Chapter 437 (2/2)

”My wish is very simple. You were the one that misunderstood.” Nie Sangyu sighed as she used the last of her strength to replay the scene she had shown her at the beginning.

In a quiet room, Nie Sangyu reached out and put a cloak embroidered with cedar trees on Marquis Moyu. Marquis Moyu raised his head. His eyes were full of gentleness.

She understood the reasoning, but what exactly was her wish? Ji Man felt as if she was going to be driven mad trying to figure this out. She repeatedly asked Nie Sangyu, but there was no response.

The original scene had disappeared, and it was replaced with Nie Sangyu's voice. She sounded like a bashful and hopeful young girl when she handed over an item.

”This servant spent a long time embroidering this cloak. Doesn't these cedar trees look lifelike? If you wear it, it'll be especially warm. You won't have to worry even if it's snowing outside... And, this servant gave offerings to Yuelao Temple to bless this cloak. It represents my feelings. The other visiting madams and girls all praised my handiwork.”

”I don't need it.” Someone ruthlessly pushed the cloak away. ”Nie Sangyu, explain to me, why did you hit Ling-er's servant girl?”

...

Ji Man came to mental halt. Something seemed to flash through her mind.

Nie Sangyu said her wish was very simple. Could it be... she only wanted Ning Yuxuan to wear that cloak? The cloak that represented her young heart, the cloak that she had spent a long time embroidering.

She couldn't understand the thought process of women from ancient times. What if that really was her wish? When Ji Man returned to her senses, she struggled against the constable and wanted to go to Feiwan Courtyard to find that cloak.

”Take her away!”

She was securely detained by the constable behind her, and he started pressing her forward and out of the marquis's estate.

A homicide case had just occurred. Why would they allow her to go back to look for a cloak? Ji Man panicked. She had finally solved the mystery. It couldn't be that she was going to be taken further way from the way back home, right?

”Yuxuan! Ning Yuxuan!” She couldn't help shouting. This was the first time that she lost her self-control to this extent.

However, Marquis Moyu turned a deaf ear to the outside noises. Instead, he continued quietly talking with Liu Hanyun. It was only when Ji Man had been brought to the local jail and was left kneeling in a hall, that Ning Yuxuan pulled up Liu Hanyun's quilt to tuck her in and went out to ask what had happened.

Outside, Chunpi, who didn't know any better, straightforwardly answered, ”They said that Miss Nie killed Mistress Wen. Jing Zhaoyin came to the estate and brought Miss Nie to the local jail.

Wen Wan was dead? After receiving this shock, it took a long time before Ning Yuxuan finally recovered enough to ask, ”Where... is she?”

”The local jail.” Chunpi thought he was asking about Nie Sangyu.

Ning Yuxuan took a deep breath and asked again, ”I was asking you, where is Wan-er's corpse?”

Chunpi lowered her head and answered, ”Qiangwei Courtyard.”

Wen Wan was someone that he had once doted upon in every sort of way and entered his estate in a red wedding dress. But now, in the end, she had tragically died in Qiangwei Courtyard. Her eyes weren't even closed.

Translator Ramblings: I think if Ji Man had maintained her original relations.h.i.+p with Liu Hanyun, Chunpi wouldn't have stopped her from going into Liu Hanyun's room, and she wouldn't have ended up locked up in jail. I like that Ji Man has the self-awareness to realize that she is the other woman right now and the messiness of Ning Yuxuan's relations.h.i.+ps that can't be easily solved by Ning Yuxuan abandoning everything and running off into the sunset with Ji Man and Haohao.

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