Second Marriage

Chapter 1.2

Translator: tarararawr

Chapter 1 Part 2

“Let go! Since I have nothing to do with your Li Family, it’s not your Li Family’s turn to worry about where I go! ”

She flung around desperately, but the pozi’s hands were like iron clamps. These hands were not something that she, a pampered girl who grew up in a boudoir, could shake off and they held her down firmly.

Her wrists were twisted and her body had also become a twisted arc. She felt pain from her joints. Xiao Youning did not want to show any traces of timidity in front of the person who humiliated her, but now she couldn’t control her tears from flowing out.

“Let me go!” She struggled and her eyes blurred.

Madam Li raised her chin slightly and looked at her with a victorious attitude.

She’s a little silly girl. No matter how calm and sharp her words were on the surface, she was nothing more than a paper tiger that would be shredded to pieces with one tear.

“—Mother!” Li Qingzhi, who had not spoken the entire time, finally looked up and happened to see her stream of tears falling.

Xiao Youning had the bearing of a flower and a face like the moon. She had a pair of peach blossom eyes that would always shine with affection when looking at people. Even when she was weeping, one would feel pity upon seeing her.

In the end, Li Qingzhi was moved by compassion and said to his mother in a deliberative tone, “Mother, let’s explain things to her properly. She is a sensible person and will certainly understand our troubles.”

“Ah—” The mother and son were speaking when a pozi cried out in pain, “You little wench biting people! Quickly, quickly grab her!”

It turned out that Xiao Youning had opened her mouth and fiercely bit the pozi closest to her. She put all of her strength into the bite with hatred. Blood appeared from the bite and it frightened the other women that they released their hands. She turned around and shouted when she ran out.

“You are all useless!”

Madam Li was infuriated by the sloppiness of the pozi and had no time to care for her son. She pointed at them and angrily snapped at them to quickly catch Xiao Youning.

But when they tried to pounce on Xiao Youning again, they froze in place out of fear of the candlestick held in her hand.

After Xiao Youning struggled to free herself from those servant women, she rushed to the long table close to the bed. She grabbed the candlestick from the table and tightly held it without any hesitation.

The candle’s light made her eyes shine even brighter.

She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and held the candlestick deliberately close to the open frame screen1. Her eyes were still misty turned to look at them. Her hatred and anger turned into provocation and she said, “Come on.”

As she said that, she also used the tip of the candle to lift a strip of hanging silk from the open frame screen. Everyone was alarmed and stared in horror at the place where the candle flame blackened and gave off a black smoke.

“Youning, Ningning, calm down. Mother has no other meaning. The Xiao Family has been sealed by the Embroidered Uniform Guard2. She fears that you will have no other place to stay when you leave the Li Family.”

Li Qingzhi stretched out his hands and nervously soothed her with his words.

Xiao Youning laughed when she heard him. “Li Qingzhi, do you believe it? Do you believe your own words?”

In her memories, the young man would rather fall off his horse and jump over to protect her; and the young man broke his leg and gave a perfect smile while saying it didn’t hurt; these merely were illusions!

Li Qingzhi’s handsome face turned deathly white. His lips were trembling, but after a long time he did not say another word.

“If you don’t believe it yourself, then why did you bother to lie to me?! She raised her hand higher and saw the jade bracelet on her wrist.

This was her mother’s relic.

Her father told her that this was a gift from her grandmother when her mother got married; and her father told her that her mother’s greatest regret was that she could not see her grow up and see marry her.

Now that she was actually married…Xiao Youning felt a sad pain in her heart. Tears blurred her sight again, but her gaze was still firm.

It was summer now, and the room was decorated with light silk and muslin. They were swept away by the flame when she raised it higher. It easily burned the material in a second like a fiery dragon descending.

The open frame screen was ignited with a roar.

The hot wave hit everyone’s faces and made their skin feel like it was burning. The pozi were frightened and shouted for water.

Someone went to pull the shrieking Madam Li away. Li Qingzhi was scared by the flames and retreated a few steps back.

Xiao Youning lit one side of the open frame screen and raised her hand to ignite the other side. She turned and looked at the people running out of the room with a sneer.