Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress
Chapter 1043 - 1045: Xiang Yun’s Grand Wedding (2)

Chapter 1043: Chapter 1045: Xiang Yun’s Grand Wedding (2)

The situation of mother and son was soon learned by her ex-husband, Boss Ma from Jufude, who found out that both had gained the favor of the prince’s wife and had become her capable subordinates. The idea struck Ma Jinwu; what if he could use this connection to climb the social ladder?

Thus, he began to show unprecedented interest in his son and ex-wife, first by sending food and drinks, and then shamelessly sending good quality fabrics and jewelry to Lady Mo, only to be decisively rejected by Eldest Lady Mo and Mo Liancheng. The gifts, along with the messenger, were thrown out, with a warning not to come again.

Undeterred, Boss Ma thought it over and decided to visit them himself, brazen-faced.

One day, while Eldest Lady Mo was teaching some children "The Three Character Classic" at the Nursing Homes, Old Woman Wang came in and said, "Madam, there is an Old Master outside who has donated a lot of rice and flour to our Nursing Homes. Would you like to meet him?"

Eldest Lady Mo laughed and said, "Anyone who has the kindness to donate to our Nursing Homes is naturally a good person. I must meet him and thank him in person!" Having said that, she arranged for an older child to lead the reading and got up to follow Old Woman Wang to the small reception room in the front yard of the Nursing Homes.

At this moment, her ex-husband Ma Jinwu, nervous and uneasy, was waiting in that small room. When he saw Eldest Lady Mo entering buoyantly surrounded by two maids, he was startled.

In front of him, Lady Mo’s face was rosy, her back straight, and her lips held a faint smile, looking entirely different from her former sickly self. She looked radiant now, dressed very appropriately in a long Lake Blue Beizi embroidered with magnolia flowers on top, a treasure blue horse face skirt below, her black hair done up in a Gold Ingot Bun with a pearl hairpin. She looked spirited, efficient, and magnanimous.

He had never seen his wife like this. In his memory, except for the first two years after they were married, she had always appeared ashen-faced, timid, and deeply aggrieved for more than ten years. If she had always been as she was now, he never would have divorced her over a skinny horse.

Although the skinny horse was younger and prettier than she, she had come from a place that bred certain detestable traits, like meanness, narrow-mindedness, selfishness, and stinginess; unlike Lady Mo who was magnanimous and honest. Being the daughter of Ruin Scholar, Lady Mo, though poor, had grown up immersed in poetry and literature, carrying an inherent elegance from her knowledge that could not be compared to the rehearsed verses of the skinny horse.

Eldest Lady Mo entered the small hall warmly, intending to sincerely thank the donor. However, when she saw that the ’kind person’ was her own ex-husband, her expression darkened dramatically. She dropped her smile and coldly asked, "What are you doing here?"

At that moment, she truly wanted to throw this disloyal beast, who had forsaken her and favored the concubine, out of the place or even kill him. However, the Nursing Homes was not her home after all, and regardless of personal grievances, this faithless man was a donor, and she, as the manager of the Nursing Homes, could not act on personal likes and dislikes!

"Oh, Cui Hua, what are you doing here?"

After the surprise, Boss Ma put on a shocked expression, looking at her with delighted surprise.

’Cui Hua’ was Lady Mo’s maiden name. In the beginning of their marriage, Boss Ma and Lady Mo were affectionate for two years, during which Boss Ma would call her ’Cui Hua.’ Later, as she became weakened after childbirth and their affection faded, ’Cui Hua’ turned into a dispassionate ’hey’. Eventually, as Boss Ma became successful and the skinny horse entered their life, ’hey’ turned into ’that spineless slut’...