Chapter 125.1: Rebirth of the Black Lotus (l)
In the back courtyard, Mu Qingling was sitting on the bed with a pale face, sipping from the medicine bowl in her hands.
Her appearance wasn’t as stunning as Mu Qingrong’s. If Mu Qingrong was a graceful peony flower, then she was an elegant little lotus. Although she was also a beauty, since childhood, as long as she stood beside Mu Qingrong, Mu Qingling was always ignored.
Mu Qingling didn’t mind these things. Although her father died when she was a child, she was treated like a normal young lady and with her mother’s guidance, she cultivated an open-minded attitude.
She had never been one to compete with her third sister.
(TNote: Although they are actually cousins, in China, cousins are still called ‘brother’or ‘sister’if they ore from the same surname/paternal bloodline, their rank depends on who was born first.)
She never even considered it. When she found out that her third younger sister, Mu Qingrong, had the audacity to ask the Prince’s servants to leave and to speak to him alone, Mu Qingling was still irritated.
The irritation wasn’t so much due to the sadness of her husband’s possible feelings. After all, on the day of the wedding, Mu Qingling already knew that her husband, the Prince of Linjiang, actually liked Mu Qingrong, the first young lady of the second family.
Prince Linjiang had never concealed it, and there was some unhappiness implied in his words. Mentioning things like marrying Mu Qingling ‘instead’ of Mu Qingrong.
Saying that Mu Qingling wasn’t sad that she was rejected by her newly married husband would be a lie. In her mind, she could vaguely guess why she had married Prince Linjiang instead of her sister. She clearly hadn’t met him that day. Although she was the first young lady of the eldest family, without her father, she was just an orphan girl with no one to protect her in the Marquis’s residence.