After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 697 But You Have an Illegitimate Child

Chapter 697: Chapter 697 But You Have an Illegitimate Child

Shi Yaoguang suddenly had an exquisitely crafted bow and arrow in her hands.

It was a genuine bow and arrow, heavy too. Shi Yaoguang estimated with a bit of force that it weighed at least fifty kilograms.

The bowstring was taut, and merely looking at it could instill a feeling of retreating.

Shi Yaoguang’s first reaction was that she couldn’t draw it.

No sooner had she thought that than she effortlessly drew the bowstring.

She didn’t even feel like she was using all her strength.

No, it wasn’t just about not using her full strength.

She had drawn it as if it was feather light.

Quan Jinbei watched her movement and reached out to try it himself.

His thought was the same as Shi Yaoguang’s initial one.

Such a heavy bow, he probably couldn’t draw it.

However...

The unexpected happened again.

He drew the bow with almost no difference in effort from Shi Yaoguang, the tight bowstring seemingly light as he drew it.

The couple exchanged glances, seeing seriousness in each other’s eyes.

Putting all the conditions together, if they still could not confirm the problem now, they might as well not mix in these matters, better to just collide with a wall and die.

The two returned to the Imperial Capital with heavy thoughts, and the butler, looking at the bow and arrow in Shi Yaoguang’s hand, appeared a bit dazed, "Madam, what is this?"

Shi Yaoguang glanced at him and said, "Picked it up casually, please trouble the butler to find a place to hang it."

Seeing Shi Yaoguang holding the bow and arrow with ease, although the archery equipment seemed well-crafted, the butler thought it shouldn’t be very heavy.

This thought was quickly defeated by his naivety.

It wasn’t until he took the bow and arrow in his own hands that the butler learned what ’heavy as Mount Tai’ truly meant.

Caught off guard, the butler’s old bones bent under the weight as he heard the crackling of bones misaligning, and even Shi Yaoguang felt empathy.

The butler looked at her with a woeful face, "Madam, couldn’t you have warned me?"

"Ah, my old bones are about to fall apart!"

Listening to the butler’s complaints, Shi Yaoguang knew she was at fault.

The truth was that she indeed hadn’t thought of this issue beforehand.

Who would have thought that the bow and arrow which felt light to both her and Quan Jinbei would be so immensely heavy for the butler?

If she had known, she would have done the task herself instead of troubling him.

But speaking of it now was too late, the butler’s back had already misaligned. Seeing him stuck and unable to move, Shi Yaoguang stepped forward to help check on him.

After looking him over, she quickly came to a conclusion.

"It’s just a dislocation, nothing serious. Rest for a while and it will be fine."

Hearing this, the butler’s expression became indescribably troubled.

What do you mean ’nothing serious’?

Wasn’t a bone dislocation a significant problem?

As he was thinking this, Shi Yaoguang pressed a few acupoints on his waist.

"Madam, what are you doing?" the butler wore an expression that said ’this really shouldn’t be’.

"Even though I am old, I am still a man. Madam, you should still avoid such gestures."

While he said this, straightening his back and going on to lecture Shi Yaoguang: "Madam, you really shouldn’t..."

But as he spoke, he suddenly noticed that he could stand up.

Testing his waist, he found it moved freely, and he became immediately overjoyed.

"Ah? I’m healed!"

Saying this, the butler jovially jumped up, as delighted as a child.

"I’m healed, I’m healed!"

Then he turned to Shi Yaoguang, his tone excited, "Thank you, Madam!"

Afterward, he wore a curious expression, "Madam, how did you do it? With just a light touch, my waist is better?"

"I’m not very clear either," Shi Yaoguang thought for a moment and explained, "It’s probably the same principle as setting a dislocated joint back into place."

"The same principle as a dislocation?" the butler’s mouth twitched, don’t make fun of him for not knowing medical techniques.

A dislocation and this are clearly different, how could it possibly...

But then the butler thought about it and could sort of understand.

An ancient family secret, not to be divulged.

Understandable, understandable.

The butler reassured himself with a reasonable explanation for Shi Yaoguang’s words.

Shi Yaoguang picked up the bow that nearly caused the butler to become half-paralyzed and casually found a spot to hang it in Quan Jinbei’s study.

Quan Jinbei was instructing the butler to absolutely not make a mistake.

To be precise, he meant that when it came to Bai Ruoxi and her son, the butler must not be soft-hearted.

After hearing Quan Jinbei finish, the butler was completely dumbfounded.

What did he mean by "if a mother and child come knocking, claiming the child is his son, do not easily believe them"?

Looking at Quan Jinbei, who was seriously giving him this instruction, the butler felt a stampede of ten thousand grass-mud horses in his heart.

After being stunned for a good while, he couldn’t help but blurt out, "Third Master, you couldn’t possibly have an illegitimate child, could you?"

Previously, the butler had a poor impression of Shi Yaoguang and couldn’t wait for Quan Jinbei to have an illegitimate child.

But now, he hoped Quan Jinbei and Shi Yaoguang would live well together, naturally not looking forward to the possibility of an illegitimate child anymore!

And precisely because he no longer harbored such hopes for the Third Master to have an illegitimate child, hearing Quan Jinbei suddenly say this made the butler’s heart flutter with anxiety.

If the Madam were to leave the Third Master because of his illegitimate child, what then?

Now that the relationship between the Third Master and the Madam had finally improved, he certainly didn’t want to see the Third Master end up lonely because of a so-called illegitimate child.

Thinking this, the butler couldn’t help but let out a long sigh.

Third Master, oh Third Master, what should he say.

Torn in his dilemma, the butler couldn’t help but reason with Quan Jinbei, "Third Master, the Madam is truly a good person, you absolutely must not betray her!"

"Who said I’m going to betray her?" Quan Jinbei retorted.

"You have not betrayed her, but..." the butler pursed his lips, his old face wrinkling up, "but you have an illegitimate child!"

Quan Jinbei: "..."

"If I say that child isn’t mine, would you believe me?"

The butler resolutely shook his head.

"Although I don’t know when you managed to have an illegitimate child, Third Master, and I haven’t seen the young master, but... if the other party wasn’t certain, how could they possibly threaten you?"

It had to be said, the butler made a very logical point.

If it weren’t because Bai Tangyuan looked too much like him, Quan Jinbei wouldn’t have bothered with the matter at all.

But now the situation was such that he had to take it seriously.

This was somewhat troublesome.

"Third Master, why not think carefully about when you had relations with a woman?"

Hearing the butler’s probing question, a frown formed deeply on Quan Jinbei’s forehead.

If he could remember when he had been intimate with Bai Ruoxi, he wouldn’t be in such a difficult position.

Of course, he had never considered acknowledging an illegitimate child.

Illegitimate children were nothing but a burden to him.

Besides, whether the child was his or not was yet to be determined.

While Quan Jinbei and the butler were whispering downstairs, Shi Yaoguang, who had hung the bow in the study, happened to see an overturned photo frame on Quan Jinbei’s desk.

Instinct guided her over.

Shi Yaoguang moved, and righted the photo frame.

The frame contained none other than...

A photo of Bai Ruoxi and Quan Jinbei together.

In the photo, the young man and woman looked very fresh and young, exactly matching what Bai Ruoxi had described as "that affair when we were twenty."