I Am This Type of Woman

9

"Thank you, Jun Princess, for your concern. Second Brother is quite well." said Xie Wanyu, taking a deep breath and barely squeezing out a smile.

"Miss Xie, please go upstairs. Our family's young lady is waiting for you in the private room there." A momo came out of the teahouse next to her. She then saw Ban Hua and saluted her. "Greetings to Ban Jun Princess."

Ban Hua recognized that this momo was a person who served beside Shi Feixian. She glanced at the teahouse next to her, and nodding at the momo, left without looking back.

Ban Heng, who hadn't spoken from beginning to end, deliberately made a scoffing sound, and then walked away following behind his sister's horse.

Xie Wanyu looked on with an ashen complexion as the two Ban family siblings walked away into the distance, itching to pull them off their horses one after another and stamp them under her feet. However, she couldn't do anything. So she merely smiled at the old woman who had come to pick her up and said, "Thank you for your trouble. Elder Sister Shi must have been waiting for a long time."

For the time being, she would endure and continue to endure.

Shi Feixian had asked her momo to receive Xie Wanyu because she had seen Ban Hua just then. After watching Ban Hua riding away through a slit in the window, she turned towards Kangning Junzhu who was beside her and said, "Nowadays, Ban Hua is behaving more and more unbearably arrogant*."

"She grew up from childhood acting arrogant and wilful. Now that she has had her engagement broken three times by three different men, the words circulating outside are so shameful and naturally she's decided to smash the cracked jar and is acting madly with nothing to lose." Kangning Junzhu sneered. "She can't get married anyway, and she has no choice but to boast and quarrel. "

In terms of relationship, she and Ban Hua were distantly related female cousins. But there was animosity between her family and the Eldest Princess, so her relationship with Ban Hua has not been very good since they were children. She had heard from her mother that when her grandfather, the previous emperor,  wanted to depose the crown prince and establish her father in his place, unexpectedly the Eldest Princess had thrown a wrench in their plans and finally earned favour for her meritorious deeds in front of the present Emperor.

Although their family dared not mention these decades old complaints again, they still have not forgotten the things that the Eldest Princess had done.

As the two young ladies were talking, Xie Wanyu came upstairs. Seeing her two bosom friends, Xie Wanyu's face suddenly changed, "That little bitch Ban Hua! I really want to tear her mouth." Recalling the perfectly matched pair of blood jade earrings worn by Ban Hua that set her snow-white and tender face off so well making her complexion seem moist like one could squeeze out water with a single pinch, the hatred in Xie Wanyu's heart became even stronger.

Jealousy was a raging inferno that could burn up people's rationality.

"We came here today originally to celebrate your happy occasion. What is the point of talking about such disgusting people?" Kangning Junzhu smiled and invited her to sit down, "This time next year, we will be addressing you as Princess."

"Well, why are you mentioning these things?" Xie Wanyu said with her cheeks flushed in shyness, "I think you came here today deliberately to make fun of me."

"Look at this blush! Today I finally understood what is called flying into anger out of shame*" Shu Feixian reached out and squeezed Xie Wanyu's cheek, "Congratulations to my sister on her engagement."

Looking at Xie Wanyu's bashful and happy appearance, she remembered that she had secretly liked Rong Xia for several years now and felt a bit bitter in her heart. She raised her head to look at Kangning Junzhu and silently tidied the strands of hair near her temples. Don't think that she didn't know that Kangning Junzhu too had some intentions towards Count Rong.