really strange.
Could it be that this rival in love was not even considered a threat to her?
Fairy Yaoyue took a quick look at Murong Yunshu, and then at Hong Yi. She shook her head indignantly soon after. One was peerless in elegance and talent, a rich young lady, while the other was a gloomy and lustreless mistress. The difference——it was not that huge. [T/N]
However, since everyone was here and this girl was unable to stir any trouble, how could this girl be worthy of 50 taels of silver that she had spent hiring her as a young drama queen?
Fairy Yaoyue scolded with a stern face, "Son, you should be responsible for ruining the innocence of other family girl's."
Hong Yi had also raised this issue regarding her innocence. At that time, Chu Changge merely treated it like he hadn't heard it. But now that it was his birth mother who brought up the issue, it would be a bit inexcusable for him to put the matter aside as if he had not heard of it. Thus, he asked, "When did I ruin her innocence?"
Fairy Yaoyue answered, "You looked at her body."
Hong Yi nodded heavily, indicating Fairy Yaoyue's words were true.
"Mom, don't tell a bare-faced lie." Chu Changge said helplessly.
Fairy Yaoyue said with a glare, "What I said is every bit true. You were still young at that time, so, normally, you wouldn't remember, but I remember it very clearly. When Hong Yi was taking a bath, you were peeking in through the window."
"...how young was I?"
Fairy Yaoyue replied, "You were four years old."
"..." Chu Changge suddenly had the urge to kill his own mother. The matter that happened when he was four-year-old...she could even think of blaming the matter on him as much as she wanted.
The Four Great Guardians also sweat furiously. Old Madam, aren't you too daring in being so outrageous? Although Leader was born with a weirdness that is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people and it was not an impossible thing that he could even steal incense, but we're afraid that a four-year-old child is not as tall as a window, right? Was it even possible for Leader who was still a four-year-old kid at that time, to know how to use a bench as a platform to peek at girls taking their bath?
At this moment, Murong Yunshu, who had been watching the drama quietly from the side, spoke up. "Is it true that you will marry whoever has seen your body?" She asked Hong Yi.
Flabbergasted, Hong Yi looked to Fairy Yaoyue for help. When she saw her nod, she nodded back and answered, "Yes."
"In that case, what if there is more than one person who has seen your body?" As she asked this, Murong Yunshu's eyes were looking at Chu Changge.
Chu Changge's heart immediately received her words as his spirit knew. With a smile, he questioned, "That's right. If there is more than one person who has seen your body, do you plan to divide yourself into several halves and marry them off separately?"
Hong Yi froze once more. She once again turned to Fairy Yaoyue for help.
"But you're the only one who had looked at her body." Fairy Yaoyue pointed out smugly. Her face even had a 'let's see what you're going to do next' look.
Chu Changge smiled wickedly and responded, "It's not that difficult to let one more person look at her body. My Mojiao Sects members are all over the country. There are already four at this doorway alone, and you still worry that no one will come to see?"
As soon as he said this, Hong Yi's face turned pale. Her arms automatically crossed at her chest, for fear of being stripped of her clothes.
At the same time, there was a change of colour to the faces of the other people——South, East, North and West.
"Leader, we brothers do feel blessed with your generous offer, but we don't dare to accept such a beautiful woman." East Guardian's smiling face looked much unsightly than when he cried.
However, Chu Changge retorted, "Don't let your own fertile water flow into others' field. I know that you feel so blessed, so go and find some more people to come and watch her together. If there are more people, there will be less of this voluptuous blessing for you to share."
The four of them look pale. For this girl's innocence to be ruined was a small matter. But for four of them brothers, what mattered the most was losing their virtue in their old age! It was a pity that they had worked so hard to be Princes among men for so many years...
Fairy Yaoyue suffered an even more internal injury due to her irritation. Too unreasonable, just too unreasonable! These two were simply much more unreasonable than her!
"I...I better not marry anyone." Hong Yi began to beat the return drum.
"No! If you back out now, will you give me back my 50 taels of silver?" Fairy Yaoyue was imposingly threatening her as she stretched her hand out, asking for the return of her money.
The arms on Hong Yi's chest clasped tighter. This time it was for fear of being robbed of her silver. "You told me to come and make a scene, and I did. You can't blame me if nothing is happening out of it! I haven't yet blamed you for my near humiliation!"
Fairy Yaoyue was furious, "Just now I let you mess with them with your 'mistress who had been wronged' look, then you are scared to death. Now, you suddenly can talk quite well just to argue with me?"
"Everyone is bullying the weak but fearing the strong one. There's no need for you to make things difficult for her. If you want that much silver, I will give you fifty taels." Murong Yunshu had a broad smile on her face, and the words 'reasonable' were written all over her body. Her image was very radiant.
Fairy Yaoyue was so annoyed that her face turned black. Bullying the weak but fearing the strong one? Wasn't this a roundabout way of scolding her for being inferior to them? Wait, that was not the main point...the main point was...50 taels!
Oh my God, she didn't even realise that she had confessed even without being pressed!
She had never made such a low-level mistake in all the years she had been in the jianghu, and after doing a countless wicked thing. This time around, to her surprise...for her to go as far as to......
At this moment, Fairy Yaoyue really wanted to find a hole to drill herself into.
－－－－－－Off-topic Remarks (Author)－－－－－－
Whew, I was finally able to get the chapter up. I don't know what happened, I couldn't upload any chapter for two days while in the background. Yesterday, a friend of mine had come to help me update.
This is the only chapter I'll be doing today. In another notice, Mo Feng will be away on a business trip tomorrow and will not be back until Friday.
Although I will bring my notebook with me on this business trip, I'm not sure if I'll have time to write. Therefore, the updates for the next few days will be irregular and not in a fixed amount (actually, I haven't been able to do so lately, 囧).
It seems to have been particularly rough for me lately and updates have been erratic, so I'm truly sorry to everyone. I hope you'll understand, and as always, I hope you'll support me!
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UPDATE 21.09.2021: I've updated Mother to Mom. And Bewitching Fairy Yue to Fairy Yaoyue. Sorry 🙇♀️
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