Chapter 1238 - 390: In Vain, Twins
"Mistress, Cousin has come again," Mother Lv hurried in with a plate of sour plums and spoke to Liu Tinglan, who was leaning on a soft couch reading a book, "She personally stewed some chicken soup for you to nourish your health. Look..."
Seeing the anger appearing on the Mistress’s face, Mother Lv didn’t continue, yet inside, she felt a flicker of resentment toward the Cousin: knowing full well the Mistress didn’t want to see her, yet she insisted on coming over, causing the Mistress distress. Didn’t she know the Mistress was pregnant and needed to avoid stress and anger for the sake of the baby?
A few days earlier, Cousin had suddenly barged into the house and, in front of all the Shen family servants, said those ambiguous words, causing the Mistress to be wrongly accused of something she hadn’t done. Mother Lv had been serving at the side of the Mistress for several months; she knew the Mistress to be nothing but kind and generous and incapable of such acts.
Yet Old Master Shen and Lady worried so much for Cousin, who’d supposedly suffered a great injustice. Even after it was clear that it was all a misunderstanding and had nothing to do with the Mistress, they didn’t send her back to the ancestral home. Instead, they allowed her to linger around the Mistress. Did they think the Mistress could easily forget the past and forgive Cousin’s wrongdoing?
Mother Lv was an old hand in the Shen family, fully acquainted with its many affairs. She understood the reason behind the strife between Liu Tinglan and Lu Zhu. In her view, the Mistress she served had done no wrong; it was the Cousin who was scheming, seizing any chance to slander the Mistress. It was intolerable to keep her in the house any longer, or who knows what trouble she might stir up in the future.
Liu Tinglan slammed the enjoyable book she had been reading onto the table, her complexion souring, "Ignore her, as if she doesn’t exist."
Since becoming pregnant, her temper had grown somewhat uncontrollable, and the smallest things could unsettle her. Previously, when living in Jing City with only four people in the household, Mother Lv took good care of her, and Shen Ji was loving and considerate, she seldom felt unhappy. Now, with an unwelcome person in the house, always appearing before her, how could her mood not be affected.