The Fourth Lady novel Chapter 149

Currently, Jiang Mengrou was lying on her bed in her own yard. When she closed her eyes, it was as if she could see those things that happened that year. She didn't know how long it's been since that time, but she knew very clearly in her heart what kind of place that person had in her heart.

Unable to forget, unable to erase, a memory carved into her bones and engraved in her heart.

That was a dream when Jiang Mengrou was a young girl, but that dream, in the end, was mercilessly destroyed. She become a daughter of a criminal and was heartlessly trampled on by others. The one that extended a helping hand to her was precisely her current husband, Su Ming.

When Jiang Mengrou thought of this, the glistening tears rolled down from her eyes.

Su Yun, Su Yun, at the time, if only you could have given me another glance, I wouldn't have ended up with no choice but to become a concubine like now.

Jiang Mengrou closed her eyes. Past memories seemed to surge violently like the tides.

20 years ago.

When Jiang Mengrou was still a sheltered young girl, at that time, the Jiang family was still one of the top wealthy families within Diqiu. Everyone when mentioning the Jiang family's eldest daughter, were all praising her beauty. She was equally as famous as the Jing Marquis manor's Ning Siyao.

"Big sister, what are you looking at?" Jiang Mengrou was staring at a figure outside the window, blankly lost in thought, "Could it be that you've taken a fancy to some family's young master?"

Hearing her little sister making fun of her, Jiang Mengrou turned her head around and gently slapped her on the head, "What nonsense are you saying, little sister."

When Jiang Menghan followed Jiang Mengrou's gaze and looked over, she just happened to see Su Yun riding on the back of a horse, returning from battle in victory.

At that time, the twenty year old Su Yun had already made a name for himself in his youth. He was the man everyone in the entirety of Diqiu wanted to marry. And she also from that glance thoroughly fell for Su Yun.

Jiang Mengrou didn't notice the mischievous glint in Jiang Menghan's eyes. Afterwards in a moment of carelessness, she was offhandedly pushed by Jiang Menghan. And just like that, she directly fell from there.

Hearing a sudden scream, Su Yun immediately flew over and caught her at once, preventing her from getting intimate with the ground.

Su Yun was a martial artist, he didn't think it was too strange, but Jiang Mengrou at the moment was already red in the cheeks, "Many thanks young master Su for saving me."

Su Yun looked to the young girl standing in front of him and scratched his head, "It's nothing." With that said, he turned and left.

Su Yun didn't know, but that glance was already long-lasting. Jiang Mengrou, from that moment onwards, couldn't walk out from Su Yun's nightmare anymore.

Jiang Mengrou rarely listens to her father speak of the matters of the imperial court, but when her father was mentioning the imperial court matters, she unexpectedly heard about his marriage.

He said, Su Yun wants to marry Piaoji* General, Luo Guancheng's, eldest daughter, Luo Bing, as his wife.

(*T/N: Not a very significant translation explanation but the title 'Piaoji' translates to 'solider on a white horse' where piao = white horse and ji = mounted soldier. Just thought it was interesting.)

Luo Bing, this noble family young lady, she was still very clear about. In the capital, she was the only young lady waiting to be married that didn't know the feminine arts*, everyday only knowing how to play with weapons. She felt Su Yun wouldn't marry this kind of girl as his wife, and even more so, wouldn't love her.

(*T/N: Refers to embroidery, needlework, etc.)

That man didn't hope for his own wife to be able to be hardworking at running the household, nor did he hope for his wife to be gentle like water, but Luo Bing was infamous in the capital as the 'demon* girl'. No matter big or small, as long as it was something she couldn't stand watching, she would interfere.

(*T/N: Actually it references a very specific demon, the original term was 'Luo Cha' which is a demon in Buddhism. This demon would play tricks on monks in the temple and has a taste for their food.)