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Chapter 855: Chapter 858: A Grave for Dress and Crown?
If there’s a next life, I hope she can have a completely different one—healthy and happy at the very least.
"Silly Sister, I’m sorry, and thank you," Qiao Duo’er said earnestly.
She was sorry because she had taken over someone else’s body, and grateful because the original self had given her the opportunity to experience happiness.
It was the original self’s sacrifice that had made her present life with Tan Zhenghong possible.
Tan Zhenghong had also said sorry, because on the night of their wedding, for just a moment, he had despised her when she was covered in a mess of flour soup.
The incense burnt slowly, and the two people in front of the grave had countless emotions.
Fate really is a strange thing; it often turns everything upside down at some unknown moment.
Qiao Duo’er sat by the grave for a while, and only when the sun grew stronger did she and Tan Zhenghong descend the mountain together.
It was a long while after they’d left that Xuan San emerged from behind a tree.
He swiftly dug up the small mound and pulled out the clothes inside.
Xuan San curled the corner of his lips and muttered that Tan Zhenghong and Qiao Duo’er were quite interesting. Burying two tattered pieces of clothing, providing offerings and paper money—what were they plotting?
Was it just to keep themselves busy?
Xuan San soon realized, this was a Grave for Dress and Crown, but for which woman was it built?
But shouldn’t a Grave for Dress and Crown be built more formally? At the very least, set up some tablets!
That way, he would know what the couple was up to.
Suddenly, an idea struck Xuan San—perhaps Tan Zhenghong had taken a liking to the current woman, and together they conspired to kill his former wife. Now they were pretending to mourn her with this pseudo-grave.
This would explain the vast change in Qiao Duo’er’s appearance, disposition, and why she was no longer silly.
But there were many things that didn’t add up, such as why neither the villagers nor the woman’s family had noticed anything. And where was the woman’s body?
Xuan San stroked his chin, a thoughtful expression on his face.
However, after a long time, he could come up with no explanation. Shaking his head, he decided to continue his clandestine surveillance of Qiao Duo’er.
But Xuan San, who had been squatting for two days straight, had discovered nothing at all.
The woman was formidable, with keen senses; he could only observe her from afar, and even then, he had to use his peripheral vision or he would alert her.
As a result, the information he obtained was sparse, which was frustrating!
Even more agonizing was the fact that he had to witness her smiling so pleasingly every day, which made his heart ache as if sliced by a dull knife, each cut reaching deep into his soul.
His Yin Yinyue had died—why should there still be smiles in this world?
But all he could do now was wait.
Eventually, he simply rented an empty house in the village to settle in, waiting for the plague to arrive.
Soon, the secrets he wanted to uncover would turn to ashes in the pandemonium.
Then, nothing would matter anymore.
Duo’er’s days were filled with joy, but the Qiao Family Members were having a hard time.
"What’s with Master Xu? It’s been almost a month since then, so why hasn’t there been any movement?"
Qiao Hua’er was so anxious she stamped her feet.
"We should have married off Third Sister before the New Year, but you all insisted on waiting another year. Now, look what’s happened; they’ve surely forgotten about Qiao Mei’er by now!" Qiao Jingu was furious.
Without Master Xu’s support, they had no chance of reaping any benefits from Qiao Duo’er, let alone taking revenge on her behalf.
Qiao Hua’er suddenly remembered that Du Haofeng was well acquainted with Xu Yuanwai and thought that he might help remind him.
So she put on her most beautiful dress and stepped out.
The back gate of Du Mansion.
Qiao Hua’er knocked on the door, and the Young Servant arranged by Du Haofeng immediately went out to meet her.
But the person she saw at the designated place was not Du Haofeng, but the second young lady of the Du Family, Du Yingxue.
