Chapter 257 (1/2)

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t.i.tle: The Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir

Chapter 257 - I'm a natural tsundere (2)

Ji Man stroked Big Meow's fur. Her smile seemed a bit melancholy.

Big Meow looked at her, sweetly rubbed against her hand, and let out a meow.

”This cat looks pretty similar to the cats from where I come from,” said the voice behind her. She didn't have to turn around to know that it was Xis.h.i.+.

Ji Man turned her head. Xis.h.i.+ was currently holding Haohao. With a grin, she said, ”I didn't expect that Madam would raise such an ordinary cat. Back home, everyone said that the cats raised by rich families had very long fur and eye colors that didn't match the other one.”

”I'm just raising it because I want to,” Ji Man simply responded. She looked behind Xis.h.i.+. It seemed that Dengxin had left to do something, so that was why she hadn't announced there was someone that wanted to see her. And Xis.h.i.+ had just casually entered Feiwan Courtyard's backyard while holding her baby.

”It's cold out. Be careful that Haohao doesn't get sick. Let's go inside,” Ji Man said.

Xis.h.i.+ uttered a sound of a.s.sent and went into the main room. As soon as she sat down, she casually put Haohao down on Nie Sangyu's bed and stretched her hands towards the brazier to warm herself up.

”Its so much colder here than where I come from. The falling snowflakes are so big here.” Xis.h.i.+ sniffled and said, ”It's only the rooms that are so warm that it feels like summer.”

Ji Man sat down on the other side. A servant girl brought over hot tea, and they saw Xis.h.i.+ treating this place like an outdoor tea stall. She removed the lid on the teacup and slurped a mouthful from the teacup like she was drinking soup from a bowl. After that, she exhaled a warm breath of air.

Ji Man couldn't resist laughing. Right now, Xis.h.i.+'s manner reminded of herself when she had been a dog-tired college student. Every day, after she returned to her dorm, she would curl herself around her parabolic heater and hold a cup of hot tea as she s.h.i.+vered.

Hearing her laughing, Xis.h.i.+ felt somewhat embarra.s.sed and said, ”Madam, do you think I don't know any manners either?”

”No.” Ji Man shook her head. ”I wasn't laughing at you. I was just remembering something from the past and thought it was funny.”

Xis.h.i.+ pursed her lips and said, ”It's no big deal if you're laughing at me. I've already gotten used to being laughed at. Back when I was in my village, everyone would be laughing at me to my face. Now that I'm here, there are a lot of people laughing at me behind my back. If I was bothered by something like this, I would have given up on living a long time ago.”

She was certainly open-minded and magnanimous.

Ji Man had also originally thought Xis.h.i.+'s manners were too crude. But after hearing these words, she felt closer to her.

”How did you meet the marquis?”

Feeling nice and toasty now, Xis.h.i.+ brightly smiled as she said, ”I'm from a small fis.h.i.+ng village. After my husband died, everyone was always pus.h.i.+ng me and blaming me. The marquis happened to pa.s.s by my small village and...” After saying to this point, realizing that it wasn't okay to continue, Xis.h.i.+ hurriedly said, ”Bah. The marquis doesn't want me to bring up that old story.”

Ji Man was stunned. Xis.h.i.+ had been a widow? Ning Yuxuan's taste was certainly heavy enough, ah. Didn't all men from ancient times have a virgin complex? He was actually able to do that with a widow...