Chapter 600 - Meet an Old Acquaintance (1/2)

However, she didn’t get the good marriage she expected! She was old enough to get married but hadn’t even got engaged. Because Shao Yanru hadn’t got engaged as the eldest Miss of Duke Xing’s Mansion, she couldn’t get engaged either.

The reason made sense, unless Qi Rongzhi’s biological parents found a match for her. However, Magistrate Qi was far away in Jiangzhou. Besides, even if he came to the capital city, there wouldn’t be many people willing to marry her, who was only the daughter of the magistrate of a remote place!

She closed her eyes tightly. When she opened them again, they became indifferent and gentle with the sadness fading away, which made her look just like Shao Yanru.

After spending a long time with Shao Yanru, she made some progress in manners.

“Miss, the Young Madam of Duke Yong’s Mansion is here!” Chunyi came in and reported.

“Please come in, Sister Yuru!” Qi Rongzhi said with a smile, stood up, and went out to greet her.

When the door of the private room was opened, Qin Yuru was standing outside the room. When she saw Qin Yuru in front of her, Qi Rongzhi was shocked by the lady in front of her although she had been prepared.

Was it Qin Yuru?

In the past, Qin Yuru had been lively and charming. She and Qi Rongzhi used to be known as two beauties when they were in Jiangzhou, and she was beloved by Qi Tianyu at that time. Thus, she had been an exceptional beauty and lived well in Jiangzhou. However, if Qi Rongzhi passed the lady in front of her on the street, she didn’t think she could recognize that the lady was Qin Yuru, who had grown up with her.

Qin Yuru was so thin that she was almost out of shape. Even her hair was dry and gray. Although her dark hair was done in a very gorgeous bun, it was just like a wooden framework without the vitality and freshness she used to have. Her eyes looked gray and gloomy and made Qi Rongzhi feel inexplicably cold when she looked at Qi Rongzhi.

She seemed to be ten years older than her actual age and looked like a woman lady in her thirties.

“Sister Yuru… you…” Qi Rongzhi said without feigning the astonishment on her face. In the past three years, she had never met Qin Yuru and didn’t expect that Qin Yuru had become like this.

“What’s wrong? You can’t recognize me?” Qin Yuru asked coldly with a sarcastic smile.

“No… it’s impossible. I just didn’t expect that…” Qi Rongzhi said, reached out to hold Qin Yuru’s hand intimately, led her into the private room, and sat down.

She picked up the teapot beside her, poured a cup of water, pushed it to Qin Yuru, and said, “Sister Yuru, since you married into your maternal grandma’s mansion, why do you become so thin? Are you sick?”

Both her appearance and mental state seemed to be completely different. She had changed so much that Qi Rongzhi was still astonished and even involuntarily asked the question in her mind.

“I’m fine. Tell me, what do you want from me?” Qin Yuru looked at her coldly and asked bluntly.

“Sister Yuru, I’m here to see you today!” With a gentle sigh, Qi Rongzhi said and became gloomy, “Think of our lives when we were in Jiangzhou and look at our lives now. If I had known that I would end up like this, I wouldn’t have come to the capital with your Qin’s Mansion. Although Jiangzhou is a small place, I can marry a handsome and promising man!”

After that, she picked up the teacup beside her and took a sip with a bitter smile on her face.

“Haven’t you got engaged?” Qin Yuru asked with a sarcastic smile.

“No, and I don’t know when I can get engaged. Since the First Miss hasn’t got engaged, it’s impossible for us to get engaged as younger sisters!” Qi Rongzhi said and then gave an order to Chunyi beside her, “Go to the opposite restaurant to buy two pots of wine. It’s a rare opportunity to meet sister Yuru again today. Since we have the same misfortune, let’s have a drink and get drunk in secret as we did before!”

Chunyi replied and left.

Moved by Qi Rongzhi’s expression and words, Qin Yuru looked a little better, didn’t refuse, just glanced at her and said, “It’s reasonable that you are not allowed to get married. But are you not allowed to get engaged either? Well, the rules of Duke Xing’s Mansion are quite harsh!”

“It’s not true. It’s just that no one cares about this kind of thing. The First Miss has been occupied with her own business, so no one cares about this kind of thing!” As Qi Rongzhi said, she substituted tea for wine and raised her cup to take a big sip, “They won’t have the time to arrange a marriage for me, an adopted Miss, before their biological daughter’s marriage is settled!”

“Weren’t you very complacent about being a member of Duke Xing’s Mansion at that time?” Seeing Qi Rongzhi’s frustrated look, Qin Yuru felt her anger worked off and said.

“At that time, I was ignorant and thought that I could get a good marriage after entering Duke Xing’s Mansion. But now I wish I had never gone there. In this case, at least I could maintain a clean reputation.” As Qi Rongzhi said, she became increasingly sad with her eyes turning red, stood up, and bowed to Qin Yuru.

“If there were any rumors outside tarnishing your reputation, I would like to apologize to you here.”