I tell fortunes for NPCs in a horror game

My name is Ning Xi, and a stream is a stream of water. My aunt always told me that it is my father's love for me that flows slowly like a stream.

But later I realized, what kind of love is that? Those were all aunt's lies.

Xi means to ridicule. That was the name given by my mother, and my father never objected.

It’s just because according to legend, my aunt crawled into bed while my mother was pregnant and gave birth to me.

My aunt died when I was six years old. Before she died, she looked at me and said, "I shouldn't have given birth to you."

At that time, there were more concubines and concubines in the house, and my father's lie about crawling into bed had long been exposed, but my mother always felt that if my aunt had not set the precedent, others would not have the courage. Therefore, even if there are many concubines and concubines, my aunt and I are still a thorn in my mother’s side and a thorn in my flesh.

I don’t know if my aunt said that because she felt that I had brought her suffering, or because she didn’t want me to suffer in this world.

After my aunt died, I never got an answer.

No one would go against the wishes of my father and mother and treat me well. I grew up stumbling in the house. On the day I got my haircut, I sneaked out of the house, thinking about how to spend the twenty coins I had saved to celebrate myself.

Unexpectedly, I met a young man on the road who didn't have any money. I lent him ten coins. He looked me up and down and asked me, "Which family are you from?"

I was afraid that other people would know that I had slipped out and run away in a panic.

It would be three days before I saw him again.

I was still doing laundry that day, and the nun who was in charge next to my mother suddenly broke into my apartment and scolded the maid nearby to quickly change my clothes.

I was dragged into the room by them. I couldn't find any new clothes in the closet. In the end, my grandma sent someone to the nearby seventh sister's room to get some regular clothes. But her figure is plumper than mine, and her clothes look so spacious on me.

I was pushed on the way to the flower hall, and my mother-in-law sternly told me: "As a concubine of the Ning family, you should know what can and cannot be said. If the master's family is lonely, no one will look down upon it. One look at you.”

I couldn't understand what grandma was saying, but I could feel that she was instinctively wary of me, so I subconsciously responded.

It wasn't until I saw that strange yet familiar man in the flower hall that I realized why everyone felt so threatened.

I don’t know how they negotiated before I arrived. My mother looked at me and smiled, but I couldn’t resist trembling.

Her eyes suddenly turned cold, and her smile did not reach her eyes: "Since Mr. Lu kindly invites you, let Xixi accompany you."

I was stunned. This was the first time I saw someone make my mother feel embarrassed.

The young man turned his head to me and smiled lightly: "What are you doing standing here? Why don't you come with me?"

I followed him in a daze outside the flower hall. As soon as my legs crossed the threshold, I carefully turned my head and saw my mother staring at us with a dark expression. I was so frightened that I turned around and followed the man in front of me, not daring to take another look.

He also prepared a carriage, and while we were sitting in it, he said to me: "I have to thank you very much for what happened in the past few days, otherwise I would have made a fool of myself."

What made a fool of himself? The identity of a person who can be treated with respect by his mother must not be simple.

I knew from the first time I met him that he was extraordinarily handsome. I also knew from his demeanor and dress that he was not someone I could imagine. I helped him pay because I just happened to have some money and I didn’t know where to spend it.

I remained silent and didn't speak, and he didn't care. It seemed that he didn't bring me out just to let me relieve his boredom.

Later I found out that his name was Lu Yuan and he was the eldest son of General Weiyuan's Mansion. He was a man who held the heart of countless women.

He often came to the house to take me out and introduce me to his friends.

He said: "Ning Mansion treats you harshly. If this can make them pay more attention to you, that is always good."

He also said: "May you be in peace and joy."

I am very grateful to him. Indeed, because of his relationship, my father and mother have a different attitude towards me. However, they used to be indifferent to me, but now they always have considerations, as if they are calculating the price at which they can sell me.

However, within a year, all the preferential treatment I received was gone.

Because Lu Yuan was admitted as the top scholar in martial arts, and even more because the emperor granted him a marriage to the eldest princess.

Some people say it was because the eldest princess fell in love with Lu Yuan at first sight.

On the day when the marriage decree was issued, my mother removed all the maids and things that I had added to my house. My mother-in-law, who was watching the people moving things, stood at the door of my room and smiled contemptuously at me: "Don't even look at yourself. What kind of thing is he? How can he be worthy of becoming the top scholar in martial arts?"

But the day before, my father was still telling me to "find a way" to get Lu Yuan to marry me, even if it was a concubine.

I sat alone in the empty room all night, my head empty, and I just felt that everything in the world had nothing to do with me.

I just didn't expect that on the day when the eldest princess married Lu Yuan, the dude who didn't deal with Lu Yuan would directly mention me. By the time I found out about this, my father and mother had already packed me up to marry a widower. I was sent away in a hurry with a sedan and a dowry of 50 taels.

In my mother's words: "If it weren't for the fact that you and your aunt have the same virtues, why would the Ning family be so frightened?"

They were afraid that I would offend the eldest princess while I was still in the mansion, but they didn't mention at all that they had fantasized about marrying me into General Weiyuan's mansion.

What parents? But it's all a joke.

It doesn't matter if I get married. Once I get married, I will be far away from home and I don't need to live my life based on anyone else's face.

But on the first day of marriage, I knew I was wrong.

The man pressed me on the bed and seemed to want to tear my body apart. The next day, my mother-in-law said that I was "unruly" and pointed at my nose and scolded me.

They took away my dowry and I seemed to be suffering from a different place.

While my husband was out eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling, my mother-in-law told me what to do. After she spent my dowry, she cursed me day by day, and finally started to take action.

When I couldn't bear it anymore, I went home and asked my father and mother to make the decision for me, even just once. But every time I went there, they were "not in the house." Over time, I understood that after getting married, I should not have anything to do with the Ning House.

My name is Ning Xi, but I am not a young lady from the Ning Mansion.

I learned to accept my fate and went to do laundry and dishes just to earn a little more money to take home so that my husband would beat me less.

Life was hard, but luckily it wasn't that hard once I got used to it.