Chapter 2: Imperial Marriage Arrangement
Outside, the dazzling sunlight cascaded into the room like a waterfall, scattering splashes of golden light across the floor.
Su Jin, who had been lying in bed for three whole days, felt like her bones had scattered as if she had been lying for too long. She threw off the quilt and got out of bed. Xingxing came over with a tray of food, saying, "Miss, your body has not recovered yet, why are you getting out of bed?"
If she lay any longer, she’d be wasting away, Su Jin said, "I’m fine now."
The maid laid out the food, and Su Jin furrowed her brows slightly, "It’s been three days, and the Iron Armor Guards haven’t left?"
The maid shook her head, "Not yet. I heard the eldest young master of Duke Zhen Country Mansion has been in a coma for three days. The doctors and the imperial physicians have tried everything but are helpless. Miss, will he die?"
Such a handsome man, who made girls lose their minds, perish just like that; the maid couldn’t bear it.
Su Jin chuckled. She hadn’t even met the eldest young master of Duke Zhen Country Mansion, how would she know if he could be saved? Even if he could, her father Marquis Dongxiang couldn’t go out, let alone her.
Feeling a bit hungry, Su Jin sat down to eat. She had to say, the food at Dongxiang Marquis Mansion had drastically declined. From six dishes and one soup, three meat, and three vegetables, three days ago, it had fallen to three vegetable dishes now, not even a trace of meat bits remaining. Would it really be like her mother, Mrs. Tang, said, that from tomorrow they’d be living on the northwest wind?
For someone like her, who often couldn’t tell north from south, would she starve directly to death?
Her thoughts amused her, and Su Jin picked up her bowl, eating with relish.
But after just half a bowl of rice, her right eyelid started twitching. They say if the left eye twitches, money is coming; if the right eye twitches, there’s trouble. Given her current string of bad luck, it seemed it might truly come true.