Zosia: Quick Transmigration System
Chapter 79 - 77- Arc 3

After everyone left the room, the old maids put their hands together to start cleaning the place.

It didn't take long and everything was cleaned and everywhere became neat and sparkling.

From the memory she had gleaned so far, the poison was audaciously sent to her from the Consort who also vies for the Empress position despite the Empress still on seat.

The Consort has her family backing her which is one of the four Duke family. So, even if the Emperor knows, he may not punish her well or even letting her go scott-free.

Unfortunately, she was wrong this time around. The Emperor planned to use it as a fuse to send away is saying it lightly but to deal with some consorts and concubines along with their family.

After the Hot water was boiled and put in a wooden bath tub, she was carefully carried by the youngest of the three old maids. According to the memories, her name is Debrah.

The second youngest is Maritza and the Oldest is Evelyn. Each having their own skill and area of expertise.

Zosia closed her eyes, allowing the old maids to scrub her body clean. Out of embarrassment, she didn't dare look at the face of the maid. She decided to let her mind wander into the original memories from her birth to her death.

Surprisingly the Princess has the same name as Zosia.

Her full name in this world is Princess Zosia Nora McGowan.

Zosia's life story from birth wasn't anything special, but it also didn't lean on the good or average side.

After the first three years of her birth, her mother's care for her waned, leaving jer to the hands of the old maids.

The old maids were sent by different consorts with different missions to her but those consorts didn't last long.

The oldest being Evelyn was threatened with her family to kill Zosia but after finding out that her family had already been killed, she leaked the news of the Consort fornicating and she was beheaded and her family members demoted and some investigated.

So she became free and seeing how the Princess was alone she took on the role to care for her.

The second one being Maritza entered Zosia's place when she just turned 5. At that age, she was very mischievous and kept playing pranks to see her mother but as usual, things didn't go as planned and she ended up endangering another princess.

At first Zosia who was going through the memories felt that nothing was wrong until she calmed down to go through that part again.

What was a Princess doing in her deserted courtyard? It could only be something that had been preplanned. The mother of the other princess complained to the emperor for her to be punished, but the emperor didn't agree.

Feeling stifled, she looked for ways to deal with Zosia but since Zosia stopped coming out of learning with her other siblings, she couldn't get her.

As for Maritza, she had discovered some things that she shouldn't know and the Consort using the style of sending the old maid to her and then kill Maritza in secret while using it to tarnish Zosia's reputation. Unfortunately, her brother whom she had to execute the task was caught and her family was already being investigated for tax embezzlement. Her actions caused the ire of the emperor and she became another beheaded consort.

It didn't last long, the Empress sent away all the younger maids leaving only the two old maids. At first she wanted to send everyone away but knowing it might dent her reputation she left only just those two.

At Age 6, the Harem was in turmoil as some people who hadn't been visited by the emperor before were suddenly diagnosed with pregnancy. It wouldn't take much for an idiot to know that something was fishy.

The Empress took on the task and many of them lost their heads and their family in disgrace. Most of their personal maids were also investigated and those who were free were reassigned.

The third old maid being Debrah decided to come here after so many dissuasion. And that's how the three old maids came about.

Due to their help, even if Zosia couldn't learn from any tutor, they taught her what they knew, from embroidery to sewing, cooking, washing, gardening and household management.

Zosia has always been grateful to them. She thought her life would continue peacefully but she was poisoned.

While everyone was still sleeping in, she heard a knock on the door and was met with a maid holding a basket.

"Princess, the Empress asked me to give you this. She said she is sorry for having neglected you, but unfortunately she can't come as she will be having a brother for you soon."

Zosia at first was surprised but didn't believe it.

She wanted to send the maid away but caught a glimpse of her mother— the Empress imperial token.

"You said my mother sent you?"

"Yes Princess. Aish, princess you don't need to doubt me. My name is Sime... Your mother calls me Little Sime. So you can also call me that."

"Then, why did you come so early?" Zosia clear eyes stared into the maids shrewd own.

The maids eyes flashed with guilt and pity. She pities the small child, but it's what she has to pay for being born into the royal family.

"The Princess should ease understand the Empress. She can't come as if anyone sees you two being closer, you would start being bullied again.

