These are the Kinds of Morals He was Born With!
Hua Qingqing seemed to be stunned by this question. She was frozen to the spot, and didn’t know how to respond.
Hua Manman raised the corners of her red lips and smiled contemptuously.
“Do you know why Song Ding doesn’t like you?”
He said that you put on a dignified air, all day every day, like a rigid and stony wooden doll, you’re too boring.
What he actually likes is someone like me, who can make him feel excited…”
The more Hua Qingqing listened, the more uncomfortable she became, until she couldn’t help but interrupt:
“Stop talking!”
Hua Manman ignored her denial and continued to speak complacently:
“Honestly, he’s right.
You’re a self-proclaimed well-bred young lady, and you think that men must all love someone like you.
Little do you know that while they praised you for your dignity and generosity on the surface, they actually disliked you in their hearts.
Yet you still don’t realize anything. Aren’t you stupid?”
Hua Qingqing covered her ears: “I told you to stop talking!”
Hua Manman pulled away the hands covering Hua Qingqing’s ears, not giving her a chance to avoid anything.
“I need to say it!
You’ve been doted on by Grandmother ever since you were a child, and Father is especially partial to you. Even outsiders will have a higher opinion of you, as the child of the original wife.
Whereas I will always only be seen as your foil.
Why? Where am I lacking compared to you? Why should I be reduced to your foil?
I refuse to believe in this unfairness!
So what if Song Ding is your fiancé? Didn’t he get seduced by me in the end?
And in the end, you can only become a poor abandoned woman who no one wants!”
“Shut up!” Hua Qingqing shouted angrily. She couldn’t bear it anymore, and she raised a hand to slap Hua Manman in the face!
However, Hua Manman reacted faster than her.
Hua Manman grabbed her wrist with one hand, immediately raised her other hand, and slapped her across the face hard!
A crisp sound rang out.
Hua Qingqing was slapped so hard that her head was turned away.
Her originally fair and delicate cheek had immediately turned red and swollen.
She was completely stunned by this slap, and she stood there for a long time without turning back around.
A system notification prompted in Hua Manman’s ears:
[The host has completed an important plot-related task!]
She withdrew her somewhat numb hand, shook away Hua Qingqing’s wrist forcefully, and said with a sneer:
“Would hitting me do anything?
Your man is the one who can’t control himself. Even if you beat me to death, it’s useless.
If I can easily seduce him, then so can other women.
These are just the kinds of morals that he was born with!
Unless you can stuff him back in the womb and remake him, it’s impossible for him to change!”
Hua Qingqing felt a burning pain lingering on her cheek.
But what embarrassed her the most is what Hua Manman said.
She couldn’t stop her eyes from turning red, and soon big tears were rolling down her cheeks.
As if Hua Manman couldn’t bear it anymore, she took out a silk handkerchief, threw it hard onto Hua Qingqing’s body, and cursed angrily:
“What are you crying for? If crying was remotely useful, there wouldn’t be so much injustice in the world.
Hurry up and wipe away your tears, otherwise other people will see it and think I’m bullying you.”
Hua Qingqing covered her face with the silk handkerchief, her sobs growing louder and louder.
“Wuwuwu, how could he be like this? I don’t believe it, I can’t believe it.”
After all, this was the person that she was just a fingertip’s breadth away from being married to. The two grew up together as childhood sweethearts, and she honestly had a hard time accepting that Song Ding was this kind of person.
She thought that the two of them would be able to grow old together, and live as a loving couple for the rest of their lives.
Hua Manman snorted: “Anyway, I’ve said what I needed to say. Whether you believe it or not is up to you!”
After she finished speaking, she turned around and walked out of the octagonal pavilion, making her way down the mountain along the stairs.
But once she made it to the foot of the mountain she saw His Highness Zhao-wang.
Even he didn’t know how long he had been waiting there for, and there was a dragonfly resting on his shoulder.
When Hua Manman walked over, the little dragonfly fluttered its wings and flew away in a zigzag.
Hua Manman stood there, and Li Ji sat there.
Their two pairs of eyes met.
Silence.
For Cambridge this evening is silent1.
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Notes
- “Cambridge is silent tonight” = a line from the poem “Taking Leave of Cambridge Again” written by Xu Zhimo. He’s famous for combining traditional Chinese poetry with Western literary influences, and this poem is famous for beautifully painting a picture of English nature to Chinese audiences that hadn’t gone to England before. The poem’s tone is somber, with the quiet melancholy of someone knowing that they’re seeing a scenery for the last time. The author is mentioning this sarcastically this chapter.
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