The Female Lead Decides to Act Wickedly

Chapter 718 - 290 This Time It’s Swindler Again (6)_2

Jia Jing was so badass, he wondered whether he’d simply off the Emperor and proclaim himself the ruler of the world?

Such thoughts made the supreme one in the palace dare to "kill gods when encountering gods, and kill Buddhas when encountering Buddhas."

He Tiantian, though, wasn’t afraid of battling the entire court, but she was here in the Small World to complete a mission, not to wreak havoc and destruction.

So, alchemy was fine, and it was okay to refine elixirs that could cure diseases and save people, but it shouldn’t be too defying of nature.

Otherwise, why would He Tiantian, who was clearly a master capable of refining High-level Treasure Elixirs, insist on making something with side effects?

Student Xiao D: ...That makes so much sense! Truly worthy of being Tiantian!

She always considered problems with such thoroughness, and acted with utmost precision.

Student Xiao D had always been aware that he wasn’t as cautious and thorough as his little friend.

After hearing He Tiantian’s analysis, he grew even more hesitant to interject.

However, he was really bored, and that male lead who had traveled here seemed pretty interesting too, so he kept an eye out.

And indeed, he got to see quite a few good shows—

"The male lead is really smart. He deliberately chose an auspicious day like the seventh of the fourth lunar month, and many people came to Ningguo’s Mansion to pay tribute to Qin Keqing."

Student Xiao D didn’t have saliva, but he still managed to convey an "enthusiastic" gesture.

Without hands or feet to gesture with, the little round body just bobbed up and down, "Our male lead student seized the opportunity to perform a fainting spell in front of everyone."

The young master from the prestigious Duke Mansion, even if he was a Concubine Son, was still a young master.

Fainting in public, appearing weak and pitiful, the guests witnessing this all looked on with varied expressions, buzzing with discussion.

Under such circumstances, regardless of how little Jia She or the Jia family thought of Jia Cong, they had to take proper care of him.

They had to summon a doctor and question the servants, needing to figure out why Jia Cong fainted and what made him cry out he was hungry before fainting.

It was a ridiculous joke indeed.

The opulent and respectable Duke Rong’s Mansion, and the only second son of the lord holding the title, ended up fainting from hunger!

"...He’s publicly hitting the Jia family in the face!"

But He Tiantian slightly shook her head; the male lead’s method was indeed effective, but also rather drastic.

Unless absolutely necessary, it was better not used.

It’s like killing eight hundred enemies at the cost of one thousand of your own.

The entire Jia family, no matter what they were like inside, always cared about face.

Especially Jia She, who was the proudest among them.

Yet here was Jia Cong, fainting from hunger in public and shouting "hungry," if that wasn’t deliberate face-slapping of the Jia family and Jia She.

Naturally, He Tiantian knew that Jia Cong was driven to the edge, wanting to strike back.

But the problem was, such a counterattack was too drastic.

Any discerning person could see that Jia Cong had done this intentionally.

Some might think the boy was young but also shrewd.

But others might think Jia Cong didn’t consider the bigger picture, failing to uphold the family reputation—couldn’t he have just spoken properly to his parents or brother and sister-in-law? Did he have to make a public scene?

Probably the entire Jia family wouldn’t believe Jia Cong had reached his limits and thus desperately caused a scene; they would rather see the child as immature, selfish, and indifferent.

Especially an old swindler like Jia She, who would never sympathize with the suffering of his own son, only seeing him as a "debt-collecting Ghost."

"And our Second Lady Lian probably hates Jia Cong by now!"

Wang Xifeng was extremely competitive, wanting to show off her capability by exhausting herself with a miscarriage if necessary, just to run next door to Ningguo’s Mansion and manage the affairs.

And what happened? Jia Cong fainted at the ancestral hall, and all those female guests witnessed the event seriously.

Wang Xifeng didn’t even need to listen in person, just the thought was enough for her to guess what they would say: "She can’t even manage her own household well, yet she goes meddling in others’ affairs?!"

Exactly, there was Wang Xifeng managing Duke Rong’s Mansion, yet there was Third Master Cong fainting from hunger in the street.

Or rather, being pushed to publicly tear his face off from the Jia family.

As noble families, who wouldn’t know about those complicated inner household affairs?

Jia Cong didn’t seem like a simpleton, he must have known such antics would incite dissatisfaction from parents and elders.

Yet, he still did it, which only meant the Jia family pushed people too far!

A child of five or six years old had to come up with all this, just to survive.

And as the housekeeper, Second Lady Lian, Wang Xifeng certainly couldn’t avoid accountability, perhaps even being suspected: "To secure her own position, she intentionally harassed her half-brother born of a different mother!"

Wang Xifeng: ...Such an injustice, I’m being wronged to death, okay?

In the Jia family, Jia Cong was like an invisible nobody; how could Wang Xifeng, who prided herself on being the lady of the house, care about such a trivial child?