She can only make up in secret like this. Besides, today is your birthday."

Zosia frowned feeling that something isn't right. She doesn't know her mother that well and her little brain couldn't think that far.

Nodding her head she accepted the food box. Knowing it's wrong to open a gift given to you in front of the person, she bid the maid bye and entered inside.

Placing the box on the table, she opened it. Her eyes widened at the familiar pastries and the sweet scent of food. Most of them were ones she no longer ate as the allocation of resources towards her courtyard is small.

She ate all of them with gusto. By the time she was done, she felt guilty that she didn't keep some for the aunties to have a taste.

Standing up, she intended to wash everything when she was assaulted with bouts of pain.

Sigh!

"Princess what are you thinking?" The maid who was bathing her interrupted the memory she was viewing, bringing her back to reality.

Zosia didn't answer, her hand reaching for her neck as she softly touched her throat.

The old woman sighed. She felt stupid for asking. How could she ask someone who had just gone through such an ordeal and could no longer speak, a question.

Her eyes filled up with tears as she gazed at the princess. She blamed herself for being useless and unable to help the princess.

Clenching her jaw she whimpered and increased her pace in bathing the princess.

Zosia did not react, closing her eyes back, she continued with the memories.

The original owner of the body was shocked when she realized she had been poisoned.

Today was her birthday and instead of her mother celebrating it for her or ignoring her like she used to, she was poisoned.

Weeds of hatred gnawed on her heart, tears lke fountains flowed from her eyes. Her screams woke up the old maids who rushed to attend to her.

For three days, she faced such agony. Her mother never came to visit her during that period.

She could only writh, cry and scream in pain. She wanted to live, she wanted to survive.

She told herself if she could survive, forget revenge, she only wanted to get stronger. Stronger that whatever schemes plotted against her would not be possible. As she continued being in pain the wish changed. She wanted revenge but a lot of revenge would make the world blind, as how Evelyn had taught her.

She remembered what the maid who had brought the poisoned basket had said. Her words ringing continuously in her mind.

"Princess, the Empress asked me to give you this. She said she is sorry for having neglected you, but unfortunately she can't come as she will be having a brother for you soon."

The brother she had yet to see, she started hating him. Feeling that he was the cause of her pain.

If her mother could not have the son, would she still be allowed to live. At a point, she began despising her thoughts.

She could only think of the fact that it's because she is weak, that's why her mind keeps having demeaning thoughts about her own existence.

She hates it. She wants to survive and be someone that her existence is glorified and talked about.

She did not know if it's because of her will. She survived and it was then just like today, her parents came to see her.

The diagnosis was the same. But the reactions were different.

The original owner was stunned when she heard she no longer had a womb and can never be with someone due to her body being a poison vat or the fact that she lost her voice.

She could no longer speak and her face was beyond hideous. She tried all sorts of ways to return to her beauty but she couldn't.

The thoughts she she didn't want to have before, she slowly drowned in it, completely losing her self-worth which she felt there was none in the first place.

Her life continued with being bullied and her maids being assassinated yet she couldn't find out the truth or who sent them.

Slowly she was also being neglected , only her Emperor father tried to bring her together but in her eyes, all of it was just hypocrisy.

She didn't believe in him and couldn't wait to disappear if they were in the same room.

She hated him and her mother with everything in her. Even though she later found out that the poisoning was the work of a consort who was going toe to toe with the Empress.

Before she died, she heard when the Empress and her so-called brother were planning on poisoning the Emperor.

Thinking of all the things that her father tried to do for her even to the extent of being called a tyrant by beheading those who bullied her, she decided to save him.

If that was the only good thing she could do, she would die happily.

She drank the poison meant for the emperor which ended up disrupting the ecobalnce formed already in her body, she died a painful death.

She didn't know what happened next but she suddenly found herself in a foggy place. The mist wasn't something she could see through, so she stood in place unable to decide her next action in such an unfamiliar place.

It was then she heard a voice asking her what she could offer in exchange for being counterattacked for.

She had nothing to offer and everything she could offer all amounted to only being able to wish for one thing.

And that thing; is to survive.

Even if she had to give up her soul, she wants to survive.

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