Seeing Rong Di’s increasingly grim expression, Shunzi began to feel uneasy.
"Wha... what’s wrong? Did I say sothing wrong?"
A gentle voice replied.
"No, you didn’t."
"That’s good!"
Yu Tingwan spoke softly.
"Who let him... never even had a chance to exert himself."
Shunzi: ...
Rong Di: ...
Tan Jiang returned to her room and changed into a neat outfit, tying her hair up high.
Since Rong Di returned, she never had the chance to spar with him. Today, she decided she had to have a good match.
Seeing her approaching, Yu Tingwan thought of sothing and turned to Rong Di, "I have a question for you."
Rong Di suppressed his sadness, stepped forward, and cupped his fists, "Madam, please ask."
"I heard that you are the only one at ho?"
"Yes, I am."
After so many years, many around him knew his situation, so Rong Di didn’t find it hard to talk about.
"My parents passed away early, my uncle and aunt didn’t want to take in, and my grandparents thought I ate too much, so they sold off early. If not for the General, I probably wouldn’t be alive today. Over the years, I’ve severed ties with those people."
Yu Tingwan: "Then... you must not be married either?"
Rong Di could tell this was a hint of being introduced to soone.
He suddenly felt delighted.
He had never thought of marriage before.
But when Yu Tingwan ntioned it, he suddenly felt that he should have a wife.
The marriage that Madam would arrange for him surely wouldn’t harm him.
So what if Chi Yu chose him from so many of the Wei Family Army? Madam didn’t introduce anyone to him!
A shaless sense of superiority erged.
"No, I’m not married."
"Madam, who do you want to introduce to ?"
Tan Jiang ca over.
She stood in front of Rong Di.
She hadn’t even said a word.
Rong Di’s eyes lit up when he saw her.
"Are you here to spar with ?"
He had an impression of Tan Jiang, who served beside Yu Tingwan. She was trained by Chi Yu and had fought him several tis, becoming braver with each loss.
Rong Di rather admired her.
Tan Jiang felt agreeable: "I am."
Rong Di felt relieved.
"Madam, may I have a few moves with her first?"
Yu Tingwan nodded, considering how all the Wei Family Army avoided him, she was just about to remind her subordinates to be careful.
Tan Jiang rolled up her sleeves, "No holding back."
Rong Di: "Nonsense, why differentiate between n and won in a fight."
Yu Tingwan: ...
The two didn’t go to the platform, they just found an empty spot.
Rong Di’s moves were fast and fierce. At first, Tan Jiang could resist, but soon she was outmatched.
But she refused to admit defeat.
Thus, she was thoroughly beaten.
Yet, the more she fought, the more exhilarated she beca.
Yu Tingwan couldn’t bear to look.
Finally, with a snap, Tan Jiang was pinned to the ground, her left arm dislocated again.
Rong Di let go.
Tan Jiang bit her lip, standing up with difficulty, but her eyes were shining brighter than when she heard Madam asking Rong Di if he was married!
Although it hurt, she found her fatal flaw and gained so new insights!
She benefited greatly!!
Seeing her with a bruised face, limping, her arm unnaturally hanging, Yu Tingwan’s vision darkened.
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That night.
The sky was heavy.
There were few stars in the sky, the streets were deserted, yet soone visited the Chu family’s door.
"What? Breaking off the engagent?"
Having lived through hell these past few days, Madam Chu seed to have aged decades, no longer showing the forr confidence, looking at the unexpected guest, suppressing her anger.
"The two families have already exchanged betrothal letters, the horoscopes match, and the date has been set. Now you want to break the engagent because there’s trouble with my family? Dream on!"
"Who would co over at this hour? Worried about being seen, the Zhou family wants to break off the engagent."
Though the Chu family had beco notorious, it was natural for the bride’s side to want to break off the engagent, yet it could leave them with a reputation for being faithless and unkind.
After all, Chu Liulang initially broke off the engagent with the Zhou Family for Zhou Yurou.
Mrs. Zhou was furious: "How dare you bring this up? We’ve been waiting for you to visit these days. But did you co?"
"Frankly, our Zhou family is doing this for your own good. If the Chu family marries off an upright girl, it will at least garner so respect."
At this, she lost her temper, pointing at the Chu family and cursing.
"Your son’s reputation is so notorious, do you expect to drag Yurou into this? You’ve lost face even before the Holy Emperor. The Chu family now is like a street rat, everyone wants to hit it."
"Can we still marry off our daughter?"
"Moreover, you kept Chu Ning at ho, along with a child! Who knows when another will pop up! Not just our Zhou family, but what decent family would want to enter your doors?"
Madam Chu grit her teeth, feeling disgusted by the Zhou family!
Weren’t these the people who were eager to get close back then?
"What’s so good about your daughter? My Sixth Son was initially engaged to the Shen Family’s daughter! Yet she went out of her way to seduce him. If I hadn’t disliked the Shen Family’s daughter for being arrogant and you kept flattering , would I have taken a liking to her?"
Mrs. Zhou didn’t like hearing this.
She indeed flattered them, being very sycophantic.
Back then, the Chu family had the capital.
But what is the Chu family now?
"Bah!"
"Did Yurou have a private eting with your son? Or what? Is there evidence? Don’t sling mud on an innocent girl."
"Regret it? Your Chu family has so nerve, why don’t you go match with the Shen family again! Shen Zhiyi isn’t getting married, perhaps she’d agree."
As the two were about to fight.
Minister of Ministry of Industry, Mr. Zhou, addressed Mr. Chu sitting silently on the main seat.
"Mr. Chu, you and I are colleagues, we should still be on good terms. It’s better to each return the tokens. It wouldn’t be good if things get ugly."
"No."
Madam Chu: "Husband, you must not agree. Why should the Zhou family get away scot-free? Yurou can still choose another husband in the future, but who would marry the Sixth Son?"
Minister: "Mr. Chu, think carefully, or this will not be a marriage but enmity."
Chu Zhen took a deep breath, "Go get the tokens."
"Husband!"
"I told you to get them!"
No one knew what happened that night, as the dark night seed to swallow everything.
The Eastern Palace was brightly lit, but the Crown Princess Consort looked haggard.
She seed to constantly hear the cries of a child in her ears.
She was still so young.
Could she be away from her birth mother for so long?
The Chu family’s reputation worried her.
The following day.
A gentle breeze brushed over the lake, causing slight ripples.
The light filtered through the layers of leaves, casting mottled shadows.
Yu Tingwan woke up unusually late and instinctively reached out beside her.
Usually, when she wakes, the space beside her is cold, but today she felt soone there.
Yu Tingwan opened her bleary eyes.
"Why are you here?"
Shouldn’t he be out handling matters?
Wei Zhao had settled everything.
He felt the dragon robe was taking too long to make.
The dragon robe required gold thread embroidery, which was too expensive. He simply sneaked into the palace and took one, hiding it in the Duke Zhou Mansion.
Wei Zhao looked down, "Surprised? Then who do you expect to be lying next to you?"
He pulled her into his arms, rubbing her slender waist.
Just waking up, Yu Tingwan was still a bit dazed.
Her mind was slow, and she didn’t quite catch what Wei Zhao was saying.
But she couldn’t resist her quick mouth.
Continuing from her previous sentence.
"Your wife is strict, why are you still here looking for ?"
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