Unaware that My Legitimate Sister is My Husband - Chapter 25
~End of chapter 24
Xi Heng said coldly, “Hand over the keepsake, from now on you will have nothing to do with my sister.”
Xu Lishan gritted his teeth, willing to accept that he had lost the bet, and took off the delicate purse from his waist, which contained a jade pendant.
Xi Heng took it and lowered her eyes to look at it. Xi Xian’s childhood name was written on it.
Smiling, she lifted her foot and slowly let go of him, while saying indifferently, “Get lost.”
Chapter 25
(9.3)
Xi Heng stood there without the slightest hint of femininity, on the contrary, she looked strong and heroic. Xi Xian felt that her legitimate sister wasn’t quite the same as she remembered she was like in her past life.
Xu Lishan had nothing to say, he knew he had completely lost face, so he looked at Xi Heng’s tall back with a sinister intent, as he wiped the corner of his mouth who had turned purple, while stumbling away with the help of his servant boy.
Xi Heng turned around and saw that Xi Xian was standing in the same place, gazing at him quietly, with a complex and inquisitive look in her eyes.
(TL’s note : aiya, I don’t know what to do with the pronouns anymore. In fact, up until now, the narration avoided using pronouns when it came to Xi Heng, always using “legitimate sister” as a substitute, and I’ve been adding “she” and “her” to make it clearer in English, but now the narration has started to use the masculine form to describe Xi Heng, so I don’t know what to do… I think I’m going to be alternating between he and her according to whether the story is told under Xi Xian’s point of view or others, anyway don’t be surprised if sometimes it’s “she” and sometimes it’s “he”)
Xi Heng put the jade pendant away, but saw Xi Xian immediately walked two or three steps forward, and with her eyes wide open, she argued softly: “Sister, this is mine ……”
Xi Heng’s lips curled up, the golden hairpin inserted in his hair bun flashed, his long black hair was falling loosely behind his head, as his wide sleeves floated in the air. He looked down at Xi Xian, tenderly saying: “I won it, so it is mine now.”
Xi Xian raised her eyes and was about to continue arguing, but Xi Heng reached behind her head with his long arm and an heavy elegant sandalwood scent entered her lungs, Xi Xian’s eyelashes trembled slightly and she immediately closed her eyes tightly.
Soon, the bun at the back of her head was loosened and her long, thick, black satin hair flowed out, and when she opened her eyes again, Xi Heng was holding her jade hairpin in his hand.
Xi Heng pinched her soft white cheeks, there was determination in his light-colored eyes, and he smiled gently as he said, “This is also mine.”
Xi Xian didn’t know what to say, she just stood there, a little stunned, and watched Xi Heng’s back figure walking away, before she slowly came back to her senses.
Xi Xian felt that she had been muddleheaded all day, she did not know how to sum it up, but she felt uneasy in her heart, like something was stuck in her throat, and she found it difficult to accept.
She thought from the bottom of her heart that her legitimate sister definitely did not have good intentions and would definitely not have her best interest at heart. After all, she was not even a member of the Xi family, and her temperament was also like that, she would certainly not tolerate her tricks, and would find it better to decisively get rid of her.
But when she remembered her legitimate sister’s clothes flying in the arena, and her exquisite and swift swordsmanship, she felt timidness and awe in her heart.
It was not surprising that women would practice swordsmanship nowadays, there were several women from noble families who often competed in swordsmanship, but the most important thing about women’s swordsmanship was not the skillfulness of the technique, but rather how to make every move beautiful. Yet, Xi Heng’s swordsmanship was not like this.
Xi Xian was a little troubled.
Two days later, she didn’t know what means her legitimate used in the end, but in short, when her father came home, with a weary face, his face looked guilty as he told Xi Xian that the marriage with the Xu family’s might just be cancelled like that.
Her concubine mother was not sad, and just served tea to her father, with her protruding belly. He then pulled her hand and made her sit down, and that’s when she gently said: “This is all Xianxian’s fate, how would I blame the second young master Xu? Laoye, just have a proper talk with their family, and that’s it.”
Like this, this matter was resolved. Xi Xian heard Xi Yan say that the second young master Xu had contracted a venereal disease and ended up almost suddenly dying on the bed of a brothel. According to rumors, he almost died after drowning himself in alcohol, so the Xu family did not dare to make Xi Xian wait anymore, and the ugly matter could not be covered.
It was very similar to her past life, but it was also not similar.
When Xi Xian heard this, she looked out of the window at the falling maple leaves, lost in thought, up until Xi Yan pinched her face, tenderly saying: “You’re so young, why is such an old expression on your face?”
These days, there was gradually no more noise coming from Xi Yao, so Xi Yan and Xi Xian got closer.
In fact, Xi Yan was a very gentle person, compared to her and Xi Yao’s distinct temperament, she was a bit more discreet and obscure, and had very little interactions with her legitimate sister.
But Xi Xian occasionally felt that there was something special about Xi Yan, she was truly dignified and magnanimous, she had the manners of a high-born lady. She only heard that Xi Yan’s biological mother died early, which was why she was living discreetly and unknowingly in the backyard.
Xi Xian hurriedly lowered her head and said softly, “It’s nothing.”
It was just that she was feeling empty in her heart, her entire mind and eyes were full of the back figure of her legitimate sister, and she felt empty for no reason.
Xi Xian also remembered that she had decided to be a bad person, she’d rather harm and frame others, than lose her freedom and happiness again.
But at the thought that she might have misunderstood someone else, she felt a little guilty.
Before, she was even making calculations, about how to threaten her legitimate sister by every mean possible, in order to make her suffer and embarrassed, but in the blink of an eye, she had fulfilled her wish, cancelled her marriage, and did not even let her bow her head down and low, and also didn’t let her suffer humiliation. This was already protecting her.
Xi Xian absolutely hated herself.
The moon was clear and the stars were scarce, Xi Xian climbed on the windowsill somewhat sleepily and raised her eyes to look at the stars outside, her eyes were filled with the entire blue-black night sky.
She thought for a long time. She then put on clothes and took a soft pillow in her arms. She said two words to Qiu Feng, before she went out of the courtyard door.
Translator : Laura
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