Chapter 54 (2/2)

He brought his lover’s hand to his heart, which was covered by a sipping gauze.

Zhou Yun Sheng saw the spreading blood and immediately forgot his anger. He quickly let Tweety get the medicine box and Qin Ce naturally stayed overnight.

They wrapped around each other for half month, then Qin Ce reluctantly left him to return to the capital and prepare for the wedding. Yes, Zhou Yun Sheng had promised to marry the powerful Shen Wei Hou Shizi. They were already an old couple, they’ve been together for several lifetimes, wouldn’t he be a hypocrite to suddenly play hard to get? He would cherish all the time they had together while he could. Especially since he really couldn’t guess what would happen in the next reincarnation. Next time, who knows where that man would wander off to or if he would fall for someone else again.

But Zhang Jiarui hadn’t stayed idle this half a month. He’d gathered as much of the people who were around Zhu Ziyu as he could in order to dig out a secret. His persistence finally paid off, he really did find an insider, a disgruntled maidservant that was kicked out of Zhu Jia. She astonishingly told him that Zhu Ziyu was a Ger, he had a Zhusha Zhi between his eyebrows, usually covered by powder.

Zhu Ziyu’s face really was unusually beautiful for a man’s, Zhang Jiarui didn’t have to struggle to believe the information. He set things in motion.

While Zhu Ziyu was wandering through the market, a bucket of water poured onto his head, and an old woman suddenly rushed out to wipe at his forehead, revealing his Zhusha Zhi. The onlookers were in a buzz with the new gossip.

With this kind of rare gossip, it took less than a day for the whole village to find out. Zhang Jiarui timely forwarded a marriage candidate to Zhu Ziyu, an infamous gambler. The same gambler from the original drama who’d bankrupted Zhu Jia and made Zhu Ziyu live a life worse than death.

When the matchmaker led the gambler to the door, Zhou Yun Sheng smiled and welcomed them in. They’d just sat down, no one had even started speaking yet, when a servant said, “Shen Wei Hou has arrived.”

“Hou, Hou Ye? How can he be here? What is the relationship between you two?” The matchmaker had only heard about a relationship between Zhang Jia and Shen Wei Shizi, there was no talk of a friendship between Zhu family and Hou. Otherwise, Zhang Official would not openly attack Zhu Ziyu.

“You’ll find out when he comes in.” Zhou Yun Sheng held up his tea cup and slowly sipped his tea. He hadn’t told Qin Ce what had happened. Since Zhang Jiarui wanted to rush towards his own death, he would never stop him. He’d obviously allowed the farce, otherwise, how could the old woman get close to his body?

Qin Ce sent his people to store the hundred and twenty sets of dowries in the warehouse while he stepped into the main hall. He saw his favorite person sitting on the couch and immediately walked over to kiss his hair. His usually cold eyes were filled with deep love and warmth.

The matchmaker and gambler sat straighter, their bodies filling with ice. The hidden lover wasn’t in Zhang Jia, but right here in Zhu Jia ah! It seems that Zhu Ziyu was the real fiancé.

“Who are they?” Qin Ce raised his eyebrows at the two people.

“One is a matchmaker, the other is the husband Zhang Jia personally selected for me. You didn’t know? A few weeks ago, Zhang Shulin wanted to buy my west facing hill, I didn’t agree, so they thought of taking my marriage. They’re trying to clean out my Zhu Jia. Also, I don’t know who, someone started spreading rumors that I’m a rich and heartless monster, now look at this situation…… ” Zhou Yun Sheng gave a contemptuous smile at his own words.

Qin Ce was furious, he held Zhou Yun Sheng’s hand to his lips and kissed it, then he said coldly, “What Zhang Official? If I’m happy, he can be called that, if I’m not happy, he is less than nothing.” He looked at the paralyzed matchmaker and said “Give Zhang Jiarui a message, I helped put him into the clouds, so I’ll push him down into the abyss. He better be prepared.”

The matchmaker repeatedly nodded and grabbed the gambler’s arm to leave, but was frozen by Zhou Yun Sheng’s next words, “What a dog ah. He dared walk into my Zhu family home to marry me, he really doesn’t know life from death! Somebody, give me his hand!” Those dirty hands had repeatedly pushed Zhu Ziyu to the brink of death, how could he just let him freely keep them.

The gambler screamed in fear, begging for mercy, but Qin Ce burst into unprecedented laughter. He waved his hand at the guards, then leaned down to kiss his lover’s delicate cheek. Two guards neatly held down the gambler and disposed of his hand.

The two who’d walked arrogantly through the door ran out in a panic. All the villagers witnessed this. The matchmaker didn’t dare delay, they immediately ran to the magistrate’s office and repeated the words.

Zhang Jiarui paled, he hurried home to discuss with Zhang Shulin. After all, Zhang Shulin was Hou’s savoir, he couldn’t act ungratefully.

Zhang Shulin’s heart soured, but for his brother’s future, he had to run to Zhu home to find Shen Wei Shizi. They would not let him enter the door, so he could only wait at the corner. It wasn’t until the next morning that he saw Wei Hou walk out of the mansion.

“Little Black, please wait.” He quickly followed.

“Who are you calling?” Qin Ce darkly asked.

“Hou Ye please wait, I have something to say.” Zhang Shulin immediately changed his call.

“But I have nothing to say to you. I owed you, but the debt has all been paid off. I gave you food, land, and riches. As long as you were content, you could’ve lived a smooth life. But you were greedy and tried to bully away my wife’s land. After trying to rob his riches, you tried to rob his life by forcing him to marry. You passed yourself off as a saint, but your true face is clear for all to see, looking at you makes me feel nauseous. Go back and tell Zhang Jiarui that I will never let this go!” Anyone who attacked his lover deserved no amnesty!

Zhang Shulin was speechless, he could only stand helplessly as the other man rode off.

Zhang Jiarui stood up all night, waiting. His face was twisted, his hair was falling off, and his regret colored his intestines green. When his brother returned, he took one look at his frustrated expression and lost the strength to stand up. He sank down, his whole body limp.

He should have predicted it. Zhu Ziyu was beautiful, carefree and proud, how could Qin Ce resist.

“Big Brother, what can we do?” He was like a child again, crying his heart out, his treasured power and prestige was slipping through his fingers.

Zhang Shulin also had no hope, he could only comfort him that Little Black wouldn’t be so unfeeling.

But in fact, Qin Ce was very unfeeling. All his gentleness was devoted to Zhou Yun Sheng. Anyone who moved against his love would suffer his crazy revenge.

Zhang Jiarui was soon involved in a major corruption case. He was sent to prison, his fame and title stripped from him. Zhang Shulin sold off all the family property to redeem him out of prison. Zhang Jia’s reputation was thoroughly ruined, they were scolded harshly everywhere they went. The people whispered that Zhang Jiarui framed his subordinates, his end was deserved, and that Zhu Ziyu was really more suitable for Hou Ye etc…….

The Zhang family could never hope to wash out their shame in Qing Min County, so they had to move far away to start again. But they had no foundation, no connections, and no money, how could life be easy? Whenever Zhang Shulin thought up a good idea to make money, it would swiftly be copied or robbed away. These difficulties really made him realize how lucky he was to have meet a good landlord like Zhu Ziyu.

Zhang Jiarui’s ambition was very high, but he couldn’t handle setbacks. After his career road was destroyed, he felt that life was hopeless and became dispirited. He fell into a bad crowd and picked up alcohol, drugs, gambling and other bad habits. He thoroughly became a rogue ruffian.

The locals always shake their heads in pity when someone mentions him.