Chapter 677 - 675: No Hope
Maternal Aunt Liu had hoped that she would spend some time quietly in the Buddhist hall, and once Duke An’s anger subsided, Ye Hongyang would ask Duke An and his Wife again to let her out. But it turned out that not a single man in this world was decent, and that damned man Ye Hongyang was no exception, having let her down like this.
When Ye Hongyang came to visit her for the first time, she saw at a glance that the urgency and love that used to be on his face changed into astonishment the moment he saw her, which was not the look of a man seeing his beloved consort in distress.
She panicked at the time and poured all her energy into plaintive cries and reminiscing, doing her best to show the warm and gentle side of herself, softening Ye Hongyang’s heart a bit. He shed a few tears but that was all, and he didn’t even say he would help her out of her predicament.
What Ye Hongyang showed, rather than pity for her, might as well be pity for the past he had lost.
Maternal Aunt Liu kept begging Ye Hongyang to come to see her again in a few days, to give her something to look forward to. But another month passed before Ye Hongyang appeared again, and this time when he saw her, his eyes showed shock and evasion. That dodging look almost extinguished all of Maternal Aunt Liu’s hope.
Ye Hongyang did not stay long in the Buddhist hall and left hastily, and he has not shown up till today.
Thinking of these things, the pain was unstoppable in Maternal Aunt Liu’s heart, and she could probably guess the shock and dodging of Ye Hongyang came from something. So, all along, the leverage she thought she had actually didn’t exist, right?
As Maternal Aunt Liu thought this, she urgently pulled Ye Xinyi close and asked, "Xinyi, did you bring a mirror?" Then she remembered her daughter was returning to her parental home and wouldn’t have brought a mirror along, and quickly changed her question, "Look at your mother, take a good look at your mother. Has mother become ugly now, has she aged a lot?"