Jiang Yan was pretending to cry, when suddenly a sound came from outside the door, like something had dropped to the floor.
Jiang Yan was startled, and her fake crying came to an abrupt stop.
It was quiet inside and outside the room for a while, and there was no further noise, so Zhang Xuyun continued to gently kiss her neck.
...
Madam Chen felt utterly humiliated, and angrily twisted the ear of Old Master Chen, who was eavesdropping at the corner, dragging him away.
Old Master Chen was dragged out for a distance, but still wanted to go back with a mournful expression: "Madam, no! Our daughter is crying! That stinky boy has no restraint, alas. Our daughter's body is not well, we can't let that boy go wild! I must go and keep an eye on them..."
Madam Chen was about to die from embarrassment, angrily saying: "Have you ever seen anyone like you, butting into the private affairs of your nephew's family? Zhang Xuyun is sensible, she definitely knows what she's doing, you don't need to interfere!"
Zhang Xuyun did indeed know what she was doing, tenderly and passionately dragging it out to the extreme, torturing Jiang Yan to the point where she couldn't bear it, her tears streaming down.
...
After marrying, Jiang Yan married into her own family. She lived in her own courtyard, with her parents.
But her cousin, who had no parents to support him, was like a pitiful live-in son-in-law, constantly bullied by his vicious father-in-law. The only time he could vent his frustrations was at night when he returned home to torment his beloved daughter-in-law as he pleased.
Thus, the Chen Family household was harmonious.
Only Jiang Yan suffered, bearing the brunt of the resentment originally directed at her father.
Jiang Yan was lazy her whole life, never leaving the inner or outer gates, only enjoying opera performances.
At the sound of gongs and drums, the curtain would rise. Heavily made-up eyes, swaying water sleeves, singing on stage.
Miss Chen, always sickly, would lean against a chair below the stage, fully engrossed.
Originally just a personal hobby of Miss Chen, who could have thought it would lead to a laughable incident?
It turned out that when Zhang Xuyun returned from business each day, he couldn't find his wife, and after asking around, learned that she was watching the opera.
When he went to find her, his cousin-wife was just getting to the best part, only sparing him a dismissive wave of her hand, telling him not to bother her.
Zhang Xuyun, always petty and jealous, immediately took this to heart. His cousin-wife actually ignored him, almost forgetting about her husband, just to watch the opera!
Hmph, she shouldn't blame him for taking some measures.
And so, people discovered that the famous businessman Zhang Xuyun was always sneaking into the opera garden.
The opera masters, seeing him loitering around but not watching the performances, and hearing that Madam Zhang often came too, thought Zhang Xuyun was there to cause trouble, and were terribly frightened.
The Master hurriedly called him over to ask about it carefully.
Originally just intending to learn something secretly to win his cousin-wife's favor, Zhang Xuyun couldn't very well tell the truth, and had to respond vaguely.
Later, when the Master saw that nothing had happened, he finally put his mind at ease.
But after that, a rumor even spread that the head of the Chen Family liked to frequent the opera garden.
More amusingly, those who had long been suppressed by Zhang Xuyun in business speculated whether this head of the household would be driven out by his own family for such behavior, purely out of resentment towards Zhang Xuyun for previously mistreating them as harshly as Old Master Chen.
When Jiang Yan heard about it, she couldn't stop laughing.
The head of the household Zhang Xuyun had his reputation tarnished, and would glumly glare at his cousin-wife during meals.
Later, he found it funny too, but still playfully whined to his cousin-wife: "I've sacrificed so much for you, cousin-wife, you should reward me."
As for how to reward him, well, that's another story.
