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Confidential Lady (foaled 4 April 2003 – ) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. As a juvenile in 2005 she showed high-class form, winning four of her seven races including the Star Stakes and the Prix du Calvados. In the following year she finished second in the 1000 Guineas before recording her biggest win in the Prix de Diane. She failed to win in four subsequent races although she ran second in the Premio Lydia Tesio and was not disgraced when finishing fifth in the Champion Stakes. She has had some success as a broodmare.

Background
Confidential Lady is a bay mare bred and owned by the Newmarket-based Cheveley Park Stud. She was trained throughout her racing career by Mark Prescott at the Heath House stable in Newmarket and ridden in all but one of her races by Seb Sanders.

She was sired by Singspiel, an international campaigner whose wins included the Canadian International Stakes, Japan Cup, Dubai World Cup, Coronation Cup, and International Stakes. The best of his other progeny include Moon Ballad Solow and Dar Re Mi. Confidential Lady's dam Confidante showed modest racing ability, winning two minor races in 1998, and was a daughter of Won't She Tell, a half sister to Affirmed.

Racing career

2005: two-year-old season
On her racecourse debut, Confidential Lady started the 2/1 favourite for a maiden race over six furlongs at Hamilton Park Racecourse on 8 June and finished third behind Original Source and Rainbow Bay. Three weeks later she started 5/6 favourite for a similar event over seven furlongs on firm ground at Catterick and recorded her first success as she led from start and came home three and a half lengths clear of her seven opponents. Three days after her win at Catterick, the filly was back on the track for a minor event at Beverley Racecourse and won again, making all the running and finishing two lengths in front of Jeu de Mot. On 21 July Confidential Lady was stepped up in class for the Listed Star Stakes over seven furlongs at Sandown Park and was made the 11/2 second favourite in an eleven-runner field. She went to the front soon after the start, went clear of the field in the last quarter mile and won "comfortably" from the favourite Vague (runner-up in the Albany Stakes) with Nasheej in third place.

Confidential Lady was moved up in class again for the Group 3 Sweet Solera Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse on 6 August and started the 11/4 second favourite behind Spinning Queen. She took lead at halfway but was caught in the final strides and beaten a head by Nasheej. Two weeks after her defeat at Newmarket, the filly was sent to France to contest the Prix du Calvados over 1400 metres on very soft ground at Deauville Racecourse. Ridden by the French jockey Jean-Bernard Eyquem she led from the start and kept on strongly to win by one and a half lengths from the Criquette Head-trained favourite Quiet Royal. For her final run of the year, Confidential Lady returned to France for the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp Racecourse on 2 October. She raced in second place for most of the way but weakened in the closing stages and came home tenth of the fourteen runners behind Rumplestiltskin.

2006: three-year-old season
Confidential Lady began her second campaign in the 1000 Guineas over the Rowley Mile at Newmarket on 7 May and started at odds of 12/1 in a thirteen-runner field. She tracked the front-running Speciosa for most of the way but was unable to close the gap in the final stages and was beaten two and a half lengths into second place. Those finishing behind included Nasheej, Spinning Queen, Rumplestiltskin, Nannina and Donna Blini. Three weeks later the filly was made the 5/2 favourite for the Irish 1000 Guineas on heavy ground at the Curragh but after leading for most of the way she tired in the last quarter mile and came home sixth of the fifteen runners behind Nightime.

