dhibooks Chapter 1196 - The Engagement
Chapter 1196 - The Engagement
Chapter 1196: The Engagement
She had never expected that... he would give her away to another man. He wanted Xuan Mu to torture and ridicule her.
Maybe he was afraid of dirtying his own hands.
“Are you surprised? I think you and my brother suit each other. The two of you are a match made in heaven. Didn’t he want to make you his concubine? I’m just helping the two of you out.”
Xuan Ying raised his eyes to look at the door as a beautiful figure walked in. It was Shi Xiaoxiao.
“Ying,” Shi Xiaoxiao said as she walked over to Xuan Ying.
Xuan Ying reached out to hold her slim waist and looked down at Feng Lingxue who was kneeling beside his legs. “We’re going to be engaged soon, and you, Shi Xiaoxiao, will be the Silver Mask King’s consort.”
He was getting engaged?
He was getting married?
Oh. How great.
Feng Lingxue clutched the cashmere carpet at her feet, digging her fingernails into her own hand. The two of them had reached a dead end today.
...
South Palace.
Xuan Mu was brought into the room and the doctor ran in and out of his room busily.
The South Palace was in an uproar.
Seeing her son in such a state, the South Duchess was inconsolable. “What happened to my son? Please save him. He hasn’t even married yet, so he can’t be infertile.”
The doctors were all in cold sweat. “South Duchess, the South Duke was kicked by someone... down there. It has burst apart. I’m sorry to inform you that... I’m afraid the South Duke will no longer be able to... carry out bedroom affairs, maybe not even... have a child...”
What? So what the doctor meant was... Xuan Mu was now a eunuch?
How did this happen?
How did things turn out like this?
The South Duchess turned to look at Feng Lingxue. She ran over and slapped her. The slap rang out loud and clear. Feng Lingxue had been hit across her whole face.
“You little b*tch, it’s all because of you that I can’t treat Xuan Mu. Do you want me to beat you to death?”
The South Duchess expression was sinister. She took a cane from a maid and started beating Feng Lingxue with it.
The thin poplar cane struck Feng Lingxue’s skin with a piercing sound. Her clothes were torn apart as red welts started appearing on her skin. She was being hit so hard her skin was splitting.
Only freedom...
But she suddenly released her tongue, as though someone had poured ice-cold water on her and drenched her from top to toe. Her thoughts cleared and she thought, what am I doing?
What was Mu Mu going to do if she died?
Mu Mu.
Her Mu Mu.
She couldn’t die before she found Mu Mu.
The North Duke had been sent to the hospital after he had passed out. She had to find a way to get out and find him there.
That’s right, she couldn’t die. She could not afford to lose her life.
Feng Lingxue pressed her head against the ice-cold wall. She suddenly understood that living wasn’t difficult. What was difficult was not being able to die when you wanted to.
Her life seemed hopeless.
A woman as useless as her shouldn’t have been allowed to live in this world. It would be better if she died.
But she couldn’t.
...
A week later.
Feng Lingxue was wearing a set of tattered and torn clothes. She had a big pail in one hand and her head was down as she did her chores.
She couldn’t stop. The South Duchess had sent Mo Mo to supervise her. As soon as she slowed down, she would be beaten.
At this moment, there were a few maids chatting in front of her.
—-Have you heard? There’s going to be a huge engagement party at the Snow Mountain Residence in three days. The Silver Mask King and Shi Xiaoxiao are going to be officially engaged.
—-My god, I’m so envious of Miss Shi. Do you know that the Silver Mask King has all the cards in his hands now? So much has changed since the past. Now his Snow Mountain Residence is so much more elegant and lively than the South Palace. He’s going to be unstoppable once he marries Shi Xiaoxiao. This engagement party is going to take all the limelight away from the wedding between the West Duke and the East Duke’s daughter a few days later.
—-The Silver Mask King is amazing.
—-Stop daydreaming. I don’t even know how many dignitaries want to send their daughters to the Snow Mountain Residence to be a concubine but don’t even have a chance to...
Listening to their discussion, Feng Lingxue slowly lowered her lashes. Without slowing her footsteps, she poured the water into the tank. The cold water splattered onto her tattered clothes.
The cold was piercing through her bones.
Winter had come.
...
The news of Xuan Ying and Shi Xiaoxiao’s engagement spread around Country A like wildfire. The West Duke received an invitation as well.