Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2 - Barely Escaping With Her Life
Chapter 3 - Cruel And Unscrupulous Relatives (1)
Chapter 4 - Cruel And Unscrupulous Relatives (2)
Chapter 5 - Sharing The Same Bed
Chapter 6 - Perverted Thief
Chapter 7 - Cousin Of The Ruan Family
Chapter 8 - Stirring Revenge
Chapter 9 - Princess Yang'S Agenda
Chapter 10 - The Fightback Of Madame Lu
Chapter 11 - The Threat Of Qiu Mingzhu
Chapter 12 - Beautiful Youth In The Snow
Chapter 13 - A Chance To Escape
Chapter 14 - Met Rival In Love On The Road
Chapter 15 - Famous Prostitute Was Sentimental
Chapter 16 - Cousin Qingyan'S Origin
Chapter 17 - Midnight Tryst (Part One)
Chapter 18 - Midnight Tryst (Part Two)
Chapter 19 - What Should I Wear?"
Chapter 20 - You Are Such A Beast!
Chapter 21 - Beat Your Head Broken And Bleeding!
Chapter 22 - Fight Between Mother And Daughter-In-Law
Chapter 23 - The Attempted Murder In Ganli Palace
Chapter 24 - Involved In Trouble
Chapter 25 - Be Involved In Big Trouble!
Chapter 26 - Digging Deep While Digging
Chapter 27 - Destroying His Future!
Chapter 28 - You Do It Wrong, Watching Me!
Chapter 29 - Inside The Fu Ning Palace
Chapter 30 - Solicit Patronage
Chapter 31 - Misogyny
Chapter 32 - The True Face Of Cousin
Chapter 33 - A Cousin Who Cares For You Like Your Mother
Chapter 34 - Prince Of Zhou
Chapter 35 - Decisive Prince Of Yan
Chapter 36 - What Does “Try Peaceful Means Before Resorting To Force” Mean?
Chapter 37 - Questioning Visit
Chapter 38 - Assemble On Imperial Court
Chapter 39 - Fierce Battle In Golden Hall!
Chapter 40 - A Sudden Clap Of Thunder!
Chapter 41 - Do You Have Designs On My Cousin?
Chapter 42 - Exactly Touched The Spot
Chapter 43 - How About Digging Them Out?
Chapter 44 - "Nianxue? Whitey?"
Chapter 45 - Strived For Favor
Chapter 46 - Picking A Son-In-Law
Chapter 47 - Who'S Shy?
Chapter 48 - The Poison Youmianxiang
Chapter 49 - The Official Mother And The Official Brother Came
Chapter 50 - Battle Of Wits, Or Cruelty?
Chapter 51 - Qiu Bo
Chapter 52 - Lian Family Arrived
Chapter 53 - Another Debate On Imperial Court!
Chapter 54 - Guilty As Charged
Chapter 55 - Actually, I Come Here To Offer Help!
Chapter 56 - Asked Her To See Me
Chapter 57 - The Conspiracy Arising Out Of The Poisonyoumianxiang
Chapter 58 - My Death Was A Must?!
Chapter 59 - Playacting, Who Cheated Who?
Chapter 60 - Cannot See The Forest For The Trees
Chapter 61 - An Eye For An Eye!
Chapter 62 - You Are So Heartless And Ruthless. You Totally Broke My Heart!
Chapter 63 - Premiership For You, Dowry Returned To Me
Chapter 64 - General Jiang After Bath
Chapter 65 - Don'T Worry, You Are Out Of My League!
Chapter 66 - An Unexpected Visitor
Chapter 67 - Wait And See Who Will Be Ruined
Chapter 68 - Hey, Time To Pay The Protection Fee!
Chapter 69 - Mistress Bian Was Pregnant
Chapter 70 - My Brother Told Me
Chapter 71 - A Disservice To Dear Brother
Chapter 72 - That Is Your Fate!
Chapter 73 - Be At The Second Rank
Chapter 74 - Noble Girls' Gathering
Chapter 75 - General’S Family Was Full Of Drama
Chapter76 - I Was A Bossy Girl In Nature
Chapter 77 - I Was The No. One
Chapter 78 - Kneel In Front Of Me
Chapter 79 - Being The Brother, The Father, Also The Mother
Chapter 80 - Don'T Disturb My Cousin!
Chapter 81 - Let Me Teach You How To Be A Man
Chapter 82 - Alone In A Room
Chapter 83 - Be My Maid?
Chapter 84 - Why Were You Hiding Here?!
Chapter 85 - No Need To Explain To You!
Chapter 86 - Are You Qualified To Mind My Business?
Chapter 87 - Is This Your Marriage Proposal?!
Chapter 88 - A Pile Of Good-Guy Cards For You....
Chapter 89 - I'M Born To Be A Dangerous Beauty!
Chapter 90 - Here Comes Another Eavesdropper
Chapter 91 - You Can Scream, But No One Will Ever Come To Help You!
