“Mother, your daughter is willing to marry the deposed Crown Prince and suffer hardship, so let elder sister marry the Grand Eunuch and enjoy a life of luxury!”
“I heard he might be demoted to a commoner. How could I bear to let you suffer with him? She’s lived in the countryside for sixteen years, with a cheap life and a cheap fate. Let her go.”
“Mother, the deposed Crown Prince will be reinstated. As long as I marry him, he will surely turn his luck around. Once he’s reinstated, your daughter will be incredibly noble. Mother, you’ll gain glory too! Your daughter must repay your kindness in raising me.”
“Do you really believe in that luck-turning talk? Well, if he can be reinstated, that’s a great thing. With the merit of turning his luck around, you’ll easily be made a noble consort in the future.
Let her go to bring good luck to that eunuch!”
“Mother, you’re so good!”
The hypocritical maternal love and filial piety were heard clearly by Chu Zhiyi through the small courtyard.
Reborn together, Chu Miaomiao wanted to switch the marriage arrangements at the first opportunity.
Want to replicate her success from the previous life and become Empress and then Empress Dowager?
She almost laughed out loud.
The deposed Crown Prince, Feng Shi, was a fool with a brain full of straw. He indulged in wine and women, becoming a beast and ruining his body. He was a real eunuch.
His body was failing, and his mind was twisted and perverted. In the early stages, he relied on abusing women to vent his anger, and later he started looking for men.
The only Crown Princess who bore him a son was ruthless and impartially targeted all of Feng Shi’s women.
A bunch of concubines schemed against each other, with endless underhanded tricks, making it very lively.
In the previous life, he was able to be reinstated and successfully seize the throne entirely because of a god-like general, Ying Feng, who suddenly appeared and made remarkable military achievements.
And that Ying Feng was Chu Zhiyi in disguise!
But Chu Miaomiao, who married the Grand Eunuch Lan Huaiyu in the previous life, preparing to enjoy worldly wealth, was assassinated and disfigured on her wedding night.
She was locked up by Lan Huaiyu in a state of madness and screaming, and was imprisoned for a full ten years, eventually dying in a fit of bloody rage!
The maid Huan’er came out holding a teacup and bumped into the blue-clad girl standing outside the moon gate.
Without makeup or hair ornaments, simple and neat, with delicate features and clear eyes, the air of freedom from the vast expanse of land was admirable.
At least the people in this deep mansion had never seen that kind of freedom.
So, at first glance, they would think she was very wild and vulgar.
Huan’er’s eyes showed disdain. Could this rustic person really be the biological daughter of the master and mistress?
Even the maids in the mansion were more refined and had more temperament than her.
“Miss, what are you doing standing here? You have to wait if you want to go in and see the mistress. The eldest miss is inside.”
Chu Zhiyi’s calm eyes stared at Huan’er, “Who is the eldest miss?”
“Oh, it’s just that this servant doesn’t know how to speak. But the master and mistress haven’t ordered us to change our address yet, so you’ll have to wait.”
What are you pretending for?
A toad wanting to eat at the dinner table, do you really think you’re a dish?
The master and mistress secretly said that she was a lowly person raised in the countryside, and she didn’t like to learn anything they taught her.
She can’t even read a single word, yet she dreams of being the eldest miss?
Why don’t you look in the mirror!
Chu Zhiyi narrowed her eyes and suddenly raised her leg, kicking Huan’er in the stomach.
“Ah!”
Bang!
Huan’er was lying in the corner, unable to catch her breath from the pain.
Chu Zhiyi casually brushed her skirt, “Since you’re a servant, act like a servant. Even if you reach for the sky, you’re still just a servant!”
The people inside heard the noise and came out. When they saw Huan’er’s miserable state, Liu Shi’s eyebrows sharpened.
“What are you doing? You don’t learn what you should learn, but you’ve learned to abuse servants?!”
“Mother, don’t be angry. It must be that Huan’er offended elder sister. Elder sister didn’t do it on purpose.”
