Pampered Poisonous Royal Wife Ch 74

Chapter 74: The human heart is fickle

    Mu Yunyao turned her head and smiled: "If I say I’m not curious, it’s definitely a lie. However, if the lady does not want to speak, and I ask you about it, it will be like forcing you to speak. If the lady is willing to speak, I won’t need to ask. So I chose not to ask." 

    Ding Yuelan’s lips almost raised listening to her remarks, but without waiting for the smile to bloom, it suddenly disappeared: "Do you have a sister?" 

    "No, my mother hurt her body when she gave birth to me. After that, I am an only child in my family, there are no brothers and sisters. I often admired others to have protection from their siblings." 

Ding Yuelan laughed: "I used to think so too. My sister and I are not from the same mother, but when I was young, in order to save me from falling into the pond, my sister caused her body to be frail and sickly. After that, I treated her like my own sister and carefully guarded her for so many years, and even reversed my temper for her sake..." Ding Yuelan uttered then fell silent. There was a heavy sadness emanating from her body, even affected Mu Yunyao on the side and she felt her heart tightened. 

    After a while, Ding Yuelan went on to say: "Who can think that this person's heart is the easiest thing to change in the world. What you think is good, what you think is sisters' affection, what you think is husband and wife, are all like clouds of smoke. When the wind blows and the clouds disappear, only to clearly see the scattered pieces...." 

    Mu Yunyao did not rush to interject, but after Ding Yuelan finished speaking, she got up and took the tea in her hand: "Ma’am, the tea is cold, I'll help you change a cup of hot ginger tea, people are warm, so those cold things are not so oppressive." 

    Ding Yuelan was dumbstruck, waited until Mu Yunyao replaced the teacup in her hands, she gradually recovered. The teacup was hot and its mist was rising. The mist made the eyes feel hot. She raised her head and drank the slightly hot ginger tea in the cup. Then she laid down on the soft couch and closed her eyes. 

    Mu Yunyao took a small blanket and gently covered Ding Yuelan’s body. Then she quietly retreated. When she left, she accidentally saw a crystal clear teardrop rolling down her eyes.

    Seeing Mu Yunyao came out, Jinlan quickly greeted her: "Miss, are you okay?" 

    "I'm fine, you are all going to rest, there’s still something to do tomorrow!" 

    "Yes, Miss. If there’s anything, just promptly call us." 

    Mu Yunyao nodded. After Jin Lan and Jin Qiao exited, she could not help but find a chair to sit down, and her thoughts swirled around. The things buried in the memory came out little by little. 

    Previously at the banquet of the governor's wife, she saw the interactions between Ding Yuelan and Ding Yuexin were suspicious, and thought that she was being oversensitive. Later, she repeatedly asked Lady Jin to make sure that Ding Yuelan was the one she had seen in her previous life. 

    In her past life, she had seen Ding Yuelan on the execution ground. At that time, she had just become the concubine of Jin Wang. Jin Wang also pampered her in every possible way. When she was bored in the manor, he took her to the streets to play. While resting in the restaurant, she saw the prison carriage pulling Ding Yuelan passing by the street. At that time, Ding Yuelan was in prison clothes, with messy hair, body covered with bloodstain. Her appearance could be said to be very embarrassing, but her eyes were filled with a bright and firm smile. Even when many people around her pelted her with vegetables and leaves, she still proudly swept past, unaffected and with a sense of aloofness from worldly affairs. 

    She was only curious and asked. In order to please her, the guards around Jin Wang specifically called the shopkeeper of the restaurant to explain the situation. She only knew that the Ding Yuelan had barehandedly killed her sister, brother-in-law and her husband. Because the murdered person was an official, Ding Yuelan was escorted to the capital for interrogation and then sentenced to beheading. At that time, people talked endlessly after dinner, and gradually unearthed a lot of secrets. 

