Chapter 3 How to Capture a Man's Heart
The setting sun melts gold, and the evening clouds merge into one.
After dinner, Liu Yuetang was sitting by the window reading a book.
After a while, hurried footsteps were heard in the quiet room.
Liu Yuetang knew who it was without looking up. Her eyes were still on the book, and she sat there motionless.
Liu Yueyao walked up to Liu Yuetang and stared at her condescendingly.
A dark shadow fell on the scroll. Liu Yuetang turned the book around and said calmly, "Sister, if you have something to say, please speak up. I still need to read."
Seeing her so calm, Liu Yueyao frowned and said, "Liu Yuetang, how does it feel to have your loved one taken away from you?"
"Is it heartbreaking? Heartbroken?"
Liu Yuetang still didn't raise her eyes, but the corners of her mouth curled up slightly, and she suddenly felt funny.
No matter in the past or in the future, Liu Yuetang will never be heartbroken for a man.
However, the calmer Liu Yuetang was, the angrier Liu Yueyao became.
She hated her own calm appearance, so she always appeared willful and capricious in the eyes of others.
She raised her voice and said, "I know you hate me so much right now..."
"Not just now? I have always hated you." Liu Yuetang slowly raised her eyelids, looking calm and composed.
"You..." Liu Yueyao was speechless.
After a moment, she raised her eyebrows and smiled sinisterly: "Liu Yuetang, evil will be punished by evil, how long do you think you can be so arrogant?"
"Do you know that the daughter of Shangshu Zuocheng entered the palace only half a year after the last selection? She was banished to the cold palace, went insane, and eventually died tragically?"
"And Sister Qiao from the Qiao Mansion was forced to hang herself last year because she offended Empress Yufei, and she also implicated the entire family."
Liu Yuetang was like someone who was listening to a lecture, not even frowning, and not feeling afraid at all.
She smiled brightly and gently: "Sister, do you know why those people didn't have a good ending?"
Liu Yueyao's face darkened: "Why?"
"Because they are all like you, sister, ignorant and stupid."
"You..." Liu Yueyao was so angry that her face turned red.
"Liu Yuetang! Are you rebelling? How dare you disrespect your elder sister!"
After saying that, she raised her hand and was about to slap Liu Yuetang on the cheek.
This time Liu Yuetang did not give in.
She held Liu Yueyao's hand firmly and froze in mid-air.
"Sister, if you smash my face, how am I supposed to participate in the talent show?"
"Or do you want me to go to the selection with a rotten face, just like you wish, and then misbehave in front of the emperor and bring trouble to the family?"
Liu Yueyao's eyes widened: "When did I ever say I hoped you would bring trouble to the family?"
Liu Yuetang shook her hand away fiercely, and because the force was a bit too strong, Liu Yueyao staggered a few steps without stability.
"Then sister, please don't say these unbearable words to me anymore, and pray for my safety and success in the palace, otherwise..."
She smiled faintly: "If I commit suicide, what will happen if it gets to my sister?"
Liu Yueyao was shocked and angry, and she was furious: "If you wanted to die, you would have died in the manor long ago. How could you be willing to commit suicide if you are so afraid of death?
"And don't forget, the Liu family doesn't just have me, there's also your father!" she said heavily.
Father? Liu Yuetang smiled inwardly.
The source of all her misfortunes and pain in her life was this father.
Her father has never been her weakness, and no one in this world is her weakness or concern.
After entering the palace, she just cared about being a queen, thinking about how to get to the top and how to win favor.
As for the Liu Mansion, whether it lives or dies has nothing to do with her.
Liu Yueyao finally took those words to heart, and in the days that followed, she never bothered Liu Yuetang again.
Seeing that there were still more than ten days before the internal selection, Liu Yuetang took advantage of her free time, brought some things, and went to Liu's house with Liu Zheng.
Liu's residence is the residence of Liu Hong, the younger brother of Liu Ming, and the journey takes only a cup of tea.
After the servant reported to her, Liu Yuetang went directly to her aunt's room.
If there was one person in the Liu family she was grateful to, it would be her aunt Bai Luoyang.
When Liu Yuetang arrived, Bai Luoyang was embroidering.
Even though it wasn't the first time he saw it, Liu Yuetang couldn't help but sigh.
No wonder my uncles would rather sever their mother-son relationship with my grandmother, give up their wealth and fortune, and start their own business just to marry my aunt.
It is true that a beauty like my aunt is hard to come by in a century.
My aunt is like a snow lotus that has not melted for thousands of years on the mountains. It is so beautiful that it is breathtaking, pure, quiet and beautiful.
Bai Luoyang heard the noise but kept her head down, embroidering without even looking up. She said in her usual indifferent tone, "You're going to the palace. Why are you here with me instead of working in the mansion?"
Liu Yuetang seemed to be accustomed to her coldness and naturally found a seat to sit down.
Her aunt didn't like those rules and regulations, so she didn't feel so restrained in front of her.
"I came to see my aunt and thank her again for saving my life."
Bai Luoyang raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "It's been a while."
"No matter how long it has been, I will always remember that in this family, only my aunt has extended a helping hand to me." Liu Yuetang spoke every word sincerely.
"If it weren't for my aunt, I'm afraid I wouldn't have known about the conspiracy of the Qi family mother and daughter, and I would have died long ago."
She had a serious illness last year, and after recovering, she always felt weak all over, so she asked the doctor to prescribe some medicine to regulate her body. If her aunt had not entered her room during her and Liu Yueyao's coming-of-age ceremony, she would never have known that a little bit of cold medicine was added to the medicine.
Bai Luoyang then put down her needlework and said, "It's just a small favor. I just can't stand them bullying you like this."
She slowly and methodically arranged the needle and thread and put it aside.
"The harem is the most difficult path, Yuetang, are you really ready?"
Liu Yuetang nodded vigorously, "Yuetang has only this one path to choose, and only this path can change her destiny."
"Yuetang came here this time to thank my aunt for her kindness, and secondly..."
She raised her head and glanced at Bai Luoyang's bright and charming face.
"Secondly, I came to ask my aunt how to capture a man's heart."
Bai Luoyang chuckled, and with her delicate hand she lifted a strand of hair that was scattered around her ear.
"I was born in a brothel. Why would you, a woman from a scholarly family, learn those tricks from me?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Liu Yuetang knelt down and said solemnly, "Everyone says that my aunt is a beauty that brings disaster, but Yuetang knows that my aunt has given everything to my uncle, even her life. In my heart, my aunt is purer and more innocent than those well-read women from aristocratic families."
Bai Luoyang was slightly stunned, she stared at Liu Yuetang in a daze.
This world has always been unfair to women.
Even though Bai Luoyang only sold her art and not her body, she waited for Liu Hong for ten whole years.
But what the world saw was that she was a beauty that brought disaster, and she bewitched Liu Hong so much that he left home in anger and became an unfilial son.
No one ever thought that Bai Luoyang also sacrificed her youth.
How many more decades of youth does a woman have?
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