Chapter 196 The World Has Changed
At first, Cui Hao was very reluctant, as he felt that it was very embarrassing to take a concubine because of other people's gossip and rumors.
Chunying was severely ignored for a while.
During that time, Chunying said she was Cui Hao's concubine, but she could not even see Cui Hao. She did not say anything, but just followed Liu Hongling as before, and still did what a maid should do.
Cui Hao's mother couldn't stand it anymore, so she called Cui Hao over and scolded him severely.
Cui Hao then began to stay overnight in Chunying's room.
It was from that time that things in the mansion became increasingly out of control.
Liu Hongling's mind was mostly on the outside world. In terms of the security of the city under her jurisdiction, her mother-in-law was more involved in the affairs of the mansion. Therefore, she was relatively slow to realize many things in the back house.
The frequency of her and Cui Hao's sex was not very high. Three or four times a month was considered good enough.
After Chunying officially became a concubine, it seemed that she and Cui Hao could no longer have sex even once a month.
Cui Hao would spend most of the month wandering around Chunying's room.
By the time Liu Hongling discovered that the mansion had changed from before, it was too late.
Especially after Chunying became pregnant, she, the mistress of the house, could not even eat a single bite of bird's nest in the mansion.
The servants in the kitchen said that because Aunt Chunying was pregnant, all the bird's nests in the mansion had to be eaten by her first.
Not only that, there are also clothes that need to be purchased for the change of seasons throughout the year. Now, we have to wait for Chunying to select them before the rest can be delivered to her room.
The Cui family was not a wealthy family, and the amount of food and daily necessities they had was limited.
Basically, Chunying had finished her selection, and only the leftovers were left for her.
Chunying, who had always been humble and polite to her, now has a drastic change in personality.
Not only did he lose the slightest respect for her as the mistress.
Instead, he would actively get close to her to make his presence felt.
Sometimes she came to show off that her belly was growing too fast and her new dress didn't fit her anymore. Sometimes she came to mock Liu Hongling for being so lucky that she didn't have to suffer the pain of pregnancy. Unlike her, she was already exhausted after only five or six months of pregnancy.
Liu Hongling was not an ordinary woman, and she didn't really care about the fighting methods in the harem. She just felt a little uncomfortable.
One was her husband, and the other was someone she had saved. But now, in this family, she seemed like a superfluous person.
This made her feel very bad, and she was even more reluctant to go home.
If things had ended here, it would have been nothing more than a love affair between a man and a woman. She would be sad, but not heartbroken.
However, the matter is far from being as simple as just adding an ungrateful person.
On the night when Chunying launched the attack, Beishui City changed its owner overnight.
Her father had passed away three months ago due to illness and incurable disease. He passed the position of city lord to her younger brother Liu Bai and passed away.
During these three months, she seldom returned to Cui Mansion because of the chaos in the mansion. Most of the time, she stayed in the City Lord's Mansion to help Liu Bai deal with the affairs of Beishui City.
The Cui family took a casual attitude towards her not returning home and never sent anyone to invite her back.
But on the night when Chunying launched the attack, she was forcibly taken back by people sent by the Cui Mansion.
It would be inappropriate for the mistress to be away when the concubine gave birth to a child. So even if Liu Hongling was impatient, she couldn't refuse.
After some tugging and pulling, she said goodbye to her younger brother and hurried back to Cui's house.
Unexpectedly, this time at Cui Mansion, her whole world changed.