一夜情

“Chuchu, you are incredible,” praised Kang Xiuwan as she got dressed. “I don’t feel that much pain anymore.”

“The medicine contains painkilling medicinal herbs. It is normal to not feel pain. As long as you apply the medicine every day like I instructed, you will be better in no time,” explained Zhao Chuchu as she put her things away. “I am going to check on your mother- Where is her courtyard?”

“Let me take you there!”

“No. We will alert the other members of the Kang clan if we do so. I don’t wish for anyone to know that I am here. Just tell me which direction it is in.” Kang Xiuwan knew Zhao Chuchu was right. Currently, her status in the Kang clan was even lower than that of a servant.

If she went to see her mother in the middle of the night, people who had yet to go to sleep would find fault with her.

“Chuchu, could you come back later and tell me how my mother is doing?”

“Alright. You’d better rest first. Close the doors and windows properly. When I return, I will knock on the window six times. I will give light and heavy knocks alternatively.”

“Alright.”

After Zhao Chuchu finished with her instructions, she left, holding her small medicine box.

Xia Chengxuan’s courtyard was actually close to Kang Xiuwan’s own. They were both located in a secluded corner of the Kang clan residence.

Xia Chengxuan’s house was even more dilapidated than Kang Xiuwan’s. It was most likely worse than the servant’s quarters.

There was only a night shift nanny in the courtyard.

The nanny was already asleep, completely ignoring Xia Chengxuan who was constantly moaning in pain in the house.

Zhao Chuchu made the night shift nanny sleep even more soundly. Even thunder would not wake her at that moment.

Xia Chengxuan’s room smelled awful.

It seemed that her room was also her toilet, and the servants had been slacking. They did not clean the house at all.

Zhao Chuchu frowned. She endured the smell and approached the bed.

Xia Chengxuan was sweating profusely. Her face was pale, and she was unconscious. However, she kept moaning in pain. One could imagine how she was severely injured.

Once Zhao Chuchu touched her forehead, she discovered Xia Chengxuan was having a high fever.

If Zhao Chuchu did not treat her in time, she would die soon.

Although Zhao Chuchu had said before that she would not save Xia Chengxuan again, the latter had never done anything that disgusted her. At least Xia Chengxuan did not sell her out to the Xia clan or the Kang clan to secure her position.

Whatever drove her to make this choice, Zhao Chuchu appreciated it.

She would consider saving Xia Chengxuan’s life as helping Kang Xiuwan.

Zhao Chuchu found some clean clothes from the wardrobe and helped Xia Chengxuan change into them. She carefully inspected the latter’s body and injected some antipyretics according to her condition.

She had no choice but to do so. Xia Chengxuan’s fever was too severe.

If her fever was not brought down, it would bring about irreversible damage.

By then, aside from her broken ribs, even her brain would be damaged.

She was lucky enough to have lasted a whole day and night.

Zhao Chuchu once again activated her power and reconnected Xia Chengxuan’s ribs. She applied medicine to the latter’s remaining external injuries.

After she finished applying the medicine, Xia Chengxuan gradually regained consciousness.

When she saw Zhao Chuchu, Xia Chengxuan thought that she was already dead. Otherwise, how could she possibly be seeing her?

“Thank you for coming,” mumbled Xia Chengxuan. Her lips were cracked from the fever, so her voice was very weak. She continued, “I am glad that I could see you after I died. When I go to hell, I can at least meet your mother with my head held high.”

Zhao Chuchu’s hearing was good, so she managed to hear what Xia Chengxuan said.

“You are not dead yet,” said Zhao Chuchu in a low voice. She poured a glass of cold water for Xia Chengxuan to drink. “Your daughter begged me to come and save you.”

Xia Chengxuan drank the water. When she regained her strength, she could not help but smile and say, “She can barely take care of herself. How did she beg you to come?”

“If you turned me in, you would not have suffered like this. Why didn’t you?” asked Zhao Chuchu.

“I did not know it was useless before, but I later realized it. Be it the Xia clan or the Kang clan, both only sought to use me. Even if I turned you in, they would have dealt with me with similar methods eventually. Since it would end the same, I decided to sin less. I don’t wish for Wanwan to disown me.

No matter how soft and selfish Xia Chengxuan was, she loved her own daughter the most. She was willing to do anything for her.

Although she was foolish, she was not a complete fool yet.

Just based on this, Zhao Chuchu was willing to save her again.

“Chuchu, stay away from both the Xia clan and the Kang clan. They will only seek to use you!” said Xia Chengxuan as she grabbed Zhao Chuchu’s hand. “If you can, help Wanwan leave the Kang clan. It is all my fault!”

After seeing her husband beat Kang Xiuwan up so cruelly, Xia Chengxuan finally realized that she could not protect her daughter even if she used the power as Kang Liang’s head wife.

In the Kang clan, Kang Liang’s word was law.

If Kang Liang treated her and her daughter as people, they were people. If he didn’t, they were beneath a servant!

Xia Chengxuan could endure anything. The only thing that she could not endure was seeing her daughter being treated in such a manner by the latter’s own father!

If she actually died one day, she did not dare to imagine how her daughter would end up!

“Why do you claim that you are at fault?”

“Back then, I should have listened to your mother and not married into the

Kang clan, but I…”

“My mother?”

“Chuchu, Xia Chenglan is actually not your mother. That was just the name that your mother used for a long time. Xia Chenglan is another person.”

Xia Chengxuan must have believed that she was dead, so she was rambling about the past affairs of the Xia clan with Zhao Chuchu.

It was almost the same as what Xie Heng had told her, but there were more details.

Xia Chenglan eloped many years ago and never returned.

However, Xia Songquan did not forsake her and even secretly sent her money.

The mother of the original owner of this body was Xia Xiaoxiao. She was actually the sister of Xia Songquan and Xia Chengxuan’s paternal aunt!

“I didn’t know about these affairs. After I returned from Yuanjiang County and made a trip to the Xia clan, I unintentionally overheard my father and butler talking about this. Only then did I find out about your mother’s past.” As she spoke, tears began to flow down Xia Chengxuan’s face.

Zhao Chuchu did not say anything for a while.

The mother of the original owner of this body had already passed away many years ago.

Her birth was not something she had control over. During her earlier life, she was held in the palm of her family’s hands. Later on, she fell from grace. Even after she encountered the father of the original owner of this body, she felt that the stain of her past could not be erased for the rest of her life.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have kept using the name Xia Chenglan and died of depression at a young age.

The Xia clan had treated her too cruelly, surpassing what a woman of this era could handle.

The dead could not be brought back to life. Zhao Chuchu wondered if anyone regretted treating Xia Xiaoxiao in such a fashion.

Xia Xiaoxiao might have wished for herself to never have been born.

“Chuchu, your mother was a good person. I have never told anyone about this, but I believe that you and your mother did nothing wrong. Even if you have to face the Xia clan in the end, you are justified in turning them down. The Xia clan is not worthy of having such a good woman like you.”

“Alright.”

“I am too tired. Tell Wanwan that I cannot see her get married….”