Favoring a Hidden Mistress? Engagement Broken-Chapter 152 - 122: A Blessed Union

Xie Wanqing clicked her tongue at the Second Prince’s reckless behavior, and recalling his greasy "sister-in-law" from the day before, she felt goosebumps all over her body belatedly.

She made up her mind that she would take a detour whenever she saw him in the future.

He was a scoundrel who would seduce women, and there was more than one noblewoman in the Capital who had been defiled by him.

Yet, few people knew about this matter.

The next morning, after waking up, when Pei Yuqing came to call her to get up, Xie Wanqing couldn’t help but ask, "Does the Holy Emperor know about the Second Prince’s actions?"

Pei Yuqing responded with a hum and said, "This is an imperial family scandal, not suitable for publicizing. The Holy Emperor warned him, and he has restrained himself quite a bit recently."

However, a leopard can’t change its spots, and who knows how long one warning from the Holy Emperor will make him behave.

The Emperor has four princes in total, and each is very cherished. As long as it’s not a crime of treason, what harm does it do to dally with a few women?

Even high-born noblewomen, when encountering such matters, will only conceal it for the sake of reputation, more afraid than anyone that the matter will get out.

Pei Yuqing knew about it because he has the Qingtian Guard.

Observing a leopard through a tube, Xie Wanqing realized somewhat how much power he had.

Almost the entire intelligence network of the Great Khan was under his control.

Whether it was the royal family or the secrets and intrigues of the officials’ households, he knew almost everything.

"Brother Changqing," Xie Wanqing reached out to hug his waist, "is there anything in this world that you don’t know?"

"I am also a mere mortal; of course, there are things I don’t know."

Pei Yuqing held her shoulder, his eyebrows slightly raised, a smile forming on his handsome face, and said, "For example, I don’t know how long Wanwan, you are going to stay in bed."

And then he doesn’t know if during these months, she has come to like him a bit more.

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This year’s winter is colder than in previous years. According to Xie Wanqing’s thoughts, she should just nest in the courtyard and not go anywhere.

But the end of the year is the busiest time for the ladies of each family.

Busy entertaining guests, busy settling accounts for the year, busy buying silver, charcoal, cotton cloth, and winter clothes for the masters and servants of different wings in the mansion, and distributing allowances to the mansion’s servants. At the end of the year, there should be rewards and punishments.

Only by having the master see the capabilities of the subordinates and reward and punish clearly will the servants be more attentive to their duties in the coming year.

If mistakes go unpunished, and merits unrewarded, even in high-ranking households, lazy and rebellious servants will be fostered.

This year, from a maiden in the boudoir, Xie Wanqing became a married woman and also took charge of half of the Duke Mansion’s domestic affairs.

Therefore, she also became busier.

This busyness only started to ease as the twelfth lunar month began.

Nearing the year-end, every household began to host banquets.

Distant relatives aside, visiting her maternal family’s Marquis Qu Mansion, especially in the first year after her marriage, accompanied by her husband to pay respects to her grandparents, is a necessary etiquette.

On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, with heavy snow falling, Marquis Qu Mansion was hosting relatives and friends, and Xie Wanqing, who hadn’t left the mansion for days, had no choice but to step out.

She wore a plain-colored brocade close-fitting skirt, covered with a thick fox fur cloak, and held a hand warmer.

Being assisted off the carriage by Pei Yuqing, as she stepped onto the freshly cleared snow, the cold seeped in immediately, and she shrank her neck from the cold.

Xie Yanyu, who had been waiting for his sister for a while, walked over in a few steps, lowered his eyes to look at the girl wrapped like a red fur ball, and there was a hint of a smile in his eyes.

"Are you so afraid of the cold?"

"Brother!" Xie Wanqing’s eyes lit up, seeing her brother after more than half a month, and craned her neck to look behind him, "Have Father and Mother arrived yet?"

"They have come. You’re so heartless, living so close and yet not coming back to see Mother for more than ten days and half a month,"

Xie Yanyu couldn’t help but grumble a couple of times. Looking at Pei Yuqing, he smiled slightly and said, "It’s cold outside, let’s go in."

Marquis Qu Mansion is an old-established family, having been rooted in the Capital City for many years with many branches and clans, and the guests invited this time were all close relatives and friends.

Upon entering the main hall, it was already bustling inside.

This was not Pei Yuqing’s first visit to Marquis Qu Mansion, but it was his first time coming as a grandson-in-law.

He stood tall, with elegant features, looking like an exemplary gentleman, and gave a perfect formal greeting to the Marquis Qu couple sitting at the head.

Xie Wanqing stood beside him, her cloak not yet undone, wrapped like a small fur ball, only showing a pink little face, with arched eyebrows and stunningly pretty.

Seeing this perfect couple, there was a moment of silence indoors, quickly broken by someone praising, "Truly a match made in heaven, a union of gold and jade."