Chapter 92 - You Have The Courage To Bow Down To Me, But You Don’T Have The Courage To Help Your Son
Chapter 93 - I Did Not Care Whether She Liked Me Or Not
Chapter 94 - Ruan Qingyan Denounced Me Again...
Chapter 95 - Older And Wiser
Chapter 96 - The Active Princess Yongfu
Chapter 97 - She Was Scolded By Cousin...
Chapter 98 - Things That Shouldn'T Be Asked About
Chapter 99 - Have A Foot In Both Camps
Chapter 100 - Cousin, You Are Innocent
Chapter 101 - Diversion. Pull The Plug (1)
Chapter 102 - Diversion. Pull The Plug (2)
Chapter 103 - Diversion. Pull The Plug (3)
Chapter 104 - Diversion. Pull The Plug (4)
Chapter 105 - Give Me My Stuff Back
Chapter 106 - He Will Be A Dead Man If He Won’T
Chapter 107 - Do You Think I Want To Marry Only For The Wealth?!
Chapter 108 - How Dare You Insult My Cousin! I Will Kill You!
Chapter 109 - Don'T You Care About Her Baby?!
Chapter 110 - I Will Be At Daggers Drawn With You All My Life!
Chapter 111 - The Lost Property
Chapter 112 - Misunderstood Hush Money
Chapter 113 - A Psychologically Twisted Wild Child
Chapter 114 - You Will Never Get Away With It!
Chapter 115 - Trouble Knocking On The Xue Family'S Door
Chapter 116 - Don'T Compete With Me For A Man, Aunt!
Chapter 117 - In Which Way You Choose To Die?
Chapter 118 - Cousin Was Humiliated
Chapter 119 - Is Jiang Yashuang Making A Proposal?!
Chapter 120 - I Don'T Love You At All!
Chapter 121 - Guess What I'M Gonna Do?
Chapter 122 - Missed The One-On-One
Chapter 123 - Got A Godmother As Your Backer?
Chapter 124 - General Ruan Passed Away
Chapter 125 - The Funeral
Chapter 126 - You Have Taught A Good Son!
Chapter 127 - Make False Countercharges
Chapter 128 - The Person Behind The Scenes
Chapter 129 - Spoil The Concubine And Ruin The Wife
Chapter 130 - Allow To Be Buried In Emperor'S Tomb
Chapter 131 - I Must Marry You!
Chapter 132 - As The Rumor Goes, Drunk After One Glass Of Wine
Chapter 133 - I Will Marry You, Lady!
Chapter 134 - My Mourning Period Is Over Finally
Chapter 135 - How Can I Cancel My Engagement
Chapter 136 - Aunt Lian In Distress
Chapter 137 - Internal Strife Of The Jiang Family
Chapter 138 - Is It Pure Relationship Between Brother And Sister?
Chapter 139 - I Let You Leave The Jing City Because Of Yelan
Chapter 140 - The Princess Yang'S Request
Chapter 141 - All With Their Own Designs
Chapter 142 - Kept The Promise Or Die!
Chapter 143 - Miserable Princesses
Chapter 144 - Took Our Cats. Let'S Go!
Chapter 145 - The Trouble
Chapter 146 - Sabotaged Before The Competition
Chapter 147 - The Skill Is Not Enough. The Integrity Can Complete It.
Chapter 148 - Win Aggressively
Chapter 149 - The Immortal At Magpie Bridge Knocked The Door
Chapter 150 - Did You Know That Truth Should Be Brought Into Light.
Chapter 151 - Scheme Emerging
Chapter 152 - Show The Culinary Talents For The First Time
Chapter 153 - Good Boy, Yashuang!
Chapter 154 - Easy, Bro. She Won'T Torture You To Death!
Chapter 155 - I Did Beat Her!
Chapter 156 - The Murder
Chapter 157 - Cousin'S Crisis
Chapter 158 - Do You Suspect Me Of Having An Affair With My Cousin?
Chapter 159 - An Unexpected Betrayal!
Chapter 160 - Leave My Sister Alone. Or You Would Die!
Chapter 161 - She Was Fooled Because She Trusted Me!
Chapter 162 - Told Sister I Won!
Chapter 163 - How Do I Call You?
Chapter 164 - Daddy And Soldiers
Chapter 165 - That Was All He Could Do
Chapter 166 - Bad Karma In Elders
Chapter 167 - Didn'T You Say I'M Your Beloved One?
Chapter 168 - Don'T Ruin My Cousin!
Chapter 169 - Are You Telling A Story?!
Chapter 170 - She Must Be Having An Affair!
Chapter 171 - The Fiances Met Each Other Again
Chapter 172 - Stop Flirting With Each Other In Front Of Me!
Chapter 173 - Are You Sure You'Re Worth So Much?
Chapter 174 - Is Your Brother Married?
Chapter 175 - Don'T You Think You Need A Sister-In-Law?
Chapter 176 - Assassination!
Chapter 177 - That Is My Brother! My Sibling!
Chapter 178 - When Was I Ever Arrogant To You Guys?
Chapter 179 - Unexpectable Road Ahead After Rivals In Love Met
Chapter 180 - One More Vicious Stab
Chapter 181 - What Sincerity Was It By Just Working Hard For You As Cattle And Horses?
