Reborn, I Faked My Death

[The Lofty Grand Commandant vs. the Lowly Maid Who’s Little More Than Dirt]

The Xie clan is both the foremost aristocratic family and a pillar of the Great Liang dynasty. Its clan head, Xie Li, is also the Grand Commandant of Great Liang.

As a youth, he used his father and elder brother to eliminate political rivals. Later, he went alone to the battlefield and drove back the northern Di Rong with a miraculous technique and the power of thunder.

Some say Grand Commandant Xie is graceful and handsome, silent and composed before the court, and so perceptive that his judgments seem divine: a true gentleman.

Others say he draws a mighty bow, rides a fierce steed, commands troops on the battlefield, and is unstoppable: a true hero.

But only Lan Meng knows that the dignified, serene Grand Commandant admired by all is a bloodthirsty madman who kills without mercy and has no humanity.

In her previous life, Lan Meng was the maid assigned to serve as a bedchamber companion to the Seventh Young Master Xie. Knowing she was as lowly as dirt, she served him diligently every day and did everything she could to please him.

By day, the Old Madam made her kneel as punishment for seducing the head of the household. At night, she was trapped in bed and tormented.

She thought that if she obediently stayed until she was old and no longer beautiful, she could take her valuables and run away. Instead, the principal wife tied a rock to her and threw her down a well.

Reborn, she avoided that man every day.

But while playing with a puppy in the courtyard, she overheard the man insulting the emperor.

To save her life, Lan Meng could only bark like a dog and run away.

But a few days later, the man had her pinned beneath him on the couch.

“You’re pretty good at barking. Let me hear you do it a couple of times.”

Later, she ran away from him. She wanted to enjoy the freedom and far horizons she’d been denied in both her lives.

But four years later, Great Liang’s territory had expanded north under Xie Li’s control.

When Xie Li saw Lan Meng again, he said hoarsely,

“I’m pretty good at barking now, too. Want to hear?”