"General, wait for me!"
...
Bai Yan alighted from the sedan chair and, supported by Hong Ping, headed towards her princess residence.
Sure enough, he's still here... Meng Huaiyi, what a loyal and upright name.
Bai Yan smiled and quickly stepped into the main hall, then cheerfully asked Hong Ping to brew her some tea she had just acquired the day before.
Hongping brewed the tea and brought someone along as well.
"Danniang greets the princess, may the princess live a thousand years." Danniang, Jin Chang'an's former concubine, kowtowed below the hall.
Bai Yan took a sip of tea and then placed the teacup aside.
"You have done me a great favor, and now I grant you your freedom."
"Danniang thanks the princess." Danniang kowtowed to her again.
Bai Yan looked at her and said, "Dan Niang, I'll give you two choices."
"Firstly, just as I told you before, I will give you a large sum of money, enough for you to live comfortably for the rest of your life."
"And the second one?" Dan Niang asked, raising her eyes.
Bai Yan chuckled: "One of my maids has gone elsewhere, and I'm short of someone by my side. If you're willing, you can stay with me."
Dan Niang raised her eyes and said earnestly, "Dan Niang wants to stay by the princess's side. Dan Niang swears to be loyal to the princess to the death."
As soon as she finished speaking, she pulled the hairpin from her hair and slashed it fiercely from between her eyebrows to the side of her face. Blood flowed instantly, and Hongping screamed in fright and took a step back.
Bai Yan looked on with admiration. She rose from her chair, bowed her head, and helped Dan Niang up, her gaze falling on Dan Niang's blood-stained face.
She wasn't surprised by Dan Niang's choice. If she was willing to live in seclusion, why didn't she stay in the Jin family mansion and become Jin Chang'an's concubine?
But Bai Yan admires her courage for ruining her beautiful face without hesitation in order to pursue an unknown future.
She promised, "You have chosen me today, and I will certainly not let you down."
"Thank you, Princess."
"Hongping, take her to get her medicine applied," Baiyan instructed.
Hongping took Danniang to apply medicine, first wiping her cheeks: "You're really cruel to yourself. With this hairpin, your face is completely ruined."
"It is precisely to destroy it." If this face, which resembles Yun Fei's, is not destroyed, how can she appear in front of others?
While applying medicine to her, Hongping seemed hesitant to speak. Danniang noticed this and asked, "We will both be working for the princess in the future. If you have any questions, just ask me."
Hongping scratched her head: "I just don't understand, even though the prince consort was bad to the princess, he rescued you from the brothel, so why..."
Dan Niang scoffed upon hearing this: "Save me? I'm perfectly fine, why would I need him to save me?" She had more than enough money to redeem herself. Why should she lower herself for no reason and be bought into being a concubine who could be sold off at will? Is this what you call saving her?
They're treating her like a substitute who might get beheaded? Just because she came from a brothel, does that mean she deserves to die?
She thought her life would be like this forever, but then she met the princess. The princess dared to do things that ordinary women wouldn't, and she gave her a chance. Why should she remain trapped in the inner quarters, why should she live a mediocre life, and be a woman who can be 'saved'?
"The prince consort—no, Jin Chang'an—he deserved to die!"
Hongping nodded: "Yes, good riddance. Bah!" He died and still caused the princess to be scolded, he deserved to die a thousand times over!
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