Best friends dressed up in ancient times to become mistresses? You run, I run too!

As for her status, Lady Hou wasn't worried. Even if she was worse, could she be worse than that lowly maid Liu Zhiyi?

Lady Hou suppressed the smile on her lips.

With a reproachful look, she walked around behind Pei Yun Chu, tilted her head, and poked Pei Yun Chu's back with her index finger, saying in a dissatisfied tone,

"You little rascal, when did you get a sweetheart? Why didn't you tell your mother about this wonderful thing?"

As she spoke, she inadvertently raised her head and met Liu Zhiyi's cool and indifferent gaze.

His pupils dilated suddenly, his body felt as if struck by lightning, and his face turned deathly pale, as if he had seen a ghost.

……

The air suddenly froze.

"You...you...you..."

"How could it be you, you lowly servant?"

Liu Zhiyi rolled her eyes, pushed away the man who was tightly hugging her, and glanced indifferently at the mother and son, a half-smile on her face.

"it is me."

Lady Hou: ...

How is this possible? "You're not dead?"

Liu Zhiyi smiled and said, "You're so much older than me and you're still alive, so of course I won't die."

Lady Hou was so angry that she staggered, raised her hand and pounded her chest. Overwhelmed by rage, she forgot all about her usual manners and upbringing, and pointed directly at Liu Zhiyi's nose, cursing loudly.

"You slut, you slut..."

"You wretched servant, since you're dead, why not die a little more completely? Three years ago, you ruined my perfectly healthy son, and now that he's finally starting to look like a human being again, why do you keep coming back like a ghost?"

"Why don't you just die out there obediently? Huh?"

Song Hanchuan's face was extremely ugly. He had just taken a step forward when he saw Liu Zhiyi secretly shake her head at him.

He could only grit his teeth and resist the urge to kill the person in front of him, but the look in his eyes was as cold as if he were looking at a dead man.

Pei Yun Chu was furious.

He pulled Liu Zhiyi behind him, protecting her tightly, before speaking with a grim expression.

“Mother, if you continue to target Xiaoyi like this, I will leave the Marquis’s mansion, take Xiaoyi to live in our own mansion, and never go back.”

Lady Hou was so angry that she swayed and fell into the arms of the old woman serving her.

"The treasonous son - the treasonous son -"

"You lowly servant, you were the one who instigated all of this, weren't you?"

"Disappearing suddenly and then returning suddenly, making men dream of you, these little tricks of manipulating people in the inner quarters can only fool my good-for-nothing son."

"You've gone to all this trouble just to become the mistress of the Marquis's mansion, haven't you?"

Let me tell you, as long as I have a breath left, you will never step foot inside the gates of my Marquis's mansion.

Lady Hou was bent over, panting heavily.

After gritting her teeth and saying all this, her eyes seemed to be spitting fire as she looked at Liu Zhiyi, as if she wanted to chew her up and tear her to pieces.

This made the old nanny look distressed.

While quickly patting the Lady Hou's chest to help her catch her breath, he complained, "Young Master, it's not that I'm criticizing you, but how could you speak to the Lady like that?"

"For whom has Madam done all this?"

"Your status is so noble, and look at her..."

She was born a maid, not even qualified to be a concubine.

"A family like the Marquis's mansion could easily marry a princess. Yet you, you've chosen a lowly maid? How can the madam bear this?"

"Look at that foxy look in her eyes, she's clearly not a docile woman. Marrying a woman like that would surely bring unrest to the household... She'd be a wanton harlot who can't be restrained, you, ah—"

The old woman was kicked away by a figure that flashed past from behind before she could finish speaking.

Everyone:......

"enough."

Song Hanchuan's eyes were covered with a thick layer of ice, and his chest heaved violently.

"The Marquis's family has excellent upbringing."

“One by one, not one of you has a clean mouth. Since that’s the case, I won’t mind washing your mouths for you.”

"Qingyun, cut out this old woman's tongue. Every single person from the Marquis's mansion present here, leave no one alive. Throw them all out. If they dare to come again, kill them without mercy."

"Yes."

Liu Zhiyi laughed in exasperation. Did this mother and son really have no problems with their brains?

One or two are blind, coming in and talking to themselves, and they think they can never enter the gates of their Marquis's mansion in this lifetime? Even if they kneel down and beg, she won't let them in, okay?

Qingyun led his men forward, and the men's expressions immediately changed.

"Song Hanchuan, how dare you? Xiaoyi, will you come with me?"

"How dare you! Don't touch me!"

"Get out of my way! I am a member of the Marquis's household. How dare you be so rude?"

Shen Ningzhu stepped forward, a smile playing on her lips, and smiled warmly under the shocked gazes of the mother and son of the Marquis's mansion.

"What a coincidence, I'm alive too. Didn't expect that, did you?"

"Just a friendly reminder, today is a special day for Xiaoyi and the Prime Minister. In a few days, it will be their wedding day."

"As for your damned Marquis's mansion... I'm sorry, my little Yi doesn't even want a second glance. We'd be too unlucky to give it to you for free."

Pei Yun Chu's pupils dilated.

The two people beside her were also stunned, and the Lady Hou blurted out,

"Impossible... The Prime Minister is of such high status that there are plenty of noble ladies from respectable families in the capital who would be a good match for him. Why would he lower himself to marry a maid?"

Pei Yun Chu's eyes were bloodshot, her pupils filled with red veins. She gripped Liu Zhi Yi's wrist tightly and broke down, saying...

"No, that's not how it works, is it?"

"Xiaoyi, tell me, all of this was a lie, right? Do you know, when I heard the news of your death, I felt like I had fallen into an ice cellar, like a thousand arrows were piercing my heart."

He had been wounded many times on the battlefield, but none of them had hurt like that—it was a suffocating pain. It was then that he realized how much he loved Liu Zhiyi.

"I just found out you're still alive, and my heart has finally started beating again. Please, don't be so cruel to me, okay?"

Don't let him lose her again after just getting her back.

One second in heaven, one second in hell.

It would be better to just kill him.

"Xiao Yi... Xiao Yi... Please, I'm begging you, Xiao Yi..."

Liu Zhiyi smiled.

She did indeed deliberately approach Pei Yun Chu for Shen Ningzhu's sake.

However, it's not a complete ban on meat or vegetables.

She chose Pei Yun Chu for two reasons: firstly, he was extremely handsome; secondly, his cheerful personality and unconventional, eccentric behavior suited her taste.

During the time they spent together, a slight ripple stirred in her heart.

When she saw his arrogant, condescending expression as he offered to take her as a concubine, she felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over her head. Her hands and feet turned icy cold, but she instantly became completely sober.

Only then did I realize that I was in ancient times.

It was an era that placed great emphasis on social status, an era where men were superior to women and women had multiple wives and concubines.

What chilled her to the bone and made her utterly despondent was that, in his heart, even being a concubine was beneath her station.