She Became A Downfall Noble Lady Chapter 621: 619: Being Followed

Chapter 621: Chapter 619: Being Followed

Madam Yin’s heart, which had just settled, tensed up again when she heard Ye Xinyan say with distress, “I also feel that Jiang Yifan truly cares for , but he will never treat unconditionally well like Mother, right? If I were to marry him, I would have to leave Mother alone in Duke An’s Mansion, and I really can’t be at ease about leaving her.”

Madam Yin hadn’t even thought of the matter regarding Ye Xinyan’s persuasion to divorce, and with surprise she said, “Mother is perfectly fine staying in Duke An’s Mansion, what are you worried about? Yuanfan is also serving in the capital, even if you get married, you can still co back and visit Mother often, that should be enough to put your mind at ease.”

Ye Xinyan slumped in her chair, her face etched with imnse worry, “Jiang Yifan is a good person, and if your daughter marries him, she will naturally lead a happy life.” As she spoke, Ye Xinyan felt a shiver of goosebumps rising up her back, “But if your daughter goes to enjoy a good life and leaves Mother all alone in Duke An’s Mansion… Father doesn’t treat you well, how can I rest assured?”

Madam Yin never expected her daughter to harbor such cunning thoughts; she only felt a flood of emotion filling her heart, which was intermingled with a touch of sadness.

“Ah Yan, needn’t worry about Mother. As long as Ah Yan is happy, Mother is satisfied. Inside and outside of Mother’s quarter, everyone is our own, it’s taken care of wonderfully; there’s no need for you to worry. You just need to live your life well and not cause Mother any concern, that’s all,” she said.

Ye Xinyan shook her head, “Even if you are well taken care of in the Duke’s Mansion, you are still all alone. I will never abandon Mother to enjoy life by myself.”

Madam Yin was stunned; what had originally seed a hopeful situation, how had it suddenly beco hopeless after a few exchanges?

“What’s with you, child, why can’t you make sense when you speak?” she said.

The dismal color on Ye Xinyan’s face remained unchanged as she listlessly waved her hand, “Mother, let’s not talk about this anymore, I don’t think we need to think about it any further. I simply can’t bear to leave you behind. Forget about getting married, I might as well go to Song Ping and see about running the shop. Let’s focus on our business, make a lot of Silver Coin. I will always accompany you, take care of you till the end. And then, with Silver in my own hands, I can also live my life peacefully, it’ll be fine.”

Having finished speaking, she hurriedly paid her respects to Madam Yin and walked out on her own.

Madam Yin was left with her eyes wide open, staring blankly as Ye Xinyan left the room and closed the door behind her. Even as Nanny Huang and a few maids quietly ca in, Madam Yin hadn’t recovered from this sudden reversal of fortune.

After dropping such a statent on Lady Yin Yin, Ye Xinyan went out as usual, found Qi Younian, and went to check on the shop.

She was self-aware, knowing her na and deeds had once again spread throughout the capital. Therefore, she didn’t use a carriage bearing the emblem of Duke An’s Mansion but instead took a plain blue cloth-top horse-drawn carriage to go see the premises they were set to finalize.

The premises in question were located in the busy section of North Street and occupied a space equivalent to two rooms wide on the street front.

After the recent commotion at Duke An’s Mansion, Qi Younian hadn’t let her go out; instead, he, along with Wong Qiao and Song Ping, had looked at several shops and then reported back to Ye Xinyan, preliminarily settling on this one.

This ti, Ye Xinyan was there to finalize the matter.

She got out of the carriage at the entrance of the shop, where the Broker and Wong Qiao were already waiting, and they accompanied her inside to take a look.

The shopfront didn’t look big, but it was deep. According to the Broker, if they found the place too small, there were residential properties behind the shop that could be bought for the right price.

Ye Xinyan and Qi Younian followed the Broker to have a general look at the residential properties behind and were quite satisfied with this location.

The land and housing prices in the capital were incomparable to those of Qingyuan County and Yuyuan City; they were not only exorbitantly expensive, but also, although there were many shops in the capital, most of them only rented out, with very few up for sale.

This small shop, if coupled with the two houses behind it, would consu more than half of the silver coins held by the Qi family. Moreover, refurbishing the storefront and rging it with the houses would cost a large sum of silver.

The operational funds for the startup of the construction business also needed to be reserved in advance. In building houses and gardens for clients, while so provided their materials, many would pay a portion of the silver upfront and entrust the entire project to the construction industry, with the costs of materials and labor requiring advance paynt by the business.

As the Qi Family Construction Business had just entered the capital, it naturally couldn’t pick and choose its clients and had to take on any projects that ca its way, including those that required fronting expenses.

Ye Xinyan and Qi Younian toured around and purchased the shop. Qi Younian, accompanied by Song Ping and Wong Qiao, followed the broker to handle the paperwork, while she made her way back to the mansion to prepare for the renovation and decoration of the storefront.

Ye Xinyan was now a controversial figure and, adhering to the principle of keeping a low profile, she decided to return to the mansion as quickly as possible, trying not to attract attention.

Her intentions were good, and she didn’t show her face publicly. However, people recognized the coachman and the guard from the Duke’s Mansion.

The person who recognized Ye Xinyan’s carriage was the fourth madam of Ji Mansion, who was also her half-sister, Ye Xinyi. She saw the carriage near the street by Duke An’s Mansion and followed it all the way, even stopping her own carriage at the roadside, waiting for quite so ti.

Normally, the area of North City wouldn’t be a place visited by female relatives from prestigious houses, but ever since the scandalous marriage affair in front of Duke An’s Mansion, which had beco the laughingstock of many, Ye Xinyi had been enduring a torrid ti at Ji Mansion and was desperate to know the current situation of Ye Hongyang and Maternal Aunt Liu, disregarding all else.

There were after all only a few mbers of Duke An’s Mansion who would want to travel incognito, and the one who feared becoming the talk of the town again was likely Ye Xinyan.

A few days ago, the joke that was Duke An’s Mansion beca well known to almost every household in the capital, and the details were known widely and specifically.

Being related to Duke An’s Mansion by marriage, Ji Mansion had gathered precise details about the matter.

Ye Xinyi knew about the scandal; she, like Ye Hongyang and Maternal Aunt Liu, thought that, despite the Marquis Jingning’s Mansion being sowhat impoverished, it was still a legitimate noble and prestigious family. She anticipated that Duke An would consent to the marriage to quell the situation and that even Ye Xinyan, for the sake of her future, would likely have no choice but to agree.

Conversely, if the Ye Family and Ye Xinyan refused, such a scandal involving a woman would not be absolutely disastrous, but it would certainly ruin most of her latter life. Not to ntion becoming a concubine for His Highness Prince Yu – that was out of the question.

Unexpectedly, Duke An remained unyielding and did not agree to the marriage. Although Ye Xinyan didn’t appear in public throughout the entire affair, Madam Yin was firmly opposed.

If Ye Xinyan had married smoothly, it would have been just an unflattering match, one that was rely poor. However, causing such uproar turned it into a scandal.

As a result, Duke An’s Mansion beca the center of gossip once again because of Miss Ye.

Within Ji Mansion, Ye Xinyi felt a double humiliation and discomfort, which consisted not only of Ye Xinyan’s marriage debacle but also her inability to bear the ridicule and contempt towards her father Ye Hongyang, as well as the consequences of Duke An’s petition to revoke Ye Hongyang’s title as the Princely Heir.

No matter how tarnished Ye Xinyan’s reputation might have been, Ye Xinyi could bear it as long as Duke An’s Mansion remained standing, and her father was to beco Duke An in the future, making her still a madam of status in Ji Mansion.