Pampered Poisonous Royal Wife Ch 84

Editor: Angel

Chapter 84 Staying at Niyunfang with a peace of mind

       "I ...... I naturally am clear about it."

    Ding Yuelan was holding a handkerchief and gently wiped her eyes with it, tears still streaming down: "Older sister, you have always believed in Zhou Daren’s words, and always supported him. Now you’re also speaking up for him?"

    Mu Yunyao sighed and went forward to hold Ding Yuelan's hand: "Lady, don't be sad. Lady Tongzhi and you are sisters, she would surely be more supportive toward you, not toward Zhou Daren. She would not place the blame on you."

    Ding Yuexin’s smile was stiff and she looked at Mu Yunyao with fierceness in her eyes. At this moment, if she insisted on persuading Ding Yuelan to go back, she would seem as if she believed in Zhou Daren more than her own sister. But, if she refused to persuade her to go back, it was equal to admitting that Zhou Daren had done something wrong to Ding Yuelan and which would be tantamount to acquiescing in the separation of the two people. Regardless of which outcome, it was beyond her expectations.

    Ding Yuelan said with a wry smile: "Sister, please go back and tell this to Zhou Daren; One day being husband and wife, one hundred days of grace (TN: it means once you get married, you will have deep feelings. I call bullshit). For the husband and wife’s sake, I will not publicize his affairs. At present, I’m very comfortable staying in Niyunfang, so please ask him to stop coming to cause trouble for me. Else, don't blame me for not cherishing the old feelings!"

    After that, she directly turned back and walked into Niyunfang’s inner room. The thin figure and her slightly staggering steps seemed to have suffered from unimaginable grief. Mu Yunyao sighed: "Madame is indeed upright. Although I’m young, but I can distinguish between right and wrong. It’s no wonder that she has become the shopkeeper of my Niyunfang. May I trouble Lady Tongzhi to go back and tell Master Ding and Madame Ding this; if they really cherished their daughter, then don’t force her to return to the sea of ​​bitterness.”

    After that, she shook her head and turned to catch up with Ding Yuelan’s footsteps and accompanied her upstairs. Ding Yuexin was almost incapable of speaking. She did not expect that Ding Yuelan and Mu Yunyao had settled the issue with the separation in mere a few words. And how could it seem that she knew what happened between her and Zhou Wei when she heard Ding Yuelan’s words? Thinking of this, she could not help panicking, and did not dare to further being entangled here and turned to her carriage to leave quickly.

    Lady Jin, who had witnessed everything, could not help but raise her lips and whispered to the driver: "Let's go." She originally thought about seeing the situation and help Mu Yunyao but unexpectedly, she could resolve the problem satisfactorily.

Yin Hong was somewhat puzzled: "Madame, what really happened between Lord Xuan Fu and Lady Ding in the end? This slave is really curious to know it." 

    Lady Jin chuckled: "What happened is not important, as long as everyone knows that Zhou Daren had done something to feel sorry for towards his wife.” 

    Due to Lord Xuan Fu’s odd relationship with Zhou Wei, and Zhou Wei’s inharmonious relationship with Cao Yunnian, she had paid special attention to Zhou Wei’s affairs. Not to mention that pretentious Ding Yuexin. Just because she hated Ding family’s style of work and had no contact with Ding Yuelan, she had been keeping this matter in her heart and hadn’t gotten involved. 

    She originally thought that this matter would take several more years to be exposed. Unexpectedly, such a quick incident happened and exposed it. However, this was also good, Zhou Wei would fall hard from this blow. 

    Yin Hong still did not understand: "Since Zhou Daren had done something wrong towards his wife, why didn't she just say it openly?" 

    "When you don't know what happened, so you’ll always try to make a guess in your heart. And you will always keep thinking about it seriously. But, once you spread it out and explain the matter, then the people will lose interest in it. People won’t care about the reason of separation unless they have some interest in the matter. The separation would then become the more talked about topic rather than the reason for it because it’s unheard of a couple getting a separation."

    Yin Hong thought about it, then suddenly realized: "Yes ah. Because I don't know what happened, so I’ve been thinking about how the Zhou Daren has wronged his wife and made me think that it’s not a big deal to separate from each other."

