Reborn Young Miss: Phoenix Burning Red-Chapter 148: Elaborate Trap (3)

"Miss, you can’t use the bracelet. This is the same one we saw Camilla Yan holding when she left the mercenary shop!" Irina exclaimed once Camilla had left the estate.

Mother Wang covered her mouth in shock and looked at their young miss worriedly.

"What are they planning to do? Miss Addie is already disowned by her father. Why bother to scheme against her again?"

"Because I’m someone they need to get rid of before they could get their hands on my mother’s properties. They assumed that my mother would eventually die, hence, all her properties would be passed under my name. However, if something bad happens to me, my father would contest his rights and would claim over the inheritance I received from my mother."

"How shameless." Mother Wang was seething in anger.

Adrienne lowered her cup and looked at Irina.

"Check the bracelet for me." She said, gesturing to the white box across her.

Irina stepped forward and pulled a pair of gloves from her pocket before taking the silver bracelet from the box. There wasn’t anything suspicious about the ornament and in fact, it looked delicate and elegant, fitting for a young woman like her young miss. It had a silvery flower with red crystal at the center of its chain.

However, when Irina turned to check its back, she spotted a hidden compartment inside. She was stunned in place before glancing at Adrienne in shock. Adrienne said nothing and waited for Irina to continue.

When Irina opened it, a white powdery substance poured down from it. She took a sample and gave it a slight sniff. She frowned and poured the cold tea Adrienne didn’t finish all over the white substance.

"What’s wrong?" Adrienne asked. She was observing Irina carefully. She knew about the bracelet having a secret compartment, but she had no idea what the substance was.

In her previous life, during an argument with Alistair, he accidentally knocked this bracelet from her wrist when he pulled her harshly. Only then she noticed that something came out from the bracelet but didn’t know what it was. Adrienne remembered Camilla giving her the bracelet before they attended the coming of age ceremony for a young miss that ended in disaster.

"It smells like baby powder, but it isn’t," Irina stated with irritation. "If the Jiang family has no qualms about giving you a drug like this, then I’m not surprised you are set on destroying them, Miss." She told Adrienne.

"What drug is it?" Mother Wang asked in alarm. "What would happen to Miss Addie if she happened to ingest or touch that drug?"

"Miss, this kind of drug was used in brothels in ancient times. Only the traditional medicine practitioners are aware of it. Exposing a young woman like you to this kind of aphrodisiac drug is dangerous. A girl raised in the brothel had to take this from an early age. It could make her body fair and smooth, and it would also make her body give off a peculiar scent that could entice a man sexually. However, this drug has a side effect. It is a powerful drug for infertility. Your chances of getting pregnant in the future will be very slim."

Adrienne opened her mouth to say something, but found herself unable to react. So it seemed her infertility from her previous life was also because of the Jiang family. Her eyes turned cold and everyone could see the fury on her face.

’Great. Just great.’

When she married Alistair, she thought things would get better. But no matter how beautiful she was, if she couldn’t bear Alistair a child, then she was bound to upset the Han family. Of course she desired to have a child, but Adrienne never knew her family had taken such an opportunity from her without her knowing.

Her inability to conceive a child had become a thorn in her heart to this day.

"Who did Camilla talk to or meet with these past few days?" She asked Irina.

"Ayla Jiang has been a frequent guest, Miss Addie."

Adrienne shut her eyes. Of course, it would be Ayla Jiang. However, wasn’t Ayla too young to come up with such a malicious scheme on her own? Did her Aunt Maryam also have a hand on this?

Her Aunt Maryam’s family was scholarly after all. They knew the history of the country like the back of their hands. Adrienne wouldn’t be surprised if her aunt was the one who came up with the plan to drug her.

"When a woman gets in contact with this drug, she’ll also suffer severe pain and discomfort. You’ll feel the need to be intimate with someone. Miss, be careful. If the Jiang family suspects that you found the secret compartment, they might try to drug you using different means." Irina warned her.

Irina was having a hard time suppressing her anger. She was already used to scheming within wealthy families, but it was the first time she witnessed someone being ganged up by her entire family. Their Miss Addie was still young, but her elders wanted to drug her with such a potent aphrodisiac.

Were they planning to ruin her innocence and prevent her from conceiving an heir?

Their Master Nox had just met a woman he liked to be with. Of course as his loyal guards, Irina and the others didn’t want any harm to befall on their future mistress.

"Miss, what should we do? There’s only three days left before the party." Kalista reminded her. They needed to come up with a counter plan.

"Run a background check on the Gu family, especially on their young master. Since the Jiang family is so eager to sell me off as a sacrifice, I will let them experience despair."

Adrienne paused as a thought crossed her mind. Camilla had made a promise she knew she was bound to break, so how could she let that shameless mistress off? 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

"Irina, can you place the drug back inside the bracelet and switch it with my dearest sister’s bracelet?"