Published at 18th of December 2024 9:43 am

Chapter 137.4: Part 4: Uncover

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“Who is Yue Ru?” Jiang Jing Rui asked.

Jiang Yuan Bai looked coldly at Ji Shuran. Ji Shuran was looking at Jiang Li blankly. If the voices of Jiang Yue and Siqi previously made Ji Shuran doubtful, when this unfamiliar male voice came out, Ji Shuran was unable to say a word. She only felt her brain buzzing and her whole body lost its strength.

“Yue Ru” was Ji Shuran’s nickname.

Those who could call her nickname, aside from her parents and close relatives, was only her husband. This voice was not Jiang Yuan Bai’s voice, in fact, this voice resembled a person’s voice.

The already dead Liu Wen Cai.

“Yue Ru, older cousin came to Yanjing looking for you that year, to talk about uniting as husband and wife. Your mouth agreed, but when you turned around, you ordered someone to kill me in the guest house. One day of being husband and wife, a hundred days of grace, Yue Ru, you are so heartless!”

One stone stirred a thousand waves!

Lu-shi’s eyes widened. She liked seeing Ji Shuran’s predicament, knowing that Ji Shuran was not virtuous and benevolent. However, she did not expect that Ji Shuran had such big guts, unexpectedly giving Ji Shuran a green hat.

“You said that you will only marry me, yet you married Jiang Yuan Bai….. and still gave birth to a daughter for him. Yue Ru, you betrayed me!”

Ji Shuran retreated and shook her head, “I didn’t, who are you….. I don’t know you…..”

“I’m Liu Wen Cai, your older cousin, your lover, the person you personally killed, the father of your child!” The voice laughed cruelly.

“Father?” Old madam Jiang covered her chest, difficult to accept this fact. Jiang You Yao, who had been stupefied, loosened her hand, blankly staring at Ji Shuran, her gaze filled with doubt.

Ji Shuran seemed to be stung by Jiang You Yao’s gaze. She called, “You Yao!” and was about to pull Jiang You Yao’s hand. Jiang You Yao avoided and dodged Ji Shuran’s eyes.

She was afraid she was a child born out of an affair. If that’s the case, then she was not the Jiang family’s daughter born out of the main wife.

Jiang Yuan Bai actually looked at Jiang Bing Ji.

“No,” Ji Shuran’s heart hurt, “Master, Bing Ji is your flesh and blood, you must not listen to his lies.”

“Hehehehe,” the strange man’s voice also sounded. He said, “Yue Ru, do you still remember? Our flesh and blood is killed personally by you. You were suspicious that Jiang Li had bumped into our tryst, angered Jiang Li, and rolled yourself down the stairs. You managed to send Jiang Li away and eliminated the seed from the affair. You can sleep peacefully, killing two birds with one stone, but have you ever thought of my feelings even once?”

“That’s your own flesh and blood, Yue Ru!”

Everyone in the garden looked at Jiang Li.

Back then, Jiang Li had the reputation of attacking her mother and killing her younger brother and was sent to Mount Qingcheng. What? It was actually a plan designed by Ji Shuran?! Ji Shuran was afraid someone would discover the vile spawn in her belly, in order to sweep the evidence, she designed such a situation? If that’s so, then, Jiang Li did not make any mistakes in that year, was sent to Mount Qingcheng in vain and stayed in neglect for eight years!

Jiang Yuan Bai fell two steps back, the servant boy supported him to stand firm. His face sank, he momentarily did not know what kind of expression he should put on. He only felt everybody in the garden was mocking his lack of awareness and stupidity!

“No,” Ji Shuran struggled and said, “No…..”

“Yue Ru, you dare to swear on the name of your daughter and son that you have never done these things? Otherwise, your daughter and son will die suddenly in three days and will never be reincarnated after death!”

This oath could be counted as vicious. Supposedly nothing like this came out today, Ji Shuran might dare to press on. But oaths pertaining to her son and daughter should not be taken carelessly. Moreover, she clearly saw that there were ghosts in this world, how would she dare to take Jiang You Yao and Jiang Bing Ji into this danger!

Ji Shuran was silent.

The people in the garden looked at Ji Shuran’s expression and understood.

Being looked at with such gazes, Ji Shuran suddenly sneered, a frenzied look developed in her eyes. She said towards Jiang Li, or perhaps towards the already dead Liu Wen Cai, “Liu Wen Cai, I did not betray you, but you betrayed me! Back then, it was agreed that you would marry me, but you turned around and married someone else! You were heartless first, don’t blame me for not being righteous!”

“Oh?” Liu Wen Cai said, “That’s why you killed Ye Zhen Zhen?”

Jiang Yuan Bai’s lips trembled and he said, “What did you say?”

Ji Shuran’s heart first constricted, she seemed to understand something. Today, the heavens wanted to kill her. With nowhere to go, as if she was retaliating, she said, “Yes! I want to marry someone better than you, but my father only wanted me to marry a hedonistic son of a wealthy family. Ye Zhen Zhen’s body was not good after giving birth to Jiang Li, so I bribed the maids in the Jiang residence to put less of her medicine and Ye Zhen Zhen soon passed away. I managed to become Madam Jiang. Liu Wen Cai, after all, I am much better than you!”

“I got what I wanted. But you Liu Wen Cai, what can you be counted as? You deceived me, abandoned me. After the Liu family failed, do you think I will still look at you? You came looking for me, fawning to get my favor and I felt refreshed. But I no longer loved you. For me, your existence was just a reminder of a past that I could not stand. So you must die because I hate you!”

Tears slowly came out of her eyes, but her face became increasingly fierce. Carrying bitter hatred she said, “Liu Wen Cai, if it wasn’t you, I would not be what I am now! All that I have is thanks to you! Since you have left, why do you still have to appear? Since you are already dead, you should not have returned!”

He described insanity as a malicious spirit. It was evident that there were ghosts in this garden. And Jiang Li’s bloody appearance could be said to be the scariest. But the people standing in the garden felt that the most frightening person was not Jiang Li, neither were the ghosts hidden in the shadows, rather, it was Ji Shuran.

How much malice did a person have to have to obtain such circumstances. She looked gentle and kind, yet her hands were stained with so many human lives. Against reason, she had harmed so many people, yet she could still be nonchalant and able to sleep peacefully. Calculating carefully, when Ye Zhen Zhen was still alive, Ji Shuran was just a young boudoir girl. At that time, for the sake of her own interest, she did not hesitate to harm someone who had no hatred nor grievances with her.

The most poisonous woman’s heart was at least confirmed perfectly in Ji Shuran.

Jiang Yuan Bai suddenly laughed.

He laughed with ridicule, it’s unclear whether he was ridiculing others or himself. The laughter reverberated in the garden, especially sad and desolate.

He said, “I have actually….. been fooled up to now, Ji Shuran!”

The last three words were spoken with gritted teeth, each word used all his strength, as if he wished he could drink Ji Shuran’s blood and eat her flesh.

Husband and wife were the closest and most distant.

Surpsisingly, the author did not drag this plot and wrapped everything up in this chapter.

Footnotes:

1: to wear a green hat: being cheated on, used for a male whose partner is cheating.

2: 至亲至疏 husband and wife were the closest and most distant: from a poem written by a Taoist nun, Li Ye, in the Tang Dynasty, titled 《八至》Eight Ultimates. Do check it out!

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