Reborn in Each Other’s Bodies: A Mother and Daughter’s Deadly Revenge - Chapter 141

Gaoshan and Jingxing were already waiting in the courtyard. Seeing the Young Master thoroughly drunk, they hurried over to support him.

“Young Master, how did you end up drinking so much?”

Qingxin’s eyes darkened. Jingxing was easy to fool, but that Gaoshan was troublesome. Bypassing him to achieve her goal would be somewhat difficult.

While she instructed other servants to prepare hot water, she racked her brain for a strategy to send Gaoshan away later.

Qingxin never expected that just as the hot water was ready, an elderly maid suddenly arrived, whispered a few words into Gaoshan’s ear, and he left.

Qingxin was ecstatic!

She felt Heaven itself wanted her to become a concubine!

She found a random excuse to send Jingxing away, then shooed the other servants out. Looking at the Great Young Master lying on the couch, his face flushed red, the fear in her heart completely vanished.

“Great Young Master, you’ve had too much to drink. How about a sip of tea to sober up?”

Sheng Mingjian, his head feeling heavy and fuzzy, also felt thirsty and drank it.

Then, Sheng Mingjian felt his body growing hotter and hotter…

“Gaoshan, help me undress…”

As he spoke, his hands couldn’t help but start removing his own clothes.

But the more he undressed, the hotter he felt. Just then, a soft, boneless, slightly cool hand slid around his neck.

Instantly, Sheng Mingjian felt even hotter.

And a familiar urge surged within his body, one he had experienced countless times in his dreams…

Thinking he was dreaming again, he tried to open his eyes to see Mingzhu, but couldn’t. So he simply pulled the person into his embrace and pressed his lips against theirs…

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Peony Court.

Back at Peony Court, Sheng Minmin specifically called Qingdai to her side to confirm once again whether Lin Zhijing would see through their scheme.

“Rest assured, Madame!”

“If we’re talking about gu sorcery, I truly don’t know it, but my medical skills are certainly no worse than that fellow Lin’s!”

Sheng Minmin felt that Qingdai’s tone sounded a bit odd when mentioning Lin Zhijing, but since Qingdai didn’t want to elaborate, she didn’t press. It was just like how Qingdai never asked her reasons for scheming against her own “sons.”

“Has Qingxiang gone?”

“Pfft—” Qingdai actually laughed out loud. “Madame, you are too wicked! To actually suggest in front of Qingxiang that the Great Young Master might not like women—”

“With you saying that, of course she was scared out of her wits and hurried off to find her sweetheart to confirm the situation—”

Sheng Minmin also couldn’t help but laugh.

She could sense that Qingxin’s mind had been completely unsettled recently. The more chaotic a person’s heart, the easier it is for them to make mistakes.

With the timing being so perfect tonight, she naturally had to find a reason to send Gaoshan away, creating an opportunity for Qingxin.

That’s why she had deliberately sighed in front of her maids, expressing that Sheng Mingjian was at a vigorous age, yet showed no interest in the beautiful Qingxin. Usually, he didn’t treat any maid with particular favor either…

He only spent his days hanging around with his two personal servants. Was there something not quite right about that…

At the time, Qingxiang’s face had turned deathly pale—

One could imagine Qingxiang would definitely call Gaoshan out to get to the bottom of it.

She hoped Qingxin would prove capable and not waste all her careful planning.

Among the men of the Sheng family currently, only Sheng Yong was left whom Sheng Minmin hadn’t targeted yet.

Sheng Yong was old and cunning. She either wouldn’t strike, or if she did, it had to be a single, fatal blow. Otherwise, she risked alerting the enemy.

If Sheng Yong later managed to trace back her other plans, it would be counterproductive. So, for now, Sheng Minmin hadn’t moved against Sheng Yong.

But she had envisioned the right moment to strike many times in her mind.

Once Sheng Mingjian’s reputation was ruined, Sheng Mingyi was nearing his end, and Sheng Mingbo had no hope of rising further, that would be the time for her to deliver the fatal blow to Sheng Yong!

Meanwhile, Qingxiang and Gaoshan were in a secluded cave.

“What’s happened? Why call me out so late in the night?”

Gaoshan asked urgently, his voice hushed.

“Tell me, you and the Great Master… you both…”

Qingxiang was still an unmarried girl. She wanted to ask but felt utterly ashamed, her tongue seemingly tangling on the crucial question.

“What about the Great Master? Is someone plotting against him? Xiangxiang, hurry up and tell me—”

The cave was pitch black; Gaoshan couldn’t see Qingxiang’s expression. Anxious, he grabbed her shoulders and shook her.

Dizzy from the shaking, Qingxiang quickly pushed him away.

After catching her breath, the darkness around her seemed to offer a sliver of security. She took a few deep breaths and finally spoke.

“The Madame said the Great Master is now of age… Qingxin has been by his side for so long… yet the Great Master hasn’t…”

“The Great Master hasn’t taken a liking to any other maids either, keeping so aloof from women… always keeping you by his side…”

“The Madame suspects you might be… might be—”

Hearing this, Gaoshan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

As the Young Master’s most intimate servant, Gaoshan could guess a little of his master’s thoughts.

It wasn’t that the Young Master was aloof from women! It was just that the person he liked was… rather special—

The Young Master studied so hard, aiming for first place in the exams and to enter officialdom, precisely to build his own influence as soon as possible, to gain the ability to fight for the one he loved—

The Young Master not touching other women was his way of expressing love.

He loved that person to the very marrow of his bones, even feeling that touching another woman would be an insult to them—

He never thought it would lead to such a misunderstanding by the Madame. It seemed he needed to remind the Young Master.

What man didn’t have three wives and four concubines?

Why should the Young Master torture himself like this? If it led to a bad reputation, it would be worse…

He pulled Qingxiang into his embrace, buried his face in the crook of her neck, and inhaled deeply, filled with the scent of her.

“My dear, don’t overthink things.”

“There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the Young Master. Right now, he just wants to focus on his studies and has no mind for matters between men and women—”

“As for whether I’m normal or not… would you like to find out for yourself—”

In their previous private meetings, Gaoshan had always been proper, never so… brazen, so dissolute—

For a moment, she felt frightened and angry, feeling this was wrong.

Another part of her felt her beloved was giving her a strange, novel experience; her body felt weak and tingling…

For a fleeting moment, images of her years with the Madame flashed through her mind.

The Madame had truly been very good to her. If the Madame knew she was like this with Gaoshan now, would she cast her aside?

Would the relationship between the Madame and the Great Master ever truly be good?

Were there things she didn’t know?

She didn’t know how things had come to this…

She remembered once, on a warm afternoon.

The Madame had said to them with a smiling face that she had already prepared generous dowries for them. In the future, if they met someone they loved, they should speak up, and she would decide the match for them…

She could have spoken up then. Why hadn’t she?

Thinking of this, Qingxiang couldn’t hold back a sob.

She felt some regret, but it seemed there was no turning back for her now.

Hearing Qingxiang’s cry, Gaoshan felt immediately frustrated and cursed inwardly, while coaxing her aloud.

He finally managed to calm her down and returned to the courtyard. But the moment Gaoshan returned, he was scared out of his wits…