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Slapping her own face, Liu Limin began to question Xia Hen again, "Right, he must have done it on purpose. If he really wanted to be friends with me, he wouldn’t have quietly left in Zhuma Town that day! Humph, did I just show a bit of interest in him for him to be scared off like this?"

Fuming, Liu Limin sat in front of the copper mirror, touching the corners of her eyes with some insecurity and muttered anxiously, "Could it really be that I’m so ugly I scared him away?

No, that can’t be it, I feel like I look pretty good!

Ah, that’s right, it must be because I have a terrible temper!

Pah! My temper is not terrible! No one in the world could find a woman with a better temper than mine!

Hmph, Xia Hen is blind not to see it; anyone who marries me is truly fortunate! "

"Miss Liu, Miss Liu? Are you in there?"

Suddenly, the sound of Xia Hen knocking urgently resonated from outside the door, which startled Liu Limin, who was lost in her thoughts, nearly making her shiver.

Rushing to the door in just a few steps, Liu Limin opened it and said somewhat annoyedly, "What are you knocking for! Knocking in a rush is for announcing a death, you know! Could it be that someone in your family..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Liu Limin quickly covered her mouth with her hand.

Today was Xia Zhen’s big day; how could she say such an unlucky thing!

Even if she didn’t know Xia Zhen personally, Lin Yuan was going to marry into the General Mansion; she, as Lin Yuan’s aunt, couldn’t talk nonsense!

Yet Xia Hen didn’t pay any attention to all this because he was already stunned by the real Liu Limin in front of him—the one who cursed people fiercely. That timid and excessively polite person from just before must have been someone else in disguise!

"Um, I just wanted to ask, miss, do you really not recognize me?"

Liu Limin felt sheepish inside and perfunctorily shook her head, "I don’t."

That’s how it is with lying; one lie leads to countless more to cover it up. Alas, Liu Limin sighed and had no choice but to continue pretending to have lost her memory.

Xia Hen seemed quite disappointed that Liu Limin didn’t recognize him.

Just as Liu Limin thought he was coming around to forgive her, she heard the idiot blurt out quite inopportunely, "So you really don’t remember, huh?

What am I to do now? I was planning on trying that private stash of good wine of yours, and now, there’s no chance of that! "

Taken aback, Liu Limin snorted loudly and slammed the door shut, going back to her room to continue her venting.

Perhaps it was because Lin Yuan’s mirror startled her while she was helping Tian Hui with her makeup, but that day in the General Mansion, neither Su Qiuyu nor Yao Hanai bothered her at all. They hardly even showed their faces, which really eased her mind.

After that day, the matter of Lin Yuan giving Tian Hui a mirror so clear that you could see every eyelash became wildly known amongst the nobles and commoners alike, with practically no one left unaware.

Not only that, many people immediately sent out their servants to scour the regions, north and south of Jiangnan, searching for a similar mirror. Some even went to great lengths to inquire at Lin Yuan’s house, hoping to uncover the origins of this mirror.

Unfortunately for them, the servants at Lin Yuan’s house had all been brought from the General Mansion by Princess Anle, and to say the least, they were tight-lipped. Also, since the mirror wasn’t even made at Lin Mansion, bribing the servants would provide them with no useful information.

While the whole city envied the search for the mirror, Lin Yuan was handing them out like they were worthless cabbages, one day to Lady Liu and Liu Limin, and another to Tian Xuan and Xu Muqing.

Su Qiuyu even heard from her aunt in the palace that Lin Yuan had sent one to Consort Shu.

The day Consort Shu wanted to take Lin Yuan as her goddaughter, many had heard about it, and with Lin Yuan sending gifts to her godmother so quickly, it seemed very likely that the adoption would go through.

This infuriated Su Qiuyu, who pestered Su Zhe daily to find her a mirror. But such a mirror wasn’t something you could just find because you wanted to. Even if he wanted to buy it off someone, it wouldn’t be possible, for those who had the mirror were either Lin Yuan’s family or close friends.

He couldn’t act against her family, and he didn’t dare with others, especially with the Third Prince and Xia Zheng watching.

And as for Tian Xuan and Xu Muqing, it was even more impossible.

Xu Muqing’s father was the Chief of Staff, and Tian Xuan was under the protection of both Consort Tian and Consort Shu—no one would dare to touch them.

Even though Su Zhe’s love for his daughter was great, he had no choice but to give up.