Jiang Mingzhe thought Ye Yunniang wanted a formal title, so he said, "Once you stop breastfeeding, I will take you as my concubine."
"I will not be a concubine," Ye Yunniang refused.
Jiang Mingzhe stopped what he was doing. "You want to be the second wife of the Jiang family?" His initial impression of Ye Yunniang's kindness and gentleness was beginning to crumble. Ye Yunniang was also an ambitious woman.
“No, I never thought about it.” Ye Yunniang found Jiang Mingzhe’s words unbelievable.
Jiang Mingzhe is so clever!
Realizing he had misunderstood, Jiang Mingzhe felt a little better. "Then what do you want?"
Ye Yunniang: I hope you'll never bother me again in this lifetime. She dared not say these words aloud.
"I don't want anything."
"You're just saying that." Jiang Mingzhe didn't believe it, and pushed Ye Yunniang backward onto the bed.
"Ah—" Ye Yunniang screamed in fright and turned to run away.
Jiang Mingzhe didn't give her a chance and held her hands and feet down.
"I've said it before, you're mine. You have no right to say no until I get tired of you." Jiang Mingzhe tightened his grip.
Tear...
"Let go of me." Ye Yunniang said aggrievedly, crossing her arms to block Jiang Mingzhe's hand.
"I won't let go." Jiang Mingzhe took a big bite.
Ye Yunniang felt the pain and suddenly remembered what Cai Damei had told her.
Jiang Mingzhe is no ordinary man; he led the Jiang family from ordinary wealthy merchants to the richest family in Jiangcheng. You can't confront someone like him head-on; you have to be gentle. Don't keep things to yourself; speak to him directly.
"Second Master, please spare me. I'm afraid of dying." Ye Yunniang's voice was trembling with tears.
"Who wants to harm you?"
"You." Ye Yunniang's words made Jiang Mingzhe stop what he was doing.
"How did I harm you?"
Ye Yunniang stopped hiding her thoughts and shared them.
"After you made your stance clear to me, Second Master, I thought about it for a while. As a mere wet nurse, I can't fight against the powerful; there's no way I can avoid it."
I eat and drink foods that promote lactation every day, and my libido is also a bit high.
My mother said that both men and women have desires, and thinking about sex isn't shameful. Second Master, you're not ugly. With you, I won't be at a disadvantage.
I can't stay at the Jiang residence for more than a few months. So I might as well loosen up and have a short one with you,”
Ye Yunniang hummed twice, embarrassed, "I know you've seen all kinds of women, Second Master. My relationship with you is just a passing fancy. You'll get tired of me soon."
Ye Yunniang felt a little wronged as she spoke, but quickly adjusted her mindset.
"Life goes on. When the time comes, I won't be a wet nurse in the Jiang family anymore. I'll take the money I earned as a wet nurse and go home to reunite with my mother and son."
Thinking of Cai Damei and Pan'er, Ye Yunniang laughed.
Jiang Mingzhe laughed when he heard this; the little woman beneath him was quite self-aware.
"Didn't you ever think that I might become addicted to you and never let go?"
Ye Yunniang: Σ( ° △ °|||)︴
"Second Master, please don't scare me, okay? I'm easily frightened."
"You've got some nerve, daring to use me as a tool for self-satisfaction." Jiang Mingzhe said, then bit Ye Yunniang hard.
"You already know." Ye Yunniang chuckled on the surface, but in her heart she was just having a good time.
What should she do? Her mother didn't teach her what to do in a situation like this.
"Ye Yunniang, what are you afraid of?"
"I'm afraid the Second Madam will kill me if she finds out about what happened between you and me," Ye Yunniang honestly revealed her true feelings.
She won't know.
Who can guarantee that?
"I promise I won't let her do anything reckless."
“I disagree with what you’re saying, sir. The young master didn’t offend the second madam, yet she still took action. Besides, Chun Tao’s cousin and those concubines who were pregnant in your room before, they all disappeared by various means.”
