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Chapter 1: A Ridiculous Way To Go

　　It was the Plum Rain Season, endless fog stretched out, the pattering of the rain seemed as though it would never end. *Drip… drip… drip…* Nobody was able to escape boredom.

　　Rong Jiahui listened to the soft sound of the rain while sitting on a shaky cart, preparing. She was heading to the city gates to welcome the important general, Zhong Li Luo, as he triumphantly returned. Zhong Li Luo had lived in her family for over a decade now. Her father and mother had always treated him as their own son, and he was considered to be her brother. Now that this elder brother of hers has returned, how could she, as his younger sister, not go to welcome him home. But in fact, they rarely came into contact with each other. They were like two strangers.

　　In the end, it was because she didn’t want to hang out with an orphan who came to seek shelter in her home. Back then her character wasn’t very good, she was still young and insensible. Zhong Li Luo lived in her house, ate in her house, and used her house. Even worse was that he always showed a cold face; who would be happy to have to take care of him. The servants didn’t like him very much and were usually gossiping behind his back. If it weren’t for her continuously pitying him for having no mother or father, she would have already become enraged many times. Zhong Li Luo wasn’t stupid and knew that she didn’t like him, therefore they had become alienated from each other. In all the time that they had been living in the same household, how many words had they said to each other, around 10? When he left the house, she was able to relax because she didn’t have to worry about running into him every day. Who knew that his fortunes would turn around.

　　Afterwards, Zhong Li Luo didn’t go to take the imperial examination. Instead he went into the military, and unexpectedly he rose quickly through the ranks. Nowadays she actually felt some remorse, she knew that if she had been nicer in the past then she could have had a very powerful relative, and would have more benefits in the end.

　　She sighed, she had chopsticks in her hand and was waiting for Bai Lu, who was standing off to the side, to finish cutting up a winter melon, on the other hand she could feel that the stifling hot weather was getting even worse. She couldn’t help but complain: “So annoying, why couldn’t this person have chosen a better time to come back instead of such a hot and humid day.”

　　Bai Lu, knowing that she didn’t like hot weather, couldn’t help but laugh softly, and she pressed her smile.

　　“Madam speak cautiously, this Zhong Li Luo general is brilliant and has outstanding military accomplishments. He has once again returned victorious and the emperor has decided to confer upon him Ding Yuan county and the title of Marquis.”

　　Rong Jiahui flatly said：“How is this important? So what if he is a marquis, isn’t my father also a marquis, what’s so great about him, if he is really that capable, then let him become the king of this country……”

　　As she said that, she started running out of air in her lungs and her tone weakened.

　　Yes, how could it be the same, in the end her father’s position of marquis was from her great-grandfather’s generation, it had been passed down twice. Every generation, the rank descends one level, until it is gone. If her father performed a meritorious service, he could pass down the marquis position to the next generation. However, her father was mostly inactive. His position had almost no duties and all day long he would stay at home and idle about, how could he compete with people who actually did their jobs. But also Zhong Li Luo was still so young. In those days, her great-grandfather had been conferred the position of marquis when he was almost twice as old as Zhong Li Luo.

　　Zhong Li Luo indeed was very talented, back then she would only occasionally notice him, but now she couldn’t deny his talent…

　　She slowly swallowed a mouthful of winter melon. Indescribably, she felt her heart stiffen, perhaps, these winter melon slices were too big, it could be assumed that it was Bai Lu’s fault.