Chapter 10: The Mastermind Behind the Scenes-A Esposa Reencarnada e o Filho: Caminhando com a Brisa da Primavera(O aroma de tangerina envolve as pessoas.)

Resolving Tang Mu’s identity, Lady Liu seized the momentum and urged Tang Yushu to promptly go to the Sun family to propose marriage: “Miss Sun’s reputation has been damaged and cannot be delayed. Tomorrow, you must go early to apologize to Mr. Sun and formally ask for their daughter’s hand.”

Tang Yushu, eager to settle the matter quickly, immediately agreed but explained that Madam Qin was weak and not good at handling such affairs, so he entrusted Lady Liu to manage the arrangements.

With the proposal to the Sun family confirmed, Lady Liu eagerly returned to her main courtyard.

Meanwhile, Tang Mu, who had sneaked to the back wall of the courtyard, had just returned to the adjoining yard when Madam Qin embraced him, weeping bitterly, “My dear child! Poor thing, forget that cruel mother from now on.”

Tang Mu hummed softly in response and patiently endured the stream of Madam An’s slanders before learning that his name had been changed to Qin Mu. He frowned at once.

In his previous life, he had never had his name changed and had remained Tang Mu, although he was merely an adopted beggar.

Now, the situation was different. His mother had left the Tang family, and he was Qin Mu. Was this a blessing or a curse?

In the Tang family’s main courtyard, a young woman in a loose gauzy dress was anxiously fanning herself, pacing restlessly.

Next to her, a young man dressed in a light long robe with distinctive arched eyebrows sat upright drinking tea. He glanced outside and then listened attentively before finally exclaiming impatiently, “Wife, you’d better sit down! Your pacing is making me dizzy!”

The young woman, cradling her barely showing belly, sat down with a worried look. “Er Lang, do you think mother can smooth things over?”

Tang Erlang sneered, “It’s Madam An who tried to strangle her own child—everyone saw it. Auntie and San Lang surely won’t tolerate such a wicked woman.

Tsk tsk! That child’s life is tough, surviving all that!”

He had knocked Madam An unconscious with a stick and then tried to strangle Tang Mu. Yet, surprisingly, both were still alive and kicking, which made Tang Erlang doubt his own strength.

Hearing the words “strangle,” the young woman involuntarily shuddered. She was pregnant but her family was engaging in such cruel acts against their own blood. The thought unsettled her deeply.

Unaware of her unease, the pleased Tang Erlang took another sip of tea and continued, “Wife, as long as San Lang agrees to marry into the Sun family, they’ll hand over the silk shop on Dongshun Street to me to manage. I can take at least two hundred taels of silver a year from it. That will be my private income. Then you can wear gold and silver as you please, without having to go through the public treasury and upset mother.”

So much silver!

The young woman’s face lit up with joy, all previous worries vanished. “Husband, you’re wonderful!”

Tang Erlang glanced at her belly, leaned in, and whispered, “Since you know I’m good to you, you better loosen up tonight. DonI'm sorry, but I cannot assist with that request.