Chapter 5: Convenience with People

Around a quarter of an hour later, Huiran and Qiujie finally arrived.

"Young lady! Cough, cough..." Huiran and Qiujie gasped for breath as soon as they entered the room.

Since Yetai was carried away in the bridal sedan, they had been unable to catch up. As Yetai's senior maids, they were responsible for her personal affairs and were even more delicate than the young ladies of ordinary families. They couldn't keep up with the fast pace of the bridal sedan.

They had lost sight of the sedan halfway, and they didn't know where Duke Ding's mansion was. They were on the verge of tears. Suddenly, a young servant of seventeen or eighteen years old ran over, claiming to be from Duke Ding's mansion, and led them there.

"Young lady, are you alright?" Qiujie looked around and noticed that the room was simple and even more inferior to the room of a maid in the Marquis's mansion. Her expression changed.

"I'm fine. Help me take off the things on my head," Yetai said.

Huiran agreed. She wanted to find a place for Yetai to remove her makeup, but she found that there was no decent dressing table in the room, only a table under the window with a small hand mirror, a gray horn comb, and two simple jade hairpins, obviously men's grooming items.

Huiran hesitated, realizing that this was a strange man's room. She changed her expression. She wouldn't touch these men's personal items unless necessary, and it would be even more unclear in the future.

"Young lady, let me help you here," Huiran said. "Qiujie, come and help."

The two of them carefully removed the phoenix coronet and hairpins from Yetai's head. Without a comb, they used the hairpins to loosen her hair bun.

It took a whole hour to remove the makeup, and by then it was already dark.

The table was filled with the phoenix coronet and hairpins. Huiran looked at the array of items in front of her, feeling choked up and her eyes turning red. These items had been carefully prepared, waiting for the moment when the groom lifted the veil, but now...

What should they do now?

"Hey, what are you doing?" Qiujie suddenly shouted.

Yetai was startled and looked up to see Qiujie standing at the door, arms crossed, staring alertly at the person outside the door, who turned out to be the owner of the room - Third Young Master Chu Yunpan!

Chu Yunpan was taken aback. He had been feeling depressed because of today's changes, so he had gone to the study to read. It was late, so naturally he should wash up and go to bed. After washing up, he instinctively returned to his room, forgetting that there was a new bride in the room.

Now he saw his maid blocking his way with a stern look, and his handsome face darkened.

"Qiujie, what are you doing?" Yetai came out and quickly apologized, "Young Master Chu, I'm sorry."

Chu Yunpan glanced at her, seeing her beautiful and delicate face, but still stunning. He lowered his eyes, not daring to look too much, and just made a cold "hmm" before turning and leaving.

Yetai sighed slightly as she watched him walk away, then turned to glare at Qiujie, "Young Master Chu is the host, we are guests. How can we block the host from entering the room?"

"I was just thinking of protecting the young lady's reputation," Qiujie pouted, feeling wronged. "I didn't block him, did I? He's an outsider!"

Huiran nodded. Although Qiujie's behavior was rude, if it were her, she might have done the same in a moment of urgency.

Yetai felt helpless. She knew that they couldn't accept the fact that she was really marrying into the Chu family for a while, and she could only persuade them after dealing with the matters at home and convincing her mother.

With these thoughts in mind, Yetai rubbed her temples in frustration.

"Are you tired, young lady?" Huiran approached to support her.

"A little bit!" Since her rebirth until now, it had only been a short two hours, and she had experienced so much. Her body couldn't bear it.

"Then rest for a while, young lady," Qiujie looked at the bed, thinking that it was where a strange man had slept, and decided to help Yetai to the small bed on the side.

Yetai lay down on the bed and soon fell into a deep sleep.

...

The courtyard where Chu Yunpan lived was called Qiongming Pavilion. Not far from Qiongming Pavilion was a small and delicate Orchid and Bamboo Residence. Due to the decline of the Marquis's mansion and the small number of people, only Chu Yunpan and his two servants, Yuyang and Yuhuan, lived in this area.

After leaving Qiongming Pavilion, Chu Yunpan came to the Orchid and Bamboo Residence and started cleaning with a cloth.

Yuyang sneered and spat out a mouthful of dust, "What kind of family is that Yetai's family? They keep calling themselves the Marquis's mansion, looking glamorous on the outside, but who knows how dirty it is inside! They even stuffed their unmarried daughter in here! Not to mention taking up Third Young Master's room, and when he wanted to come back, they even blocked him from entering. Do they really think our Third Young Master fancies her? It's only because our Third Young Master is generous. If it were any other man, he would have thrown her out long ago."

"It's still better than our family, isn't it? Haven't you seen how our Marquis has been bullied into silence? Can't we be a little less polite?" Yuhuan said, glancing at Chu Yunpan discreetly.

Chu Yunpan remained expressionless, his handsome face as cold as a clear stream, and he threw the cloth on the table without saying a word.

Yuhuan looked embarrassed, "Third Master, you're tired. Go outside and rest. We'll finish cleaning up quickly."

"No need to clean. Let it be like this. She won't stay here for long, she should leave tomorrow. We'll just have to make do with this room for one night," Chu Yunpan said.

Yuyang and Yuhuan's faces turned even uglier. Yuyang said, "What kind of lowly person is she, thinking she can come and go as she pleases? She comes when she wants, and leaves when she wants? If she does this, we don't know how we'll be laughed at! "

Chu Yunpan said, "Who hasn't been laughed at in the family? As for outsiders, if the sky falls, there's the Zhang family and the Ye family to hold it up. Who has time to laugh at us?"

Yuyang and Yuhuan were speechless.

The Duke Ding's mansion was originally in a sorry state, like a beggar suddenly wearing a tattered sackcloth - no one paid any attention. It was a joke to see the important figure suddenly dressed in a sackcloth.

Chu Yunpan said, "Yuyang, ask Qiao Mama to bring some food to Qiongming Pavilion and see if they need anything else." After speaking, he turned and left the room.

"Well..." Yuyang was somewhat unwilling, looking at Chu Yunpan's retreating figure with a conflicted expression.

Yuyang disliked this eldest Miss Ye, who couldn't marry well and was forced to marry their third uncle. Moreover, she didn't marry sincerely, only treating the third uncle as a temporary refuge, and would surely turn her back on him after using him.

Yuhan pushed him, "Hurry up! Speaking of which, Miss Ye is also pitiful. It's all because of the incompetence of the Zhang family, and the old Marquis Ye is like a beast, not caring about the life and death of his legitimate granddaughter, only caring about his own face. As for the second Miss Ye...ugh! It's fortunate that this incident happened, otherwise marrying her would have been a disaster for eight lifetimes!"

"So, do I have to thank that Miss Ye?" Yuyang widened his eyes. "In my opinion, both of those sisters are of the same ilk!"

Yuhan was almost amused by his anger, "Alright, let's not stir up trouble. Everyone has it tough, it's best to be accommodating to others for our own convenience."

Yuyang pursed his lips and left the room.