The Husband I Snatched Is Not Right!

Chapter 359 - 356: Yu Tingwan Is Meant for Greater Things!

Yu Tingwan stared intently at the little trinkets sold at the street stalls, finally stopping at a stall selling rattle drums.

Shen Zhiyi followed up, "That slap was well delivered, just not hard enough. If she hadn’t stepped in, I would’ve charged out myself. I know you were probably also about to lose your temper."

"Not at all."

Bleh.

Yeah, right.

Shen Zhiyi didn’t believe it.

Yu Tingwan: "With you here, why would I need to take action."

Yu Tingwan: "Doesn’t my hand hurt?"

She’s just apt at egging people on.

Shen Zhiyi: ...

Such a good excuse.

Who’s as lazy as you?

Seeing Yu Tingwan picking up a rattle drum, Shen Zhiyi squinted her eyes.

"Why are you buying that? It’s for little kids to play with."

She glanced at Yu Tingwan’s flat stomach.

"You..."

"What are you looking at?"

Yu Tingwan glared at her, annoyed: "I picked it for you."

Shen Zhiyi: ???

"I... I don’t need it either."

She doesn’t even have a man!

If it were someone else, Shen Zhiyi would think they were trying to insult her in a roundabout way.

Yu Tingwan sighed: "At least you’ve interacted with me a few times, you should learn from my fine character of repaying evil with good."

Shen Zhiyi: ...

She expressed doubt.

"Do you have that?"

Yu Tingwan acted as if she didn’t hear, softly saying: "The matter with the Chu family is considered settled, that Chu Liulang can’t forget Zhou Yurou, telling everyone the annulment was his fault."

"Why does he hold a grudge against only you?"

Yu Tingwan: "You should reflect on that."

Yu Tingwan spun the rattle drum in her hand and asked the vendor, "How much?"

The vendor laughed and said, "Not expensive, just forty wen."

The prices in Shangjing are really high. In Ze County, it wouldn’t go over ten wen at most.

Yu Tingwan glanced at Shen Zhiyi: "Why are you just standing there? Pay up."

"He finds you not gentle and considerate enough, no need to change, it’s likely how you’ll be this life."

"But since there was an engagement, you two knew each other, and he’s now a father, you should at least give a gift to show some thought."

Shen Zhiyi was amazed by the suggestion.

"Outsiders might praise me for being magnanimous and forgiving, while it would annoy him to no end, truly killing two birds with one stone."

Yu Tingwan continued, "Families in Shangjing exchange rare treasures as gifts. But the lightness of a gift doesn’t lessen the affection. You achieve great things with little money. Street trinkets don’t break the bank when you spend."

Shen Zhiyi had an epiphany: "Makes sense."

She watched as Yu Tingwan removed a hairpin from her head and began engraving something on the rattle drum as they walked.

Shen Zhiyi tiptoed to see.

Hmm, Chu Liulang’s name.

Then...

Hmm, cursed him with nasty words.

Really dirty ones.

Shen Zhiyi felt quite pleased.

Yu Tingwan said gently, "But if you deliver it grandly, outsiders might think you want to reconcile with the Chu family."

Shen Zhiyi: !!

That mustn’t happen.

Yu Tingwan: "After pondering, why not send it in Zhou Yurou’s name? Completes your good intention."

Oh dear, Chu Liulang’s heart must be breaking.

"You, Yu Tingwan, you really are..."

So wicked!

But Shen Zhiyi still felt great!

Suddenly, she realized Yu Tingwan and Jiasan didn’t have similar temperaments.

Jiasan is flamboyant.

Does what he wants.

Gu Wu is delicate, like a hot-house flower.

Yu Tingwan is an unthreatening kind of flamboyant, meets challenges head-on, grows amidst trials without compromise, like a bamboo breaking through the earth, unyielding to pressure, nourishing through adversity into an unparalleled, irreplaceable green bamboo, standing tall and graceful. Gentle like a breeze, yet could stir storms effortlessly.

She just opened her mouth to praise.

"A person who achieves great things!"

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The clinic was just on the street ahead.

Zhou Yurou looked panicked and hurried off to get medicine, terrified of scarring.

She heard Ning Yunling was going to the antique store and went out specially today to block him. Simply wanted to stage a coincidental encounter.

