My Lady Always Lacks Ambition

Qin Liuxi walked into the courtyard through the side gate, and Qi Huang, who was sewing her undergarments, stood up. After performing a curtsy, she said, "My lady, you have returned. We have guests at home."

"Hmm? What kind of guests?"

"It’s people from Madam’s maternal home, it seems to be the Housekeeper close to Madam’s mother."

Qin Liuxi thought for a moment before she said, "Prepare a wash for me. I will go and have a look."

As visitors arrived from her legitimate mother’s maternal home, and they were people close to her nominal grandmother, she indeed should make an appearance.

She just didn’t know what kind of attitude the Wang family, her ’maternal home,’ would have now that the Qin family had fallen from grace.

Mrs. Wang was receiving the visitor from her mother’s side. The visitor was several years her senior and had also risen from a Chief Maid to a Housekeeping Lady, married to another Steward from the same mansion, known as Zhang Quan’s Family.

"In the blink of an eye, so many years have passed. It has been a long time since I saw you, Lady, and to see you again now... alas, things remain, but people change," Mrs. Zhang Quan, with her hair twisted into a low bun adorned with a silver hairpin and a gold hairpin, and wearing two small gold earrings, was dressed in a horse-faced skirt, looking decent and clean.

She was a few years older than Mrs. Wang and used to look at her as if looking at a younger sister. Now, seeing her fallen from grace into the mud, dressed in plain cloth, with only a jade hairpin in her hair, and accompanied by just one old nanny, it would have been false to say that it didn’t sadden her heart.

People see the wealth behind the red gates but do not realize that wealth and calamity come hand in hand. The splendid blossoms and brocades collapsing overnight is nothing out of the ordinary.

Just like the Qin family now, fallen so swiftly, without even giving anyone a chance to catch their breath.