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Liu Family Second Young Master (2)
T/N: Translated by Jen on Broken Jinsei! Please do not repost my translations! All translations outside of Broken Jinsei are stolen and reposted without permission!
Shen Lan Chi: ……
Liu second young master, you should update your information. That’s old news from five hundred years ago before Sun Wukong was born[1].
Liu Wen naturally didn’t know that Shen Lan Chi was inwardly complaining about him, still talking to Liu Ru Yan non-stop on his own, “Never mind this Shen Lan Chi bullying you here, even if running into the Shen family in the streets, I would also feel that the capital city has become a lot more stuffy, very suffocating!”
Hearing him mock like this, Shen Lan Chi was somewhat unable to hold back. She lifted her brow and said, “Our Shen family from top to bottom has that many people, to actually not have Liu second young master suffocated to death, really a shame.”
“You!” Liu Wen got jabbed by her, instantly exposing an angry look. Taking a moment to compose himself, he put away his folding fan and said, “Fine, in this capital city, only your Shen family dares to go against me, Liu Wen.” After saying this, he turned towards Liu Ru Yan, shouting, “Ru Yan, in the future, not allowed to have dealings with this pesky girl from the Shen family, understand?”
Liu Ru Yan, however, ignored him, just propping up her cheek and saying in annoyance, “Second brother, you’re even trying to discipline me? First have those romantics debts on you sorted out first.”
Liu Wen came from a wealthy family, ranking second in the family, having always enjoyed a life of luxury. Liu Wen had an exceptionally talented elder brother above him to inherit the family, so he didn’t have any heavy load on his shoulders. As a result, he developed some bad habits. However, his guts were small, and also scared of getting punished by his father, mother, and older brother, so even if doing something bad, he didn’t dare to do anything big, just daring to visit some brothels and be witty with his mouth. Compared to Shen Ting Zhu, this kind of true wastrel, he was merely a little shaman in front of a big shaman.
Liu Wen didn’t put in effort normally, so in front of his parents and family, he was somewhat lacking in confidence. Towards him, Liu Ru Yan also didn’t have the same level of respect as with their eldest brother, Liu Yu. In this moment, getting scolded by his own younger sister in front of someone from the Shen family, Liu Wen instantly felt somewhat embarrassed, his chest filling with a nameless fire, wanting to find a place to vent it.
His eyeballs turned, catching a glance of the mud stains on his clothes and immediately saying, “Shen family brat, that foot of yours just now had the mud all splashed onto my clothes. Do you know how expensive of a bolt of fabric is used to make this young master’s clothes? Can you afford to compensate?”
As soon as he put on a mean look, he just heard Liu Ru Yan’s voice to the side, “Second brother, wake up, would the Shen family not be able to afford a bolt of fabric of yours?”
Liu Wen blanked for a moment, then adamantly said, “How can they afford to compensate it! How expensive my clothes are, Ru Yan, it-it’s not like you don’t know!” After saying this, Liu Wen looked towards Shen Lan Chi and laughed in a smug manner, “If she can’t afford it, then she will need to use herself as compensation.”
“Ru Yan will compensate you, alright?” Liu Ru Yan said, “Today, Shen second miss is my guest. You giving her a hard time like this, what kind of position will that put me in?”
“Fine, fine.” Shen Lan Chi said, “It’s merely an outfit. I’ll just practice ‘proper reciprocity’ with Liu second young master.”
When Liu Wen heard, he said, “So, are you planning on compensating me with money, or have yourself given to me as compensation?”
“Liu second young master didn’t hear clearly? I said ‘proper reciprocity’.” After saying this, Shen Lan Chi lifted her foot and actually let her embroidered shoe step into a puddle of dirty water, splashing filth onto her own clothes. However, her clothes weren’t expensive, so she didn’t care in the slightest.
“See? This is Liu second young master’s handiwork.” Shen Lan Chi pointed to the mud stains on her clothes, slowly saying, “Liu second young master, do you know how much this outfit of mine cost? Among the noble daughters of the capital, I’m the only one wearing this inconspicuous outfit. What this means, don’t need me to say, right?”
