At this moment, Lin Daiyu watched Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai discuss shop management. Unable to join in, her temper flared.
"Yes, running water never rots. Naturally, water flowing down from the snowy mountains is best. They say that only such water can truly nourish jade," Lin Daiyu said from the side.
"Cousin Lin, you're being naughty again," Xue Baochai said. She and Lin Daiyu had long since reconciled, and she treated the other like a sister.
Though the two had competed over Baoyu, she had no wish to ruin their relationship.
"Ah, if even Lin Meimei doesn't understand my feelings, then I truly will be heartbroken," Jia Baoyu sighed.
"Go ahead and break your heart. There are plenty of good sisters to dote on you," Lin Daiyu said, utterly relentless.
Before long, Yingchun and several of the older sisters came over to mediate, and only then did Lin Daiyu's expression brighten into a smile.
Zhao Han thought to herself, Lin Daiyu was beautiful, all right, but when her temper came up, she really spared no one.
How could it be so easy to have it all? They had barely exchanged a few words, and things were already like this... And you still wanted her to become someone's concubine? That was courting death.
As for Xue Baochai, she had lofty ambitions. A concubine was little more than a plaything. No matter how much she loved Baoyu, she could never become one.
The only solution was for him to become emperor: Lin Daiyu as Empress, and Xue Baochai as imperial concubine.
After all, Xue Baochai had originally been brought to the capital by her family to await selection. But for certain reasons—most likely her merchant background and her ties to the Four Great Families—she had been rejected and failed to make