On the day of her fifteenth birthday, the servants had woken her up early enough that the mansion was in complete silence. Usually, there was some sound when Xiao Yunhua woke up, but today, she woke up so soon that the only thing she heard was the sound of her thumping and anxious heart ringing in her ears.
The worry was eating away her thoughts and her eyes widened when she saw the bathtub that the servants had prepared. Large with steaming water like the usual, but it was filled with red rose petals and made the room smell fragrant. The servants stripped her down and ushered her in the scorching water. Using a single finger, she tested the temperature and it burned her, but under the gazes of the impatient servants, she went in the water anyways.
