"Ah…"
In the quiet night, a scream tore through the night sky. Under the brocade quilt, Wan Qiu sat up and placed her hand on her chest. She panted heavily and her forehead was covered in sweat.
After panting for a while, she slowly raised her sleeve and wiped the sweat off her face.
There were hurried and messy footsteps coming from the cubicle. A gentle and concerned voice came from behind the door." Miss, did you have a nightmare again?”
Wan Qiu lifted the curtain and took a deep breath before replying,""Auntie Zhang, is that you?"
A woman stuck her head out from behind the door and comforted her in a kind and heartbroken voice,"Miss, don't be afraid. This old servant is here to accompany you.”She took out a clean and soft silk handkerchief and carefully wiped the cold sweat off Ou Wanqiu's forehead. She sighed," Eldest Miss, your heart is too soft. This time, it was clearly Second Miss who pushed you into the pond, causing you to have nightmares for more than half a month. Madam and Second Miss clearly…Miss, you are too kind, treating those Chinese wolves as your own mother and sister…Sigh…"
Looking at Auntie Zhang's loving face, Wanqiu's heart was filled with regret. She was simply the biggest fool in the world. Mother Zhang was the one who truly cared about her, but she had abandoned her good intentions.
Her biological mother was the daughter of the Defender Marquis's Estate's Matriarch, and she was the granddaughter of the Marquis's Estate's direct descendant. Her father, Lu Shiyuan, was the assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel, a member of the Lin family's aristocratic family. Lin Yulou was the son of the current prime minister, who was famous throughout the capital. He was talented and handsome like a banished immortal. There were many girls who admired and loved him. Back then, she had used all means, even at the expense of breaking up with her father, to beg her grandmother to help her find a marriage partner. In the end, she had gotten what she wanted and married him.
Back then, he had thought that although his stepmother was a concubine's daughter, she had been raised in front of the Matriarch since she was young and had always had a good relationship with his mother. His mother was weak and sickly and died during childbirth. He was afraid that his stepmother would be harsh after his father remarried, so the Matriarch had specially given his father, this dignified, virtuous, gentle, and kind concubine's daughter, to remarry him.
How would she know that she had not attracted the guardian god but a living wolf from the mountains! According to her own background, Lu Guanling was far superior to the Chen family. However, she had lost her birth mother when she was young and her father had been away from home all year round. In the name of doting on her, the Chen family had never forced her to learn etiquette, painting, and calligraphy. Wanqiu, who was a member of the aristocratic families, only knew a little about them, so she had never come out to participate in the various gatherings in the capital.
On the contrary, it was her sister Lu Guanling who took her place to socialize with Miss Chen. In the end, everyone knew about the second daughter of the Lu family and gradually forgot about her. Therefore, when the Lin family came to propose marriage, everyone was shocked. At that time, she was only immersed in shyness and joy…Now that she thought about it, she had ignored Miss Chen's flash of hatred and her second sister Guan Ling's jealousy.
Therefore, everything that happened after that, the one who pushed her into a hopeless situation, wasn't just the Lu Wanling she thought she was. It was more because of that noble, dignified, gentle, and virtuous stepmother.
"Young miss, are you feeling unwell?”Mother Zhang saw that Wan Qiu's little hand was clenched tightly and the blue veins on her hand were bulging. She gently pried Wan Qiu's tightly clenched fingers away and rubbed the red marks on her palm that were pinched by her nails. She asked worriedly,"Should we call the doctor in to take a look?”The physical discomfort was far less unbearable than the pain and regret in her heart. Wanqiu held Mother Zhang's hand and smiled. Mother Zhang was stunned when she saw the smile on Wanqiu's small face. It was not her usual willful and lively face, but instead, there was an inexplicable tenacity. Mother Zhang blinked. Was she seeing things? Wanqiu pulled Mother Zhang over and rested her head in her arms.""Mother Zhang, thank you." Thank you for never leaving me. Madam Zhang was surprised at first, but then she slowly relaxed. She gently stroked Ouyang Nuan's hair and smiled deeply. Ever since the Second Madam had entered the house, Miss had not been so close to her." Madam Zhang, I'm fine now. Go to sleep quickly." Madam Zhang looked worried." The girls outside are sleeping too deeply. Miss has been having nightmares ever since she fell into the water. He did not know when it would be done. Sigh…" As he thought about it, he put down the curtain and left.
Hearing the footsteps slowly recede, Wan Qiu once again wiped her sweat with her sleeves. She turned around and walked to the front of the table and sat down in front of herself in the bronze mirror.
In the bronze mirror, she looked exquisite and beautiful. At this moment, the beautiful young girl with wide eyes and cold sweat on her face was staring back at her with her bottomless black eyes. This was an eleven or twelve-year-old face that had yet to mature. It was young and bright.
The corners of Wan Qiu's mouth slowly curled up, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. She said softly,""It's in the past, and it won't appear again in the future, right?”The person in the mirror returned her a bright smile. She had been reborn and returned to the age of eleven. All his regret, all his infatuation, all his stubbornness, all his hatred and pain, had turned into a dream after he woke up! She clearly remembered everything that happened after that, but her body was still eleven years old! She was still her, nothing had changed. The only thing that changed was time. The heavens had played a joke on her, allowing her to arrive before everything had happened. She knew everything that would happen in the future. Would the trajectory of fate still be the same as in her previous life? Wan Qiu smiled at the bronze mirror. She reached out to caress her face and said in a low voice,"In the past, you were stubborn and did all kinds of stupid things. Since the heavens have ordered you to start over, then you will be the one to kill the people who have harmed you. Wanqiu, don't you think so?"
The person in the mirror gave her another brilliant smile!
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