The Mu Manor

The sunset shone into the back-end courtyard and the leaves reflected it in faint gleams. Evenings here were so tranquil that it seemed like only the soft rustling of leaves in the wind could be heard.

“Your Highness, do you really think that our current actions are appropriate? After all, you still have an engagement with my elder sister.” The young girl flushed and raised her head shyly as she leaned her delicate, alabaster-like body into the man’s well-built chest. “If our relationship were to be discovered by elder sister……”

“Are you referring to that useless piece of trash?” The man frowned, an action which marred his handsome appearance, a trace of disdain in his response to the girl’s words. “When we are together, you mustn’t mention that repulsive girl to me. As for the engagement, it means nothing to me, I will rescind it someday. How can trash like her be my wife?! Ting Er, trust me, I will give you a legitimate identity. Only you can be matched with me!”

“Your Highness……” Mu Ting Er was moved, but she replied again with difficulty, “Won’t this still be too unfair to elder sister? She’s still my elder sister after all.”

Hearing her words, the man tightened his arms around her as he said tenderly, “Ting Er, you’re too kind. It’s her fortune to have you as her sister. If she still doesn’t recognize your kind intentions, don’t blame me for being ruthless!”

Mu Ting Er had tears in the corners of her eyes as she lowered her head into his chest, but at the same time her lips unconsciously curled up into a sneer. Her scheme had succeeded.

At this moment, they heard a shriek.

“Ah! You two…..You two……”

Mu Ru Yue tightly covered her mouth as she gazed with disbelief at the adultery in front of her. The couple had been caught completely *****. Tears flowed uncontrollably. At this moment, her heart seemed to have been viciously pierced.

The man frowned, and used a piece of the clothing at his side to cover their bodies. He looked at Mu Ru Yue with a frown, expressing undisguised frustration and disgust.

“I’ve told you long ago to stay out of my sight! Now, you have actually disturbed Ting Er and I. If it wasn’t for you being a daughter of the Mu family, you wouldn’t live to see another day!”

Seeing the man protecting Mu Ting Er in his embrace, Mu Ru Yue bit hard on her lips, her eyes bloodshot and filled with tears born of grievance.

His words were like a sharp blade that ruthlessly pierced her heart, making her feel that she was in so much pain that she did not want to continue living.

‘So, in his heart, I’m only an insignificant person. Then why did he treat me with tenderness when I was less than 5 years old? If it hadn’t been for that tenderness, I wouldn’t have been attracted to him, unable to stay away.’

However, after being tested for her innate ability when she was five, she had discovered that all her muscles and meridians were blocked, making her a trash that couldn’t cultivate. All of his tenderness had left her then.

“Shut up!”

The sudden cry gave Mu Ru Yue a fright. She didn’t know what she had said wrong, so she looked back at him with feelings of hurt. His face had turned ashen.

Ye Tian Feng looked with disdain upon the young teary-face girl before him and sneered, “Mu Ru Yue, what do you have that can be compared to Ting Er? You don’t even deserve to be compared to her shoes!”

“Your Highness……” Mu Ting Er hastily held back Ye Tian Feng. “Your Highness, please stop. It is my fault. I shouldn’t…… I shouldn’t have agreed with Your Highness. Ting Er has always thought that our love would be blessed by everyone, but I have forgotten that elder sister is deeply in love with you. Your Highness, I beg for you to stop hurting elder sister. She is a good girl…….”

The single teardrop that flowed down the tender curve of her lovely face made Ye Tian Feng’s heart ache.

“Ting Er!” Tightly holding her hand, he said with deep emotion, “When you gave yourself to me a month ago, I swore that I would definitely marry you! However, the engagement between this trash and I was an imperial order by my royal Grandfather. I’ll need some time to convince him to withdraw the order, but believe in me, you’ll become my wife soon.”

The scene playing out before Mu Ru Yue eyes hurt her deeply. She glared with blood-shot eyes filled with hatred at Mu Ting Er, and said, “Mu Ting Er, you’re only an adopted daughter, while I’m the genuine young mistress! I hope you clearly know your status!”

Pa!

Just when she said that, a slap viciously landed on her face.

Mu Ru Yue’s body suddenly trembled as she held onto the red mark on the side of her face, then stiffly turned her head. She looked in disbelief at the middle-aged man at her side. “Father, how could you……”

“Impudent! Who allowed you to talk to Ting Er in such a manner?” The middle-aged man had a cold expression and was acting as though the person before him wasn’t his own daughter, but merely a maid that he could abuse.

“Father, I’m your daughter!” said Mu Ru Yue, her voice choked with emotion. With tears in her eyes, she continued, “She’s only an adopted girl. Father, why did you……”

“Daughter?” The middle-aged man snorted. “A daughter like you is my lifetime’s disgrace! Even though Ting Er was adopted, her innate talent is outstanding. She’s my pride instead! You really think that you have the right to be paired up with Crown Prince Jing 1? I’ll clearly tell you now that I have assisted them in this matter. Why else do you think no one has come here yet?”

It was as though lightning had struck in a clear sky. Mu Ru Yue trembled a little, biting on her lips as she looked at her blood relative.

“Elder Sister Ting Er, are you alright?”

