Hours later at Minister Zhu's manor. At the maids sleeping chamber of the eldest young Mistress's courtyard.
A petite young lady in a light blue maid uniform sat on a low stool facing a small looking glass. Su Liya leaned forward to get a clearer view of her face. She turned her face in different directions, alternating from side to side as she studied the delicate features of the body her soul occupied.
Dizzy scholar's description of Su Liya does not do justice to her fairy-like beauty. As she admired the features even she must admit that Su Liya deserved the title of No 1 beauty.
The original Su Liya was known for her exotic beauty, she made any woman including the female leadl beauty look inferior.
She had a soft yet pronounced beauty with her small heart-shaped face, slanted cat-like eyes with long lashes, natural dark eyelids, a small delicate pointed nose and small perky lips.
Apart from her beautiful hazel eyes, it was her tanned complexion that made her look more exotic. It didn't help that She was very petite with a beautiful body shape and nibble bones to rival that of a dancer.
It's a pity that she didn't end well, Su Liya's death was painfully slow. Su Liya could sense the author's hatred for the character as she read the book.
Su Liya's death pained her the most, it was the bloodiest of all deaths in the series. After reading that scene Su Liya thought "the author must hate Su Liya to write such a painful end for her"
The character Su Liya was created to be the very personification of a dumb and malicious beauty. Su Liya's worst character was her greed, She had no loyalties and would betray anyone, even her mother, to improve her station in life.
The breaking point of Su Liya's life for her as she read the novel was the moment Su Liya betrayed Zhu Fengyin. It was completely unexpected since Zhu Fengyin and Su Liya acted like sisters.
After two days in this world, though she couldn't tell the exact time in the novel she had transmigrated since Zhu Fengyin was unmarried Su Liya could only conclude that she had transmigrated the few months before Zhu Fengyin married the sixth prince Zhongshan Cheng.
'Zhongshan Cheng, now that was a nutcase she had to avoid. Zhongshan and his mother Imperial Consort Shi were a murderous pair that the original Su Liya in her thirst for power joined hands with' Su Liya thought.
Zhongshan Cheng was the sixth prince of the dynasty and the Emperor's most favoured son. His mother Imperial Consort Shi was the treasured daughter of a scholarly family in the far north of the state.
Imperial consort caught the emperor's eyes during one of her family's rare visit to the capital twenty years ago. Zhongshan Cheng was spoiled rotten by the Emperor and Imperial Consort.
He had no respect for human life and only cared about power. Zhu Fengyin has been engaged to the sixth prince since birth. Zhu Fengyin loved Zhongshan Cheng but he only saw her as a means to getting the throne nothing more.
Su Liya still couldn't understand how she was expected to help a villainess as bad as Zhu Fengyin get a happy ending. Even Su Liya was destined to die.
'How can I save someone when I can not save myself' Su Liya thought when the door was pushed open and the young maid who she had first met walked in.
The maid who introduced herself as Tian Tian skipped over to her side "Sister Liya the young mistress called for you".
'The mentioned young mistress has to be Zhu Fengyin, that is the only member of the Zhu family that would be concerned about a small fly like me' Su Liya thought putting away her personal effects.
Su Liya stood " Let's go". They walked the short distance from the Maids rooms to Zhu Fengyin's rooms. Su Liya paused by the door for a few seconds, she breathed in and out.
Seconds later she squared her shoulder and walked into the room, Zhu Fengyin's room was well furnished. There was a clear contrast between the dull and almost bare maids room and the well-furnished room of the eldest young Miss of a noble family.
When they walked in, Zhu Fengyin sat gracefully on the chair reading a book. She looked up as they walked in "Liya you look well".
Although Zhu Fengyin was smiling, Su Liya could see that the smile didn't meet her eyes. If anything, it looked superficial which Su Liya found a bit odd.
Zhu Fengyin dismissed Tian Tian and the other maid. The smile slipped from her face as soon as they left, the temperature of the room dropped.
Zhu Fengyin dropped the cup of tea on the table loudly "How come you are still alive?"
"Wha_ what!"
"You should be dead, no you were dead I made sure of it.... Who are you?"
Su Liya looked at her shocked, She unknowingly blurred out the question "why would you kill Su Liya". Su Liya covered her mouth with her hands as soon as that came out of her mouth.
However Zhu Fengyin shrugged, she leaned on the armrest and playing with her earnings she replied unconcerned by us Liya's question "Why shouldn't I. Su Liya isn't loyal to me, why should I keep her that close to me."
"How do you know Su Liya would betray you. Who are you?"
"I ask the questions, you should answer. That is how it is going to be"
"Since you know that Su Liya was working with the sixth prince, you must have transmigrated like me"
"Transmigrated? I don't understand, What do you mean?"
"You don't know what that means then how do you know Su Liya would betray you?"
"Maybe because I am Zhu Fengyin from many years in the future. After getting killed by someone I took as a sister, I was reborn. Judging from how you are referring to Su Liya and since you are also aware of her betrayal you must be from the future so I will ask once more ``Who are you?"
Zhu Fengyin's room.
"You don't know what that means then how do you know Su Liya would betray you?"
"Maybe because I am Zhu Fengyin from many years in the future. After getting killed by someone I took as a sister, I was reborn. Judging from how you are referring to Su Liya and since you are also aware of her betrayal you must be from the future so I will ask once more ``Who are you?"
