Chapter 119: Returning the Betrothal Gifts
Translator: Guy Gone Bad
“Well…” Xu Tianyou felt a little awkward, “After all I am not the master here. It’s inappropriate for me to make the decision for them…”
“Then go ask Ye Yichen…” Murong Xue gave him a suggestion: Ye Yichen degrading her to a concubine in front of everyone was insulting her, so it was quite reasonable for her to cancel the engagement. She bet Ye Yichen dare not say no!
“But he is taking care of Old Prince Jing now. I’m afraid he doesn’t have time to talk to me.” Xu Tianyou smiled awkwardly.
“Really?” Murong Xue raised her eyebrows and said casually, “Then I’ll leave them here. You can tell Ye Yichen when he is free. He will ask the servants to take them back…” With guards watching outside the mansion, those boxes wouldn’t get lost.
“People come and go in the street. What if someone accidentally breaks things inside?” Xu Tianyou protested and then raised his voice, “Lady Murong, I suggest you take them back with you…”
“If someone breaks it, I will compensate…” Murong Xue interrupted him: Though every gift from Prince Jing was valuable, but the Marquis Mansion also had numerous pricey things. Even if all the stuff in those boxes were broken, she could still compensate them all…
Of course she wouldn’t leave the love token from Prince Jing Mansion here, because that was the eye of Prince Jing Mansion, only one in this world. If it was broken, nothing could replace it. Thus she would never cancel the engagement then…
“It’s late. Old Prince Jing is badly ill and Yichen is taking care of him. I guess you are also occupied. I won’t bother you then. Bye!” After saying these words, Murong Xue turned around and walked away…
A cool breeze was blowing. The dazzling light that the gold-rimmed b.u.t.tons on the sandalwood boxes reflected under the sun suddenly woke Xu Tianyou up. He ran after Murong Xue, “Lady Murong, Lady Morong, wait…”
It were all the betrothal gifts Prince Jing had gifted Murong Xue in the boxes. Of course he couldn’t leave them out of the mansion. If so, it meant he failed Prince Jing.
Murong Xue turned a deaf ear to him and got into the cart and left.
“Lady Murong!” Xu Tianyou called her. And the moment he came before her cart, the guards of Marquis Mansion stopped him.
And the moment he was stopped, the cart had already set off and ran away along the flat and smooth road…
The moment the cart made a turn, Murong Xue pulled the curtain open and looked back, seeing that Xu Tianyou was standing there watching her cart. But when she saw those sandalwood boxes, raging fire was burning under her eyes again…
Murong Xue hummed: Those things belonged to Prince Jing Mansion. It was reasonable to give them back. She never wanted to take them back. So they had to accept them whether they wanted it or not…
The sun was rising higher and higher. After coming back home, Murong Xue took a walk on the bluestone road in the mansion, with her lips curled at a perfect angle: She left the betrothal gifts at Prince Jing Mansion, which meant that the engagement was half canceled already…
After she found an appropriate chance to exchange the love tokens with Ye Yichen, she would get rid of him once for all and become free again. For all her rest life she wouldn’t want to have anything to do with him…
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Some harsh sound was heard in the air!
Murong Xue was startled. And the moment she tried to throw a palm, some guards in black appeared from nowhere and threw a pile of boxes before her…
Those were all sandalwood boxes, with gold-rimmed b.u.t.tons on them, s.h.i.+ning brightly under the sun.
Murong Xue was caught in a trance, “Isn’t it the betrothal gifts she has just sent back to Prince Jing Mansion? They send them back…”
The raging fire was burning under Murong Xue’s eyes. She glared at them and said, “You take them back! Now…”
Those guards in black all turned a deaf ear to her. With a light flip on their tiptoes, they disappeared in the dark night…
The clop-clop was gradually going far away. Only Murong Xue was left in there, with all the intact sandalwood boxes on the ground, like a kind of mockery to her…
Murong Xue was furious. She kicked all those boxes one by one. All those precious treasure and silk fabrics fell to the ground. She gritted her teeth and howled, “Ye Yichen!”
Ye had sent a few random guards, broken into her mansion and thrown those boxes in front of her. So he thought she had no bodyguards to take down those burglars? She was p.i.s.sed off. She was so so p.i.s.sed off!
“Since the betrothal gifts are already sent back, it’s no use to be angry.” A silvery sound was heard above. Murong Xue raised her head, finding Ouyang Shaochen was reclining on the lounge under the viburnum tree, who was enjoying a gla.s.s of wine, with his snow white robe down onto the ground, spotlessly clean.
It smelled pretty good when the fragrance of black bamboo and viburnum were mixed together, which also implied that Ouyang Shaochen had been here for quite some time.
“Since you were here, why didn’t you give me a hand to beat those guards and let them take those boxes away? Then Ye Yichen would never send his people to break in…”
Murong Xue walked to him angrily. She sat beside Ouyang Shaochen and pinched his face with her small and white hand, leaving red marks on that charming face immediately.
Pains were felt on the face. A slice of helplessness flashed under Ouyang Shaochen’s eyes. He seized her small hand which she was using to pinch him and lowered his voice, “Ye Yichen would never accept them. Even if I kicked those guards out of here, they would use other means to send them back.”
On hearing that, Murong Xue frowned. Actually his words were quite reasonable. Since Yi Yichen didn’t agree to cancel it, he would try every means to send back the betrothal gifts. First time failed, he’d try the second time. And if the second time failed, he would try the third time…until he succeeded. Anyway he had countless guards.
“Since you already knew the result, why didn’t you remind me?”
“Didn’t I tell you that Old Prince Jing wouldn’t agree you canceling your engagement last night? Don’t you remember?” Ouyang Shaochen glanced at her, with all despise in his eyes.
“I…” Murong Xue became speechless. She did remember his words. But she never expected that Ye Yichen would send them back in this way. All the things she had done the whole morning were in vain…
Ouyang Shaochen looked at that sad face, with a smile flas.h.i.+ng on his face. He held that cup of good wine and started to enjoy it.
Murong Xue darkened her face. She snapped the wine from his hand and said angrily, “No time for a drink now. Help me figure it out. Since Old Prince Jing is back, I want to cancel the engagement as soon as possible. No delay.”
“Old Prince Jing is your elder. If he doesn’t want you to cancel it, he will set a lot of obstacles for you. So even if you want to get rid of Ye Yichen, you shouldn’t jump the gun. You should consider it in the long run…” Ouyang Shaochen lowered his voice, with kind of craftiness flas.h.i.+ng in his eyes…