“It’s a hairpin.”
“Huh, a golden hairpin decorated with purple pearls.”
“I’ve never seen purple pearls before. I wonder how much do they cost.”
“It must belong to a rich family.”
“Judging by the clothes the boy wears, his young master must be pretty poor. He shouldn’t afford such a valuable thing. Wait, what’s this? A note?”
Someone noticed a note dropped from the wallet and hurriedly picked it up before anyone else.
“I have to return these beautiful pearls with tears in my eyes. I wish I had met you before getting married.” The one who picked the note up was not illiterate, and he read the words on it out loud.
Although some people couldn’t comprehend the first sentence, the second one was straightforward enough to understand.
It meant a lady was interested in a man and gave him her hairpin as a gift. But the man returned it to her, saying he had already married and didn’t want to betray his wife. It was an apparent rejection from him.
The man should be from an ordinary family, but the woman sounded like a wealthy one.
However, the man rejected the woman after she ignored the etiquette and sent him her hairpin as a keepsake in private.
This story was even more entertaining than one about a couple secretly dating each other.
People didn’t expect to witness this kind of scandal in the Dabei Temple and couldn’t wait to see it through.
And everything simply started from a young servant bumping into an old woman. No one would’ve known such a big secret would be revealed.
People all fell into wild imaginations, getting more excited.
Those curious and thrilled eyes all fell on Qu Moying, standing behind Yu Dong. It seemed like no one could be the lady in this scandal except for Fourth Lady Qu.
“Moying, this…this hairpin… Isn’t it the one I…I gave to you?” Qu Qiuyan’s expression suddenly changed as she subconsciously reached out her hand and touched her hair, catching everyone’s attention on the hair ornaments she was wearing. The hairpin on her head so happened to be the same as the one on the ground.
No one noticed Qu Qiuyan before. After seeing her reaction, everyone found that the hairpin on her head and the one on the ground were a pair.
So, it was confirmed that Fourth Lady Qu broke the rules, fell in love with a man, and even shamelessly gave her accessory to him as a gift.
After a second thought, people started to understand why she did it. Although Fourth Lady Qu was from a noble family, it would still be hard for her to find a suitable husband with her eye problem. So, she picked a man from an ordinary family and tried to privately send her hairpin as an engagement keepsake. Unfortunately, she probably didn’t expect the man was married.
Fourth Lady Qu? The Fourth Lady, Vice Minister Qu’s daughter? Since she was known for being ugly and dumb and losing her mother at a young age, people didn’t find it strange that she did something like this.
Some people in the crowd had already realized Qu Moying’s identity and started to talk about it.
The young servant suddenly pushed the old woman away and ran out of the crowd. Some nosey people chased him and saw him running to a tree outside the Buddha hall where a slim young master stood. The young man was wearing clothes made of coarse cloth too, but he was a good-looking man who seemed pretty gentle.
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Reborn to Be A Noble Wife
Ficción históricaDie in Water and Revive in Fire Ji Hanyue was born of a general. On the evening when she married the Crown Prince, she was framed and pushed into a lake. Before she died, she was told that both her father and sister had been murdered. When she woke...
