TFWYH – Chapter 243 The Miserable Su Xi

Tang Wan felt truly unlucky!

She had experienced social death scenes over and over again—her old face was completely lost and washed clean.

For many days afterward, she didn’t dare make any noise about wanting to sleep with her beautiful husband.

She even slept on the very edge of the bed every night, afraid of “defiling” Ling the Beauty.

But she had no idea how it happened—
she clearly lay properly on her side before falling asleep, yet every morning when she woke up, she would find that her beautiful husband had been squeezed toward the inner side of the bed… and she herself was curled up in his arms.

Facing his chilly, contemptuous stare every single morning—like he was looking at an indecent old pervert—Tang Wan felt incredibly guilty.

And because she felt guilty, she treated her beautiful husband even better!
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Su Xi had been living in this household for several days now, like an invisible person.

Every day, before Madam Jiang woke up, she would prepare all the meals for the family.

After Ling Chen woke up, she would start teaching him martial arts.

She spent most of her time hidden in the shadows.

She was a dark guard, used to sneaking around; showing her face in front of others was uncomfortable for her.

The one she interacted with the most in this house was little Ling Chen.

And that suited her very well. Compared to the scheming Ling Yu and the seemingly silly-but-never-suffers-a-loss Tang Wan, she much preferred the cute little Ling Chen.

Children were simple, easy to fool!

Perfect!

But she soon realized she was wrong.

Terribly wrong!

The child was small, yes—but had absolutely nothing to do with the word simple.

When she taught him martial arts, she couldn’t fool him at all. Within a few days, this little brat had tricked her into revealing her internal cultivation method.

Not only that, even her money was nearly emptied by this little devil.

It happened like this:

One time, after finishing martial arts training, the little brat asked her to borrow five taels of silver.

As a long-serving Shadow Guard, she had money.

Quite a lot, actually.

She thought that the brat was her little master’s uncle, so technically half a master—so lending was fine.

She generously lent him five taels.

The next day, the brat dutifully returned the money.

On the third day, he asked to borrow ten taels.

She lent it again.

On the fourth day, the brat returned the money again.

Just like that, back and forth, the brat frequently borrowed money from her, the amounts growing larger each time—but he always returned it.

So she thought the brat was actually pretty decent!

Until the last time—
the brat asked to borrow one thousand taels.

Su Xi nearly bit her own tongue when she heard it.

A thousand?!

Even as an imperial-level operative with savings, a thousand taels was no small amount.

She really didn’t want to lend it. But the brat looked at her with pitiful eyes, and she remembered that he always repaid his debts, so she gritted her teeth and lent it.

And guess what!

Once he borrowed that thousand taels, the brat didn’t return it. For several days he didn’t even mention it.

In the end, she couldn’t hold it in and asked him why he wasn’t paying it back.

The brat said:
“Money’s tight lately. Tell you what—if you lend me another 1,200 taels, I’ll pay back the previous thousand this afternoon. How about that?”

Her brain must have short-circuited that moment—she actually lent it.
And even thought: This seems reasonable.

The brat was indeed “trustworthy”—that afternoon he returned the one thousand taels.

It was only afterward that she realized more and more things didn’t add up.

She went to question him, but the brat tricked her with all sorts of excuses, and she ended up lending even more.

Su Xi looked at her shriveled purse and wanted to cry!

To get her money back, she went to look for Ling Yue.

But Ling Yue—who normally looked like a sweet girl—
the moment money was mentioned, her smiling face instantly darkened.