Chapter 173: Master and Madam Divorce

At the moment the madam's finger touched An'an, the sky seemed to instantly change color.

The madam suddenly crouched, covering her head as she let out a painful groan, and Su Ruo rushed forward anxiously to ask.

But no one noticed that, under the sunlight, the madam's shadow on the ground suddenly split into two.

"Madam, what's wrong?" Su Ruo couldn't understand how the madam, who had been fine just moments ago, could suddenly become like this.

Even Bai Xinya couldn't help but change her face: "What's happening?"

But the madam only glanced at Su Ruo, hadn't had a chance to answer, and then fainted.

This sudden change startled everyone; Su Ruo anxiously examined the madam's body, but found nothing wrong.

Su Ruo couldn't find the cause, so she could only first send the madam back to the Medicine Hall.

Seeing his wife unconscious, Yan Jiu's expression instantly turned tense; he really feared that, like before, she would fall into unconsciousness again and never wake.

Because, he didn't know if he could still wait another ten years…

The three senior brothers also heard the news and rushed back; everyone kept watch by the madam's bedside, trying many methods, but the madam showed no sign of waking at all.

Until late at night, the master said: "You all go back first; I'll be fine here."

Su Ruo and the others hesitated a bit; they looked at the master wanting to persuade him, but didn't know how to start, so they could only leave first.

Yan Jiu kept guard by the bedside until midnight, when suddenly a crow's call came from outside the window.

The madam on the bed also gradually woke at that moment; she opened her eyes and looked around, lightly touching her forehead: "I never expected that beside Ruo Ruo there would be such a little creature; I didn't notice it at first, and almost couldn't come back."

Although the madam had awakened, Yan Jiu looked into her eyes and saw no joy; instead, his voice icy, he questioned: "Was the great fire in South City set by you? Were Guihua and that man burned to death by you?"

The madam, questioned, wasn't angry; instead she sat up, giving Yan Jiu a teasing, utterly seductive look and said: "They were about to sleep with your woman, yet you aren't angry at all, and you still ask me why I killed them."

Having finally obtained the answer he wanted, Yan Jiu's face was filled with shock: "Then you didn't have to kill them." He had spent his life practicing medicine to save people, never once considering killing.

The madam, however, said indifferently: "What should I do, then? Just pretend nothing's wrong and let him sleep with them, then watch as they step by step plot against Ruo Ruo?"

Yan Jiu, ten years have passed, and you still haven't made any progress; if it weren't for your indecisiveness back then, your junior sister couldn't possibly have fallen into a ten‑year coma and still be unable to wake up.

Yan Jiu's face instantly flushed red, yet he couldn't utter a single rebuttal.

The madam said indifferently: "Rest assured, as long as those people no longer dare to harm Ruo Ruo, I naturally won't move against them."

And don't think of trying to seal me again; otherwise, it won't just be your junior sister who dies—I will certainly drag more people down with me to be buried." At the end, the madam's eyes, full of allure, turned sharp and piercing.

Yan Jiu, somewhat shocked, asked: "What else do you want to do?"

"I don't want to do anything; as long as you don't provoke me, I won't harm anyone, and from now on I only want Ruo Ruo."

Yan Jiu's expression instantly turned tense: "You can't hurt her!"

The madam chuckled: "In this world, only men will let Ruo Ruo come to harm; from the moment she awakened me, she became my master, and I will obey her for life—how could I possibly hurt her?"

The woman before them was beautiful like a fox, but only Yan Jiu knew how dangerous she was, yet he lacked the power to stop her.

The madam continued: "I'm ready to wake up; think about what excuse you'll use to explain things to Ruo Ruo and them in a suitable way."

Yan Jiu's face grew even uglier, but the madam didn't look at him again, simply turned over and went to sleep.

The next day, after Su Ruo and Wen Xiuyuan and the others woke up, they heard a major piece of news: the madam had awakened, and this time not only had she awakened, but her consciousness had also been restored.

Upon hearing this news, Su Ruo and the others sincerely felt happy for the master, who had guarded the madam for so many years; now he had finally seen the clouds part and the moon shine.

Su Ruo and the others had thought that, with the story reaching this point, the already‑old prince and princess would, like in the tale, finally be able to live together happily ever after.

But reality turned out otherwise; when the madam appeared before Su Ruo and the others, dressed in a charming cheongsam, her first words were: "I want to divorce your master."

Su Ruo and the others froze there, completely forgetting how to react.

If this news was already explosive, the madam's following words were even more explosive.

"Because, your master is incapable."

At that moment, even the usually steady Senior Brother changed color, and Ji Linye directly spat out the tea in his mouth.

But the madam glanced at him and said: "Don't rush; when you reach your master's age, you might not even be as good as him!"

Ji Linye's face instantly turned the color of pig liver, and he couldn't utter a word!

The madam walked up to Su Ruo, took her hand, and said: "Ruo Ruo, you will surely support me, won't you? You won't just watch me stay a widow, will you?"

The person before her was too beautiful; Su Ruo only felt her head spin with dizziness and dazedness. After she came to, her face kept changing, but she didn't know how to open her mouth to persuade.

Yan Jiu, to prevent her from saying anything else in front of his disciples that would shock people's worldviews, lightly coughed and said:

"All right, the matter of divorce is a decision we, me and your madam, jointly discussed last night; this outcome is good for both me and your madam.

You don't need to overthink it; even if I separate from your madam, we'll still be family in the future."

Wen Xiuyuan, as Senior Brother, wanted to say a couple of words; in his view, divorce was utterly absurd—the master and madam had been together for so many years, and now the madam was just fine, how could they have come to this step of divorce?

But Yan Jiu directly waved his hand to cut him off: "You don't need to persuade us; we're already this old, we don't want to be bound by worldly conventions, we just want to live as we wish."

The master's words had already gone this far; what could Su Ruo and the others still say?

That noon they ate their final scattering meal at the thatched hall; in the afternoon the master and madam went to the Minzhengju to complete the procedures.

In this era, divorce was already rare, let alone a pairing like the master and madam—an old man with a young wife—so even the staff at the Minzhengju couldn't help but glance at them a few more times.

The madam brought back the divorce certificate and happily took Su Ruo to see her room full of jewelry and ornaments.

The madam took out an Imperial Green Necklace and personally placed it around Su Ruo's neck: "This was once worn by Empress Dowager Cixi.

"Little Ruo Ruo, as long as you take me in, I'll give you all of this, okay?"

The madam before them, charming and sly like a fox, could seemingly confuse people's minds in an instant, making it impossible to refuse.