Chapter 488 (2/2)

”No need.” Ji Man smiled. ”This one is hoping to get a touch of Sir Qian's good luck. It'll be better to clink cups. Perhaps, this one will be as lucky as Sir Qian and marry a good woman like your honorable wife.”

Good luck? Qian Yingchen raised his eyebrows. Was is it good luck to marry a chubby girl?

Please, back then, he had been the victim. He was forced into a relations.h.i.+p with Zhu Yurun. No matter what perspective you were looking at, between the two of them, it was Zhu Yurun that had the better luck.

Seeing his disapproving face, Ji Man snorted. ”Sir Qian, you overcame calamity because of your face. It was with the help of your wife that you were able to peacefully become an official in the capital, so it was naturally your good luck to have married her.”

There was a hidden meaning in those words. Qian Yingchen slightly furrowed his brow.

Ning Yuxuan put down his cup. Looking at Ji Man, he asked, ”What do you want to say?”

The group of people stopped their drinking, and many people perked up their ears. Ji Man stood up and said, ”The moonlight looks very good out on the balcony. Sir Qian, care to go over there and take a look with this one?”

Qian Yingchen hesitated for a moment before nodding. Ning Yuxuan naturally stood up and followed after them.

”Sir Qian, do you still remember Xu Province's senior official's son?” Ji Man asked.

Qian Yingchen nodded. He chuckled and said, ”Of course this one remembers.  He's just an arrogant second-generation. He even repeatedly tried to stop me from returning to the capital.”

”It's only recently that I found out that second-generation has done many misdeeds.” Ji Man rapped her knuckles on the railing. ”For example, he drugged you. He wanted you to force a.s.sistant Minister Zhu's daughter to sleep with you, so that you wouldn't be able to come to the capital.”

The smile on Qian Yingchen's slowly faded away.

”Why are you saying this?”

”I found this out from hearing idle gossip.” Ji Man shrugged. ”Originally, seeing that your relations.h.i.+p with Yurun is going well, I thought there was no reason for me to say this aloud. Who would have thought you would haven't the slightest feeling of grat.i.tude? You act as if she owes you something. That's why I won't keep my mouth shut this time.”

She had heard these words from Zhuer. Zhu Yurun was too stupid and hadn't realized the value in explaining the truth back then. Later on, there was no longer any reason to explain, so that incident had become a misunderstand that couldn't be resolved.

Zhu Yurun had wanted to save him and had stupidly given up her innocent reputation. As a result, she had been misunderstood for a long time. She really was hopelessly stupid.

Qian Yingchen was silent for a time. He lowered his eyes and said, ”Impossible.”

How could this be possible? If that second-generation had harmed him, why had he woken up the next day and found traces of the drug in Zhu Yurun's room? And, why had Zhu Yurun told a different story?

”It's not impossible.” Ji Man quietly said, ”It's only that Sir Qian truly has very good luck in meeting such a big fool. It was only her first time meeting you, but she believed in love at first sight. For you, she didn't even care about her reputation. In order to preserve your future prospects, she would rather be misunderstood.”

After saying this, Ji Man couldn't resist covering her face. ”Really, this a whole new level of stupidity. She never considered that the probability of a happy future with you would be unlikely.”