The Marquis' Wife
Xiao Xieyuan's

Scholars several times looked towards the entrance of the restaurant waiting for the news they wanted to hear.

"Graduate!! I graduated!!!" The cry of the almost half-century old scholar made people more enthusiastic, let alone see the man crying because all his efforts had not been in vain. He was one of the scholars who took the Sheng-shih exam several times for not wanting to give up.

Lu Cai also ran to the restaurant after seeing the exam number given to him.

"Great master!! You're the head champion, you're Xiao Xieyuan!!" Lu Cai shouted hysterically, so pleased with his master's achievement, that he had already thought that his master would get the title but seeing it instantly made a different sensation.

"Congratulations Lu Xiang!!".

"Congratulations to Xiao Xieyuan".

"Yes, congratulations Lu Xiang. In our Academy now two people have that title"

"Yes. Senior Wang also had the same title".

Lu Xiang's friend and the other scholars who heard about it approached Lu Xiang and congratulated him and introduced themselves. Second scholar Xiao Xieyuan!! The impression of admiration for Lu Xiang grew even more as the title was on a different level.

Li Yueyin also felt excited by the news of happiness and growing obsession with Lu Xiang, she glanced at the man and blushed in embarrassment by her own thoughts.

"Eh! How's me?!"

Song Yuan's question made the others wake up and either asked Lu Cai or went back to their seats to wait.

"Young master Wang ranked second, young master Zhang remembered 14th, master Li Jin remembered 23rd".

Song Yuan's smile disappeared. "Did I fail?".

Lu Cai felt bad saying the bad news, he just nodded slowly.

Song Yuan sighed in disappointment, although he had expected it to be painful, he tried to smile but his face looked like he wanted to cry.

"Don't despair Song Yuan, you still have your next chance".

"Yes. You're just like me, we're going to try hard again to become Juren. It's just a matter of time".

"Failure is delayed success, keep Song Yuan's spirit".

"I'll give you my notes, you can learn them and maybe it will help you" Entertain Lu Xiang and the others.

"really? You want to give me my notes for us?" Chen Xirang shouted in pleasure.

The other scholars were also interested in the record of a Xiao Xieyuan, they stared expectantly at Lu Xiang.

"Yes, you can have it".

Song Yuan finally smiled and said that he was fine. "I was the first to copy that note".

"alright then. As a good friend I will allow you to copy Lu Xiang's notes first".

The atmosphere became lively and enthusiastic. One by one the information came to say that the scholars were graduating or not graduating.

Their reactions were all the same, disappointed and crying if it failed, shouting gleefully and smiling broadly if it passed.

"To celebrate the victory and entertain the unlucky scholar, Fuyuan restaurant will give you a desert for free". Manager Xie announced the good news to scholars who made their happiness levels higher and could treat the disappointment they felt.

"Goodbye, you passed the exam and became a Juren scholar" Li Yueyin who sat beside her brother bowed respectfully.

Li Jin smiled and nodded. "Thank You Yueyin".

His smile slightly disappeared seeing his sister glance at Lu Xiang and step closer. "Congratulations Brother Xiang for the title you earned. I am so proud to hear that good news".

Li Yueyin's ambiguous words made the scholars close to Lu Xiang's desk turn their heads and glance at the girl and Xiao Xieyuan.

"Ah, congratulations Tianjin, young master Zhang".

Wang Tianjin and Zhang Yunlei raised their eyebrows at the different greeting but they only smiled and thanked.

"Sister Xiang. Can I talk to you about something?".

"Call Lu Xiang as young master Xiao Xieyuan Yueyin, you can no longer call him that". Li Jin warned, his jaw hardened because his sister wanted to go back to looking for tantrums.

All the scholars who heard glanced back silently at Li Yueyin and Lu Xiang, those ambiguous gazes as if they were catching on to a new rumor that was about to appear.

"Well, my wife is on the second floor, we'll talk there". Lu Xiang's reply made the ambiguous atmosphere disappear.

He got up and stepped onto the second floor without waiting for an answer from the girl. Of course Lu Xiang reserved another room to the waiter when he got to the second floor, he didn't want Adelia to know about the unimportant thing.

The waiter immediately prepared the room after obtaining permission from manager Xie.

"What do you want to say?". Lu Xiang wanted to wake Li Yueyin up to herself about the empty dream that the girl had expected of her.

Li Yueyin was initially disappointed that Lu Xiang had invited her to speak under Adelia's supervision but when she walked into the room she found that only the two of them were there, he feels happy and thinks that the man he loves is getting attracted to him.

Her face reddened with anticipation and proud to finally defeat Adelia. Lookie! Lu Xiang finally burst into him!.

However Lu Xiang's flat and indifferent gaze made Li Yueyin's smile slightly muffled, she clasped tightly onto her skirt and inhaled a deep breath, this was a rare opportunity that she should not miss.

"Sister Xiang, I.I like you" Li Yueyin's face flushed like a boiled crab from being so embarrassed to declare her love, her body was even coldly hot to feel the experience.

"Certainly?".

Li Yueyin was surprised and seeing Lu Xiang who did not react to her declaration of love, her face started to lose color.

"I. I want to be your concubine Brother Xiang".

Lu Xiang laughed lightly and sillyly which made Li Yueyin's face turn pale, he poured tea into a glass then turned it around like wine.

"Miss Li, do you know the status of a concubine?".

Li Yueyin was stunned. "A concubine is under the legal wife".

"Wrongly" Lu Xiang placed the tea glass firmly on the table, the voice stomping Li Yueyin's body and making the girl tremble in fear.

"The status of a concubine is no different from the status of a slave. Did you know that a husband can sell his own concubine?".

Li Yueyin's eyes widened.

"You don't know, do you?, even a boy can sell his own father's concubine when his father is gone, supposedly his own property".

Lu Xiang stood up and walked over to Li Yueyin with slow steps. The gripping cold gaze made the girl step back with an increasingly frightened body.

"Miss Li, guess what. What percentage is the chance that I will sell you when you become my concubine?".

Li Yueyin's face grew deathly pale, she had never seen a man so monstrous as Lu Xiang.

"You're not like Adelia. You're naive, you don't know yourself and your place and you're stupid! Hahaha, you're not even good at making money and will be a parasite in my house later".

Lu Xiang's steps stopped right in front of Li Yueyin who was no longer able to rewind her steps. "Can you guess Miss Li, what percentage of you I'll sell if you become my concubine? Heh~ Let me guess for myself, 90%?" He said while stroking his jaw thinking seriously.

Li Yueyin was so frightened that her knees lost strength and fell down.

Lu Xiang retreated his steps and continued his words without caring about the fear that the girl before him felt. "10% more because of your brother, Li Jin. But that is not a problem for me, the family of legitimate wives alone should not interfere anymore with the lives of their married daughters supposedly again just a lowly concubine. That's the fate of your dreams and empty dreams Miss Li".

Lu Xiang stared coldly at the merciless Li Yueyin who was so frightened that she hugged her trembling body and opened the door but her eyes widened to see his wife who had been standing there for a period of time he doesn't know!!.