Chapter 10
Chapter 10
No one was more delighted by this marriage than Chunxiao. The moment she heard the Son-in-law had a powerful background, her attitude shifted instantly. With hands on her hips, she bared her teeth at the servants. “Let’s see you try to bully the Third Young Lady again!”
She looked so triumphant that if she were a puppy, she would have been yapping out loud.
Liu Tai, however, couldn’t shake a sense of unease.
Sins that even blood ties couldn’t make Liu Chengshan overlook were suddenly non-issues the moment He Yuan showed his face.
The clan elders changed their tune in unison, claiming they had come to provide her dowry gifts.
Liu Chengshan patted He Yuan on the shoulder, calling him “worthy Son-in-law” over and over, as if the condemnation he had heaped upon Liu Tai had only existed in her dreams.
The fire in Liu Tai’s heart flared up again, just as it had the first time she knelt in the Ancestral Hall.
The ancestors were watching from above, but they never protected her.
After all, her name would never be written into the Liu Clan’s records.
It was truly… infuriating!
The husband she had personally chosen by gambling her life turned out to be someone Liu Chengshan wasn’t even worthy of associating with, and suddenly, his daughter was valuable again!
The circumstances hadn’t changed, yet she was no longer the shameless, unfilial daughter she had been moments ago!
The more Liu Tai thought about it, the angrier she became. She gritted her teeth, and to make matters worse, the scabs on her back began to itch at the most inconvenient time. Under this “internal and external pressure,” Liu Tai’s eyes reddened, and tears began to fall in streams.
This gave He Yuan a fright.
Looking at the aggrieved girl before him, he coaxed, “Are you blaming me for coming late?”
Liu Tai shot him a glare. “Why didn’t you just wait until tomorrow? That way, you could have just buried me straight into your family’s ancestral tomb.”
He Yuan laughed. “Then you would have ended up as a Peach Blossom Sister.”
“A… tree?”
He Yuan gave a light cough. To cheer Liu Tai up, he didn’t hesitate to tell her the story of his peach tree ‘wife.’
Liu Tai, however, thought it was a decent idea. She consoled him, “Perhaps there’s some logic to it. In the countryside, many children who are difficult to raise will go to the mountains to take a godfather with a compatible fate. Some even choose rocks.”
“Don’t I already have you now?”
“Hmm?”
They were already an engaged couple.
He Yuan smiled and lightly brushed his finger against the space between her brows. He then unfastened a jade pendant and handed it to her. “A token of our engagement.”
Liu Tai took it. It was a clear, warm green-a piece of priceless emerald carved with a common character for ‘Fortune.’
“It’s mine now. You’re not allowed to ask for it back.”
“Eh? This isn’t how it’s supposed to go.”
“What now?”
“Don’t the noble young ladies in those stories treat money like dirt and throw the treasures back?”
“You know those are just stories.” Liu Tai tucked the jade pendant away close to her body. She liked the ‘Fortune’ character carved on it.
When she looked up again, she happened to meet He Yuan’s gentle gaze.
She wondered if there really was an Old Man under the Moon in this world. Despite only having met He Yuan twice, she felt no sense of being strangers.
One was brave enough to marry, and the other was brave enough to take a wife.
After thinking it over, Liu Tai felt the credit mostly went to her for being brave enough to marry him.
“Wait here.” Liu Tai ran back to her room and dug out an old item from the bottom of her trunk.
It was a Glazed Glass Rabbit, bought for her by her concubine mother, who had saved up half a year’s worth of allowance for it.
He Yuan looked at the crystal-clear rabbit in his hand and tilted his head. “Were you born in the Year of the Rabbit?”
Liu Tai nodded. “Keep it safe. It might not be worth much, but if you lose it, I’ll risk my life to have your head!”
“This is worth a great deal.” He Yuan tightened his grip on the Glazed Glass Rabbit. “It’s worth two lives.”