On 11 June Confidential Lady was sent to France again for the Prix de Diane over 2100 metres at Chantilly Racecourse and was made the 8/1 fifth choice in the betting by British bookmakers but went off at 43/1 on the French pari-mutuel. Germance (Prix Saint-Alary) started favourite, while the best fancied of the other fourteen runners were Daltaya (Prix de la Grotte), Alloway (Prix Cléopâtre) and Queen Cleopatra (Derrinstown Stud 1,000 Guineas Trial). In a change of tactics Confidential Lady was retrained by Sanders in the early stages before moving up on the inside to make the final turn in fifth place. She was switched to the left in the straight, overtook the leader Germance 200 metres and won by one and a half lengths from the favourite with Queen Cleopatra a nose away in third. Her winning time of 2:05.9 equaled the race record set by Lypharita in 1985. Mark Prescott, who was winning a first classic race in a 35-year training career said "We were lucky with the draw, we were lucky knowing that there would be a strong pace and we were very lucky that the filly was tough enough to take a race like this only two weeks after that slightly disappointing run in Ireland. But she'll have a bit of a breather now, which she thoroughly deserves".

Five weeks after her win at Chantilly, Confidential Lady was stepped up in distance for the Irish Oaks over one and a half miles at the Curragh but made little impression and came home fifth of the six runners behind Alexandrova. After break of almost three months the filly returned at Newmarket in October when she was the only three-year-old filly in the eight-runner field for the Champion Stakes over ten furlongs. She ran fifth behind the six-year-old mare Pride with Sir Percy and Notnowcato finishing behind. Confidential Lady ended her season with a trip to Italy for the Premio Lydia Tesio over 2000 metres at Capannelle Racecourse in Rome in which she was beaten into second place by the German-trained four-year-old Floriot.

Confidential Lady returned for one more race in 2007 but showed no signs of her old form as she came home last of the fourteen runners in the Doonside Cup at Ayr Racecourse on 22 September.

Breeding record
At the end of her racing career, Confidential Lady was retired to become a broodmare at Cheveley Park. Her offspring include:

Code Cracker, a filly, foaled in 2009, sired by Medicean. Failed to win in three races.
Privacy Order, bay filly, 2010, by Azamour. Failed to win in three races.
Untold Secret, bay colt (later gelded), 2012, by Shamardal. Won two races.
Red Box, bay filly, 2013, by Exceed and Excel. Won three races including the Valiant Stakes.
Private View, bay filly, 2015, by Exceed and Excel. Failed to win in three races.

Pedigree

 Confidential Lady was inbred 4 × 4 to Norther Dancer, meaning that this stallion appears twice in the fourth generation of her pedigree.

References

2003 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom
Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom
Thoroughbred family 23-b