She wasn’t lying. Among the noble daughters of the capital, she was indeed the only one that dressed this plainly.
Liu Wen blanked for a moment and said, “You! You liar! This is clearly your own handiwork!”
TN: All translations outside of Broken Jinsei are stolen and reposted without permission!
“Liu second young master refuses to acknowledge?” Shen Lan Chi said, “If you say that this mud stain is my own handiwork, then on Liu second young master’s clothes, presumably, it’s also your own handiwork!”
“You…..you…..” Liu Wen ended up with a bright red face. In the end, with a sinister smile, he opened his folding fan with a ‘whoosh’, waving it as he said, “Sharp-tongued, never giving others an advantage, what an impressive Shen Lan Chi, watch me tell my elder brother, and make you pay for it!”
To the side, Liu Ru Yan sighed and said, “How old are you, still using this move, are you not afraid of embarrassing elder brother?”
Liu Wen blanked again.
This time, there was a bit of grievance in his voice. He stiffened his neck as the veins protruded, shouting, “That won’t do, this damn girl from the Shen family, don’t even think about leaving scott-free today! Didn’t mother say, the people of the Shen family, not a single one is a good thing, each and every one all full of bad intentions. The one that pushed Ru Yan into the water previously, wasn’t it precisely a young miss of the Shen family? Was it this pesky girl?!”
After saying this, he just went up to grab Shen Lan Chi’s collar.
But, just as he was about to touch Shen Lan Chi, he suddenly got his wrist tightly grapsed by someone. The person grasping Liu Wen was extremely strong, forcing Liu Wen to be unable to advance nor pull back, his face turning red like a pig.
Liu Wen lifted his head and saw a tall young man standing in front of Shen Lan Chi. His lips were tightly pressed together as he carried a blank expression. His phoenix eyes were slightly raised, filled with a chilliness that really made one nervous.
Turns out, Lu Qi Yang who had been watching on the sidelines the whole time had reached out to block Liu Wen.
Liu Wen naturally recognized Lu Qi Yang——–Among the idle wastrels of the capital, who didn’t recognize Lu Qi Yang? Winning against Lu Qi Yang in the gambling houses, or losing to Lu Qi Yang in a bid, those were the most common occurrences.
“Let……let go!” Liu Wen squeezed out this line from the cracks of his teeth, “You’re hurting me!”
However, Lu Qi Yang was unwilling to let go, instead restraining him and having him brought even further away as he said, “Getting physical with a woman isn’t the proper behavior of a gentleman.”
“B-Behavior of a gentleman?” Liu Wen grimaced in pain as he shouted, “Heir, you’re not the least bit embarrassed mentioning the ‘behavior of a gentleman’ with me?”
This Lu Qi Yang was the least gentleman-like young master!
“Oh? Liu second young master means that this young master isn’t gentleman enough?” Lu Qi Yang loosened his grip, a smile appearing on his face, “Alright then, I’ll just be a ‘gentleman’ today. Liu second young master, why don’t you lower your head, look at what’s on the hem of this young master’s clothes.”
When Liu Wen heard, he lowered his head, seeing a patch of mud stains on the hem of the heir’s clothes that were wrapped in gold threads.
Liu Wen suddenly had a bad premonition inside.
“This is Liu second young master’s handiwork.” Lu Qi Yang sneered and said, “This young master’s clothes, can you afford to compensate?”
Can you afford to compensate?
Afford to compensate?
Can you?
?
Liu Wen was like having gotten smacked in the head by a wooden bat, his body instantly stiffening.
This heir of the Zhennan Wang family has always been extravagant, randomly throwing out a thousand gold in one throw, truly the number one wastrel. His clothes, how can he afford to compensate? If this gets brought before his elder brother, then he will most likely get reprimanded again……..
Thinking of his elder brother Liu Yu, Liu Wen immediately became nervous.
Right at this time, they suddenly heard a deep and steady voice.
“Second brother, are you giving others trouble again?”
Shen Lan Chi lifted her head and saw a horse stopped outside the tea stall. Riding on the horse was a young man in a blue robe and jade crown.
