Chapter 122: Wen Nianshu: As Long As I Sweet‑Talk Him, Isn't He Then Easy to Handle?

Wen Family.

Kitchen.

"Salt, ginger, scallion, dogwood fruit, dried orange peel, what other seasonings are needed...."

Wen Nianshu held a recipe in one hand, and clumsily tossed various seasonings into the pot before her with the other.

The pot was filled with water and brimming with pork ribs.

"Miss, what are you doing?" the maid Qiu Lan, after watching for a long while, finally couldn't help but ask.

The Miss, who had never set foot in a kitchen, entered the kitchen, and she, who had served for over ten years, was seeing it for the first time as well.

It is not surprising nor curious.

Our own Miss is a precious, aristocratic golden branch and jade leaf!

"Make broth for A Yan!" Wen Nianshu didn't turn her head, continued fiddling with things, and blurted out.

"For whom?"

Hearing that name, Qiu Lan was stunned, and incredulously asked for confirmation.

"A Yan!"

After arranging the seasonings, Wen Nianshu covered the pot, then turned back and said, "He has returned victorious from Qinzhou; I want to learn to make some broth to properly replenish his body!"

Receiving the affirmative reply, Qiu Lan couldn't believe her ears, lamenting, "Chen Yan at the poetry gathering treated you like that....."

At the poetry gathering, in front of the talented youths of the Chang'an Shijia, he tossed that divorce letter, which was an utter humiliation and the most vile attitude.

It once made our Miss, and the entire Wen Family, become a laughingstock.....

For a moment, Qiu Lan didn't know what was going through the Miss's mind.....

"Precisely because of that!"

"I must win him back!"

"A Yan once loved me so much!"

"It must be that he's still angry about the Tianlao Affair, which makes him act like this!"

Wen Nianshu's gaze was cold and resolute, and she spoke with conviction.

As long as one recalls the past, Chen Yan's countless actions surrounding her for over ten years of love wouldn't change so easily in such a short time....

She couldn't believe he could be so heartless!

It must be out of spite!

He's angry at her for being indecisive when he was in trouble.....

"Miss, why do you humiliate yourself for a man who abandoned and insulted you, lowering your noble status to cling to his cold backside?"

"Chen Yan is simply not worth it!"

"There are plenty of good men in Chang'an!"

Qiu Lan grabbed Wen Nianshu's hand, pouted, and said angrily.

Their Miss is of national beauty and heavenly fragrance, a flower-like moon-faced beauty; what kind of man could she not find?

"A Yan is now a scorching-hot newcomer!"

Wen Nianshu smiled lightly, unmoved, and said, "If I don't act quickly to win him back, I'm afraid someone else will beat me to it!"

As she spoke, someone's face involuntarily flashed before her eyes.

That woman who fantasized about overtaking others!

Filled with a sense of crisis.

Qiu Lan, hearing the words, recalled that person from the poetry gathering, incredulous, asked, "Miss, you aren't referring to the Pei Clan eldest daughter who defended Chen Yan that day, are you?"

"Could she even look at Chen Yan?"

Considering Chen Yan's previous clingy, sycophantic behavior toward our Miss, which was utterly demeaning, she despised him from the bottom of her heart.

Could someone like that truly be favored by the legitimate daughter of the He Dong Pei Clan?

"Qiu Lan, you don't understand..."

Wen Nianshu shook her head, speaking earnestly, "It's not just that..."

The gazes of those women, Wen Nianshu saw them crystal clear.

If described in four characters, it would be.... drooling with desire!

Apart from Pei Suiwan, there's also Liu Xushi.

Not a single one is anything but a Chang'an Shijia noble lady; she must seize them.....

"Can Chen Yan be that sought after?" Qiu Lan couldn't believe it.

"Mingjing Mirror Keeper, Grand Tomb Governor, Favorite Minister, Great Zhou Poet Immortal, these titles are enough for them to flock to him like swallows....."

Wen Nianshu sighed, murmuring, "Moreover, after the great victory in quelling the rebellion in Qinzhou, his fame has exploded!"

"Do you know how the Chang'an Jie Fang describe A Yan?"

As women, especially those from great families, who doesn't want to find a good husband?

Nowadays, Chen Yan has talent, lineage, looks, and power; he is the unrivaled choice for a perfect son-in-law.

Which noble lady could refuse a gentleman who is both literary and martial with limitless potential?

Wen Nianshu felt uneasy, regretting not acting earlier....

Had she not obeyed her father's words that day, rushing to the Tianlao Death Prison to divorce Chen Yan, there would be no present trouble, nor the poetry gathering's humiliation.

That Mingjing Mirror Keeper, Grand Tomb Governor, Favorite Minister, Great Zhou Poet Immortal, young general, are still her husband.....

She is the object envied by the Chang'an noble ladies!

Not the current ridicule and mockery.....

"So what?"

"Even if Chen Yan has woken up now, there's more than one good man in Chang'an..."

"How is he worthy of you, young miss, personally washing his hands and making soup for him?"

Qiu Lan was still indignant.

"Oh, you, your vision is just too shallow..."

Wen Nianshu raised her hand and poked Qiu Lan's forehead, giving a faint smile.

She paused, then continued: "With the ability A Yan has shown now, even if the Duke of Wei favors his second son more, how could Chen Cijiu and Chen Gubai possibly contend with A Yan?"

The two greatly favored young masters of the Chen Family might not be inferior compared to other aristocratic disciples...

But before Chen Yan, they are but stars compared to the bright moon—utterly unable to compete for brilliance!

"That seems true as well..." Qiu Lan said thoughtfully, murmuring to herself, "The Chen Yan of now has changed too much from before!"

Setting aside prejudice, even Qiu Lan had to admit...

It was almost as if he had become a different person.

"So, once A Yan inherits the title of Duke of Wei, I will be the Grand Duke's Lady!"

Wen Nianshu suddenly lifted her head and said proudly: "And with the Grand Chancellor's favor, his official career will surely rise step by step, which will also greatly benefit our Wen Family!"

In her heart, she had already imagined the scene of becoming the Grand Duke's Lady countless times...

"What the young miss says is absolutely right!"

"That Chen Yan does have some use..."

Qiu Lan nodded repeatedly, then, as if remembering something, said cautiously: "But at the poetry gathering before, his attitude was firm, and he even wrote a letter of divorce in public..."

"Then isn't it time to coax him?"

Hearing this, a confident arc curled at the corner of Wen Nianshu's mouth, and she smiled: "These past days, I've thought it over and understood one truth..."

"To capture a man's heart, you must first capture his stomach!"

As she spoke, her right hand suddenly clenched, as if she had Chen Yan in her palm.

"Brilliant, young miss!" Qiu Lan flattered, "We absolutely cannot let that Pei Suiwan succeed!"

The scenes from that day surfaced again before Wen Nianshu's eyes, and she snorted coldly: "As long as I coax him well, won't he be easy to manipulate?"

"I will take back the humiliation of that day a hundredfold, a thousandfold!"

Just as the mistress and maid were speaking boldly, neither of them noticed...

In the shadows, a pair of dark, hawk-like eyes had been watching them all along...

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