Chapter 1: 001 Forcefully Hacked
“Young Mistress, you don’t need to personally experience regret to know what the word means. It was clearly stated in the contract that if you were caught having an affair, we would withdraw everything we’d given your family, along with all the profit that your family made during this period of time.”
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“Young Mistress, the Zhan family is very well known. Although the third young master has encountered some misfortune, the family’s name and reputation must be maintained. The Zhan family will never accept a granddaughter-in-law who’s having an affair, especially not the wife of the third young master, whom the master loves very much!”
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“I’m sure that Young Mistress must have weighed the pros and cons of the situation before agreeing to this marriage, which is why you should have been aware of the relative importance of your actions. Rather than simply thinking about the gains, you should have also considered whether or not you and your family would be able to deal with the consequences of the loss due to your actions.”
In a luxurious VIP ward, a professionally dressed butler was desperately trying to talk some sense into a woman who was lying down on a bed. His facial expression reflected what he was thinking: this young woman was not worthy of being taught.
As for the woman, she was casually lying on her side at the edge of the bed, with a phone in hand. Her long, curly, chestnut-colored hair was like seaweed, becoming entangled around her fair, swan-like neck and slightly covering her exquisite face.
She was like a cat on a sofa: casual and lazy.
The butler wasn’t sure if the young mistress was even listening to what he was saying.
He did note, however, her rapidly moving long, slim fingers across the screen. Even if she were simply playing some brain-damaging mobile game, you would feel as if she was playing an incredible piece of music; the movement of her fingertips gave off a breathtaking sense of art.
On the phone, which he thought was just playing a brain-damaging mobile game, codes filled up a blue screen which was followed by an unfamiliar interface that popped up.
Soon after, without any additional effort, a video titled ‘Jing Qian and her paramour’ appeared.
As soon as it popped up, it was forcibly deleted by the codes.
Following that, all the interfaces on the screen, including ‘saved documents,’ ‘settings,’ ‘recently deleted,’ and even the drive, along with the chat box, disappeared; none of them could survive being forcibly deleted by the rampant codes.
Everything that was related to the video, including texts, voice messages, and videos, had been cleared away.
With that done, the woman threw the phone onto the bed and looked at the butler. Her eyes were beautiful and clear, but at the same time, filled with a sense of laziness and a deceptive charm.
The corner of the lady’s lips rose up slightly, and as the soft, red lips parted, a voice as clear and light as a stream came out, along with a drawl that made her sound lazy and seductive.
“Hearing all your maunder, is this because Jiang Yuxi has been prattling about me having a lover? Butler Xu, from the moment I woke up until now, you’ve been talking about nothing else for the past 15 minutes. Do you have any evidence to back up her claim?”
Butler Xu’s face darkened. Had he been casting pearls before swine?
“Young Mistress, as Miss Jiang was leaving, she informed me that she has a video! She will be showing it to the master later!”
“Oh?”
Chapter 2: 002 Dead pigs aren’t afraid of boiling water
Oh?!
What did she mean by that?
The woman seemed unbothered; one could even describe her with the phrase ‘dead pigs aren’t afraid of boiling water.’
Butler Xu’s face darkened as he spoke to her, “Young Mistress, just because you are the granddaughter-in-law that Master Zhan hand-picked himself, doesn’t mean he will let you off the hook in this situation. Our third young master is his favorite and no one is allowed to harm him! If he’s convinced that you’re in the wrong, Master Zhan will never forgive you. So I’m advising you, just tell me the truth. Do you have a lover? If it’s true, let me know and I can help.”
When she saw Butler Xu speaking nonsense with such a serious look on his face, the woman couldn’t help but laugh.
The moment when she laughed, she was shocked herself.
Her depression…
Had she recovered from it when they swapped?!
After realizing what was happening, the woman who hadn’t cared much about her rebirth, having been ready to throw everything away and leave, decided then and there to value her new identity.
Since she was no longer depressed and there were no suicidal thoughts present, life was actually pretty great.
Her new identity was that of a woman called Jing Qian, who was married to Zhan Lichuan, the paralyzed third young master of the Zhan Family. Since her ‘Ba-Zi’* matched his, they had given her family 100 million yuan and brought her over as his wife. They had also promised her that as long as she was loyal to Zhan Lichuan, they would give her an additional 100 million yuan each year.
However, if she was caught cheating or betrayed their young master in any way, the Zhan family would take back all the money they had given her, along with any profit that she made during this time as a result of that money.
She had only been married for three weeks and already she’d ended up getting caught by her rival-in-love, who had a video of her talking on the phone with her so-called ‘lover.’ Although that lover was actually her ex-boyfriend, the rival planned to expose her in front of the old man.
Frightened, she had accidentally fallen down the stairs while trying to snatch the phone away from her rival and died as a result.
“Young Mistress, why are you laughing?”
She had already betrayed the third young master, but now she had the audacity to laugh?! This woman knew no shame! Butler Xu became infuriated, his face turning completely black.
“You said it yourself. If he found out that I betrayed the third young master, he would chase me out of the family. In that case, why would you ever offer to help me? Since you work for grandfather, that means you’d be betraying your own master. Well, it’s either that, or you’re trying to fool me.
“Butler Xu, I’m not gullible. I hope you know that.”
A pair of seemingly amorous, peach-blossom eyes smiled up at him, but the smile was actually accompanied by a cold, sharp look.
When he made eye contact with such intriguing eyes, Butler Xu secretly became shocked. Who would have thought a young woman like her, who came from a small family, would have such aura and charisma?
However, he quickly explained, “The Feng Shui Master mentioned that your ‘Ba-Zi’ matches that of our third young master’s perfectly. As long as you marry him and stay by his side, the third young master’s life will improve. I’m simply hoping that the Zhan family becomes better under his leadership.
“That is why I’d like to believe that all of this is simply because you married into the Zhan family in such a hurry and didn’t have enough time to properly settle matters from your past. As long as you let me know who it is, I will be able to get rid of this person before you’re even discharged from the hospital.”
After hearing what he said, Jing Qian raised her eyebrows, a look of excitement appearing on her previously indolent face.
Getting up from the bed, she put on her slippers and walked past the butler.
“Looks like this Feng Shui Master is quite an expert. Why don’t you bring this master here in the future so that I can meet him? I want to know if I’ll make a fortune, surprise the world, and end up the richest person on earth.”
Huh?
**TL note: the term ‘Ba-Zi’ that was mentioned in the text is also known as the four pillars of destiny. A Chinese astrological concept, it’s the idea that a person’s destiny or fate can be divined by the two sexagenary cycle characters assigned to their birth year, month, day, and hour —sourced from Wikipedia.