Time Travel: The Noble Family

The Wife of the Heir of Marquis Jingning was delicately slender, her face as smooth as goose fat, lips like tinted cherries, eyebrows reminiscent of distant hills, her aura as tranquil as autumn waters—a true great beauty. Standing by the side of Marquis Jingning must be Luo Mingzhu, who today was dressed in a long robe of bright red with golden thread embroidered flowers, making her unparalleled in splendor; around her waist was a gold-threaded belt adorned with eight small, hollow golden bells that would surely tinkle as she moved. Although she was still of tender age and not yet fully grown, her skin was as fair as snow and her untouched face bloomed like the just-opened begonia flowers in Begonia Garden—surely, she too would become a great beauty once she matured.

Ruo Lan rose with a smile and introduced, "Yajing, this is my cousin Yueyao. Yueyao, come, meet the Wife of the Heir of Marquis Jingning and Third Miss Luo."

Madam Ping sized up Yueyao, seeing her clear eyes and pleasant temperament, looking at her was instantly likable. She laughed and said, "Why so formal? Your cousin is my cousin too." After that, she slipped off the jade bracelet from her wrist and slipped it onto Yueyao’s slender wrist.

Yueyao looked at the lustrous sheen, feeling its warmth on her hand. Such fine jade was not cheap. Yueyao felt embarrassed and said apologetically, "This is too precious." Such valuable items could not be accepted casually.

Zhuang Ruolan too was somewhat surprised; offering a gold bracelet would have been sufficient to honor her, but she hadn’t expected her friend to give her own jade bracelet to Yueyao. Zhuang Ruolan smiled, suspecting her friend had something in mind.

The Wife of the Heir of Marquis Jingning laughed and said, "What precious or not precious, if I give it to you, just take it."

Ruo Lan nodded towards Yueyao.

With the nod of approval, Yueyao then accepted and thanked her, "Thank you, Princely Heir’s Wife." Yueyao also had her doubts—being close to her cousin-in-law did not warrant such an expensive gift. Was there something going on?