Su Liya stood there, silently contemplating if she should give Zhu Fengyin an honest answer or not. She has already let it slip that she had transmigrated but since Zhu Fengyn wasn't familiar with that, Zhu Fengyin assumed that she was from the future.
She could just claim that she was from the future without giving herself off as a transmigrator but it didn't seem fair to Zhu Fengyin.
If she was going to successfully in her mission to Zhu Fengyin get a happy ending, she needed to earn Zhu Fengyin's trust. That was the only way she would get Zhu Fengyin to follow her instructions no questions asked. With that thought in mind, Su Liya looked Zhu Fengyin afraid in the eye.
Su Liya introduced herself to Zhu Fengyin and explained everything to her but left out the bit about the Heavenly Empress. At the end of her introduction, Zhu Fengyin remained silent.
Zhu Fengyin's continued silence got her worried, she had taken a huge risk laying down all her cards on the table. As Su Liya was about speaking up and gauge the situation, Zhu Fengyin replied
"If you are from many years in the future how come you are here"
Su Liya ran her tongue through her lips and replied "I don't know maybe the gods decided to give me a second chance at life".
"That God must have made a mistake if you got reborn as someone like Su Liya"
Su Liya chuckled "mm that must be it. Well since we at stuck in this time… let's make the best of it. What do you say Yin'er, do you want to take control of our future"
She looked up at Zhu Fengyin, a wide smile on her face. She caught Zhu Fengyin's eyes and winked at her. Su Liya looked cute, Zhu Fengyin burst into laughter. Since she had nothing much to lose Zhu Fengyin nodded.
"Then let's drink to it… say do you want to have a drink with me?"
Zhu Fengyin didn't answer her instead she called in a maid and ordered two jars of alcohol. The maid ran out and came back with the alcohol minutes later. Zhu Fengyin dismissed the rests of her maid. The two of them drank till they passed out.
******
A week later, Zhu Fengyin's room.
It was 9 am, Su Liya escorted Zhu Fengyin to her stepmother's courtyard to pay her respects. The Doctor had given her a clean bill of health three days ago so she resumed her duties fully.
Su Liya spent the past week learning the various duties of the first-class maid of a young mistress from Zhu Fengyin. It had been a most painful week indeed, Su Liya never knew the first-class maid had this many responsibilities.
She was a glorified nanny to Zhu Fengyin, she was responsible for almost everything Zhu Fengyin did. The only bright spot in the whole thing was that unlike another maid she didn't do any domestic Labour but she was still responsible for overseeing other maids.
It was a good thing that Zhu Fengyin had two other high-level maids who took charge of a few other areas. Su Liya wasn't familiar with the minister of education's manor so she followed Zhu Fengyin closely.
The Madam's courtyard was empty when they walked in. There wasn't a single servant insight, as they got closer to the door they overheard a conversation between Madam Yang and her daughter Zhu Feifei.
"Why do I have to marry into that barbaric family while that sneaky girl Zhu Fengyin marries into the royal family. Don't I deserve to be a princess? why does she have to get all the good stuff!" An angry younger female voice said.
"You know that your dad also looks out for you too. He has his reasons for suggesting this. Plus everything isn't yet set in stone, your father can still change his mind. There are four unmarried young mistresses in the Zhu family, he can choose from the mix" a more mature voice which could only belong to the madam was heard.
"Who cares if there are four unmarried young mistresses in the family, Zhu Fengyin is still betrothed to the sixth prince. She is now of marriageable age, the date is almost set which means that in a short while she will become process consort.
"I will have to bow to her for the rest of my life. The Sixth prince is the Emperor's favourite, he is bound to inherit the throne in the future. When he does Zhu Fengyin will become the Empress.
"Mother that arrogant know-it-all will become the most powerful woman in northern Wei while I will be the wife of an improvised Duke. I refuse to be subservient to anyone most of all Her!" Zhu Feifei said.
"Aiyo! Calm down my dear, with me around how would you be subservient to anyone. Don't worry mother will help you" Madam Zhu said.
There was no one to announce their presence so Su Liya and Zhu Fengyin stood till the end. When the mother and daughter began discussing something else Su Liya shook her head and said to Zhu Fengyin
"I hope you are not still attached to that sleaze, the sixth prince cause it won't work out between you two. The only person that man cares about apart from his mother is himself".
As she said that the last moments of Zhu Fengyin life's flashed in her eyes. In her past life, she had been naive and trusted the wrong people. Zhu Fengyin wasn't about to make the same mistake twice.
Zhu Fengyin replied, "Don't worry I am not stupid".
Su Liya nodded "Good I can work with that".
Zhu Fengyin turned to her and said "Are you thinking what I am thinking?"
To which Su Liya replied cheerfully "Yes…"
They both said together," since Zhu Feifei. wants to be the princess consort. Let's give her a hand"
Kommentar absatzweise anzeigen
Die Absatzkommentarfunktion ist jetzt im Web! Bewegen Sie den Mauszeiger über einen beliebigen Absatz und klicken Sie auf das Symbol, um Ihren Kommentar hinzuzufügen.
Außerdem können Sie es jederzeit in den Einstellungen aus- und einschalten.
ICH HAB ES