Huahua: [Why set her up? Although she more or less directly caused Zhou Yunshen's death, you're essentially a transmigrator too. Once you've accumulated enough energy and merit, you'll leave. There's no fundamental conflict between you two.]
Jiang Shuyue: [Wrong! She's competing with me for energy and merit. And what if she completes the plot ahead of time and twists my wonderful life back into its original shape? What am I supposed to do then? Hmph, I have no idea what the original author was thinking. How did she keep writing that foul, twisted book that even a dog wouldn't read?]
Huahua: [Because she grew up starved of love and was psychologically manipulated by her boyfriend. She believed that what she couldn't have was always the best, that anyone who died young was her true love, and that the deeper the abuse, the deeper the love.]
Jiang Shuyue: [So she loved my husband's entire family to death, huh? My thanks to her whole damn family.]
Zhou Yunshen seconded that.
He had thought his family was already crazy enough, but apparently someone was even crazier than the Zhou family.
That author's brain was beyond anything an ordinary person could match.
After court, the Emperor and Empress found every excuse imaginable to shower Jiang Shuyue with gold, silver, and jewels, then insisted on taking her out to eat. They quietly changed into ordinary clothes and went out with her and Zhou Yunshen, intending to reserve a private room at a restaurant with the best view and atmosphere to enjoy some juicy gossip.
Prince Huai and Murong Tianci tagged along too, turning what should have been the young couple's gossip time into a table full of distinguished guests.
Zhou Yunshen was not pleased. "The Emperor coming out to observe the lives of his people