Chapter 1551: Chapter 1489: Feels Like Bad Luck Is Coming
When Wu Lihong t the gaze of Prince Jin, he sohow felt a chill down his spine, as if sothing ominous was about to happen to him.
This feeling was absolutely terrible and all too familiar; it was the feeling of impending misfortune!
Ever since his separation from Madam Zhou at the Yan, and subsequently being disowned by that wretched girl in front of the Yan, Wu Lihong felt he had lost all his luck.
Take that separation, for instance; although it was handled with decorum and without much fuss, it looked as though he had co out ahead, but privately, he had lost all face.
A dignified fifth-rank official, being publicly divorced by a peasant woman from a poor family—how disgraceful!
Outwardly, people said she did it for his good, to part amicably, but separation rather than dismissal ant she disdained him, didn’t want him.
Wu Lihong was rejected and abandoned by a woman, which was a complete loss of face. Those people openly said he was fortunate to have t such a reasonable woman, ending the lawsuit quietly without much loss!
Bah!
Fortunate? What rubbish luck!
Did they think he didn’t know they privately mocked him as pitiful and cowardly?
Besides Madam Zhou’s case, there was that accursed disobedient daughter who severed ties with him, clearly showing everyone she disowned him!
This mother and daughter ca specifically to collect debts from him.
So for a month now, apart from attending court, he would return ho right after work, avoiding wandering outside and the pointed gazes of others.
This was the first troubling matter.
Additionally, his household was in utter disarray.
The newly taken mistress, Maternal Aunt Xiang, beca pregnant without even knowing it and miscarried without warning.
Upon receiving this news, he was understandably furious. During these ill-fated tis, he desperately needed a piece of good news to turn his luck around, yet before he could even rejoice, the child was lost, leaving him with nothing but false hopes.
The miscarriage happened so easily that he suspected Madam Wang was behind it, and he erupted in a huge argunt with that shrew. However, later he learned it had nothing to do with Madam Wang, and it was truly due to Maternal Aunt Xiang’s youth and naiveté.
After clearing up the misunderstanding, he and Madam Wang could not restore their forr affection; even when he visited her room, she seed too weary to respond, and directly appointed a maid to serve him, making him so angry he stopped going to the main courtyard altogether!
Yet none of this compared to Old Madam Wu’s illness. Ever since the incident with Madam Zhou, his mother had fallen ill suddenly, and despite seeing countless imperial physicians, her condition showed no improvent and even worsened daily. Particularly after hearing of Maternal Aunt Xiang’s miscarriage, she fainted imdiately, almost departing this world.
Wu Lihong feared most that his mother would pass away; he would then need to observe mourning rites, and by the ti he resud his office, what position could he hope to obtain?
Thus, while entertaining the visiting delegation from Beiyan, he hoped to make so contributions.
Yet why did the Prince of Beiyan gaze at him with such a significant look, coupled with a vague hostility?
Wu Lihong shrank his neck down, lowered his head, and only when he felt the gaze withdrawn did he sneak a glance back at him.
As he looked, he began to feel sothing wasn’t quite right. This prince seed sohow familiar, as if he had seen him sowhere before!
He wondered where they had t, but his mind was too quick to catch on, and when an official next to him jostled him, Wu Lihong suddenly forgot all about it.
Indeed, how could he, an ordinary person, have t a prince from Beiyan? It must have been just an illusion!
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