[Edited: 11/20/22]
Translator: LishaChan
Editor: Dom
So uncomfortable… I can’t breathe… help…
“cough…cough…cough…”
Gong Zhuoliang only knew that he was coughing so much to the point his facial features must look really distorted right now. However, he couldn’t care less about his image problem anymore as his chest started to ache so terribly due to his coughing. After that, he breathed very deeply in order to absorb more oxygen so that he could still live.
Gong Zhuoliang couldn’t help cursing in his heart― Just what kind of lifeguard are those guys from that luxury cruise ship? Not only they looked like a fashion model, but all he thought they’d be reliable! He was drowning under the sea for such a long time and he even began to flap his limbs madly just so he could get their attention, yet no one even came to save him! He just sunk!
He wants to complain! He really must complain!
“Save me! Please come and save me!”
“Eldest Young Lady, what’s wrong ah?”
“Oh my god…”
Eldest….. Young Lady?
Gong Zhuoliang, who had regained his breathe, finally returned in his consciousness. As his vision cleared, when he immediately saw a women yelling behind him, Gong Zhuoliang became horrified— He didn’t drown? What about that cruise ship?
Is there anybody out there who could introduce these big aunts in a traditional women’s clothing to him?
“What’s with all these racket? What are you all still doing here? Just quickly take the Eldest Young Lady back to his room!”
With that sudden shriek from a woman, the maidservants immediately surrounded Gong Zhuoliang and hastily carried him back to a room. Gong Zhuoliang just couldn’t help but groan in pain, but in this state, he didn’t want to bother with the pain he’s currently feeling right now. He only stared and blankly watched the overlapping scenery that was happening right in front of him.
There’s a courtyard, a pond, some maidservants wearing ancient attires, and a beautiful middle-aged woman who had a voice comparable to He Dong Shi….. also the ‘Eldest Young Lady’….
Gong Zhuoliang only saw the darkness enveloping his sight before he fell unconscious again.
When he woke up once again, Gong Zhuoliang was already lying on a warm bed. Slowly opening his eyes, he began to look around, and this time, what he saw was a wooden bed posts and then bed curtains .
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As a famous novelist since 1980’s, YY genre is one of his commonly used themes whenever he writes his novels. But unfortunately, while he’s good at writing ‘Fantasy’ stories, he really sucked at ‘Historical’, partially due to his disgust with harem troupes.
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Gong Zhuoliang twisted his body around, trying to rid himself from the quilt around him, but the sounds of his grunting only alarmed the people who were guarding outside, and soon, Gong Zhuoliang heard the sounds of heavy footsteps approaching him, and then the pink bed curtain covering his sight was quickly raised. When he looked up, a big round face, comparable to a pancake, neared him.
“Oh my! My dear Eldest Young Lady, aii
….. It’s already useless! If I were you, I’d rather not waste my energy anymore. If you won’t show mercy on us servants and keep on making things even more difficult for us, how will your mother live peacefully in the future? If you cause more trouble to the Old Master and the Madam, Concubine Wu will never be able to continue living in this place anymore”
The fat maidservant began to look down on Gong Zhuoliang. Her manner of speaking was harsh, her expression was full of disdain, and her two plump arms were crossed onto her chest in an arrogant manner. Seeing her appearance like this, as though a villain is gaining the upper hand, Gong Zhuoliang felt angry. But he still did not dare to offend the behemoth right in front of him, and only closed his eyes, ignoring her rambling, only wondering in his mind how did this all happened.
After the initial panic passed, Gong Zhuoliang’s brain finally recovered. He then remembered traveling to S City. Because he had an autograph event going on there due to the publication of his new book, and it was also for the sake of publicizing his book. Then suddenly, a sponsor gave him a ticket for a luxury cruise, as a result, he did not take a plane going back, and rode the said cruise; experiencing the romance of a single person. But he didn’t expected that he would fall into the sea while he was just watching the scenery on the deck, and then once he finally woke up, he was now that ‘Eldest Young Lady’ who jumped into the pond to commit suicide? Could it be that he really drowned in that way?
“Miss Li-er, is the Eldest Young Lady awake?”
A soft and a tender voice of a female immediately made Gong Zhuoliang’s heart violently trembled. But somehow, it seems like he had heard this voice before, however, there was no such person who sounded like a loli among the people he knew. As a result, Gong Zhuoliang opened his eyes due to curiosity, and looked at the person approaching his bed.
“Ruo Lan…”
A weak yet soft childish voice suddenly sounded his ears, and Gong Zhuoliang was once again became terrified. What is this babyish voice, sounding like the Jiangnan River? Did it actually come from his throat? He honestly hadn’t had a chance to see his own appearance right after falling unconscious then waking up twice, but now he was fully awake. Could it be that he actually became a child?
