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[Rkdewi][Lyingliars][Paola N. F.][Robert K.][Marron1]
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[Yly][Stumblelina S.]
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[Celeste S.]
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Black Hole
[Jordan][John P.][Mar][Shufen]
It was very late at night. Dazzling lightning suddenly struck across the sky, followed by loud thunder and accompanied by heavy rain.
Inside General Yu’s household, a mournful shrill pierced the night sky along with the roaring thunder. People who heard it could not help but feel uncomfortable.
“Mother don’t… Don’t, ah!”
A naive-looking girl was forced into a corner; it looked as if she were trying to squeeze her slender body into the wall. Her pair of big eyes were staring at the dark clay pot in front of her with fear, as if inside of it lurked the scariest demon known to the world.
“I beg you, mother...” With a trembling voice, she pleaded incoherently a countless number of times. Despite that, it did not manage to gain even a bit of pity from the lady who was sitting on a very particular round, wooden armchair [1].
[1] The chair mentioned“Useless child, you’re the same as your deceased birth mother [2]!” An irritated voice said as Mu shi [3] impatiently put her tea down, “Why are you guys just standing there? Hurry up and help the fourth young miss!”
Female servants at the side immediately walked up and surrounded the girl by the wall.
Qian mama [4] extended her foot, carefully pushing the clay pot to Yu Linglong while making sure that both of her hands were away from it, as if she herself was also afraid of whatever was inside the clay pot.
“Fourth young miss, didn’t Madame already say that it won’t hurt even a bit? It’s just like getting pricked by a needle…” Qian mama insincerely smiled as she tried to deceive her. Under the flickering candlelight, her sinister face was clearly shown. “Why don’t you stop making this hard for us and just put your hand inside already. Sixth young miss is still waiting for your blood!”
Seeing the clay pot getting closer, Yu Linglong got so frightened that she almost bit off her own lips. Looking at all the female servants around her, she tried to ask for help, “I don’t want to. I’m scared… Please don’t do this...”
Yet the pitiful voice only made Mu shi’s loyal and devoted female servants more impatient. In a hurried way, an old servant ruthlessly handed the clay pot to Yu Linglong and let out some filthy words, “Such a little wretch has no sense of shame. You are given the opportunity to save sixth young miss’ life; this is your life’s greatest blessing! Yet you dare to not quickly put your hand inside?”
Yu Linglong’s tears immediately burst; she felt as if her whole trembling body were in great pain. Sixth younger sister’s life was precious, but did that mean hers was worthless enough that it could be sacrificed for her? Why must she offer her blood to be her sixth younger sister’s antidote, when it was clearly her own fault for getting poisoned and it had nothing to do with her?
Yu Linglong was still aware that in the end, these people were just obeying orders. Shifting her body around, she frantically escaped the crowd and threw herself towards the figure of Mu shi. Her body was crawling towards her as she miserably begged, “Mother, please! I beg of you to pity me. I will obey every word you say until I die… Just please don’t let those things bite me! I am scared...”
Mu shi only glanced disgustingly at her for a bit, thinking how she was the most lowly and filthy thing in this world. Despite the fact that she was only 14 years old and had not yet fully grown up, she was already considered a beauty. Although she had never seen Yu Linglong’s birth mother, she could imagine her enchanting and elegant bearing as a dancer in those years just from looking at Yu Linglong’s tender, beautiful, elegant figure.
Nevertheless, she truly had to thank Yu Linglong birth mother: If not for that female dancer having a romantic night with her lord husband fourteen years ago, who knew if she could still save her daughter now.
Three days before, the General Yu’s Sixth Young Miss Yu Qianjiao was bitten by a poisonous snake while taking a stroll in the garden. Despite their constant effort to treat her poison, she still remained unconscious. Fortunately, a doctor offered a great prescription: he told them to fight poison with poison. He said that a scorpion’s poisonous fluid could force the venom of the snake to come out of her body. However, since Yu Qianjiao’s body was weak, just a single mistake in controlling the dosage of antidote that would enter her body would immediately take away her little life. Therefore, the best way to treat her was to have a blood relative be poisoned by a scorpion so that, afterwards, the poison in the person’s blood would weaken enough for Yu Qianjiao.
Having remembered that her daughter was in her room, fighting for her life, Mu shi quickly withdrew her foot as she tried to get as far away from Yu Linglong’s hands as possible. Shifting her noble face away, she harshly spat out a few words, “Are you people all dead? Can’t you take care of one single girl?”
