Substitute Bride Phoenix, The Tyrant's Pampered Demon Empress

Chu Qingchuan had a bitter look on her face through her whole meal. She ate until she was half full, before she put her chopsticks down and stopped eating.

Sui’er didn’t care whether Chu Qingchuan was full yet, and wasted no time in tidying the plates up when she saw that she had stopped eating. “Concubine Ninety-Nine, I’ll be leaving momentarily. I’ll return to wait on you later,” she said with a smile.

Chu Qingchuan sighed sorrowfully, then watched the silhouette of Sui’er’s back whilst she hurriedly left. She felt nothing but envy. Chu Qingchuan felt simply devastated, and so she lay sprawled across the table and sobbed. “Wahhh wahhh…”

After crying for a while Chu Qingchuan looked up with her bloodshot eyes and sniffled. She covered her forehead and furrowed her brows, as she seriously thought about how to run away.

After thinking about it for a long while, she didn’t manage to come up with a plan. In the end, she sighed expectantly. “If only the Master and Madam of the castle suddenly imploded…”

After about half an hour, Sui’er opened the door and stepped inside. She noticed that Chu Qingchuan’s eyebrows were furrowed and she was mulling something over, so she walked up to her and asked, “Concubine Ninety-Nine, have you come up with a good plan?”

 Chu Qingchuan lay sprawled on the table with the back of her hands supporting her chin. “I haven’t come up with a good plan. If only I was like you. That way, I could…”

Chu Qingchuan’s head suddenly bolted up, and there was a glint in her eyes. “How about I beg the master to make me a maid?”

Sui’er slightly creased her eyebrows and thought about it for a moment, but didn’t say a word.

“Is there a rule in the house rules that say concubines can’t become maids?” Chu Qingchuan asked with eyes wide open.

Sui’er thought about it for a moment, then softly shook her head. “I haven’t seen this house rule.”

Chu Qingchuan’s smile spread, as she felt even more delighted. “I’ll find time to go beg the master to make me a maid. That way, I can eat exotic foods. Who knows? I might use the opportunity to run away.”

Sui’er looked at Chu Qingchuan as if to say she was far too naive. “Concubine Ninety-Nine, just forget it. The master definitely won’t agree to make you a maid, and even if he did, according to the rules, you’ll have to sell yourself. By then, if the madam wanted to crush you to death, it would be easier than stomping an ant to death. Now, do you still want to be a maid?”

Chu Qingchuan suddenly came to the same realization and immediately shook her head. “Then, what should I do? Can I give someone else my title? I can pay ten thousand taels- No! One hundred thousand taels even!” She said with a pained look on her face.

Sui’er smiled and replied, “Concubine Ninety-Nine, just accept your fate. You can’t leave this place. It’d be more practical to use this time to learn the house rules.”

All Chu Qingchuan felt was a splitting headache when she looked over at the book of house rules nearby. Sprawled upon the table, the expression on her face looked as if she wanted to cry but the tears would come out. “I don’t want to. If I memorize anymore, I’ll definitely go crazy.”

“Alright, don’t. Then, you should just wait for the madam to punish you. Who’s to say you whether the madam will execute you,” Sui’er said coldly.

Chu Qingchuan finally ended up crying in fear by what Sui’er said. “Wahhh wahhh… Why is the madam so evil?”

“Concubine Ninety-Nine, don’t tell you’re not either?” Sui’er exclaimed in disbelief.

Chu Qingchuan thought about her past, then replied in a glum voice. “Well I am pretty evil. I’ve done quite a few evil things in an attempt to marry the man I love, but I’ve never succeeded even once.”

Sui’er smiled faintly. “So Concubine Ninety-Nine, please don’t call the madam evil anymore. In actual fact, you are more or less the same but your evil doings are not as brilliant as hers.”

Chu Qingchuan thought about it and agreed that she was, in fact, right. Within seconds, she said with all seriousness, “I’ll never harm another person ever again, but that’s if I even survive.”