    “That’s why I said, this Mu Yunyao is very astute, the slightest difference leads to a huge error (TN: an idiom); a little gap, but can affect the opinion of the public. Even I admire her exceedingly intricate mind. In the future, you should follow and try to learn from her a little. Even if you only learn three points, you’ll be the most intelligent person."

    "This slave is dull, I’ll just honestly serve my Lady. This slave can't learn such a sophisticated way of thinking."

    Lady Jin chuckled: "If someone is waiting for an opportunity to make trouble around Niyunfang, just send someone to put them into the prison directly. At this time, no one can obstruct Mu Yunyao's embroidery lesson."

    Because the two riverbanks almost burst, Zhou Wei and Cao Yunnian had been very disagreeable with each other. Afterwards, Cao Yunnian was not only promoted into the salt transportation bureau at such a young age, but he had also poked Zhou Wei’s lung tube (TN: meaning Zhou Wei made a living from salt transport and Cao Yunnian meddled his money pot). This time, it was inevitable that he would have it hard to seize an opportunity to make a living and had to be careful so as to not make a big blunder.

(TN: Zhou Wei must be careful to not provoke and leave evidence of his misdeeds and let Cao Yunnian gained an advantage over him since a newly-promoted official would be a meritorious deed if he could uncover a crime.)

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    After closing the door and blocking all eyes, Ding Yuelan slackened down. Her back had been soaked in cold sweat and her body could not stop trembling. If she could, she would never want to see her good sister ever again. 

    Mu Yunyao motioned to Jin Lan and others to retreat upstairs. She poured a cup of tea and brought it to Ding Yuelan. 

    Ding Yuelan wiped the tears on her face with her hands: "Jinlan put a lot of ginger juice on my handkerchief. Now the tears can't stop flowing, I’ve let you laugh at me!" 

    "Then I will properly talk to Jinlan later,” Mu Yunyao handed over the tea cup. “Has Madame thought it over?” 

    When today’s matter is spread, the whole Jingling City will have differing opinions. If Ding Yuelan intended to return to Zhou Wei’s side, then many things could not be done to control the situation. However, she was a victim in the public’s eyes. As long as she had a slightly tolerant appearance, she could still obtain a good reputation. 

(TN: a victim in the translation is a ‘bitter lord’ ashdagjgshdasd that’s such a quality translation🤣)

     Ding Yuelan said with a wry smile: "I can't go back."

    If she could endure such humiliation, she would have left the Zhou Manor. Who could think that the man she admired wholeheartedly, had liked her sister all this time. What love and indulgence, what connivance? Everything was just because he did not care about anything she did.

    She was so distressed and felt guilty that she hadn’t given birth to a child. However, it was unthinkable that it was not because she could not give birth, but on their wedding day, she had been given a sufficient amount of sterilizing drug in the wedding wine...

    What saddened her most was that her own sister and her husband had plotted this together, and even his parents knew the inside story, which woken her up from her happy dream. It was as if she had suddenly fallen from heaven into the bottom of the cliff, smashing her whole person!

    "Since the Lady thought about it, then please feel at ease to stay in Niyunfang."

    "My elder sister, I’m afraid she’ll come back." Previously, she had been blinded by the so-called kinship. Although she had always felt that her sister’s attitude towards her was strange, she did not think much about it. Now that layer of fog had been lifted, and many things had been laid bare in front of her. Everyday, her good sister used her delicate face to serve as a foil to showcase her unruly and shallow image to the world... 

    "What if she comes to find trouble again? The law of Dali Dynasty clearly states that you can, and should leave him. You only made your own choice. Not to mention that Zhou Daren has wronged you first. When worst comes to worst, he would not dare to make the matter known to the public. Now it’s them who should be afraid.” 

    Ding Yuexin tried her best to persuade Ding Yuelan to go back. Afraid that she was also worried that the matter would become too big to handle, and that her ambiguous relationship with Zhou Wei would be exposed. 

   Ding Yuelan hesitantly glanced at Mu Yunyao: “You...Have you guessed what happened?”

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OMG I'm so sorry guys I didn't realise my scheduled posts have skipped some dates!! 

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