IBTSOME Chapter 74 Part 1
I BECAME THE STEPMOTHER OF MY EX-HUSBAND
Chapter 74 Part 1: The
Past
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Gao Ran was originally
smiling, but when she heard Han shi's words, the smile on her face slowly
faded: "Why yiniang suddenly ask like this?"
"Was it not because
of you." Seeing Gao Ran's expression, Han shi’s heart had nothing to
understand. No one know a daughter like her mother. These few days Gao Ran
lived in the Duke Yingguo Mansion and was treated as their young lady
everywhere, she often went to Han shi’s place to see Gao Chen’s study. Gao Ran
looked to be happy, but the smile on her face seemed forced, Han shi knew at a
glance that Gao Ran had something on her mind. It seemed there was ulterior
motive when she came back to her parent’s house.
Her mind was exposed by
Han shi, Gao Ran suddenly felt jittery. Her marriage was the pride of her
family. All the sisters admire her for her good marriage. How could Gao Ran
admit that there was a problem with it. Han shi looked at Gao Ran's complexion,
sighed, moved an embroidered stool and sat next to Gao Ran, held her hand and
asked carefully: "What is really going on, there is no one now, you talk
to mother."
Han shi was only a
concubine, even if Gao Ran was her own flesh, she was not qualified to be Gao Ran's
mother. Gao Ran's mother was only Wei shi. Now that Han shi called herself "mother",
it was undoubtedly arrogant, but Gao Ran heard such words suddenly felt like
she was returning to the time she had just transmigrated. At that time, Han shi
was still not favored, and Gao Chen was still not born, only the two of them
depended on each other.
Gao Ran's depression,
grievances, even anxiety and worries about her marriage suddenly burst out. Her
eyes uncontrollably went sour, and tears fell: "Mother."
Han shi felt more and
more distressed, coaxed Gao Ran to speak slowly. Once started, the rest was
easy to say. Gao Ran slowly poured out how Gu Cheng Yao wanted to accept
concubines, how arrogant Yun Hui, and how Bu Mama as the old servant was
disrespectful to her. Among them, one of the highlight was of course Gao Ran's
difficult evil mother-in-law.
Han shi listened to the whole
story, and when she heard Yun Hui ran to Lin Wei Xi to ask for grace and forced
Gao Ran to lift her position, she was unusually angry: "So shameless. She is
already twenty years old and still hasn’t been received, it can clearly be seen
that she is ugly. Actually used her body to make Shizi receive her as a
concubine, totally a slut. She completely deserve to be sent out of the capital."
Gao Ran lowered her head
and said, "Three wives and four concubines are normal, and I am also a
virtuous and generous person. If Yun Hui is respectful, I will not be
intolerant. But she is too slutty."
Han shi scolded Yun Hui
for a long time, used words such as slut, immoral and other things. People were
really strange. Han shi herself was also a concubine. She also relied on her body
to keep a man and was proud of it. But for her daughter, she required all the
maids in her in-law’s family to be strict and respectful, and those who dare to
show their colors were all bitches.
After Han shi let out her
resentment, she lowered her voice and asked Gao Ran, "Then how did she get
sent away by son-in-law? Is it because of this incident that you have a rift
with son-in-law?"
Gao Ran paused for a
moment, vaguely passed the question, and implicitly agreed: "I don't know
what Shizi thinks. I’m doing this for his own good, but loyal advice jars on the ears, and he refuses to get close to
people who are really good to him."
Han shi sighed. She
really believe that Gao Ran was trying to deal with that fox woman, so she had
a conflict with Gu Cheng Yao: "Men are like this. After a few days, his
freshness towards this fox woman will pass, and he will understand you. After
all, you are the primary wife. Those tongfang and concubine are all playthings.
You just need to put them as objects on the line. Don’t force the son-in-law.
After a while, son-in-law will return to your side when he gets tired of those
people. Don’t hurt the son-in-law’s face because of a moment’s temper, then the
mutual affection between husband and wife will not return. That big sister of
yours is the best example."
If it’s the words from primary
wife to her di daughter then it
wouldn’t be weird, but coming from Han shi who was also a concubine, this was
really strange. Han shi mentioned Gao Xi to make Gao Ran feel relieved. Gao Xi
and Shizi end up like that, Gao Ran was already much better than Gao Xi. As
long as you compare with Gao Xi, Gao Ran should feel relieved.
However, unexpectedly,
when Gao Ran heard Gao Xi's name, her face became gloomier. Han shi was
astonished: "What's the matter, did Shizi mentioned the eldest miss to
you?"
"No." Gao Ran
denied it quickly, it unknown who she was trying to convinced. Han shi was very
confident in her daughter’s methods. Seeing Gao Ran denied it, she really thought
that Gu Cheng Yao was still deeply infatuated with Gao Ran. He would rather
divorce Gao Xi, would rather risk angering Yan Wang, all in order to marry her
daughter. As for the small conflict now, of course, it was only the quarrel
between husband and wife, as long as the
teeth were still knocked on the lips, which couple would not make a few
cold faces.
Han shi relaxed, she
thought of the grand occasion when Gu Cheng Yao asked to marry Gao Ran, her
eyes could not help but carry something meaningful: "Ran'er, don't forget
how Shizi asked to marry you. You have a life-saving grace to him, and also
it’s very difficult to cultivate a positive result. You treat him like a cinnabar mole in the heart, the white
moonlight in front of the window. He satisfy himself with other women,
that’s it. What really matter is that you are the most important. My child is beautiful,
more beautiful than her mother, and taller than her mother. If you go back, be
soft, cry and be aggrieved, and then between the sheets be a little submissive,
son-in-law will definitely be reluctant to ignore you."
