I Gave Birth to a Cub without Telling the Head Assistant - Chapter 10.2

Chapter 10.2
March 12 was the deadline for Liu Chengji to pay back the money.
Ruan Longling promised that if the eighty-six thousand nine hundred and fifty-three taels of cash were not received by this day, her letter would be sent to her uncle in Xuzhou.
Finally, at midnight that day, the Liu family delivered a large box. The concierge knew that the wooden box was very important, so after receiving it, he immediately ordered someone to quickly send it to Yanfei Pavilion.
The lights in the Yanfei Pavilion were brightly lit, and Ruan Longling was sitting cross-legged on the bed in snow-white pajamas.
But she was not sleepy, and she was still waiting. When Ah Xing held the wooden box in front of her eyes, Ruan Longling knew that she had what she wanted.
After all, Liu Chengji was worried that his official reputation would be damaged, so he paid back the huge sum of money.
Ruan Longling felt lucky in her heart that she had not made a mistake in her bet after all. After taking a long breath, she stepped out of bed with her embroidered shoes and walked to the desk.
There was a slight “click” sound, and the copper lock on the wooden box opened.
When Ruan Longling saw clearly what was inside, she burst into tears.
Resting inside were tokens of love that she and Liu Chengji had given each other over the years. There was the little paper grasshopper they made together when they were children, the little lantern they won after they guessed the lantern riddle at the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, the birthday gifts every year, and the peace charm she asked for before he went to Beijing to take the exam.
She cried with tears. Scanning her eyes towards those objects one by one, she felt that the childhood sweethearts and loving scenes over the years were all appearing in front of her eyes. Ruan Longling suddenly felt as if her heart was pinched by someone’s fingertips, and it suddenly became extremely difficult to even breathe.
Ah Xing handed over a handkerchief spread on the desk and choked, “Miss, he’s not worth it.”
Ruan Longling took the handkerchief and wiped her tears. She breathed a long sigh of relief and calmed down a little. She whispered, “Just pretend these things never existed and burn them all.”
Following the order, Ah Xing only pulled out a small drawer the size of a food box and then called a few maids inside. The big box containing only old things was moved out again.
Ruan Longling lifted up the snow-white kerchief and wiped the tears off her face. She felt that the tip of her nose smelled the masculine fragrance of cypress wood, sandalwood, and vanilla roots.
She looked down and realised that the silk handkerchief in her hand was the one that Wang Chulin had handed to her to wipe her tears in Taowu. She never thought that she would use it again at this moment.
[Tl:- Li Zhulin said to others his name is Wang Chulin. Therefore, Ruan Longling address him as Wang Chulin.]
Ruan Longling wiped away her tears and then opened the important drawer.
Sure enough, the banknotes were in this drawer.
But these banknotes vary in size—old and new—and come from every bank. Moreover, these banknotes were in a mess, and they were not stacked together according to the denomination. A corner was broken here, a chip was damaged there, and some of the banknotes even had black spots and stains on them. It was really a mess!
Seeing this chaos, she knew that Liu Chengji had collected these banknotes from his grandfather and grandmother in just a few days.
‘But why couldn’t he make things more perfect? Now that he has collected all the money, he could have gone to a bank and exchanged it for new ones.’
The moment Ruan Longling saw it, her brows suddenly frowned, and the scene of Wang Chulin paying back the money today inexplicably appeared in her mind.
The money Wang Chulin returned was clean.
Ruan Longling held the candle and patiently counted the banknotes one by one. Fortunately, the amount was right—eighty-six thousand, nine hundred and fifty-three taels, and four cents—not a penny less, not a penny more.
Looking at the pile of silver notes stacked high in front of her, Ruan Longling felt an extremely strong sense of satisfaction well up from deep in her heart. She made some calculations, and adding the 30,000 taels of silver sent by Wang Chulin, the Ruan Family Trading Company now had almost 130,000 taels of cash!
Although the Ruan family business had made a lot of money over the years, each had its own expenses, and a lot of money had been spent on Liu Chengji, and sometimes she had to make up for the Liu family’s mistakes from time to time. But now, at this moment, she actually has nearly 130,000 taels in cash!
‘With money, what else do men need to do? Why else would you want to get married? What childhood sweetheart? What in-laws?’
‘All men in the world are ruthless. My mother was married to a peasant, but their father was rebellious in middle age. After some quarrelling with each other, the father left Yangzhou, leaving the mother alone to raise five children.
The second sister was married into a noble family, but after marrying into the Feng family, she became depressed. She used to be such a smiling and gentle person, but she fell silent just before her eyes.
And she and Liu Chengji were in equal family states, but what happened in the end? As soon as Liu Chengji rose to prominence, he turned against anyone else, gave up on the relationship he had held for more than ten years, and turned around to marry the noble daughter of a high-ranking official, for the sake of his future!
Since no matter whether you marry high, marry low, or marry equally, you will not get a good ending. Then what was the point of getting married?
Ruan Longling was scared, and she no longer dared to trust anyone except her family wholeheartedly.
She never wanted to experience that heartbreaking feeling of being betrayed while trusting her wholeheartedly.
Having money and family was enough for her to live a good life.
If asked what else she wanted in this life, Ruan Longling just wanted to have a child. Her own child…
But what the second sister said was also very reasonable. ‘If you don’t get married, sleep with a man; otherwise, where will the child come from?’
But if she was asked to bind her life to another person just to have a child, Ruan Longling would never be willing to do so.
In this case, there was only one way left: abandon the father and seek a son.
With this deviant thought, Ruan Longling’s heart jumped suddenly, but the next second, she stubbornly tensed her neck, and her back straightened instantly.
‘I’m going to do it! I had to do this!’
‘Why can a man act as he pleases, have three wives and six concubines, betray his heart and misfortune his luck, and make his wits dim due to his profit? Do women have to live by such rules? Bound by secular morality?’
Ruan Longling stiffened her neck, and after swallowing this breath, she really started to plan seriously and in detail.
‘Since I only wanted to keep the child, then this father must be carefully selected. Not only must he have an outstanding appearance, but his talent and character must not be bad. Otherwise, if the child is born, he will grow up to be an ugly and perverse son.’
There were people coming and going in the Ruan family business, and guests gathered and dispersed in Tianxialou. Mr. Zhou Ge would arrive in Yangzhou in two days, and young talents from all over the world will flock here.
With the right time, the right place, and the right people, could she still worry about not being able to find the child’s father she wanted?
A breeze blew through the cracks in the window, and the snow-white silk handkerchief lying on the table was lifted up by the wind, swaying leisurely, and fell into Ruan Longling’s palm.
End of chapter 10
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