The young lady looked terrifying at the moment, and even Qing Xiang felt it. She reached out to pull her elder sister.
"Elder sister, Third Sister is fine, let's go back."
"Seeking death, why are you pulling me, are your skin itchy?" Mu Qing Zhu glared at her second sister in annoyance.
Mu Qing Xiang quickly let go, thinking helplessly that if anything happened, it wouldn't be her fault. She wanted to help her, but she didn't appreciate it.
Mu Qing Yao sized up Mu Qing Zhu. She was tall and slender with a voluptuous figure. Today, she was wearing a fiery red smoke-haze silk, with a belt of icy lake blue soft smoke silk tied at her waist in a large butterfly knot.
She was alluring and hot, a sexy beauty. However, her ostentatious and arrogant demeanor detracted from her beautiful face, and her cruel heart made her comparable to a beautiful snake.
Mu Qing Yao withdrew her gaze, scanned Mei Xin's cheek where a clear finger mark was visible, raised an eyebrow, and spoke casually.
"Mei Xin, what happened to your face?"
Upon hearing her young lady's words, Mei Xin quickly covered her face, "Young lady, it's nothing."
She was used to being bullied. The eldest young lady dared not hit the young lady, so she bullied them, the maids. She was used to it. The young lady usually turned a blind eye. Why was she bringing it up today?
When Mu Qing Zhu heard Mu Qing Yao ask, she was not afraid and said proudly, "This ungrateful girl was taught a lesson by my maid."
"Your maid is a maid, and my maid is also a maid. Why can your maid teach my maid a lesson?"
Mu Qing Yao spoke as if reciting a tongue twister, almost spinning Mu Qing Zhu's head. It took a long time for her to grasp the meaning.
Did this third sister blame her for her maid hitting her maid? How strange. When had she ever cared about such things?
Besides handsome men, something else had piqued her interest. How peculiar. Mu Qing Zhu smiled.
"Third Sister, are you blaming your sister?" Mu Qing Zhu gritted her teeth secretly. Seeing this girl's unparalleled beauty made her so jealous that her teeth ached, and she wished she could tear her cold face apart.
However, Third Sister's martial arts were very powerful. If not for her mother's sake, she would have beaten her long ago. Would she still tolerate her? But precisely because of this, she wasn't afraid of her.
"Mei Xin, who hit you, hit them back."
Mu Qing Yao retracted her slender legs, sat up, and casually combed her hair. Her demeanor was as gentle and graceful as water, but her words were sharp as knives.
Everyone in the room widened their eyes and exchanged glances, suspecting they had misheard. Mei Xin was so frightened that she immediately knelt down.
She never expected the young lady to stand up for her. She was so touched. The young lady was actually protecting her. How many times in the past had she wished the young lady would stand up for her? She never expected the young lady to actually protect her.
However, she couldn't really hit back, or it would cause trouble for the young lady. She was content with the young lady's kind intention. From now on, whether it was going through fire or treading on thorns, she, Mei Xin, would follow the young lady.
"Young lady, forget it. Mei Xin doesn't hurt."
Mu Qing Yao looked up, her eyes devoid of any emotion, staring intently at Mei Xin, and said coldly.
"Does it matter to me if you hurt or not? But since you are my maid, you cannot be bullied. Otherwise, you are not worthy of being my maid."
As soon as Mu Qing Yao finished speaking, Mei Xin was stunned. What did the young lady mean by that? She didn't quite understand, but she took the last sentence to heart.
As the young lady's maid, she couldn't be bullied, and if she was bullied, the young lady wouldn't want her anymore. Was that what it meant? The thought of the young lady abandoning her.
Mei Xin became flustered, stood up abruptly, rushed out the door, grabbed the eldest young lady's maid, Bao Zheng, and slapped her soundly. Bao Zheng was stunned by the blow.
In this vast mansion, only she had the right to hit others, and she had never been hit before. Now, being slapped by Mei Xin, she was stunned. When she came to her senses, she saw many maids in the courtyard watching her with schadenfreude.
Bao Zheng immediately felt ashamed and cried under the corridor, covering her face.
"Young lady, Bao Zheng can't live on, Bao Zheng can't live on."
In the room, Mu Qing Zhu came to her senses, glared at Mei Xin, who walked into the room with a murderous look, and lunged forward, ready to slap Mei Xin.
How dare this girl hit her maid? Show some respect, or she wouldn't want to stay in the mansion. Let's see how she would deal with this little vixen.
"Mei Xin, you damn girl, I'll twist your face until it's ruined. How dare you hit Bao Zheng? She is my personal maid, whom I cherish and rarely hit. You actually used such force."
Mei Xin was a little scared and mumbled, shrinking to the side.
Just as Mu Qing Zhu's hand was about to twist Mei Xin's face, Mu Qing Xiang's gaze fell upon the third sister.
Mu Qing Yao was playing with a bell hairpin, showing no reaction. But just as Mu Qing Zhu's hand was about to touch Mei Xin's face.
As if Mu Qing Yao had eyes on her head, she flicked her hand. The bell hairpin shot out rapidly, flew past Mu Qing Zhu's cheek, and directly embedded itself into a pillar by the window.
A gust of wind blew, making a ding-dong sound.
Looking at Mu Qing Zhu, her face was completely bloodless. She stared blankly into the air. A wisp of her hair, floating and swaying, fell to the ground.
If it had moved even a little more, her life would have been forfeit. Mu Qing Yao had actually attacked her.
Mu Qing Zhu belatedly felt fear. She felt extremely wronged, tears welling up in her eyes. She glared coldly at Mu Qing Yao but dared not say another word.
Who was this woman? She was so terrifying. She wasn't like the third sister at all. The third sister was a delusional girl. When had she become so ruthless? Mu Qing Zhu quickly rushed out, and from a distance, she heard her scream.
"Mu Qing Yao, just you wait. I'll get Mother to deal with you."
In the room, Mu Qing Xiang looked at Mu Qing Yao with both admiration and envy. "Third Sister is so amazing. Unlike Sister, who has no skill at all."
"I'm tired," Mu Qing Yao flipped over and lay on the ivory chair, closing her eyes, completely ignoring Mu Qing Xiang's face.
She had learned her lesson from her past life and would never easily trust anyone. Being kind to others was sometimes being cruel to herself.
If she hadn't befriended someone like Qiao Nan, would she have died?
Mu Qing Xiang sighed softly. Third Sister still didn't like her. She stood up and walked out. Mei Xin saw her off.
"Second young lady, go well."
"Mm, take good care of your young lady," Mu Qing Xiang's gentle voice came through. She seemed to have no temper.
However, things in the world are unpredictable. Surface appearances do not tell the whole story.
"Yes, second young lady," Mei Xin replied. She watched the second young lady leave, then turned back into the bedroom. Seeing the young lady asleep on the couch, she quickly grabbed a thin blanket and covered her.