Good Man Operation Guide

Chapter 126.2: Rebirth of the Black Lotus (3)

Mu Qingling reached out, and the nanny, very quietly, stepped forward and handed over a cup of tea.

She had beautiful hands, with long slender fingers, white as jade. At the moment, these hands were holding the teacup while gently fiddling with the lid.

“When you’re really granted a side consort position, I will send someone to the Marquis and ask Second Aunt to get your deed of sale back, and by then, you will be a free woman.”

“However, even though you’re free, you can only be a side consort. I’m the main consort, in control of the household’s management, and the Prince himself told me that I would be in charge of all the affairs of the household. Do you know what this means?”

There was puzzlement in Pu Tao’s eyes and a hint of superiority that Mu Qingling could barely see.

She was a little amused. She had a good temper, but how could she not be angry at being looked at by a maid with such a gaze.

However, Mu Qingling couldn’t understand what gave Pu Tao the confidence to look down on her. She was the master and Pu Tao was the slave.

Even the second madam wouldn’t dare to show something so openly. Was she too stupid or did she have a card in her hand?

Pu Tao does indeed have a card, it’s just that her card came from her belief that Mu Qingling would soon be dying of illness and that she was in the Prince’s favor.

So, she wasn’t afraid of Mu Qingling. Who would be afraid of a person who was going to die?

“This maid doesn’t know. Please clarify, Princess.”

Mu Qingling lowered her eyes and blew on the tea in her teacup, “Nowadays, everyone in the entire mansion listens to my, the Princess Consort’s, orders. Do you think anyone could care if tonight, if a maid, who lost her life to a cold, died in the Princess Consort’s main courtyard?”

Pu Tao’s body stiffened, then quickly relaxed again, “But if this maid is loved by the Prince and questions the words of the Princess, will the Princess not care?”

“A maid is not a side consort after all. Even if she does become a side consort, I will be the main one and the side consort will be the secondary one. It’s easy for the Princess Consort to dispose of a small side consort, especially one with little family background.”

“I was personally given the marriage by His Majesty. Even if the Prince is displeased because of a dead maid, would he really divorce me for this maid? At that time, I will still be the Princess of the Prince, but that maid, however, can only be sent out of the mansion for burial, rolled up in a straw mat.”

Pu Tao’s nerves were rattled by what Mu Qingling had said. Her head snapped up to look at the person leaning against the bed.

Mu Qingling, who was sitting on the bed, although looking pale, looked as if he was talking about an everyday matter, not about killing another human being.

When she was with the second madam, she had seen the image of her beating a maid to death, for seducing the second lord. The image flashed through Pu Tao’s mind.

Mu Qingling was also a member of the Marquis family, and she had only served by her side for a few days; perhaps Mu Qingling wasn’t at all as gentle as she appeared to be.

She wasn’t scaring me, she is really out to get me!

The moment this thought rose, Pu Tao shivered and her body trembled.

She wasn’t afraid that Mu Qingling was going to settle the score later, because she was convinced that her opponent wouldn’t live to see that. But she was afraid, afraid that Mu Qingling would really decide to send her on her way because of her disrespectful attitude.

When the time comes, although Mu Qingling would be able to go down to hell and join her shortly afterwards, what’s the point in that?Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Pu Tao was so frightened by her own thoughts that her body trembled. The smugness on her face instantly scattered away, and she hastily and anxiously said, “This maid understands her mistake. This maid won’t dare do it a second time. Please forgive this maid, please be merciful!”

Although she was kowtowing, she wasn’t kowtowing as hard as the previous commoner girl who had been forcibly snatched, but was careful not to bleed. She was careful to avoid ruining the pretty face that the Prince had taken a liking to.

Mu Qingling sipped her tea and didn’t tell her to get up. She waited until Pu Tao was almost dizzy from kowtowing before she spoke in a calm tone, “Get up.”

Where can I get the confidence to fight back?

At home, as a daughter, everything was tied to her father, so when he died, she, originally the favored first daughter of the eldest family, was instantly made a sidekick to her sister.

When she arrived at the Prince’s Mansion her backbone was in her husband, Prince Linjiang.

If the other party didn’t give her that backing, what could she do?

Mu Qingling somewhat self-deprecatingly thought, perhaps it was really as nanny had said, that only when she had suffered greatly later would she think of fighting back, even when she had no backing at all.

Anyway, now that Pu Tao was intimidated, she would probably stay in line for a while. When she gets well, the rules in this mansion should be straightened out, the side consort won’t be able to make any waves.

Mu Qingling had planned well and slept soundly for the night.

On the other hand, on Pu Tao’s side, after she rejected the ginseng soup to death, the maids didn’t do anything to her. They very obediently left with the soup.

Instead of being reassured, Pu Tao was even more worried.

Perhaps by not drinking the ginseng soup she had angered the Princess and was to be left to die?!

She was so frightened by her own imagination that she stayed awake all night. She kept one eye open and nervously cowered under the bed looking at the door and windows, for fear that someone would suddenly burst in and kill her.

As it turned out, nothing happened until dawn.

She was dressed in new clothes and beautiful jewelry, and sent to the Princess.

Lin Shiheng was visiting his consort. He had really brought the powder and even a hairpin, which he personally pinned on for Mu Qingling.

“How about this hairpin that this Prince picked out, does it look good?”

Mu Qingling blushed a little and gently smiled as she wore her hairpin, “The one chosen by the Prince is naturally a good one.”

“I think so too.”

As they were talking, Pu Tao came in.

She had been terrified all night. Now, when she saw Lin Shiheng, she fell to her knees as if she had seen a savior.

“Your Highness!!! This maid has finally seen you, Your Majesty, this maid...”

Pu Tao was about to elaborate on how she had been aggrieved when Lin Shiheng, who had been sitting nicely on the edge of the bed, jerked up and stared at her with frightened eyes.

“Where did such an ugly maid come from, hurry up and get rid of her!!!”

Pu Tao was stunned, “Your Highness, Your Highness... This maid is Pu Tao ah... Yesterday you said you would make this maid a side consort...”

“Pooh!!! You’re so ugly, but you have the nerve to be a side consort?!! You can’t even carry this Prince’s shoes!!”

“Someone!! Throw her out, throw her out!!”