The reborn daughter of the Marquis Mansion takes over the world

Chapter 329 Previous Life (2)

After Ning Zijun left, the Song family became even more unscrupulous in their harsh treatment of Ning Ziqing.

She first forbade Ning Ziqing to study, learn the art of music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and forbade her to make friends with famous ladies. She also often deducted her monthly salary, food, clothing and other expenses, and even treated her worse than the first-class maids in the mansion. Later, the tutoring nanny hired in the name of the mansion only taught Ning Zilan.

Whenever Ning Ziqing attended an important banquet, the clothes and skirts that Song sent to her were mostly made of very poor materials and had outdated embroidery, and she would always be laughed at when she wore them.

In contrast, Ning Zilan was well-educated, gentle and virtuous, and was deeply loved and praised by the ladies of wealthy families.

The circumstances of the two sisters were so different, but Song often complained in front of outsiders, complaining that Ning Ziqing had a bad temper and was difficult to discipline.

She hypocritically said that as a stepmother, she couldn't bear to beat or scold Ning Ziqing, for fear of letting down the late marquis' wife.

Everyone actually believed it and began to have a prejudice against Ning Ziqing.

Soon, Ning Ziqing became the laughing stock of Kyoto City and was nicknamed "Miss Straw Bag".

She had no relatives to protect her, and even her only close wet nurse was driven out of the mansion by Song with a random excuse.

From then on, Ning Ziqing became timid and inferior, always silent in front of outsiders.

Su Yanqi was heartbroken to see the helpless Ning Ziqing enduring all kinds of rumors and the malicious bullying from the Song mother and daughter alone.

No wonder, every time they met in the past, she always avoided her. Su Yanqi was ignorant at that time and mistakenly thought that Ning Ziqing had no interest in him.

Little did she know that she was silently enduring a lot of suffering behind the scenes.

Later, Ning Zilan saw that Su Yanqi was extremely talented and famous, and even Emperor Yao admired him and intended to cultivate him.

In addition, Su Yanqi's aunt was Concubine Wan, so he would have a bright future. Ning Zilan was jealous and was unwilling to let Ning Ziqing take advantage of her for nothing.

So, she had an evil idea and persuaded the Song family to help her snatch the marriage from Ning Ziqing.

At first, Song tried to persuade Lord Ning to change the marriage contract between the two families and let Ning Zilan marry into the Su family, but Lord Ning firmly disagreed in order to fulfill Fu Jinye's last wish.

His stubbornness made the Song mother and daughter resentful and they decided to destroy Ning Ziqing completely.

Ning Zilan began to deliberately approach Ning Ziqing, taking great care of her, taking care of her in everything, and frequently taking her to various banquets.

Whenever Ning Zilan met Su Yanqi at a banquet, she would fan the flames in Ning Ziqing's ear.

"Third sister, you see that the seventh young master is handsome and talented, and is now favored by noble ladies. If you don't hold his heart, you can't guarantee that he will fall in love with someone else and marry someone else."

Ning Ziqing didn't believe it at first, but after noticing several times that Su Yanqi was too polite and distant to her, she gradually believed what Ning Zilan said.

She didn't know that this was all a trap set by Ning Zilan. It was Ning Zilan who secretly told Su Yanqi that the noble ladies knew that Ning Ziqing was going to marry into the Su family in the future and thought that she was not worthy of Su Yanqi, so they united to humiliate and exclude her.

Ning Ziqing was very angry with Su Yanqi and often complained to Ning Zilan, hoping that Su Yanqi would keep his distance from her in public.

She felt that only in this way could she suffer less grievances.

Su Yanqi actually didn't completely believe Ning Zilan's words. He wanted to ask Ning Ziqing in person.

But Ning Zilan stopped him: "Seventh Young Master, do you want to force my sister to death?"

"My sister has changed a lot. She now listens to mother and is working hard to learn all kinds of etiquette and rules. She said she will definitely make everyone look at her with new eyes. Please help her."

Ning Zilan pretended to be very concerned about Ning Ziqing, so Su Yanqi hesitated.

Now Su Yanqi looks at himself who was kept in the dark and feels full of regret.

How stupid he was to have easily believed Ning Zilan's lies.

It was because of his negligence that Ning Ziqing became estranged from him and gradually drifted away from him.

Afterwards, Ning Zilan designed a plan to let the simple Ning Ziqing pretend to have a secret meeting with a poor scholar, in order to test Su Yanqi's feelings.

Out of trust in Ning Zilan, Ning Ziqing stepped into a dead end step by step.

On the day when Xu's house held a banquet, Ning Zilan colluded with Miss Xu Er to send the maid Yinxiang away and framed Ning Ziqing for drowning. She also instructed Ma Er to bring the unconscious Ning Ziqing into the tea room where the drug was placed and put him in the same room with the scholar who hid there in advance, intending to tarnish Ning Ziqing's innocence.

Fortunately, Yinxiang brought people to look for him in time, preventing the scholar from succeeding. However, Ning Ziqing was found unconscious in the scholar's arms with disheveled clothes, and all the guests saw it.

When Ning Ziqing woke up, she was unable to defend herself against the pointing and criticizing of everyone.

The next day, the scandal spread quickly, and even if the Ninghou Mansion wanted to cover it up, it was of no avail.

Lord Ning was so angry that he almost vomited blood. He severely punished Ning Ziqing with family rules, locked her up in Xiyuan when she was dying, deprived her of food, and threatened to leave her to fend for herself.

Yinxiang wanted to sneak out of the Su Mansion to seek help from Su Yanqi, but was betrayed and brutally killed by Li Qianer.

Fortunately, the old lady took into consideration that Ning Zijun was the only heir to the Ning Marquis' Mansion, and tried her best to persuade Lord Ning to spare Ning Ziqing's life.