Upon realizing their madame was losing her temper from the way she spoke, Qian mama and the other servants dared not neglect her order and immediately hustled towards the figure of Yu Linglong, who had just been crawling, and seized her four limbs.
Yu Linglong was merely a 14 year old girl; how could she resist these three or five tough old women? Even if she did try her best to struggle, it still would not be enough to break free from their arms that were as hard as steel. Under their pressure, she was instantly pushed near to the clay pot.
“Help, save me, ah! Please let go of me-”
Yet Qian mama, as if not hearing her frightened voice begging, started signaling the other people at the back to help control Yu Linglong as she firmly grabbed her arm and forcibly put it inside the clay pot, “Fourth young miss, why can’t you just obediently do what you are told to do? After you save sixth young miss’ life, madame will definitely bestow upon you a heavenly reward-”
Yu Linglong could not understand the next words as her tender body began to shake vigorously, her deep fear making her nearly collapse. Yet, Qian mama continued to grab her arm tightly, not letting her have the chance to struggle.
She rigidly stared at that black clay pot that was releasing a terrible aura. She could only look on helplessly as her small hand was forced to go inside the clay pot.
The poisonous scorpions that had been starving for days immediately, without any hesitation, started climbing onto that jade-white hand. Even someone as cruel and cold-hearted as Qian mama, before these numerous scorpions, could not help but have the corner of her eyes twitch after seeing such a scene.
“Ah—” Yu Linglong suddenly let out a mournful scream; she felt like her fingertips were being pierced by numerous sharp stingers as she let out a painful shriek. Her vision suddenly became blurry as she passed out.
The pain on her fingertips gradually became numb as the scorpions started crawling up on her arm. They looked like venomous snakes hissing with their tongues as they crawled into her body, making every part they touched turn numb. Yu Linglong wanted to cry, but could not release any more tears. She tried shouting, yet she could not even let out a sound. She thought of moving, yet she felt like her body was no longer listening to her orders.
But Qian mama did not even pay attention to Yu Linglong’s face turning pale as she was busy anxiously ordering the female servants, “Hurry and bring the porcelain bowl here!”
A lustrous, white porcelain bowl immediately came. And without delay, Qian mama took a knife and ruthlessly cut Yu Linglong’s small white hand, that was now swollen and turning red.
Before she could notice it, Mu shi was already nervously standing up as she looked at that strange red blood flowing into the porcelain bowl. She was too nervous, and her eyes could not even blink.
Outside the window, the rain continued to pour heavily as a roaring bolt of thunder struck down from the sky; the rain continued just as heavily as another bolt struck down again.
“KA—” another bright ray of lightning pierced the night sky, landing straight on the rooftop. It even broke a few bricks.
Inside the room, no one had noticed that Yu Linglong, who had stopped breathing just a moment ago, had started opening her eyes bit by bit. Her face that used to be filled with begging had now been covered by a cold frost.
Just a while ago, Yu Mei felt like she was walking through an endless and narrow passage. She felt so tired that she could hardly breath. So when she finally, with great difficulty, found a beam of light ahead, she quickly rush towards it. However, as the light grew bigger, before she could start feeling relieved and happy, she was startled by the scene before her.
Having your own arm tightly grabbed upward by someone while your body was being crushed on the ground was one thing. What made her more furious was that this old woman, who was wearing a strange long skirt, was tightly pinching her wrist as she put her blood into a porcelain bowl.
Actually dared to take her blood?!
Damn it, which gang faction has such huge courage that they even dare to touch her?!
Yumei did not give her situation any extra thought, letting her primal instinct take the best of her as she kicked the lady, who was grabbing her arm, away from her.
“Ouch ah, that really hurts!” Qian mama did not expect that Yu Linglong, who had fainted a while back, would now suddenly have enough strength to kick her; this made her immediately scream. However, before her voice could fall, Yu Mei already sent out a second kick and another female servant, who was also restraining her, collapsed to the floor without uttering a sound.
According to Yu Mei’s years of experience in street fighting, that kick she gave should have been enough to knock the lady out.
After getting her body free, Yu Mei gritted her teeth in anger as she suddenly picked up her bleeding wrist and gave Qian mama a fierce punch.
This punch was filled with Yu mei’s resentment. She did not care which gang faction or who this Qian mama was; to actually dare to take her blood, she would not be satisfied until she beat this crafty-looking old woman and had her cry out to her mom and dad!
Qian mama did not expect that this Yu Linglong, who had not been resisting just a moment ago, would suddenly become as fierce as a tigress. That fist had hit her straight on the center of her nose, releasing a loud cracking sound. Qian mama’s face instantly burst into a river of blood.
