Chapter 1208: The Meal Replacement Lady is Not Likeable (23)
Ji Xinbai looked at Yuan Shiwan in shock. When he realized what happened, his face suddenly became very ugly. Yuan Shiwan's face was not much better. Her action just now was subconscious, because she had been caring about the fact that Ji Xinbai touched Cheng Shuxiang last night. Therefore, when she saw Ji Xinbai touching her hand, she felt very disgusted at that moment and subconsciously slapped his hand away.
But after she slapped it away, she knew that her action was inappropriate. However, she felt that Ji Xinbai had broken his promise to her and touched other women, and she was the one who was wronged. Therefore, she could not bring herself to apologize, so she had to continue to have a cold face, hoping that Ji Xinbai could let the matter go.
But Ji Xinbai was a man who had never suffered any injustice. Being despised by his own wife, he naturally couldn't help but be angry with Yuan Shiwan. He felt that she was too jealous and petty, and even blamed her husband - at this moment, he had completely forgotten his promise to Yuan Shiwan.
The atmosphere was very tense at the moment, and if they weren't careful, a quarrel would break out between the two sides. However, Cheng Shuxiang was a knowledgeable and emotionally intelligent person. She knew that the quarrel between the Third Imperial Concubine and the Third Prince on the second day of her wedding would also affect her, so she smiled and broke the deadlock, finding a way for the two to back down, saying, "The Imperial Concubine must be feeling unwell, right? She looks a little pale, so I'll serve her some tea quickly so that she can go back and rest..."
Yuan Shiwan looked at Cheng Shuxiang, and saw that she had delicate eyebrows and eyes, and was a very charming beauty. She looked very good, and it seemed that she had a very happy wedding night last night. Yuan Shiwan felt jealous and sour, thinking, no wonder her husband couldn't even last one night, what man could resist such a beauty?
Yuan Shiwan, who was as disappointed as death, came down the steps of Cheng Shuxiang, drank the tea she offered, and did not embarrass her. Yuan Shiwan was still proud now, she disdained to embarrass other women, because she knew that if her husband did not have that intention, it would be impossible to have a successful wedding night, so even if she did not like Cheng Shuxiang, she would not blame her.
After the greetings and tea, Cheng Shuxiang went back to her own courtyard to rest, but Ji Xinbai did not leave with her. He was very dissatisfied with Yuan Shiwan's attitude just now and wanted to stay to see what explanation she had.
But Yuan Shiwan did not give any explanation. Instead, she was waiting for him to explain the bridal chamber to her.
The couple was silent for a while, and finally Yuan Shiwan spoke first: "Husband, you promised me that you would not touch other women, so why did you touch her?" As she spoke, her eyes were filled with tears.
When Ji Xinbai saw her like this, the anger in his heart disappeared immediately, and was replaced by guilt and heartache. He still had some feelings for Yuan Shiwan, and it was not pleasant to see her like this. However, the question she asked was difficult to answer. Should he honestly admit that he could not resist Cheng Shuxiang's charm?
"I, I drank too much... and thought she was you..." In the end, Ji Xinbai gave this excuse which was obviously a lie.
"Really?" Yuan Shiwan didn't know whether she believed it or not, but she didn't have the courage to continue asking.
"Wanwan, you are the one I love the most. No other woman can compare to you..." Ji Xinbai hugged Yuan Shiwan, who was crying, and coaxed her constantly, just like he did when he made her angry before.
But they both knew that things would never be the same as before, there was already a deep crack in the relationship between them, and there was no telling when this crack would become deeper and bigger, until it was broken beyond repair.
Yuan Shiwan suffered severe blows one after another and was in urgent need of seeking emotional comfort, but her closest husband was the source of her blows, so she could not get comfort from her husband; her father was a man and certainly could not understand her thoughts, and as for her stepmother, she knew that the relationship between mother and daughter was dead in name only since she asked her niece from her natal family to snatch her husband from her... So, who else could she go to?
Of course, she went to look for her ex-sister. In the past, her sister always supported her in everything she did. So when she felt wronged, she thought of Yuan Shichu again, and sent someone to the Zhan family to invite Yuan Shichu to visit the imperial palace.
However, Yuan Shichu was not at the Zhan family at all, but in a farm outside the capital, so Yuan Shiwan's people returned empty-handed. She couldn't go to the farm in person to find Yuan Shichu this time, because as the prince's consort, she could not leave the city easily.
If you can't meet someone, you can write a letter, so Yuan Shichu, who was in the suburbs of Beijing, received a letter from Yuan Shiwan.
In the letter, Yuan Shiwan wrote down everything, including how her stepmother Wang wanted to send her niece to the Third Prince as a concubine, and how the Third Prince broke his promise to her and had a relationship with Concubine Cheng. She also recounted her grievances in a plaintive and resentful manner... Anyway, it was just the complaints of a resentful woman whose husband was fickle. Yuan Shichu read the letter as entertainment, and she enjoyed reading these people's gossip.
As for being anxious for Yuan Shiwan? This kind of thing could never happen to her, she was not the original owner.
She was not worried, but rather had a mentality of just watching the fun. She felt that Yuan Shiwan's grievances at this moment were only minor. She would be even more miserable when Concubine Cheng became pregnant and gave birth to a child. By then, there would not only be a struggle between wives and concubines, but also a struggle between legitimate and illegitimate children, which would be even more brutal. She wondered how such an "innocent, pure, kind and lively" adopted sister would survive in the imperial palace?
After reading it, Yuan Shichu threw the letter away without any intention of replying. Although she liked to read gossip, she had no consciousness of solving the troubles for the protagonist of the gossip. What did the affairs of the imperial concubine have to do with her, an ordinary woman? She didn't need to worry about it.
So Yuan Shiwan didn't receive a reply from Yuan Shichu for a long time, so she wrote several more letters without giving up. However, the letters were full of complaints and grievances, without any substantial content. In the end, Yuan Shichu was too lazy to read them.
Zhan Shulin would go to the manor to look for Yuan Shichu every two or three days, and each time he tried to persuade her to go back home. Of course, he was never successful. In the end, he simply moved some of his commonly used things to the manor and treated the manor as his second home. It seemed that he was planning to fight a protracted war with Yuan Shichu.
Yuan Shichu saw that she couldn't drive him away, so she had to acquiesce. This guy was very greedy. Not only did he break into her house, he also occupied half of her bedroom.
The two of them took advantage of the divorce to move out and live away from home. They were no longer under the supervision of their elders at home and were living a very happy and carefree life.
At the beginning, Zhan Shulin could still pretend to be a gentleman with reserve, but later on he could roll up his trouser legs and sleeves without changing his expression and go to the river to catch fish with the children in the village, having more fun than Yuan Shichu.
(End of this chapter)
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