Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Young mistress.”
“Young mistress.”
Yu Niang gently shook Yu Min to wake her up after bringing some vegetable soup with her. She touched her forehead, looking miserable.
She was not on fever. That was good news.
Yu Min heard the movement and opened her eyes drowsily.
But she couldn’t see her wet nurse’s face as her sight was blurry, and she was too weak.
“Young mistress, drink some soup.”
Despite her blurry vision, Yu Min immediately felt energized when she heard that there was food. She mustered all her strength and reached out for the bowl.
Yu Niang chuckled. “Lie down, young mistress. Let me feed you.”
Yu Min raised both her arms but realized that she had no strength to sit up. She could only lie in Yu Niang’s arms and waited for her.
She almost threw out when Yu Niang spooned the soup into her mouth.
What did she feed her? It smelled strange and tasted bitter. Fortunately, the watery liquid they called soup was warm. Yu Min tricked herself into keeping the soup down her throat. The soup was her lifesaver. She could not afford to waste the soup and needed the soup to survive. She convinced herself that she would be fine after drinking it.
She held her breath and slowly finished the entire bowl of soup. But even after she finished the bowl of soup, she did not see even a single piece of vegetable.
“Yu Niang, have you eaten?”
“I will eat now. How is it, young mistress? Are you still hungry? Do you want to eat some mantou bun?”
Yu Min immediately lost her appetite when Yu Niang mentioned mantou bun. She shook her head. She had just realized that their dinner was just a bowl of vegetable soup with no vegetables in it.
And now that she finished the soup, her wet nurse could only have the hard mantou bun as her dinner.
“I’m sorry for eating your share of dinner, Yu Niang. You will now have to take the hard mantou bun as your dinner tonight.” Yu Min thought to herself.
“You can have them. I’m full.”
After hearing their reply from her young mistress, Yu Niang took the moldy, hard mantou bun from the table in the dark. She sat by the bed and started chewing on the hard mantou bun.
Feeling stronger, Yu Min could now slowly sit up on her own.
Staring at the moonlight shining through the window and the door, she knew they were so poor that they couldn’t even afford a lamp.
Her pupils moved when the thought came to her mind, and she softly spoke, “Yu Niang, am I going to die? I think I saw my mother and father.”
Tears streamed down Yu Niang’s face when she heard her young mistress talked about dying.
“My poor young mistress, that was your mother looking after you because she felt sorry for you. She was guarding after you.”
Yu Niang took off her shoes and knelt on the bed.
“Mistress, please protect young mistress now that you’re in heaven. Look at how that assh*le Yu Hong’en harmed young mistress. You left too soon, leaving the young mistress to suffer here alone…”
Yu Min was filled with astonishment when she heard Yu Niang’s words.
The person whose body she occupied no longer had a mother since young, and her assh*ole of a father, Yu Hong’en, sent her to suffer in this shabby temple. He did not even care that she was sick.
Yu Min listened to Yu Niang babbling and cursing her scu*bag of a father without interrupting. Tears welled up in her ears as she opened her mouth to speak.
Although it was dark and Yu Niang might not even see the tears in her eyes, she had to play her part as the person she inhabited now. Now that they were in a temple, Yu Niang might take her for a stray spirit that took over the body of her young mistress if Yu Niang noticed she was someone else.
Yu Min asked weakly. Her voice sounded as if she was sobbing.
“Is it true that father does not want us anymore?”
Yu Niang noticed the trace of tears in Yu Min’s eyes from the ray of moonlight. Tears continued to stream down her face.
She went over and softly held her young mistress. Hatred filled her face as she said, “Young mistress, everything will be fine. If that scu*bag doesn’t want you, I’ll have you. I will raise you well. We will live to see Yu Hong’en face his retribution. And the b*tch Xu Yilian too. Young mistress, we must remember our enemies.”
Oh? Her scu*bag father seemed to lead a good life with a pretty woman, Xu Yilian, by her side.
But she still had no idea why Yu Niang would talk about retributions.
It was just a simple act of abandoning a daughter and not raising her, not bad enough for any retribution. Did her scu*bag father do something else to them?
Being brought up in such an environment filled with hatred since young, the child might turn up twisted.
Yu Min imagined the possibility of the person whose body she was in to grow up twisted.