Chapter 164 The Scheming Boy 7

A gentle breeze blew through the light blue gauze curtains. The room was a mess; only the bed was intact, while all the other decorations were smashed.

Shen Qingwan suddenly felt she couldn't get down; the floor was covered in fragments, including pieces of jewelry.

The handsome young man was sitting slumped in the middle of the mess, dressed in fine clothes. Even in the chaotic scene, his stunning beauty could not be concealed.

His face was pale, and he looked almost transparent in the sunlight streaming through the window, which made him appear pitiful.

Shen Qingwan felt a pang of heartache. It was the first time she had ever seen her younger brother so distraught. She asked softly, "Yuchen, what happened? Tell your older sister, and I'll help you."

"Sister, really?" Shen Yuchen's eyes seemed to regain their light as he looked at Shen Qingwan expectantly.

"Hmm." Shen Qingwan couldn't stand his gaze and quickly nodded. "Is there something you need my help with, Yu Chen?"

Shen Yuchen said shyly, "Sister, I've found the girl I liked seven years ago..."

His eyes dimmed again as he said this, "But she married her husband yesterday... Sister, what should I do?"

"I want to marry her, I want to see her, I'm so heartbroken..."

Shen Qingwan was shocked. It turned out that her younger brother had been infatuated with the wrong person. She gently comforted him, "Yuchen, forget about her. You deserve better. Besides, how can the young master of the Grand Commandant's mansion be a concubine?"

Who wants to be a concubine! He'll definitely push that man out; Qiuqiu can only be his!

Shen Yuchen clenched his fingers, the pain in his palm temporarily suppressing his anger and preventing him from losing control.

He continued sadly, "Sister, I don't want anyone else, I only want to marry her. Sister, please help me? I want to see her, even just once..."

His eyes pleaded, and his lips turned pale. "Sister, I've never asked you for anything since I was little. Sister, could you please help me..."

Seeing that he was treating her like a lifeline, Shen Qingwan could only agree, "Okay, tell my sister, which family's young lady is she?"

Fine, let them meet. Anyway, she'll use her power to pressure that young lady and make her persuade her brother to give up on this idea.

“It’s Miss Ningqiu from the Prime Minister’s family.” Shen Yuchen lowered her head, feigning shyness.

If he weren't a man and unable to go to the Prime Minister's residence alone to find Qiuqiu, he would have had to ask his older sister for help.

He didn't sleep well last night, he was on tenterhooks the whole time. He couldn't relax until he ruined the man's appearance. He was especially afraid that they would sleep together tonight. Just thinking about it made him unable to suppress the anger and hatred in his heart.

"What? Ning Qiu?!" Shen Qingwan exclaimed in surprise upon hearing the name.

Startled by Shen Qingwan's voice, Shen Yuchen looked up at her in confusion and asked, "Sister, what's wrong?"

“Yu Chen, you rarely go out, so you don’t know how exciting her story is. The man she married yesterday was the one she had been pursuing for a long time.” Shen Qingwan looked at him with difficulty, as if to say, “You have no chance.”

The person I've been pursuing for so long...

How could you do this!

Shen Yuchen bit his lip again to calm himself down. The taste of blood filled his mouth, and his internal organs felt like they were being cut by a knife. Countless negative emotions were churning him to the brink of collapse.

I regret it... Even if I had been discovered yesterday, I would have killed that bitch...

How could she have feelings for someone else...?

In Shen Qingwan's eyes, her younger brother was just looking down, seemingly lost in thought, but she could feel the oppressive atmosphere in the air.

It took him a long time to calm down. He looked up at Shen Qingwan, his eyes starting to redden. "Sister, even so, I still want to marry her. I don't want to have any regrets these past few years. At least let me see her once. I'm a man, so it's inconvenient for me to ask a woman out. Sister, could you go and send her an invitation to ask her out?"

Looking at her younger brother, who had always been arrogant since childhood, now so lifeless, Shen Qingwan could only nod helplessly, "Okay."

"Thank you, elder sister." Shen Yuchen smiled brightly. "How about we make an appointment today? Or perhaps we can visit the Prime Minister's residence and bring me along."

"Okay, I understand, sister. Now we can eat and tidy up the house, right?"

"Yes, I'll do whatever you say, sister." Shen Yuchen nodded obediently.

After Shen Qingwan left, Shen Yuchen changed his obedient demeanor and said to Qingsong, "Go and prepare hot water for me. I want to take a bath."

"Also, find a few people to infiltrate the Prime Minister's residence. I need to know all of Ning Qiu's movements."

"Yes, young master," Qingsong replied.

After leaving the house, he sighed. The young master seemed to have become a different person. Even if he had a bad temper in the past, he would never have lost his composure like this. He was also extremely arrogant and would never be willing to be a concubine.

After taking a bath, Shen Yuchen picked out several outfits and scented her body. She looked at herself in the mirror with satisfaction: fair skin, delicate features, a high nose bridge, and hazy, drunken peach blossom eyes. Although her thin lips were slightly chapped, they only made her look more alluring and tempting.

He wore a veil so that Qiuqiu wouldn't see his chapped lips, otherwise she would think he was unclean and misunderstand that someone else had kissed him.

At this moment, Xu Qiuqiu was reading in the study. In this world, she had to go to the academy to study.

The original female lead took a few days off from the academy before getting married, so she will have to go back to the academy to study in a few days.

She looked at the book in her hand as if it were a pile of astronomical numbers. The traditional Chinese characters were so hard to understand. If it were simplified Chinese characters, she wouldn't have had such difficulty reading it.

She picked up a calligraphy brush to practice, but her writing was crooked and messy, and she immediately felt discouraged.

Seeing this, 003 comforted her, "Host, don't be discouraged. The original female lead was also bad at studying, neither good at literature nor martial arts. At least the host can do martial arts now, so you are still better than the original female lead!"

Xu Qiuqiu: "..." She didn't feel comforted at all.

"By the way, are women in the Li Kingdom allowed to invite men out for outings?"

003 obediently replied, "Sure! But it seems we can't go on a date alone, or people will gossip. You can invite the second male lead's sister and the female students from the academy to go together, then there won't be any problem."

"So what's my relationship with A-Chen's sister like? The plot only shows that I have a good relationship with Princess Chen Ni Chang."

003 checked the data and said, "They're from the same academy, have no connection whatsoever, and didn't even invite the host to his wedding yesterday."

"..." Xu Qiuqiu corrected it, "It's not that I got married, it's that I took the blame for the original female lead!"

003 thought for a moment and comforted her, saying, "It's okay. Anyway, it's a matriarchal society, so marrying the second male lead is the same."

Xu Qiuqiu thought 003 was too naive. "You think Achen has a noble status in this world? How could he possibly be a concubine?"

Thinking back to the previous worlds, his possessiveness was so strong. Maybe once she catches up with him and finds out she's married, he'll either devour her or tear the male lead apart.

Thinking of this, she asked 003, "By the way, what kind of personality does A-Chen have in this dimension?"