Unaware that My Legitimate Sister is My Husband - Chapter 5

~End of chapter 4

At that time, Xi Yao had a proud and haughty look, with a rosy complexion, she had even gotten a gift from her legitimate sister. She revealed on her white wrist a bracelet inlaid with rubies, which deeply stabbed Xi Xian’s heart.

She had been currying favor with her legitimate sister for so long, but she had gotten nothing. Her legitimate sister did not want her to dress herself too beautifully.

With much difficulty, Xi Xian got a good marriage proposal, but it was refused with an ugly face by her legitimate sister, who coldly told her to not even think about it in this life.

At that time, her concubine mother passed away, she was not close to her father, she felt wronged, but she could only endure the suffering alone.

Chapter 5

(2.4)

The good thing was, later, when the family collapsed, her legitimate sister died, and she entered the palace as a favored concubine. Although she was imprisoned by the emperor like a canary, in the end, she was the most glorious.

In the beginning, Xi Xian was still young and not very mature, and in order to win the emperor’s pity and tenderness, she loved to talk badly about her legitimate sister as pillow talk when they were in bed.

She only recounted how her legitimate sister had been harsh to her back then, how she had made things difficult for her, how she used to be partial towards her other concubine-born sister, and all the hardships she had endured at that time.

The emperor remained silent, but when he held her, his pale and sharp eyes slowly narrowed. Although it was just the time of a glimpse, Xi Xian still saw the strangeness in his eyes.

She thought that her legitimate sister really should have seen it!

All her partiality and the things she had done, even a terrifying man like the emperor found it unbearable!

Xi Xian had been submissive all her life, she had not been able to get into her father’s good graces, she had lived like a poor snail, shrunk in a shell with no one to care for her.

So, after thinking about it, she made up her mind. She would walk a different path in this life, she would never go and curry favor with her legitimate sister again, she would even step on her legitimate sister’s boundaries in order to climb the ladder.

At this time, her fifth sister was here for a visit. She was dressed in a simple and elegant brand new dress. On her head, she was wearing an exquisitely made golden lotus hairpin with fine petals as thin as cicada wings, and with fine tassels hanging down. Although she only combed her hair in a simple huabao bun, but the simplicity made her look more delicate and splendid. Between her every words and smiles, there was the brightness and the refinement of a high-born miss of a noble family.

It was completely different from the fragility and quietness surrounding Xi Xian’s figure, the difference was like heaven and earth.

Xi Yao’s eyebrows furrowed, “Is this sixth sister?” As she said that, she sized up Xi Xian repeatedly, with a strange curiosity in her eyes, and she only bowed slightly to née Qin who was on the side.

That expression, it was enough to make the Xi Xian of the past feel uncomfortable, as if her existence represented from the start some kind of bizarre and dirty sin.

But Xi Yao only ever made allusions, she would never say anything that could shed a negative light on her, like a lotus flower taken out of the mud, yet unstained.

This led Xi Xian in the past to have an attitude of “if I can endure it, then I’ll endure it”, in fear that if she said anything, she would be criticized for being small-minded, that people would say that in the end that was the result of her low birth and poor upbringing, and that she was unfit to be seen in public.

Xi Xian let her size her up and down, and just magnanimously nodded her head. On the contrary, Xi Yao was the one who was surprised.

Xi Yao held her hand and said with a smile: “I did not know you existed before, otherwise we would have been good sisters since little.”

Xi Xian could only lightly smile.

She looked at the orange in Xi Xian’s hand and said with a smile, “Sixth sister likes to eat oranges? I don’t like them. You know what, I’ll ask Biyu to bring you my plate of oranges, in any case it’s not much.”

Née Qin was timid, and when she heard Xi Yao’s words, she immediately thanked her on her daughter’s behalf, afraid that if her own courtesy was lacking, her reputation would be bad and that it would bring her daughter down.

In the summer days, in fact, oranges were very difficult to grow, but for the pleasure of the noble families, oranges were deliberately being cultivated, although in limited numbers.

Xi Yao’s maidservant soon brought up a porcelain plate, filled with plump and round oranges. Once peeled off, every bite was full of sweet and sour juice, and the sweet taste lingered in the mouth.

The ones in Xi Xian’s plate were bland in taste, their size was big and at one glance, it could be seen that they weren’t sweet.

Née Qin sighed slowly and revealed a sad face. She deserved to be belittled because she was a low status outside mistress, but it was harsh on her little girl whom she had delicately raised.

Xi Xian’s face was calm, she only opened her mouth to give praise, “They’re really sweet, I’ll thankfully accept them.”

Xi Yao frowned slightly, but then she heard Xi Xian slowly say to Chun Cao: “Go to the main courtyard. Give my plate of oranges to my eldest sister, so that she can eat it instead of me.”

She lowered her eyes and sighed softly, as if she was naive and unaware of the world: “I can’t eat it all by myself, wasting isn’t good.”

Xi Xian looked like she was comparing herself with others, and also seemed like she was sulking from being treated unfairly. She even dared to raise her nose in front of someone like their legitimate  sister.

Xi Yao’s eyebrows furrowed, as she said, “Sixth sister, you can’t be like this, eldest sister will not be happy.”

Maybe in the eyes of the onlookers that matter would need to be rectified to maintain a peaceful facade,  but their legitimate sister had never cared about matters such as who lived happily, who was oppressed, or who was the most unlucky.

Therefore, no one in the backyard dared to make trouble.

Née Qin, worried, also advised, “Xianxian, don’t disturb your eldest sister, it’s doesn’t befit the rules.”

Translator : Laura

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