If its native well-bred ladies,
they would definitely get angry when they heard these words. What did Han shi think
of them? Only the prostitutes, actress and singer would work hard on the bed, and
they were inferior compare to a concubine. But Gao Ran was not a pure ancient
woman, she did not reject these, but she felt very sad when she heard it.
Especially when Gao Ran
heard Han shi praised her beautiful appearance, Lin Wei Xi's face immediately
appeared before her eyes. No matter how beautiful the noble young lady, how could
it match the face favored by Heaven, even Yan Wang was reluctant to say harsh
words to that face. Gu Cheng Yao and Lin Wei Xi were called mother and son, but
they were about the same age, and Gu Cheng Yao was very protective of Lin Wei
Xi. In contrast, she this wife was thankless.
Han shi saw Gao Ran's
expression was lifeless, there was no exuberance and confidence from a year
ago. Han shi felt distressed and whispered: "Don't worry, everything has
to be lost to know how to cherish. You have been living in your maiden house
these few days, and son-in-law didn’t have you at his side, definitely already not
used to it. You give him the way out, he will understand to come and pick you
up."
Gao Ran smiled bitterly
and replied in her heart, No.
If Yun Hui's affairs were
not discovered, Gao Ran would still be confident. But somehow the Yin Yang pot got
into Gu Cheng Yao's hands, Gao Ran had always portrayed herself as true, benevolent
and good, but now that persona collapsed, it unknown how disappointed Gu Cheng
Yao was. And what Yun Hui yelling out before leaving about the pair of fishes
jade pendants made Gao Ran panic.
Gao Ran convinced herself
that Gu Cheng Yao was very disgusted with Gao Xi, he would not believe such
words. But, what if? What if Gu Cheng Yao really believed it, and from this he realized
that she was not what she seemed, no longer trusted her, what should she do?
When Gao Ran thought of
this, she couldn’t wait to break Yun Hui's body into pieces.
Gao Ran couldn't help but
wanted to ask Han shi: "Yiniang, that year when you were pregnant with Gao
Chen you almost had a miscarriage in the ancestral hall. Later, father had a
big fight with Wei shi for you, but no one thought that Wei shi would become
ill. After Wei shi's death, did father get angry at you for this? Is he still treat
you the same like before?"
When Han shi heard these
past events, she also became cold. She stared at the candlelight and paused for
a while before saying: "What's the importance of this? It didn't take long
for me to give birth to Chen boy, and I have a son to depend on. These love and
affection have also become vain. Anyway, the new people around him have come
and go, but I stayed for a long time because of Chen boy, that's enough."
Both mother and daughter
fell silent, looking at the beating fire core with a heavy mind. Outsider all
said that they were both winners, Han shi and Gao Ran also tried their best to
build this image. But behind closed door who would have known, whether it was
Han shi or Gao Ran, there was a dead person in front of them. And you couldn’t
fight or calculate a dead person.
Don't tell me the death of Gao Xi's mother was also the hands of these bitches omfg my blood pressure's rising
ReplyDeleteAnyway, thanks always for the hard work!!
The witch had to learn that kind of behaviour somewhere.
DeleteThey first went over that a number of chapters ago.
DeleteI think Liz is wondering if this means they had a bigger hand in the death. Like, it's one thing if the plan was to get the main wife yelled at and fall from favor, and it wound up going way too far. It's quite another if they knew she was pregnant and tried to purposefully damage her health with stress. But it's completely different if they actually stepped in and poisoned her.
DeleteThey've now shown they're not above poisoning people, have gotten people put to death on false accusations in the past, and were willing to kill not only Yun Hui, but that poor, innocent man who had a crush on her. It's not much of a stretch to imagine they harmed Gao Xi's mom on purpose.
Thanks for the Chapter !!! ☺️☺️☺️
ReplyDeleteWhat a great chapter
ReplyDeleteUnknowingly GR has followed the same path as her mother. Hurt the main wife then take over her position. Outwardly they've won, but inside they're neglected and unhappy.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update!
Yup, can't scheme against a corpse.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, villains make sense. Bad sense but true. I so hope part of this revenge story is forcing people to live with their choices instead of killing them!
ReplyDeleteI think GR needs to be killed because you know that if LWX has a child, GR is almost certainly going to target that child because, if it's a son, she'll see it as a threat to her husband's position as Shizi, despite the fact that, by the laws of their country, GCY can only lose his position as Shizi if he does certain really bad things. I can't remember what they said those bad things were, just that they were really bad. GR might not even wait for the child's birth to find out it's gender before trying to kill it. She could very well try to make LWX have a miscarriage like her own vicious mother did to GX's mother. So, for the sake of LWX and any children she has, GR needs to die. Of course, if GR goes for the lives of LWX and her child, GHY will almost definitely make sure she dies, but it's still better if she dies before she can make an attempt since they could get seriously hurt even if they don't die.
DeleteIronically, I think part of the author's cultural critique (if she as one), is about how quickly we consumers of fiction start to become so callous to the lives of the characters in the story. GR is, in some ways, the image of the modern reader. She is immersed in the story to the extent that she only sees the protagonist (and her loved ones) have value, thus it's easy for her to think that another's death is a quick, easy, and morally just decision.
DeleteThis isn't meant as a personal dig, because we all do this kind of thing on one level or another. I find this especially true when reading work from the huge pool of authors who don't add much depth or nuance to their characters.
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ReplyDeleteThe hypocrisy of Hanshi is higher than Mount Olympus 🙄
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Gao Chen is truly from the Gao family. What if Hanshi lost her child, in order to gain favour, she either quickly got herself pregnant or bought another child?
ReplyDeleteSeeing these two make me want to puke blood in anger! Like yo!
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