The Love of Passerby A

Chapter 510: A Survival Guide for Women in the Old Republic of China (49)

Cao Shixun drifted further and further away, but he would still send letters back from time to time.

Some of these letters were written to Su Xiangran's brother, and some were written specifically for her.

However, Su Xiangran almost never replied to his letters because deep down she didn't want to have too much contact with this person.

Even though Cao Shixun showed great enthusiasm for her and had never hurt her, she couldn't help but feel disgusted with him.

In fact, Su Xiangran's intuition was very accurate. Her resistance to Cao Shixun stemmed from the original owner's hatred for him.

Su Xiangran only knew that the original owner died of childbirth complications in her previous life, but she knew nothing about her husband or who that man was.

One of the reasons was that the original owner was so full of hatred for this man that her memory automatically blocked out everything about him;

Another reason is that when Su Xiangran replaced the original owner, she was still young, only about six years old, so many subsequent memories are only fragmentary fragments.

It turned out that the original owner had never really married and become a principal wife in her previous life, but was sent to the Cao family's villa in a sedan chair.

And all this is thanks to Cao Shixun.

The original owner had her feet bound at the age of six, and since then she has been staying in the Su family's yard, basically never leaving the house.

When she was fourteen, her mother Cao Wanning arranged for her to marry into a family in Jincheng. The family background was similar to that of the Su family, and most importantly, she didn't have to marry far away.

It was supposed to be a happy event, but who would have thought that the family sent their son abroad to study shortly after the engagement.

A year later, the other party did not come back, and only a letter asking to cancel the engagement was returned.

At this time, the original owner was already fifteen years old, and she became a joke in Jincheng because of her broken engagement.

Cao Wanning is full of love for his daughter, but also hopes to quell the negative impact of those rumors.

So, she decided to send the original owner to her brother Cao Ce's home in Hai City to hide from the limelight for a while.

However, the Su family did not have any property in Hai City in the previous life, so the original owner could only live in Cao Mansion as a relative.

This stay lasted for a whole year, during which time everything was calm, as if everything had returned to normal.

As the storm was gradually passing and the original owner was preparing to return to Jincheng, fate once again played a cruel joke on her - Cao Shixun had just completed his studies and arrived in Hai City.

As the eldest son of the Cao family, his return undoubtedly attracted attention from all parties.

To celebrate this event, the Cao family naturally held a grand banquet.

It was at this banquet that the original owner drank a glass of water handed to him by a servant and suddenly felt dizzy. He then returned to his room in a daze to rest.

The next morning, when the original owner woke up from her coma, she was shocked by the scene before her: not only were her clothes in disarray and barely covering her body, but even Cao Shixun, who was lying next to her, was shirtless!

Faced with such a sudden change, the original owner fell into complete despair and helplessness.

In this situation, it seems that there is no more appropriate solution than to let Cao Shixun take responsibility.

After all, if nothing is done to deal with something like this, it will probably only cause more trouble and disputes.

But things are not that simple, because Cao Shixun is already married at this time. His wife is Xie Wanru, the eldest daughter of the Xie family, a famous business family in Hai City.

Moreover, Xie Wanru and Cao Shixun’s marriage was not just a business one, they also had deep feelings for each other.

This means that even if the original owner lowered her status and became Cao Shixun's concubine, she would not be liked by him.

Fate is always cruel to the poor.

Just when the original owner was in a dilemma, news came from Jincheng: the war spread, the Jincheng Su family was destroyed, and her parents also died in this catastrophe.

At this time, her brother Su Yanqing was studying abroad and could not be contacted at all.

Under such circumstances, Cao Ce, as the elder of the original owner, decided to let his son take her as a concubine.

The original owner suppressed his sadness and got on the sedan chair. He let himself be carried around the surrounding roads and then entered the "Cao Mansion" through the side door.

On the wedding night, Cao Shixun did not come, but the original owner did not care, because she and he were tied together by an accident.

The original owner thought that all this was the most humiliating, but she didn't expect that when she left the room the next day, she realized that this was not the "Cao Mansion" at all.

This is a villa of the Cao family on the outskirts of Hai City. In other words, she is nominally Cao Shixun's concubine, but in fact she is just a mistress who cannot enter the house.

Thinking of this, she felt an unprecedented insult. She originally wanted to rush to Cao's house to find out what was going on, but she was stopped before she even left the second courtyard.

"Aunt, if I were you, I would just stay here." A middle-aged woman said to the original owner with disdain, "How far can you walk with your feet? There are people guarding this place."

"You lied to me!" the original owner shouted angrily, "I want to see my uncle!"

"Aunt, the master went to the battlefield before you got married." This woman was a confidant of Cao Ce's wife Wu Wenyue, so she was not afraid of the original owner at all, "You didn't even notice that you should have served tea to the elders.

But did anyone call you? No! I advise you to stay calm! "