Chapter 468 - 466: Arch-rival
Ye Xinyan had returned for a month now, yet due to being busy with the railway carriage and then the New Year festivities, she had not yet met this half-sister of the original host. From the bottom of her heart, Ye Xinyan was very reluctant to meet Ye Xinyi. She had witnessed the scene at Duke An’s birthday banquet with her own eyes, and from a very peculiar perspective, she had seen the entire scene unfold.
Such a scene, not to mention in ancient times, even in modern days, to see a young woman entangled with a naked man, her clothes in disarray, under the public gaze, was quite an unsightly sight, enough for gossipmongers to discuss heatedly for a while.
The usual talk about who was right, who was wrong, or who was innocent - those were the kind of things people would say when it had nothing to do with them. When it really happened to oneself, the humiliation and emotional scars were indescribable.
And Ye Xinyan herself, now carried that uncomfortable identity back to the capital. Especially when facing Ye Xinyi, that particular scene stood as a painful testament to their struggle, in which she suffered a terrible defeat.
Regardless of whether Ye Xinyan was willing or what identity she truly held inside, standing before Ye Xinyi made her a complete and utter loser, laden with a reputation of shame. In the end, she could only choose to flee from her family to find a slim chance of survival.
If it weren’t for her transmigration, one could only imagine how tragic the original host’s end would be, and how much satisfaction Ye Xinyi and her mother would take from it.
But Ye Xinyi did not, as Madam Yin had expected, simply make a perfunctory visit and then go to curry favor with Maternal Aunt Liu. Instead, she earnestly sought an audience in Madam Yin’s courtyard, continuously saying that she had not paid her respects to her mother during such an important day as New Year’s, and that she had not had a chance to meet her sister since her return; she missed them dearly. She pleaded for Madam Yin’s grace to allow her to pay respects to her mother and sister and to have a face-to-face meeting.
