Empress’ Game: Make-up Master Chapter 6 - Testing the Blade

Muffled sounds came from Wu Jinghua’s mouth. Gradually, she could not breathe, but she also could not push Wu Sheyue away.

After they remained deadlocked for a long while, she finally swallowed it. Only when Wu Sheyue felt her throat move did she let go. Wu Jinghua immediately threw herself to the side and began vomiting wildly.

Wu Sheyue looked at the plate. There were still three flies left. If she fed all of them to Wu Jinghua, the mourning hall would smell even worse…

Wu Jinghua vomited violently. Wu Sheyue stood beside her and silently waited for her to finish.

After a long while, Wu Jinghua finally stopped with difficulty. The red makeup on her lips had all been vomited away.

She turned back, pointed hysterically at Wu Sheyue’s nose, and shouted

“You! You actually dared-”

Wu Sheyue put on an innocent expression.

“What did I do? Second Sister brought delicious food. I only wanted Second Sister to eat some too.”

“That was a fly! You can’t even tell the difference between a fly and food, you fool! You deserve to eat bugs your whole life! You and Yin Qiuming both deserve to die-”

In a fury after being forced to eat a fly, Wu Jinghua jumped and cursed viciously, completely losing the graceful young-lady manner she had shown earlier.

Wu Sheyue interrupted her.

“Oh. So Second Sister knows that was a bug. You admitted it in front of my mother. Aren’t you afraid my mother will come settle accounts with you tonight?”

Hearing this, Wu Jinghua finally sensed that Wu Sheyue might not be foolish at all anymore. But she had clearly been foolish for so many years. If she really were not foolish, she should have resisted long ago. How could she have endured for so long? No. This was definitely wrong.

“You… you wait…”

Wu Jinghua pointed at Wu Sheyue.

“If you dare treat me like this, Grandmother won’t let you off! You’re done!” As she spoke, she stamped her foot and was about to leave.

“Where is Second Sister going?”

Wu Sheyue blocked the doorway.

“Second Sister often brings delicious food for me. I’m extremely grateful. Second Sister, please eat with me too.”

She suddenly saw that Wu Sheyue was still holding the chopsticks. At some point, she had caught another fly.

Wu Jinghua abruptly stepped back and shouted with disgust and rage,

“Get away from me! You ugly freak! You fool! Don’t touch me!”

Wu Sheyue suddenly closed in, one foot stepping between Wu Jinghua’s feet. Seeing Wu Sheyue’s face enlarge in front of her, Wu Jinghua fearfully retreated a step, tripped, and fell to the ground. Her head struck the edge of the coffin hard, and she cried out in pain.

Wu Sheyue bent down. The fingers of her left hand moved swiftly toward Wu Jinghua’s throat.
Wu Jinghua gagged from the pressure point and let out a loud cry, and Wu Sheyue sent the second fly into her mouth.

After eating two flies in a row, Wu Jinghua abruptly turned and lay face-down on the ground. She dry-heaved while crawling to the side, her pale clothing covered in ash. Wu Sheyue stepped hard on her back, threw away the chopsticks, and casually picked up the sour-smelling plate beside the coffin.

“Second Sister, don’t rush. These are all yours. You need to eat slowly. Eat every last bit.”

It took half an hour before Wu Sheyue finally fed every bit of it to Wu Jinghua. No matter how much Wu Jinghua vomited during the process, Wu Sheyue showed no mercy.

When Wu Jinghua finally left the West Courtyard mourning hall, she was covered in filth and vomit. A sour, rotten smell surrounded her, and she nearly cried and vomited the whole way back.

Wu Sheyue remained in the mourning hall, keeping vigil. She waved her hand in front of her nose.

The surroundings quieted again. Wu Sheyue thought of what Wu Jinghua had said earlier. This body had been treated that way before. It was truly disgusting. It seemed that if she wanted to survive properly in this body, there was still a hard fight ahead.

She turned to look at Lady Yin’s memorial tablet. In her heart, she thought, See? I told you I would treat this body well.

No, it was not an illusion. She felt the smell in the mourning hall gradually fading.

Wu Jinghua staggered back to her own courtyard, completely drained. As soon as she entered, the young male servants and maids could not help covering their noses with their hands. After realizing it was their own Second Miss, they awkwardly lowered their hands and forced themselves not to breathe.

Her second-rank maid Qinglian cried out in alarm and ran over.

“Second Miss! What happened to you?”

Wu Jinghua glared at her and cursed,
“Do you think I didn’t see you covering your nose? Get lost!”

Qinglian stopped in embarrassment and retreated. In her heart, she muttered, Fine, I’ll get lost. Getting lost is better anyway, so I don’t have to smell that stench on you.

“Heavens!”

Concubine Meng heard the shouting in the courtyard and came out. When she saw Wu Jinghua, she was so shocked her beautiful face lost all color.

“Mother…”

As soon as Wu Jinghua saw her, she suddenly sobbed and threw herself toward Concubine Meng.

“Oh, my Daughter!”

Concubine Meng hurriedly dodged, even stretching out one hand to keep Wu Jinghua from throwing herself at her again.

She shouted loudly,

“Go bathe first! Qinglian! Bring water! Bring water!”

Only after pushing Wu Jinghua into the inner room to bathe did Concubine Meng, still shaken, call Chuntao over.

“Tell me. Where did Second Miss come back from?”

Chuntao felt inexplicably guilty and lowered her head.

“Second Miss went to the West Courtyard mourning hall just now to see Third Miss.”

To see Wu Sheyue? Then it must have been a young lady from another courtyard who had done
this.

“Who went with her?”

“This servant does not know. Miss did not let this servant follow.”

Chuntao raised her eyes and glanced at Concubine Meng, then said,

“This servant feels that Third Miss was not right today.
This servant was also beaten by Third Miss for no reason.”

(To be continued)