The Abandoned Wife’s Rebirth - Chap 62
Shi Yuan saw that Wu Ruo’s expression seemed like he found it hard to accept, so Shi Yuan braced himself and nodded.
Wu Ruo asked another time: “The ‘attending’ that all of you speak of, it’s not the ‘attending’ that I’m thinking of, right?”
The four corpse servants sensed his anger and didn’t dare to make another sound. They kept their heads down and helped him into his undershirt and underpants, and then put a thick and heavy outer coat on him.
Wu Ruo’s expression was full of disbelief.
He was already this fat, and they still wanted him to ‘attend’ to his husband?!
Shi Yuan and Shi Yi silently helped Wu Ruo out of the bathroom and into the bedroom.
Hei Xuanyi was currently looking at the steps for removing theguparasite that Nu Mu had given him, when he heard footsteps entering, he merely glanced up at Wu Ruo.
Wu Ruo stood by the bedside with a dark expression, gesturing for Shi Yuan and the rest to leave the room. Then, he stood motionlesslyin front of the bed and glared at Hei Xuanyi.
Hei Xuanyi kept the piece of paper carefully, stuffing it under the pillow: “Get on the bed.”
The veins on Wu Ruo’s forehead pulsed, and he forced down the impulse to punch Hei Xuanyi.
Hei Xuanyi saw that he wasn’t moving, and frowned: “Get on.”
Wu Ruo looked at him, then looked at the bed: “Carry me on.”
Hmph!
Didn’t they want him to ‘attend’ to his husband?
Then bring it on!
I’llcrush you to death.
Hei Xuanyi: “…”
Wu Ruo was especially pleased with himself, Hei Xuanyi couldn’t carry him, right? Hei Xuanyi still had the cheek to ask Wu Ruo to ‘wait’ on him, he was just looking to die.
Hei Xuanyi saw that Wu Ruo had an expression of self-satisfaction, and raised his eyebrows. He lifted back the blankets, stood up, and undid the ties of the outer robe at Wu Ruo’s neck.
Wu Ruo hurriedly grabbed onto the outer cloak tightly: “What are you doing?”
Hei Xuanyi forcefully took off Wu Ruo’s outer cloak and hung it on the clothing hook. After that, he mulled over how to carry that person onto the bed. After all, Wu Ruo’s body was too broad. Hei Xuanyi’s arms could only wrap around half of Wu Ruo’s body at most; if he couldn’t hold onto the other half of Wu Ruo’s body, it would be easy for Wu Ruo to tumble to the ground.
“Hurry up, I’m cold.” Wu Ruo didn’t have his outer cloak to keep him warm, and couldn’t help but shiver.
Hei Xuanyi grabbed onto Wu Ruo’s right wrist, then squatted down and grabbed his right ankle. Suddenly, with a burst of strength, he lifted and hurled that person onto the bed.
Suddenly, before Wu Ruo’s eyes, the sky and earth were spinning. In the next second, he’d already been tossed onto the bed. Luckily, the bedding was thick enough, otherwise, he would be the one to suffer.
“Strip.” Hei Xuanyi said plainly.
“I won’t.” Wu Ruo moved his body inwards with much difficulty.
The veins on Hei Xuanyi’s forehead pulsed wildly. He was the one who had to exert spiritual energy to help Wu Ruo force out theguparasite, but Wu Ruo was unexpectedly so unwilling. Could it be that Wu Ruo was worried it would hurt?
He narrowed his eyes: “You’re afraid it’ll hurt?”
He remembered Nu Mu saying that the process of removing the parasites would be extremely agonizing, this person was definitely afraid of the pain.
Wu Ruo’s fat face was both red and hot. He said, embarrassed and angry: “If it was you, you would also be afraid of the pain, right?”
Until now, Wu Ruo could still clearly remember how it had felt the first time the two of them had made love in their previous lives.
“…” Hei Xuanyi’s eyebrows creased: “Don’t worry, it’ll be over very quickly.”
Wu Ruo glared at him, embarrassed: “You’re lying.”
In their previous lifetime, the shortest time had still taken half ashichen. And, this man usually didn’t only want it once.
Hei Xuanyi’s patience had a limit, so he went straight over to strip Wu Ruo’s clothes.
“Hei Xuanyi, you want to rapeme?” Wu Ruo was so angered that he threw himself onto Hei Xuanyi, crushing him under Wu Ruo’s body. He conveniently grabbed a pillow and pounded it against Hei Xuanyi’s body: “You’re just that impatient? Can’t you wait till I’ve slimmed down to do that thing? I’m so fat right now, how can you swallowit?”
Hei Xuanyi was struck dumb by Wu Ruo. For a moment, he couldn’t understand what Wu Ruo meant by his words.
At this moment, a piece of white paper floated down from the air, falling onto Hei Xuanyi’s face.
Wu Ruo froze: “What’s this?”
He picked it up to take a look. Many steps were written on the paper. Because in his previous lifetime, he had treated theguparasite before, so he knew that these were the steps to treat theguparasite.