Chapter 182 - The Leftover Value Of Aunt Qiu
Chapter 183 - Empress Jiang'S Worries
Chapter 184 - That'S Great. I'M Single Too!
Chapter 185 - Unfilial Grandson! Unworthy Of My Love!
Chapter 186 - Really Want To Punch This Brother-In-Law!
Chapter 187 - You Know Nothing About Men'S Relationship! You Little Girl!
Chapter 188 - Dating After Dusk
Chapter 189 - Slip And Hug Again
Chapter 190 - The Brother-In-Law Who Had A Sister Complex Was Terrifying
Chapter 191 - An Episode Before The Emperor'S Birthday
Chapter 192 - A Gift Battle In The Birthday Ceremony
Chapter 193 - Why Do I Have To Avoid Them?
Chapter 194 - Happened To Find Out An Affair
Chapter 195 - Earthquake! Live Or Die Together!
Chapter 196 - Turmoil!
Chapter 197 - Can He Make It Or Not?!
Chapter 198 - You B*St*Rd! What Have You Done To Me?
Chapter 199 - Are You Familiar With Him?
Chapter 200 - Added Insult To Injury
Chapter 201 - Rumors, Intended For The East Palace, Were Everywhere
Chapter 202 - The Duke Of Puyang Returns A Favour
Chapter 203 - Just Pretend To Have Amnesia
Chapter 204 - Noble Man Is Easy To Impress
Chapter 205 - Master Qiu'S Unexpected Marriage
Chapter 206 - Young Master Ruan Is Such A Great Man That Every Girl Wants Him!
Chapter 207 - The Plots Of Prime Minister Xue
Chapter 208 - My Brother Has Been Ruined. It Was Impossible To Take The Northern Army!
Chapter 209 - The First Branch Is To Blame. What Does It Have To Do With Me?
Chapter 210 - Two Happy Events At Once
Chapter 211 - Got Married
Chapter 212 - Wedding Night
Chapter 213 - The Troublesome Phoenix Hairpin
Chapter 214 - Our Family Is More Complicated Than You Think!
Chapter 215 - Teach The First Branch A Lesson
Chapter 216 - Just Wanted To Show Off In Front Of Them!
Chapter 217 - Who Cares About Your Family Rules?
Chapter 218 - It Was So Nice To Have A Husband Backed Up
Chapter 219 - Don'T Be Busy Crying
Chapter 220 - If You Don'T Fight It, How Do You Know?
Chapter 221 - I Knew My Wife Was Smart!
Chapter 222 - You Deserved! You Spoiled Him!
Chapter 223 - I Know You Have Your Difficulties
Chapter 224 - Hard To Be A Daughter-In-Law
Chapter 225 - The Candidate For The Crown Princess
Chapter 226 - Fear The Nagging Of "Giving Birth To A Boy Once And For All"
Chapter 227 - A Messy Arranged Marriage
Chapter 228 - Helplessly Compromise
Chapter 229 - The Hatred Went Deeper!
Chapter 230 - Offer Advice
Chapter 231 - Something Bad Happened At Home!
Chapter 232 - The Insidious Tao Family
Chapter 233 - Madame Tao Junior'S Crisis!
Chapter 234 - You Cheap Concubine, You Are So Malicious!
Chapter 235 - I Wanted To Kill Jiang Yadan More And More!
Chapter 236 - Your Brother Wants Who To Replace Me?
Chapter 237 - Hoist With Their Own Petards!
Chapter 238 - The Tao Family'S Great Regret
Chapter 239 - Immoral Maiden Family And Unhappy Husband
Chapter 240 - The One With A Child Rules The Backyard
Chapter 241 - A Huge Variation Of The Fight For The Crown Prince!
Chapter 242 - An Undercurrent Arising From Whitey
Chapter 243 - Invitations? It Was More Of A Declaration Of War
Chapter 244 - Take Measures Accordingly. Only They Smart?
Chapter 245 - Wanted To Get Out? Got Out With Scars!
Chapter 246 - Sound Her Out
Chapter 247 - The War Between Women
Chapter 248 - The Fight For The Position Of Crown Prince Should Be Accelerated!
Chapter 249 - Killing Two Birds With One Stone?
Chapter 250 - Who Would Be Willing To Be A Pawn If He Could Be The Master?
Chapter 251 - Hurry, Check Useless Teammate!
Chapter 252 - Where To Find A Five-Star Brother?
Chapter 253 - I Was Doing What My Role Model Did
Chapter 254 - We Have To Rely On Qiu Yelan!
Chapter 255 - How They Met
Chapter 256 - A Plan Of Empress Dowager’S Party
Chapter 257 - The Remaining Problem? Your Teacher Would Help You!
Chapter 258 - Wrangle In Summer Palace
Chapter 259 - Seduction Under Admiration? How Was It Possible!
Chapter 260 - Killing Three Birds With One Stone. A Good Strategy!
