The Peerless Beauty Stuck With Me

Tang Rao, this irresponsible fellow, trying to negotiate while constantly winking at the old man, what is he suggesting?

"If your eye twitches one more time, I'll have a doctor look at it. You're young, but you've got quite a few latent illnesses."

The old man didn't say whether to forgive Tang Shimei or not, so why is the focus now on Tang Rao's eyes?

"I'm a Divine Doctor myself. There's nothing wrong with my eyes. Maybe it's your eyes that have the problem."

Tang Rao doesn't want to admit he's signaling the old man.

"Let's get to the point. Can you let her go?"

Tang Rao's got just this one small wish. Could it be the old man isn't willing to help make it come true?

"She's my daughter, of course I care, but she made a mistake, an unforgivable mistake. What do you think I should do?"

It's brought shame to the entire Tang Family.

"The key is, she had no criminal intent. Even if she did something wrong, it wasn't intentional. Let me remind you, strictly speaking, she's still a victim."

Tang Rao emphasized the word "victim" heavily. Only by approaching from the victim's angle can Tang Rao save Tang Shimei.

The old man bowed his head and pondered for a long time, weighing family honor against a personal favor from Tang Rao, unsure which was more beneficial.

"Alright, I'll pay to keep this quiet, pretend nothing happened. But I have my conditions."

The old man is a man of principle. He must hold his ground.

"What conditions?"

If they can save Tang Shimei's life, that's already great. As for other conditions, Tang Rao feels they can be negotiated with the old man.

"She is considered impure. According to the rules of the Tang Family's ancestors, impure people cannot be added to the family register and cannot be buried in the family cemetery. If she can accept these two conditions, then this matter is over. If not, I'll still handle it this way."

The old man didn't want to make his words too plain. If they're too clear, neither his heart nor Tang Shimei's would feel too good.

"I am willing to accept any punishment."

Is Tang Shimei saying she's willing to accept any punishment because she wants to die or to live?

Tang Rao was stunned by Tang Shimei's response.

"So if your father wants you to die, would you accept that punishment too?"

Tang Rao asked instinctively, with no other intention.

"I definitely wouldn't accept that. Didn't Dad just say if I don't want to die, then I have to accept his terms?"

Of course, Tang Shimei knew the ancestral rules; someone impure cannot enter the genealogy or family tomb. Her father giving her a way out was already more than she expected.

"Ah, if it were me who couldn't be added to the genealogy or buried in the tomb, my heart would be broken. Yet you choose to live at any cost."

Tang Rao was just joking, hoping the Heavenly Dao wouldn't hear and punish him for speaking nonsense.

Truth is, even ants struggle to survive, so how much more for humans?

As long as you can live, it doesn't matter if you endure some humiliation or grievance.

"Old man, since I owe you so many favors, don't mind if I owe you another. I'm just unfamiliar with Mount Cimu. Anyway, you see this daughter of yours isn't all that agreeable, so why not let her guide me around?"

Tang Rao shamelessly proposed this. What's the use if the old man refuses? Whatever his objection, Tang Rao would stop at nothing to achieve his aim.

"If I say no, you'll argue with thousands more words against my 'no,' isn't it?"

What can the old man do? He can only agree for the sake of Tang Rao.

"Then thank you, old man."

Tang Rao clasped his hands in gratitude, quickly giving Tang Shimei a glance to follow him outside later.

Tang Shimei's life was temporarily preserved. She followed Tang Rao without hesitation.

"Just because I agreed to one condition, you save my life? Benefactor, wouldn't you have other requests?"

As soon as they left, Tang Shimei asked.

It's no wonder Tang Shimei was suspicious; Tang Rao was so accustomed to doing villainous acts that she wasn't used to seeing him play the good guy.

"What other requests could I have? You don't think I have designs on you, do you?"

Tang Rao was blunt, saying whatever came to mind, regardless of whether Tang Shimei overthought it.

"You can't be too careful. Sorry if I was overly suspicious."

Reassured of Tang Rao's lack of ulterior motives, Tang Shimei felt much more at ease.

She indeed was overthinking it. After all, being a second-hand woman, how could a man as excellent as Tang Rao see her?

"Let's go, I don't have much time to explain to you!"

Tang Rao asked the old man for a leave of absence, leading Tang Shimei out of the Tang residence.

"Benefactor, honestly speaking, if you had to choose between life and death or honor, which would you pick?"

Feeling bored on the road, Tang Shimei pondered this ever-growing pile of questions in her not-so-large heart, lest it explode.

"You really want to know... Well, I'm not going to tell you."

Tang Shimei, almost having her ears perked up, ended up hearing nothing useful from Tang Rao.

"Anyway, I don't think you're the type with high moral character. If you valued honor that much, you wouldn't be so shameless now."

Tang Shimei speaks her mind too frankly, forgetting that Tang Rao was her savior. Calling him shameless, isn't that just ungrateful?

"How dare you say I'm shameless? What's shameless? Do you not see my face, such a handsome guy like me?"

Tang Rao felt defeated. You might call him uneducated, but not ugly, let alone shameless.

"Where do you want to go next?"

In a verbal sparring contest against Tang Rao, Tang Shimei still falls short.

"How should I know where to go? If I knew everything, why would I need you?"

"But you'll still have to tell me where you want to go so I can be prepared. Isn't that right?"

Tang Shimei knows Mount Cimu inside out, but there are so many places; listing them one by one for Tang Rao to choose from isn't practical, right?

"Do you have a place where they hold dangerous criminals?"

Tang Rao didn't mean to trouble Tang Shimei. He just wanted to find his mother. Wu Suowei mentioned she was punished and confined in Mount Cimu.

Tang Rao figured if she was punished by the Heavenly Dao to be kept here, she must count as a dangerous criminal, right?

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