At this moment, Mu Yi Xue, who shared the same parents as Mu Ru Yue, passed by her blood sister as if she did not see her, walked straight to Mu Ting Er’s side, whose face was already covered in tears.

“Elder sister Ting Er, rest assured. Xue Er and father will protect you. We won’t let that person steal your husband.” Mu Yi Xue laughed adorably before shifting her gaze to Mu Ru Yue. With disgust in her gaze, she continued, “Moreover, in the Mu Family, I only have Mu Ting Er as my elder sister. This trash doesn’t deserve to be my elder sister. I really don’t understand how mother gave birth to such trash. She isn’t worthy to be the Mu family’s daughter!”

“Father, Xue Er……”

Mu Ting Er looked gratefully at the two. Nobody noticed the sneer on her lips at that moment.

‘Mu Ru Yue, I swore long ago that I would seize all of your possessions! Blame it on yourself for being the genuine young mistress of the house, while I’m just an adopted girl. The main reason why I, a girl that you always looked down upon, is able to climb onto your head today was mainly due to you being trash that cannot cultivate. But it should be impossible for you to suspect the reason you became trash. When you were five, before your innate talent test, I placed poison into your meal. Furthermore, nobody could possibly suspect that the four-year-old me would have been such a schemer.’

Mu Ru Yue’s heart turned cold as she looked at the harmonious family. She suddenly realised that she was just an outsider.

Haha!

She suddenly howled with laughter as she viciously charged towards a tree at the side, still laughing.

Her sudden action shocked the others. Mu Ting Er’s expression changed greatly, as she didn’t expect that she had forced her step-sister to her death. How boring it would be if she were to die now?!

When she wanted to stop her sister, a middle-aged man raised his arm to block her path.

“Since she wants to die, let her be. It will be as if I never had her as a daughter.”

It is Ye Tian Feng’s title

Bang!

When Mu Ru Yue’s head struck the tree, blood immediately flowed down her head, but her lips expressed a smile of relief.

‘Finally, I don’t need to stay here and listen to their heart-rending words…….’

She gradually closed her eyes, with a glistening teardrop hanging in the corner of her eyes.

“Let’s go!”

With an unfeeling glance, the middle-aged man looked at the young girl lying in a pool of blood. His cold expression made it seem as though it had just been a stranger in front of him.

Ye Tian Feng shuddered slightly, thinking that it was truly heartless for a father to make such a move. However, who had told Mu Ru Yue to be a trash?

In comparison to a gifted person like Ting Er, that girl had been destined to not even have the right of acting as her sister’s stepping stone……

At this moment, the young girl, who had initially been lifeless, suddenly opened her eyes and stood up. In that instant, her icy gaze landed on the group of people who were already turning to leave.

She remembered being at Long White Mountain and being ambushed by the Gu family. In order to protect an ancient alchemist book, she had met her demise along with her enemies. After that, she felt as though she was carried away by the wind.

‘Where is this?’

Suddenly, memories that didn’t belong to her fiercely came rushing to her mind, making her feel a pain so great that it felt as though her head was being ripped apart. She held her head tightly in her hands, knitting her bloody eyebrows.

‘Martial God Continent?’

‘Wasn’t I in Hua Xia? What kind of place is the Martial God Continent?’

However, from the memories, she knew that this place honoured martial skills. The training techniques here were the same as in Hua Xia, using the Dantian to store energy, and medicine for assistance. The grading system for the skills was also the same.

She had possessed a person who had the same surname and name as herself, but who was a trash with cramped muscles and blocked meridians, and had died after being unable to withstand a great shock.

In Hua Xia, Mu Ru Yue had also been a Martial Practitioner. For an Ancient Martial Practitioner, nothing was impossible, so after being shocked for a short moment, she quickly accepted reality.

She had reincarnated! That too in such a trash’s body, no less.

“Elder sister, you……you’re still alive?” Mu Ting Er’s body shuddered, showing happiness on her delicate face. “That’s great! I thought you……”

A cold gaze shot at the seemingly happy young girl. Mu Ru Yue replied, “Do you have any business with me? If not, move out of the way!”

“I……” Mu Ting Er pouted gently, and tears of grievance swum in her eyes. “I was only worried for elder sister. If I did something wrong, I hope that I didn’t anger elder sister.”

Her appearance looked so pitiful. She looked like a small pure white flower that attracted tender affection.

The middle-aged man’s expression darkened. “Mu Ru Yue, is this the attitude you should have towards your sister? It was a waste for Ting Er to be worried for you. You aren’t worthy of her feelings!”

“Sister?” Mu Ru Yue laughed grimly, “I don’t remember mother giving birth to such a sister!”

Mu Ting Er’s expression changed slightly. It was the most painful thing in her life to be only an adopted daughter of the Mu family, and not be a genuine young mistress. If it hadn’t been for her father’s incurable illness and if it hadn’t been for his sacrifice to save the Mu family’s old madam, in order to ensure a safe haven for his daughter, it would be impossible for her filial step-father to adopt the helpless Ting Er.

From that moment on, she swore that she would behave as if she were rightfully above people and that she would receive the same treatment as a genuine young mistress in the Mu family.

However, that wretched Mu Ru Yue had always used this fact to stab her every single time!

‘Just what is so good about her? Other than having the bloodline of the Mu family, she’s just a good-for-nothing young Miss!’