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Editor's Note: The U.S. drone program – as Lawfare readers well know – raises contentious policy issues as well as criticisms of its legality and morality. Many of these policy issues come to the fore in Yemen, where chaos and civil war are sweeping the land. Jillian Schwedler, a professor at Hunter College and expert on Yemen, argues that the U.S. drone campaign in Yemen is backfiring, enraging locals and contributing to a range of U.S. policy failures there.
I share the views of the moral and legal dissenters and hesitate to move beyond those debates because I don't want to suggest that I accept the program's legality. But I do want to engage those who do view the program as working – after all, if the U.S. administration did not believe it was working, it wouldn't need to justify it legally. But by what metrics should we consider judging its success?
Perhaps the most obvious metric is whether AQAP leaders are actually being killed and, even more, whether their deaths substantially disrupted the group's activities in Yemen or its ability to pursue objectives outside of Yemen. For advocates of this metric, the program has been successful in the short term – individuals killed – even if the longer-term impact is less clear because new leaders seem to step in with regularity.
The dual effect of U.S. acceleration in drone strikes since 2010 and of their continued use during the "transitional" period that was intended to usher in more accountable governance has shown Yemenis how consistently their leaders will cede sovereignty and citizens' security to the United States. While Yemenis may recognize that AQAP does target the United States, the hundreds of drone strikes are viewed as an excessive response. The weak sovereignty of the Yemeni state is then treated as the "problem" that has allowed AQAP to expand, even as state sovereignty has been directly undermined by U.S. policy – both under President Ali Abdullah Salih and during the transition. American "security" is placed above Yemeni security, with Yemeni sovereignty violated repeatedly in service of that cause. Regardless of what those in Washington view as valid and legitimate responses to "terrorist" threats, the reality for Yemenis is that the United States uses drone strikes regularly to run roughshod over Yemeni sovereignty in an effort to stop a handful of attacks — most of them failed — against U.S. targets. The fact that corrupt Yemeni leaders consent to the attacks makes little difference to public opinion.
Regardless of what those in Washington view as valid and legitimate responses to "terrorist" threats, the reality for Yemenis is that the United States uses drone strikes regularly to run roughshod over Yemeni sovereignty in an effort to stop a handful of attacks — most of them failed — against U.S. targets.
The United States cut aid to Yemen in 1990 when the newly united Yemeni state, which had just rotated into the Arab seat on the UN Security Council, failed to vote for a U.S.-led coalition to reverse the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Yemen suffered a tremendous economic blow, as the United States joined Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in unilaterally severing aid to what was then and still is the poorest Arab nation. But with the rise of jihadi activism on the Arabian Peninsula over the next decade, and particularly after the bombing of USS Cole in 2000, Salih welcomed the return of U.S. aid to Yemen. This included a strong security dimension as the United States began tracking those suspected of involvement in the Cole attacks and other al-Qaida activities. Conspicuous caravans of FBI agents became a topic of local conversations, so the return of a U.S. presence in Yemen was also more visible than it had been previously. Salih claimed to have had advance knowledge of every drone strike.
Saudi Arabia has meddled in Yemen at least since the fall of the northern Mutawakkilite monarchy in the late 1960s. The Saudi intervention that began with air strikes in March of this year and escalated to ground troops is thus only the latest – and most egregious – of the kingdom's efforts to affect Yemen politics. This background is necessary to understand that if Yemen is a "failed state," despite scholarly protestations otherwise, it is at least in part due to decades of external actors violating Yemeni sovereignty with near impunity. The drone program, like the Saudi-led war, is merely a recent and overt example.
But they were relatively few. Al-Qaida found little success in attracting Yemenis who were not already drawn to jihadi ideas. The al-Qaida recruiting pitch of attacking foreign powers inside of Yemen simply rang hollow. Even the 2000 attack upon USS Cole – a warship docked in Aden – was not widely viewed as the legitimate targeting of a foreign military power intervening in Yemeni politics. Al-Qaida had to resort to extremist tactics precisely because its ideas did not attract a following significant enough to spark a popular mobilization.
There is an old saying that when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. The U.S. military – let alone its drones – is not the only tool on which the United States can rely. But when the measure of success is as narrow as the killing of a specific person, the tool gets used with increasing frequency. Indeed, drone strikes have significantly expanded under the Obama administration.
Jillian Schwedler is Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. She has written extensively on the Muslim Brotherhood, including the award-winning book, Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen.


