Contract Marriage: Love Has Finally Arrived

Of course, Nangong Feifei had simplified the account of the events, believing that Nangong He and Nangong Mingchuan would not be suspicious of her.

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Indeed, for Nangong He, it was completely normal for his granddaughter, in a bad mood and with a bad temper, to scold the maid who had caused her belongings to end up in the swimming pool.

At that moment, Nangong Feifei raised her eyes again, looking at Nangong He and Nangong Mingchuan with a face full of grievance.

"Grandfather, you know I have a bad temper. That necklace was brought from Europe by a friend for me. I just got it today and hadn’t even had a chance to look at it before it ended up in the swimming pool. I only said a few words to her, and maybe she got scared, then suddenly she rushed to the swimming pool, saying she would retrieve it for me."

Upon hearing this, Nangong He indeed did not perceive anything suspicious.

But hearing that the maid had entered the water just to retrieve her necklace, he inevitably frowned, "Feifei, it’s the dead of winter, how could you let Axiu go into the water to fetch your necklace? You know she could have easily drowned."

"I know, I tried to stop her immediately, but it was too late, Axiu had already jumped into the water and even found the necklace. But just as she was holding the necklace, smiling and telling me, she suddenly started struggling in the water. I was terrified, it was so cold, and I was too scared to go into the water to save her, so I went to call for help. By the time we got her out..." Nangong Feifei choked up, sniffing, her face full of sorrow, "the Doctor said she had already died..."

At this point, an older maid couldn’t help but speak up, "Yes, the young mistress even gave Axiu mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and urged us to call emergency services immediately, but when the Doctor arrived, it was too late..."

Axiu had been on good terms with the other maids and had been a good employee of the Nangong Family, so many of the maids were deeply grieved by her death.

Hearing his granddaughter’s words, Nangong He believed that Axiu’s death was undoubtedly an accident, but still couldn’t help but rebuke his granddaughter, "You say you were just looking at a necklace; couldn’t you have done that in your room? Why did you have to go out into the yard? Not to mention how cold it was, it also cost Axiu her life."

For aristocrats like them, the death of a maid didn’t really matter, yet he still reproached her for it.