The life swap begins with Consort Hua becoming Lady Qin.

Wang Ruo interrupted him sharply.

Sheng Hong was taken aback by her question and instinctively felt a little guilty. However, looking at Wang Ruoyu, who was becoming increasingly ferocious, he couldn't help but recall Lin Qinshuang holding the book, looking delicate, timid, and gentle.

"What do you mean, 'with whom'? Don't try to evade the question—"

He still couldn't finish his sentence.

Wang Ruoyu pounced on him, reaching out to scratch his face: "It's that little bitch Lin Qinshuang's scent! You were with her just now? Sheng Hong, I'm carrying your child, and I even went to my parents' house to ask for a job for you, and you turn around and snuggle up with that little bitch! How could you do this to me!"

Before Sheng Hong could react, she scratched a bloody mark on his face, leaving him both shocked and furious.

He instinctively wanted to push her away, but when he thought of Wang Ruoyu's pregnancy, he didn't dare to fight back and could only retreat awkwardly to avoid her.

"Don't talk nonsense! You may have no shame, but I do. Shuang is an innocent young lady, not even engaged yet. Let's keep things separate. I was talking to you about the New Year's gifts and letters, and you brought up other things, but why drag this into it!"

"Don't I have any shame?"

Wang Ruoyu was enraged, her voice growing increasingly shrill: "How could I be as shameless as you! Your first wife is pregnant, and you're already flirting with the girl raised by your stepmother. You dared to have an affair in broad daylight, you even have her scent on you! What did you just do?!"

Her eyes were fierce, as if she wanted to tear Sheng Hong to pieces: "Sheng Hong, let me tell you, if you're involved with anyone else, I can tolerate it. But if you dare to get involved with someone like Lin Qinshuang, the lowest of the low, and use her to slap me in the face, believe me, I'll make sure you suffer eternal damnation!"

As she spoke, she actually reached out to lift the small tea stove on the table.

Upon seeing this, Sheng Hong was so frightened that he almost lost his soul.

If that boiling water were actually splashed on you, you'd be half dead, if not dead.

He turned and ran out, rushing out the door in a disheveled state, not forgetting to throw down the words, "Incomprehensible!"

Wang Ruoyu was so angry that her chest heaved violently, and she had to hold onto the table to keep herself from falling.

A short while later, a woman in her thirties rushed in and asked anxiously, "Young lady, what's wrong?"

This is Qi's mother.

However, it was not the old Lady Qi who used to be by the Queen Mother's side, but her niece who shared the same surname and was Wang Ruoyu's confidante who had accompanied her to the Kang family in her previous life.

The two had supported each other for decades, but in this life, she had only recently been taken from the Wang family by Wang Ruoyu.

Wang Ruo's eyes flashed fiercely: "Just a clueless little vixen. She's courting death by daring to mess with me. If I don't teach her a lesson, she'll really think I'm some kind of bodhisattva in a temple, someone she can manipulate at will."

Mother Qi's heart skipped a beat: "What does the young lady want?"

Wang Ruo waved to her and whispered a few instructions.

The more Qi's mother listened, the paler her face became.

"This..." she said with a look of surprise and uncertainty, "I'm afraid this won't work."

Wang Ruoyu glared at her, intending to scold her for becoming so timid and cowardly, but when her gaze fell on Qi's mother's still youthful face, she suddenly remembered that Qi's mother in this life had only been by her side for a short time.

In the end, she was still the same Qi Mama from her previous life, who had been scheming against her in the inner quarters of the Kang family for nearly ten years and had witnessed countless storms.

No wonder they can't even remember the process for this kind of thing.

"What's there to be afraid of?" Wang Ruoyu said coldly, "All the suffering and hardship she's endured is her own doing. There are so many men in the world, yet she chose to seduce me. Of all the times, she had to choose when I was pregnant. If I don't teach her a lesson, how will she know fear? How will she know who she should mess with and who she shouldn't?"

Qi's mother was still feeling uneasy.

She felt a chill run down her spine, especially when she heard Wang Ruoyu so familiarly telling her where to look for people, what to say to start the conversation, and how to make it seem like an accident.

How did the girls who had lived in Dengzhou for a long time meet people from that kind of place?

They even knew the secret codes for connecting the doors perfectly...

But she was ultimately Wang Ruoyu's woman.

Seeing Wang Ruoyu's increasingly cold gaze, Mama Qi could only lower her head and agree, "This servant...this servant will go and do it right away."

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After returning to the house, Lin Qinshuang gently closed the door.

She took a clean handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped the covers of the books several times. She also unfolded the pages one by one and deliberately laid them out in the sunlight by the window for a while to let the scent of perfume on them dissipate as quickly as possible.

Once she was sure the fragrance had faded considerably, she put the book away and placed it on the dressing table.

The position is perfect, right next to the incense box.

In this way, even if someone does investigate, there will be an explanation.

At the same time, she deliberately sent away the maidservant that Xu had sent to serve her, gently instructing her that she wanted to be alone for a while, and asked the maidservant to bring Fang Mama over in half an hour to get today's patterns.

The maidservant withdrew as instructed.

After the room quieted down, Lin Qinshuang looked around and began to slowly pack her things.

She put all the sharp objects on the table into the box, and temporarily moved the ornaments that could break and injure people into the cabinet.

Only some light and harmless items remained in the room.

But thinking of Wang Ruo's fierce appearance, she felt that she couldn't just sit and wait for her fate.

After hesitating for a moment, Lin Qinshuang took out a particularly sharp hairpin from her dressing case and hid it in her belt, just in case.

After finishing all this, she took a deep breath and sat back down in front of the embroidery frame.

She picked up her embroidery and began stitching carefully, one stitch at a time.

But my mind was always on the doorway.

Waiting for that figure who might appear at any moment to settle scores with her.