Yu Mei felt slight relieved after seeing Qian mama rolling on the ground in pain, unable to say anything. She bluntly took the handkerchief tucked inside Qian mama’s chest and skillfully use it to wrap her wound.
After years of fighting, this little wound was just nothing for her.
Everyone inside the room was shocked. Although it had not been long since the fourth young miss had entered the household, she had always been obedient and cowardly! Even when she knew that Madame wanted to take her blood for the sixth young miss’ antidote, she still did not dare to strongly oppose it. How could she suddenly become more ferocious than a fierce tiger?
At once Qian mama and the other female servants were surprised. Although they did not know martial arts, each of them had a strong body and extraordinary strength. If there were a servant who disobeyed the rules of the Yu household, they were usually the ones to take care of them and punish them. And they could easily beat anyone so badly that they would not be able to stand up for half a month. Yet how many of them had been blown away by fourth young miss’ three punches and two kicks? At once, everyone without exception fell on the ground.
Mu shi was the first one to notice this seemingly mysterious situation. She looked as Yu Linglong knocked down the bowl half-filled with blood, which suddenly made Mu shi remember her daughter that was fighting for her life. She immediately became enraged, “Yu Linglong, you’re outrageous!”
Yu Mei unconsciously looked around her surroundings upon suddenly hearing that voice. She had not expected that she would see a middle-aged women looking furiously at her.
This old lady was talking to her? Who was this so-called Yu Linglong?
After knocking Qian mama and the other people out, Yu Mei had already felt that something was not right. The wound she just wrapped up was so strange. This delicate small hand was definitely not hers. Especially this skin that looked lustrous, white as a jade, and could easily be blasted away by a bullet. This absolutely did not match the appearance of someone who had walked on a dark road for over ten years, covered with blood.
Looking again at these ladies, with bodies tightly covered in layers of clothes in front of her, she suddenly realized: she seemed to have also caught up with the trend and had traveled through time.
Well, it did not matter. In any case, she had an excellent ability to adapt, which place had she not been able to mix around in? Yu Mei— no, the brand new Yu Linglong casually pulled a stool and sat down comfortably. Her cold eyes looked around before gazing at the raging Mu shi, “Hey you, old lady, you’re speaking to me?”
This one sentence almost made Mu shi vomit out blood. Even though she was already over forty years old, she had always felt proud of her highly maintained, delicate face, and was very sensitive about the word ‘old’. Yet Yu Linglong actually dared to say that she was old? She dared!
Mu shi pointed her trembling finger at Yu Linglong, “You, what did you just say?!”
Yu Linglong raised her delicate eyebrow, “Are you already so old that you became deaf and blind? Did you not hear what I said?”
If not because she wanted to quickly adapt to this ancient time, she would have been too lazy to talk nonsense with this old lady. After noticing that her appearance resembled that of a married madame, she thought of politely calling her old lady. But unexpectedly, the old lady made such a big fuss out of it. Indeed, people just didn’t appreciate others’ kindness!
Mu shi looked at Yu Linglong who had her legs crossed and was looking arrogantly at her, then shifted her gaze towards Qian mama and the rest who were her capable people. Each of them was covered with wounds and lying on the ground while groaning in pain. Her raging flames began to grow. Without thinking about it, she directly gave an order, “Beat and kill this unruly girl for me!”
[1]太师椅 (Tàishī yǐ): Direct translation is “grandmaster chair” also known as “china chair”. The purpose of this chair is for you to imagine the chair, and the former will just let you know the chair’s direct name but will not really help when it comes to vividly imagining it, while the latter feels awkward as at this time there is not yet a “china”. So we end with its direct description.
[2] The character for “mother” is different from the character the girl uses. The girl uses 母亲 (mǔqīn) while the other lady use 娘 (niáng). Both can mean mother, but since this is an ancient time, I am guessing the “niáng” represents the girl’s birth mother while the “mǔqīn” represents the main wife, who is the girl’s mother according to her papers.
[3] 慕氏 (Mù shì): “Mu” is the woman’s maiden family name, while “shi” here, directly translated, is “maiden name”. In this type of novel, female names in the harem usually end up with a “shi” to show that this was the maiden’s clan name before marrying the man. Madame/Madame will be reserved for the main wife, to avoid confusion as to why “Mu shi” is also “Madame Yu” (Mu is her maiden name, while Yu is her husband’s family name; she is a Madame of Yu who came from the Mu).
[4] 妈妈(māma): The direct translation is mother, but in these type of stories “māma” usually refers to an older female servant of a noble.
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