Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Liu Fen’s enthusiasm was yet again dashed to nothing by Ling Tao’s absolutely disgusted coldness, which chilled her all the way to the bones.
With the bowl in her hands, her entire self shook slightly, her mouth pinching and letting go as though she was about to cry.
Ling Tianya couldn’t be bothered to continue on having her breakfast too. She put down the bowl and left the table.
Gosh, you can’t even have one good meal around here.
Seeing that both Ling Tao and Ling Tianya had left, Liu Fen burst out in tears, as ugly as you would imagine her to be.
Madame Ling’s ears hurt with how loud she was. She slapped the table several times. “Suck it up!”
Liu Fen immediately shut up, not daring to cry out loud, and her entire body shook with the force of her silence.
Seeing the ugly sight of Liu Fen, even Madame Ling was starting to doubt whether her decision to let Liu Fen come to the Ling family was wrong. Now, the entire family was shrouded in a dull haze, and they couldn’t even have a meal in peace.
She sighed. “Look at how you are. If I was a man, I wouldn’t like you either!”
Liu Fen shook her head as she hiccuped. “I… I was very popular back at home… There were a lot of people coming to my home saying that they wanted to marry me…”
“Popular? Popular and yet you’re just leftovers now? Not married yet at this age?” Madame Ling grimaced.
Liu Fen’s face tensed. “Well… I got old… The young ones don’t like me, and I don’t like those older than me…”
In Liu Fen’s hometown, everyone got married young. If men were still unmarried at an older age, they most likely were either poor or ill, and it would be difficult for him to marry someone anyway.
Similarly, the same went for the woman. When Liu Fen was young, many people did actually like her. She was voluptuous, strong, and good at chores. Her family was not too bad either, and one of her elder sisters got married to someone belonging to another branch of the Ling family and was rumored to be rich and have a great house in the city.
Because of that, the young Liu Fen got too proud and got extremely picky. She ended up leaving herself with few options. Right now, she was in her thirties, and she was considered a complete waste of space in her town; she was the subject of much gossip, too.
When Madame Ling had went to her third uncle’s house, Liu Fen was hiding there for a short while and ended up getting brought to the Ling family the next ay by Madame Ling.
This was spread all around the town in seconds, and everyone had said that Liu Fen was just like Cinderella, going from the lowest of the low to the highest of the high.
Liu Fen had made her mind up too. She was determined to get a strong foothold in the Ling household by birthing a son for Ling Tao so that she could go back home louder and prouder than ever before.
But no matter how hard she worked now, Ling Tao didn’t care about her at all, and she was running out of ideas.
“Madame Ling, what do you think I should do?” Liu Fen asked, worried.
Madame Ling heaved a sigh. “You heard what the two of them were saying earlier.”
“They were going to drink tonight.”
“Yes, when men drink, they tend to drink too much. And when they drink too much, it’s easier for them to have urges. When they have urges, isn’t that thing a lot easier to accomplish?”
Madame Ling was vague with her words, but Liu Fen understood. She planned to take advantage of Ling Tao while he was drunk, to climb into his bed, and then naturally they would…
“But what if Sir doesn’t drink enough?” Liu Fen asked, blushing.
Madame Ling glared at Liu Fen. “Then just add something to the alcohol! There’s so many ways to solve this! Just be prepared tonight, and go have a few more rounds with him. Strive to get pregnant the first time!”
Madame Ling’s words made Liu Fen’s heart beat faster and harder, both in embarrassment and excitement.