Chapter 8 - Here Comes the Punitive Forces (1/2)
What? Have her go admit to the Emperor that she seduced Fifth Prince? Even secretly carrying a child? She is the unmarried eldest daughter from the General’s Mansion. How is this not going to prevent her from even raising her head in the entire capital of Western Chu? Her reputation would fall to the bottom most pit?!
Luo Qing Shuang was so angry that she shook from head to toe and yelled, “Luo Qing Luan, you dare to mock me?”
“Am I mocking you?” With an appearance of pure innocence, Luo Qing Luan looked at Dai Yue for a moment, then asked, “Am I mocking Elder Sister? I’m not, right?”
Hearing this, Dai Yue also couldn’t help but want to laugh as she covered up her mouth and replied, “How can My Lady mock Eldest Lady? My Lady is merely telling the truth.”
“You lowly servant also dares to follow along in mocking me?” Luo Qing Shuang was no longer able to endure. Her pretty face was twisted similar to a jealous woman as she pointed at Luo Qing Luan and screamed, “I’m telling you, Fifth Prince is mine, don’t you have any delusions. He even sent his love token to me. He simply doesn’t love you!”
As she spoke, she clenched the peacock hairpin tightly in her hand. “Do you see this. This is a gift from the Fifth Prince to me. I will be able to marry him for sure!”
“Really?” Luo Qing Luan levelly spit out a word and abruptly accelerated to advance forward. In a flash, she snatched the hairpin from the other person’s hand. After that, she quickly withdrew. “Is one lousy hairpin worth flaunting in front of me? Even calling it some love keepsake?”
Luo Qing Shuang threw herself forward in alarm, intending to snatch it back. “Return it to me!”
But Luo Qing Luan was already not the same person as she was before. After three days of nursing herself, she already recovered by no small amount. She already was no longer that weak and powerless girl from before. Her dress fluttering, with a turn, she avoided the advance and moved her hand away horizontally. “Don’t grab randomly. Careful that you don’t break your treasure.”
“Give it back!” No matter how, she couldn’t snatch the hairpin back. Luo Qing Shuang also didn’t dare to really put too much force into it for fear of damaging the treasure. Her feelings towards it are one thing. She was afraid that Fifth Prince would also become angry.
She stomped her foot fiercely and glared daggers at Luo Qing Luan, “If you still won’t return it to me, I’ll tell Father. Father knows that this hairpin is a gift from the Fifth Prince to me. You went so far as to snatch it from me. He’ll punish you severely for sure!”
“Fine, I’ll return it to you. Look at how keyed up you are.”
Luo Qing Luan saw her flustered and exasperated appearance and couldn’t help but find it to be humorous. “However, you delayed me from having fun in the sun. No matter what, I have to collect some interest.” She looked at the peacock hairpin in her hand over and over, then her fingers moved quickly and actually dug out that biggest ruby that the peacock held in its mouth. The perfectly round, slightly cool ruby spun round and round in the palm of her hand. Luo Qing Luan smiled in satisfaction, then threw the hairpin back without the slightest hesitation.
Luo Qing Shuang promptly caught it. With a quick look, her face turned green. “You……you……”
She suddenly shrieked. “Luo Qing Luan, you dare to damage my hairpin! I’m going to kill you!”