Thirteenth Lady's Comback: Her Everyday Life as a Bystander-Chapter 343 - 23: Go Wild (Second Update)

"Stop talking!"

Song Qinghui (the fourth Miss Song’s maiden name) trembled as she struggled to sit up, collapsing halfway due to her weakness and lack of blood to the brain.

Ruan Shiniang watched with a pounding heart, wanting to help her, but seeing Susu watching coldly without moving, she swallowed secretly, and for a moment, dared not go forward to support Qinghui. Her sister’s aura was too strong, it overwhelmed her.

Dear mother, this really is the young girl who used to fall sick in fear when her sister fell into the lake.

Sister, what’s wrong with you?

When Fourth Miss sat up, she stared intently at Susu, her voice hoarse as if it were an old bell, "I beg you, stop talking!"

Susu sneered coldly, "You’re about to die, why should I care if I speak or not? Once you’re dead, even if you wanted to listen, you couldn’t! You die, what does the world’s chaos matter after that!"

"I won’t die!"

"You’ll die, uh, that can be arranged!" Susu momentarily failed to respond, then her previously gathered momentum completely collapsed.

Not only was Song Qinghui staring at her with red-rimmed eyes, but even Ruan Shiniang was covered in black lines, feeling as if a flock of crows had flown over her head.

But who was Susu, Old Madam Song’s number one sentimental expert. In her heart, already distressed and saddened, she reached out to hold and touch Fourth Miss’s hand which was now skin and bones, "Miss, cry, I’m here!"

No one else will stand up for you, so I will.

Susu looked at the hand she was using to hold Fourth Miss’s hand, feeling the blood coursing through it even more vividly.

With her other hand, she quietly touched her lower abdomen, Baby, mama will protect you, even if that means going through gods and demons alike.

Song Qinghui shook her head, "I don’t want to cry, can’t even if I wish. I’ve understood since I was young, tears are cheap as dirt before those who don’t care about you, but they make those who do care heartbreakingly sorrowful."

Susu and Shiniang, upon hearing this, felt the sorrow in their hearts reverse its flow.

"What do you want to do?"

"A life for a life, debt must be paid!" Hearing Susu’s question, Song Qinghui’s tone didn’t change, as if merely stating, "Today, let’s kill a chicken."

Susu nodded, without hesitation, "Fourth Miss, it’s I who implicated you!"

Without waiting for Song Qinghui and Ruan Shiniang to show puzzled expressions, Susu laid out the whole story of her feud with Bai Lili.

After speaking, Susu didn’t dare to look up, fearing to see the angry eyes of Fourth Miss.

Ruan Shiniang looked from Susu to Song Qinghui, at a loss for words, her heart in turmoil, what a mess this was!

After a while, Fourth Miss sighed softly, "What should I blame you for? Blame you for not telling us how difficult it was in Hami, or blame you for not giving up Hong Sheng to those two bitches?"

Song Qinghui gently touched her lower abdomen, but then quickly withdrew as if scalded, "It’s better that he’s gone, within these red walls, where is there any Qing Ge? I’m entangled in this mire with no way out, why pull him down with me?"

Hearing this, Susu couldn’t hold back her tears, touched her own belly: Baby, will you be happy with an extra aunt to love you?

Thinking of this, Susu gently placed Fourth Miss’s hand on her own lower abdomen.

"He’s here, he must know the royal descendant’s lack of freedom, but cannot bear to be too far from you, knowing since we were young how good we are to each other, doesn’t he now reside in my belly.

When he is born, he will call you aunt. If you are willing, then he will be our child."

Ruan Shiniang and Song Qinghui were both stunned as they looked at Susu, especially Song Qinghui, whose trembling hands gently rested on Susu’s abdomen, fearing to break a beautiful dream.

"He’s here? He’s here! My child is here!"

Ruan Shiniang was surprised and delighted at Susu’s words, shocked that Qinghui had just lost a child, partly due to Susu’s involvement, yet Susu was pregnant.

Delighted that her own sister was pregnant, she was going to be an aunt.

