I woke up as the Villainous Empress

30 Punished? Who? (V)

Chang Ah’s face turned scarlet in outrage when she heard Yang Ning’s brazen words. She wants to punish her maid in front of her?

Hah!

‘Has this girl lost her mind? Is she trying to pick a fight with her?’

Punishing her maid in front of everyone means looking down on her and challenging her authority in the household.

Until now, nobody dared to point a finger against Xing Bao, not only because she is the Head Maid of the Yang Household but also because she is the personal maid of Chang Ah, who has come to the Yang Household along with her in dowry after the marriage.

Because of this reason, Yang Ning had silently borne the insults that Xing Bao has thrown at her until now as she did not want to create a ridge between her and Chang Ah, who controls all the actions of Yang Luoyang behind the doors of their bedroom. 𝒇𝑟𝐞𝐞w𝐞𝑏𝙣𝑜vℯl.co𝑚

But that was Yang Ning, and she is not. Yang Ning dealt with these people by staying silent and always trying to prevent the moment of conflict, but she will not do that.

Why? Because she is not going to spend her whole life being stuck in a novel. She will find a way to get out of here, back to her world.

So the time she is going to be in this world, she will enjoy it to the fullest and will help the original Yang Ning as much as possible to avoid her miserable doom. That’s the only favor she can do for her as her admirer.

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” Yang Ning! Are you looking down on your mother in front of everyone just because I do not belong from an aristocratic background?” Chang Ah whimpered in a shaking voice.

Since she doesn’t belong to a noble family, she had a hard time adjusting to the elite society of the nobles and the aristocrats when she married Yang Luoyang.

After marrying him, she finally got to experience the life that she wanted, but she never got to fit in it. She has always been and still is treated as an outsider in the society of nobles.

That’s why she hates Yang Ning so much because she is perfect in all aspects. From the looks to her manners and elegance, everything screams pure grace and nobleness.

Yang Ning glanced at Chang Ah in amusement and wanted to applaud her imagination. She still believes that the whole world revolves around her.

Her maid has mistreated Yang Ning for years and she did nothing to stop her, instead, she encouraged her to torture her even more.

When it’s her time for her to pay them back for what she did to her all these years, she suddenly turned into a bad daughter? Great!

” Mother, How can I dare to do something outrageous? You are the Mistress of Yang Household, who can dare to look down on you?” Yang Ning’s honey-coated words caused Chang Ah to stare at her in puzzlement as she was not expecting her to react in such a polite manner.

” Also, if the Head Maid is innocent and has not committed any crime, then there is no need for her to be scared of me. Because if I fail to support my accusations with the evidence, I will gladly accept the well-deserving punishment and will apologize to the Head Maid and you as well.” Yang Ning added, shutting the mouth of Chang Ah, who was trying to trap Yang Ning in her disrespecting the mother trap again.

However, this time she is not going to succeed. Not at all. Because Yang Ning has the ace card hidden in her hands.

It’s going to be an interesting reveal game.

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” Alright. If you show the evidence against the Head Maid, I will allow you to punish her as you want. As the eldest daughter of the Yang Household, you deserve this much authority. Go ahead and show me what kind of evidence you have to prove your claims. ” Yang Luoyang, who was silent all this while announced apathetically, which caused Chang Ah to stare at him in disbelief.

How can he not take her side but agree to Yang Ning’s absurd request? ” Lord!” Chang Ah called him out in a low voice but her words fell on deaf ears.

Yang Ning smirked to see Yang Luoyang ignoring Chang Ah and wanted to laugh out loud and applaud to celebrate this historical moment but it’s not possible, is it?

In the end, she cleared her throat to avoid laughing and giggling and took a deep breath to wear her poker face expression agaTord, In order to verify if I am speaking the truth or not, I would like to request an official search of the Head Maid’s room. Because if she has stolen something from my chamber, her room is the only place where she can hide the item.”

” Are you sure? What if they failed to find any stolen item from her room? What will you do then?” Yang Luoyang asked as he looked at her with his cold-suspicious gaze.

Yang Ning was his daughter but there was no warmth in his eyes towards her. As if she is some stranger.

” Then as promised earlier, I will happily accept my punishment and will apologize to both the Head Maid and Mother for the inconvenience.” Yang Ning replied while staring into Yang Luoyang’s eyes.

There is no way she is going to lose this stare down battle.

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While Yang Luoyang and Yang Ning were busy in their stare down battle, Chang Ah sneakily turned towards Xing Bao and asked her without uttering a single word. Because their eyes were doing all the talking.

Chang Ah: [ Did yly steal anything from her? What item is she talking about?]

Xing Bao, who was kneeling on the ground was similarly troubled as well. She shook her head and answered with her eyes.

Xing Bao: [ I did not steal anything, not in the last few days. I do not know what evidence she is talking about.]

Seeing the dubiety in Xing Bao’s eyes, Chang Ah was sure that Yang Ning was simply bluffing and playing mind games with her and she has no evidence up to her sleeves.

How can she find evidence when there is nothing from the start?

” My Lord, Yang Ning is right. To reveal the truth, we must do as Yang Ning says.” Chang Ah turned to Yang Luoyang and smiled at him while supporting the idea of Yang Ning.

As said this, she turned to the other maids in the room and said, ” You three! You will go to Xing Bao’s room and check every corner meticulously and search if she has any stolen item in her room.”

” Yes, Madam!” The three maids bowed in courtesy and answered in unison. Just as they were about to leave the room, Yang Ning interrupted them.

” STOP. You three, go back to your positions and stand still. You cannot go anywhere.” Yang Ning ordered them, halting them in their steps.

” Yang Ning, what are you doing? Are you defying my orders now?” Chang Ah, who was speaking to her in a sweet voice only in front of Yang Luoyang burst out in rage when Yang Ning cut off her commands and stopped the maids from leaving the study room.

Yang Luoyang glanced at Chang Ah in surprise but did not say anything to her in front of Yang Ning. Because this time, Yang Ning was at fault.

How can she overstep her boundaries and interrupt her mother’s commands?

” What do you think you are doing? Didn’t you request an official search to find the evidence in Xing Bao’s room? Are you taking back what you said earlier? Huh?” Chang Ah interrogated Yang Ning as she wanted her to admit her defeat already.

Because later she will be humiliated badly if they did not find any evidence from Xing Bao’s room. Chang Ah smiled gleefully.

” Mother, How can I defy your words? However, I requested the official search which is supposed to be carried out by the guards who serve Father and not the maids.”

“Because if the maids carry out the search, there are chances that they might try to hide the truth since they work under the Head Maid and might not be as genuine as the guards.” Yang Ning responded to Chang Ah’s forced accusations.

Upon hearing Yang Ning’s words, Chang Ah’s face turned pale as she was not expecting Yang Ning to see through her plan. The maids that she was sending to search the room, work under Xing Bao and have a very close relationship with her.

There is no way they will bring the evidence with them even if they find anything in the room. In the end, Yang Ning would be proven to be lying and would be punished severely.

However, how can she see through her plan like this?

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