Chapter 34: The Wise Jinshi x The Obsessed Emperor 13

Yun Mansion, Yingxue (Reflecting Snow) Pavilion.

The smile on Yun Shu’s face vanished the moment she learned that Yun Huai had achieved the top score in the Hui Shi exam. Her eyes were filled with gloom, so cold that it was frightening.

“That good-for-nothing actually has such good luck!”

Not only did he avoid Yun Qi’s schemes, but he also left Yun Qi confined to her sickbed these past few days.

Now, he had soared to the skies and achieved the top score.

Judging from his current ranking, Yun Huai would definitely not be eliminated in the upcoming palace examination, and might even become the Zhuang Yuan (top scholar).

Thinking of this, Yun Shu’s expression became even more unsightly, and her brows furrowed even deeper.

“If I had known this, I should have acted sooner.”

“How can a lowly wretch like him be worthy of entering the court as an official, still dreaming of rising above others?!”

The head maid sighed inwardly, but on the surface, she said cautiously, “Miss, since the eldest young master has already left the mansion and has been removed from the family tree by the master at the instigation of the madam and second young mistress, then there’s no way for him to compete with the third young master for the family property.”

“Instead of continuing to slander the eldest young master, we might as well seize the handles of the madam and second young mistress and suppress them and the second young master.”

The eldest young master was no longer a member of the Yun family. Why bother arguing with him so much?

He wouldn’t hinder the young mistress’s path.

Yun Shu stared at the head maid with eyes as cold as ice, and the anger that had been accumulating in her heart surged up.

“Why can a lowly person who was trampled under my feet rise to prominence!”

“I want him to never be able to get up again!”

At this time, she was no longer the modern girl who advocated freedom and equality. She was completely immersed in the noble status and perfect love she had obtained, and would no longer care about the lives of others.

She had changed in these three years of ancient life, becoming a young lady who was gentle and considerate on the surface but actually sinister and vicious.

Perhaps she was originally like this, but the rules of modern society had restrained her, and when she arrived in ancient times, it was as if she had returned to where she should be.

She was immersed in her own transmigrated story, dedicated to fighting with the Yun family’s stepmother and di (of the direct line) younger sister, and vying with Prince Duan’s suitors.

In the Long Teng Kingdom, Yun Shu was an official’s daughter, enjoying a life of no worries about food and clothing and a lover with a noble identity. How could she be willing to return to modern times, where her family background was ordinary and her education was mediocre?

Head Maid: Having you is really my blessing!

What other young lady was like her family’s living ancestor, so unable to bear to see others doing well.

To be honest, although she followed the eldest young mistress, she never understood the eldest young mistress’s thought processes.

The second young mistress and the second young master couldn’t get along, but why couldn’t they get along with the eldest young master?

Putting aside everything else, the eldest young master was indeed talented. He had been more intelligent than the second young master since he was a child. Luring him over would be equivalent to having an extra protective umbrella.

Moreover, the eldest young master was older than the second young master and the third young master, and occupied the name of the eldest son of the Yun family. If he had fame and status, it would be easier for him to inherit the family business. Why did they have to choose the young third young master?

Little did they know that Yun Shu was afraid that she would not be able to control Yun Huai, that clever person, so she chose the third young master, Yun Cheng, so that she could manipulate him.

Yun Shu’s lips were tightly pursed, and her hands were clenched into fists. The anger was snowballing.

“Send someone to investigate Yun Huai’s whereabouts. I want him to have the fate to take the exam, but not the fate to enjoy the rewards.”

The head maid left with a wooden face, but before she could walk out of the courtyard gate, she was knocked down by Liu Momo, who came in in a hurry. The two of them sat on the ground and cried out in pain.

The head maid frowned. “What are you doing! Are you rushing to the underworld to be reincarnated?!”

Liu Momo didn’t care about the head maid who had fallen to the ground, and stood up again and ran to the door.

“Miss, something bad has happened!”

Yun Shu frowned and said, “Why are you making such a fuss? What’s wrong with me?”

Liu Momo walked in quickly. “Miss, it’s from Prince Duan’s mansion…”

“The Prince?” Yun Shu asked urgently, “What exactly happened to the Prince?”

Liu Momo gasped for breath and said, “Someone from the palace went to Prince Duan’s mansion to issue an imperial decree at noon today. It was an imperial decree bestowing marriage to Prince Duan and the eldest daughter of the Xuanyi Marquis’s mansion.”

Yun Shu froze in place, her mind blank.

“What did you say? The Prince is going to marry Jiang Wan!!!”

How could it be that bitch? Why was the Emperor bestowing marriage to those two?

Her hands trembled uncontrollably, and her shrill voice almost broke.

“I don’t believe it, I’m going to find the Prince.”

Liu Momo stopped the emotionally out-of-control Yun Shu and painstakingly advised, “Miss, we can’t rush over to cause trouble right now.”

“Otherwise, it would be disrespecting the imperial decree, and the palace will blame the whole family.”

Yun Shu’s eyes wandered, and she grasped her fingertips in a daze. Her body trembled slightly, and even the voice she spoke with carried a trembling.

“How could His Majesty bestow marriage to Jiang Wan and the Prince? The Prince said he would marry me as his wife. We agreed to be together for life, one heart, one soul.” (一生一世一双人 – idiom meaning a monogamous relationship for life)

“Without him, what am I going to do?”

She slightly imagined a future without the Prince, without the perfect love that everyone envied, and couldn’t help but shudder.

If the Prince abandoned their pledges of love, her years of efforts would be in vain, and the dream lover would completely leave her.

The terrible things were far more than that.

If the Prince broke his promise and married her rival Jiang Wan, she would definitely become the laughingstock of the entire capital and would be ridiculed by all the noble young ladies.

She would also lose the privileges brought by the Prince’s protection, and would be ridiculed and suppressed by Yun Qi and her mother. She might even be casually married off by her father.

No, that couldn’t happen! Absolutely not!