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National | Peter Hasson | Feb 18, 2020 | 6:01PM | Washington, DC
Billionaire and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg said in a 2011 video that elderly cancer patients should be denied treatment in order to cut health care costs.
"All of these costs keep going up, nobody wants to pay any more money, and at the rate we're going, health care is going to bankrupt us," said Bloomberg, who was then New York City's mayor.
"We've got to sit here and say which things we're going to do, and which things we're not, nobody wants to do that. Y'know, if you show up with prostate cancer, you're 95 years old, we should say, 'Go and enjoy. Have a nice [inaudible]. Live a long life. There's no cure, and we can't do anything.' If you're a young person, we should do something about it," Bloomberg said in the video.
"Society's not ready to do that yet," he added.
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Bloomberg made the comments while visiting a grieving family whose brother had died after reportedly waiting 73 hours in an emergency room.
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The New York billionaire has faced increased scrutiny over past statements as he has continued to rise in Democratic primary polls.
Bloomberg's fellow Democrats have criticized him for his past aggressive defense of stop-and-frisk policies in New York has led to criticism from fellow Democrats.
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Kryos: Chapter 13
by Kaiter Enless September 14, 2020 October 3, 2021
White garbed clerks moved in busy cliques beneath the high, vaulted ceiling of the control room of KSRU Central wherein Acelin Syzr loomed over his sparsely furnished alabaster desk, watching the wall-screen with attentive concern from beneath the cover of his sleek, monochrome mask. The flickering mesh of the central screen, which hung before a branching stairwell, displayed, in a locked-down wideshot, a spacious, judiciously decorated news set, in which a large middle-aged man with a scarred face sat facing an aging make-up caked anchor-woman. Tyser Lanning chuckled and swiveled on his padded chair toward his taunt and well-armored superior who stood the center of the floor.
"Broad looks like she fell headfirst into a crayon blender. We can put networks in the sky, cities under the sea, ports in orbit, but convincing cosmetics eludes us."
Lanning screwed up his face and fell silent, adjusted his long orange overcoat and returned to his affinity tablet array; scuffed fingers busily tapping ergonomic keys; cushioned, close-fitting headset humming; eyes taking in the detailed feeds of various Consortium-approved, Kryos-manufactured aerial drones, judiciously scanning the sprawling cityscape for social perturbation.
"This is Tiffany Bardis for New Vision, here with Central Sector's Danzig Kleiner, the lone survivor of a vicious, seemingly random attack which occurred two days ago on the streets of the entertainment district, where the leader of the KSRU, a one Acelin Syzr, confronted Mr. Kleiner and two of his friends, Darius Culp and Victor Mehan, both southers and first generation district residents; the event, unfortunately, culminated in the deaths of both Mr. Mehan and Mr. Culp. Mr. Syzr, for reasons which remain unclear, was not detained by the Security Commission and remains at large, prompting protests from local residents outraged at the cruel injustice of the act and what they view as the burgeoning tyranny of Kryos Industries, whose KSRU mercenaries now operate, in some capacity, in every sector of the city. The KSRU has since released a curt statement, in which they declared that the event was prompted by self-defense and suggests a extensive investigation by the Security Commission. Curiously, the Security Commission has not released a statement. We reached out to both Kryos Industries and the Security Commission; unfortunately, neither have responded to our queries." The woman turned to the greasy, hastily done-up man sitting roughly five feet from her with a mirthless smile, "Mr. Kleiner, thank you so much for being with us today, I know how stressful this must be for you, given all you've been through recently."
The man rocked slightly and nervously rubbed his knees, as if scrapping mud, "Thanks for having me, Tiffany."
"How are you holding up?"
Syzr's hands went tight about the corner of his sparsely furnished alabaster desk.
"Its been rough. But I'm doing alright."
"Given the dearth of footage from the incident, can you start from the beginning and tell us exactly what happened?"
"Sure. Well, I and my friends were just minding our business, took an alleyway shortcut to a club we liked to hang out at, when… this guy just springs out of nowhere and starts attacking us. Like he had it out for us."