Not long after, Su Yanqi returned from his travels and heard about this, which was unbelievable. He quickly went to visit Ninghou Mansion to find out the whole story.

However, as soon as they met, Lord Ning actually took out the engagement letter and wanted to cancel the engagement with the Su family.

Su Yanqi did not agree immediately, but asked to meet Ning Ziqing and hear her personal explanation.

However, Song stopped Ning Ziqing from meeting him and told him that Ning Ziqing and the scholar had already secretly decided to spend their lives together. She took out their letters and an embroidered handkerchief with mandarin ducks playing in the water that Ning Ziqing had embroidered for the scholar as a token of their love.

Lord Ning felt so ashamed and embarrassed that he insisted on canceling the engagement. The old lady also didn't want the Ning Marquisate to continue to be humiliated, so she repeatedly persuaded Su Yanqi to cancel the engagement between the two families.

At this point, Su Yanqi, as a junior, could not refute the wishes of the two elders. He had no choice but to accept the engagement letter signed by Su's father and leave. He also promised to return the withdrawal letter and engagement token to Lord Ning as soon as possible.

Before leaving, Ning Zilan caught up with Su Yanqi, twisted her embroidered handkerchief, and begged him with tears in her eyes.

"Seventh Young Master, I have advised my sister many times, but she simply won't listen to me. Perhaps she really has fallen in love with that scholar. If we want to save our sister, we have no choice but to let her marry that scholar. You might as well help her."

After hearing this, Su Yanqi was so confused that he couldn't make a decision for a while.

The Ning Ziqing in his memory is still the innocent and lively little girl who likes to follow him and shout, "Brother Su, buy some candy for Qingqing."

He had been waiting for her to grow up, waiting for her to become his bride, and buying her the sweetest candies for the rest of his life.

But why did she suddenly fall in love with someone else?

Su Yanqi returned to the Su Mansion in a turbulent mood and immediately sent people to investigate the matter thoroughly.

He was never willing to believe that Ning Ziqing would change her mind and leave him.

She obviously loved me so much before, why would she be so cruel to abandon him and choose someone else?

Su Yanqi looked depressed, sitting in the study room from day till late at night. The subordinates he sent out finally came back and reported to him: Ning Ziqing and the scholar were indeed in love with each other, and the scholar's family was ready to propose marriage and ask for Ning Ziqing in marriage.

Su Yanqi's eyes suddenly flashed with disappointment, and he felt extremely uncomfortable.

He sat in the dim light, feeling sad for a long time, until he laughed out loud out of sadness.

After a long time, he shook his head in distress, and finally made up his mind and picked up the pen to write a letter of withdrawal.

Perhaps, he is a person with shallow family ties in this life, and the same is true of his love relationship.

Why force someone to stay if you can't keep him?

No matter how frantically the bystander Su Yanqi shouted at his former self to stop writing, he was still powerless to change the situation.

He can't change the past, everything is destined.

With a letter of withdrawal of engagement, the two finally came to the end of their relationship.

Two days later, it rained heavily.

Outside the Su Mansion, Ning Ziqing knocked on the door desperately, begging to see Su Yanqi.

When the doorman saw that the visitor was Ning Ziqing, he lied that Su Yanqi was discussing important matters with the managers of the business in the study and could not spare time to meet him, and urged Ning Ziqing to leave quickly.

Ning Ziqing refused to leave and begged the doorman to let her in.

When the doorman heard the rumor about her secret meeting with the scholar, he despised her and mocked her for being shameless and causing their young master to be ridiculed. He pushed her away mercilessly.

Su Yanqi, who was watching from the sidelines, watched Ning Ziqing fall to the ground with his own eyes, feeling extremely distressed. He called out to Ning Ziqing loudly, wanting to go forward and help her up, but found that he could not touch her body.

Su Yanqi hated himself so much that he couldn't do anything at this moment.

Ning Ziqing could neither see him nor hear his voice.

He squatted beside Ning Ziqing helplessly and self-blamingly, watching her cry sadly for a long time before he stood up again and knocked on the door.

Su Yanqi, who was extremely angry, seemed to empathize with her and clenched his fists and smashed the door hard.

"Su Yanqi, come out!"

"Come out quickly and keep Qingqing!"

"Su Yanqi, you bastard, you deserve to die, you really deserve to die...!"

It turned out that Ning Ziqing did not lie to her and he really gave up on her.

He really doesn't want her anymore!

Now, he could only look at Ning Ziqing's grief-stricken face filled with tears, and knock on the door knocker desperately as if he was grasping at a life-saving straw.

But in the end, she was met with Shi Bo's ruthless rejection.

Ning Ziqing dropped his hands dejectedly, staring at the closed door, and finally fell into despair.

Su Yanqi heard her sad sobbing: "You don't want me anymore, all of you... don't want me anymore!"

Su Yanqi's whole body was shaking, and he felt a heart-wrenching pain, so painful that he seemed to have lost all consciousness.

Endless guilt and regret overwhelmed him. He watched Ning Ziqing wipe away her tears in pain and helplessness. He turned around in despair and walked into the heavy rain, forgetting even to take his umbrella.

Su Yanqi hurriedly caught up with her and lifted up his sleeves to shield her from the rain, but it was all in vain.

The heavy rain soaked Ning Ziqing all over in an instant. She hugged herself pitifully and slowly walked away.

Su Yanqi tried to move forward again, but his feet were fixed in place by an invisible force.

Su Yanqi's emotions completely collapsed. His eyes were bloodshot and his vision was blurred by tears. He kept beating his head like a madman and let out a heart-wrenching roar.

"Su Yanqi, look at what you have done!"