Chapter 31: Spoiling the Concubine and Destroying the Wife
Bai Xiangxiu continued pretending to have temporarily gone deaf. After all, her name hadn’t been mentioned. However, although her name hadn’t been raised, Madame Lin still glanced in her direction, whether on purpose or by chance, which caused all those madames and young ladies who hated nasty, seductive mistresses to start looking curiously at her.
She felt very stifled being focused on like this. If she just lay back and kept ignoring them, wouldn’t people just think she was an idiot? While she indeed wanted to stay out of sight, she felt some heat rising up within her.
She started to consider ways to deal with Madame Lin. She immediately discarded the idea of a head on clash. Not only would she make the Prince Li Manor a laughingstock, it would also cause the supporting male lead to hate her. If that happened, her only escape route would disappear like smoke in the wind. Not to mention, if she incurred the male lead’s anger once more, she might possibly be beaten to death by staves upon returning to the Prince Li Manor. But what was she to do?
She thought of the female lead, and how her strongest technique upon being bullied seemed to be tears. Well, she was temporarily stumped, so she might as well try this method. But suddenly beginning to cry was definitely wrong, and it would absolutely lead to her being scolded. So, she turned her head to the side such that her face couldn’t be seen and attempted to let out a few tears before she secretly dabbed at the corners of her eye with her handkerchief.
The supporting male lead and the male lead were behind her. Even if they couldn’t hear her, they could certainly see her. She also didn’t wish for them to come to her rescue, she just wished for a little pity. Men and woman were the same, easily birthing love from pity. Supporting male lead, you definitely must notice me!
Beauties were beauties. Even their backs were beautiful enough to enchant people’s hearts. Seeing that shoulder moving and moving, it was enough to cause extreme heartache!
Not only men, this was also true for women. They hadn’t thought that the other party would actually not flee in anger or start to cry, but just turn her head away. A wholly natural movement, but even Madame Song frowned, feeling that Madame Lin was being too much. After all, the concubine was just a little girl, why must Madame Lin treat her like that? She really possesses a narrow heart, and to think she hails from a big family!
“Madame Lin, please forgive me, we have something else to do and cannot remain for long,” She waved her hand, the madames and the young ladies of the Song family following close behind her. Seeing that they were about to leave, Bai Xiangxiu also stopped pretending to cry, hurriedly rubbing her eyes to make them look very red, really rubbing out a few tears since she did so roughly. She hurriedly stood up, supported by Xiao Shi. The maid also likely had an idea of her sufferings, as she too had tear tracks running down her face. Still, she still supported her mistress, as was her duty!
Bai Xiangxiu knew that her little trick had worked now, because she could clearly see the sympathy in the eyes of the various ladies and mistresses. Beauties could really succeed easily in whatever they did. Just as she was feeling happy, she heard someone say from behind her, “Come, come over here.”
This voice is, Prince Li?
Bai Xiangxiu looked back, a look of resentment on her face. She immediately felt that this was really too careless of her, actually forgetting to hide her expression. Frantically calming her mind, she rearranged her expression and quickly walked over.
“Ow, ow… it hurts…” The other party really was walking too quickly, and she couldn’t catch up with him. Not only that, her hand was also hurting from being grabbed, and even her chest had begun to hurt as well. She had only cried out when she couldn’t hold it in anymore. She originally thought that the other party would just ignore it, but he actually slowed down his footsteps.
Unprepared for the sudden decrease in speed, she slammed straight out in his back because she’d been trying to keep up with him. It was a scene straight out of a movie, but she didn’t dare follow up with the proud lines of, “What did you suddenly stop for?” She could only hold her nose, letting out a gentle moan.
Long Heng hadn’t thought that she would walk that slowly, his mind long having been sent a fluster by the feeling of such a soft, smooth little hand. Because of that, he had been unconsciously been walking a little faster, not having thought that he was actually hurting her as a result. When he heard her cry of protest, he frantically slowed, resulting in her soft body slamming into his back, his entire body stiffening.
This stiffening of his was fine, but what was unlucky was Bai Xiangxiu’s nose. Her body was originally that of a frail, weak girl’s, how would it be able to take such a sudden collision? Something hot seemed to flow out of her nose. Astonishingly, a red smear appeared on the back of that clear white hand when she reached out to wipe her nose. What, am I so pitiful that I get a nosebleed from colliding into someone??
Long Heng had not thought that her body was actually this frail, to see blood from just a small collision. He was stunned for a moment, no longer knowing how to interact with this paper-like person anymore.