"Chuntao, what are you doing?"
After Chuntao knelt down, Sheng Xueyi finally snapped out of her gloom. Seeing Chuntao kneeling on the cold ground, she hurried forward and helped her up.
"You and I are master and servant in name, but I have always treated you as my own sister!"
"How many times have I told you, do not kneel!"
"They say there is gold beneath a man’s knees, but why can’t it be the same for us women?"
"I’m telling you for the last time, if you keep on kneeling for no reason in the future, then you will no longer stay by my side!"
After helping Chuntao up, Sheng Xueyi looked at her sternly, delivering a very harsh reprimand.
Chuntao was frightened by this side of Sheng Xueyi and didn’t dare to meet her gaze.
She was neither foolish nor stupid.
Some things her mistress could say, but she could only listen quietly. If she took her mistress’s words to heart, then her own death would not be far off.
Everyone has their place.
Failing to recognize one’s place would upset the social order and lead to losing one’s sense of propriety.
Before leaving the manor, she had heard such things often enough.
People like them, born to be humble and lowly, their lives like grass, no matter how nicely the masters spoke, once something happened, they’d be discarded quickly.
"Alright, let’s head back first!"
Sheng Xueyi was in a foul mood.
If it weren’t for maintaining her gentle and virtuous image, she would have started ranting long ago.
It is said that life cannot be lived over, but she got to live it over!
Not just once, but twice.
Originally, she transmigrated and became Miss Sheng of the prominent Sheng Family, with an illustrious background and a betrothed who was a talented scholar and warrior.
Such a beginning was certainly a winning template in life.
Relying on her identity as a transmigrator, she successfully gained the name of a talented woman and secretly made a name as a "God of Wealth".
But she never expected that her wedding day would also be the day of her demise.
And the one who poisoned her was the person she always regarded as her birth mother.
It was only then that she learned she was not that woman’s daughter, but a pitiful victim of a child swap.
And all of this was due to her father’s infidelity.
That woman switched her own daughter with the daughter of her father’s favorite concubine.
With this move, the woman earned a reputation for being magnanimous by treating the concubine’s daughter well.
When it came to her own daughter’s marriage, she struck mercilessly.
Before she died, Sheng Xueyi discovered the truth.
At that moment, her grievances soared to the heavens.
And then, when she awoke again, she was back in her teenage years.
It is said that revenge should be exacted and grudges should be settled.
The reborn Sheng Xueyi poisoned that woman slowly, causing her to linger on her sickbed and ultimately die within half a year.
However, Sheng Xueyi did not expose herself.
She wouldn’t be like a foolish villain who loses her victory by talking too much.
Yet, with that woman’s death, she thought her father would promote the favored concubine, but unexpectedly it turned out his so-called affection was merely sweet talk. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel fire.net
In the face of interests, he chose to marry a woman from a noble family.
How could a noblewoman entering the manor tolerate children from a previous legitimate wife?
Thus, Sheng Xueyi was sent off to an estate far away from the Capital.
Moreover, whether it was her father or this stepmother, they probably harbored the thought of leaving her to fend for herself. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have sent her to the estate near the border.
Everyone knows that the border region is very unsafe.