The Husband I Snatched Is Not Right!-Chapter 294 - 291: She Should Be the Most Dazzling Pearl
The interplay of light and shadow danced in the man’s eyes, dark as ink.
Wei Zhao raised an eyebrow and leaned in closer, parting the girl’s closed legs. He exhaled near her ear, moved her delicate fingers aside from his lips, slipped through them, and entangled and gripped tightly.
"Is that so?"
Yu Tingwan smiled: "They say a family with a daughter has many suitors, my husband is no exception."
How can you be so capable!!!
Yu Tingwan continued to smile: "I heard that someone once offered beauties to you."
Tan Jiang said so!
Of course, Tan Jiang emphasized that the person also offered some to He Xuran. But Wei Zhao received four, and He Xuran two.
The General received more than the Imperial Censor!!
To Yu Tingwan’s ears, it sounded like Wei Zhao was quite fortunate in love.
Wei Zhao looked at her: "Indeed there were."
"Wanted to bribe me."
"The Duke Shun Mansion is well-guarded, those people sent for me didn’t even get inside before the housekeeper sent them away. I didn’t see any of them."
Wei Zhao: "As for those who tried to bribe me, they’re currently sitting in a jail cell. Do you still have anything to ask?"
Yu Tingwan: ...
"There was also a princess offered in marriage who specifically wanted to wed you."
Tan Jiang said so!
She said the princess didn’t fancy He Xuran.
Wei Zhao: ...
Stepping out of the house, so much gossip has reached her.
But she only heard half of it.
Wei Zhao casually said, "She has now become a concubine in the imperial harem."
Yu Tingwan didn’t know what to say for a moment.
How could it be like this?
"The Holy Emperor is quite advanced in age, isn’t he?"
Wei Zhao didn’t care at all, after all, these people and things were irrelevant.
"Recently, a concubine was even diagnosed with pregnancy."
The topic veered off course, and Yu Tingwan sighed: "That old thing is still quite vigorous."
"There is a secret medicine in the Imperial Palace; he consumes one every time he enters the harem."
What kind of medicine is this, goes without saying.
There are countless concubines in the harem; some are there through selection, and others are sent by officials.
Yet there are only so many days in a year, and new women come every year. Some women never see the emperor’s face in their lifetime.
The heirs of the Royal Family are always the burden of successive emperors.
Emperors obviously need medicine.
But with more women, there is more intrigue and conflict.
The Royal Family has many offspring, but mostly princesses, with only a few capable princes.
Yu Tingwan casually asked: "Will the child be born safely?"
Wei Zhao carelessly leaned in, closing the distance between them: "I will let someone in the Imperial Palace keep an eye on it."
Yu Tingwan: ??
She frowned, "What does it have to do with you!"
Why care about other people’s women and children!
She clenched her fist, ready to strike, but then Wei Zhao spoke softly: "It’s not that Dog Emperor’s child."
Yu Tingwan silently released her grip and leaned back, yet Wei Zhao pursued relentlessly.
She cleared her throat, scared of causing chaos: "Well, it is a human life after all. It would be a good deed to look after it."
She wanted to push him away.
But she couldn’t muster the strength.
Instead, she lost control, her soft figure falling onto the desk.
Wei Zhao’s attention was all on her, quickly holding her head with one hand and clutching her slender waist with the other.
His large hand was like a branding iron, though it burned the waist, it felt like it scorched the heart.
The world spun, but Yu Tingwan wasn’t hurt. Instead, she felt a weight on her, a strong body pressed down tightly.
Yu Tingwan didn’t know how it ended up this way.
"You...how do you even know about this!"
"Last night I entered the palace, just happened to see that concubine having a secret affair with a guard."
Oh, you went into the palace and became a thief, gaining quite some insight.
The man’s fingers fondled her waist: "Still jealous?"
Nope.
She was even lost in the joy of gossip.
Yu Tingwan was about to shake her head.
Wei Zhao: "Then let’s have a discussion."
Yu Tingwan said gently: "Can you have this discussion after getting off me?"
He’s heavy.
And the desk is hard.
Wei Zhao stroked her face, porcelain white: "Have I attracted so many, yet did I attract you?"
Suddenly.
Silence filled the room.
The air was thick and still.
In truth, he had.
He looked devastatingly charming at this moment.
Wei Zhao waited for a long time with no response: "Understood."
Yu Tingwan was surprised: "I didn’t even say anything, yet you understood?"
Are they already at the point of reading each other’s minds?
Wei Zhao sneered coldly: "I don’t attract the ones I should, but attract the ones I shouldn’t."
Yu Tingwan: ...
She hesitated.
"Then... maybe you should reflect on that?"
There was something to discuss, and Wei Zhao never really did anything to her.
He stopped teasing her, and after a deep kiss, he stood up, pulling the girl along with him.
The sound of a chair scraping against the floor.
Wei Zhao sat down.
The table was higher than the chair.
Yu Tingwan was at eye level with him, her lips rosy and slightly swollen, as she lowered her head to tidy her somewhat disheveled collar.
Wei Zhao fiddled with the golden beads at her waist: "The Grand Tutor Gu asked me to find someone."
He added: "With your portrait."
Yu Tingwan: "Did you tell him?"
Wei Zhao: "No."
Wei Zhao: "But it’s the first time the old man has asked me to do something, I had to agree."
Yu Tingwan: ...
Oh, good job.
Wei Zhao: "The palace was supposed to host a banquet today; I said I wasn’t feeling well, so it got postponed to two days later."
"That day also happens to be the Gu Family’s Daughter’s birthday."
Officials of Fifth Rank and above must attend with their families. With the timing clash, either the Gu Family’s Daughter’s birthday had to be moved or not held at all.
Yu Tingwan pursed her lips: "You did that on purpose."
Wei Zhao admitted with no shame, "Yes."
"Regardless of her ignorance of her identity or her character, she occupied the Gu Family’s Daughter’s position for eighteen years. She lived in luxury and hardly suffered any hardships. This alone makes her indebted to you."
Missing one birthday is not a big deal, is it?
Could it ever compensate for the hardship the girl faced over the years?
Wei Zhao is not a gentleman.
What happens to Gu Wu he doesn’t care.
How Grand Tutor Gu and Princess Jiasan make their decisions, he doesn’t care either.
He only knows Yu Tingwan suffered too much.
The Gu Family is very unfamiliar to Yu Tingwan, and even makes her resist. But her appearance is bound to draw comment. Sooner or later, the Gu Family would come looking for her.
Since it’s bound to happen one day.
Why not in front of all the officials? Stir up a storm, cause a sensation?
Wei Zhao met the girl’s eyes.
"To acknowledge them or not is your decision."
"But you are not to be hidden; walk with dignity, neither stealing nor robbing."
He smiled slightly.
The girl should be a pearl in the light.
The brightest one.
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Time turned.
The day of the palace banquet soon arrived.
Ning Yunling was released by Wei Zhao; during the days he was confined in the study, Wei Zhao did not beat him.
Because he was useful.
With Ning Yunling at the palace banquet, it would surely be more lively.
But Ning Yunling didn’t know.
During the days locked up, not to mention a beating, nor punishment or scolding, he didn’t even see Wei Zhao.
Ning Yunling felt like the sky was falling.
This seemed even more frightening.
Especially when he just stepped out the door and Shunzi respectfully made a gesture of invitation.
"No need to hurry, Princely Heir, take your time. Even if you’re late to the palace banquet, it doesn’t matter, the General dotes on you, he wouldn’t rush you, would he?"
Ning Yunling’s legs almost gave way listening to this.
