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Moron, Surrounded By a Pack of Wolves (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!
“Now that Luo Old Madam mentioned it, this prince actually recalls as well. Li Ru Yu, this prince, at the time, seemingly told you to shut yourself in for three months to learn etiquette. Coming out this soon, this is having this prince’s words treated as the wind by your ear?” Li Hong Yuan somewhat chillingly opened his mouth.
Li Ru Yu practically trembled on instinct, shrinking into a ball.
“Tsk, this sorry of a state, yet still considered a junzhu of the imperial family?” Li Hong Yuan’s words were very cold, and his tone contemptuous.
Le Cheng Emperor slanted this bastard son of his a glance. Actually, even now, he still didn’t understand, why did this bastard also show up to join in on this matter? “You shut up.”
Li Hong Yuan faintly shot a glance back at Le Cheng Emperor, then averted his line of sight. He can be considered to have left his old man some face, and didn’t open his mouth again.
“Just because of this, you threw in your own purity and schemed against Chen Zheng Min?” Le Cheng Emperor felt very speechless. Was this brain broken? Then looking again to Li Ru Yu’s expression…….heavens, it really was because of this.
Cheng Jun-wangfei, at first, also just thought that her daughter and the Luo family’s young miss had bad blood, or that she fell for Chen Zheng Min. After all, the servant girls by Li Ru Yu’s side were replaced frequently. The two servant girls that were present that day during the incident simply didn’t know the reason why, only knowing that Li Ru Yu wanted to scheme against someone. But in the end? Right now, she just wanted to pry open Li Ru Yu’s head and see what exactly she was thinking.
“Chen Zheng Min, do you have anything you want to say?”
“Your Majesty, can I ask junzhu a few questions?”
Le Cheng Emperor nodded.
Chen Zheng Min finally looked towards Li Ru Yu coldly, “Did you hear Scribe Sun personally say with his own mouth that he likes Luo third miss?”
Li Ru Yu dazedly shook her head.
“Did you hear or perhaps see them have contact in private?”
Li Ru Yu continued shaking her head.
“So, just because they both liked flowers, you just assumed that Scribe Sun will fall for her? And without her, Scribe Sun will sooner or later marry you?”
This time, Li Ru Yu first nodded, then shook her head, “My mother said, I forever won’t be able to marry big brother Lin. Since I can’t have my way, then why should Luo Jing Wan that fickle little slut be able to…………”
“Shut up!” Chen Zheng Min coldly opened his mouth. Afterwards he suddenly laughed, his laugh ice-cold. The onlookers could all feel that he wanted to reach out and strangle Li Ru Yu to death. However, because his rationality was still intact, this sort of thing didn’t happen. After all, harming someone from the imperial family was a serious crime. Chen Zheng Min originally was still thinking, whether it was someone who was peeping at younger cousin Wan that schemed against him, and the most likely person was precisely Sun Yi Lin, but from the looks of it, it seems he’d thought too much. “Junzhu, today I finally learned that there’s actually someone as stupid as you in this world. You did such a thing to scheme against me, but why didn’t you just directly scheme against Scribe Sun? If you succeed, won’t you be able to marry him just as you’d wished? What’s the point in scheming against me? Breaking apart younger cousin and I so that Scribe Sun will be able to get together with younger cousin? Turns out, for you, liking a person is such a selfless thing, throwing in yourself so as to let him find his true love?” Chen Zheng Min felt, for him to not strangle Li Ru Yu to death right now really wasn’t easy.
TN: All translations outside of Broken Jinsei are stolen and reposted without permission!
This time, Li Ru Yu thoroughly blanked. She seemingly finally realized that her actions not only didn’t relieve her anger, it might even……………how come she was this stupid?
As for the others, the same question appeared in all their minds: Heavens, how could this idiot be this stupid?
Actually, when Li Hong Yuan was planning to scheme against Chen Zheng Min, his final plan was to have Li Ru Yu and him stripped and thrown together, afterwards letting someone catch them red-handed. However, in order for there to be less trouble afterwards, they needed to have Li Ru Yu be acquainted with Chen Zheng Min first so that there would be an excuse to have this matter directly thrown onto Li Ru Yu. But in the end, this idiot was too easy. The people he sent changed the plan last minute, testing to see if it was possible to entice her to act on her own. Hehe, not only did she do it, she even went to the extreme. This kind of outcome really was unexpected. Thus, the people Li Hong Yuan sent just watched the matter smoothly develop.
