The Stunning Mad Empress: The Useless Third Miss - Chapter 1

On the shimmering surface of the lake, several luxurious painted barges encircled a few smaller boats. Aboard the vessels, several men were doing everything they could to submerge a woman dressed in a pink floral dress into the water.

“Quick, push her down! Drown her! Hurry up! Hurry up! You lot, be more efficient!”

“Can’t a bunch of grown men handle a fool? Huh! What a joke. You two, jump in and help!”

“Hahaha, Miss Third of the Xiao family won’t survive today. Who did she have to provoke? She had to provoke the most outstanding Miss First of the Xiao family!”

“Xiao Qingcheng is only named after the beauty of ‘Qiancheng.’ Look at her disgusting face. Even if Miss First of the Xiao family didn’t target her today, she would still end up being thrown to the dogs by the Xiao family sooner or later!”

“Right! Hahaha…”

The chaotic voices kept pouring into her mind. In the lake, Xiao Qingcheng felt dizzy and disoriented.

She had gone out alone on a mission and encountered a massive tsunami while flying over a sea area. Her plane crashed, and she fell into the sea. She only remembered desperately grabbing every second to transmit the crucial intelligence to the headquarters’ mainframe. So, she simply didn’t have time to escape.

But where were the rustling sounds coming from now?

Clamping her lips shut, Xiao Qingcheng felt her lungs filled with water. No matter what the situation was, if she didn’t resist now, she would really die.

Thinking this, Xiao Qingcheng suddenly mobilized all her strength, pedaled water with her feet, and swiftly leaped out of the water. Then, in that fleeting moment, she firmly grasped the bow of the boat on her right side with both hands.

“Quick! The wretch is out of the water! You lot of good-for-nothings, don’t you dare kick her back in!”

Not far away, a sharp roar made Xiao Qingcheng involuntarily look in that direction.

The lake was vast and the wind was strong. On the luxurious barge, like a pearl on the water, a woman dressed in silk and satin was looking at her with arrogance and contempt. Her eyes were filled with hatred, disdain, and scorn…

And around the woman were many young men and women. Judging by their attire, they were ancient people, all of whom were either rich or noble.

“Little wretch, go down!”

Suddenly, a ferocious man lunged at the bow of the boat.

Xiao Qingcheng dodged instinctively.

“Plunk!” A sound was heard.

The man who lunged fell into the lake.

“Quick! You lot, rush over and drown this waste directly! Hurry up! Hurry! Never let her get to the shore!”

The woman on the painted barge shouted anxiously at the guards on the boat next to Xiao Qingcheng.

This shout brought Xiao Qingcheng, who was stunned, back to her senses.

Ignoring the men who wanted to kill her, Xiao Qingcheng, who had caught her breath, swam like a fish in the water, with a flexible posture and agile movements, and flipped into the water. Without thinking, Xiao Qingcheng immediately turned around and swiftly headed towards the shore.

No matter what the situation was, she had to get to the shore first.

The guards behind her were stunned to see that Xiao Qingcheng could actually swim. After recovering, several guards exchanged glances and then directly held daggers and quickly swam towards Xiao Qingcheng. Feeling the water waves behind her, Xiao Qingcheng sneered. She quickly took off the outer skirt that was entangled around her body. Holding one end of the skirt, she swung it hard backward, directly pulling the nearest guard over and strangling him to death. Her movements were clean and efficient, without any hesitation. The other guards were stunned by Xiao Qingcheng’s actions. Taking advantage of their momentary distraction, Xiao Qingcheng quickly dealt with these guards in the same manner and then swiftly headed towards the shore. The moment she leaped out of the water again, Xiao Qingcheng took a deep breath and felt her head splitting with pain, as if it had been hit hard. Her mind began to flash with memories that did not belong to her.

Xiao Qingcheng, the third miss of the Xiao family’s collateral branch in the Xianfu Xiao family on the Phoenix Singing Continent, was a joke in the Xiao family under the Xianfu, known for her foolishness, weakness, and ugliness since childhood. At the age of seven, her mother died in a fire after being mistaken for a witch due to her illness. Her father then married a stepmother, who brought two older sisters into the Xiao family and began a life of arbitrary abuse and bullying.

Today was a play deliberately arranged by Miss First of the Xiao family. The purpose was to drown the original host in the lake in front of a group of noble sons. After integrating this extremely tragic memory, a cold gleam flashed in Xiao Qingcheng’s deep eyes.

“You lot of good-for-nothings, can’t even kill a fool. What use are you to me? Come on, someone, drag her into the water, quickly!” Hearing this, Xiao Qingcheng turned her head sharply and glared at the woman on the painted barge. Her eyes were so sharp and cold that Xiao Qingxue, who met her gaze, was stunned.

“How dare this fool look at me like that? Looking for death!”

Enraged, Xiao Qingxue grabbed a sword from a guard beside her and threw it fiercely at Xiao Qingcheng, who was more than ten meters away. Xiao Qingcheng dodged just in time. Glancing at the cold sword that had buried itself halfway into the ground beside her, she forced herself to suppress the urge to kill. With her current skills, it wouldn’t be difficult to seriously injure Xiao Qingxue, but killing her wouldn’t be easy. Moreover… there were still many accounts unsettled between them!

“Quickly! Get to the shore! I want to kill her! Kill her!”

Xiao Qingxue shouted at the guards beside her. The guard replied awkwardly, “Miss First, the bet can only be on the lake. If Miss Third gets to the shore, we can’t make a move anymore.”

“Slap!” A slap. The guard who spoke was slapped away.

“What kind of third miss is she? Just a fool, with an extremely ugly face. You good-for-nothing, how dare you compare that wretch Xiao Qingcheng with me?”

With that, Xiao Qingxue gathered her energy and leaped towards the shore. At this moment, Xiao Qingcheng, who had already climbed ashore, turned her head sharply and looked at Xiao Qingxue in mid-air.

The figure was graceful and ethereal, with a white dress fluttering like a fairy. Her face was beautiful and transcendent, and her momentum was fierce and intimidating. Compared to the fairy-like Xiao Qingxue flying over, Xiao Qingcheng, who was lying on the ground, was extremely disheveled. Her dark, sallow face was very haggard, and her yellow, split hair was wet and sticking to her back. Her thin hands tightly held the torn pink dress, and her light pink underwear was soaked with water.

“Xiao Qingcheng, today I will get rid of you, this good-for-nothing, for the Xiao family.”

Xiao Qingxue stood above Xiao Qingcheng with a condescending look, raised her hand, and gathered her internal energy, preparing to give Xiao Qingcheng a palm to the chest.

Xiao Qingcheng’s lowered eyes were full of coldness, and the corners of her mouth slightly curled up with an ambiguous arc. The next second, a dirty hand quickly grabbed the pure white skirt of Xiao Qingxue: “Wow! What a white skirt! What a white skirt!”