"You brat, it's past noon and you still haven't woken up. You've made Young Master Liang wait outside for ages. Aren't you just trying to embarrass the Mu family?"
"Jade, pinch her awake."
...
The sound of cursing and swearing kept coming from her side. Rong Shang felt her eyelids getting very heavy. She slightly furrowed her delicate eyebrows. Just as she was about to wake up, she suddenly felt a pain in her arm.
The maid, named Emerald, followed Madam Mu's orders and pinched Rong Shang's arm hard without any mercy.
"Wake up, wake up."
With an unhappy expression and an unfriendly tone, Emerald resembled the domineering manner of the mistress behind her.
Seeing this, Madam Mu shook the round fan in her hand and laughed, "Yes, yes, that's right. I'll go outside and greet Young Master Liang first. You hurry up and wake this brat up for me."
"Yes, madam."
The light footsteps faded into the distance.
Emerald turned her head to look at the beautiful woman on the old-fashioned bed, rolled her eyes, and showed a disdainful expression on her face.
Pshaw, so what if she's a young lady? Her life is worse than that of a mere maid.
She rolled up her sleeves, raised her jade hand, and tried to pinch the woman again.
Unexpectedly, before their fingertips even touched, the sleeping woman suddenly opened her eyes, and in the instant their eyes met, her hand was grabbed.
"ah."
Emerald was startled and instinctively tried to back away.
The woman sat up from the couch.
With one hand still gripping the slender jade wrist, Rong Shang lazily lifted her eyelids, raised her hand, and slapped the jade across the face.
"ah."
The slap caught Emerald off guard, causing her to turn her face to the side and let out a soft cry.
“You…” Emerald covered her face and turned around, as if she hadn’t yet realized that the frail woman in front of her would actually hit someone. At this moment, her gaze was blank, staring straight at Rong Shang.
"Young Master Liang is here?"
The woman parted her red lips slightly, revealing her striking beauty.
Jade was still reeling from the slap she had just received and didn't respond to her words in time, so the woman kicked her.
Jade was unprepared and fell directly to the ground.
"Your mistress is asking you a question, and you, a mere servant, don't know how to answer? Are you looking down on me?" With captivating peach blossom eyes, Rong Shang rolled off the bed.
Overnight, this young lady had become so dazzling and arrogant. Emerald dared not provoke her anymore and quickly knelt down to admit her mistake, "Young lady, I was wrong. The one who came outside was the young master of the Liang family."
"Here to propose marriage?" Rong Chang asked casually.
Jade quickly replied, "Yes, Miss."
"Alright, you can go out first. I'll get ready and then go over."
For some reason, this time when they met, the young lady seemed quite different from before. Jade couldn't quite put her finger on what had changed.
Not daring to provoke her, Emerald responded again, turned around, closed the door, and left.
As soon as she left, Rong Shang looked around the room she was in, her eyes narrowing slightly.
*
This was during the Republic of China era.
The original owner of the body, Mu Yunshu, was the legitimate daughter of the Mu family in Jinyang City.
Master Mu, Mu Qinghai, married two wives in total.
Mu Yunshu's mother was the legal wife. At first, with her mother backing her up, Mu Yunshu was quite comfortable as a young lady.
Unfortunately, her mother died young. After her death, Mu Qinghai made his second concubine his official wife. From then on, that woman joined forces with her two children to find ways to deal with her.
Not only that, the maids below her no longer respected her as the young lady, and would often yell at her.
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