Chapter 179 So Tacky
Wang looked at the pink dress Xie Hanyue brought in with a blank expression and said indifferently, "The color is tacky!"
Xie Hanyue had been trying to please Wang Shi these past few days, but she didn't know what was going on. Before, Wang Shi would smile whenever she saw her, but now no matter what she said or did, Wang Shi only gave her indifference and impatience.
Seeing Wang Shi like this, Xie Hanyue's eyes welled up with tears of grievance: "Mother, do you not like the clothes or you don't like Yue'er? Mother, did Yue'er do something wrong? Why are you treating Yue'er like this?"
As she spoke, Xie Hanyue knelt down in front of Madam Wang, holding her hand tightly, tears streaming down her face: "Mother, please, if Yue'er has really done something wrong, please tell Yue'er, okay? Yue'er will definitely change. Please don't treat Yue'er like this, Yue'er's heart is breaking."
This child has always been the most charming when she was little. At that time, Wang Shi thought it was endearing, but now, looking at her eyes and brows that are exactly like those of the Imperial Concubine, she only feels disgusted.
"stand up."
Wang withdrew her hand, her voice icy cold.
"Mother!"
Xie Hanyue crawled forward on her knees and grabbed Wang's hand again.
"Please, Mother, don't treat me like this, okay?"
"Mother, it's me, Yue'er, your daughter. You used to love me the most, why are you like this now?"
Xie Zhaoye had come to pay his respects to Madam Wang, but he never expected to see this scene. He quickly stepped forward to help his sister up, and then looked at Madam Wang with some confusion: "Mother, what did my sister do wrong?"
“She did nothing wrong, and I didn’t make her kneel down.”
"She knelt down and cried on her own, so how can you blame me, her mother?"
Wang raised an eyebrow, looking displeased at Xie Zhaoye who was questioning her.
That expression, that tone, it's exactly like Xie Qingran's.
Xie Zhaoye finally understood who Xie Qingran took after to be like that!
If Xie Qingran had said that, Xie Zhaoye would have slapped her across the face. But since the person speaking to her was his own mother, even though Xie Zhaoye was displeased, he couldn't actually hit her. He could only sigh helplessly and say, "Mother, my sister is still young. If she does something wrong, we can talk about it slowly. Why punish her like this and make her sad?"
“I have no punishment,” Wang said again.
She stood up and looked at Xie Hanyue, who was still trembling, and said coldly, "You really are capable. You can make Xie Zhaoye disown his own sister, and now you can make him talk back to his own mother. What's next? What do you plan to make him do next? Tell me!"
"mother?"
Xie Hanyue looked at Wang Shi in disbelief.
In the past, such tricks were almost always successful, but no one expected that Wang would expose them so quickly.
Having been in the inner quarters for so many years, how could Madam Wang not see through such tricks? She only refrained from pursuing the matter before because she doted on Xie Hanyue. Now that she thinks about it, Madam Wang feels even more sorry for Xie Qingran, as she had let her own daughter suffer so much injustice for nothing!
"Fine, you can all leave now." Madam Wang waved her hand impatiently, signaling them to leave.
Xie Zhaoye was about to argue his case when Xie Hanyue grabbed his arm, shook her head with tears in her eyes, and pulled him outside.
"Look at my silly son, he really thinks she's an innocent little girl."
Wang looked at Xie Zhaoye with disgust at his useless appearance.
Seeing Wang Shi like this, Aunt Liu was also puzzled: "Madam, why are you doing this? You love the Second Miss, aren't you just making yourself suffer?"
"She doesn't deserve it."
After learning Xie Hanyue's identity, Wang immediately felt a physical aversion to her. Whenever she saw Xie Hanyue being raised like a delicate flower, she would think of how she had been kept in the dark by those two people all these years!
"Madam, is something wrong?" Aunt Liu looked at Madam Wang with a worried expression.
She was part of Wang's dowry and had grown up with Wang since childhood, so she could tell at a glance that Wang had something on her mind.
This secret is something I can't say out loud, something I can't tell her.
Wang sighed, "What a tragedy! If I had known Xie Yankang was this kind of person, I would never have married him, even if you beat me to death!"
"Madam, don't talk nonsense. The young master and young lady are so grown up now, how can they still say such things?"
"Aunt Lian's baby is due soon, so we should make plans as soon as possible."
Aunt Liu looked at Madam Wang with a worried expression.
In the past, Madam Wang loved Xie Yankang. For Xie Hanyue's sake, she was always very harsh on the concubines in the inner quarters and absolutely forbade any of them to have children.
But now...
Wang felt disgusted just thinking about Xie Yankang, so how could she care whether he had children with other women?
She scoffed dismissively, "He's just a bastard born out of wedlock, so what? My Zhaoye is all grown up, what can a little brat do to him? Prepare some good things to send to Aunt Lian, she'll have done a good job in continuing the family line."
"Madam?" Aunt Liu was utterly shocked.
In the past, Wang had always been domineering in possessing Xie Yankang. How come she doesn't care at all now when she mentions him, and even seems disgusted, as if she's talking about a pile of stinky dog shit?
But Wang did not respond; she simply sighed silently.
She got up, opened her makeup box, and packed away all her treasured items.
Xie Qingran is her only daughter, and the daughter who looks most like her.
She had neglected her daughter for many years, and now she wanted to give her the best of everything.
Soon they arrived at the Shen family's pleasure boat party.
Xie Qingran dressed herself up as soon as she got up in the morning. Her face was pale and her lips were colorless. In order to make herself look okay, Xie Qingran intensified the color of her rouge. She looked a little different from her usual elegant self, with more of a woman's beauty and charm!
"Princess Consort, you are so beautiful!" Baozhu leaned closer, looking at Xie Qingran with envy. "I thought you were already very beautiful on ordinary days, but today you are even more radiant, like a red peony!"
Xie Qingran pinched her cheek and said with a laugh, "Your mouth is getting better and better at talking!"
"Oh dear, Your Highness, please don't laugh at me. I'm only speaking from the heart!"
"Princess Consort, you are so beautiful!"
Baozhu rubbed her cheeks and smiled gently at Xie Qingran.
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