11 The arrival of Yu Xiang (1/2)

”Get out.”

Those were the two words Jiao Yu spit out to the man in front of her.

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Jiao Yu and Jing Chu had only got inside their carriage and with no spare clothes found in the carriage, she told the young maid to buy a new one in the nearest dress shop she could get to, while she waits for her in the carriage.

With no disturbance, no eyes watching her and no evil cousin sisters beside her, Jiao Yu could finally relax her nerves. Stretching her legs and toes, taking off her outer clothing and veil.

”Why must I have to suffer time to time just after getting outside?”

Sighing, she could only blame her own fate given by the heavens. She'd been struck with misfortune ever since she was young, no scratch that, probably ever since she was born in this world.

Turning and twisting the thin silk in her hand, she found that she'd been extremely bored these past three years. The only thing that she could probably consider as 'fun' was reading books and playing with her daggers inside her courtyard but aside from that, there's nothing really. She could not consider being with Fan Zi Yi a 'fun' thing to do because every time she's with her, the only thing she feels, was worry about the innocent and stupid young female that resembles her past version.

Another wave of pain formed inside her head as she exasperatedly thought about the statement Liu Sheng Xiao gave away.

As Jiao Yu's mind was preoccupied, she did not notice the curtain of her carriage was lifted and a man in dark blue moved inside.

The man just got in and briefly stills as he stops midway inside, he was about to leave undetected but as he moved outward, the young female's eyes focused on him.

The appearance of the young female inside the carriage was outstanding maybe even exceptional from all the ladies he had seen and that surprised him a tiny bit, but it did no more effect on him as he did not really care about the appearance of anyone as it was only a useless thing to possess.

He saw and have met different kinds of women, trying to use their beauty to seduce, to get power and wealth. And because his father won't just shut up and made him meet all the girls he liked to Yu Jie Xing, he could only try to be cordial and show some patience towards his old man.

That's why Yu Jie Xing thinks that women who have outstanding appearance is a double edge sword; useless but dangerous.

”I apologize for entering, I was looking for a squirrel and saw it came here but I did not know this carriage was already occupied, please excuse me.” The Yu Jie Xing casually said as he starts to inspect the carriage with his eyes and seeing that there was nothing, he promptly turned to leave without waiting for her to react or speak.

Seconds passed and the young female sat inside the carriage stared at the closed curtain, flabbergasted.

'...What did just happend??..... A squirrel?' Jiao Yu could not believe what she just heard and it took her some time to register what was spoken.

After the carriage curtain was lifted and slowly falling again, covering the insides of the carriage from the outside, Jiao Yu stared at the closed curtain in disbelief.Moments later, she heard two voices speaking softly outside.

Something suddenly registered in Jiao Yu's mind as she remembered that when the man came inside her carriage, she had not wore the veil on her face since and only lifted the thin silk once she found out that she was not alone.

Jiao Yu gathered her dress skirt and lifted the corner of the curtain as she called after the man. ”Wait!”

The man did not stop and just continued to walk away with an older man she recognized from the main hall, seemingly not heard her calling after him. The older male, the man who had been beside the qinwang this whole time looked at her way suspiciously and said something to Yu Jie Xing , then turned his head away.

With clenched fist, Jiao Yu reluctantly closed the curtain and sat back to her seat. After some time, Jing Chu arrived with nothing on her hand. The young maid wasn't able to buy a dress anywhere near the vicinity as there was no dress shop near the qinwang's fu and she can't go back to the Liu fu to get some clothes for her young miss because it would take her an hour and a half before she could reach the Liu fu and another hour and a half to get back to the qinwang's fu.

”Young Lady, what should we do? We can't go back inside with young lady's dress like this.” Jing Chu worriedly said.

”If there's none, then there's none. What can we do? We should just wait for father to come.” Jiao Yu sighed.

Few hours later, people slowly came out of the qinwang's fu and went to their own carriages, palanquins and horses. On a horseback, Liu Sheng xiao who was also one of the first people that came out of the front gate peeked inside Jiao Yu's carriage.