Hei Xuanyi explained seriously: “These are the steps for treating theguparasite that Nu Mu gave me. He wants me to start treating theguparasite for you tonight.”
Wu Ruo glared at Hei Xuanyi angrily: “Since you want to treat theguparasite, then why did you still want that thing just now?”
“What thing?” Hei Xuanyi didn’t understand.
“You wanted me to strip.”
“It was Nu Mu who said you needed to strip, to see where the parasite will come out from.”
Wu Ruo very quickly understood the start and end of this whole situation: “Master, you bastard, you actually dare to deceive a layman. When you’re forcing theguparasite out, there’s actually no need to strip. You just have to force theguparasite towards my fingertip, then it’ll come out from my fingertip. Look, the steps on the paper explain it clearly.”
When Hei Xuanyi heard Wu Ruo’s assertive manner of speaking, he knew that he’d been played for a fool by Nu Mu.
However, it was just another step of stripping, was there a need for Wu Ruo to get so agitated? And even accusing Hei Xuanyi of raping him?
Hei Xuanyi couldn’t help asking: “When I asked you to strip just now, what were you thinking?”
Wu Ruo’s face turned red and hot again, and he awkwardly said: “Nothing. Let’s quickly force theguparasite out.”
Hei Xuanyi didn’t intend to let him go so easily: “You didn’t think that I wanted to have you, did you?”
Wu Ruo wouldn’t admit it even if he was beaten to death: “No.”
Hei Xuanyi’s gaze flashed with a sliver of amusement: “You’re sure you didn’t think this way?”
Wu Ruo was really embarrassed by Hei Xuanyi’s asking and glared at him with no good humor: “When I was bathing just now, there was a petal bath, and I was slathered with scented oils. After that, Shi Yuan told me that tonight I would be ‘attending’. So, can you blame me for thinking too much? This matter must definitely have been orchestrated by Hei Xin, it was him who told Shi Yuan to tell me that I’d be ‘attending’ tonight.”
Hei Xuanyi saw that Wu Ruo was embarrassed, angry and awkward, and couldn’t help his lips curling up.
“Laugh again and I’ll crush you to death.” Wu Ruo flung his whole person onto Hei Xuanyi’s body as if he was bearing down with the weight of Mount Tai. The person beneath him let out a smothered ‘hng’.
Hei Xuanyi: “…”
Er, this person was really quite heavy.
Wu Ruo saw that Hei Xuanyi’s brows were knitted together tightly, and grinned happily: “Scared, right?”
Hei Xuanyi’s expression was serious: “Get up.”
“I won’t get up.”
Hei Xuanyi narrowed his eyes, then lifted his hand to touch Wu Ruo’s waist.
It was as if Wu Ruo had been scalded by hot water, abruptly moving his body away. When he saw Hei Xuanyi lifting the blankets, preparing to sleep, Wu Ruo hurriedly hugged the other’s waist: “Daye, I was wrong.”
He still needed to rely on this person to force out theguparasite, so he couldn’t afford to offend this person.
Hei Xuanyi raised his eyebrows: “What did you do wrong?”
“I shouldn’t have suspected your good intentions, and I also shouldn’t have used my weight advantage to crush you.”
The corner of Hei Xuanyi’s mouth quirked up slightly, he was very pleased with Wu Ruo’s attitude of admitting his mistakes.
After the two of them forced out theguparasite, then they went back to their respective nest of blankets to sleep. The next morning, once they woke up, they went to see Nu Mu off.
Wu Ruo couldn’t bear to part with him: “Master, when I have time in the future, I’ll go to the Shaman clan to look for you.”
“Alright.” Nu Mu couldn’t stand the sentimental atmosphere of farewells the most, so he changed the topic. He asked quietly by Wu Ruo’s ear: “How was it last night with Little Hei?”
Wu Ruo rolled his eyes: “Nothing happened.”
Nu Mu laughed as he slapped Wu Ruo’s shoulder, saying: “I saw that Head Steward Hei was quite anxious about the two of you, so I gave him a hand. Alright, it’s not early anymore, I have to go.”
“Hn,shifu, take care.”
Wu Ruo watched as Nu Mu and his subordinates left, until he couldn’t see them anymore, only then did he walk back into the manor with Hei Xuanyi.
Hei Xuanyi went straight to the equipment-making room.
Wu Ruo instructed Shi You: “In the next few days, Wu Yanlan will definitely send people out of the Wu estate to look for someone. Think of a way to let Ling Mohan sneak into their entourage.”
“Understood.” Shi You turned around and left. He only hurriedly returned at noon, then, he took Ling Mohan with him and left Hei Manor. After that, Shi You came back to the manor by himself.
Two days after Ling Mohan left, it was the 23rd oflayue, the festival of the kitchen god. Everyone in the family had to eat their own homemade, to pray to the kitchen god for good fortune, and for the safety of the whole family in the coming year. When it was the 24th oflayue, it was cleaning day.
Every family had to clean their surroundings, wash their various equipment, take apart and clean their bedclothes and curtains, mop and sweep all the outer courtyards, brush away the dust and spiderwebs, dredge the ditches and drains, to welcome the new spring’s atmosphere cleanly.