The snow had already stopped, so he didn’t have snow on him. Don’t know if it’s because of the cold winter wind, his cheeks penetrated with a bit of a sickly pale color. In addition to his face being thin to begin with, he was like a thin bamboo, seemingly as if he would get crushed by the snow if it was heavier.
It was the Liu family’s eldest young master, Liu Yu.
As soon as Liu Wen saw Liu Yu, he immediately straightened up, smilingly saying, “How can that be? Elder brother, I just…..just came out with Ru Yan to drink tea.”
Shen Lan Chi didn’t want to let go of this opportunity to let Liu Wen be out of luck, immediately saying, “Liu second young master soiled his clothes on his own, yet insists on letting this young miss take the blame, wanting me to give myself to him as compensation.”
When Liu Yu heard, his brows slightly furrowed.
He let go of the reins and jumped down from the horse. The attendant to the side hurriedly went forward, removing the white fur cloak on him.
“My younger brother was mannerless, having greatly offended miss, hope that Miss Shen can forgive him.” Liu Yu descended the horse and cupped his fist as he bowed, saying, “On another day, Yu will send someone to have the apology gifts sent to the An Duke Manor. Hope that Miss Shen will forgive my younger brother for his mistakes.”
Before he even finished speaking, he just slightly coughed.
Hearing his cough, Shen Lan Chi said, “Forget it, merely just messing around for fun. Just let Liu second young master not give me trouble in the future. Having gotten my mood spoiled by Liu second young master today, I don’t want to drink tea anymore, so will be leaving now.”
After saying this, she got on the horse carriage, letting the coachman continue on.
Seeing this, Lu Qi Yang also got on the horse.
After walking for a while, Lu Qi Yang turned back, gazing at that Liu Yu standing under the eaves, who seemingly was about to blend into the snow.
• • •
Inside the horse carriage, Shen Ting Yuan was a bit embarrassed, saying to Shen Lan Chi, “Younger sister, thank you for today.”
Recalling how the Liu family constantly say ‘not a single on in the Shen family is a good thing’, Shen Ting Yuan fell silent. A long while later, he gazed out the window and said with a sigh, “If only I’m not from the Shen family, and she’s also not a daughter of the Liu family, how great would that be.”
Shen Lan Chi didn’t answer, also feeling a bit helpless inside.
Hearing the words from Liu number two’s mouth, afraid the entire Liu family all hate the Shen family. To want to help her older brother marry that Liu Ru Yan, it really will be very difficult.
“Oh right, big brother, can you help me solve a riddle? You’re much smarter than me, so certainly can guess what this is.” Shen Lan Chi suddenly recalled the birthday present that Lu Qi Yang wanted, thus asked, “It’s the national heirloom passed down by Ji Hou, more than enough to make the noblemen among the flowers to be missing one, also floating full of Ji Kang’s algae. What do you think this is?”
Shen Ting Yuan blanked for a moment, then carefully pondered for while before saying, “The Ji surname, after several twists and turns, became the ‘Shen’ surname. The noblemen among flowers, that is just one of ‘plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum’. Ji Kang’s algae, that is one of Ji Kang’s four word poem, which is ‘The orchid pond (Lan Chi) floats full of algae, the harmony bright and vibrant; Slowly playing the harp, wandering around the world’. The answer to the riddle is ‘Shen Lan Chi’. Younger sister, are you deliberately trying to cheer me up?”
Shen Lan Chi blanked.
The answer to the riddle was her?
Lu Qi Yang didn’t want to raise a pot of orchid at home. This was wanting to raise a pot of Lan Lan at home.
[1] Means from ages ago, but expressed in an exaggerated manner.
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I’m so disappointed in myself, it was so obvious 😂
no….how was I right??? and I thought myself out of it! didn’t he say it’s not time yet!!!! making me think I was overthinking with my mind in the gutter 😔 I am distraught and inconsolable. the only thing that will raise my spirits is to see SLC and LQY get married immediately 😭
It’s really a silly riddle 😂, but tbh they are already so scandalous, getting married is just icing on the cake.