Cheng Jun-wangfei looked to her absentminded daughter stupefied. This moron actually came from her? Could it be that after giving birth, she got swapped with someone else? If she really had the courage to go scheme against Sun Yi Lin, perhaps she would’ve even praised her, and afterwards, even if she had to go all out, she would still have her daughter married back to the Ding Duke Manor. But this moron………….
Cheng Junwang also sunk into a messy storm. He wanted to dig a hole and have himself buried.
Chen Zheng Min powerlessly touched his face.
“Chen Zheng Min…….”
“Your Majesty, since this humble subject got schemed against by such a moron, does it mean that this humble subject is also stupid beyond help?”
Le Cheng Emperor rather wanted to nod his head, but recalling Chen Zheng Min’s learning, and recalling the essay he wrote, if he really was an idiot, then under the heavens, there weren’t that many smart people. He dryly coughed once, “The saying goes, ‘people can lose their footing, and horses can take a wrong step’, you yourself probably would’ve never thought that such a thing would happen either. A moment of carelessness rather can be understood.”
“But, this humble subject and younger cousin have already cancelled the engagement.” A single slip becoming an everlasting regret!
How could Le Cheng Emperor not tell, this brat had deep rooted feelings towards Luo third miss. “Then, what do you want to do now?”
“Can this humble subject ask your Majesty to put Li Ru Yu to death? Can one ask your Majesty to bestow a marriage for this humble subject and younger cousin again?” Chen Zheng Min fixedly looked to Le Cheng Emperor.
Le Cheng Emperor was speechless. Did this even need to be said? He’s not a child anymore, so can’t he say something reliable?
Li Hong Yuan was even thinking just now, seeing that he was about to marry an idiot, just let bygones be bygones, and let him off the hook. But even at this time now, he(CZM) was actually still daring to have delusions about his(LHY) wife. If this can be tolerated, what can’t be?
“If not, then this subject will marry her.” Chen Zheng Min said, his expression extremely apathetic.
But everyone was all aware, after Li Ru Yu marries over, she definitely won’t have good days. As someone who’s destroyed someone else’s good marriage, you’re still counting on them to treat you well? Even daydreams didn’t have this kind of good thing.
“No, no, I don’t want to marry him.” No matter how slow Li Ru Yu was, she could still sense Chen Zheng Min’s hatred towards her. Even if she was a junzhu, he didn’t have the least bit of respect towards her. Marrying him, she definitely will have a miserable end.
“Saying this now, isn’t it a little too late?” Le Cheng Emperor coldly spoke, “When you’d decided to do such a shameless thing, why didn’t you properly think of the consequences? Don’t want to marry? Alright, either go become a nun, or ‘die of illness’. It just so happens that Chen Zheng Min doesn’t want to marry you either. If you die, all the troubles will be solved.”
Li Ru Yu immediately shut up.
This was precisely the so called ‘rather a bad life than a good death’. People from the imperial family going to become a monk or nun will be removed from the clan, and will be the same as an ordinary monk or nun. Moreover, there were specialized places for looking after them. Because prior to submitting to the buddhist life, they were from the imperial family, they were actually more likely to suffer abuse. Purely because those that looked after them were able to get pleasure from abusing the ‘high and noble’ them.
Were things over with just like this? No, of course not.
“Li Ru Yu, as a member of the imperial clan, enjoyed the honor of a junzhu, yet didn’t cultivate one’s moral character, nor cultivated one’s temperament, lacking in etiquette and decorum, hot-tempered, violent and impulsive, further not knowing shame, ruining one’s purity, damaging the junzhu name, causing the imperial clan to be humiliated. From today onward, shall be seized of the honorable junzhu position, and reduced to a commoner. Cheng Junwang…………..”
“No, your Majesty, your Majesty, you can’t do this, you can’t…….wuu………” Have to say, what Li Ru Yu cared about the most was naturally still her junzhu position. Should say, everyone whose status and position was less than hers, including Sun Yi Jia and such, were all lowly sluts. Just, because Sun Yi Jia and such weren’t people she could offend, that’s why she didn’t dare say it out loud. But now, she went from a junzhu to a commoner, turning into the lowly slut she spoke of. How could she bear it. Moreover, speaking from a certain angle, the status of the people from the imperial family that get demoted was actually even lower than normal commoners. The idea was actually all the same, trampling a once honorable person, how refreshing. In addition, Li Ru Yu’s evil reputation was already infamous to begin with. Then, in the future, she would only get stepped on even harder. Those that were once bullied by her will all think of ways to bully her back.
It’s not that no one can tell Le Cheng Emperor ‘no’, but that person definitely wasn’t Li Ru Yu. That’s why as soon as she opened her mouth, her mouth was directly stuffed by a palace maid from Kunyi Palace.
