Chapter 156

Chapter 156: The Principal Wife Is a Vicious Woman

The two people stared into each other’s eyes, their gaze soft and sticky, as if it could stretch like threads. It felt like the world held only the two of them and everyone else was just decoration.

Watching this, Yu Zhi Yi suddenly remembered a story Red Luan had told her.

It was a story about an illegitimate daughter searching for her father: years ago, the father was the current emperor. While traveling in disguise, he stayed with a rich family and soon made a private promise to their young miss, leaving a child in her belly. Before the signs of pregnancy showed, the emperor had to return to the palace, and his promise to come back for the miss turned into empty words that blew away like dust in the wind.

Later the miss gave birth to a daughter, raised her into an excellent young woman, and then passed away. So the girl took a token and went to find her real father.

Of course, the emperor already had an empress.

Many things happened on the way. After entering the capital, the illegitimate daughter became sworn sisters with a lively miss. Later, the sworn sister took the token to the royal hunting grounds to help her recognize her father, but while helping, the sworn sister herself was treated as the emperor’s daughter and was granted the title of princess.

The ending was good. With the help of her sworn sister and many close friends, the illegitimate daughter finally found her father. During the whole process, the empress kept making trouble for the main group and refused to admit any of them were the emperor’s daughters.

The emperor also had a young and beautiful favored imperial consort. Because the consort sided with the main group, the audience loved the consort, hated the empress, and called the empress vicious. It was as if, in the emperor’s story, only the empress was bad. The miss who once made secret promises with the emperor, the imperial consort, and the main group were all good people.

[Right now my role is a lot like that empress,] Yu Zhi Yi thought. In the eyes of the mutual friends of Du Zi Heng and You Bing Yue, she was the vicious empress, while You Bing Yue was the gentle, kind, and always-right heroine.

She could not help it and laughed out loud.

The sudden laugh cut through the lovers’ deep gaze.

You Bing Yue seemed to wake with a start. She hurried to pull back her eyes and looked at Yu Zhi Yi in a panic, saying in a soft voice: “I am sorry, Young Madam Du, I lost myself for a moment.”

Ou Yang Shuo frowned and said, hard and fast: “You did nothing wrong, so why apologize?”

Du Zi Heng still felt guilty. Since what happened before, he no longer felt it was right to flirt with You Bing Yue in front of Yu Zhi Yi.

Yu Zhi Yi clapped lightly toward Ou Yang Shuo and said with a cool smile: “Young Master Ou Yang is not wrong. Miss You did nothing wrong. You do not need to hide it. From the start I said I do not object to a young master taking concubines.”

Ou Yang Shuo slapped the table and stood, saying sharply: “You mean to make Miss You a concubine? How vicious.”

Yu Zhi Yi did not get angry. She only looked at him with a very odd gaze and said calmly: “She and Du Zi Heng are in love. If I allow her to enter the manor, how is that wrong? I am the Du Clan’s properly wedded principal wife. I have done nothing wrong. Should I ask to be sent away?”

She tilted her head and asked, cool as ice: “Or do you want Du Zi Heng to divorce me?”

Her eyes grew colder as she added: “Are the taoists of Dragon-Tiger Mountain like this, so bold and righteous when breaking other people’s marriages? Is this your dao?”

“You are talking nonsense,” Ou Yang Shuo said, his handsome face turning cold, his eyes like ice that could turn solid. “I never said such things. Do not drag my Dragon-Tiger Mountain into this and ruin our name.”

Yu Zhi Yi opened her hands and said, still calm: “So then, what do you expect me to do?”

Her face sank as her voice dropped: “I do not mind if Du Zi Heng has a few women around him. If you want to stuff women at his side, I can turn a blind eye. But to stuff a woman in front of me and then scold me for being jealous as if it is right, that is doing it on purpose to disgust me.”

She gave a short laugh and said, sharp as a knife: “What do you want from me when you praise their love to my face? Do you want me to kneel and beg You Bing Yue to enter the manor?”

She let out a cold breath and said: “Why do you not ask this Miss You why she was driven out of the Chancellor’s Manor?”

Everyone went quiet, stunned by her quick-fire words.

Before this, they did not think they had done anything wrong. From a man’s view, if Du Zi Heng wanted to take a few concubines and love a few women, there was no problem. Besides, he and You Bing Yue were true love. The power of true love could not be beaten.

They had ignored that his principal wife was standing right here. Maybe they had not ignored it at all. Maybe they simply did not care, or maybe they meant to do it.

Maybe they meant to disgust her on purpose.

In their minds, Miss You was so pure and so good, while Yu Zhi Yi was the vicious wife who stole someone else’s husband, making the poor girl heartbroken and forcing her and her lover apart. They were only supporting the true love of You Bing Yue and Du Zi Heng. So what if they were?

But after hearing Yu Zhi Yi’s words, even they felt they had gone too far. And from the way she said it, it sounded like there was more to the story of why You Bing Yue left the Chancellor’s Manor.

You Bing Yue’s face changed as she said quickly: “Young Madam Du, let’s not bring up the past. Zi Heng and I are over.”

She looked controlled and steady on the surface, but right now she carried a fragile, broken air. She stood and said in a low voice: “Brother Ou Yang, let’s go.”

Ou Yang Shuo also stood. The look he gave Yu Zhi Yi was cold and deep. At first, Yu Zhi Yi did not care, but the moment he began to turn away, her face changed and she said, voice suddenly low and firm: “Wait.”

Her airy voice dropped into something heavy.

The two stopped. You Bing Yue gave a bitter smile and asked softly: “Young Madam Du, what else do you need?”

Du Zi Heng frowned and said in a tight voice: “They are already leaving. What more do you want?”

Yu Zhi Yi stared straight at Ou Yang Shuo’s face and asked: “You just said you will set out tomorrow. Where are you going?”

You Bing Yue looked surprised. Ou Yang Shuo said coolly: “No comment.”

He finished and took You Bing Yue by the hand. The two left the Chancellor’s Manor quickly.

Yu Zhi Yi’s gaze sharpened. Just now, at the instant Ou Yang Shuo turned, she had clearly seen a thin layer of death aura settle over his face. It was faint, but it still meant he would face danger and had a high chance of injury.

Normally, Daoist cultivators had ways to hide the Heavenly Mechanism Device and keep other cultivators from peeking at their fate. Because of that, Yu Zhi Yi grew more worried. Ou Yang Shuo was Dragon-Tiger Mountain’s chief first disciple and already quite strong. If, even with his Heavenly Mechanism Device hidden, a death sign still showed on his face, then the danger waiting for him was not simple and would not be easy to resolve.

For a cultivator in the Qi training stage to face a death trap he could not easily break, the matter was no small thing. It would either be a demonic cultivator with deep arts or something even worse, a malevolent spirit. No matter which one, if it appeared in the world, it would bring disaster to ordinary people.