Feng linli put on a troubled face. She looked at the girls and pretended as if she wanted to say something but then stopped again. She looked really troubled.
Li'er Feng linli's maid acted along with Feng linli and asked, "Miss are you still worried about thirteenth miss? Don't worry we're in the imperial Palace so she would not dare to do anything to you". Li'er's voice was not very loud but it was enough for everyone to hear. Feng linli pretended to look frightened, she started shaking all of a sudden as if she was afraid of something.
"Li'er! Don't talk about wei'er like this. What if she hears and get angry" Feng linli twisted the embroidered handkerchief in her hand. She held her breath and started sweating all of a sudden. The other ladies in the room all looked over. Feng linli had successfully attracted their attention.
Wu lan and Lu xin looked over. Wu lan was curious and wanted to know why the lady was acting this way but she thought it was beneath her status to ask. Her maid was behind her but if she asked her maid to inquire, wouldn't it be like she was the one asking? Thus Wu lan threw a glance at Lu xin who sat beside her. Lu xin understood what that glance meant and she gritted her teeth in anger.
'Look at her treating me like her maid. Patience Lu xin, I shall get my revenge'
Lu xin chanted all over in her head so she wouldn't loose her composure. Eventhough the Lu's were richer and they were more or less noble, the Wu family had better status than the Lu family and Lu xin's father always tells Lu xin to obey and flatter Wu lan so they could ride on the coatails of the Wu family.
Lu xin looked at Feng linli with hatred brewing in her eyes. If it wasn't for this wench, she wouldn't be acting as Wu lan's lackey again. Calming down the raging emotions in her heart, Lu xin asked camly, "Young miss of the Feng family why are you like this?"
Feng linli raised her flushed face and looked up to Lu xin. Of course she saw the hatred in her eyes but she covered it quickly.
'Oh is she jealous of my beauty?' Feng linli thought.
"Oh it's just that I'm worried that My little sister would bring her attitude into the imperial harem. Then that would bring a lot of problems" Feng linli sighed.
Wu lan raised her eyebrows. With this sentence, Feng linli had blown her cover. Wu lan smirked at feng linli's intelligence. Feng linli was pretending to care for her sister when in reality she just wanted to badmouth her sister. If Feng linli really cared about her sister, she wouldn't have said that in the first place. After getting the attention of the ladies, she started talking about Feng xiaowei eventhough nobody asked her to.
"This youngest sister of mine was born from our father's beloved concubine and because of this father pampered her to the skies so she's rather a little bit.... difficult" while saying this, she put on a face that said she was forced to say this. The difficult part said everything.
Yun bailan who was sitting at the corner isolated from everyone looked over with interest. Yun bailan was 17 this year and she was sent here by her father to reap some benefits for her family. The Yun family was one of the richest family in the Long Empire but they lacked the legal aid to raise their buissness into higher ranks so they sent their youngest daughter into the imperial harem with hopes of charming the Emperor.
The Yun family had completely forgotten that there were already seven incredible beauties in the imperial harem but none of them have reaped benefits for their family.
Yun bailan has a goal. The Empress's seat. At the end of the battle of the harem, she was sure she would be able charm the Emperor and make him banish the Empress into the cold Palace. If her her plan of charming the Emperor doesn't work, she'll scheme her way up. She doesn't need a man to reach her goals!
"Are you talking about the barbaric thirteenth young miss of the General feng's manor? The one who soo domineering and stupid, and lacks womanly virtues?" Yun bailan asked incredulously. She had seen more like felt how 'barbaric' Feng xiaowei could be. Thinking back 10 years ago, she started shaking in her seat. The maid behind her smiled, mockery directed at her young miss filled her pure eyes.
Flashback
10 years ago autumn festival, imperial Palace.
Two young children who looked no more older than seven or eight stood in front of young boy. This young boy was lying on the floor with his hand covering his head protecting himself from the beatings one of the girls were giving him. Young Yun bailan kept stepping on the young boy who was also eight years old.
"L-leave me alone I said I won't give her to you!" The young boy screamed. He was bent on the floor, his hand shielding his head and his stomach protecting a little white furred animal.
"Meow meow~" the little cat kept mewing.
"You're just a bastard prince but you dare defy this young miss? Do you know who I am?" Yun bailan kept stomping on the young Prince.
"I said give me the kitten" she screamed. The little maid beside Yun bailan kept trying to stop her from hitting the little prince more. Yun bailan pushed the little maid in annoyance and she landed on the floor with tears in her eyes.
"No this is the only thing my royal mother left me" the little prince screamed refusing to let go of the cat.
Yun bailan's face turned red from anger. She had taken a fancy to the snow White kitten the little Prince had but that bastard Prince refused to give it to her.
As she was about to continue hitting the Prince more, she head a rustle from the bushes. Yun bailan got scared thinking that an adult had discovered her but someone came out of the bushes making her let a sigh of relief.
Standing in front of her was four years old Feng xiaowei. Xiaowei instead of wearing the same clothes as the girls, she was wearing tight pants and a short hanfu as a blouse. Her mother had made these for her so she could move conveniently. Instead of nice soft hair like other girls, she had unruly short curly hair making her look sunny and boyish. She looked somewhat out of place.
"What are you doing to him" Feng xiaowei screamed.
"What are-.....
(Author:please forgive me dear readers. What followed next is censored)
*thump*
"Arrrghhhhhh"
*crash*
"Mommyyyyyy"
*slap*
"Y-you dare hit this young miss"
"Yes I dare hit you!"
*slap*
"Nyoooooooo"
*crash*
"Mommyyyyyy I'm shorryy"
The next 5 minutes, bai yunlan was seen running away with a swollen face and a limping leg.
The little maid followed along.
"Don't leave nubi aloneeeee~" the little maid run after bai yunlan although she looked sad, there was a smile on her face. The little maid secretly was happy that someone beat her arrogant young miss. Behind them was four year old Feng xiaowei with a broken branch of a tree and a little white kitten sitting on her curly hair, beside her on the floor was the little Prince who was looking at her in awe and admiration.
That day, Yun bailan was rediculed by her sisters and feng xiaowei became her worst nightmare.
Flash back end.