Favored Doctor Consort

CHAPTER 17. Struck Back

Translator: Flying Lines

Long Yichen was very annoyed, at his concubine’s failure and also at Mu Xiyue.  

Soon, Concubine Liu had another plan to take revenge and to satisfy Long Yichen again. She knew she should create another chance. She then started a personal attack at Mu Xiyue, the scandal attack! It was great a chance to utterly discredit Mu Xiyue. And when Mu Xiyue was disgraced, she would rise up.

Concubine Liu, as time went by, talked a lot with her friends in the imperial palace and sneered at Mu Xiyue, to cause a series of scandal.

“Mu Xiyue is an unchaste woman!”

“She cheated on Princess De and who knows how many she has hooked up with!”

Something like that.

Such rumors were handed around and soon became the topic of discussion over a cup of tea or after a meal.

Long Yichen didn’t find it a good idea, though. After all, Mu Xiyue was a woman. If she was totally defamed, her life would be ruined! He hesitated again and again if he should stop his concubine.

It didn’t take long before Mu Xiyue knew she became the focus of the discussion, AKA, the unchaste women who cheated on her ex-husband. The anger filled her and she was going to argue with Concubine Liu. Unexpectedly, Long Yinfeng stopped her.

He took Mu Xiyue to the garden, trying to calm her down. The latter, however, could no longer bear it. All she wanted was to give vent!

Long Yinfeng pressed her shoulders, leaned down and said, staring at her with deep love, “I know what you really are. Don’t bother how others judge you and just be yourself. They don’t understand you, but I do. Why do you care about those useless guys? They defame you, just because they’re jealous and because they’ve got nothing to compare with you.”

He continued gently, “Your song proved everything. A dirty girl couldn’t have played such a beautiful song or have sung so sweetly! You know what? In this huge palace, people always want to defame you or hurt you. If you want to strike back at whoever does that, you may not get killed. But you would possibly die of exhaustion. So, don’t bother about rumors. You know you’re innocent. And don’t care for what others say about you. Trust your own eyes and your heart. They never lie to you.”

He talked so much, which clearly calmed Mu Xiyue down. He made some sense. She could never manage to know everyone in the imperial palace, who kept hurting or defaming others for his own interests.

She thought, “If I’m always mad at whoever curses me, I’m likely to get exhausted. And I’ll be a real idiot then.”

Figuring that out, Mu Xiyue nodded at Long Yinfeng and replied gently, “I see.”

Long Yinfeng held her in his arms, staring at her and stroke her hair.

Mu Xiyue finally smiled happily.

Long Yichen, who stood far away, saw what they were doing. Failing to hear their words, he saw them hugging each other, wearing sweet smiles. Their love stank him and made him really upset.

Suddenly, he made up his mind to help his Concubine Liu with the scandals about Mu Xiyue, though he had been hesitating on this before. Right at this moment, he even wanted to disgrace Mu Xiyue in whatever way he considered  

Calmed by Long Yinfeng, Mu Xiyue tried her best to hold back her anger. Concubine Liu, however, mistakenly thought Mu Xiyue didn’t dare to fight back. She then made worse and worse rumors. With the help of Long Yichen, rumors remained so in their circulation. Long Yichen felt so good though he pretended he could.

One day, Long Yichen saw Mu Xiyue far away, then he gathered his concubine, maids and eunuchs. As Mu Xiyue came near, he said, “Hey, look at her! The unscrupulous woman! I wonder how many men she has hooked up with! She’s even cheaper than a prostitute. A prostitute gets paid anyway, but she does that for free.”

Concubine Liu chimed in with him. Everyone mocked Mu Xiyue and gesticulated.

Driven beyond forbearance, Mu Xiyue exploded! She should be tough! Making concessions could no longer help her. Abruptly, she walked up to Long Yichen. Without saying anything, she rolled up her sleeve and showed everyone the virginity nevus!

It shocked everyone, because it turned out that Mu Xiyue wasn’t as bad as Long Yichen or Concubine Liu said she was. Mu Xiyue raised her arm, stared at Long Yichen, shouting, “Why do you keep slandering me? I’ve been tolerating you, but now I’ll make no more concession!”

“Humph.” sneered Long Yichen, and he scorned, “So what? I just want that. I’m glad when people curse you. You still have the virginity nevus. But it doesn’t mean you didn’t hook up with guys!”

Mu Xiyue was maddened! Long Yichen was a psychopath! She suddenly had a good idea, that she would slander him in the same way as he did to her.

She rolled her eyes and struck back, “I know why you slandered me. Just because I know your secret, huh? You don’t want me to tell anyone, so you keep defaming me. Guys, do you want to know his secret?”

What she said incited the curiosity of everyone. They stared at Mu Xiyue, however, didn’t dare say anything.

Mu Xiyue looked at them and cast a stern glance at Long Yichen. She cleared her throat and explained, “Long Yichen has impotence. He can’t sustain an erection. He’s not a real man!”

Wow, that was big news. Everyone was flabbergasted before they discussed. One imperial maid whispered to another, “Oh, that explains. Prince Yichen has so many concubines, but he has no child. Now I know why!”

She said in a low voice, but others heard her. They whispered and mocked. Doubts had begun to spring up in their minds.

Long Yichen was mad, face dark with rage. He yelled, “Shut up, all of you! She’s lying! She said that to take revenge! No one shall bring it up again! If I hear you, I’ll kill you! Now, get out of here!”

He shouted in a stern voice, and that daunted the maids and Concubine Liu. They left, not daring to argue.

Long Yichen glared at Mu Xiyue fiercely and said, “You lied ridiculously, just to defame me! That was good!”

Mu Xiyue replied, as she wore a silent contempt, “Eye for eye and tooth for tooth. I just make you feel how great it is to be misunderstood and gossiped about.”

Long Yichen’s face turned pale, and he was too angry to say anything.