At this point, Ye Yunniang felt that Jiang Mingzhe was truly cold-hearted. His concubine had gotten pregnant and given birth to his child, and he just watched her be murdered. Don't even mention accidents; a difficult childbirth could be explained away, but all eight or nine pregnancies before and after were accidents.
Are you kidding me?
Ye Yunniang then thought about how she was just a wet nurse who couldn't be seen in public, and how she had gotten involved in Jiang Tingjun's abduction.
Ye Yunniang became increasingly frightened as she thought about it, and her body trembled uncontrollably.
"Master, do you know what? I'm having nightmares now, and in my dreams, the Second Madam is hacking me to death with a cleaver."
Jiang Mingzhe couldn't refute Ye Yunniang's words.
Married for five years without children, Jiang Mingzhe also wanted one. Zhuang Meixue arranged for him to have a concubine, which he did not refuse.
Tongfang quickly became pregnant, and Jiang Mingzhe was overjoyed; he finally had a child.
Jiang Mingzhe still remembers it vividly; it was the dead of winter, and the snow outside was a foot deep. Ignoring the servants' advice, he insisted on rushing home, hoping to see his child before the baby was born.
He overcame countless difficulties to return, only to find a stillborn baby. It was said that the child had suffocated in the womb due to a difficult birth.
Jiang Mingzhe still remembers the child's bluish-purple face.
Zhuang Meixue, who had always acted virtuously, claimed it was an accident, and Jiang Mingzhe believed her. He buried the concubine and the child, and lit an eternal lamp for them, hoping the child would be reborn into a better family.
But after several subsequent incidents, Jiang Mingzhe became suspicious. He secretly had someone investigate, and the lack of results was not unexpected.
Upon learning the truth, Jiang Mingzhe locked himself in his room for a day and a night.
Jiang Mingzhe and Zhuang Meixue cannot afford to fall out, much less divorce. The Jiang and Zhuang families are too deeply intertwined.
Jiang Mingzhe understood that the Jiang family needed to gradually sever ties with the Zhuang family.
Jiang Mingzhe realized that Zhuang Meixue didn't want anyone else to bear his child. From then on, Jiang Mingzhe never took another concubine and spent the whole year busy outside. He figured he would just continue living like this.
But he never expected that he would develop feelings for one of the wet nurses in his fourth brother's room.
They never expected that Zhuang Meixue would get pregnant and that she would consider exchanging babies because of an unstable pregnancy.
Jiang Mingzhe didn't want to raise someone else's son, so he secretly made arrangements to switch the child back. However, things didn't go as planned; Zhuang Meixue suffered a miscarriage and could no longer conceive.
Jiang Mingzhe felt angry upon receiving the news, but mostly relieved.
Using this incident, Jiang Mingzhe brought down Ma Xiangu and the prefect behind her, and installed Bao Min, whom he had previously sponsored, as the prefect of Jiangcheng. This put the Zhuang family and the Lin family at odds, weakening both of their strength.
Jiang Mingzhe's calculations were perfect, but man proposes, God disposes. He never imagined that Zhuang Meixue would hold a grudge against the entire Jiang family because of her miscarriage. First, she caused Bai Xiuxiu's miscarriage, and then she wanted to sell Jiang Tingjun.
He hugged the trembling Ye Yunniang, saying, "Dreams are all fake."
Ye Yunniang gripped Jiang Mingzhe's clothes tightly, "Master, I'm scared~ I'm really, really scared~"
"What do you want me to do?"
Ye Yunniang: I want you to get out now and never come to my bed again.
The words that were about to come out lingered on Ye Yunniang's tongue, "I think, sir, you can, please stop."
Dealing with shrewd businessmen every day, Ye Yunniang's little schemes couldn't be kept from Jiang Mingzhe at all.
What you really want to say is that I shouldn't come.
Ye Yunniang rolled her eyes inwardly; she already knew the answer, so why ask?
"Please give me some face." Once she spoke up, Ye Yunniang revealed the playful side she showed when facing someone she knew well.
Jiang Mingzhe liked it very much and wasn't angry.
"Let me stop bothering you, fine."
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