Unaware that My Legitimate Sister is My Husband - Chapter 29
~End of chapter 28
This kind of scholar and official like Li Yu would definitely not like a woman who loved extravagance and flamboyance, and if she wanted to marry Li Yu, it was useless to rely on small tricks, only the passage of time would reveal one’s true nature.
However, Xi Xian also occasionally heard her third sister Xi Yan say that even though her legitimate sister rarely showed her face, and was only worshipping the Buddha inside the courtyard, when she saw people, she would only see Li Yu and play chess with him on a boat.
When she heard these words, Xi Xian didn’t think much of it, who would like someone like her legitimate sister? She was domineering, cold and detached, and even stronger than men, whoever marries her would be repressed, unable to breath, and life would be no different from being a prisoner.
Chapter 29
(10.4)
Thinking of her legitimate sister like this, Xi Xian couldn’t help but feel sourness in her heart.
She did not what she was sour about, she just felt very unhappy, so angry that she couldn’t even eat, when she thought of her legitimate sister, she was so angry she wanted to hit someone.
Xi Xian felt that she was sick.
Nowadays, men and women didn’t need to avoid meeting each other, but concubine-born daughters like Xi Xian, who was the daughter of a previous outside mistress on top of that, had to be even more protective of their reputation. She was eager for everyone to praise her as a pious and virtuous daughter. But high-born daughters had more choices, sometimes even after marrying, some of them even had their own pleasures, and it wasn’t anything new.
She hated that her birth wasn’t good, and that she had to tread on eggs and beat around the bush just to attract a man.
In her past life, her legitimate sister died very young, she died of a disease that got increasingly more serious each day, she had heard that she and her mother had suffered from the same disease, and that there was no way to save her.
She looked at the sky outside in contemplation, like a withering flower, with a slouched neck.
She was not vicious enough to hope that her legitimate would die early, but she was indifferent, after all, she really couldn’t do anything. Towards her legitimate sister, she was still more thinking about how to use her for her own advantage more than anything else, but she was starting to feel more guilty as the days went by, so she always wanted to meet her legitimate sister to persuade her to take better care of her health.
A few days before her concubine mother’s childbirth.
Xi Xian was so anxious she couldn’t bear it, remembering the struggle and the tragedy of the past life, and how it had ended in her concubine mother and the baby both becoming corpses, she was unable to sleep all night long. Even though she knew it was futile and useless to think about it, she still couldn’t fall asleep, but she also didn’t dare to make her concubine mother worry about her, so she could only go to the garden to walk around and distract her heart, so that she could calm down a little.
However, as soon as Xi Xian reached the garden, she saw a student dressed in blue sitting in the pavilion, she could only see the back of a tall and thin figure. Her legitimate sister, who Xi Xian had not seen for a long time, was sitting opposite the student.
Xi Heng had not seen her for a long time. She was always saying that she didn’t have the time to see her. Sometimes, she even said that because of a relapse of her old illness, she couldn’t get up from bed, and couldn’t have tea with her, nor a meal. It felt like Xi Xian was like a distant relative coming to ask her for money.
But Xi Heng appeared here, and she didn’t seem to be sick.
Her legitimate sister was wearing a common sky-blue gown, because of the summer heat, her sleeves were pulled up, revealing the well-defined joints of her wrists, her long black hair was fixed with a jade hairpin, with long eyebrows, she looked quite noble and detached.
Xi Xian could see, this hairpin was clearly the one she had taken from her own hair bun.
The shamelessness.
Xi Heng was holding a cup of tea, her nose bridge was high, her face was cold, and she slowly curled her lips, as she briefly said something to Li Yu.
Then she saw Li Yu laughing loudly, revealing a bold and vivid countenance, before taking a white piece and playing it on the chessboard.
After a while, Xi Heng got up and personally served tea to Li Yu. Li Yu seemed to be at a loss, unable to refuse. He got up and saluted, before he drank and emptied the cup of tea. The two of them looked very harmonious.
Xi Xian slightly clenched her hands, with tears rolling in her eyes.
(11.1)
As Li Yu was playing chess with the crown prince, the cold sweat on his forehead was flowing down increasingly more, but overall, he remained calm.
The crown prince’s chess skills were exquisite, he had seen the crown prince play once before. Back then, the crown prince’s attack was more subtle and restrained, although it revealed a sharp edge, but it wasn’t fatal.
However, everything was different now, the identity of the crown prince was no longer the crown prince. Now he might have some strange fetishes, he was wearing his hair in a woman’s hair bun, wearing women’s luxurious dresses, and was very well disguised with a changed face, but the way he talked and did things were not different from before.
He could tell, the crown prince did not really want to be a woman.
A few years ago, the reason the crown prince came to the Xi family was to first avoid a disaster, and second to recuperate, and in fact, everything he did was for a reason, but now he was staying here so many days without leaving, it made him a little confused as to why.
The crown prince landed another piece and smiled slightly, “It’s your turn.”
After knowing the identity of the “woman” in front of him, he felt that this image was really strange and terrifying.
Li Yu’s chess pieces were forced to a corner in a blink of an eye, but he suddenly saw a young girl standing outside the pavilion, frail and slender, her face looked gentle and pale, and the corners of her eyes were red, as if she had just cried, like a delicate beauty.
Just standing there, she could make people unable to stop looking at her.
Li Yu couldn’t help but incline his head to look over the crown prince, at the girl outside the pavilion. He said, “This person is…?”
The crown prince squeezed a chess piece without answering, but he saw that the small girl outside the pavilion had red eyes and was squeezing her pale pink cuffs. She saluted him, before turning around and walking away.
Li Yu was a little dazed.
The crown prince said slowly: “Go and tell her to come here.”
Translator : Laura
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