    It was said that Ding Yuelan had an older sister whose appearance as smooth as silk and temperament as weak and delicate as willow. At that time, Jingling Tongzhi and Xuan Fu, who were both fifth-ranked officials, took a fancy to her. Later, Jingling Tongzhi knew that he could hold the beauty. But Xuan Fu was unresigned. In order to get close to her, he married her sister, that is, Ding Yuelan. 

    After getting married, Xuan Fu secretly contacted the older sister through a messenger for many years. He secretly fed Ding Yuelan a sterilizing drug, conspired to deceive her and emptied all her dowry. Later, it was known that the older sister was an adoptive daughter, not her biological relative and sister. So it was difficult to suppress the hatred in her heart.  While her sister and her own husband were having an affair, she took a sword and stabbed the two people. Jingling Tongzhi, who came to see the situation, was also killed. 

    Later, things gradually spread and caused an uproar for a long time in Jiangnan, but gradually faded away. 

    The sounds of footsteps came and Mu Yunyao returned to her senses. She looked up and saw that Ding Yuelan had stepped out. There was not much surprise in the heart. This woman, while on the execution ground, could still stand firm in the face of death. Some little twists and turns in the middle could make her confused for a while, but ultimately could not knock her down. 

    Ding Yuelan was much quieter than before. When she saw Mu Yunyao was staying outside, she could not help but bring a warm color to her eyes: "Mu girl, I’m disturbing you this late, you can’t throw away my wet Zouma Guandeng set of clothes, I like it very much. After two days, I’ll come back to Niyunfang to take it back." 

    "Ma’am, rest assured, such good clothes, I’m also reluctant to lose it." 

    "Good, then I’ll leave now." 

    Mu Yunyao took the oil paper umbrella and handed it to her: "The rain’s still pouring heavily outside. Although this umbrella looks simple, but it can cover you for a while. The lady should take it with her." 

    Ding Yuelan carefully looked at the oil paper umbrella for a while, and then she took it solemnly, her eyes flashed with gratitude: "Thank you." 

    "Ma’am, please walk slowly. I’ll wait for the Lady to come and pick up the clothes in two days." Mu Yunyao always adorned herself with a smile. In a difficult situation, a little goodwill can possibly save a person in the middle of fire and flood (TN: idiom - fire and flood/water have no mercy to anybody). 

    At first, when she was in a desperate situation, her biggest hope was that someone could see her pain, reached out and held her hand. Unfortunately, she had bad luck and was unable to have such an encounter. Nowadays, when she saw someone who was as desperate as she was in the past, she could not help but feel disturbed. She only hoped that she had not done anything wrong. 

    Ding Yuelan had not made a single sound all this time and Mu Yunyao sent her down the stairs, watched her carry the umbrella through the curtain of rain and in the end, watched her disappear into the vast world. Suddenly she felt sad momentarily. She mumbled under her breath: "Do not repeat the mistakes of the previous life, for so many individuals, to lose their lives, it is not worth it." Mu Yunyao felt Ding Yuelan was also a poor person, I hope she could understand, to not repeat the mistakes of the previous life, to not lose her life for those kinds of individuals, it was not worth it at all.

    Mu Yunyao went upstairs to rest. Unknown whether it was because she remembered the past, but this night, her dreams twisted around, making her feel as if she had returned to the loneliness and helplessness of her previous life. During her painful struggle, she suddenly felt two sharp rays shining on her body, her eyes abruptly flew open, and she inhaled sharply. 

    Her body was soaked in cold sweat. She got up and walked to the window. Unsure when but the rain had stopped but the weather was still dull. It was so depressing that it made people feel suffocated. 

    On the second floor, when Mu Yunyao got up and walked to the window, Liu Liang opened his eyes, and listened to the slight footsteps upstairs heading to the window for a long time without returning. His eyebrows could not help but wrinkle tighter and tighter. He had been waiting for nearly an hour before he could hear the sound of the window being closed upstairs, and the footsteps returning back to the bedside.

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