My new wife discovered my past

Chapter 40 40. Accepting Mediocrity
As one of the three great families in Tokyo, the Sakuraba family is different from the Kujo family.

The head of the Jiugong family has almost always been a single-line family, and this generation has only one direct descendant, Jiugong Ying.

Just as if inheriting the noble and special status of her, Jiugongying is first-class in every aspect, whether it is her character, appearance or talent.

If you ignore her bad character.

As for the Utsunomiya shogunate and the Sakuraba family, although they had many descendants, they all had strange problems.

The Utsunomiya shogunate gave birth to more sons, while the Sakuraba family gave birth to more daughters.

Detailed statistics have been made, and it shows that over the past five hundred years and ten two hundred years, among the direct descendants of men and women born in the two families, the ratio of the majority sex to the minority sex has remained at approximately 7:3.

That is, the male-to-female ratio in the Utsunomiya shogunate was 7:3, while it was the opposite in the Sakuraba family.

As for the direct descendants of the main family who are of the same generation as Sakuraba Mihime, you can tell from the way Kujo Sakura and Kobayashi Iori address her.

The fourth young lady, the fourth young lady Sakuraba, and the fourth young lady Miki.

Before Sakuraba Miki, there were three older sisters who were closely related to her by blood.

Among them, Miss Sakuraba married the new shogun, Akinaya Utsunomiya, who took over the power of the shogunate from her father three years ago.

Although they had been engaged since childhood, it was not as first ladies.

Sakuraba Miki also has a cousin, the fifth lady.

How would you describe the women of the Sakuraba family?

She is graceful and naturally charming.

Each of them is as good-looking and talented as Jiugongying. (Excluding the fourth lady)

It makes people frown and feel envious and jealous. Is there really such a thing as bloodline or lineage theory?

Therefore, among all the SSRs, Sakuraba Miki, who is very ordinary in every aspect, seems to be extremely...

Well, outstanding.

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Jiu Gong Ying was obviously very patient with Sakuraba Miki's question, but she asked back: "Did you shoot that arrow today?"

Sakuraba Miki lowered her eyes and did not answer.

"What's the point of not telling me? Is there no way I can know?"

She stood up and looked at the group of members who had stopped practicing and shooting arrows. As expected, someone wanted to show off and leave an impression in front of Miss Jiugong, so he immediately betrayed Miss Sakuraba.

"Not yet! Sakuraba-san was just doing his second meditation and hasn't shot the arrow yet!"

"Very good……"

Ignoring the attentive male student, Jiu Gong Ying turned to Sakuraba Miki and said, "Miki, wait for me for a moment. I'm going to change my clothes and put on my equipment!"

After saying that, Jiugong Ying walked away with her hands behind her back, her steps filled with joy.

Knowing that she was planning to humiliate his fourth daughter again, Kobayashi Iori, who was squatting next to Sakuraba Miki, was extremely conflicted.

However, Sakuraba Miki's face showed no sadness or joy, and there was a hint of smile in her eyes: "Why do you have such an expression?"

"Ms. Yuji...how about we end the club activities early today and go home first?"

"You are still so naive, Iori..."

"Well, it's good though."

Sakuraba Miki shook her head and refused.

"You can't escape, Iori. You can hide from it on the first day, but you can't escape it on the fifteenth day." Sakuraba Miki's face still showed no sadness or joy, but there was no trace of smile in her eyes.

'From the moment I was born until I die, I can never escape it.'

"What should I do? Could it be... I really don't want to see this kind of person trample on Miss Yuji's hard work and efforts day and night again!"

"It's just this level of humiliation. It's nothing. Father, mother, and sisters won't say much." Having said this, Kobayashi Iori had no reason to persuade her anymore, so he knelt down beside Sakuraba Mihime and meditated together.

The other members of the dojo also continued to practice, their attention divided. Their minds were also disturbed by the girl's jumping, pure and energetic back, and the arrows they shot were ugly.

Not long after, Jiugong Sakura came over after changing into hakama and protective gear.

She just smiled at Sakuraba Miki, signaling her to take a good look at her beauty.

In the entire dojo, everyone, no matter what they were doing, stopped and looked at the girl with her long hair tied into a ponytail in the middle of the field.

Without any hesitation, Jiugongying took the bow and arrow from the personal maid. Her aura suddenly changed. She stepped forward, turned sideways, knelt, saluted, and stood up. Her movements were all standard and accurate.

After a few breaths, Jiugongying, with a calm mind, positioned herself at the shooting point, lowered her head to load the arrow, raised the bow with her left hand, her eyes were stern, and she pulled the string with her right hand.

Under the invisible pressure and momentum, the domain of Jiugongying unfolds and accumulates power to the extreme.

As the strings sounded, the arrows flew and hit the targets.

"it is good!"

"Hit, bull's-eye!" the examiner announced loudly.

There were cheers and compliments for her immediately.

Jiugongying was unmoved. She knelt down, stood up with the arrow, and shot arrows one by one.

Ten out of ten shots hit the target, five of which hit the bull's eye.

The spectators who witnessed her series of smooth archery shots did not cheer this time, but instead their throats rolled in dryness.

Jiugong Ying stepped back, breathing deeply, and took the towel from the maid to wipe the sweat from her forehead.

After adjusting her breathing, she put on a victorious attitude and smile and said to Sakuraba Miki and her servant again:
"I have something else to do, so I'll go back first. Yuji, see you next time~"

There was no need to stay any longer, her victory was inevitable, Jiugong Ying was extremely sure of it.

Only Sakuraba Princess was left, still meditating alone and silently.

The second and third year club members were used to seeing Jiu Gong Ying coming and going like the wind and rain. They just looked at Sakuraba Miki with sympathy and took a closer look at her lovely and beautiful maid.

Mainly staring at the latter, and then continuing with his training and archery...

After the second meditation, Sakuraba Princess stood up and prepared to shoot arrows.

During the training days, she only shot the arrow once a day, rain or shine.

The dojo fell into silence again, and the judging gaze was like a mountain, falling on Sakuraba Miki.

Having experienced such situations too many times, the numb Sakuraba Princess only felt that they were noisy.

uninteresting.

The movements were as graceful and solemn as the Jiugong Sakura. After the crisp sound of the strings, the arrow hit the target as expected.

Unfortunately, it didn't hit the bull's eye.

There was no cheering, let alone flattery. The deliberate noise surged up like a tide, then receded, and everyone continued to do what they were supposed to do.

Sakuraba Miki calmly accepted her mediocrity.

For the past ten years, every time she shot an arrow, she presumptuously expected a miracle to happen, expected a flash of genius inspiration to break through the air, penetrate her dark prison, and bring light.

She is always full of enthusiasm, and then full of chaos.

By now, Princess Sakuraba no longer had any hope.

Calmly accepting the result of the arrow, Sakuraba Miki stepped back and received some routine encouragement from the maid Kobayashi Iori.

After finishing her final meditation, she ended her Kyudo club training for the day.

Days like this are really boring.

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