Unaware that My Legitimate Sister is My Husband - Chapter 21
~End of chapter 20
Xi Xian thought, both were from the same Xi family, yet how were they so different?
Alright, her legitimate sister was not from the Xi family, so of course she was different.
As for what her legitimate sister was writing and reading, Xi Xian never knew.
In her last life, when she was young, she secretly took two glances, but Xi Heng grabbed her by the neck, and carried her back to her place, and she tilted her head, not understanding.
Chapter 21
(8.2)
Her legitimate sister’s hands were very strong, and there was the slight feeling of sandstone between her fingers, although they were overall slender, but they seemed more like hands used to holding a sword and a bow, not like a young girl’s hands.
Xi Xian’s own hands were soft and tender and warm, and they felt very comfortable to touch.
At this thought, Xi Xian felt a little proud of herself.
This was what the Heaven gave, such a young girl, yet her hands were rough like she had been doing farming labor for eight lives, it was no wonder her legitimate sister was so gloomy and so difficult to get close to, she perhaps had some innate inferiority complex.
As Xi Xian was getting distracted, the ink formed a large puddle on the paper. She opened her eyes wide, then intended to find another sheet of paper to start writing again, but she heard her legitimate sister’s cold voice say: “Your mind is distracted?”
Xi Xian pursed her lips and said softly, “I was wrong.”
It was not the first time that Xi Xian did mistakes without changing her ways, although she was very quick to admit to her mistakes, she never took it to heart, and Xi Heng was too lazy to manage her, so she let her go.
After slowly copying words for all morning, Xi Xian had only written a little bit, because her legitimate sister not only would review all her writing, but she would also take a brush to circle all the words that were written carelessly, and when too many words were sloppy, she would lift her eyes and mock her, telling her that her heart was insincere, and like this, she would have to rewrite again.
Although in her last life, Xi Xian had lived as a favored concubine for many years, being pampered to the extreme, when she recalled the pain of her youth, it was all about her legitimate sister’s mocking face.
In the afternoon, Xi Xian saw her father, a rare occurrence, coming over to see her legitimate sister.
Her father, Xi Zhengqing, was now the prime minister of the imperial court of justice, and it would not be easy to advance further up. Her legitimate sister’s maternal family status was high, but her legitimate sister’s mother back then was only the youngest daughter of the third branch of her maternal family’s household, back then the crown prince was not yet the crown prince, and no one knew that the crown prince’s birth mother would come from the third branch, so her father really was lucky.
What her father and her legitimate sister talked about, Xi Xian did not know, she was sitting alone outside copying sutras, and when Xi Zhengqing came out, he only smiled to Xi Xian while stroking his beard: “Xian Xian, the Xu family is very satisfied with you, in less than three days, you will be formally engaged, at that time, you wear joyful clothes, it will also make your Yiniang feel at ease in her heart.”
(TL’s note : Yiniang is what I otherwise translate as “concubine-mother”)
He said this while patting Xi Xian’s shoulder, and seeing that she was just lowering her face, looking submissive and tender, he then urged her to take care of her health daily and to go outside more often. He then walked away.
Xi Xian was holding the brush while looking at her father’s back, stunned in place, not knowing what to say.
She did not want to marry the second young master Xu at all, she had previously made a lot of efforts to frame Xi Yao, but it did not succeed. Thinking that in the future, the second young master Wu was going to die and that she was going to be made an unmarried widow, she wasn’t very panicked about that.
But she didn’t know what went wrong, the second young master Xu was fine, and on the contrary, the engagement date had been moved to earlier.
Seeing that the engagement was now about to be set, Xi Xian began to panic.
Xu Lishan’s moral character was so bad, how could she marry him?
The more Xi Xian thought about it, the more panicked she became. She put aside her brush and her heart started pounding in her chest, but she didn’t dare to stop what her legitimate sister had ordered her to copy, so she lifted her brush and started to write again. Every stroke was written in a trance.
In the evening, Xi Xian presented a stack of paper to her legitimate sister. Xi Heng took two glances at it, before setting it aside and saying to her flatly, “Your mind isn’t stable?”
Xi Xian shook her head, bit her lips, and did not speak.
Xi Heng smiled, her fingers picked up a sheet of paper, which she held between her fingers: “Such a scribble.”
The corners of Xi Xian’s lips drooped: “How dare I lie to you?” Her legitimate sister did not answer.
Xi Xian’s dark eyeballs twirled, and in a soft and innocent manner, made her heart bare as she sincerely said: “I know you have a secret, but I am not going to tell the others, it would be of no benefit to me, but you can help me with a favor.”
“From now on, I will pretend that I don’t know those matters.”
After a long moment, her legitimate sister only revealed a leisurely smile, her knuckles knocked against the edge of the table, as she commented, “You even know how to also threaten people now.”
Xi Xian shrank her head and said gently, “How could I dare ah?”
He legitimate sister got up and slowly said to her, “If you beg me, I will agree, how about that?”
Xi Xian didn’t know why her legitimate sister liked to tease her so.
She was so angry that her face turned red, but she grabbed her legitimate sister’s clothes and shook them, her clear black eyes softly looked at her legitimate sister, as she said, “Please, help me to cancel the engagement?” and she shook her clothes again as she spoke.
Translator : Laura
Other novels : His One Love & Ancient Eden & After Being Kidnapped by the Crown Prince
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