Chapter 261 - Keep The Wealth, Overtly Agree But Covertly Oppose
Chapter 262 - You, Vicious Woman, What A Bad Daughter You Gave Birth!
Chapter 263 - I Merely Want To Have A Kid Of My Own
Chapter 264 - Try The Best To Save This Marriage
Chapter 265 - Threatened Abortion
Chapter 266 - It'S Way Over The Line!
Chapter 267 - Scum, You Have No Bottom Line
Chapter 268 - Hung Himself Because Of Her Oppression!
Chapter 269 - Helping The Evil
Chapter 270 - Suffering A Big Loss
Chapter 271 - The Truth About The Death Of Princess Ruan
Chapter 272 - I'Ve Already Known She Could Not Tolerate Yelan
Chapter 273 - Truth Hard To Explain
Chapter 274 - Misunderstanding Coming Up
Chapter 275 - Can'T Save Your Daughter And Want To Lose Your Son Too?
Chapter 276 - You Are So... So Ruthless!
Chapter 277 - I Want Her To Be Safe And Sou
Chapter 278 - Guessed It Wrong!
Chapter 279 - Being Schemed Against By That Old Woman!
Chapter 280 - Shiftless Jiang Yadan
Chapter 281 - Don'T Disrespect A Prince!
Chapter 282 - Unanimously To Kill Her
Chapter 283 - How And Why Did Miscarriage Happen?
Chapter 284 - Give My Brother More Suits Of Silk Armor
Chapter 285 - Urgent Military Situation!
Chapter 286 - He Was Born To Be It!
Chapter 287 - He Beat His Own Son To Death?
Chapter 288 - A Surprising Choice For The Expectant Princess
Chapter 289 - Good Intention Yet Bad Result
Chapter 290 - Something Wrong With The Dowry
Chapter 291 - How About A Thorough Investigation?
Chapter 292 - The First Branch Seems Too Idle, Make Them Busy!
Chapter 293 - Still Suffered From Old Illness, One Disaster After Another!
Chapter 294 - How Could I Let You Guys Lead Me By The Nose?
Chapter 295 - A Deal
Chapter 296 - The Level Of A Woman Who Has Been A Mistress For Thirty Years
Chapter 297 - Get Pregnant Now!
Chapter 298 - I Will Be The One Who Benefits The Most!
Chapter 299 - Hidden Tide Rising Before The Lunar New Year'S Eve Dinner
Chapter 300 - Can'T Let The Fourth Branch Continue Being Arrogant!
Chapter 301 - How Did She Get Brainwashed?!
Chapter 302 - The Emperor Was Poisoned!
Chapter 303 - Investigate Regardless Of One'S Status. No One Is Innocent!
Chapter 304 - A Must-Have Poison For Every Situation!
Chapter 305 - Look After Your Sister-In-Law For Me!
Chapter 306 - You Aren'T Lucky!
Chapter 307 - This Is A Punishment!
Chapter 308 - If I Have To Die, No One Will Live!
Chapter 309 - Tell You A Joke
Chapter 310 - That Was Not A Simple Joke!
Chapter 311 - Destiny
Chapter 312 - Show Everyone How Useless She Is!
Chapter 313 - Someone Has Planned To Marry Your Husband For A Long Time.
Chapter 314 - No One In The Palace Is Simple
Chapter 315 - Young Master Is Always On Your Side
Chapter 316 - Help Him!
Chapter 317 - He Was Forced Too Much.
Chapter 318 - A Crazy Change!
Chapter 319 - Choose The Right Side To Save Life In The Key Moment
Chapter 320 - Revenge! Don'T Let The Kuang Family Go!
Chapter 321 - An Attack With Hatred Caused A Dying Struggle
Chapter 322 - You Don'T Trust Me, And I Don'T Trust You Either.
Chapter 323 - Someone Must Be Responsible For It.
Chapter 324 - Rebelling At War
Chapter 325 - You Have To Prepare For Potential Failure
Chapter 326 - A Big Defeat, Another New Way
Chapter 327 - Why Did Princess Zhou Have Contacts With My Brother?
Chapter 328 - Revenge After A Long Time.
Chapter 329 - Your Son Was Going To Die.
Chapter 330 - The Heir Was Important.
Chapter 331 - Young Prince Asked You To Kill The King
Chapter 332 - Son, Don’T Blame Me!
Chapter 333 - Provocation? Why Couldn'T We Do It?
Chapter 334 - Just Need A Goddaughter
Chapter 335 - Win The Beautiful Spy Over
Chapter 336 - Kill Two And Release One. Who Will You Choose?
Chapter 337 - If You Are Hurt, I Am Ashamed!
Chapter 338 - Emperor Died. Was It Empress Dowager'S Final Card?
Chapter 339 - They Surely Came At Me
Chapter 340 - Rest In Peace
Chapter 341 - Difficult Labor
Chapter 342 - You Two Will Raise The Kid
Chapter 343 - Becoming From Your Enemy To Your Sword!
Chapter 344 - Marriage
Chapter 345 - Strike First To Gain The Initiative!
Chapter 346 - There Will Be Fun!
