NOVPUBMing Ze's gaze on her was completely unfamiliar to the original body.
It took the original body several seconds before she realized that she had not recognized the wrong person at all!
When does Ming Ze not ever look at her with affection and caution in his eyes?
The answer is never.
But those eyes—those eyes that were originally filled with so much adoration—were now filled with disgust and loathing, which made the original body's heart fill with endless shame.
His gaze was just so strange.
So unfamiliar.
It broke her.
Everyone just loves Xue Lu!
And no one loves her!
Not a single person in the whole world!
Not one!
The original body had wept blood just before her death and wished to get her revenge on everyone in her last moment.
"I hear you." Yue Ran uttered those three words quietly.
Everyone will pay the price.
It was like a light wave rippling over still water—the voice of a desperate soul crying out for justice.
A gray light appeared and melded into her skin.
Yue Ran smiled as she felt a ripple of power in her soul.
She likes this original body's character.
In the last world, the original body only wished for the love of the main male protagonist, Jiang Yi. But in this world, the original body wished for blood; she wished for revenge.
Isn't this simply a more wonderful wish than the last one?
Yue Ran looked out the open window.
It was already night—the stars were shining brightly, and the moon was sailing high in the sky.
Yue Ran gestured for the maidservants to clear things up and retire, leaving her alone inside her boudoir.
"Although the original body is not taken seriously, the living conditions are still okay." Yue Ran looked around and commented in her mind to Ruan Ruan.
"It's too simple for a prime minister's daughter!" Ruan Ruan spoke up.
"True." Yue Ran shrugged. "But things will soon turn around."
Ruan Ruan cheered in Yue Ran's mind.
She changed into her pajamas and dismissed the mission task from her mind.
She'll just leave everything else for tomorrow. For now, she only plans to relax after having her meal.
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Early the next morning, the maidservants dressed and groomed Yue Ran. She was very calm and collected throughout the process of putting on the complicated ancient clothes.
"Young lady, didn't you say that you wouldn't be leaving the house these past few days?" A close maidservant of the original body asked.
Her name is Cai Hong.
"I'm not going out," Yue Ran answered calmly. "I just planned to walk around the mansion."
She wants to meet her cheap brother, Yue Yu, the male protagonist, first.
The Yue Mansion is worthy of being the Prime Minister's Mansion of a century-old noble family. Every plant, tree, piece of furniture, and decoration in the mansion were made with such detail and ingenuity that they make people feel refreshed and happy when they look at them.
Yue Ran was dressed in a light blue ancient dress. They were just like rippling blue waves following her every light movement and step, looking exceptionally beautiful.
She looked just like a dreamy beauty, an out-of-this-world immortal like those described in the classical poems.
Yue Ran stopped in her tracks and folded her hands.
"Where is the eldest son now?"
"Young Lady, the Young Master is probably discussing court affairs with the Master in the Master's study at this moment," Cai Hong said from the side.
Yue Ran looked up into the sky to see the sun perched up high in the endlessly clear blue.
It's almost time for lunch; there's no need to be anxious.
"Then let's go to the garden for a walk." Yue Ran turned around and walked in another direction. "Didn't the Gao family send some pots of rare flowers just a few days ago? I'll go and take a look at them."
"But, young lady, you are about to reach your marriageable age and will have your engagement soon, so it's better not to provoke Young Lady Ning anymore," Cai Hong said in panic. "Going to the garden will only bring the young lady more trouble."
Cai Hong was sincerely worried.
When the young lady argues with her cousin, she is always the one who gets the short end of the stick.
Yue Ran didn't even bother to glance at her maidservant.
This Cai Hong was also not that good for the original body. She couldn't be called a loyal maidservant at all.
But this could not really be blamed on her, for the original body was more of a reckless master to serve than a smart one.
Additionally, the original body's cousin, Ning Ying, who is also the original body's mother's niece, has a somewhat special personality.
She's a scheming white lotus.
This meant that she's someone who appears innocent, naive, impossibly perfect, and pure on the surface but uses this reputation to backstab, blame, or sling mud on others—others meaning the original body.
Ning Ying, because she received the love of Mother Yue, lived a better life than the original body did in the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Yue Ran: Ning Ying is just an annoying fly.
Since her birth, the original body has been hated and despised by her own mother and, since the appearance of Yue Yu, by her own father.
In the original body's whole lifetime, all she had known was that she had always grown up in the shadows of both Ning Ying and Yue Yu. So it was not difficult to understand why the original body's character became so forward and reckless, like now.
All she had always wanted was her parents' attention, her parents' love.
But even those things were impossible.
The original body was fated to never receive any permanent love in her lifetime.
Ning Ying's favorite activity in her pastime was to take care of flowers in the garden, and the original body's favorite pastime activity was to destroy those beautiful flowers taken care of by Ning Ying!
