Repudiating a Good Wife Is Out of the Question

11. Exchanging Vows

Translator: Sissy That Walk

Xiao Yugui went back home after he finished court affairs, seeing his sedan chair, Lady Lu’s servants rushed to the inner gate to report the news.

Therefore, what came to Xiao Yugui’s sight was Lady Lu giving way to a storm of weeping in the room.

“Humph, we both know what’s going on, Bailu used to be your maid, wasn’t she?” said Xiao Yugui angrily.

Xiao Yugui was about to state more facts to Lady Lu when she thumped her head on the ground, “Your Lordship, please hear me out. I know being a step mother probably is the most difficult job, but I have been doing this job diligently for years now. I don’t blame Yi for what has happened, I know that kid well, I only blaming myself for misjudging Mo, Mo molested Bailu and he was afraid the scandal may end up being known to all, so the excuse of cooking the booking came in handy.”

Lady Lu cried, “And Bailu used to serve me, everyone in the house has been insinuating that I was behind it, why on earth would my kindness be wronged like this? I know Yi now listens to everything that Mo says, Yi chose to be oblivious to all the good deeds we have been doing for him. Plus, the account books that Bailu gave me were perfectly done, so of course I would take it as the way it is.”

Lady Lu got more emotional as she continued, “Your Lordship, over the past years I believe you know exactly how I have been treating Yi, and so does everyone else in our mansion. Even Lady Dowager was satisfied with me, but Mo, he just married to our mansion two days ago and now I am reduced to the laughing stock! Yes, I admit that I fail at supervising the domestic affairs, but I’m afraid that Mo is being too disrespectful to me. Mo just set such an awful example to all the young masters in our household, our family will be in a chaos if other young masters all follow suit!”

Lady Lu empathized family glory because she knew it so well that what Xiao Yugui cared for the most was family reputation than anything else.

Hearing that, Xiao Yugui’s face darkened, he dreaded to think the young masters in his family show no respect to elders and superiors.

Lady Lu knew her strategy would work out just fine, she coaxed, “That Mo has definitely gone too far, he pressured Yi on dividing up and living off their own allowance, he is aimed to change our family rule! Your Lordship, don’t let that innocent face fool you, that kid has such a manipulative nature, we need to watch out, for a clan as big as ours, family glory is our first priority!”

Xiao Yugui sighed, “You are right about family glory, money is trivial matter compared to our family glory. We need to set up some rules and disciplines before it’s too late, I suppose we can’t be too harsh too him considering he grew up in a humble family like Cao, let’s be more understanding. Hmm, tell him to learn our disciplines and they are not allowed to live apart, but I will give them an exception on account books, they can take charge of their own finance.”

To return to Cao Mo, he was combing his hair in Magnolia House, the long hair was still bothering him a great deal and he was dying to wash this long hair. So Qingxue ordered Qiushuang to to fetch water for Cao Mo.

Qiushuang was Lady Lu’s personal maid, she had never done such heavy manual labor work before. Being assigned a job like this, Qiushuang wiped her tears in frustration for she had no other choice but to carry out the order.

Cao Mo felt much better after a nice bath, he put on the nighty gown that had been soaked in incense and said to Xiao Yi, “It’s such an inconvenience that we don’t have our own kitchen, I would very much like a night snack.”

Xiao Yi, who was reading by the bedside, smiled on hearing what Cao Mo just said, he put away his book and asked Qingxue to fetch him a bowl of cubilose soup.

Hearing that, Cao Mo’s eyes were wide open for he came from a poor family that he had never had cubilose soup before. Then he frowned for he knew the gates off all houses were locked now due to it was late night now, where could Qingxue get the cubilose soup?

Xiao Yi told Cao Mo that this was all paid in his secret stash, a bowl of cubilose soup and a bowl of ginseng decoction per day.

Cao Mo asked Xiao Yi how much secret stash he had.

Xiao Yi fumbled to open a drawer filled with a pile of title deed for land and title deed for a house.

Cao Mo suddenly caught hold of Xiao Yi’s hand and said, “Oh my God, will you be my sugar daddy?”

Xiao Yi gave Cao Mo a strange look, “We are married, of course I will be responsible for you.”

“Word! A promise is a promise!” Cao Mo beamed, he took hold of the drawer and kissed the title of deeds one by one.

Xiao Yi found that amusing, “What are you doing, Mo?”

“I’m just being happy, haha, look at all these treasures, I don’t need to lift a finger now that you are so filthy rich.”

Xiao Yi was enjoying what he was seeing, he loved to see Cao Mo’s smile, an ear to ear smile with those rosy lips.

Rosy lips?

Xiao Yi’s heart was pounding and he found his mouth so dry, so he gave a slight cough and said, “Can you get me some water?”

Cao Mo put the treasures back into the drawer and jumped out of bed to get Xiao Yi the water.

Seeing how thrilled Cao Mo was, Xiao Yi was a bit anxious, ‘I shouldn’t have told him about this so soon, what if he is not as reliable as I thought he is?’

Cao Mo helped Xiao Yi to drink the water, and he suddenly put on a serious face, “I have never expected I would be married at such a young age, but now that we are a married couple already and you are such a nice person, I’m not against the idea any more, but our wedding ceremony was far from what I have been hoping for.”

Xiao Yi was at a loss.

Cao Mo continued, “I, Cao Mo, take you, Xiao Yi as my husband. To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, so long as we both shall live. All this I vow and promise.”

“Aren’t we married already?”

Cao Mo nodded his head, “Yes, we are. But marriage should be about the two person who are going to spend the rest of their lives together, I felt like we haven’t exchanged our vows.”

Xiao Yi found the concept so novel, but is made perfect sense, he nodded, “Yes, it should be just about us and just us two.”

“Would you like to make you vow, too? Just like what I have just said, we will hold each other’s hand, thick or thin?” asked Cao Mo with his eyes sparkling.

Well, what Cao Mo really meant was ‘my wealth is your wealth, my status is your status’.

Xiao Yi smiled, “So it’s like we are allying? You don’t trust me and you want to me swear on that?”

Cao Mo replied, “I need to think for myself, I’m not able to have kids with you, what if you regret about this decision one day so I need to prepare for all the possible outcomes.”

Xiao Yi found that make sense, “What could I do?”

“I just want us to be a happy couple, I want us to have mutual affinity and mutual respect for each other.” with that Cao Mo took a few glimpse at the drawer.

Xiao Yi smiled, he presented the drawer to Cao Mo and said, “Here, I promise you I will love you wholeheartedly, not only will we have mutual affinity and mutual respect, but also we are having mutual property.”

Cao Mo fondled the drawer with a bright smile, “Sounds great! I will, too, love you wholeheartedly, I will shoulder my respectability in this marriage, I will take care of my husband and his family, we will share weal and woe and of course happiness together.”

Xiao Yi said, “Mo, I will be on your side, never leave or forsake you, thick or thin.”