Chapter 199: The Dingguo Duke’s Mansion Can’t Afford To Lose This Face
Qi Shi’s mournful and mournful voice not only failed to evoke Mo Qilan’s pity, but instead reminded him of some things from when Mo Ziyuan’s mother was still alive.
Back then, after Mo Qilan married Mo Ziyuan’s mother, the two also lived a period of days like an immortal couple. Mo Qilan was skilled in literature and loved writing articles. Whenever that happened, Mo Ziyuan’s mother would accompany him in the study room, helping him grind ink and lay out paper, and occasionally even guest-star as the protagonist in his paintings.
Qi Shi could be considered a friend with an average relationship with her, and had come to the Duke’s Mansion several times to find her. Mo Qilan considered himself an upright gentleman, so to avoid suspicion, whenever Qi Shi came, he would avoid her. If he really couldn’t avoid her, he would just superficially greet her and then go do his own things.
However, later for some unknown reason, every time she came, Mo Ziyuan’s mother would quarrel with him afterward, and in serious cases, she would even run back to her maternal family, with all sorts of reasons.
Mo Qilan thought, it was probably from that time that he started paying attention to this woman!
Until Mo Ziyuan’s mother shut herself in the courtyard, Qi Shi came even more frequently, and after coming out of the courtyard, she even came to him several times, accusing him of not knowing how to cherish his wife.
But now thinking about it, behind those intense words were all pointing out the wife’s faults, and he was confused by them, thinking she was a reasonable, gentle and virtuous person, so much so that not long after his wife died, he married her into the house.
“Master~” Seeing Mo Qilan’s face changing back and forth but refusing to talk to her, Qi Shi became even more panicked. She crawled to the bedside and reached out to try to grab Mo Qilan’s sleeve, but Mo Qilan, who had seen through her intention, stepped back first.
“Your dad is this······ awakened?” Lin Xin leaned close to Mo Ziyuan’s ear and asked softly, her big eyes flashing with thick gossip.
“Don’t know,” Mo Ziyuan tugged at the corner of his mouth and said coolly: “Let’s see first! Who knows if he can withstand the skill that I couldn’t learn even after reincarnating!”
Lin Xin: “······” Bringing up old accounts is meaningless, even old accounts from a quarter of an hour ago are still old accounts!
“Master, this concubine knows she was wrong, but this concubine was just attracted by Master, and did this because she wholeheartedly likes Master! Is it wrong to truly like someone?” Qi Shi didn’t dare to bet anymore, she rolled and crawled off the bed and knelt at Mo Qilan’s feet crying.
“Like? Can you kill someone just because you like them? Can you estrange the relationship between this Duke and Ziyuan?” After all, she was someone he had doted on for many years, Mo Qilan’s expression had softened a bit.
Lin Xin was dumbfounded, Qi Shi is capable! Even in this situation, she still wants to make a comeback, and if they don’t interfere, she might really succeed.
This won’t do!
So Lin Duoduo came online again, “I say you’re really funny, so your like means giving people green hats! One isn’t enough, you gave several, your like is really weird, and the person you like is really unlucky!”
“I······” Qi Shi was speechless from the retort, and looked at Mo Qilan with helpless eyes again, hoping he could speak up for her. As long as he was willing to help, it meant she still had a place in his heart.
However, this time she was disappointed again. Although Mo Qilan wasn’t very capable, he was also raised as the heir of the Duke’s Mansion by the old Duke personally since childhood, and he absolutely could not tolerate his wife giving him green hats.
“Tomorrow I will write the divorce letter, you take your pair of wild seeds and leave the Duke’s Mansion! This is the last face I’m giving you. If you still make a fuss, then we’ll go to the Jingzhao Prefecture Yamen!” Mo Qilan said word by word, the seriousness in his tone made Qi Shi feel as if she was in an ice cave, not feeling any warmth at all.
“Master, Master you can’t! You can’t divorce me! I know I was wrong, I’ll change from now on, I won’t oppose Ziyuan anymore, and won’t let Zichen fight him for the heir’s position, forgive me this once! I beg you!” Qi Shi cried and collapsed on the ground.
What responded to her was Mo Qilan’s hurriedly leaving footsteps.
“This······ he just left like this?” Lin Xin asked incredulously.
“Then what else?” Mo Ziyuan was already used to it, and asked absent-mindedly.
“Then······ what now?”
“No need to do anything, go back and rest! Everything will have an answer tomorrow.” Mo Ziyuan said, exaggeratingly yawning, pulling Lin Xin’s hand and turning to leave this magnificently decorated room.
“Oh!” Lin Xin agreed, finally glancing at Qi Shi who was disheveled, in a sorry state, lying on the ground sobbing, then turned and followed Mo Ziyuan.
“Hey, do you think your dad will really give her a divorce letter?” Unable to suppress her curiosity, Lin Xin pulled Mo Ziyuan and asked.
“Yes!” This time his answer was very straightforward.
“Yes?” Lin Xin was surprised by this.
“Yes! He cares a lot about face. If we weren’t here today it’s hard to say, but in front of me, his own son whom he doesn’t favor, being pointed out for wearing green hats, he can’t swallow his pride and not divorce Qi Shi.” Mo Ziyuan had this much understanding of his own dad.
“So that’s how it is,” Lin Xin patted Mo Ziyuan’s shoulder. By now they were standing outside the courtyard wall of Lin Xin’s home’s house, “Knowing it’s like this makes me relieved, otherwise I couldn’t sleep. It’s late, you go back and rest too!”
“Okay, you rest early too!” Mo Ziyuan said, his interest not high.
For his low mood, Lin Xin had no good way. Just learning that his mother didn’t die of illness but man-made, and he couldn’t personally kill the person who harmed his mother, Lin Xin understood this stifled feeling but couldn’t feel it, so she could only let him digest these emotions alone.
“Sigh! So what exactly is marriage for?” Lying on her own bed, Lin Xin asked herself this before sleep.
The next morning, Mo Ziyuan came, looking in a better mood than when they parted last night, but only a bit, and Lin Xin even read anger in his eyes.
This was strange, what happened again?
“The Dingguo Duke did send Qi Shi a divorce letter, but Qi Shi hanged herself in her room and was saved by the servants.” Without her asking, Mo Ziyuan took the initiative to say.
“Ah? Going all out like this? Your dad won’t compromise, right!”
“No,” Mo Ziyuan shook his head, “Qi Shi probably really went all out this time, she was unconscious when saved, but this didn’t move the Dingguo Duke. Instead, while Qi Shi was unconscious, he already sent Mo Zichen and Lan Zhi to the manor, probably in a couple of days they will ‘die of illness’.”
“Not sending them back to their biological father?”
“No, the Dingguo Duke’s Mansion can’t afford to lose that person!”
“Tch, covering one’s ears while stealing a bell.” Lin Xin sneered at this.
“As long as it’s covered, the result doesn’t matter.”
Lin Xin thought about it, and indeed it was. Who in the entire capital could claim their family has no dirty laundry? Even if not said openly, privately it’s spread who knows how.
