Happy Divorce Chapter 2 (Part 2)
Happy Divorce Chapter 2 (Part 2) Original translation is from tenderflower's blog.
Because on that Lantern Festival night, she kept him in her heart under the gorgeous fireworks.
Even though he hated and ignored her, she still ignored his indifference and tried her best to please him. She wanted to remove his dislike for her and hoped to be liked by him, even just a little bit... She didn’t ask for much, just a little attention and tenderness from him.
She humbly hoped for some warmth from him, suppressed all her temper, and tried her best to be a good wife and daughter-in-law. What happened in the end? What she got was that he left Yan’s mansion silently. Before leaving, he only asked the servant to hand her a divorce letter.
When she looked at the divorce letter, she felt ridiculous and like a clown. She tried so hard to get his attention, turned a deaf ear to the private sneers, and told herself not to care, as long as he could treat her well, it was enough.
But in the end, what she got was the news of his departure and the letter of divorce given to her by his servant. At that moment, her heart became cold.
The two years in the Yan family were days she didn’t want to think about again. That Su Manlu was too pathetic and too naive.
She naively thought that if she worked hard, she would be rewarded, but she didn’t know how unpredictable human hearts were, and the humbler she was, the more she was trampled on.
She had been stupid before and would not let herself be stupid again.
After returning to the Su family, she no longer felt aggrieved or tolerated and became the real Su Manlu.
Those two years, and that person, she wanted to erase from her heart and never think about again.
But she didn’t expect to meet him again, and it was on the Lantern Festival night.
Su Manlu couldn’t help but sneer. Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival... She hated this day and hated spending Lantern Festival night. This day would remind her of her previous stupidity.
So she went to Huayin Tower, hoping to use business to make herself forget this day, but unexpectedly she saw him in Huayin Tower.
Because of him, she suffered from insomnia. She finally fell asleep, but dreamed about the past, which reminded her of how ridiculous she was back then.
Su Manlu closed her eyes, feeling in a bad mood. She got out of bed, poured a cup of cold tea, and drank it eagerly.
But it wasn’t enough. The cold tea still couldn’t stabilize her mind.
Su Manlu put down the tea cup irritably. Without putting on her cloak, she wore a single white coat, was barefoot, and walked quickly out of the inner room. She opened the door to the outer room and stepped out of the warm boudoir.
The cold wind that hit her made her shiver, and her chaotic mind instantly calmed down. She closed her eyes, leaned against the door, and let the cold wind blow.
She didn’t know how long she stood there but vaguely heard scolding.
“Manlu! What are you doing?”
As soon as she opened her frost-stained eyelashes, Su Manlu was wrapped in a warm cloak, then roughly pulled into the door and dragged onto the bed, with a thick brocade quilt covering her.
“You girl want to freeze to death outside, don’t you? What are you doing standing at the door instead of sleeping?” The middle-aged, beautiful woman was anxious and angry. She took the quilt and wrapped her stepdaughter. She quickly said to the maid, “Go and bring a basin of hot water and boil some ginger soup. Quick!”
“Aunt, Aunt Lian...” Su Manlu said with a trembling voice, and then she realized that her hands and feet were frozen, and her body was shivering from the cold.
“Very good, it seems your brain hasn’t been frozen yet.” Aunt Lian glared at her, wrapped her warm hands around hers, rubbed them vigorously, and blew on them.
“What are you doing standing at the door, girl? Do you want to freeze to death so that your father and I will feel heartache?” She did not forget to scold her while warming her stepdaughter’s hands.
“No...” Su Manlu felt so cold that her throat was dry.
At this time, Bi Luo quickly walked into the room with ginger soup and another maid.
“The ginger tea is here. Miss, drink it quickly.” Hearing Miss standing at the door blowing the wind in the cold weather, Bi Luo was so frightened that her heart almost stopped. She hurriedly cooked the ginger soup and hurriedly sent it.
Aunt Lian took the ginger soup from Bi Luo and fed it to her stepdaughter while scolding Bi Luo. “Bi Luo, how did you take care of the young lady and let her stand at the door in the cold?”
“Aunt Lian, it’s not Bi Luo’s fault.” After a few mouthfuls of ginger soup went down her throat, Su Manlu was finally able to speak completely and immediately told Aunt Lian not to blame Bi Luo. “I just want to calm down my mind. It has nothing to do with Bi Luo.”
Bi Luo said nothing. She failed to take good care of the young lady. She deserved to be scolded by Madam. She silently put the basin on the ground, held the young lady’s cold feet, and put them into the hot water.
There was an immediate piercing pain as soon as her ice-cold feet touched the hot water. Su Manlu groaned in pain and frowned tightly.
Bi Luo quickly raised her head and looked at the young lady worriedly. “Miss, does it hurt?”
“It’s alright.” Su Manlu smiled reassuringly, her already white skin turning pale under the cold stimulation.
How could Bi Luo not know that her young lady was trying to be braved? She was standing outside in the wind early in the morning. It was obvious that the man she met in Huayin Tower yesterday had put Miss in a bad mood, which was why she did such an abnormal thing in the cold weather. If Madam hadn’t found out, she didn’t know how long she would have stood in the cold wind.
After thinking about it, it was all that person’s fault. Bi Luo really wanted to scold that man. Why did he appear in front of the young lady?
But Madam was beside her, so she couldn’t say anything and could only lower her head silently.
Aunt Lian saw Bi Luo’s expression in her eyes. Manlu knew how to hide things, but Bi Luo’s thoughts were easy to see. The anger in Bi Luo’s eyes confused her. It seemed something must have happened yesterday, which made her stepdaughter stand outside the door and freeze for no reason.
She originally wanted to ask but remembered that yesterday was the Lantern Festival night. This day could be said to be a painful day for her stepdaughter. Thinking of this, Aunt Lian hated the Yan family.
She was the dowry maid of Su Manlu’s mother and treated Su Manlu, the daughter born with her young lady’s own life, as her daughter. Back then, she couldn’t stand the decadent look of Father Su, so she slapped him in anger, asking him to wake up and take a good look at the daughter that her young lady had given birth to.
She had no children in her life. Before she married Father Su, Father Su told her he would only have Su Manlu as his daughter in this life, and he did not plan to have any more children. If she disagreed, he also did not want to ruin her life.
And she nodded without any hesitation and promised Father Su that she would not have children in this life. Su Manlu would be her only daughter.
Although they were not related by blood, she loved Su Manlu deeply. Her husband loved his daughter, and so did she, the stepmother, who doted on Su Manlu like her own precious treasure.
Who would have thought that their beloved child suffered hardships in her husband’s family, and was eventually divorced and sent home.
The two elders were extremely angry at the time, especially when they saw their daughter’s haggard appearance, they felt extremely distressed. If their daughter had not stopped them, they would have gone to settle accounts with the Yan family.
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