The Lantern Festival held in the Great Jin Dynasty's fourteenth year had passed in a more lively fashion than in previous years. Within the space of a night, Jiang Lisa's name was known throughout the capital. For a time, everyone in the capital was talking about the newly returned Eldest Miss of the Jiang fu, her stunning appearance, her incomparable talent, her regard for etiquette, and her noble manner. In fact, she was not inferior to the Jiang fu's Second Young Lady.
When Jiang Nancy awoke early the next morning, she saw an exquisite white rabbit lantern on the carved wood cabinet by her bed. She stared blankly at it for a moment before she suddenly burst forth in fury and called out in a shrill voice, "Servants! Qing Ting, Hu Die!"
Hu Die ran into the room swiftly. "Miss, what has happened?"
Jiang Nancy pointed at the white rabbit lantern and said, "Who put this here?"
Hu Die was also shocked to see the lantern. "I did not see it this morning; how did it suddenly appear like that?"
Upon hearing this, Nuo Nuo, a third-ranked servant girl who was standing behind Hu Die, came forward to say, "It was the personal maid of Eldest Miss, Bai Zhi, who sent it here. This servant saw that the lantern was adorable so I put it here."
"And who allowed you to act on your own initiative?" Jiang Nancy sneered. "Take her away."
Two elderly yet robust maidservants immediately entered the room, seized the servant girl and dragged her out. In great alarm, that servant girl pleaded for forgiveness. "Second Miss, this servant was at fault. Second Miss, forgive this servant, this servant does not dare to do it again!"
The sound gradually faded away. Hu Die carefully placed a cup of tea in Jiang Nancy 's hands and said, "Miss, drink some ginger tea to warm yourself."
Jiang Nancy flung off Hu Die's hand. With one move, she grabbed the rabbit lantern off of the bedside cabinet and fiercely ripped it to pieces. In a fit of anger, she threw the remains onto the ground and stomped on them until nothing could be discerned of the lantern's original shape or appearance.
"Jiang Lisa, that slut, clearly she's doing this deliberately. Does she think that she's so high-and-mighty now that she has achieved the lantern? Still, this is something that should not be disclosed to others." Jiang Nancy sat on the couch and said, "There will come a day when she will be just like this lantern, bullied and humiliated by my hand."
With the charged atmosphere, Hu Die did not dare make a sound or movement. At this moment, Jiang Nancy seemed like a devil, nothing at all like her usual gentle and innocent self.
It was precisely at this time that a greatly agitated Qing Ting ran in and said, "Miss, bad news!"
Jiang Nancy was already in a bad temper, so she said in annoyance, "Why are you being so careless and haphazard? What is it now?"
"This servant heard that the talk in the capital, early this morning, was all about that Zhou Da; that he was an assassin hired by furen to deliberately besmirch the reputation of Eldest Miss, but yesterday, he accidentally caused trouble for Second Miss instead!"
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The Rebirth of an Ill-Fated Consort
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