Flames of Ambition

2: The Fifth Sister and the Eldest Sister

Chapter 2: The Fifth Sister and the Eldest Sister

When she came out of her room, her three maids bowed to her. Their names were Fan Yi, Fan Er, and Fan San. She didn't know why, but she frowned as she recognized their names. It was simply like giving them a name or a number. The previous host just added to her surname the numbers one, two, and three in Chinese.

That was simply too lazy for naming her maids. But she was also too lazy to change it.

"Young Mistress, do you have a command?" Fan Yi asked Zexel. She just stared coldly, and then she spoke.

"Don't follow me," she coldly said. She wore a light purple Hanfu with dark purple lily embroidery. She walked elegantly and refined as she left her courtyard. She had already browsed the host's memory, so she would not lose her way.

As she walked out of the courtyard, Zexel heard a tiny footstep sound, so she began to alert herself to who that person was.

"This Lady did not expect to bump into you here, Hua Mei-Mei[1]. How are you? Do you want me to accompany you to your destination?" It was none other than Fan Qinyou, her fifth sister. She was with her maid named Dong Ju.

'Bitch, let's see what scheme you have up your sleeves now. So this Lady will make you an entertainment,' Fan Qinyou said to herself as she saw her mortal enemy.

"Really, Jie-Jie[2]? Do you want to accompany me? I'll go to the kitchen now because this Mei-Mei doesn't like her meal," Zexel pretended as if she was disgusted by something, which made Fan Qinyou pale.

No one in the Fu[3] knew that Fan Qinyou's most hated place was the kitchen. Nobody knew why, other than Fan Lihua, but she didn't even realize that she knew it.

"Oh? In the kitchen? Mei-Mei, this Lady forgot that she was called by Father. You should go now," Fan Qinyou tried to keep her facade, but as a disguise master, Zexel saw it clearly, that's why she secretly smirked.

Fan Qinyou even murmured the word "bitch" a lot of times. She thought that Fan Lihua did not hear it, but as a Mafia Queen, her senses were much more sensitive than others.

Plus, Fan Qinyou forgot that as a cultivator, especially people with higher cultivation, they could easily hear a lot of sounds if they wanted to.

If not for her pretense, she would probably laugh, but she was too lazy to do it. She strolled for one shichen[4] until Zexel decided to go to her eldest sister.

She wanted to be close to this girl. She pitied her, as she died at a young age before she even experienced happiness. This was the thing that she wanted to give her sister.

She knew how sad it was to be lonely because that was her life before. She was only 13 in this body, while her eldest sister was 15 right now. There were still 2 years before she died, and she wanted to make those two years the happiest moments of her life.

Her second intention was to have an alliance with the assassin that would transmigrate to her body two years later from now.

It was already at Shen[5] hour when she reached the Hua Kai Pavilion[6]. The whole place was really too old. The flowers were all dead, even the plaque was worn out, and you could even tell that the place was already abandoned and that no one was living inside.

But the truth was, this was the place of the weak and cowardly Di daughter of the Prime Minister. The host only knew a little about this sister since she didn't even bother to look for her.

They only had less than ten meetings before the death of this girl. She didn't know why, even though she was a Di daughter, no one even paid attention to her.

Perhaps because of her lack of a mother, that's why no one taught her anything.

When she got there, her closest maid was the one who met her at the entrance. The maid was named Dao Lu. The maid was trembling to death as she saw the figure of Zexel.

She didn't even greet Zexel because of her fear.

"Where is your Young Mistress?" The maid hesitated for a bit because she didn't want to betray her mistress or let Zexel hurt her.

"Relax, this sister won't do anything rash," she casually said. Dao Lu couldn't do anything, as she was weak and couldn't do anything to save her mistress.

Dao Lu kowtowed to Zexel, which made her shocked.

"Nubi[7] did not do it intentionally, please forgive Nubi," her voice was trembling, as was her body.

Zexel laughed as she helped Dao Lu to stand up.

"It's okay, where is your Young Mistress?" she asked her again.

Dao Lu became confused by Zexel's action. She knew how vicious and scheming Zexel was, so she was really hesitating.

"Si-sister?" Zexel looked in the direction where the low voice came from. She saw her sister, who came out of her room.

Zexel looked carefully at her sister. She frowned as she saw that her sister looked like a skeleton. She was clearly malnourished and looked like she would be blown away by a strong wind.

"Dao Lu, go to the kitchen and tell them to prepare a meal here in Hua Kai Pavilion," Zexel gave her violet jade with her name to Dao Lu, as if she were saying that it was all her command.

"If they make things difficult for you, feel free to use it. Now go," she coldly said. Because of Dao Lu's fear, she immediately ran toward the kitchen.

Fan Yaoli, the Di daughter of the Prime Minister. The eldest among the 15 children of the Prime Minister.

"Sister Lihua, is there anything you want?" She could hear the fear in her sister's voice, but she ignored it and grabbed Fan Yaoli's hand and went inside her sister's room.

"Lay down there and don't ever stand up until the food comes out," Zexel ordered her sister.

Fan Yaoli obediently lay on her bed while she was confused why her seventh sister had become nice to her.

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1: Mei-Mei (妹妹) - Younger Sister
2: Jie-Jie (姐姐) - Older Sister
3: Fu (屋) - Courtyard
4: Shichen (时间) - One-hour ancient time two hours in modern time
5: Shen (申) - Monkey Time 3-5 pm
6: Hua Kai (盛开) - Flower Bloom
7: Nubi (奴隶) - Maid's way of addressing herself

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