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She had been married into the Shao Family for a month now. Every morning, she would wake up to serve Shao Muyuan, helping him get dressed, making the bed, washing his face, and even putting on his hat.
After Shao Muyuan left for the day, Wen Zhanxia would come over to continue her relentless training, instructing her on how to do laundry, clean the floors, tidy up the rooms, and even urging her to learn cooking from the kitchen maid.
“If the master wants a midnight snack tonight, who will you send to make it?”
Because of this question, Chen Luoting's delicate hands, once skilled in measuring fabric, had become battered after a month of household education.
After getting married, aside from being held in Shao Muyuan's arms every night as a pillow, her only role was to accompany Wen Zhanxia. She didn’t even know what she truly was—was she a maid warming Shao Muyuan's bed?
Or merely a servant being tormented by Wen Zhanxia? Was this what it meant to be a Concubine?
“They say a wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as a prostitute, and a prostitute is not as good as a thief; but I, as a concubine here, am even worse than a maid.” Chen Luoting looked at her wounded hands, feeling like crying but having no tears.
This was something she had never anticipated before marrying.
She hadn’t expected to lose favor so quickly; perhaps she had never been favored at all. To Shao Muyuan, even though she had married him, they had never truly shared a bed. What was she to him?
One day while Chen Luoting was cooking in the kitchen, she suddenly heard someone speak.
“Do you regret it?” She turned around to see Shao Zihan leaning against the kitchen wall, watching her.
“Where is Mother Feng?” Chen Luoting asked nervously, unsure of where to place her hands.
"I've drawn him away." Shao Zihan's sharp gaze was fixed intently on Chen Luoting, as if he wanted to swallow her whole. "Don't change the subject. I'm asking you, do you regret it?"
"You keep asking if I regret it. I don't know what you want me to regret. Regret coming back? But if I don't come back, where else can I go?"
Chen Luoting hid her hands behind her back, smiling as she looked at Shao Zihan. "And besides, isn't this exactly what you wanted to see?"
"You..." Shao Zihan was momentarily speechless, yet he found himself unable to refute her. He reached out and grasped the hands that Chen Luoting had concealed, the pain in his eyes unmistakable. "These are all your choices. What do you mean by what I want to see? Did you think marrying Shao Muyuan would bring you happiness? Now do you realize you've chosen the wrong person?"
"Do you know? It was never my choice to be with him; I was simply chosen by him."
Chen Luoting sighed. "You only say that I came back of my own accord, that I willingly walked into a trap. Do you know why I returned?"
"Could it be that Shao Muyuan pursued you?"
That night was one Chen Luoting would never forget; it was the spark that ignited her current tragic fate.
"Luoting, do you really hate me this much that you want to distance yourself from me?"
The gentle yet heart-wrenching question hung in the air as the car door opened. A middle-aged man in a tailored suit stepped out gracefully. He took hold of the trembling young girl's small hand and drew her into his embrace. "Look at you, being so disobedient, your hands are freezing. Xiao Zhang, drive."
Returning to the mansion she had once vowed to escape from and never look back at filled Chen Luoting with a sense of shame. When Shao Muyuan brought her back, it was with the intention of marrying her—not as a legitimate wife but as a concubine.
Though she was only seventeen, she understood that while she had fallen to the point of being someone else's garment, she would never stoop so low as to become a concubine for another. Thus, no matter how much Shao Muyuan lowered himself or spoke sweetly to her, she seized the opportunity to escape from this place.
To her surprise, less than half a month later, she returned once again.
A week later, the wedding took place as scheduled. Chen Luoting finally became Shao Muyuan's possession, and it was for a lifetime.
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