The Vicious Female Supporting Character Just Wants to Cuddle with the Heroine - Chapter 6

“Well…” Ning Xin scratched her head, a bit embarrassed. “I’m not very good at needlework.”

“You’re really not. The embroidery of an ordinary eight or nine-year-old girl is better than yours.”

After saying this, Shen Qingzhi picked up a half-finished piece and examined it.

Being told her embroidery was terrible right to her face, Ning Xin was a little awkward. “I hurt my head, so my skills naturally aren’t what they used to be.”

“Well, you probably won’t be able to get married in the future anyway, so this skill is basically useless.”

“That’s true.”

“Do you have any plans for the future?”

Ning Xin looked up and thought for a moment, then said, “I haven’t thought about it yet. To be honest, all I really want to do is eat and wait for death. Sister Shen, how about I become your errand girl and you take care of me? What do you think?”

Ning Xin’s answer was completely unexpected for Shen Qingzhi. Ning Xin’s previous actions had given Shen Qingzhi the misconception that she was full of schemes. “If that’s the case, why didn’t you marry Jiang Sheng?”

“I don’t want to marry him. He can’t promise to only marry me for the rest of his life. With my brain, if he marries another woman who’s not kind, I probably wouldn’t even know how I died. I don’t want to die in the back courtyard.”

Ning Xin knew from watching those palace dramas that if she went in there, she wouldn’t survive three episodes. To live a better life, the right path was to stay away from palace and family intrigue. But the most important reason was that she didn’t want to get married at all.

“You’re a very strange person.”

“So, Sister Shen, how about I become your errand girl?”

Ning Xin blinked her big eyes, looking at Shen Qingzhi, who was also looking at Ning Xin. She was finding it harder and harder to understand this person.

“Even if I’m not the most favored, I’m still the legitimate daughter of a Marquis’s residence. I don’t lack maids to serve me. How would you be my errand girl?”

“I’m not talking about that kind of errand girl. Sister Shen, I want to help you make money. No matter what your plans are for the future, money is always better to have more of, isn’t it?”

“Make money? How do you plan to do that?”

“I have my own tricks up my sleeve. It’s just that I’m a bit short on cash right now. Sister Shen, can I borrow some from you?”

Ning Xin looked at Shen Qingzhi with a hint of nervousness. It was indeed a bit awkward to ask for money when they weren’t very close.

Shen Qingzhi smiled slightly, not finding it strange at all, as she saw Ning Xin as someone who had no sense of personal space. “How much do you want?”

Ning Xin was fiddling with her fingers, but her eyes instantly lit up when she heard Shen Qingzhi’s words. “Two hundred taels!”

“You’re not shy, are you?”

Shen Qingzhi said this, then took a two-hundred-tael silver note from her sleeve and handed it to Ning Xin. “You can do whatever you want with this. If you fail, I won’t ask you to pay it back, but there won’t be a second loan.”

“Okay, okay!”

Ning Xin excitedly took the silver note. Two hundred taels was a large sum of money here. As expected of the heroine, she was so generous to someone who was just going to be an “errand girl.” “Sister, how will you get back later?”

“I’m not going back. It’s not safe to travel at night. I’ll go back tomorrow.”

“Then I’ll go make the bed.”

As a modern person, Ning Xin occasionally shared a bed with friends. She was going to cling to Shen Qingzhi’s leg in the future, so she didn’t see anything wrong with sleeping with her. Although there were other rooms here, Shen Qingzhi had come secretly, and it would be bad if she was discovered, so it was better for her to stay here.

Shen Qingzhi stared blankly as Ning Xin busied herself, feeling a strange sensation in her heart. She had never shared a bed with anyone before. In a family of their status, even concubines had their own rooms.

Ning Xin quickly made the bed and pulled Shen Qingzhi over. “Sister, you must be hungry after a long day. I’ll go get something to eat. You just wait here for me.”

“Okay.”

Although there were servants on this estate, they were different from those in the city. They weren’t accustomed to waiting on their masters because they still had a lot of farm work to do, so most of them went to bed very early. Ning Xin had no intention of putting on airs, so she decided to cook herself. While she wasn’t good at embroidery, she was quite a good cook.

She lit the fire, steamed some rice, and stir-fried two small dishes. In less than half an hour, Ning Xin returned to the room with the food.

When Shen Qingzhi smelled the aroma, her stomach grumbled in perfect sync.

“Sister Shen, come and eat quickly.”

“Okay.”

Ning Xin’s dishes tasted quite good, although they didn’t look very appealing. If Shen Qingzhi hadn’t been so hungry, she wouldn’t have eaten two bowls of rice in one sitting.

Ning Xin had already eaten dinner, so she just had a few bites with Shen Qingzhi and spent the rest of the time watching her. A beauty was a beauty; even eating was a beautiful sight. Ning Xin felt she had the potential to be a star-struck admirer.

“Stop looking at me with that kind of gaze.”

After finishing her meal, Shen Qingzhi put down her bowl and chopsticks and looked at Ning Xin.

Ning Xin came back to her senses and looked away from Shen Qingzhi. “I’ll go take the dishes out.”

With that, she quickly ran away.

Ning Xin had to admit, she was a bit of a coward. Being caught staring at a beauty made her face feel hot. Fortunately, after a quick trip back and forth, her nervousness subsided.

When she returned to the room, Shen Qingzhi had already laid down. Ning Xin saw that Shen Qingzhi was on the outer side of the bed, so she simply climbed into the inner side to lie down. She had never felt anything when she slept with friends before, but now that the person beside her was Shen Qingzhi, she suddenly felt a little nervous. This inexplicable nervousness made her mind uncontrollably excited.

“Aren’t you tired after a long day? Why are you tossing and turning and not sleeping?”

Shen Qingzhi had finally managed to convince herself to lie down, thinking she would get a good night’s sleep. They were both women, so it was no big deal. But the person next to her was restless, preventing her from sleeping.

Ning Xin said awkwardly, “Well, I, well… it’s nothing. I won’t move anymore. I’ll go to sleep.”

This time, Ning Xin was truly obedient. She lay there motionless. She thought it would be difficult to fall asleep like this, but she fell asleep in less than fifteen minutes after she stopped moving.

Shen Qingzhi listened to Ning Xin’s breathing gradually slow and soon fell asleep herself.

When she woke up in the morning, Shen Qingzhi looked at the sleeping Ning Xin beside her, quietly removed the arm Ning Xin had draped over her, and left softly. Her trip out of curiosity this time had been very willful, and she had a lot of things to deal with back home.

When Ning Xin woke up, she saw the empty space beside her and felt a strange sense of loss, but she quickly tidied up her emotions and went out to wash her face and eat.

The old woman on the estate saw the unwashed dishes in the kitchen in the morning and felt very flustered. She stood beside Ning Xin to serve her, not daring to say a word, afraid that the master would get angry and punish her.

Ning Xin didn’t notice any of this, she just said blandly, “Li Niang, I was hungry last night, so I made something to eat myself. Don’t forget to clean up the dishes as well.”

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