But the more she listened, the more her mind was blown. Is this even possible? Does Song, the concubine, take them for fools!

But hearing Song Qinghui’s dreamy voice, she was blown away — it actually is possible!

And naturally Song Qinghui wasn’t that foolish, but now she has to give her spirit something to cling to, or she truly dared not imagine what she might do.

Although he disdained her as a useless mother who fled to Susu’s belly, he is still her child.

She must clear away all obstacles and threats for him.

"Susu, I want them dead!"

Them? Susu chewed over the "them" spoken by Fourth Miss, giving an intentionally meaningful glance at Shiniang.

Ruan Shiniang was startled by this look, "What do you mean?"

"Sister Ruan, do you want to be the Empress Dowager?"

Those words caused not only Ruan Shiniang and Fourth Miss Song to jump, but Xiang Chuan at the door nearly died of fright, staring wide-eyed and nervously at the bedroom, as if there was a beast behind the curtain ready to eat people.

Then he jumped up, heart pounding, and left the warm pavilion, seeing no one in the middle hall, knowing Mrs. Xu must have called everyone out, relaxed and collapsed sitting in a chair.

Inside the bedroom, Fourth Miss was only momentarily startled before calming down, but her gaze deepened significantly.

Susu, with a faint smile on her lips, asked again, "Sister Ruan, do you want to be the Empress Dowager?"

Ruan Shiniang twitched at the corners of her eyes, geez, I’m just a concubine to the prince, is it necessary to ponder such grandiose questions?

Besides, Prince Ke isn’t even the Crown Prince now, who can guarantee that it will be him ascending the throne?

For her to become the Empress Dowager, Big Cat would have to become Emperor. Yet now the son isn’t even hers anymore.

Moreover, do you think your husband, Prince Ke’s confidant, knows of your lofty aspirations?

However, this idea...

It is intriguing!

"I do! If I become the most exalted in the world, can I then control my own fate?"

In front of her sister and ally, Ruan Shiniang, typically deep and calculative, spoke without much deliberation, just hesitated slightly before saying.

Before Susu could respond, Fourth Miss hoarsely said, "Who knows unless you try?"

Ruan Shiniang looked at her in surprise, "I thought you should at least have some girl’s sentiments for him?"

Song Qinghui gave a mocking grin, "Perhaps there used to be!"

Prince Ke’s ambition for the Emperor’s position was unabashedly visible, and his actions were not those of someone indulging in romantic affairs.

Her entry to the Prince Mansion was originally rushed by the Song Family as compensation into Prince Ke Mansion’s near absence of choice, Song Family seized the opportunity beforehand, which went against what Prince Ke wanted.

After she entered the mansion, although it seemed Prince Ke treated her and Consort Qi from the Annan Earl Mansion equally, even favoring her more for her appearance.

Prince Ke gave her personally selected jewelry and fabrics, while the gifts for Consort Qi were jade, antiques, and paintings casually taken from the storeroom by the internal steward.

She was given face, envied, and resented by all the women in the mansion; Qi’s family was discreet and unassuming, yet their single item rivaled her entire boxful.

She truly wasn’t foolish, just didn’t want to face reality!

"Your presence in the Northwest is because the Princess Consort adopted Big Cat; my presence in the Northwest, ha, was because our Song Family paid two hundred thousand taels of silver for it!

You see, someone who can sell themselves, who can exchange their own flesh and blood for benefits, how dare I harbor fantasies towards him?

Ha, his child vanished right in front of him, and he could still be so enamored with that woman. Did he truly become bewitched by Bai Lili?"

Song Qinghui stretched out her emaciated hand, "We help you become the Empress Dowager, you repay us with trust and glory. Strike hands as a pact!"

Susu was the first to stretch out her hand, Ruan Shiniang looked left and right, reluctantly smiled, "Alright, let’s go crazy once together!"

"Slap!"

That night, three invisible stars suddenly shone brightly, many stars shifted and turned, gradually forming a new constellation.

And this day became known in history as "Qiyuan Holy Day!"