Chapter 347 - They Shouldn'T Look Down The Madame Of The Jiang Family.
Chapter 348 - Troublemaker (Part One)
Chapter 349 - Troublemaker (Part Two)
Chapter 350 - Bully My Wife, She Surely Doesn'T Take Me Seriously!
Chapter 351 - Here Comes The First Branch'S Big Trouble!
Chapter 352 - Can She Be Lucky Enough To Fulfill Her Dream?
Chapter 353 - Fabulous Show Was Started By The Remarriage Of Eighth Brother
Chapter 354 - Doubt Me And Still Want My Help? Do I Owe You?
Chapter 355 - Ling Zui Was Back.
Chapter 356 - A New Wave Of Discord
Chapter 357 - The Good-For-Nothing Father And Son Deserve A Bad Ending!
Chapter 358 - Don'T Care Too Much! Get Her Firstly!
Chapter 359 - Failed To Use Others And Lost Their Face.
Chapter 360 - Fulfil Promises
Chapter 361 - You Need To Learn That From Jiang Yashuang!
Chapter 362 - Jiang Yashuang Thought Too Much.
Chapter 363 - It Was My Incompetence That Made You And Daughter Live In Aggrieved Life.
Chapter 364 - The Fire Burnt To Her!
Chapter 365 - Inflicting Someone On Your Husband
Chapter 366 - Failed Settlement Talks
Chapter 367 - A Desperate Situation
Chapter 368 - Survived From A Desperate Situation And Framed Each Other
Chapter 369 - No One Is Crueler Than The Two Uncles
Chapter 370 - A Good Wife
Chapter 371 - A Letter Written In Blood
Chapter 372 - Did Not Take Him As An Idiot!
Chapter 373 - They Have To Die!
Chapter 374 - Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Chapter 375 - An Experience Of Qiu Feng
Chapter 376 - Unforeseen Event Of The Future Princess Of Wei
Chapter 377 - Couldn'T Figure Out Who Did It
Chapter 378 - Who Murdered The Kids Of The Jiang Family?
Chapter 379 - The Most Vicious Thing Is Women'S Heart
Chapter 380 - Qiu Jinglan’S Self-Justification
Chapter 381 - The Real Aftermath!
Chapter 382 - Jing City Would Be In A Mess!
Chapter 383 - Which Side Was Their Eighth Uncle On?
Chapter 384 - Who Was The Most Perfect Scapegoat?
Chapter 385 - Sir Jibei'S Choice
Chapter 386 - Why Lie To Him At This Point?
Chapter 387 - Madame Zhuang Came Back!
Chapter 388 - She Had No Choice But To Play Her Trump Card
Chapter 389 - Being As A Father And A Mother
Chapter 390 - In An Uproar
Chapter 391 - Took Care Of The Sick.
Chapter 392 - Shameless Guy!
Chapter 393 - Madame Dou'S Death And The Grievous News At Last!
Chapter 394 - To Save Qiu Jinglan!
Chapter 395 - If You Have Anything To Say, Just Tell Me Directly!
Chapter 396 - Every Dog Has His Day!
Chapter 397 - A Mother-In-Law That Even A Real Mother Cannot Compare With!
Chapter 398 - Knowing The Real Culprit
Chapter 399 - My Cruelty Is Always Enough!
Chapter 400 - If You Want To Get Married, Why Don'T You Marry Me?
Chapter 401 - Dare You Agree? If You Do, I Will Marry You!
Chapter 402 - I Knew It That I Would Marry Him, Surely!
Chapter 403 - Get Them All Into Trouble!
Chapter 404 - Swapped In The Courtyard!
Chapter 405 - My Brother Is Getting Married After All
Chapter 406 - Are We In Your Way When We Survive?
Chapter 407 - The Remaining Members Of The Dou Family And Gu Are The Masterminds!
Chapter 408 - Trump Card: Tell My Father!
Chapter 409 - The Filial Jiang Yahong
Chapter 410 - Ling Zui’S Charm Had A Powerful Effect On Married Women.
Chapter 411 - Madame Zhuang Met Her Sister-In-Law.
Chapter 412 - The Gap Between Mother And Son
Chapter 413 - This Is The Opportunity For Us!
Chapter 414 - It Is An Ability To Deal With Lovers At Home And Outside
Chapter 415 - No Shrewishness, No Rules
Chapter 416 - What A Psycho! Ignore Her Niece!
Chapter 417 - Tit For Tat
Chapter 418 - An Episode Before The Wedding
Chapter 419 - The Grand Wedding Of The Emperor And The Empress
Chapter 420 - The Gap Between Mother And Son
Chapter 421 - Troubles From Women
Chapter 422 - Giving Birth And The Completion Of The Baby'S First Month Of Life
Chapter 423 - The Death Of Sir Jibei
Chapter 424 - I Knew You Wouldn’T Believe Me!
Chapter 425 - Today Wasn'T The Same As Before!
Chapter 426 - How Dare You, A Little Girl, Threaten Me?
Chapter 427 - Got Poisoned!
Chapter 428 - What A Good-For-Nothing Madame He Is!