"The short video clip which was leaked shows your friends assaulting Mr. Syzr; can you explain what happened prior to the beginning of the available recording of the event?"
"Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's deceptive, they were fighting back. See, he came in swinging and they pushed him back and I was just stunned, stunned, didn't know what to do, then they tried to tackle him and that's when the recording begins. At the time, I didn't know he was paramilitary, thought he was just some guy."
Syzr loosed the table and straightened. "This cretin can barely string a sentence together. Its doubtful he came up with this narrative on his own."
"Think someone has been feeding him lines?" Lanning inquired, removing his headset and rubbing his chin contemplatively, popping a printed biscuit from a culinary crafter on his work-desk.
Syzr nodded near imperceptibly, "Someone coached him."
"… Mr. Danzig, some have floated the idea that he targeted your friends because of their origins. That he had some pathological grievance against southers. What do you think of that?"
"Could be, Tiffany, could be. There's a lot of crazy people out there…"
Syzr turned to Lanning, "The bastard's smiling. Has Fawnell agreed to speak to the press?"
Lanning shook his head and leaned back in his chair, "She refuses to talk to anyone, even the Security Commission. Probably afraid of blow back from the mob, now that Mehan and Culp have been turned into martyrs. I've not tried to contact her personally, but Vogel did, told me she shut him down immediately. I put out a missive to see if any of our staffers might know her. All replies negative, so far."
"I'm surprised Vogel's still willing to share information with us."
"So was I. I don't think the Commissioner is aware of his indiscretion."
"Still no news on the rest of the drone recording?"
Syzr uttered a curse under his breath, the utterance rendered opaque by the mechanical distortion of his full-helm's respirator. From the far end of the hall, the sound of two pairs of footsteps reverberated. Syzr turned and beheld Jean Raimer, a dark-haired man of middling height and powerful frame, armed and armored in gleaming sy-chitin, his helm tucked under his left arm, his right, curling to a salute which was swiftly returned. Behind him stood a middle aged man with well-combed hair and a high-collared monochrome coat, a Vilar Corp logo upon the right shoulder.
"What is it, Captain?"
"Apologies for the interruption, Colonel. Ryard Vancing is here to see you."
Vancing stepped forward, his visage uncharacteristically grim and reserved, his eyes fixed upon the colonel.
"Come concerning our request?"
"Yes. Hope I'm not interrupting anything."
"I can multitask."
The enormous screen cut suddenly away from Kleiner's interview to a scene of roiling violence backlit by ravenous flames licking up the berth of a tumble-down tenement. A young reporter faced a Vis Corp coverage drone which hovered some six feet above the woman, the machine's multi-camera array focusing in on the most active zones of conflict. "Chancellor Richter just now called for calm after yet another outbreak of violence in Central." The woman turned to a middle aged souther whose swarthy face was twisted into a permanent snarl. "Sir, excuse me, can you tell us why you're out here? What are you hoping to accomplish?" The souther paused and drew up to the woman, seemingly annoyed, followed by a group of compatriots. "They're out here killing us." "Who, sir?" "KSRU. Security Commission. Big business. Whole damned government. We're out here to show them we won't take it any more. If they're gonna keep killing us, we're gonna start killing them." "They kill us, we kill them," the crowd began to chant with increasing fervor. The reporter's face contorted with apprehension. "She's from the government, she's from the government!" Someone off-camera shouted. The next instant someone struck the woman in the back of the head; her body ragdolled, prompting her crew to leap vainly to her defense. The crowd swiftly turned upon the journalists with cries of fury, whereafter fists and blood were thrown in a sudden flux of savagery. Screams of deep animal pain blanketed the scene, drowning out the crackling raze and homemade explosives sounding in the distance. As the grotesque cacophony reached its invariable apogee, the feed cut, transitioning back to the Vis Corp interview set where Tiffany Bardis shook her golden head, mouth twitching like a skewered grub. "Gods below…" for a long moment the woman simply starred uncomprehendingly, as if in a trance, "T-that's the latest from our on-the-ground coverage of the protests currently sweeping Central Sector…"
Syzr muted the monitor and turned to the entrant.
"What have you decided?"
Ryard's expression waxed solemn.
"This madness must not become our normality."
"'This,' or 'their.'"
