As soon as Qu Tang´er mentioned Mo Liancheng a fire started to burn inside her heart. From modern times´ Earth coming to ancient times´ Dong Yue, it was her first time seeing a man of such fine quality.
Men. Didn´t they all possess a little elegance? Even if they didn´t possess elegance, when they see a beauty like her, they should have a little warmth, right?
Yet, that man could be like a bystander looking with cold eyes. He was aware that she was going to fall, in spite of that he still could resist and not catch. How black must be his heart to be able to do that? It was hard to imagine.
Jing Xin has just returned from outside. She wasn´t so far familiar with the situation. She puzzlingly asked, „Did miss ran away again?“
„It would be a pity not to run away-ah. One couldn´t forever stay here, right? I definitely don´t want to die old here.“
„But you said today eighth prince……“
„Precisely because he was going to come, big madam didn´t guard me so tight. It´s only a pity to miss such a good opportunity.“
„In that case did miss see eighth prince?“
„En (nonverbal grunt). Saw.“ Qu Tang´er nodded and replied with a little frustration.
„Then how does eighth prince look like?“ Jing Xin stared at Qu Tang´er, not very believing what she said.
„What does he look like-ah. En. Let me think about it-ah. He has a pair of eyes, one nose and one mouth. He has a human´s appearance but dog´s manner. How else should he be like-ah?“ Qu Tang´er boringly blurted out nonsenses. Today she didn´t raise her head to look. In the future they are bound to regularly see each other anyway so there´s no hurry.
„Miss, you……“
„If you are asking about how does eighth prince look like you might as well ask how does she look like.“ exactly in this moment walked inside a young woman in purple clothes with willow-leaf eyebrows[1] and beautiful and brilliant phoenix eyes. While smiling, her tone was very acquainted as if she already knew everything.
„Yi, Yuela. You are truly the ringworm inside my stomach[2].“ Qu Tang´er looked absent-minded. Consequently she sighed.
Su Yuela was Qu Tang´er´s first friend in these two years. She has saved her during one of her failed attempt to escape. It is said that Jin Xin grew up together with „her“ – the original owner of this body´s. Although their relations.h.i.+p was that of master and servant but they were even closer than real sisters.
„I have heard master Qu ordered people to make wedding arrangements.“ Su Yuela asked concernedly.
„First let´s marry. Perhaps there would be an opportunity to leave.“ Qu Tang´er´s eyes darkened. A mockery flashed inside them. She recalled old man Qu´s conversation on a particular night. Undeniably, he wanted her to act like a piece of p.a.w.n. But having said that, if it wasn´t for her natural looks that was on level of femme fatale and having a certain powerful figure pus.h.i.+ng the wave and adding to the billows[3] in dark just merely relying on a daughter borned from a concubine, it would be truly hard to catch a wonderful a.s.signment of princ.i.p.al wife of eighth prince´s mansion.
Su Yuela was helpless. She went to the chair beside and sat down. She sternly said: „Tang´er, you can´t even escape from Qu manor. Don´t tell me it would be easier to escape from eight prince´s mansion? Let me tell you, let alone run away, your every move, every word would be monitored by someone. Unless eighth prince divorce you, otherwise….“
„Thank you for your remind.“ Qu Tang´er hasn´t been seriously listening to Su Yuela´s series of lecturing. However, the last sentence „divorcing her“ she heard particularly clear.
Moreover……
Cough. Divorcing her? It was, indeed, a pretty good idea.
Su Yueala sighed: „You…..why do you insist on leaving? There are so many women who want to obtain the position of eighth princess consort. Living in this world, no matter where you go, as long as you have sufficient ident.i.ty and status, you won´t have to be afraid of people looking down on you or even of being bullied. When the time comes…..“
Qu Tan´er replied: „Let it be, Yuela. Only peaceful and quiet, safe and steady life is counted as life-ah. Furthermore, don´t you think that quarreling and fighting with a group of women all the time with either you die or I live´s att.i.tude kind of life isn´t tiring?“
[1] referring to slender and long eyebrows
[2] idiom referring to a person who knew what one was thinking as if they were one, a mind reader
[3] idiom meaning to encourage sth to get bigger or to add fuel to the fire