Wait. More importantly, how could he suddenly call out this beautiful young lady’s name? Gong Zhuoliang then immediately recalled in his memories that not only this girl was an experienced maidservant who had been always serving the Madam, she just also turned fourteen this year. This girl is only one of those few people in this mansion who treats him well.
“It’s Miss Ruo Lan, ah! Wake up, wake up!”
As soon as the fat woman saw the person who came, she immediately stepped back a few steps to make space for the approaching girl, and there was suddenly a cordial smile on her face; looking completely different from before.
“The Madam has something to convey to the Eldest Young Lady. Sister-in-law must’ve been very tired already after such a long tiring day. You can go back first. I will be watching over the Eldest Young Lady”
Ruo Lan did not greet the servant, but only treated her indifferently. After talking and the servant finally left the room, Ruo Lan closed the door again and then walked to Gong Zhuoliang’s bedside with a rather sad expression.
“Second Young Master… Eldest Young Lady, why do you have to bother about that? Even if it’s not for yourself, at least please think about Concubine Wu, ah. Right after knowing that something bad happened to you, Concubine Wu cried so hard”
After removing the quilts tied on Gong Zhuoliang, Ruo Lan helped him sit against the pillow then she sat on the edge of the bed, holding Gong Zhuoliang’s numb arm and kneading it gently for him.
“How is my mother?”
Another word that he just uttered out of nowhere. Gong Zhuoliang instantly pinched the center of his forehead with his other hand while both unfamiliar and familiar images began to show up in his mind. Although some memories were vague, it was enough for Gong Zhuoliang to sort out the life experiences of this poor child that he’s currently possessing…… and it looked really old-fashioned, but this plot will surely be popular to the mass.
This child’s name is somehow the same as his own. In light of what happened to him today, Gong Zhuoliang temporarily classified himself as someone who was condemned to this fate to be in this bizarre world.
According to this child’s memory, Gong Zhuoliang now had an intuitive that the dynasty in this era right now is called the Celestial empire, and the reigning Emperor is Emperor Hongzheng, who is now around 39 years old. Gong Zhuoliang could ascertain that he definitely had not heard about this Emperor to any historical record he knew, but of course, since he’s not quite knowledgeable about the known historical records, he could only roughly determine that he’s certainly in the ancient times!
Then there is the life experience of this child. Thank God this child is an actual boy. His father is the one of richest man in this city, and allegedly, the other family members were mostly Beijing officials, while his birth mother used to be a Guqin player who was once famous back in Jiangnan. Although she’s an untouched prostitute, in the public’s eyes, it doesn’t change the fact that she’s a prostitute. In the she was married to a businessman.
And then there was also a jealous and vicious first wife, so anybody could already imagine how the life of this mother and son goes.
If that’s the case, Gong Zhuoliang, who’s the son of a concubine, yet is also one of the young masters of the Gong family, could have lived peacefully ’till he finally turned into an adult. However, this era is more like the Ming Dynasty.
Homosexuality is a trend, so it became common for rich families to take in male concubines to fill the house, and so, Madam Gong brazenly asked Gong Zhuoliang to be her “daughter”. Her intentions were clearly obvious, and in this era where the first wife had the greatest tyranny in the household, no one in the family dared to oppose her decisions other than the Old Master. About Gong Zhuoliang’s henpecked father….. He couldn’t count on him at all.
“Concubine Wu cried so sadly that she immediately fell asleep after knowing that you were already fine. I went to see her again just now, and I think she should be fine”
Ruo Lan squeezed Gong Zhuoliang’s arm, and when her eyes fell on the young man’s pale and thin face, her nose couldn’t help but redden. The poor second young master, who’s been suffering under the Madam for so many years, has now ended up in this state.
“Ruo Lan…”
Gong Zhuoliang looked down at his own fair little hands that completely resembled chicken claws, and he didn’t know what to say to the little girl in front of him for a while. The memory of this child was still so vague. Although there were so many details, most aren’t coherent.
Gong Zhuoliang remembered that this child had an elder sister, child of the first wife, and is betrothed to the Prefect’s eldest son. It is said that the other party is a sickly child who had been inseparable from medicine and had been chronic invalid since childhood.
The said eldest young master is a premature child, hence ever since then, whenever he was ill, it looked as though he could just die at any moment. As a result, the whole family decided to match him with the daughter of a successful merchant family like the Gong Family, for the sake of good luck. But then just before the wedding could happen, the supposedly bride eloped with her servant.
As a result, in order to escape the punishment, the Gong family decided to pick someone as a substitute for the bride, and this child just happened to resemble his eldest sister so he was naturally chosen.