Her reputation was marred by the annulment, making it difficult to find a prestigious family in the future.

Zhou Yurou thought of Ning Yunling.

After all, the door of Marquis Ning Mansion is high, and Ning Yunling has shown interest in her.

Seeing Gu Wu on the road, she got the idea. Who would have thought she’d end up shooting herself in the foot.

She knew about the female guests being invited to Marquis Ning Mansion in a few days.

But she wasn’t given an invitation.

Gu Wu’s words were apt, being jilted meant she needed to lower her standards for matchmaking.

How could she bear that?

Marchioness Ning always looked down on her.

But so what? She couldn’t resist Ning Yunling being easily fooled.

Half an hour later.

Ning Yunling, dressed in a blue robe, energetic and spirited, walked in carrying a cricket cage, chatting and laughing with a few noble young gentlemen.

"Prince Ning truly appreciates beauty, not blaming after being bumped into by a lady, even helping pick up every bead, truly cherishing beauty."

"I reckon the lady deliberately blocked Prince Ning’s way, she fancies him. Otherwise, how could it be so coincidental, the bracelet broke, and beads scattered all over the place?"

"It’s hard not to repay such a beauty’s kindness."

"Beauty? That’s unclear, kept her head down all the time, probably not a beauty."

Ning Yunling kicked out upon hearing this.

"You scoundrel, don’t tarnish a lady’s reputation."

His cousin always taught him, it’s okay to be carefree, but women have it tough in this world, and he shouldn’t abuse his family background to bully or tease. A careless word could end a life.

"The lady already said, it’s the only thing her grandfather left her. How can it be false?"

Ning Yunling thought of the lady, timidly lowering her head, speaking in a flustered and tearful tone, unsure if it was because she was anxious about retrieving all the beads or fearing she’d offended someone.

He just felt really sorry!

Ning Yunling pondered, "If my grandfather died, and his relic was lost by me, I’d be just as anxious as her."

Gentlemen: ...

You’re certainly filial.

Just then, a soft female voice came through.

"This Yixing teapot is nice, there was a similar one in my father’s study, but a clumsy servant broke it. Shopkeeper, could you wrap it for me, I’ll buy it."

Ning Yunling looked up to see a familiar face and instinctively walked towards her.

"What a coincidence, Miss Zhou also here."

While speaking, he noticed something amiss.

Zhou Yurou had an injured face, her eyes slightly red, evoking a protective instinct.

Ning Yunling’s face darkened: "What’s happened to you?"

Zhou Yurou, seemingly embarrassed, hurriedly covered her face with a handkerchief, tears glistening in her eyes: "It’s...nothing."

"Your face is hurt, how can it be nothing?"

Zhou Yurou’s long eyelashes fluttered like fragile butterfly wings as she pretended to be indifferent, "Perhaps... perhaps I offended Miss Gu somehow, and it displeased her."

Just about to stand up for her, Ning Yunling swallowed his words.

After all, at the Changdu Temple bridge, besides Zhou Yurou’s name on the Unity Lock he hung, there were many others, including Gu Wu.

Tsk, all the women he couldn’t have.

Helping either side wouldn’t be right for him.

Ning Yunling: "I see."

Ning Yunling: "Well, you carry on."

Zhou Yurou: ??

This wasn’t what she had imagined.

"Prince Ning."

She hurriedly called out to him.

Zhou Yurou knew how to present her best self. She smiled shyly and timidly at Ning Yunling.

Hearing this, Ning Yunling’s heart skipped a beat.

The young noblemen beside him saw him dazed and teased him with laughter.

"Prince Ning, if Miss Zhou still captures your heart, why not..."

"Yes, neither married yet."

Zhou Yurou blushed, pretending to be bashfully annoyed.

"How rude! I just have something to discuss with Prince Ning, how could you be so disrespectful?"

Ning Yunling snapped to, "Right!"

"I just said not to tarnish a lady’s reputation, was anyone listening or did it all go into dog’s stomachs?"

"My sister-in-law specifically reminded me just now."

The usually brainless, but obedient baby Ning Yunling loudly declared: "Miss Zhou and Chu Liulang broke off their engagement, so she’s someone Chu Liulang didn’t want. What kind of trash is Chu Liulang? If he didn’t want her, how could I pick up what he discarded?"

Zhou Yurou felt like she’d been struck by lightning.