A Time-Traveling Mishap: I Became an Ancient Nobleman

Chapter 262 Past Events

If it were Fangniang instead, she would raise her hand to cover her face, her eyes glistening with tears, on the verge of falling. If there were two men in front of her, she would surely have been fooled by this demeanor.

However, neither of the two people present were so easily fooled.

Liu Niang patted him lightly, "You're not happy that I'm calling you younger? If you really mind that much, I'll have her call you 'Shishu' (a term of respect for one's senior martial arts master)?"

"Please don't."

Since Qianmian knew that Liu Niang had said it, she must have had this thought. He was joking, how old was he to be called "uncle" by Zhou Hanzhang?

"Brother is the best, but you have to call me sister now, otherwise people will get suspicious, and how am I supposed to attract customers to this brothel then?"

As she spoke, Qianmian gave Zhou Hanzhang a flirtatious wink, which sent a chill down Zhou Hanzhang's spine.

If she didn't know he was a man, it would have been quite pleasing to the eye. But now that she knew he was a man dressed as a woman, his coquettish and effeminate mannerisms were indeed a bit hard for her to accept.

"Alright, don't scare my disciple. If you're busy, go ahead and do your work."

Liu Niang immediately kicked them out.

"Oh dear, is my sister trying to send me away? I'm so sad! I was hoping to spend some quality time with her."

"Forget about you. I've known you for years. I know what kind of person you are. You're obviously busy. Get lost."

"My sister understands me best. So, shall I really leave?"

"Let's go."

In just a few words, Qianmian had already annoyed Liu Niang. Her initial concern had turned into disgust, and she was afraid that if Qianmian stayed any longer, she would corrupt her disciple.

Qianmian arranged an extremely magnificent song and dance feast for the two of them. Zhou Hanzhang looked at Liu Niang and thought of a question, "Master, was that his real face just now?"

"What are you thinking? I've already said he has a thousand faces, so that's obviously not his true appearance."

"Has Master ever seen his true face?"

After a long pause, Liu Niang said, "I don't know if that counts."

Zhou Hanzhang looked at Liu Niang with curiosity, "What do you mean by 'does it count'?"

Liu Niang was lost in her memories. "When I first met him, he was just a tiny little boy. At that time, he hadn't yet learned the art of disguise. Later, his family suffered a great tragedy, and he disappeared for a long time."

I wanted to help, but it was too late when I got there. I couldn't find him no matter what I did. I thought he was dead. Who knew that many years later, he would find me with a different appearance. If he hadn't been able to tell me about our past, I really wouldn't have believed that it was him.

From that time on, he absolutely refused to show his true face. But because so much time had passed, his childhood appearance had become blurry in my mind; I only remembered him as a very handsome little boy. Even then, I thought that Yita's childhood appearance would surely make him handsome as an adult, but…”

Liu Niang sighed and didn't continue.

Zhou Hanzhang poured her some tea at the right time. Liu Niang took a sip and said, "I suspect that what happened back then may have hurt his reputation, which is why he is unwilling to show his true face to others."

Zhou Hanzhang wanted to know something, but he was too embarrassed to ask directly, so he just lowered his head and pretended to be deep in thought.

Even though Liu Niang only spent a few months with her, for some reason, she could sometimes tell what Liu Niang was thinking just by looking at her gesture.

“His family was a prominent clan back then, and I knew his mother. Logically, he should call me aunt, but he insists on calling me sister.”

Zhou Hanzhang suddenly realized why Liu Niang wanted him to call her brother.

"You should have heard that I single-handedly destroyed the king of Yunmeng Kingdom. Actually, his mother had something to do with it."

Even if Zhou Hanzhang thought about it with her toes, she couldn't have imagined that Qianmian was related to Liu Niang's destruction of the Yunmeng Kingdom's king. She immediately perked up her ears.

"His original name was Le Lan, and he was Yun Ze's son."

!!!

Shocking pumpkin.

Zhou Hanzhang didn't even dare to breathe, listening intently.

"When I was a child, there was a period when I didn't have enough to eat. It was Lelan's mother who helped me from time to time, which is why I was able to survive."

His mother came from a wealthy family on the border of Yunmeng Kingdom. One day, Yunze, who was still a prince, came to that small town for some unknown reason and was immediately struck by the beauty of Lelan's mother.

Zhou Hanzhang thought that it should start as a story of a talented scholar and a beautiful woman, or at the very least, it should end with mutual affection, otherwise how could Qianmian be born?

Liu Niang continued, "From then on, Yunze kept pestering Le Chi, who is Le Lan's mother. At that time, Yunze was quite handsome and a good match for Le Chi, but Le Chi already had someone she loved, her childhood sweetheart."

At the time, Achi was very impatient with Yunze's entanglement. In the end, when there was no way to avoid it, she took her beloved to see Yunze.

Things started to spiral out of control from here. Yunze, who had always presented himself as a gentleman in front of Achi, suddenly revealed his true colors. One day, he tricked Achi out of her room under some pretext, kidnapped her sweetheart, and raped her in front of him.

After this incident, although her sweetheart hated Yunze, he knew that it was not Achi's fault. Achi stopped going out, and her sweetheart would visit her from time to time, saying that he did not mind and was even willing to marry Achi with a grand wedding.

With her beloved's daily comforting words, Achi's inner wounds were no longer as severe as they had been at the beginning, and she agreed to marry him.

Moreover, something seemed to have happened in the royal family of Yunmeng Kingdom during that time, and Yunze was urgently summoned back, so Achi's wedding was able to proceed smoothly.

However, married life was not as we imagined. Ah Chi's sweetheart became addicted to drinking, and every time he drank, he would punch and kick Ah Chi. One time, when he knocked Ah Chi to the ground, he found that she was bleeding. When he took her to the doctor, he found out that Ah Chi was pregnant.

However, Achi never consummated her marriage with her husband, so it was obvious whose child it was.

After discovering this, Achi wanted to end her life, but her husband repeatedly promised that he would no longer drink alcohol and would treat the child as his own.

Although her husband did not drink as promised, he still refused to touch Achi until the child was born.

However, Le Lan is quite remarkable; she doesn't resemble Yun Ze at all, but looks exactly like A Chi.

Therefore, Achi doted on him immensely. This continued until Le Lan was four years old, when Yun Ze returned, having already become the ruler of Yunmeng Kingdom.

For so many years, Achi thought this person was long dead. Although he still had nightmares from time to time, you can imagine the despair you would feel if your nightmare actually appeared in front of you, especially since Yunze had done something that angered both heaven and man.