CH 5

Shen Qi didn't know how to answer. She looked at that delicate, small and exquisite rouge gouache powder box with complex feelings in her heart.

She was unlikely to dress up. As a person that died for him, naturally, she didn't need to dress up, let alone the money may not be able to buy the rouge of the Yunbin Huayan Building. Said if she liked it? Not at all.

She remembered when she lost her mind and picked up the small box of rouge that Su Lianxue had thrown away in her previous life. She held and looked at it for a long time. Later, she sat in front of the copper mirror, picked a little rouge with her finger and applied it on her lips.

She didn’t know how to apply, her hand trembled and turned the original light cherry-colored small mouth into a crooked blood bowl. She’d never applied rouge, therefore her finger dug up a little more. She felt distressed and was afraid of wasting. She heard Su Lianxue flaunt that this kind of rouge could also be used on both lips and cheeks. She thought that her cheeks were also round and smooth, they should be better than the arris, angular shape of her lips. So she applied the remaining rouge on her face and rubbed it with her palm.

Then in the mirror, she was like a clown on the stage in an opera. She had a pale complexion painted like a monkey's butt.

At that time she was really ridiculous. She was truly the clown in Shen Zhonghua and Su Lianxue’s romance story.

Shen Qi hung her head down and told Shen Zhonghua docilely: "Your Highness is thoughtful, Girl Su must be happy."

Shen Zhonghua's black pupils darkened. He was about to open his mouth to say something, Su Lianxue's personal servant girl Xiu-er rushed in and reported with an anxious face: "Your Highness! Don't know why Miss has a terrible headache. You go see her quickly!"

(T/N: 您(You) - (courteous) honorific for 'you'.)

Shen Zhonghua was silent and didn’t speak. Shen Qi could feel his gaze fell on her body. She was as if sitting on pins and needles.

However, Shen Zhonghua still left but left the small box of rouge gouache in Shen Qi’s place.

Ling Jiao told Shen Qi happily: "Girl, this was given to you by His Highness!"

Shen Qi couldn't smile. This thing hadn't happened in her previous life. If not for her still had not awakened from the dream...... these abnormal things that happened must be a ghost. She should still be a little careful, after all, how could Shen Zhonghua be good to her?

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Waking up the next day, she was still in the Fanghua Garden. Shen Qi knew that all this wasn’t a dream.

Because it wasn’t a dream, she was more worried and anxious about Shen Zhonghua’s next attempt.

Shen Qi didn’t forget her identity because she slept in the Fanghua Garden for a night. She was a person that died for Shen Zhonghua and his subordinate. She should live and die for him. A shadow, light blade sword, to do all the things that couldn’t be seen rather than staying in this exquisite Fanghua Garden and was taken care of by others.

Even if her legs still hurt, Shen Qi got up early, went to find Shen Zhonghua and followed by his side. Because as a person that died for Shen Zhonghua and she was a girl, Shen Qi's external identity was Shen Zhonghua's personal maid. Even without Shen Zhonghua's orders, she should follow him left and right.

But it was strange. Don’t say the previous life because Shen Zhonghua always thought she didn’t exist. Of course, a good person that died for just wanted to follow by the master’s side but it seemed like she didn’t exist. However, today Shen Zhonghua knew she was guarding at the door and asked her to come in. When Shen Qi went in, Shen Zhonghua was using the morning meal. He hinted for Shen Qi to sit down and eat together.

Shen Qi didn't dare. She just said: "Slave have eaten."

Shen Zhonghua didn't say anything. However, later when Shen Zhonghua was in the study to handle official affairs, he asked Shen Qi to come close and helped him grind the ink.

Grind the ink then grind the ink. Strangely, Shen Zhonghua actually let someone move a stool for Shen Qi, let her sit by his side to grind ink!

Shen Qi was frightened in her heart, but Shen Zhonghua's order she didn’t dare to defy. She could only sit at the desk, held her breath to grind the ink and tried as much as possible to not let herself make a little sound.

Then, more strange things happened. Usually, even Su Lianxue who led a pampered life and never touched spring water, sent over a soup she specifically made for Shen Zhonghua. Shen Zhonghua only met her on the other side of the study and never let the food and drink on the desk. However, Shen Zhonghua thus let someone send new tea and pastries and put them on the desk.

Angry and suspicious in his heart, he lowered his head in depth to handle official affairs and said with a faint voice: "They taste pretty good, you try it."

Shen Qi didn't dare to move, but her stomach that hadn’t eaten breakfast sold her out by making a “rumbling” sound at this time.