The Virtuous Concubine

Lu Yuchan's face suddenly turned ugly. She didn't expect the two concubines to appear at this time. However, Nalan seemed not to see them and walked straight into the room. Seeing this, the two concubines hurried forward to help Nalan, but they were pushed away by Nalan and fell to the ground.

The two concubines were filled with astonishment and grievance, with tears in their eyes. Lu Yuchan also had mixed feelings, she felt that these two vixens deserved to come and compete for favor, but she also felt a little sympathetic towards their situation.

After all, they had been properly used, so why should they be so cruel to them? But Nalan walked into the room without looking back and slammed the door shut.

Lu Yuchan stood there and let the nurse take the child away, so that the child would not hear anything he shouldn't hear. After the child left, she looked down at the concubine on the ground, sighed softly, and said, "Get up, go back to your room first, don't embarrass yourself here."

The concubines stood up silently, lowered their heads, wiped their tears and left.

Lu Yuchan looked at the concubines' departing backs, and her annoyance became even worse.

She wanted to scream, but she couldn't. She wanted to ask Nalan where his heart was, whether he could put it at home, and whether he could have any real sympathy for her.

But she didn't want to make herself unhappy and be stared at by this man as if he were her enemy. She was not surprised at all why he regarded her as his enemy.

Lu Yuchan knew that Rong Ruo felt that she was the one who destroyed his perfect love and hurt his infatuation!

After having the child, she, as a mother, came to her senses for a moment. Her more important goal now is to protect the child and allow the child to smoothly inherit everything from the Nalan family.

All of these depend on her husband.

So she observed Nalan more carefully, and the more she observed, the more chilled she became. . .

Lu Yuchan shook her head and was about to leave when she heard a slight noise from inside. Nalan seemed to be talking inside, perhaps in his sleep.

Lu Yuchan stopped immediately, her heart suddenly lifted, and she subconsciously moved closer to the door, wanting to hear clearly what Nalan was saying.

But she couldn't hear clearly at the door, so she dismissed all the maids and servants and went into the room alone. Nalan was already lying on the bed, with his back to her, and seemed to have fallen asleep.

Perhaps he sensed the noise, Nalan stopped talking in his sleep and just snored evenly as if he was drunk.

Lu Yuchan was very patient. She could even hear her own violent heartbeat at this moment.

It seemed that today, at this moment, she would know the answers to everything. All the grievances and indifference she had suffered would finally have the answers today!

She knew she had to be patient, so she held her breath, tiptoed to the bed and sat down, looking at Nalan's back, waiting for him.

She knew that Nalan had always had someone else in his heart, but since she married him, she had to work hard to manage the family and not allow any possibility of it being destroyed.

An oppressive silence filled the room, with only the sound of Nalan's breathing.

As time went by, Lu Yuchan's heartbeat became faster and faster, and her hands unconsciously clenched the bed sheet. She prayed silently in her heart, hoping that Nalan could tell her something she longed to know in her sleep, even if it was just a few words, maybe she could understand her position in Nalan's heart.

After an unknown amount of time, Nalan suddenly turned over and mumbled something. Lu Yuchan hurriedly approached, but still couldn't hear what he said.

Lu Yuchan leaned in and looked at her handsome husband, her heart being tightly grasped by an invisible hand. His face was so handsome that he was the dream lover of countless noble ladies in the capital, but he was not happy and frowned in his sleep.

She stretched out her hand, wanting to smooth Nalan's frown, but stopped in mid-air. She didn't know if it was meaningful for her to do so. Just when she was about to withdraw her hand, Nalan seemed to have sensed it and suddenly grabbed her hand.

Lu Yuchan was startled and tried to break free, but she found that Nalan was holding her tightly. Nalan still closed his eyes and muttered something. This time, Lu Yuchan heard clearly what he said, "Malu, don't go... Don't go!"

Lu Yuchan's body froze instantly, and her heart seemed to be stabbed hard, and the pain spread. She stared at Nalan blankly, and the light in her eyes gradually dimmed.

It turns out that this is what it feels like to actually know that such a person exists.

Tears welled up in her eyes uncontrollably, and fell drop by drop onto their clasped hands.

Lu Yuchan was heartbroken and just wanted to find a place to cry. She tried to break free from Nalan's hand, but he was so strong that she couldn't break free and could only let him hold her.

And the movement of breaking free might just fit in with Nalan's dream. The woman was about to leave his dream, so he grabbed her even harder.

She didn't know how to face this man whom she loved deeply but could never really get into his heart. She thought of everything she had done for this marriage and the efforts she had made to get into his heart, but all of this seemed insignificant in front of Nalan's deep affection for Malu.

Everything was at his fingertips, and he had never grabbed anything so hard before.

I don’t know how long it took, but there must have been a turning point in Nalan’s dream, and he let go of her hand.

Lu Yuchan quickly stood up, walked out quickly, and asked the maid to help her to her bedroom.

When she arrived at the bedroom, she had calmed down and asked the maid, "Do you know which lady is familiar with the young master, whose name is Malu?"

This put the maid in a difficult position.

Not only in the Qing Dynasty, but also in many dynasties, most women did not leave their names, and it was even more difficult for others to know. One reason was that women's status was not that high, they were not taken seriously, and most of them did not have a well-known name.

Before getting married, a woman would be given a maiden name, but only the elders and relatives would call her by it. No one else was allowed to call her by it. Outsiders and unfamiliar servants simply didn't know it.

After marriage, a woman is called Mrs. So-and-so based on her husband’s name and status in the family. No one knows her own name, and it is taboo to discuss a woman’s name.

How can one find it with this name?

The maid was embarrassed and was about to say something, but Lu Yuchan shook her head and said, "Forget it. Such a cheap name should be a maid in the Manchu bannermen. She must be a servant from a family that your husband is familiar with, or a servant from some romantic place."

The maid hesitated for a moment, then said, "Madam is right. Maybe there is something special about this woman that made the young master remember her name."

Lu Yuchan sneered: "What's so special about it? It's just some coquettish tricks." Although she was angry in her heart, she also knew that it was useless to get angry at this moment.