13 First Strike Back

Shang Qing finished talking and loosed her grip. Shang Qianqian felt her legs go weak and she collapsed onto the floor.

Her face was all white, and when she looked back up at Shang Qing, she suddenly felt fear in her heart.

When she thought about the police and what the Fengs could do, she became terribly anxious and didn't say any more, instead of escaping up the stairs.

Shang Qing originally intended to go back to her own room, but then she suddenly smelled something delicious in the kitchen and realized that she hadn't eaten much at Feng Manor earlier, plus she went through so much the night before and she was starving now. She made a turn towards the kitchen and saw two maids preparing snacks for tea.

"I'm hungry" Shang Qing leaned against the door and suddenly spoke, startling the two maids who were chatting with each other. She didn't wait for their response and continued, "Prepare some food and send it to my room."

Shang Qianqian had told all the servants to leave the living room earlier, so nobody saw how Shang Qing treated Shang Qianqian earlier. So when they heard her give instructions like this, they all thought she had gone mad.

Unfortunately, she turned and left before they could even react, and they missed their chance to mock her.

One of the maids threw her gloves on the kitchen top and said angrily, "Can't she see that we're very busy? Does she really think she's the Eldest Young Mistress now?"

The older maid replied, "What does it matter? Isn't there a bit of food leftover from lunch? Just pour a bit of soy sauce on it and send it upstairs. She eats anything anyway"

She said this mockingly because Shang Qing of the past never dared to be picky about her food.

Of course, Shang Qing had no idea what they were talking about downstairs because she was looking at herself in the mirror, feeling rather strange.

She was still young and tender at eighteen, and even though her thick fringe covered half her face, she still looked fairly sweet.

She combed all her hair back and tied it into a high ponytail, revealing her clean forehead and exquisite eyes.

Looking back at the transformed young lady in the mirror, she laughed to herself and thought that she didn't look too bad at all.

She used to really hate this straight cut fringe because it got into her eyes, but she didn't dare to change her hairstyle because her stepmother had said that it looked nice on her. But did it really look nice? Lin Yishu was just afraid that Shang Qing would steal the limelight from Shang Qianqian.

Just then, someone knocked on the door. When Shang Qing opened the door, there was nobody outside, but there was half a bowl of leftover rice with some preserved beans and soy sauce left on the floor, and nothing else.

She couldn't help but laugh piteously at herself What sort of life did she use to lead, she thought, a life where she couldn't even get to eat warm food.

Everybody said the school canteen food was awful, but she thought it was delicious compared to the terrible things she ate at home. When her father wasn't home, she wasn't even allowed to sit at the table. The things she had to eat in a dark corner were possibly even worse than what the security guard's dog ate!

If it were her old self, she would have happily eaten everything because she was hungry. But now she knew that if she ate this without saying a word, what she would get in return was not the reputation of being humble and content, instead, she would be mocked at for being lowly and desperate!

She picked up the bowl and went downstairs and saw that the living room was filled with delicious treats and a fresh cup of Ceylon tea. It seemed like Lin Yishu had just returned home and was all dressed up, anxiously waiting for someone to arrive.

The servants pretended not to see Shang Qing and continued to mind their own business. Shang Qing held up the bowl of food in her hands and walked right up to Lin Yishu.

Lin Yishu was anxiously trying to settle matters for her daughter! Earlier Shang Qianqian had phoned her and said the Fengs would continue to investigate what happened the night before and would definitely force the two men to tell the truth. Li Yishu was nearly driven mad with worries, so she had invited someone who could help to have cups of tea at her house.

Seeing Shang Qing appear in front of her at this time made her so furious!

Shang Qing is lucky that I don't kill her. How dare she appears in front of me so boldly? Does she think she is still in the Fengs' house?

Lin Yishu raised a finely plucked eyebrow and laughed coldly, "Oh look who we have here, isn't this the Eldest Young Mistress of the Shangs? You were so amazing last night! Why are you here to continue putting on this cool act?"

Suddenly she realized that Shang Qing had combed her fringe up, and was still wearing last night's dress from the Fengs. She looked completely different and Lin Yishu's expression changed.

"Who allowed you to comb all your hair up! You're dressed so provocatively at such a young age, who are you trying to seduce huh?"

Shang Qing stood by the sofa and listened to her calmly. Lin Yishu always behaved very differently at home from what she was in public, and Shang Qing had heard things way worse than this when she was younger.

Shang Qing laughed as she turned the bowl in her hands. "Auntie, is my father on the verge of bankruptcy? I'm the Eldest Young Mistress of the Shang family and I have to eat this sort of crap? If we're really so poor, then we shouldn't hire so many servants to pretend we're still rich, just fire some of them."

Her sarcastic tone of voice shocked the servants busying themselves in the living room. But none of them panicked because, in this house, Shang Qing's words were never taken seriously.

Lin Yishu saw that Shang Qing ignored her words and became even angrier. But when she saw the food in Shang Qing's bowl, her mood improved instantly. "Why? Can't eat this? There are many out there with no food to eat you know? Who are you? You're lucky to even have food to eat, and you still want to be picky?"

Li Yishu's cheekbones were very high and they made her look mean when she smiled.

"At the end of the day you'ree an uncultured swine! So you think you've got wings to fly now huh? Even if you don't want to eat this, you have to eat it! Otherwise, forget about having food to eat from now on!"

Shang Qing looked at all the servants standing by the side watching this show and all the delicious food on the coffee table, and suddenly she felt like challenging her stepmother.

"What if I refuse?"

Refuse?

Lin Yishu was stunned for a moment, but then her carefully made-up face immediately turned threatening.

"You little punk! You've grown wings and really want to fly huh? Auntie Zhang! Auntie Li! Eldest Young Mistress here refuses to eat! Shove the food down her throat right now!"

The two maids mentioned were more than happy to do this — Shang Qing was behaving weirdly today, and they were already annoyed. This was their chance to teach her a lesson, see if she still dared to talk about firing them!

"No need." Shang Qing unexpectedly stopped them.

Lin Yishu thought that Shang Qing was finally scared, and smiled knowingly. She knew it, no matter how much Shang Qing had changed, deep down she was still a useless coward!

So she sat down and crossed her legs, sneering, "Then eat it now! Eat it here in front of me! After you finish you'd better lick the bowl clean and make sure you don't leave a single grain of rice behind! Otherwise, forget about eating anymore!"

Shang Qing didn't look the slightest bit angry when she heard this, and asked gently, "It's too much for me, what do I do if I can't finish it?"

Before Lin Yishu could react, Shang Qing reached out and dumped the contents of the bowl on Lin Yishu's head.

She cackled spitefully and said, "So... please eat it for me, Auntie."

"ARGHHHHH!"

The rice and sauce got all over Lin Yishu. She jumped up from her chair and screeched, "Shang Qing! Have you lost your mind?!"