"Who're you referring to?"
Syzr gestured to a close-up of Danzig Kleiner on the monitor, "Whoever proffered him to the media and coached him. Whoever was behind the seizure of the assurance drone which recorded my encounter with Kleiner's gang. I suspect the same shadow moves behind both curtains."
"Interesting. Why do you think he was coached?"
"I heard him speak before we fought. He's affecting a new speech pattern, new mannerisms. And despite his obvious incompetence, he's yet to stumble in responding to a question."
"That's reasonable," Ryard asserted with sudden animation. "But right now we should worry about forming a counter-narrative. We don't have the drone recording of what really happened but as I overheard, the woman who you rescued hasn't spoken up."
Syzr nodded.
"Fawnell won't talk to us," Lanning replied with exasperation, "She might, just maybe, talk to the colonel, if he came in person; however, if the mob spots him on the street, they'll be blood."
Ryard returned his attention to the colonel and smiled confidently, "Send me."
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It was another day for paying respects. The ce fei and shiqie arrived early to wait in the outer rooms of the zhengyuan. This time, their attitude was much more careful and they were much more courteous to the servants there.
Jin Zhan, along with a few little yahuan, came to pour tea for the women before standing silently to one side.
"Jin Zan guniang, we came a bit early today, did we disturb wang fei's rest?" Feng Zi Jin's face was full of apology and looked towards the inner room, "Wang fei must be very busy these past days and exhausted." She had to be busy. Not just managing to gather all of houyuan into her hands, she also had the skill to let wang ye remain every night in her rooms. Wang fei had some smarts.
The four heard the laughter and simultaneously looked towards the doorway. They saw Qu Qing Ju, wearing a complicated and sweeping embroidered silver luan and red clouds dress, walk in. That long dress trailed on the floor as though it was dragging on their hearts and inexplicably made them feel depressed.
The women stood and bowed towards Qu Qing Ju. As they bowed, they saw that red-colored dress stream across their eyes, the beautiful tail of the luan was painful to the eye.
The others naturally didn't dare accept this apology. They only smiled and said they didn't wait long and then waited for Qu Qing Ju's next words.
They didn't expect wang fei to talk so plainly. Feng Zi Jin paused slightly. She felt that these words seemed to be targeted at her but she couldn't say anything. Seeing the other three stand and express they would follow protocol, she also stood and weakly concurred.
"Since everybody understands, I don't have anything more to say." Setting down the teacup, Qu Qing Ju's expression lightened slightly, "I heard Qian Chang Xin say that the wang fu received a shipment of fabric previously. Later, somebody will deliver them to your residences. The weather is getting colder, you should make some new clothes from the fabric." Concluding, her hand raised the teacup and motioned towards the outside.
Jiang Yong Yu had been walking behind her and heard this complaint. Her steps slowed and the distance between them lengthened.
After the women left, Qu Qing Ju stood and yawned: "Service now." She wasn't noble and virtuous. Even though she wouldn't be harsh without reason to other women, she couldn't act the part of virtuous. As to what Duan Wang thought, that was Duan Wang's problem.
Shaking her wide sleeves, Qu Qing Ju smiled. This medieval clothing was both finely made and beautiful.
Ming He took the silk handkerchief from wang ye's hands, "Yes, a few days before Chang De Gong Fu did present an invitation. Other than our fu, many in Jing also received one." But at the time, wang ye had just looked and threw the invitation to one side. Why was he mentioning it now?
Ming He knew that this was wang ye was now dissatisfied with the Duke of Chang De. He lowered his head as he retreated to one side.
"The person?" He Heng asked coldly.
"Already rescued, but she couldn't breathe properly and fainted into sleep now." Qian Chang Xi swore in his heart, these women from the brothels obviously couldn't be seen in public. Suicide was easy, just wrap around the roof arch in the middle of the night and it was done. She had to pick this time to act like this. He didn't know if she really wanted to die or do something else.
She was just a small actress but she had to act like a virtuous person and also persisted in competing against wang fei. She had forgotten who she really was. She had the heart of a noblewoman but the destiny of a yahuan. It was self-inflicted!
Ming He saw Qian Chang Xin hurriedly retreat, his brow rose and fell. With such poor schemes, she still wanted to stir wang ye's pity. It could be seen that this huakui didn't live up to her reputation.
