Chapter 402: A Woman Called Long Shuli
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Just like that, the deadlock persisted. She followed Su Dingheng for another year, but he couldn’t marry her. With red eyes and deep guilt, Su Dingheng approached her and said, “The old master arranged a marriage for me and asked me to marry a woman named Long Shuli.”
“Who is she? The daughter of a high official?” Liu Shulan’s heart shattered, sinking to the lowest depths. She couldn’t escape her background!
However, Su Dingheng appeared frustrated. “What daughter of a high official? She’s like a beggar on the street! That night, I don’t know how 1 ended up with her, and then my father found out. Surprisingly, my father valued her!” “What… a beggar?” The anger in Liu Shulan’s heart flared up.
On what grounds could a beggar girl marry Su Dingheng, while she, born into a respectable family, was denied the position of the Marquis’s young madam just because she was a little poor?
She was not convinced!
Yet, Su Dingheng had no real power, he could only follow the Senior Marquis’s orders and marry Long Shuli.
Moreover, before the wedding, Long Shuli had received favor from the emperor, bestowed the title of Princess, instantly elevating her status. The entire Great Cheng Dynasty buzzed with discussions about this Princess Shuli who had seemingly appeared out of nowhere.
Jealousy and anger prompted Liu Shulan to pay attention to Princess Shuli. She was different from ordinary women. She was not someone who stayed in a boudoir. She made many connections and opened a clinic. She had lived in the Marquis of Martial South’s Manor before marriage.
It was said that she was more beloved by the Senior Marquis than his daughter.
Liu Shulan’s jealousy reached a boiling point. She found an opportunity and visited Long Shuli’s clinic.
She planned to create a scene, to see how this woman could safely marry into the Marquis’s Manor. She wanted to see what skills Princess Shuli had.
However, as she waited in a clean consultation room, similar to other women, she felt an odd sensation.
The clinic’s clerk treated female patients with more courtesy and attentiveness than male patients, offering them tea.
When the clerk brought her a cup, he smiled and said, “Miss, have a cup of brown sugar water. It’s a secret recipe from our family’s Doctor Long. It tastes sweet and sour, very beneficial for a woman’s body.”
Liu Shulan, disdainful, glanced at him. “Who doesn’t have brown sugar water? What’s there to boast about? Get lost!”
She was very rude to the clerk in the clinic. The clerk was scolded by her, but he did not say anything. He continued to smile and go to bring brown sugar water to other female patients.
In the women’s waiting room, others praised Long Shuli as an immortal, and Bodhisattva came to save these unfortunate women.
Hearing these praises, Liu Shulan’s jealousy intensified!
When she was called to Long Shuli’s treatment room, Long Shuli asked her to sit down for a pulse check.
Liu Shulan forcefully slammed her hand in front of Long Shuli, deliberately damaging the pulse pillow. Arrogantly, she looked at her. “You’re the woman marrying Dingheng? That’s all! You’re just an ordinary doctor.”
Long Shuli, with a fairy-like face, smiled and raised her eyebrows with a somewhat aloof demeanor. “Su Dingheng’s mistress?”
“I’m not a mistress! We truly love each other! Long Shuli, don’t you feel shameless? A beggar trying to marry into the Marquis’s Manor! You even dared to open a clinic publicly. Do you have any semblance of a reserved woman?” Liu Shulan used her family background to insult Long Shuli without mercy..