Reborn as a concubine's daughter and entering a noble family: Xie Lang, don't be too seduc

Upon hearing Huo Sanghua enter the room, Xie Lin, who had been craning his neck to wait, immediately lay back down in bed.

Pretend to be half-dead—

"Ouch... Ouch..."

Huo Sanghua was preoccupied with her own thoughts, pondering how much of Lu Ming's words were credible.

As soon as I entered, I heard Xie Lin's wailing.

She frowned, glancing disdainfully into the inner room. There lay the boy who had been so lively when Sister Si had been there, now looking like he was dying, struggling on the bed...

Xie Lin groaned and moaned in bed for a long time, but Huo Sanghua didn't come over to check on him. He gradually became impatient.

She sat up with a "thump." "You're so heartless!"

Huo Sanghua held her breath, wanting to retort, but seeing Xie Lin's face, she swallowed the words back. She simply sat down in the outer room, took the teacup Wu Tong offered, and began to sip the tea...

Wu Tong carefully observed their reactions, glancing at Hawthorne and then glancing into the inner room.

She pursed her lips, not daring to utter a single word.

"You... ...hiss—" Xie Lin rolled over and got out of bed. As soon as his right foot touched the ground, he somehow aggravated the sore spot and let out a very "sincere" cry of pain. He raised his hand to cover the wound on his chest and stood still.

Hearing that sound, Huo Sanghua was also worried about Xie Lin's injuries and couldn't help but get up.

"No matter how you look at it, I was injured while saving you, and this is how you treat me?" Xie Lin felt extremely wronged, not knowing what Huo Sanghua was angry about.

Even after racking my brains and considering all the possibilities, I still couldn't figure out the reason.

Did something happen to her when she went out early this morning?

Anyway, ever since she came back, she's been acting all grumpy, clearly holding a grudge.

Hawthorne asked, "Then how should I treat you? Oh... yes, you need someone to take care of you most right now..."

Xie Lin nodded, just about to say that she finally understood.

“Wu Tong,” Huo Sanghua turned to Wu Tong and instructed, “then you should make a trip and ask the eldest young master to send someone to the brothels that the second young master usually frequents to bring back the girls who are close to him and take good care of them.”

Pretending to be nonchalant, Hawthorne's fingers twirled the ribbon on the hem of her clothes, her heart filled with a mix of emotions, which turned into choking words when they reached her lips.

It had a similar eccentric and sarcastic air to Lu Ming.

"What brothel? What intimate girl... What are you talking about?" Xie Lin was completely bewildered by her retort. He didn't know who had offended her, and why she was saying such incomprehensible things.

He pressed his hand on the wound and chased after them.

Wu Tong frowned slightly as she pondered the situation, vaguely sensing something unusual, and secretly smiled.

"Isn't that so?" Huo Sanghua feigned calmness, ignoring Xie Lin's reaction. She looked down at the mud on the toes of her shoes and said to herself, "You were so happy when Sister Si was here. You were still unconscious this morning, but as soon as she arrived, you were able to sit up and talk. As soon as she left, when you saw me come in, you started groaning and crying! I guess it's because the person you saw was different, and your mood was different too! In that case, let's invite all your former girlfriends to keep you company. Maybe your injury will heal faster!"

Hmph! When Si Qingyue was around, he was all smiles, he couldn't be happier.

Why is it that as soon as she came back, all she heard was Xie Lin wailing about how miserable he was?

"...What are you talking about?!" Xie Lin knew she had misunderstood, so he quickly explained, "When she came, I wasn't happy at all! Besides, I can't pretend to be asleep when someone comes, can I? Should I lie in bed and pretend to be dead?"

"Do whatever you want. What does your happiness or unhappiness have to do with me? We're just husband and wife in name only. We've agreed that I'll leave here in a year, and then you can be with whomever you want. But for now, I have to pretend to be virtuous and gentle. If you want, I can easily arrange for all those girls you used to like to come home and take good care of you." Huo Sanghua became angrier the more she thought about it.

Fortunately, she wasn't Xie Lin's legal wife in the Xie family. Otherwise, if that philandering man had brought in one girl after another to be his concubines, filling the courtyard with mistresses and side rooms...

Those were probably the worst days.

Wutong was struggling to suppress her laughter.

"Leave here? Where can you go if you leave here? Could it be that you've already found someone else and planned to leave here and elope with me?" When Xie Lin heard Huo Sanghua say that he was going to leave, the anger that had been suppressed in his heart for so long suddenly made him lose his temper.

Ignoring the fact that he was wearing his undergarments, he brazenly stood in front of Hawthorne.

It seemed they were trying to force out her "truth," and I was curious to see which "wild man" she was in cahoots with, or...

"What did you say!" Huo Sanghua was also agitated, throwing a bucket of mud at him for no reason. "What next partner, what elopement! Xie Lin, what are you thinking? Do you think that just because you're like this, everyone else is so despicable?!"

"What about me? When did I do such a thing! But you, today in front of outsiders, you were... pulling and tugging at him, whispering to each other in private! What important thing could it be that you had to talk about it so ambiguously!"

Xie Lin couldn't hold back any longer. In his opinion, it was Sang Hua who spoke so intimately with his elder brother in private, right in front of him and the other two!

Even now, he still doesn't understand what the two of them said!

"You!—" Hawthorne was thoroughly enraged.

She never expected that Xie Lin would slander her and Xie Shu...

He pounded his chest frantically, feeling as if he had a lump in his throat, unable to breathe.

How come she never knew Xie Lin was such a troublemaker before! "...When did I ever whisper or pull at your older brother! Explain yourself!"

"Say something clearly." Xie Lin suddenly realized he had misspoke and turned away, trying to escape, afraid that Sang Hua would notice something was wrong with him.

"Explain yourself! What did your brother and I do to make you... make you slander me like this! 'Next boyfriend,' 'flying off together'... So what you just said refers to your brother and me?!" Huo Sanghua grabbed Xie Lin, who was trying to go back to the inner room. She had to get to the bottom of this today. If these unclear things got out, everyone would think she and Xie Shu really had something going on! "So the 'next boyfriend' you're talking about is your brother? You think I'm going to elope with your brother after I leave you?! Xie Lin, are you crazy?!"

How can he say anything like that?

What on earth is going on in their heads?!

The two were arguing so fiercely that it startled Wutong, who was standing nearby...

What did she hear? A year? The second wife is leaving the Xie family in a year? Was this something they had planned long ago?

So, the Second Madam's marriage to the Second Young Master was actually based on a one-year agreement?

The second young master suspects that the second wife and the eldest young master... are having an affair?!

What are all these things...?