Fast Travel: The Hundred-Life Couple
Chapter 79: Not a Stepwife 02
"Miss, are you okay?"
Xiao Tao, who was sent away by Lu Jingxiu, rushed back when she heard someone fell into the water. She found that it was not the young lady and breathed a sigh of relief. However, she was brought to this room by Lord Ning's men and found that the young lady was wet all over, so she asked hurriedly.
Ye Xiaoli shook his head and looked at Ning Dongxu with gratitude and admiration: "My brother-in-law and Jingxiu plotted against me, but it was Master Ning who saved me."
Ning Dongxu turned his head away with a stiff face and looked out the window: "I didn't do anything. They can't plot against you this time, because if they and their son start to talk nonsense, I will testify for you and say that you have been with me all this time."
Moreover, his servants also found several "witnesses" who were ready to testify at any time.
Ye Xiaoli smiled and said, "I naturally believe in Master Ning."
Ning Dongxu said calmly, "I've said before, if you need help, you can come to me anytime... If it's inconvenient, you can ask someone to bring me a message."
"Then..." Ye Xiaoli hesitated to speak, looking as if he had something to hide.
Ning Dongxu's face was cold, but he was a little worried for her. He said, "Don't hesitate. You are my fiancée. If you have any request for me, how can I refuse?"
Ye Xiaoli was indeed a little embarrassed to speak: "Mr. Ning, you don't know, my stepmother was a concubine who was supported to take the throne after my mother passed away, and my sister is the daughter of my stepmother.
After my mother passed away, I became an unwelcome presence in the family. My stepmother was erratic and cruel, and I had to live in fear at home in order to survive.
As she spoke, she glanced at Ning Dongxu, her face flushed slightly. "When I heard that I had the honor of being engaged to you, young master, and that I had the hope of escaping that suffocating family, I was overjoyed and only hoped that the wedding day would come as soon as possible."
"But my sister passed away suddenly a few days ago, and my stepmother is worried that if my brother-in-law remarries in the future, the step-wife will abuse my sister's son Jingxiu.
So she planned to have me and my brother-in-law have physical contact, so that she could have a reason to cancel her engagement with Mr. Ning and let me marry my brother-in-law and take care of Jingxiu."
Ye Xiaoli's face turned pale without anyone noticing, tears welling up in her eyelashes. "Today's fight was all planned by them. It's just that they didn't succeed this time, but there's always another one waiting for me. I really don't know what to do."
Ning Dongxu's eyebrows jumped, thinking that she was so dependent on me that she told me such family scandals and privacy.
There is no one else you can talk to except the maid beside you, right?
A feeling of pity rose in his heart: "Don't be afraid, I will give you two things and teach you three simple life-saving skills. No matter what happens, you can get through it safely. Then wait for me to come and help you clean up."
Ye Xiaoli suddenly looked up: "Thank you, Mr. Ning. Apart from Xiaotao, you are the best person in the world to me."
Besides Xiao Tao? Ning Dongxu put his fist to his lips and coughed to comfort himself. Xiao Tao was her maid, so of course he was nice to her, but it was useless at the critical moment.
He is different.
He is her support for the rest of her life.
"Remember this! The three moves I'm teaching you are called the Three Deadly Moves. They're perfect for a weak woman like you to use when in danger. They're ruthless and unexpected, and are crucial for quickly counterattacking when you're at a disadvantage."
"Also, this is a kind of powder that makes people feel weak all over as soon as they smell it. It's best used when surrounded by many people."
"And this is called a whistling arrow. It's specially made and used to transmit signals. No matter where you are, just fire the whistling arrow into the sky, and I will immediately come looking for you and find you."
"With the powder and the three fatal moves, you should be able to protect yourself for a short period of time. With the whistling arrows, I can rush to your side as quickly as possible. So you don't have to worry, right?"
After Ye Xiaoli learned the three fatal moves, she held the dozen packets of medicine powder and three whistling arrows that Ning Dongxu had given her, staring at him with sparkling eyes: "You've been so good to me, I don't know how to repay you."
Ning Dongxu felt a little embarrassed by being stared at: "There's a lot of time to come, you can take your time to think about it."
In fact, he didn't tell her that he had sent someone to protect her secretly.
Before marrying him, her safety was absolutely guaranteed.
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Ye Xiaoli knew that she had escaped this time, but the next plot against her would come soon. However, she did not expect it to come so soon. As soon as she returned home, she and Xiaotao were tied up together.
It’s different from the previous life.
In the previous life, after the original owner was rescued from the water, she returned home at night. Her stepmother and father asked her to break off the engagement with Ning Dongxu and marry Lu Jian.
But the original owner was unwilling to do so no matter what. She already regretted not asking Ning Dongxu for help during the day.
After much thought, I still really want to marry Ning Dongxu.
At that time, she threatened her life, thinking that she had won the upper hand over her father and stepmother. However, a few days later, at a banquet, she fell into a trap and was framed to sleep with Lu Jian.
Ning Dongxu saw her again at that time, and she felt ashamed, angry and desperate.
But she still didn't ask Ning Dongxu for help. Last time, she was distracted and didn't ask for help immediately. When she wanted to ask for help, she saw Ning Dongxu's eyes became cold and indifferent, and she was afraid of being rejected.
This time it's shameless.
Having lost her innocence, she had no choice but to compromise and marry Lu Jian.
In the end, it ended in a tragic way.
This time, her stepmother stood before her and said coldly, "Since you are so shameless and unwilling to be the Prince of England's second wife, then you can only be his concubine with no status or title!"
