Retired Villainess Transmigrates into a Cannon Fodder

The Strongest Fox-Demon (102)

Thinking about it now, Chu Xiang didn’t do anything to him. However, since those scholars admired her and received her favor, of course they disliked Zhuang Yulang, the person who betrayed Bai Yi. These scholars, who had been admitted to the imperial court, were a force to be reckoned with, and they didn’t have to do anything special to trip him up. All they had to do was keep an eye on him and not let him get away with any mistake he made.

Zhuang Yulang felt unwilling, but he couldn’t find a way out. The patriarch of the Jiang family went back to his hometown while Magistrate Jiang was stripped of his official position for treason as well as his son’s involvement in Prince Qi’s rebellion. With these underlying circumstances, how could he, the son-in-law of the Jiang family, get his job back after losing it?

He was now even living off Mrs. Jiang’s dowry, but his wife was also struggling just to maintain a good life. How could she be willing to be reduced to this situation? Zhuang Liu had disfigured her, so she couldn’t even entertain the thought of remarrying, not to mention caring one bit about the mother and son.

Mrs. Jiang was nursing a grudge. With her own money and the ability to hire a few servants, she kept Zhuang Liu under close surveillance and tortured her to death. Zhuang Yulang didn’t have a clue about the inner workings of the house. He only thought that the Young Miss had the temperament that Bai Yi lacked, not knowing his wife also possessed the ruthlessness that Bai Yi did not. Thus, even until Zhuang Liu died, he didn’t even know that Miss Jiang had played a part in it.

His appearance made Mrs. Jiang disdain him all the more. So what if he was gifted? He was so ignorant of the world that anyone could fool him. If he were to become an official, he probably couldn’t achieve anything. His fate as the Prime Minister that Zhuang Liu mentioned was but a joke. Maybe that position was a false post that he had to get through Bai Yi’s connections.

Mrs. Jiang let this slip during a quarrel, or rather it was more apt to say she directly skinned Zhuang Yulang’s face, tossed it to the ground and stomped on it. Unable to bear the humiliation, Zhuang Yulang ran out of the house in grief and indignation and somehow made his way to the courtyard they had shared with Li Yufeng Chu Xiang.

He looked at the yard for a long time, and slowly walked forward, but heard Bai Yi’s laughter. He followed the sound of laughter and saw Bai Yi and the Immortal Doctor coming out of an alley next to him. The Immortal Doctor had said something that made her laugh, with a delicate vibe that he had never seen before.

Bai You spotted him first. He raised head and glanced in his direction, and then Bai Yi followed suit.

Zhuang Yulang suddenly felt that his hands and feet grew stiff, and he didn’t know what to do. Bai Yi pulled Bai You to leave, looking normal like he was just an unrelated stranger. Zhuang Yulang couldn’t help but call out to her, “Yiyi, you, you…”

Bai You knew what he wanted to ask. He turned around and said, “The fate I foretold for you was true, and it was also true when I advised you to cherish it well. If you do not cherish such a treasure, someone else will treat her like a pearl. If you do not know how to repent, you will not have a good life for the rest of your life.”

Bai Yi blushed. “Where am I like a pearl or a treasure? You’re boasting too much!”

She turned to Zhuang Yulang but the smile on her face did not disappear. “Young Master Zhuang, let me also thank you for letting me understand a lot of truth. You seem to be afraid of me. Don’t worry, although I am a demon, I can tell right from wrong and know how to differentiate grace from grudges. You saved me, and I returned the favor, so the karma between us has long been broken. For the sake of past friendship, I advise you not to waste the Snow Lotus Pill. Use your head and think about how to live in the future and stop thinking about relying on others.”

Bai Yi merely uttered these pieces of advice. Regardless of whether Zhuang Yulang listened to them or not and regardless of what he had to say, she turned around and dragged Bai You away. She has to go out of town to supervise the construction of the Demon Emperor’s palace. Once the palace was completed, they would hold a conferment ceremony to officially crown Li Yufeng in the demon realm. At the same time, she and Bai You would also get married. There were too many things she must attend to and had no time to waste here.

Zhuang Yulang did have heaps of things to say. He even wanted to say that he regretted it, but he didn’t have the chance to do so because the look that Bai You fixed on him when he was leaving made him feel like a poisonous snake that could kill him at any moment was staring at him. He suddenly remembered that this well-known Immortal Doctor back then was the snake demon who made great contributions to the flood management. And now he would become Bai Yi’s husband. There was bound to be no room for him to get involved with her again.