jdhmnovel Chapter 124 Playing by Unpredictable Rules
Chapter 124 Playing by Unpredictable Rules
"Young Miss!" The pageboy was so startled by Ye Qing'an's actions that he almost jumped up. "Young Miss..."
Ye Qing'an had already turned several pages when she looked up and asked, "But why is this copy of 'The Great Learning' different from the ones I've read before?"
"It's all vulgar language, pornography?"
Ye Qing'an tossed the book to Granny Wei, who was standing to the side, and then picked up another one.
When Granny Wei heard Ye Qing'an say that, she opened the book and, upon seeing its contents, quickly covered her face, exclaiming, "Oh dear, what is all this? It's so embarrassing!"
Without exception, all the books on the ground were erotic novels and stories, just covered with the covers of proper books.
Ye Qing'an looked at the page with a cold smile: "This is the book you said the Second Young Master didn't want to read?"
"No...no." The page was also flustered: "These books, these books were all found by the Second Young Master, it has nothing to do with me."
Ye Qing'an chuckled and suddenly raised her voice: "Ye Feiran, your page said that you found these books?"
"Bullshit!" Ye Feiran immediately shouted, "He brought those back for me, saying that all the young masters from noble families in the city are reading these books, that they are good stuff, and that I should take a look too. He also said that if I don't read them, I won't have anything in common with them, and I will definitely be isolated."
Ye Feiran rushed out: "He had found me a lot of books before, but they were still okay. Although they were just some leisure books, they weren't this unbearable to look at."
Ye Qing'an's gaze fell on the pageboy: "You just said that the book was found by the Second Young Master?"
The pageboy was still stubbornly insisting, "I'm just a pageboy. How could a servant dare to fetch books for his master without his permission? Besides, these books aren't cheap, and I don't have the spare money to buy them! Please, young lady, be the judge. It really wasn't me who bought them."
"Nonsense!"
Ye Feiran rushed over to hit the pageboy, who shouted, "I don't know anything! I'm just a servant. I do whatever my master tells me to do..."
Ye Qing'an reached out and grabbed Ye Feiran, ignoring his howling and jumping around, and coldly looked at the page: "Do you know how old the Second Young Master is?"
The pageboy was taken aback, not understanding why Ye Qing'an was asking this question.
"The second young master is eight years old. Do you think an eight-year-old would go and borrow these things on his own?"
Ye Qing'an's eyes seemed to be frozen: "And you, as a servant, saw such a book on your eight-year-old master's bookshelf, yet you didn't say a word?"
The pageboy grew increasingly flustered, stammering, "The second young master forbade me to tell anyone, and he said... he said if I dared to say anything, he'd take my dog's life. The second young master has always been rather impatient, I dare not..."
Ye Qing'an chuckled, raised her eyes to look at Ye Feiran, and saw him furious, his eyes seemingly burning with anger. She pulled him back a little: "Did you hear it? Did you hear how the people around you twisted right and wrong?"
"Believe it or not, if he said these words to anyone else in the mansion, they would believe him and not you, simply because that's the kind of person you've always been. You're short-tempered, can't distinguish right from wrong, disregard human life, and beat and scold the servants at the drop of a hat."
"So they can fabricate stories about you at will and frame you for baseless crimes."
Ye Feiran gritted her teeth, trembling with anger.
"Do you still think that your previous reckless behavior was right?"
Do you still think that the person who allows you to become like this is doing it for your own good?
Ye Feiran remained silent, but the pageboy beside him showed a look of astonishment in his eyes and hurriedly said, "No matter what, I was wrong. I shouldn't have angered Master. I shouldn't have seen these things on the Second Young Master's bookshelf and didn't dare to report them to the Eldest Miss because I was afraid of the Second Young Master."
Ye Qing'an chuckled and released Ye Feiran's hand: "Stand here and watch carefully."
After Ye Qing'an finished speaking, she walked up to the pageboy, bent down slightly, and stared intently at him: "Do you think I'll believe you just because you say that? Do you think I'll think Ye Feiran is beyond redemption?"
"When you moved to this courtyard with Ye Feiran, did Liu Xueying tell you to be careful of me?"
Ye Qing'an smiled, but the smile was ghostly: "Because I'm the kind of person who never plays by the rules."
After Ye Qing'an finished speaking, he raised his foot and kicked the pageboy.
The pageboy was kicked more than ten feet away. He felt a tightness in his chest and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
"Have you heard about how Doctor Xu killed several servants in the manor today?"
Ye Qing'an approached step by step, and the pageboy finally became frightened and begged for mercy through his pain: "Young Miss, spare my life, Young Miss, spare my life."
"If it weren't for what happened with Doctor Xu today, I wouldn't have known that in Siyou Kingdom, killing a servant bound by a death contract only requires a fine of some silver."
"Those who can serve their master closely must be bound by a lifelong contract, right?"
Ye Qing'an's voice was low, as if it came from hell: "Although I am poor, I will be able to raise enough money to pay the fine, even if I have to sell some clothes and jewelry. Don't worry."
"Ah, if there are still people in your family, I can give them some extra compensation."
After Ye Qing'an finished speaking, she grabbed the pageboy by the neck. The pageboy struggled incessantly, but Ye Qing'an's gaze remained calm and unwavering, as if what was being taken from her hands was not a human life...
The pageboy's face gradually flushed red, and his gaze became increasingly unfocused.
Soon, she stopped struggling...
Seeing that his pupils had completely dilated, Ye Qing'an suddenly released his hand, took out an embroidered handkerchief to wipe his hands, and then turned around.
Ye Feiran and Granny Wei both looked incredulous. Ye Qing'an said calmly, "Granny Wei, go and report to the steward. Tell him... tell him that this scoundrel instigated the Second Young Master to read some vulgar books. The Second Young Master didn't want to read them, but he forced him to read them on the grounds that he couldn't have anything in common with the other young masters."
It took Granny Wei a while to come to her senses. Her throat moved slightly, she swallowed, and almost subconsciously replied, "Yes...yes."
After saying that, she hurriedly turned and ran towards the door, exclaiming, "My God..."
As he reached the door, he tripped over the threshold and fell to the ground. He then hurriedly got up and ran away as fast as he could.
Ye Qing'an then turned to look at Ye Feiran: "You come with me to the main courtyard and kneel down to beg for forgiveness."