So she could only bite her lip and keep silent, while Duan Tingxuan continued, "Since you and Ran Yunzhi and Lan Jing'er came into my family, you all know how I have treated you. I admit that I am a bit romantic and I love beauties. When I see a beautiful woman, I can't help wanting to have her. However, in the past two years, because of you and other things to do in the court, I have tried my best to control this habit and have not added anyone new to my side."
"Then I really have to thank you for your loyalty."
Su Nuannuan was still mocking. Duan Tingxuan seemed not to care, and said to himself: "I like you all very much, including you who first came in. I dare not say that this is love. Love should be loyal to only one person, which I am not, but I married you into my family, and I really want to treat you well. But things are often not as expected. When you come to me, you are different from what I saw at the beginning. So Nuannuan, I didn't throw you to Meiyue Tower to fend for yourself because I love the new and hate the old. Today, I am not going to destroy the bridge across the river to Ran Yun just to please you. In the final analysis, some of your things are beyond my tolerance bottom line. For example, Nuannuan, you used to be arrogant and extravagant. Even if I am not frugal, I really can't accept your extravagance, so we gradually drifted apart. In the end, because of more things, I completely gave up on you, and you probably completely despaired of me. If there was no opportunity that evening in Meiyue Tower, I am afraid we would really never see each other again."
"What does that opportunity in the evening refer to?" Su Nuannuan was confused. She had no memory of any opportunity in the evening.
"Chive dumplings." Duan Tingxuan looked at her resentfully, obviously remembering the torment he had suffered that day because of those leek dumplings.
"You haven't forgotten to eat yet." Su Nuannuan was speechless. Of course, she immediately remembered that the so-called opportunity in the evening was actually the first time she met Duan Tingxuan after coming to this world.
"As for Ran Yun and Zhi Lan, they were very good at pleasing me when I was alienating you, so I naturally got close to them. But since Ran Yun took over the family, her true nature has been exposed little by little, including the last time she instigated her mother to go to Meiyue Tower; including this time when she drove away the daughter-in-law of the Xue family, she revealed everywhere that she could not tolerate others and was narrow-minded and mean, even making up stories out of nothing. I don't like this. This is also the fundamental reason why I don't want her to be the head of the family today. She is not a qualified head of the family. Zhi Lan is always docile, but she is too docile. If her personality is like this, she can't manage family affairs. If she is just pretending, then her scheming is so deep and terrible that even I find it intolerable. How can I let her take on the position of head of the family?"
He is indeed a fox. Even such a stunning beauty cannot make him obsessed. On the contrary, he remains terribly sober, just like a beast.
Su Nuannuan suppressed her desire to complain and listened to Duan Tingxuan continue in silence: "There is no need to say anything about Aunt Jiang. She is Ran Yun's dowry. She has always obeyed Ran Yun's words. It's just for Chuan'er's sake that I turned a blind eye to their activities. After all, they didn't do anything bad. As for Jing'er..." At this point, he shook his head and smiled, and said softly: "Jing'er grew up in a brothel. She has seen too many intrigues. In her own words, if it weren't for her extraordinary appearance and talent, and the human traffickers treated her as a cash cow, she would have died long ago. She is a very proud person and disdains to use these means. Although I redeemed her as my aunt, she doesn't have too many feelings for me, and she is not willing to be jealous of me."
"Really? Even the young marquis of the Flower Kingdom couldn't make Aunt Jing fall in love? Are you kidding me?"
Su Nuannuan was really surprised this time, but she saw Duan Tingxuan smiled and said, "What's so strange about this? Even if he is the most handsome man in the world, it is impossible for all women to fall in love with him, not to mention that my appearance may not be the best in the world. Not only Jing'er, but even Nuannuan, aren't you also disdainful of me now?"
"I've lost all hope, so I won't be nice to any man anymore, including you." Su Nuannuan snorted coldly and reiterated her attitude.
Duan Tingxuan had expected this answer, and he sighed and continued, "You just lost all hope in me, and Jing'er, probably lost all hope in all men."
"No way? Isn't she a prostitute?" Su Nuannuan was curious again. After she finished speaking, she realized that she was still concerned about gossip at such a serious moment. This spirit could be compared to the young marquis's obsession with food. Helpless!
"It's true that she was a prostitute, but according to her, ever since she was old enough to understand, she knew that she would have to spend her life with thousands of men sleeping on her arms. She was afraid all the time and kept looking for a chance to escape. It was precisely because of this belief that she was able to hold on in the brothel for ten years. For this goal, she gritted her teeth and sold her smiles. In addition to her body, she used every means to get money from the customers in order to redeem herself. But in the end, she didn't get enough money. Many people wanted to redeem her, but she refused because she knew what their purpose was in redeeming her."
