Transmigrated as the Treacherous Official's Childhood Sweetheart-Chapter 118: Redemption

The auction for Ming Yan’s initial night was set at the beginning of spring.

She wanted to leave cleanly to meet her Master Zhi Chen, choosing Bai Ling as the place to end her life.

Ye Family reached out and embraced her youngest daughter warmly, laughing brightly: "You little girl, mother has money, no need to worry."

"Mother, it’s not right for your daughter to spend the family’s money so extravagantly all the time," Ye Zhi mumbled.

The Ye Family took out the five hundred taels Ye Zhi had previously provided for Ming Yan’s redemption and put them into her hand: "Mother has money, you are mother’s precious daughter; if I don’t let you spend it, am I to spend it on outsiders? This is the five hundred taels you gave, mother doesn’t want it from you, let mother handle the two thousand taels."

Her daughter refused to accept, but the Ye Family insisted.

The mother and daughter pushed and pulled for quite a while before she tucked it into her daughter’s arms.

"Keep it well, as long as my darling is happy, that’s all that matters."

She then took out a silver note worth a thousand taels from her bosom and handed it to her daughter’s fair hand~

"Take this money, buy whatever you want for yourself, you can’t be outdone by those young ladies of noble families."

Ye Zhi unexpectedly received so many silver notes in her hand, wide-eyed and tongue-tied: "Mother, why give me so much?"

"Does a mother need a reason to give her daughter money to spend?"

Ye Zhi, upon receiving this answer, felt a pang in her heart, as if a fishbone was stuck in her throat.

[Concubine’s Favor] mainly described the protagonist’s interactions with others, not much detail was given about minor characters. Ming Yan’s affair was casually brushed over, but Ye Zhi remembered this incident because she felt sorry for her.

When Ye Zhi arrived in the Daqing Dynasty, the novel was only halfway written, not yet concluded, and the future path was uncertain to her.

However, she knew that her journey had to be walked by herself, not written!

Ye Zhi looked at her mother dressed in a purple pleated auspicious moon skirt, sitting gracefully in the main seat, her eyes gently affectionate.

"Mother, when I earn money later, I will repay you well."

She leaned over and kissed her mother’s cheek.

The Ye Family, receiving her daughter’s kiss, laughed charmingly, still youthful in her demeanor: "Alright, alright, my little Xiao Ah Zhi is the best, if you need money in the future, just tell mother, don’t let yourself suffer."

Just recently, her mother had scolded her to be frugal, fearing she might develop extravagant habits difficult to change later. Seeing her petite figure pledging confidently that she would support her, Ye Family felt touched, as daughters are indeed little cotton-padded jackets, just as they should be.

The Ye Family embraced her little daughter, returning the kiss on her fair and rosy little face.

"Hahaha..."

Ye Zhi was ticklish, giggling as she dodged away~

Her playful figure hopped into another lightly green silhouette that was entering.

It was Huanhuan.

The two little girls sat in the main hall with Ye Family, chatting away.

*

With Ye Family taking charge, the affairs of Yanyu Building resolved smoothly.

When Ye Zhi returned home for relaxation again, she saw Ming Yan. She had only glimpsed her once by chance at Guanghua Temple before, and now to see her up close, her features were delicate, her shoulders like carvings, her waist slender and perfect—a truly rare beauty.

Mrs. Chun, the madam of Yanyu Building, initially intended to make a fortune with Ming Yan, but ever since she was heartbroken by that Monk, she seemed soullessly drained.

Such a determined girl, dreary and listless for so long, was something Mrs. Chun had never witnessed before.

When Zheng Qi appeared to redeem Ming Yan, Mrs. Chun inquired about the situation, knowing that she was just going to be a maid for the Chief of Staff’s daughter and not a concubine, the redemption money decreased from five thousand taels to two thousand taels~

Having watched her grow up from a child, saying there’s no emotion involved is utterly impossible.

Throughout her life, she smiled to entertain guests, her lips tasted by many, living one day in the brothel, she could never bear children, not a hint of true emotion!