Thirteenth Lady's Comback: Her Everyday Life as a Bystander-Chapter 310 - 20: Step Forward (Third Update)

As Susu finished speaking, she entered the room, and the reluctantly departing sunlight cast a glow. Everyone could see her bright eyes and white teeth, her snow-white skin, her dark hair like clouds, and her charming face like a flower. She was a beauty in the first glance, a heart-stealer in the second, and a mystery in the third.

Susu’s beauty didn’t carry an aggressive edge; her demeanor was gentle and graceful like jade. Regardless of gender, upon meeting her, one couldn’t help but feel a liking towards her; she was a delight for both the young and old, the refined and the common alike (haha, idioms are meant to be used like this!).

But this golden touch she possessed upon crossing over wasn’t very useful at the moment.

In one glance, Susu spotted the woman in a reddish-brown jacket sitting beside the woman in the yellowish-brown dress.

Without needing anyone’s introduction, they knew through their gazes: She was Mrs. Su (she was Bai Lili).

A sense of instinctive crisis leapt into her heart, and Susu’s intuition told her that this was her arch-nemesis, a rival until death.

Unlike her encounters with Fifth Miss or even Yue Baiyou.

It’s like a honey badger and a snake, an eagle and a rabbit, inherently in adversarial roles, not even evenly matched.

Bai Lili was also taken aback upon seeing Susu. Her disgust towards Yue Baiyou deepened, that wretch, never told her that Su had such a good appearance, waiting to see her make a fool of herself?

No matter how beautiful, what does it matter, her birth has already determined everything. Bai Lili considered herself a tier higher in the food chain, and even when seated, she raised her chin and looked down at Susu with a disdainful gaze.

Perhaps Bai Lili’s looks were not as delicate as Susu’s, but with fiery red lips, she was a beauty like a flame. Even Susu had to admit there was an unrestrained, aggressive beauty to her.

However, there’s already a Qin Miao for this type of beauty. Seeing Bai Lili was like seeing an original and a counterfeit, the latter being a fake that failed even as an imitation, laughable and pitiful!

As Susu looked at Bai Lili’s raised chin and thought about the possible scenario once Qin Miao appeared, she felt a moment of silence for the unfortunate child who liked to show her nostrils to others. She must have never met Sister Qin, otherwise she wouldn’t be so "prideful"!

But what about the cruel, teasing look in her eyes, like a cat playing with a mouse? Banking on someone’s Chaotic Heart, was she really so confident she’d have Susu cornered?

Susu’s mind had always been sensitive, and Bai Lili’s aggressive gaze was undisguised. Susu noticed immediately that Bai Lili’s jealousy was because of her looks, and disdain was due to her birth. The later cruelty and mockery, could it represent confidence to toy with her?

But why wasn’t there a trace of a woman being robbed of her lover showing heartbreak and jealousy? At this moment, Bai Lili gave Susu a similar feeling to Yue Baiyou.

Susu really didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at this point, wondering if these two young ladies might be mentally unwell!

You both don’t like Hong Sheng, yet you still make such a fuss. How precious the Awakening Incense is, just wasted like that, Susu really wanted to curse.

Luckily, she’s always rational. With a turn of her mind, she became even more wary of Bai Lili and Yue Baiyou. What was their agenda in wanting to marry him even though they didn’t like Hong Sheng?

To put it bluntly, Hong Sheng was but a poor commoner who managed to climb to his current status by chance. What on him was worth them risking their purity and future?

Wait, Hong Sheng had another layer of identity — a confidant of Prince Ke and future heir; were they targeting Prince Ke?

Upon realizing this, Susu broke into a cold sweat from her thoughts, but she casually and without a change in expression shifted her gaze from Bai Lili.

But she continued to think, Aunt Zhao seemed to have said that Prince Ke was coming to the Northwest, if that were true, it would be like adding fuel to the fire!

Susu’s gaze moved to the woman beside Bai Lili who was dressed in a yellowish-brown dress.

"What is this lady’s name? Even the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Justice, and the Imperial Supervision Office, these three judicial departments, pay attention to evidence when convicting, giving offenders a chance to redress their grievances! I hear from this lady’s tone that she is directly accusing me of mistreating Miss Yue and inciting the maids to disrespect her. Do you have spies in my house that saw me abuse her?"

Bai Lili sat beside this woman, then she was the one confirmed as Madam Bai who was promoted from a concubine to Madame, named Bai Lianhua, her voice was gentle and weak, but her heart was indeed malicious.

Once Susu said this, the female relatives who were still shocked by her beauty were left speechless, astonished by her lack of "newcomer" awareness — was this a declaration of war?

Only Bai Lili and Yue Baiyou watched Susu enter the room with a somewhat agitated look, and after exchanging a glance, a trace of a hidden smile flashed in their eyes, as the show began.

Before Yue Baiyou’s eyes turned red as if she had been frightened by Susu’s question, Bai Lianhua hurried over to Susu, bringing a whiff of fragrance.

She tearfully said, "Sister-in-law, don’t be mad, it’s my fault for not speaking well, Miss Fen Dai was just pointing out a few things, the ladies misunderstood. Just look at my outfit, you can see you wouldn’t abuse me like that." Saying this, she hesitated to reach for Susu’s arm, her lips bit white from pressing, making everyone see how pitiful she seemed.

However, hearing her talk about her outfit, everyone took a closer inspection, she was indeed wearing a silver-red Hang silk round-collared shirt embroidered with branching peonies, paired with a Jade flower-printed pleated skirt.

Her hair was combed in a crescent bun, adorned with two or three golden hairpins. One of them featured a peony style headpiece with a ruby the size of a lotus seed, though large in size, both color and quality weren’t that good.

If just looking at her alone, this outfit seemed quite grand and even more luxurious than some of the officials’ wives present.

But when compared with Susu and Bai Lili, it was like night and day.

Yet, instead of feeling sympathy, the women silently cursed: This Miss Yue was taking them for fools.

They were here mucking around with Mrs. Su, not for her to use them as scapegoats.

With such a dressing costing around a hundred taels of silver, who would dare say there’s mistreatment? If you want to compare with the real deal, what do you have?

Never heard of someone else’s "sister-in-law" coveting the sister-in-law’s dowry, let alone when you aren’t even a legitimate sister-in-law.

If they were to make trouble for Mrs. Su over this, it would be laughable once it got out.

Madam Bai glanced at the silent Cui Zhu, wiped her eyes with a handkerchief, and softly said, "I am Madam Han Bai, our master is a colleague with Commander Hong. Let me apologize to Madam Su, I didn’t mean anything else, I just overheard someone mention that the little maids in Madam Su’s house were disrespectful. I wondered if Miss Yue had suffered some grievances. After all, we all know Commander Hong promised Miss Yue’s brother to take care of her. If there has been any misunderstanding and it spreads, it wouldn’t be good for Commander Hong’s or Madam Su’s reputation."

Susu sat opposite Madam Han Bai and, upon hearing this, gave a cold snort, "Who’s misunderstood? Let them stand up, and I’ll clarify. In the future if anything undesired is spread, I’ll take it as coming from you, and let our master seek an explanation from your households."

The female relatives: ...

Where’s the cool fairy we heard about...?

Do you think your household master knows how shameless you are?