Chapter 429 - I Consider You My Sister From Now On!
Chapter 430 - Finding Out The Poison Source
Chapter 431 - Subscription For Shares
Chapter 432 - Was This Option Worth Thinking About?
Chapter 433 - Be In The Clear
Chapter 434 - Tensions
Chapter 435 - Jiang Tianchi Arrived In Jing City
Chapter 436 - Elder Preference
Chapter 437 - The Meeting Of The Brothers
Chapter 438 - Whether There Exists Firm And Unyielding Character?
Chapter 439 - The Empress Was Pregnant
Chapter 440 - The Happiness
Chapter 441 - Finishing The Mourning
Chapter 442 - Curtsy To Empress
Chapter 443 - Miscarriage
Chapter 446 - Ling Zui And Zhuang Man Got Married
Chapter 447 - Thought It Wrongly
Chapter 448 - Assassination
Chapter 449 - More Doubts
Chapter 450 - When It Was Through, It Was Through (1)
Chapter 451 - When It Was Through, It Was Through (2)
Chapter 452 - Interlocking Stratagems?
Chapter 453 - Conversation Between The Grandfather And Grandson
Chapter 454 - Staff
Chapter 455 - Kui Xiannan Passed Away
Chapter 456 - Prepare For The Worst Thing
Chapter 457 - Ace In The Hole
Chapter 458 - The Next Year
Chapter 459 - One-Year-Old Birthday Banquet
Chapter 460 - Unexpected Visitors
Chapter 461 - A Kept Man
Chapter 462 - Being Pregnant Again
Chapter 463 - Family Matters
Chapter 464 - Unexpected Concubinage
Chapter 465 - It Was Time For Summer Again
Chapter 466 - You Think I Don’T Know What You Are Thinking
Chapter 467 - Labor And Title Conferring
Chapter 468 - The Most Important Person
Chapter 469 - Swaddle
Chapter 470 - Something Odd
Chapter 471 - Jiang Qilai’S Origin
Chapter 472 - Trifles Before The Lunar New Year
Chapter 473 - The Miserable Former Emperor
Chapter 474 - The Second Day Of The Lunar New Year
Chapter 475 - Behind The Scenes Of His Failed Blind Date
Chapter 476 - Naughty Parents Of Naughty Children
Chapter 477 - Emperor And Noble Consort
Chapter 478 - Keeping Enduring
Chapter 479 - Suspicious Money
Chapter 480 - The Death Of Madame Jin
Categories Genre: All, Ongoing, Romance Status: Ongoing ______
Total Chapters in book: 478
Estimated words: 1212412 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 6062(@200wpm)___ 4850(@250wpm)___ 4041(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 1212412 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 6062(@200wpm)___ 4850(@250wpm)___ 4041(@300wpm)
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Chapter 30 Solicit Patronage
“You bastard!” Who would know that Empress Dowager Gu was so hard to cheat? She pounded the table and reproached them angrily, “The engagement is so important to a person that you should not trifle with it! Who allows you to talk about rescission so easily!”
Empress Jiang said, “Mother, why do you turn to another topic? The matter of Qiu Mengmin is waiting for your imperial decree to unduke him!”
Qiu Yelan sighed in her heart. Empress Dowager Gu didn’t simply push the boat with the current and easily broke off her engagement with Deng Yi in a temper. After she lost this hope, there was nothing noteworthy in two empresses’ quarrel. It’s merely something usual.
Sure enough, after Empress Dowager Gu and Empress Jiang’s fierce quarreling, the result was still to hold court to discuss whether Qiu Mengmin was obedient or not after the Lantern Festival, saying that it should not disturb innocent ministers celebrating the Spring Festival only for Prince’s Mansion of Xihe’s private matters. But how could ministers keep calm and not start to prepare for it after they heard the news?
“This is still good. How would Gu Yan dare to do something openly to my cousin at this critical moment!” Qiu Yelan was thinking about this, while she heard Empress Jiang told Empress Dowager Gu, “Well, in these days, all people in Prince’s Mansion of Xihe except Commandery Princess Ningyi shall be grounded!”
Empress Dowager Gu coldly replied, “Commandery Princess Ningyi is still in mourning. Where does she want to go?”
“Do you forget General Ruan?” Empress Jiang smiled softly and said, “General Ruan has been in bad condition recently. He lost his daughter at the end of last year, which brought him great pain. How could we now prevent his only granddaughter from going back and accompanying him for some days?”
“Isn’t this Ruan Qingyan the heir of Ruan Family?” Empress Dowager Gu sneered, “As for their ages, these brother and sister….”
Supposing the mean Empress Dowager would shamelessly talk some gossip about the single young man and woman, Empress Jiang said, “Does mother think both of them are too young to take the duty of the General’s Mansion? I also think so. But now there is no more capable person in Ruan Family. We could only ask them to be more careful and take good care of General Ruan.”
The sullen Empress Dowager Gu was about to say something with a sour face, but the eunuch standing behind her suddenly stepped forward and whispered something. The Empress Dowager frowned and said, “So, let Deng Yi give them a hand at times.”
