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Didn’t Love You Enough 96

T/N: Hello, I’m back! Thank you for your patience everyone. I’ve sort of figured out a new way to translate by using a free online word processor, but the translating process is not as smooth as before. Maybe I just need some more time to get used to it and then I can translate faster. I still need to access Pages, though. It has all my translation documents, and the software continues to glitch, which frustrates me to no end. I think it might be due to the most recent system software update. I do recall performing a update prior to the glitching. Maybe Apple tried to add something to Pages in the new update and ended up glitching it. Hopefully the next software update will fix it. Fingers crossed.


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Chapter 96 – Colored Lantern

The eunuch delivered the lantern to Yu-shi. After receiving the lantern, she hurriedly bestowed him a reward. “Thank you for the trouble…”

Yu-shi brought the lotus lantern to An’er.

“An’er, look… your father still thinks of you. The next time you see your father you must be more quick-witted and ingratiating. Understand?”

“Understood.” An’er nodded obediently as she touched the exquisite lantern.

Over on Song-shi’s side, she also received a colored lantern. She gave the lantern to Kang-er to carry in her hands.

“Look… how beautiful this peony lantern is. Kang’er, be careful when you’re carrying this around, don’t light it [with fire]…”

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While saying this, Song-shi indicated to Kang’er’s wet nurse to watch out for the little girl.

Kang’er ran around the room with the beautiful peony lantern in her hands. She liked it very much. Her wet nurse followed her around and said nervously, “Little Master… slow down a little… be careful of falling…”

Kang’er didn’t listen to her wet nurse. She kept running around the room and occasionally burst out into peals of laughter.

The wet nurse followed Kang’er around and tried to coax her by saying, “Little Master, look at how beautiful this colored lantern is, if you drop and break it, then it won’t be beautiful anymore. Little Master, slow down, stop running… Little Master, stop, look at this lantern, it’s so pretty, ya… I bet this peony lantern is the most beautiful one in Ping Le Courtyard.”

“Ping Le Courtyard? The freak’s courtyard!” Kang’er stopped. She suddenly became angry and panicked. She flung the lantern to the ground. The candle inside the lantern instantly ignited the lantern and it burned up.

The wet nurse quickly stepped forward to put out the fire, and Song-shi immediately rushed over when she heard the commotion.

“What happened? Everything was fine. Why did it burn up all of a sudden? Kang’er… didn’t Mother tell you to be more careful? It was His Royal Highness who had someone deliver this lantern over here…”

Somewhat angry, Song-shi turned to the wet nurse, “Didn’t I tell you to look after Kang’er?”

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“Master, this servant has been following the little master around all this time. I don’t know why the little master suddenly threw the lantern onto the ground,” the wet nurse replied, feeling aggrieved.

“It came from the freak’s courtyard, I don’t want it!” Kang’er said loudly.

“What freak? Kang’er, don’t talk nonsense,” Song-shi scolded Kang’er.

Kang’er struggled to get away, “It came from the freak’s courtyard. Father is not coming to see Kang’er because the freak is coiled around him. It’s the freak’s fault*…”

[*T/N: The specific word used here is 害死 (hai si), which means to be the cause of someone’s death.]

Song-shi covered her daughter’s mouth and asked sternly, “Kang’er, what kind of drivel are you talking about? Kang’er, who told you these words?”

“How do you normally look after Kang’er? Who told her such things?” Song-shi looked at Kang’er’s wet nurse with cold eyes.

The wet nurse knelt down and begged for mercy. “Master, ah, this servant never said such words, ah, don’t accuse this servant wrongly, ah…”

Song-shi felt annoyed at the sight of the wet nurse’s snot and tears. This wet nurse could not be allowed to stay by Kang’er’s side any longer. She didn’t know where Kang’er heard such words, but if His Royal Highness or Lin-xiaoshi found out, then it would be most terrible…

On the outside, Song-shi may seem honest, well behaved, and slow of speech, but she wasn’t a fool. She knew very well how to keep a low profile. She knew how to protect herself. She was His Royal Highness’s first woman, and she was the first to conceive a child for His Royal Highness. If it wasn’t for this, how could she live peacefully in the harem of His Royal Highness, and never became a threat in the eyes of the crown prince’s other women?

Translations by Vanilla Muse.

Kang’er struggled to get away again and ran back into the room. Song-shi followed closely behind and said into Kang’er’s ear, “Kang’er, good child, ah, in the future you can’t talk nonsense about freaks and such, do you understand? Especially not in front of your father, the crown prince. You must not say such things again, do you understand?”

Lin-xiaoshi was now in the limelight. He might seem naïve and pure, but his schemes were deeply hidden. In a short period of time, he was able to gain the crown prince’s special favoring, get rid of Xu Xue Ying, and now he even got the empress to be his backer. Song-shi did not dare to provoke him… She repeatedly emphasized the importance of not speaking nonsense in her daughter’s ear, and didn’t stop nagging until Kang’er agreed.

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