This is to send her directly to the British palace!
Ye Xiaoli thought that Lu Jian must have noticed Ning Dongxu's little actions during the day and felt that Ning Dongxu cared about her.
He is anxious!
What happened tonight must have been Lu Jian’s suggestion.
Then my father agreed.
Although it was not a nice thing to give the original wife's daughter to the eldest son-in-law as a concubine, the concubine could be locked up in the mansion and not allowed to go out, which made it easier to take blood openly than Ye Xiaoli as the second wife.
Ye Xiaoli cried and shook her head, looking at her father for help.
My father turned his eyes away guiltily.
The King of England’s network of connections cannot be cut off. Since the younger daughter is unwilling to be a second wife, she should become a tool to treat the eldest daughter!
Ye Xiaoli was completely heartbroken and stopped struggling.
When they arrived at the Prince of England's palace, Xiaotao was locked up in the woodshed and Ye Xiaoli was sent to Lu Jian's house.
Lu Jian sat on the edge of the bed, staring at her with unfriendly eyes. Thinking of how she had kicked him that day and nearly drowned, he felt a little angry: "...You did this on purpose today, didn't you? You guessed what I was thinking and kicked me in the water on purpose."
He looked down at Ye Xiaoli and sneered, "If you don't accept my toast, you'll be punished. Aren't you lying on this prince's bed now?"
Tears welled up in Ye Xiaoli's eyes: "Brother-in-law, I have accepted my fate. Please let me go. I will be your concubine in the future."
"Really?" Lu Jian didn't quite believe it, fearing that she was lying.
"Really." Ye Xiaoli recalled something and said angrily, "Although Ning Dongxu helped me today, he also warned me that after I marry him, I should just be a decoration because he has that kind of relationship with the emperor.
The Emperor forbade him from contacting women, so he simply told me in advance and asked me to keep his secret and not cause any trouble.
Lü Jian: “…”
Hearing that she was taken away, Ning Dongxu hurried to rescue her. At this moment, he was hiding on the beam: "......"
Lu Jingxiu, the naughty kid squatting outside the door, eavesdropping on his father and aunt's affair because he wanted to cause trouble, said: "..." What? What are they talking about?
"Oh, are you serious?" Lu Jian became interested.
When sixteen-year-old Ning Dongxu was chosen by the emperor, no one understood how or why. His rise was sudden.
Some people also thought of Ning Dongxu's superior appearance and speculated that there was something between him and the emperor, but it has always been groundless and has not been confirmed.
But who would have thought that he could get a definite answer from Ye Xiaoli.
He quickly untied Ye Xiaoli: "Can you tell me in detail?"
Ye Xiaoli rubbed his wrist, met Lu Jian's curious eyes, and began to talk nonsense seriously: "According to Ning Dongxu, he seems to look a bit like the woman that the emperor loved but couldn't get in the past.
So the emperor was fascinated by him the first time he saw him."
"Is that so..." Lu Jian's expression was a little confused. His eyes turned to the lower left and he fell into a brief memory. He was probably recalling which woman the emperor loved but could not get.
Unconsciously, he let down his guard against Ye Xiaoli.
"Oh, I remember! I remember who the woman you were talking about is..." Suddenly, he looked at Ye Xiaoli with bright eyes, but Ye Xiaoli sprinkled a handful of medicine powder on his face. He rolled his eyes and fainted.
She covered her nose and quickly swallowed the antidote, then quietly walked to the door, quickly opened it, and met Lu Jingxiu's astonished gaze.
A few seconds later, Ye Xiaoli lifted the unconscious Lu Jingxiu's arms and dragged him into the house, placing him together with Lu Jian.
With trembling hands, he suffocated the father and son to death with a pillow one after another.
Then, light a fire.
She ran out to find Xiaotao under the cover of night. The fire behind her was soon discovered. Ning Dongxu knocked out the person who first discovered the fire and threw him into the fire.
When he estimated that both father and son had been burned to death inside, he went to the woodshed to find Ye Xiaoli and continued to protect him secretly.
Ye Xiaoli found Xiaotao and untied her, and was worried about how the two of them should escape from the King of England's Palace.
It turned out that more and more people went to put out the fire. They came and went in a hurry, and no one cared about the identities of the people passing by.
Ye Xiaoli rolled on the ground several times, making his clothes so dirty that they were unrecognizable. He then smeared dirt on the faces of the two people, and walked out the door with Xiaotao, his head lowered.
Halfway through the walk, she remembered that Ye Cailian was still lying in the secret room under the rockery in the garden.
It's not easy to come to the British palace. Should we take advantage of the chaos to go down and kill her as well?
Just as they were about to turn around and go, they saw the King and Princess of England hurriedly passing by them. Ye Xiaoli was startled and said, "Forget it, let's leave first. It would be bad if we were caught as arsonists."
After running out of the King of England's Palace, Ye Xiaoli and Xiaotao walked aimlessly on the road. The moonlight was very bright, but she felt that the road ahead was very dark.
"Miss, where are we going next?"
Ye Xiaoli was about to say "I don't know" when a carriage suddenly drove up to them. The curtain was lifted, revealing Ning Dongxu's stern face: "Get in."
Ye Xiaoli looked grateful.
"In the Prince of Ying's mansion, I have basically dealt with everyone who saw you being tied up and brought in. Now that the Prince of Ying is gone, you won't be forced to marry him. I will send you back to the Ye Mansion right away."
Ning Dongxu said coldly.
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