Inside zhengyuan, Qu Qing Ju played with the invitation in her hands. The birthday banquet of the Duke of Chang De. Whether she was willing or not, she had to at least go to that fu, even if it was just a formality. But just remembering the rage and dissatisfaction that existed in the original's memories of that place, her face became colder.
In this kind of feudal era, there was nothing wrong with the dissolute nature of men in the eyes of society. But to marry somebody else when the body of the deceased person hadn't even cooled and to treat his own daughter as nothing, that meant his character was lacking. A man who couldn't even abide protocol during the one year after his wife had died, it was enough to make anybody feel extremely disappointed.
A qin wang fei was nobler and higher-ranked than Chang De Gong Fu but the rumors wouldn't sound very good. Also, why would she let go of such a good opportunity?
Under the absolute might of the Imperial power, even if she was his daughter, the Duke of Chang De still had to bow to her. This was a perfect opportunity to "return in glory". If she didn't use it, wouldn't she be wasting her status as Duan Wang Fei?
"That's not necessary. My good father's birthday, I, this Duan Wang Fei, as his daughter, has to attend," Lips rising upward in a smile, Qu Qing Ju threw the invitation to one side and saw Yin Liu walk in with anger on her face.
Qu Qing Ju finished listening to Yin Liu's speech, laughed, and said: "I'm not angry, but you blew your top." She motioned for Mu Jin to pour a cup of tea for Yin Liu to moisten her throat, "That Yun Qing was never somebody that deserved any attention, I have no reason to become angry over her." This Yun Qing wasn't a smart woman. If she had been perceptive, acted well-behaved all the time, she would still have some influence with Duan Wang. But she had to pretend to be virtuous which was the worst strategy.
Perhaps normal customers had liked Yun Qing's virtuous and innocent act that fulfilled the desires of the masses, but who was He Heng? He was Duan Qin Wang of this entire Da Long Dynasty. What kind of women hasn't he seen before? The schemes Yun Qing used, they only worked as long as He Heng was willing to play along.
"Send somebody to reply to Chang De Gong Fu's invitation. Tell them that on the day of the banquet, I will go personally to congratulate my father." Qu Qing Ju pursed her lips in a smile. She was looking forward a bit now towards the upcoming banquet of the Duke of Chang De. There wasn't much entertainment in this era. She had to find something to do in order to not waste the time available.
Soon after, the Duchess of Chang De personally received the messenger mama of Duan Wang Fu and was informed that Duan Wang Fei would be coming that day to attend the birthday banquet.
Upon hearing this, Qu Yue Su smiled faintly and didn't speak again.
 秋意斋: Autumn building. Zhai (斋) also means to a vegetarian diet or the diet of a monk.
 丫头: girl, servant girl. Can be used deprecatingly or as a term of endearment.
太太: Mrs, madam, wife, married woman.
Thanks so much for the new chapter. YN is indeed very stupid thinking that she could manipulate Wangye with her cheap tricks.
Hmm I wonder if evil stepmom is going to try to get her daughter married to another prince who is likely to be king?
Such a cruel family but I am surprised at Qu Yue Su's personality.
I cannot wait! I wonder what entertainment her paternal family will play out for her. No matter what the cruel stepmother thinks, she is STILL higher ranked than all of them, so yeah. This is going to be good!
The Wangye is so cruel.. but i like it coz the other person deserved it..
Thank you….she is not a noble or virtuous person….'as to what Duan Wang thought is Duan Wang's problem'…….this is going to be very interesting….
Thanks for the update. Can't wait for her to deal with her father and stepmother. She is no longer the same person they think they can bully easily. As for her sister, perhaps her step mother has plans to marry her to heng's brother. The one who is likely to become the next Emperor. My guess. Can't wait to see fireworks. This is so addicting.
But qin wang is an extremely high position? How can she get her daughter to marry someone of even an even higher position?
*whispers* the Emperor. Or someone who will become the Emperor. So her daughter would be "above" Qu Qing Ju who is a wang fei. Also, Liang shi isn't super super intelligent.
Ah the machinations by ambitious mothers to have their daughters marry up.
Yeah, the clothing is pretty. But then they do Qing Dynasty and the men aren't that pretty then.
Yun Qing isn't so bright at all, thinking all men will stoop low to her "innocent" act. Too bad, that isn't Wang Ye's fetish. LOL.


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