Chapter 88.1 - Dispirited and at a loss
Xiahou Riu was silent for a while before slowly nodding, “Subject-son …. agrees.”
After he finished speaking, he closed his eyes.
If he wasn’t going to marry her, then it wouldn’t matter who he married.
The empress heard and relieved, let out a breath.
She was scared that Rui’er would reject, and at that time, would arise a lot of annoyances that could’ve been avoided.
She then stood up, virtuously smiling, “It seems like today is a good day. Afterwards, I’ll ask for an imperial edict and hope that you two can mutually respect and support each other in the future.”
Xiahou Rui: “Subject-son observes the edict.”
Shangguan Yiyun: “Subject-girl observes the edict.”
XIahou Liuyun looked at his second brother’s gloomy back and hoped that this Miss Shangguan would be a good second sister-in-law.
Lou Qingwu didn’t have any reactions from the beginning to the end, but the Lan Bai behind her, was beginning to get anxious.
She didn’t know why the second prince was marrying someone else?
Master was spending so much effort to help this second prince, only for him to marry someone else?
In a place where no one could see, the third prince Xiahou Qing, who had been rendered invisible by everyone else, had his eyes settled on Lou Qingwu.
He looked at her for a moment longer, curling his lips,
This Lou family’s eldest miss seemed to be a bit different from the others.
Afterwards, nothing of note happened at the flower viewing.
Lou Qingwu and Lan Bai sat on the carriage, and seeing Lou Qingwu with her eyes closed and resting, Lan Bai couldn’t help but ask, “Master, why did you let the second prince marry someone else?”
Lou Qingwu opened her eyes, “Oh? Then who should he marry?”
“Obviously …” Lan Bai stopped, not knowing what to say.
She looked at her master’s indifferent expression and suddenly realised her master seemed to have never said that she liked the second prince.
“Lan Bai, I’ve never had any other affections for him, beyond being friends. Helping him is only for our mutual benefit.”
“That way, ah, then Lan Bai spoke too much.”
Lou Qingwu shook her head, her head hurt a bit too.
What did she do exactly, for everyone to think that she liked Xiahou Rui?
The horse carriage slowly made its way through the busy city, when she carelessly turned her head.
The wind blew the curtain to her side opened and a person’s silhouette flashed past.
A perfectly pale side profile that was warm and gentle, like the caress of a warm wind, it was that kind of side profile.
It made Lou Qingwu’s originally calm face, suddenly stiffen.
A strange expression became an expression of disbelief.
Lan Bai was the first to discover something was off, “Master, what is it?”
Lou Qingwu’s expression was still frozen, before suddenly thinking of something as she shouted, “Stop the carriage!”
From the outside, the driver suddenly pulled the horse’s reins and without waiting for the carriage to stop, Lou Qingwu suddenly jumped from the horse carriage.
She ran wildly in the other carriage’s direction, her face anxious and impatient, with a few hints of disbelief.
But more than that, it was an uneasiness because she was afraid that what she just saw, wasn’t real.
Lan Bai jumped down with her and chased after her, “Master!”
Lou Qingwu quickly strode forward and saw that it was an older married woman, running ferociously towards her.
But when she saw her face, Lou Qingwu disappointedly dangled her shoulders.
It was her own fantastical thinking, her mother had died so many years ago, so how could it be her?
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TL note:
Ah, I almost fell for it.
(Am I wrong for using Liu Yifei's bare faced photo? Probably, but it's really hard finding a photo of someone looking out from a carriage orz.)
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