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I don’t remember laughing this hard because of a novel. Couldn’t go two lines without mocking, lmao or rolling my eyes. I mean, they cant even be roundabout about it or use euphemism… She’s just plain stupid. And she sinks lower every time she opens her mouth…. Her poor mother.
CZM asking the emperor if he was an idiot for being schemed by a braindead idiot was, honestly, the best part. I had to stop reading because i was laughing so hard i couldnt see straight XD.
Love the emperor wanting to say yes but couldnt because it would basically be saying everyone else is an idiot.
Isn’t an idiot suppose to be stupid? XD
Thanks for the update!
Well at this point after being demoted, she can only be married into the Chen family as a concubine now and you can bet Chen Zeng Min will make her wish she was dead….what an idiot she is .๐
Your majesty, there’s ‘someone’ actually worst than Li Ru Yu. And the culprit of this annoying situation you’re attending. ..and he’s even more than willing wholeheartedly to sell you in discount, just to have his dream wife.
๐คฃ๐. And before that ‘someone’, there is still the pervert RFF, that LRY pales in comparison.
Can’t help but break my silence here…
I’m actually feeling soooo excited for the following chapz, reading on your comment. Makes me want to travel to the future. ๐คฃ๐
We very much appreciate your efforts.
Banzaiiii…
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I mean, the chapters are technically already on patreon too ๐๐๐
LRY u tupid woman… couldve schemed against SYL and get him why u go after a passerby roflmao
Le Cheng Emperor, your son has a major crush on Luo San Guniang xD
But really, what did Li Hong Yuan do, scheming so cleanly that Li Ru Yu honestly thought sheโs daring to steal Jing Wanโs fiancee, just based on Sun Yi Linโs matter months ago?
At least, if my memory serves, I think he had someone he planted in her residence mention Jing Wan’s fiance. The crazy, the grudge harboring, the malintent… all that was already there and stewing. It sounds like she just didn’t have an idea for an outlet. I think Li Hong Yuan also mentioned that Li Ru Yu’s hatred came up later when she played a hand in everything going really south for Wan Wan in the original timeline.
So it sounds like what he did was combine an outcome that was already going to happen for Chen Zheng Min with Li Ru Yu just waiting for something she could use to pounce on Wan Wan. Additionally, if it’s a choice between a junzhu and an actual Princess of the Emperor, it sounds like this is actually the kinder fate for Chen Zheng Min.
Thanks for the chapter! I like how Li Hong Yuan just came so he could chime in nonchalantly to help out a few times. There was zero leeway to dispute what grandma Luo said after he mentioned that he remembered it.
Li Ru Yu really blew a fuse to think it was wise to speak poorly of Jing Wan after all that. I feel like everyone is going to look really pitifully at Chen Zeng Min after this confirmation. I can also see him sorta looking up like “..Can I not marry THAT?” and everyone sighing before the general response is “..no, you still have to.”
I’m glad at least that this time around the girl who stole him isn’t a propper princess so it won’t kill his career. I can’t help but think he must have been even more bitter about that. He lost the girl of his dreams AND his future. At least this time he just lost the girl and then said girl convinced him to still embrace his future.
โ ( แ ใโ )๏ผฟ oh you are going to like the rest of this chapter part that follows lmaooo
I feel like that is going to be my perpetual status until this novel is finished XD Just knowing: “all of my questions right now will be answered in the next chapter part” and “the next chapter will not disappoint!” ..Honestly not a bad way to be waiting while a novel is translated lol
It’s quite motivating for me to hear that ahahaha makes me want to grow extra arms to translate faster lol
do grow em ๐ฎ
extra arms ๐ฎ
help us poor plebs sate our curiosity
OH, wow o_o So.. kinda like I thought but way more intense. Instead of “can I not marry her” it was straight up “can we just kill her? No? Fine.”
It sounded like Li Hong Yuan originally planned to change her fate to take her off the playing field so she can’t mess with Wan Wan anymore after this. It seems she took a nudge and snowballed into an avalanche to really remove herself after all.
I have a suspicion that she is going to be “very sickly” after she marries in and not be able to entertain guests or take part in running the manor for the sake of her.. “health”. There is also zero way anyone is going to let her raise a child (or probably have a child). So I’m really curious if this is her end. Just shut away in a corner of the Chen estate to spend her days alone… or if shes actually going to still play a role after this. We shall see! (and thanks for the rest of the chapter part! Did not disappoint, as suspected XD)