Empress Jiang’s twitched the corner of her mouth and said, “Deng Yi, won’t he go to study?”
“It’s just the first month of the lunar year. What’s the hurry?” Empress Dowager Gu said proudly, “With his talent, doesn’t he need these few days to hurry up?”
Empress Jiang looked around Qiu Yelan, seeing her relaxed and taking it easy, so she conceded and said, “We’ll do as mother said.”
The farce today finally came to an end, and the emperor was obviously very good at capturing such moments. His flagging spirit suddenly soared, and he blurted out, “The son salute farewell to the mother empress!”
Empress Jiang also very happily said, “The daughter-in-law salute farewell to the mother empress!”
Empress Dowager Gu had intended to take a cup of hot tea before leaving. Hearing this, she upset the teacup furiously and jumped to her feet. She then glumly swaggered off, without looking at her terrible son and daughter-in-law even once.
“What happened to the Empress Dowager?” The sleepy emperor was confused.
Qiu Yelan standing under the red pedestal of the throne, bit her lips with great effort to keep from laughing and thought, “Is this emperor a born fool?”
Then she heard Empress Jiang said as if nothing had happened, “The Empress Dowager upset the teacup, and of course, she hurries to go back and change her clothes.” After saying one sentence, she asked people to leave without giving the emperor any chance to talk.
Without any doubt, Qiu Yelan and Ruan Qingyan were softly comforted and were told to go back to General’s Mansion to accompany General Ruan.
Princess Yang had just made blood seen in Fu Ning Palace. She was dragged out, and the bloodstain was also handled by eunuchs. But Qiu Jinzhu and Madame Lu were still kneeling in trembling. In Empress Jiang’s present position, they won’t be treated well.
At this time, Qiu Jinzhu’s age saved her, a ten-year-old girl, and it were her father and grandmother who were to blame. Empress Jiang would not depreciate herself to argue with Qiu Jinzhu, so she just ignored her and instructed, “Lu has been impolite, flog her 5 times as reward, and then expel her out of the palace!”
It’s hard to tell whether she would live or die after being flogged for 5 times for a woman as old as Madame Lu. Making an appointment with the Empress Dowager to debate on the court after the Lantern Festival, the Empress would not kill her now. But she would not let her live easily without punishment. What is more painful than any punishment is prestige. No matter how this affair would be resolved, Prince’s Mansion of Xihe would be thoroughly discredited this time.
But Qiu Yelan didn’t care at all. She silently thanked the old Princess of Xihe for her foresight. The old Princess officially kicked Madame Lu out of the Mansion formerly so that she, as the heir of the Mansion and Commandery Princess, did not need to claim kin with this second grandmother. So, why would she care about the face of Madame Lu and even her life?
After leaving the palace, she was mainly thinking about, “Fortunately, Empress Dowager Gu just fought fiercely with Empress Jiang and took no care about the cousin.”
Normally, a scholar who had received both attention from the Empress Dowager and the Empress before the exam would have some advantage in the exam and future career. However, the situation for this year was different. Xue Chang was a member of the neutral party. By “neutral party”, we meant they worked justly and impartially. And more importantly, they kept balance in the two empresses’ power struggle and never revealed any flaw.
In the situation today, if Empress Dowager Gu or Jiang Empress revealed a clear attitude towards Ruan Qingyan, whether it’s positive or negative, due to the hostility between the two empresses, the other party would react the other way. So, if Xue Chang admitted such person into the court and this scholar then became his disciple, he could imagine how troublesome it would be.
If Qiu Yelan were the examiner under this circumstance, she would let him fail in the exam directly! Who would know what Xue Chang would do? Ruan Qingyan was not as talented as already well-known in the whole country, so even if he was not admitted, nobody would doubt the fairness of the exam!
Therefore now, as Ruan Qingyan didn’t attract both empresses’ attention, Qiu Yelan relaxed.
Ruan Qingyan also understood this and calmly said, “You have made such a big trouble for Prince’s Mansion of Xihe, and even Empress Dowager Gu has been insinuated. How could the Empress Dowager care about other things? As Empress Jiang is supporting you, of course, she would not make me into trouble.”
Qiu Yelan smiled and grabbed his arm, “Cousin, are you unhappy? Blame me for talking about Qiu Mengmin’s matter before you? I’ve got no other way. You have to take the exam! So many matters are involved in at this critical moment, how could you escape from being continuously inquired on the court after the Lantern Festival? I am free anyway. Besides, if you, my cousin could pass the exam, being a Jinshi and further an official, you will protect me better, won’t you?”
“… How old are you to be so clinging?” Ruan Qingyan struggled for a while. He didn’t struggle hard within such a tiny room in the carriage, so he was still held by Qiu Yelan. Ruan Qingyan looked helpless, but actually with joy in his eyes, and he said softly, “You’ve already been a big girl!”
“I am always your younger sister no matter how old I am!” Qiu Yelan said sweetly.