After that, they’ll only have to wait for the eldest Young Master to die of illness, so even if the child had become a widower, everything had happened according to their plan. In short, even if the life of this child had been thoroughly ruined, his family could still use the prefect’s name for any connections as their ‘relatives’ and as their ‘in-law’s’ and build up their own reputation…. They had really come up with such a good scheme, ah.
Gong Zhuoliang lowered his head to hide the coldness in his eyes. How could he let these bastards get their wish? The child in his memory was kind and filial, but he was forced to death by these relatives. Now that he had come back from the dead, if he didn’t teach them a lesson for the sake of this child, Gong Zhuoliang would totally despise himself.
“Young Lady… Second Young Master! My good Second Young Master, Madam has already permitted Ruo Lan to become your dowry maid. From now on, Ruo Lan will be always by your side and no one would dare to bully you anymore. Back-stepping ten thousand steps, even if you really wanted the green lamp of the ancient Buddha in the future….. it won’t be any worse than the current situation. Please, you have to learn how to accept your situation right now as we can’t do anything about it anymore”
As Ruo Lan said this, she was clenching Gong Zhuoliang’s little hand. Although her eyes were red, she kept her back straight, and her pretty little face is full of stubbornness as if to support Gong Zhuoliang with her own strength.
“Ruo Lan-jie…”
Gong Zhuoliang’s eyes was red as he bit his lips, looking up pitifully at Ruo Lan and trying hard to restrain his instinct of letting go of her hand. God knows where did the strength of this little girl come from. His hands is hurting so much while she’s squeezing him like this!
“Second Young Master… Well, this title can no longer be called in the future… Eldest Young Lady, in short, Ruo Lan will accompany you in the future and no matter where we go, the two of us will live our lives well so please don’t be afraid. Furthermore, don’t call me ‘slave jiejie’ anymore or else people will only keep laughing at you.”
Seeing Gong Zhuoliang’s tears, Ruo Lan immediately released his hand and took out a handkerchief then she gently wiped the corners of Gong Zhuoliang’s eyelids. After that, she put away the handkerchief and sat down again, holding Gong Zhuoliang’s other arm as she slowly massaged it for him again.
“I see, Ruo Lan… I will try not to do anything dangerous again, don’t worry.”
It would be embarrassing for a 26-year-old Gong Zhuoliang to call a 14-year-old girl ‘jie’, however, his affection for this little girl began to soared. Thinking that the actual age of this child should be only around 12 years old at thid moment, Gong Zhuoliang became distressed, and realized that he really might have to continue pretending to be ‘tender’ for now.
In this era of superstition and feudalism, Gong Zhuoliang should never show any trace of abnormality. Once he was regarded as a madman or something, with this small body of his, he will never be able to survive the tortures from his ‘family members’. After he dies, he might just be buried in the mountain.
“Thank goodness… it’s good if you thought about it.”
With Gong Zhuoliang’s assurance, Ruo Lan finally felt relieved. In addition to her second young master’s soft temper, he has also always kept his promises. Right now, everything should be really fine.
“Mnn…”
Due to Ruo Lan’s sincere smile, Gong Zhuoliang also finally showed a smile on his face. But suddenly, a rumbling sound came. Gong Zhuoliang immediately became a little embarrassed as he touched his stomach. He’s actually been feeling hungry for a while now, and right now, it’s making him feel uncomfortable. He seems to have not eaten for a day.
“Madam told me not to deliver meals to you today… so I can only secretly bring some of this to you. Let’s open it first.”
Ruo Lan took out a small oiled paper bag from her pocket before carefully opening it, grabbing a piece of scallion oil pancake inside, and then after wiping the cake then breaking it into small pieces, she fed them to Gong Zhuoliang.
When Gong Zhuoliang finally finished all of it, Ruo Lan carefully wrapped the oiled pancake again and hid them in her arms, making sure that nothing was exposed. She helped Gong Zhuoliang lie down again on the bed. After a while, she switched her expression into indifference again and left the room.
Such a good child, ah.
Gong Zhuoliang was sighing in his heart as he watched Ruo Lan leave. Taking a deep breath, he then began to probe between his legs, and only after a short while did he finally let out a long sigh…. Good, good. Although this boy still has no leg hairs, at least he’s still an actual guy!
(TL/N: to clarify what he’s been doing here, he actually touched his crotch and checked if he had a pillar or not XD )
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New novel! Hoho interesting
thank you for your hard work.
already bookmarked.
Hope the little kid got reincarnated or reborn somewhere else and had a better life..
Same here
He really has a complicated situation here~! Go boy, go!
Thank You for the new chapter (๑°꒵°๑)･*♡
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