And while the corpse servants in the manor cleaned, Dandan caused destruction. In a courtyard that had just been swept, in the blink of an eye, it would become a chaotic mess. In the end, it only ceased when Wu Ruo punished him to face a wall and reflect on his mistakes.
The days passed by extremely quickly. In the blink of an eye, they were welcoming the night of New Year’s eve.
Hei Xuanyi came out earlier from the equipment-making room; glancing around, it was red all around. It was as if the withered trees had grown red leaves in the span of one night. Many red strings were hung all over them. And row after row of big red lanterns were hung on the covered corridors and beneath the eaves. The candlelight was bright and extremely festive.
When he arrived outside the main hall, he could hear the sounds of laughter filling the whole house even before he entered. He couldn’t help but be infected by it, and the corner of his lips curled up slightly.
Inside the main hall, Wu Ruo was currently giving Hei Xin, Hei Gan, and Shi Yuan and the rest their red packets: “Shi Yuan, Shi You, Shi Jiu, Shi Yi, tonight I won’t need all of you to serve me here. The four of you can go to the back kitchens and spend the new year’s night with the others. Eat a proper full meal.”
Shi Yuan and the others happily said: “Thank you, Madam.”
Wu Ruo saw Hei Xuanyi entering, and smiled: “You’re here, let’s eat.”
Dandan threw himself over Wu Ruo’s lap, lifting his head and pouting his lips as he asked: “Daddy, what about my red packet?”
Hei Xin beamed: “Little Young Master also wants a red packet, huh?”
“I’ve helped you to keep your red packet. When you grow up, I’ll use it to help you get a wife.”
Dandan’s beautiful big eyes were full of curiosity: “Daddy, what’s a wife? Can you eat it?”
Hei Gan suppressed the urge to grin: “You can eat it.”
“Go.” Hei Xin pushed him away: “Don’t corrupt littleshaoye.”
“All of you, take a seat.” Wu Ruo invited Hei Xin and Hei Gan to sit down.
“Thank you, Madam.”
Hei Xuanyi took out red packets from his sleeve to give to them, even Shi Yuan and the rest got one each, and Wu Ruo’s red packet was the biggest.
Wu Ruo clutched onto the red packet tightly, and quietly said a word of thanks. This was his first time receiving Hei Xuanyi’s red packet. In his heart, he strangely felt especially happy.
Dandan was also especially happy because this was his first time receiving a red packet. He opened the red packet right there in front of Hei Xuanyi. Inside, there were four small silver wrist bangles, and there were many bells hung on them: “Thank you, father.”
Hei Xin immediately helped Dandan to put the wrist bangles onto his little hands.
“Jiu~” The large crow Yao saw that everyone had a red packet, and cried out in dissatisfaction.
Hei Xin smiled and said: “Jiu Jiu also wants a red packet.”
Wu Ruo was confused: “This bird is called Jiu Jiu?”
“It’s the name that Little Young Master chose for him.”
Hei Xuanyi took out another red packet and gave it to Jiu Jiu.
Jiu Jiu excitedly used its mouth to receive the red packet, then, hid it under itswings.
Everyone waited for the head of the household to tell them to eat, then they picked up their chopsticks.
Dandan excitedly said: “I want to eat the chicken leg.”
“Alright.” Hei Xin picked the chicken leg for him.
Hei Xuanyi picked the other chicken leg and placed it into Wu Ruo’s bowl.
“Thank you.” Wu Ruo smiled at all of them as he ate. In his heart, he couldn’t help but lament. If this was his previous lifetime, he definitely wouldn’t believe that there would be a day that he would spend New Year’s with Hei Xuanyi and the others.
Outside the manor, heavy snowfall was swirling in the air, but it couldn’t hold back the festive atmosphere of the New Year. The whole of Gaoling City was filled with the sounds of bamboo firecrackers and everyone’s joyous laughter.
Wu Ruo was happy in his heart, and couldn’t help drinking another two glasses. Aftershousui, when he returned to his room, he was already drunk.
He took out the money pouch that he’d finished sewing beforehand from beneath his pillow and gave it to Hei Xuanyi: “A present for you.”
Notes:This chapter was packed full of Chinese New Year cultural tidbits, so I hope that’s fun for everyone to read! I especially enjoyed the first half of the chapter because I had that circus clown song playing in my head the whole time while I was reading/translating, it was hilarious AF. I also really liked that the author called out the usual dubcon/noncon sex trope because it’s really not romantic to sexually assault your lover.
Neither of them are perfect about respecting boundaries, but I like that they never cross the bottom line.
Also, just as an aside, if anyone is reading the original Chinese alongside my translations, some stuff gets translated differently in later chapters as I learn more and improve at translating. I’m always trying my best, but my Chinese is still lacking and I’ll be working on getting better as much as I can. I appreciate everyone’s support (views, likes, comments, tips) and I hope everyone enjoys Loser Wife as much as I do. Thank you very much!
