Author: Yue Xia Die Ying

NOTES:

  1. Hóu Yé – Marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility
  2. Hou Shizi – Viscount; Marquis’ heir
  3. Bó Yé – Count (Count is a nobleman 1 rank beneath a Marquis)
  4. Fǔ – household; official residence; mansion
  5. Xie Qilin – Count’s second son who broke his engagement with MC
  6. Xiangjun (Country Lord) – Title given to wives or daughters of high ranking noblemen
  7. Gōngzhǔ- Royal Princesses; 5 ranks above Xiangjun
  8. xiàn zhǔ – County Masters; 3 ranks above Xiangjun

Chapter 2 (Part 1) – Dream comes true

  “Lord, this lowly one just saw the servants of Jingting Hou Fu outside the door.”

    “What do they want to do?” Count Zhong Ping’s head started aching as soon as he heard the words “Jing Ting hou”. The thing he regretted the most in his life was that he had lost his mind momentarily and set a betrothal with the Jingting Hou Mansion. Now, people from the Jingting Hou Mansion came to his household to make trouble everyday. If it were some other household, they wouldn’t make a fuss openly in order to save face. But the people in the Jingting Hou’s Household were not like this. Ban Huai, the Jingting Marquis, was jobless enough to oppose him at every turn and his son too would make trouble with Qilin from time to time. Sometimes he even beat up Qilin, which was really humiliating.

    “This lowly one doesn’t know,” the servant, who had come to report, shook his head blankly. “He’s just squatting down outside the door of our house, doing nothing.”

    “That entire household has brain problems from the master down to the servants” Count Zhong Ping said angrily, “Afterwards, will they still dare to beat people at our doorstep?”

   The little servant thought quietly to himself, didn’t Jingting Hou bring a group of manservants to smash their gate a few  years ago? Afterwards, the matter went to His Majesty. As a result, because Jingting Hou had a mother who was the eldest princess, he was released after a few reprimands by His Majesty which didn’t even cause them to hurt or itch. This aggravation caused their Count to fall ill and he couldn’t get out of bed for most of the month.

    In Count Zhong Ping’s view, the Jing Ting hou family  is like a rare flower that can’t be seen in a hundred years in the entire capital. They are absurd and willful and utterly shameless. The father and son are all the same. Relying on their relationship with the royal family, they create a ruckus all day long and spend their days idly. In all the decades he had lived, he had never before seen such a brazen father and son pair.

    With a father and brother like this, how could the daughter be any better? A ridiculous family!

    While Count Zhongping was scolding Jingting and his son, the housekeeper hurried in.

    “Lord! Something bad has happened!”

    That day, the ladies in the capital got  a new topic to gossip about. Namely, that the second son of Count Zhongping somehow fell down while riding on horseback, hit his eye on a stone and blinded himself in one eye. Instead of breaking his arms or legs, he had lost an eye. What kind of luck could you call this?

    Some busybody suddenly remembered that this good man had been engaged to the Xiangjun of Jingting Hou a few years ago. Later, although the marriage fell through, it could be considered that there was a period of time when they had a relationship.So, wasn’t it that Xiangjun’s cursed fate causing bad luck? Otherwise, how could an elite son known for his superb riding skills fall off his horse inexplicably?

    When a person gets an idea firmly stuck in their heads, they will eliminate any logical relationship in between and directly leap to a simple and rough conclusion. Such as the idea that the Ban family’s Xiangjun has a fate that curses her life partner.

    Two years ago, the two people had ended their engagement and Zhongping Count’s Mansion was also ready to get Xie Qilin engaged to someone else now. But now that something had happened to Xie Qilin, some people still put the matter on the head of Ban Xiangjun.

    “I’m infuriated! I’m about to die from anger!” Ban Heng who had just come back from the outside paced angrily around the house in circles, “These people are speaking such rubbish! What does it have to do with my sister if that Black hearted Xie fell and blinded his eye? It’s not My sister who pushed him down. What is this talk of a husband? He is not my sister ’s husband. It’s really shameless. “

    ” Those people are stupid,” Ban Hua , wearing a complicated skirt and a tastefully chosen palace flower hairpin on her head, walked into her brother’s yard surrounded by her maidservants. “They don’t care about the truth. They just want something to gossip about. Getting angry at what such stupid people say is completely in vain.”

    “For who am I angry? “Ban Heng sat down on the chair, waving away the waiting servants in the room. He gulped and said ” Your dream … came true. “

    Ban Hua sat down next to him. Resting her chin on one hand, she sighed: “Five years later, you will no longer be a respected Marquis’ heir .”

    “Then you won’t be a Xiangjun anymore either,” Ban Heng quickly glanced at the gold and silver ornaments on his sister’s body, “So you tell me, what should we do now?? “The two siblings both looked at each other with blank faces.

Hey guys! I hope you’re enjoying this so far. I’ve decided to start breaking the chapters up because they’re super long. Let me know in the comments if you prefer shorter chapters with faster releases (like 2 – 3 times weekly) or if you’d rather wait for a longer chapter (Once a week).

Also, I’ve been using some terms such as Houfu and Xiangjun instead of their English translations because I felt like literal English translations sounded awkward. If you’d like me to change this, leave a comment!

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