Considering his past friendship with the Leng family, Xiller decided to personally escort Leng Yiyao home. As soon as he stepped out of the car, he noticed the servants rushing around the villa, their faces filled with anxiety.
The housekeeper, with his long beard, was busy directing people to move various items around, randomly selecting one or two priceless treasures. He seemed so preoccupied that he didn’t even react upon seeing Xiller and their second young lady standing at the door. It wasn’t until Xiller’s confidante, the white-robed brother, coughed that the housekeeper realized his mistake.
His face turned pale, and he took a deep breath before rushing over to Xiller: “Apologies… the master has urgent matters today, and I was so busy that I failed to notice you…” He apologized in a low voice, carefully observing Xiller’s expression, afraid of being blamed.
Xiller hadn’t thought much of a housekeeper rushing over to apologize before, but now he found it strange that the housekeeper treated the second young lady as if she were transparent and instead rushed over to explain to him.
He remembered that Leng Yiyao’s eldest sister had always claimed that she was doted on by everyone in the family. Furthermore, Leng Yiyao had run away from home without informing anyone. Now that she had returned, why hadn’t the butler of the Leng family reacted accordingly?
Xiller’s expression looked peculiar. When he had visited the Leng family home before, the whole family hadn’t treated Leng Yiyao like this. Either they were intentionally putting on a show, or they were dissatisfied with her actions and had instructed the servants to act indifferent and put on a cold front.
He felt uncertain, but Leng Yiyao suddenly waved her hand: “Didn’t my sister fall ill because of me? Let’s go check on her.”
With a sweeping gesture, she appeared magnanimous, seemingly unconcerned that the housekeeper ignored her as if she were wallpaper. Instead, she raised her innocent-looking face and smiled at everyone.
“Crash!—”
The two servants responsible for carrying the coral sculpture were startled by her smile. Their hands shook with fear, causing the huge sea coral sculpture to fall to the ground, breaking off half of its corner in an instant.
The housekeeper was shocked, ignoring the strange feelings stirring in his heart. He could only look at the broken artwork on the ground with a pained expression, nearly having a heart attack. It was a masterpiece specially flown in from abroad! Now it was broken, how could it be replaced!
“I, I didn’t mean it.” The two servants immediately became frightened and started
trembling from head to toe, staring desperately at the broken debris on the ground.
“Not mean it? I tell you, even if I sell the both of you, it won’t be worth a fraction of
the price! I will get the whip now and decide how to punish you when Master
comes back!” The butler looked at both of them with a sneer, his face
expressionless.
“It was obviously the Second lady who suddenly laughed at us…” One of them
muttered in a ‘neither high, nor low’ voice, and knelt on the ground motionless.
Most aristocrats in D city still maintained the hierarchy and class rule. To punish the
slaves and subordinates at home, whipping was the most commonly used method.
Heheh, after being punished, if you were dragged outside to the yard for a few hours,
your life would be gone. Even if you reported it to the official, it was because you
couldn’t withstand the punishment and it was none of the owner’s concern.
The other servants suddenly dared not say anything. In an instant, the entire villa
was so cold that it seemed frozen.
“What’s going on? Why is there so much noise in the house?” At that moment, a delicate and dignified female voice suddenly came from the second floor—
