"Miss, Young Master Bai has sent someone with another letter!"
Zizhu clutched her chest, terrified that someone would discover the letter hidden inside her dress.
Only when they reached the doorway of the room did she dare to whisper the news.
Just as in her previous life, after Moland and her two sisters stopped going to the schoolroom, Old Madam Sheng had arranged for her good friend Nurse Kong to teach the three girls etiquette, including flower arrangement and tea ceremony.
Moland knew very well that she was not supposed to be included.
In her past life, she had gone crying to her concubine mother, then pestered and pleaded coquettishly with her father until Sheng Hong finally managed to wedge her into the group.
In doing so, she had only earned her father the cold shoulder from Old Madam Sheng.
Yet those lessons in etiquette had been carved into her heart long ago in her previous life and were never forgotten, so this time Moland had no intention of going to learn such trifling things.
Alas, someone assumed this was merely playing hard to get, and forcefully squeezed her right back in.
Seeing that Moland neither contended nor vied for anything, Old Madam Sheng simply assumed she was putting on a generous front to drive a wedge between herself and Sheng Hong.
As it happened, Sheng Hong had not visited her quarters much over those two days, which only made Old Madam Sheng all the more certain that Moland was the cause of him making her lose face.
This made her even less …
Chapter 26