Chapter 254

At some point, Si Mengli had almost forgotten what the world outside was like. She was confined to a dilapidated small courtyard within Earl Chengen's Mansion. From her initial outbursts, screaming, and frantic struggling, she had eventually been reduced to being timid, obedient, and afraid to make a sound. Every day, she lived a life worse than that of the servants; she had to wash not only her own clothes but those of the maids in the courtyard as well. What was even more agonizing was that she was eventually forced to scrub the chamber pots. At the beginning, she had tried to pull the rank of a young lady, yelling at the servants and laying hands on them, thinking they would be afraid. Instead, they beat her. She had clamored about reporting them to her mother, nursing a grudge and thinking she would ignore her mother the next time she visited to make her feel bad. But to her disappointment, she waited and waited, yet her mother never appeared.