"Two months together on a deserted island, just you and himâI canât believe you didnât develop any feelings." Yang Chuxia thought to herself that if this were modern times, not to mention feelings, theyâd probably have already made a baby.
After hearing this, Commandery Princess Dongyang spread her hands and said helplessly, "The fact is, no feelings were developed."
"So what now?" Yang Chuxia continued, "Iâve heard people in the Capital City say that you were trying to break off the engagement, but the Emperor hasnât given a response. Iâm guessing the Emperor wouldnât agree to call off the engagementâhis word is gold, after all. And from my âpoisonousâ perspective, Mu Shaoling wouldnât agree to break it off either. Mu Shaoling isnât getting any younger, and if the engagement isnât broken off, the Mu Family would definitely have you marry. Yet here you are all of a suddenâwhat happened? Surely youâre not telling me you donât want to marry anymore and now itâs your turn to run away from the wedding?"
However, the reality wasnât so but it was pretty close, of course, not because she didnât want to marry anymore.
Seeing her nod, Yang Chuxia was speechless. These two really knew how to cause a stirâfirst one runs away from the marriage, then the other.
"Tell me, whatâs it for this time?"
Perhaps it was her penetrating gaze, too earnest, that unconsciously made people spill the beans.
"At first, there was indeed a fuss about breaking the engagement, but that issue got resolved afterward. We did plan to marry, and the Ministry of Rites even picked out a new date."
When it came to that incident, Commandery Princess Dongyang looked a little upset, "Just my luck, as soon as the Ministry of Rites set the date, I discovered that he had someone else he wanted to marry more, and they had both ended up in the same bed. You know, the Ministry of Rites had already started the preparations, and weâd just made a fuss about breaking off the engagement once. We couldnât do it again, or the Emperor would blame us. I thought Iâd just tolerate it; after all, I chose the man myself, for better or worse, I had to bear it."
At this point, Commandery Princess Dongyangâs eyes reddened, "But the thing is, sheâs already pregnant. To take a concubine before the wedding, and a pregnant one at that. Now, the whole of Capital City is laughing at me."
She paused before adding, "No, itâs more accurate to say they never stopped laughing at me, only now they do it more brazenly. I donât want to hear people talking about their wonderful feelings in front of me all the time. I donât want to hear them coming to me, saying they donât want their child to be born a bastard. Thatâs why I needed to get out for some air."
Hearing all this, Yang Chuxia was astonished and even a bit disorganized.
If she hadnât misheard, Dongyang meant that Mu Shaoling had got together with another woman, and they even had a child? Not only that, but he wanted to take the mother of the child as his concubine, and the concubine couldnât stand being a secondary wife and flaunted it in the face of her future principal wife?
What the heck, she found it a bit hard to believe.
"Did you see Mu Shaoling in bed with someone with your own eyes?"
"Yes, with my own eyes."
"The person in the bed was Mu Shaoling?"
"I couldnât possibly mistake Mu Shaoling, could I?" Commandery Princess Dongyang really didnât want to recall that scene; it gave her a headache, especially the womanâs voice, which was utterly revolting.
"The pregnancy is real too?"
"Xiaxia, Mu Shaoling is a miracle doctor, the number one miracle doctor. If the number one miracle doctor personally checks the pulse, could he be wrong?" The concubinage too was admitted by them personally.
"So what are you going to do?" Yang Chuxia refrained from commenting on the issue for the time being. However, from what she knew of Mu Shaoling, he didnât seem to be that kind of person.