These words made Ruan Qingyan wild with joy. He vigorously clenched his fists and released, calming down and smiled, “Thank to one word of the Empress, we can reunite happily with grandfather for half a month.”
In fact, Ruan Qingyan had been too happy. Days calmly passed, but the imagined half month’s joy for the family was interrupted by an unbidden guest just on the 5th day of the month.
Unluckily, he couldn’t afford to drive this unbidden guest away!
Because the guest is just the youngest son of Earl of Jingchuan, Ling Zui, the so-called young master Ling in the capital.
Ling Zui was the same age as Ruan Qingyan. Qiu Yelan was lying behind the window and peeking. She found that unlike the playboy-style nickname of this young master, this person looked like nothing about foppery. He is white and handsome in shining sumptuous clothes, with bright eyes and graceful eyebrows, and his behavior can’t help to divulge sophistication and elegance. Everything was showing that he was rich, handsome and well-educated.
Further, it seemed like he was beyond looked sophisticated but actually was well-educated. Qiu Yelan thought like this because she heard his greetings with Ruan Qingyan. There were more than 5 to 6 sentences that cited proverbs and allusions that she didn’t understand at all.
However, men shall not be judged only by their looks. This guy had been renowned for his romance two years ago within the capital. He had so many lovers that Gu Yan may fail to compete with him.
There was surely nothing serious when such a person came to visit, especially when he brought another person.
He brought a female guest here, who did not reunite with her family during the New Year but ran to the General’s Mansion with an infamous young master. So possibly, she was the same kind of woman as Hua Shenshen.
But if looked closely at this woman whom Ruan Qingyan called “the Girl, Penglai Yue,” she was not like a seductress.
Penglai Yue was about 16 or 17 years old, and she should have ancestries of the Northern barbarian tribes. Her contours of the facial features were deeper than ordinary people, with long eyelashes and bright eyes. Her skin was white and dazzling and she was in very good shape. Regarding looks, she and Hua Shenshen can be described as orchids and daisies, each with its own merits.
She was also very tall, almost as tall as Ling Zui, who was a medium height man. Her hair was Huixin style, with two jade round hair clasps inserted obliquely, and the bottom of hair clasps was already taller than Ling Zui. There was no other ornament except this pair of round hair clasps. She wore light blue silk clothes and a simple dress. It seemed like she didn’t use rouge to make-up, with her lips almost pale.
However, the reason why Qiu Yelan thought she was not a seductress was not her simple dress and make-up, but her temperament, which was totally opposite to her shape and appearance and could be described with an entire piece of sonnet.
But Qiu Yelan described it as simple as possible, a cold powerful Lolita within a mature lady’s shape!
In the era of her previous life when the zombies haven’t come out, only an ordinary photo of this girl would attract countless people to succumb.
Unfortunately, it’s a pity that she was not living in a good time that she was just a performer in a brothel.
Ling Zui had finished greetings. He did not need to be embarrassed to visit and ask Ruan Qingyan for some advantage because of his noble blood. Ling Zui came to the point directly, “Today is the 5th day. After the Spring Festival, you would take the exam. But how could you know nothing about the formerly agreed beauty pageant? Spring House asked one of Empress Dowager’s favorite princes, Prince Zhou, to support them this time, with their full effort aiming to defeat Miss Yue’s Jinpa Pavilion….”
“Don’t worry, my young master!” Ruan Qingyan followed, “I’ve prepared for it… Dongran!” Dongran answered by offering up a thick wad of silver notes.
Then Penglai Yue gently opened her lips and thanked him lightly. The sound lines were similar to her temperament, which both were fresh and cool. The coldness made people feel she was high above and far away.
So, he just came to solicit patronage! Qiu Yelan felt disappointed after peeking and eavesdropping. She thought it was related to Prince’s Mansion of Xihe!
As soon as she was about to leave secretly on tiptoes, her wish to get in touch with the guests concerning Prince’s Mansion of Xihe was realized. Chunran patted on her shoulder and asked her to a place where they would not disturb the reception room. Chunran dry coughed and reported, “The young master Deng is coming, but our young master isn’t free at present… So Commandery Princess, what should we….”
“Let me meet with him,” Qiu Yelan sighed, “What are they thinking about during this New Year days? Why does everyone go outside instead of staying at home!”
Chunran grabbed her, “The young master said, no matter who you want to see, Young Prince of Duke of Guangyang or the Young Master of Deng Family, he must be with you!”
“So, what you mean to report this to me?” Qiu Yelan was surprised and thought, “Didn’t you come to call me to greet the guests?”
“Maid is coming to ask you to meet with the old general,” Chunran was awkward and said, “Qiuran has asked Young Master Deng to rest for a while in some other yards.”
Qiu Yelan was speechless and said, “I get it. Don’t let Deng Yi come alone. If Gu Yan is not coming with him, that would be OK, and I could meet him.” This guy really came to learn now!
Total Chapters in book: 478
Estimated words: 1212412 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 6062(@200wpm)___ 4850(@250wpm)___ 4041(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 1212412 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 6062(@200wpm)___ 4850(@250wpm)___ 4041(@300wpm)
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