The Found Stepmother, Your Dowry Is a Bit Too Much

Chapter 417

Just as Zhang Yanchu finished changing into the clothes brought by a servant boy, Xia Wenshuang walked in.Dressed in a striking red gown, Xia Wenshuang furrowed her brows tightly the moment she saw Zhang Yanchu's face.

She couldn't understand it. The man from last night was clearly Fourth Young Master Cheng. How did it suddenly turn into this random stranger out of nowhere?

If she hadn't lusted after Fourth Young Master Cheng's good looks, why would she have drugged him in the first place?

Yet, when she woke up, this man was the only one before her.

"You're awake?" Xia Wenshuang asked casually.

She thought to herself that since she was the one who slept with him, the Xia family could certainly afford an extra mouth to feed. It wouldn't do to leave him wandering the streets, so she would just reluctantly take him in.

Zhang Yanchu frowned at the young lady in front of him, entirely baffled as to how a girl could stare at a man so shamelessly.

Although he wasn't exactly losing out, he still strongly disliked such behavior.

It made him feel as if he were being stripped bare by her gaze.

At this thought, Zhang Yanchu frowned and wanted to leave. After all, he was in a completely unfamiliar place.

He felt extremely uncomfortable. This place gave him an eerie and terrifying feeling.

Though he had no idea where this feeling came from.

"Since you're awake, go back and pack your things. I'll send someone to bring you to my estate," Xia Wenshuang said, looking at Zhang Yanchu without much care.

After all, if she had bumped into a man like him on the street, she wouldn't have given him a second glance.

But now that she had slept with him, she simply treated him like one of those men who wanted to cling to the wealth and glory of the Marquis Huaiyang's Mansion.

Anyway, it was just another mouth to feed. Since he was now her man, she wouldn't disdain him for being ugly.

Zhang Yanchu was infuriated by Xia Wenshuang's tone. Anyone who didn't know better would think he was some poor maiden who had been taken advantage of.

The perpetrator takes advantage, and then tosses out a line telling the victim to follow them home and become a concubine.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yanchu retorted angrily, "Who do you think you are to speak so arrogantly? Do you know who I am? I am a Tanhua scholar!"

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Damn it, wasn't he on his way to find Miss Wen?

How did he run into bandits?

And a despicable female bandit at that?

"A Tanhua scholar? Although you're not much to look at, your literary talent makes up for it. It's not a loss for me to take you in." Xia Wenshuang hadn't expected that the man she slept with this time was actually a scholar.

Considering that her estate lacked scholars, she thought this might improve the lineage and produce a brilliant son.

"Since that's the case, just stay by my side obediently. I won't treat you poorly." Xia Wenshuang smugly patted Zhang Yanchu's cheek and turned to leave.

"What do you mean?" Zhang Yanchu couldn't believe his ears.

Did this bandit really want him to stay and be her captive husband?

"You bandit, let me go immediately!" Zhang Yanchu roared in fear.

"Young master, what nonsense are you spouting? How could the young lady of Marquis Huaiyang's Mansion be a bandit?" the servant boy nearby scolded upon hearing this.

Hearing Marquis Huaiyang's Mansion, Zhang Yanchu was dumbfounded.

If he remembered correctly, there was a young lady in Marquis Huaiyang's Mansion whose favorite pastime was keeping handsome male concubines.

At this thought, Zhang Yanchu recalled the scene of waking up completely naked.

Disbelievingly, he clutched his chest and pointed at Xia Wenshuang.

"You... you... you...!"

Zhang Yanchu had once mocked this daughter of the Marquis Huaiyang's Mansion with his classmates, calling her excessively promiscuous for imitating others by keeping male concubines.

He had also ridiculed those shameless men who willingly served as male concubines to a woman.

But he never imagined that one day, he would become entangled with that very young lady.

"What about me? It is your blessing that I have taken a fancy to you. Stay obediently by my side, and I won't mistreat you," Xia Wenshuang said, feeling somewhat displeased.

However, considering that Zhang Yanchu was a scholar after all, perhaps scholars had their own pride and character.

She decided to be magnanimous and not hold it against him, only hoping that he would be useful enough to help her give birth to a smart child.

Otherwise, with a face like his, she really couldn't bring herself to like him.

"Rest assured, as long as you bear me a son or daughter, I will take you in as my concubine-husband. I absolutely will not wrong you," Xia Wenshuang added, seeing Zhang Yanchu's reluctant expression.

Hearing this, Zhang Yanchu's eyes filled with disbelief. Why was he suddenly burdened with the responsibility of bearing children?

The problem was, he couldn't give birth!

Thinking of this, Zhang Yanchu resisted fiercely, "You lunatic, I will never bear children for you!"

After saying that, Zhang Yanchu tried to dash out.

He refused to be confined in this Xia household.

He wanted to go out and find Wen Xiu.

He absolutely refused to stay and be a male concubine for this crazy woman.

Xia Wenshuang hadn't been particularly fond of Zhang Yanchu in the first place; she simply thought that since she had slept with him, she might as well keep him.

Having just heard that he was Zhang Yanchu, she figured that since he was a scholar, maybe he could help her produce a scholarly child.

That was why she had entertained the idea of elevating him to the status of a concubine-husband.

But now, his reaction treating her as if she were some terrifying monster had angered Xia Wenshuang.

She had countless handsome men in her backyard, and she certainly wouldn't indulge this arrogant fool and let him ruin her rules.

"I kindly allowed you to go back and bid farewell to your family, but you just don't know what's good for you, do you?" With this thought, Xia Wenshuang stepped forward and delivered a hard slap to Zhang Yanchu's face.

The moment she remembered that the Fourth Young Master Cheng she had originally wanted was gone, Xia Wenshuang furiously slapped Zhang Yanchu again.

If it weren't for this wretched thing, the person sharing a night of passion with her last night might have been Fourth Young Master Cheng.

It was all her own fault for being afraid that Fourth Young Master Cheng would be suspicious last night, so she hadn't taken the antidote pill beforehand.

This morning, she had been feeling so delighted, only to be left dumbfounded when she saw clearly who was sleeping beside her.

It truly felt like a bucket of ice water had been poured over her.

It had taken a great deal of determination on her part to bring him back to the Marquis's Mansion.

Yet this man had threatened to leave the moment he woke up.

Xia Wenshuang had never encountered such an ungrateful wretch.

While annoyed, a stubborn determination flared up within her to force this man into her harem no matter what.

After all, what one cannot get is always the best. The more unwilling this man was, the more she wanted to keep him.

She was going to let him know that she, Xia Wenshuang, was the only one who could reject others; no one had the right to reject her.

"Miss... Miss Xia, please let me go. Giving birth is a woman's job, I'm a grown man, I can't do that!"

Faced with Xia Wenshuang's fierce and aggressive demeanor, Zhang Yanchu begged for mercy in fear.