Chapter 1.2: Nothing has been useful.

When Ye Xia regained consciousness again, she was much calmer than before as she observed the surrounding with her dull looking eyes. She noticed that there was lesser of a crowd than the first time she opened her eyes in the new life. But the man that previously proclaimed himself as the body owner’s grandfather was nowhere to be seen now.

When the people had noticed that she has woke up, they smiled in relief and confirmed with the old man that exclaimed himself as a doctor about the young master condition.They asked to be permitted themselves to leave the room so that they could report to their master. Meanwhile, an old man that exclaimed himself as a doctor sat next to her bed and checked her pulse.

Once he was done, he said that everything was fine and her inner qi wasn’t disturbed, which she didn’t understand what he meant by the qi. After he said that he has prescribed some herbal tea leaves for nerve relaxation, she retrieved her hand and he bowed asking to be permitted to leave. She didn’t want to hold back anyone in her room hence allowed the doctor to leave. A male servant guided the doctor to the door and they exited the room.

Eventually, in her room was left with only her and a girl wearing dull color yellow traditional hanfu. She held her wrist and frowned. “I initially wanted to wish that this was nothing but a dream...” was her original thought but, when she had pinched her right wrist while the doctor was checking her other hand’s pulse, the pain made her realized that this was the reality.

Therefore, she had no choice but to admit that everything that happened earlier till now was real and she would have to live her new life in this world as a young master. And that was the main problem. “How could a female live as a male? I would be exposed immediately”, furthermore, she has no clue about everything related to the previous owner of the body’s personality at all. When that came to her mind, she immediately faced her head upward and looked around. She saw the girl was standing next to her all along the time she had daydreaming, she held the girl’s hand and simultaneously asked.

“You know who I am, don’t you?”

Facing with a man’s serious face while asking a question and exude an intimidating aura as if it was his death or life matter, the girl nodded vigorously. Ye Xia ordered her to sit down on the chair next to her but the girl refused with her eyes all teary and said while kowtowing many times next to the bed, “This servant was nothing but a mere slave that have been managing your clothes for five years, therefore, I must decline young master’s offer. Please allow this servant to stand.”

Ye Xia of the past life was also a rich person, so she had servants and such. But, this kind of act from a servant when she gave a measly order which was to sit on a chair… she instantly flabbergasted. She had never seen them anywhere except the Chinese historical drama. She had secretly thought that the director of the drama was making up about the servant’s attitude towards the empress and the emperor’s concubine, but now, she has seen it right in front of her. Somehow, the servant attitude stirred something quite pleasing in her heart. [How sadist…]

She perked her ears when she heard someone was mocking her, and on spontaneous reaction, she shouted, “Who said that?”

She looked around and only saw that the girl tilting her head looking confused. She clearly heard a male voice next to her ear, but who? After a while she had not received any response from the voice, she decided to let it go and focused back to the girl. She allowed the girl to stand while talking to her. Before allowing the girl to talk to her, she asked for the girl’s name.

Soon after Ye Xia asked, the girl tilted her head toward the other direction and had her mouth opened like a small o alphabet. She had no idea why her master kept asking her question, therefore asked back to Ye Xia “Was young master asking the questions as to test this servant?” then, before Ye Xia even able to reply her question, the servant went closer to Ye Xia’s face and with both her hand energetically pull inward to her body, she spouting confidently in front of her master, “Young master, don’t worry, Qiuyue is Qiuyue! No one can replace me!”.

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The young master that she tried to convince blinked twice with a dumb expression not knowing what to response in this situation. After a while, there still wasn’t any response coming from her young master, Qiuyue faced Ye Xia in the eyes and calling out, “Young master?”. Three black line popped out next to Ye Xia’s forehead and simultaneously she pushed the servant’s head without thinking much. Qiuyue had no time to react when she suddenly felt a force and saw a shadow coming fast from her right side, she ended up fall on the floor with her butt landed first.

She screamed out in pain and cried, “Young master, I apologize… I know my mistakes, please don’t punish me.” Ye Xia felt annoyed when the girl had appeared right in front of her face while she realized something important, so, she pushed her away from her sight.

That important thing was that the grandfather of this body hasn’t reacted the way she thought he would when she woke up as the new Ye Xia. After all, the first thing she blurted out after she had opened her eyes was “Who are you?” to him. With no recollection of any sort of memories from the new life, she decided to go for amnesia act but the old man decided to not make the issue big and seemingly insisted on it before leaving her room with an angry face.

Before she able to figure out the reason behind it, she realized another thing. The old man that she spoke of was actually the master of the house. If she actually dared to make anyone noticed that she was actually having amnesia, what would her punishment be? In her wild imagination, she shook her head as she begged while crying like a flowing river at the imaginary grandfather, “No, please no. I have yet to enjoy the new world’s candies.” Without realizing it, Ye Xia’s face has made many expression. From frowning deeply into thinking, eyes, and mouth wide opened, to a pale deathly colored skin and wide opened eyes and mouth. She also clueless that Qiuyue was grinning to ear while staring at her face and kneeling on the floor.

Later on, after fighting with her own imagination, Ye Xia ended up with a drastic method to ensure her second life. She turned her face to her right and saw Qiuyue was staring straight into her face. Once again, she felt annoyed and landed a chop on the girl’s head. Qiuyue cried softly as she held the part of her head that was swollen.

Ye Xia sighed heavily when the servant finally had a good manner. She talked in a soft voice but couldn’t hide the masculine within it as she explained carefully to Qiuyue, “you were here previously when grandfather was here, aren’t you?”. Qiuyue thought carefully and nodded. Ye Xia continued with an emotionless expression, “You should have heard that I asked grandfather for his identity, and he was angry at the doctor and demanded an explanation. Girl, why do you think the reason behind all this?”

The girl hummed as she thought the reason for a long time. Out of a sudden, she cried out as if noticing something, “Ah!” then short due later, she sobbing and cried out loud as her limb went soft on the floor, “Young master~ Why are you so pitiful?~ Why are your life so sad?~ Young master, Qiuyue felt awful~”. Ye Xia’s fretted as she worried about others hearing the loud cry and found out about her condition, she immediately trying to comfort the girl to stop crying. She never experienced comforting someone before. She even failed at comforting herself, but she had to stop the loud crying from reaching the outside or she wouldn’t even dare to think of the consequences.

At last, she knocked the girl forehead with her head and shouted, “shut up!”.

Qiuyue held her forehead and stunned by her master’s action. Her mouth opened and she had a blank expression on the surface, she only able to say “ young master...” when she was abruptly cut by her master’s intimidating aura. Ye Xia took a breath in and in few second later, she start to... nag. In a non-stopping pace, Ye Xia forgot about the cautious she had and scared Qiuyue until she couldn’t focus on what Ye Xia’s said and lastly fainted. “Useless servant! I only asked you to tell me who I am, my identity but you go crying out loud. Are you trying to call in the ghost or cursing me to my death! I am stressed by this life already but you went and messed up my mind, do you even know what I felt when I became a man when I was purely a woman! Hey, get up! You haven’t heard me enough! Qiuyue!”

Nothing has been useful and Ye Xia ended up wasting her time because of the useless servant.