"The key is that those men are all fat and rotten, right? If there was a handsome and elegant man like the young marquis, Aunt Jing would have changed her ways long ago." Su Nuannuan sneered, but saw her husband glanced at her with disdain: "I just said that Jing'er is disappointed with all men. How can I be the one who is different? Do you think there is no young man willing to redeem her?"
"Then why did she end up in your hands?" Su Nuannuan was more interested, and she didn't even care that Duan Tingxuan sat next to her unknowingly.
"That's because... ahem, your husband has a little reputation in the capital." Duan Tingxuan coughed and said a little embarrassedly: "Everyone says that I was shocked by Jing'er's beauty, so I spent a lot of money to redeem her, and even used my power. In fact, it's not true at all. I met her only because I was dragged to a brothel by the second prince."
"The Second Prince went with you? And you ended up getting Aunt Jing?" Su Nuannuan looked at Duan Tingxuan suspiciously: "Is the Second Prince a wooden man?"
"Haha! He is almost a wooden man. He loves books all his life. Do you think he went to the brothel for romantic purposes? Bullshit! He went to see the various aspects of the brothel and wanted to compile what he saw and heard into a book about ancient and modern things. But he was embarrassed to do so, so he asked me to accompany him. Later, I found that this job was too tiring, so I introduced him to a classmate of mine. That guy is not good at writing eight-part essays, but he has traveled all over the world at a young age and has broad knowledge and talent. I heard that the two of them are now in a hot relationship. The second prince has ignored me for more than a year."
"Is this the royal version of getting bored with the old and loving the new?"
Su Nuannuan was distracted by another piece of gossip in a blink of an eye. Fortunately, the young marquis was still in the spirit of building a building. He quickly brought the topic back and said with a faint smile: "When we met Jing'er that day, we just drank and chatted with her. Just when we were about to leave, Jing'er suddenly knelt down and begged me to redeem her. She was a little mentally ill at that time. She kept saying that if I didn't redeem her, she would have no choice but to die. That... cough, you also know that such a beautiful woman was in tears in front of me, and I also saw that she really had the intention to die, so how could she be as hard as stone, right? In the end, I took out almost half of my private treasury to redeem her, a full 20,000 silver coins, which was simply... a handful of blood and tears. My private treasury was severely damaged, and it was not until today that it finally recovered as before."
Su Nuannuan was completely stunned. Twenty thousand silver? Was there such a valuable courtesan in her history? Author? Where is the author? Do you have too little knowledge about money in ancient times? Even if this is a fictional era, you shouldn't be so ridiculous. Your view of money was not like this before. It was said that one thousand taels of silver was enough for a dozen middle-class families to live for three or four years. (Benjiu: Nonsense, Miss Jing is as beautiful as a fairy. What country in Europe fought for a beautiful woman Helen for ten years? What's twenty thousand silver?)
"Well, Aunt Jing is really beautiful, 20,000 silver... it's not a loss." Su Nuannuan said this, but she had already quickly calculated how much food could be bought with 20,000 silver, and finally came to the conclusion: Young Marquis, this is more than a loss? He was simply cheated. Is the power behind the brothel madam the emperor? How dare she cheat Duan Tingxuan like this?
"Haha!" Duan Tingxuan forced a stiff smile. "It's not a big loss. Nuannuan, let me tell you, you wouldn't believe me before, but now you might believe me. Jing'er has been in the mansion for more than two years, and the number of times I have... that... with her is not even enough to count on one hand."
"Puff!" Su Nuannuan sprayed on the spot. There was no tea, but several drops of saliva sprayed out: This... Although it is a happy thing to see a scumbag being cheated, but this... isn't it a bit too much? The beautiful woman who was redeemed with 20,000 silver coins, the number of times she has enjoyed it in more than two years is not enough for a slap, this... How can this be described with just one word "cheating"? It's basically cheating people to death without paying for it.
"Just laugh, gloating over someone else's misfortune." Duan Tingxuan probably felt embarrassed. If it were in the past, the young marquis would never tell this secret to anyone, but now, he wondered why he and Su Nuannuan were so close and intimate. They were so close that he didn't care about anything else. What was a man's face? The most important thing was to make the thorn in Nuannuan's heart slowly disappear.
"Why is Aunt Jing like this? Although I hate you, I can honestly say that it's hard to find someone like me even with a lantern." Su Nuannuan was really curious, so curious that she didn't hesitate to praise Duan Tingxuan a few times just to know the answer.
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