Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Against heaven to change her fate.

In her past life, Rendong protected her. An Qingran could not believe that she was so easily blinded by An Yanran’s words.

Yanran once told her that Rendong had wandering hands and she had stolen her bracelet. Later on, the bracelet was found under Rendong’s quilt.

She never forgot her maid’s expression when it was discovered. She cried helplessly while she was being detained. Even though… Qingran did not believe the pleading maid and sent her out of the General’s residence.

Years later, she heard that Rendong was a lonely lady who washed clothing as living. In this life, she wanted to protect this maid.

“Xiaojie is really weird today” Rendong whispered.

An Qingran pretended that she didn’t hear anything and asked: “By the way, you said today is the Lantern Festival?”.

Suddenly Qingran jumped in shock. ”What hour is it?”

“It is the end of the Shen hour”

(one of the 12 two-hour periods in a day)

(Shen hour is between 3 to 5pm, so the end is close to 5pm)

“Furen and the General are at the banquet in the Qiushui pavilion. I was supposed to come and get Xiaojie but you were sleeping so deeply. I wasn’t able to wake you up, even shouted…” Rendong’s voice was yet finished.An Qingran pushed the door open and rushed out!

Rendong looked at her running back puzzled. She felt that everything became weird after her Xiaojie woke up. She seemed like a different person calm one moment agitated the next.

It took her some time to react and chase the girl. When Rendong step out she couldn’t see An Qingran figures anymore. Her Xiaojie should have gone to the Qiushui Pavilion… picking up her skirts she started to run as well.

An Qingran’s heart is extremely anxious.

In the General’s Fu, lanterns were hanged everywhere,a running horse lantern,The Goddess Chang’s fly to the moon lantern, melon and fruit lantern it looked like a fairyland, mimicking the starry sky.

An Qingran was running, secretly praying that she would arrive on time. How could she forget?

Within the next hour her yiniang Lian JinRong that is An YanRan’s mother would bring her father to her mother’s courtyard and ‘discover’ her mother ȧduŀtery in the act.

In her past life, she was still young when the incident happened. At that time, she only hated her mother’s shamelessness and humiliation to her father and herself.

She still remembered the sadness in her mother’s eyes. After that incident, she was separated from her mother and believed Lian JinRong’s lies.

An Qingran could only blame herself. How could she listen to these vile persons? Even if Lian Jinrong and her mother were sisters.

(Actually step sisters)

After her mother’s affairs was discovered. Lian Jin Rong treated her well, however she never missed a chance to tell her nasty rumors about her mother. In the end, mother died from depression and sorrow a year later. That year, She was only thirteen years old…

Remembering these time, it felt like a knife had pierced her heart and she started to run faster. She must stop this! She could not waste this opportunity that the gods had given her!

“Xiaojie please run a bit slower!” shouted Rendong who was chasing after her from afar. Just at that moment, she fell in a pit.

An Qingran hearing this turned around. “Rendong, you should be careful! Don’t worry about me…”

She didn’t have the time to help the maid.

When Rendong climbed out of the small pit her xiaojie had disappeared. She sighed. What happened to her usually quiet and dignified xiaojie? The one everybody knew as the girl who never raised her voice. That same young miss was running around like a rabbit. Was she still in her dream? Rendong couldn’t think too deeply about it. All she needed was to follow her xiaojie .

An Qingran was still running. What if she couldn’t arrive on time?