Liu Shi glared at Chu Zhiyi, “You’ve been home for half a month, and you can’t learn anything like playing the zither, chess, calligraphy, or painting! Do you think this is your countryside? If you don’t listen to me, get back to the border countryside!”
Just seeing this face is disgusting!
Why didn’t she die at the border?
Chu Miaomiao quickly persuaded her from the side, and then said, “Elder sister, you should apologize to mother.”
Chu Zhiyi curved her eyebrows, “Does mother really want to drive me away? The eldest prince wants someone to turn his luck around, and the Grand Eunuch wants someone to bring good luck. If you can’t deliver the person, aren’t you afraid of being punished?”
Liu Shi choked. The wedding was in a few days. If she couldn’t deliver the person, not to mention whether the eldest prince and the Grand Eunuch would punish her, even that old dog Chu Zheng would have to question her.
“Since you know you’re getting married soon, why are you running around instead of learning women’s etiquette in your own room?”
“Isn’t it because I’m going to marry the deposed Crown Prince? I came to see how the dowry is being prepared!”
Chu Miaomiao immediately shook Liu Shi’s hand.
Liu Shi understood and immediately said, “Miaomiao is willing to marry the deposed Crown Prince and suffer hardship in your place, so you can go to the Grand Eunuch’s mansion and enjoy glory and wealth.
Look at you, your eyes are only on the dowry. Miaomiao is wholeheartedly thinking of you. If you could learn even a little bit from Miaomiao, you wouldn’t make me angry.”
Chu Zhiyi looked at Chu Miaomiao, “Yesterday you warned me that I only deserve to eat chaff and wild vegetables and shouldn’t dream of immense wealth, but today you’ve changed your mind?”
“What are you saying, elder sister? How could Miaomiao say such rude words to you?
We are family, and it’s right for me to suffer in elder sister’s place. Does elder sister really want to marry into the eldest prince’s mansion?”
Chu Miaomiao probed, because she found that Chu Zhiyi was a little different from the previous life.
When she was at home, she was very timid, and she didn’t dare to say anything when she scolded her.
“A deposed Crown Prince, a eunuch, take your pick.”
Seeing her full of disdain, Chu Miaomiao breathed a sigh of relief. She hadn’t been reborn.
She was probably just angry that she had been changing her mind and suppressing her all the time, and finally couldn’t help it.
Seeing this, Liu Shi immediately said, “Then it’s settled. You won’t be staying at home for many days, so be good and don’t cause trouble! Mother is also reluctant…”
“Mother, don’t be sad. As long as I have the opportunity after I marry, I will come back to see you and father.”
Tears even seeped from the corners of the eyes of that mother and daughter.
What a touching scene of deep affection between mother and daughter.
Chu Zhiyi watched coldly. Seeing that their play was almost over, she said, “How is the dowry being prepared?”
The two of them looked at her, “Your father is just a small official. Our family only prepared a gorgeous shell for the sake of appearances, but there isn’t really much money. This time, your dowry will probably have to be…”
Chu Miaomiao immediately said, “Mother, I don’t want a dowry. The money in the family should be left for father and mother to use.”
“Heh! That’s good, if she doesn’t want a dowry, then just prepare one for me alone.”
The two of them were simply incredulous, staring at Chu Zhiyi’s shameless bandit-like appearance. How could she have the nerve to say such a thing?
They really should have killed her on the day she came back.
Liu Shi took a deep breath, suppressing the killing intent in her heart.
“You… as a daughter, you should think of your parents. No one taught you filial piety before, so it’s not your fault that you don’t understand. But when you come home, you have to learn these rules. Outsiders will laugh at you if they find out.”
Chu Zhiyi smiled, tilted her head, and looked at Liu Shi, “Didn’t mother say she was sorry to me? She owed me sixteen years, and I have to get married after finally coming back for less than half a month.
There’s no time for mother to compensate me. I think I’m already very filial to make up for the sixteen years of debt with some money.”
“…”