Everything in Cloud Reflection Courtyard was more decaying. Weeds sprang up at the corner and on the path. Obviously, no one had been here for a long time. When Ning Xueyan pushed open the door of the master bedroom, the wind blew in and the dust on the floor was stirred up. It had been full of laughter here not long before, but now, no laughter could be heard any more.
She walked into the room and came to the bed. She narrowed her eyes slightly when she pushed away a needle and thread basket.
Obviously, someone had rummaged here carefully. Although that person was cautious, Ning Xueyan still found out.
Because the thin blue thread hanging in front of the needle and thread basket had gone, and the left and right sides of the red thread tied at the back of the basket was no longer completely equal as Ning Ziying had put it on purpose.
Ning Ziying had been so cautious, because her mother had repeatedly reminded her that she shoul
"Third Prince, you're kidding!" Ning Huaiyuan did not know what Ao Mingyu meant, so he had to find a pretext for not answering him directly. "Third Brother, I'm scared! I wondered how you could marry both of the two wonderful girls. At least you should leave one to me! Now I know that you were just joking!" Ao Mingwan said in response to Ao Mingwan's words with a smile and then shifted the topic quietly, "Third Brother, have all the assassins after the party been caught? Our uncle is urging us!" This caused hatred flashing on Ao Mingyu's mild face. He clenched his fists and the look in his eyes turned icy. Ao Mingyu had been too busy recently because some assassins had tried to kill Prince Yi after the imperial banquet and also injured a number of high-rank official's children. Ao Chenyi had killed all the assassins and ordered people to pile up the corps to publicize the assassination's failure. However, he still kept asking Ao Mingyu to ca
"Everything can only be decided by Grandmother? Fourth Sister, what a thorough understanding you have! Grandmother will definitely say that you are more considerate and sensible than before when we meet her later," Ning Xueyan said in a soft voice, her delicate face full of peace and gentleness. Hearing that, Ning Lingyun shivered unconsciously, her face immediately pale. If Madam Dowager could decide everyone's marriage, how could Ning Lingyun be engaged to Princely Heir of Commandery Prince Li? Ning Lingyun realized that if she talked about this in front of Madam Dowager, Madam Dowager would not be happy with her. Maybe Madam Dowager would slap her on the spot and accuse her of hypocrisy. Although Madam Dowager had not found any evidence to improve that Ning Lingyun plotted to engage herself to Princely Heir of Commandery Prince Li, Ning Lingyun knew that what she had done had offended Madam Dowager. After thinking it over, she fell into a
"I'm not talking about you. Why are you thanking me?" Ning Qingshan's smile froze at the words. Being mercilessly mocked by Fourth Prince, Ao Mingwan, she could not even sit calmly. Her face turned pale and she felt both humiliated and angry. Her eyes immediately turned reddish with tears. She did not know why Fourth Prince, who had been sparing no efforts praising her with a look of adoration on his face had suddenly spoken these. How could she stand this? Hearing what Ao Mingwan had said, Ning Qingshan was not the only one to be shocked. Everyone wondered what Fourth Prince meant? Why had he said that he was not talking about Ning Qingshan? Could there be anyone else he was talking about? Ao Mingyu looked at Ao Mingwan silently. His eyes flickered, but he said nothing. Ning Xueyan glanced at Ao Mingwan in confusion, then at Ning Qingshan. She lowered her head again and was ready to wait and see. It was really an
Ning Xueyan pushed away Ao Mingyu's hand and rushed toward Ning Qingshan. "Third Sister, which part did you get injured?" she asked anxiously, crouching down in front of Ning Qingshan. "Third, Third Young Lady, I, I didn't mean to bump into you. I swear I didn't see you coming over," Lanning knelt on the floor and explained nervously, lowering her head. Ning Qingshan covered her shoulder with her hand, her face full of panic. She looked at Ao Mingyu subconsciously and saw that Ao Mingyu was looking at her with thoughtful and grim eyes. Her heart sank. Third Prince had never looked at her with such a cold and suspicious look! "Shan'er, are you okay? Come on! Let me check if you broke your bone!" Seeing that Ning Qingshan could not stand up from the floor for the moment and covered her shoulder with her hand, Madam Dowager was so anxious that she stood up. With Mother Qin's support, she held Mother Qin's hand and was about to come over to Ning
"I have never expected that this little girl would have thought in the same way as I and taken advantage of Ning Qingshan's wound to arouse the others suspicion about her!" Ao Chenyi curved up his lips and a bloodthirsty smile appeared on his face. He put down the note and asked a guard into his room in a lazy voice. A secret guard in black immediately showed up in front of him. He knelt down and said, "Prince Yi!" "It's unnecessary to leak out more news about my favorite concubine. It's enough for now." A relaxed smile appeared on Ao Chenyi's red and thin lips. He had deliberately leaked out some news about his favorite concubine to arouse other people's attention on Third Young Lady. Now what Ning Xueyan had done had successfully caused Ao Mingyu's suspicion about Ning Qingshan. "She coincided with me! I was thinking to arrange carefully to arouse people's suspicion against Ning Qingshan as well. This little gir
Except for Foggy Courtyard's main bedroom, the candles of most courtyard had been put out. A ferocious look had replaced the gentleness and elegance and appeared on Ning Qingshan's face. She gritted her teeth and looked in the direction of Bright Frost Garden, the veins on her forehead swelling. She had had her wound bandaged again. She had not been bumped against too heavily, but because her former injury had not recovered yet, it opened again. She had applied medicine on her wound, which Mammy Luo had secretly brought to her from outside recently. "Mammy, what did Madam Ling say?" Ning Qingshan asked, still looking angry. Thinking about what had happened today, she became even more upset. She grabbed the jade porcelain vase beside her made of Runan County and threw it hard toward the wall, and she still felt it was not enough and wanted to smash more things to vent her anger. She had not only been humiliated in front of people, but had got
"You will die at our manor if you can't escape?" Ning Xueyan repeated what Concubine Ma said, a relaxed smile on her face. "Yes! Third Young Lady's maid, Caifen, promised me that if I could give this jade pendant to you and let you send me out the manor, Third Young Lady would help me to leave the capital and get rid of the hunting from our manor. Besides, she also promised me that she would give me a new identity and the departure certificate..." "And a large sum of money?" Ning Xueyan cut her off and said with a laughter. "Yes, yes! Third Young Lady did promise me that!" Concubine Ma said, trembling a little. "If your life is at stake, money and freedom will mean nothing to you!" Ning Xueyan's eyes turned cold and she satirized Concubine Ma indifferently, "Concubine Ma, are you so confident that Third Sister will let go of you easily? Xia'er of Foggy Courtyard was her henchman, but you know what happened to her. Do you think
"Fifth Young Lady, how dare you help Concubine Ma escape? You're trying to dress her as an ordinary maid and bring her out our manor. How could you... be so unfilial and immoral?" Mammy Luo decided to put things straightforward. She shouted, pointing at a shivering maid in the last row, whose face could not be seen clearly at all. "Concubine Ma?" Ning Qingshan looked like being scared. She stared at Ning Xueyan and murmured, "Impossible! How could that happen? Fifth Sister, Concubine Ma is our father's concubine and everything about her should be decided by our father. You, you know how serious the consequence will be, don't you?" Hearing what she said, the two older female servants following behind Ning Qingshan turned to the maid in the last row and looked at her with gleaming eyes. Concubine Ma's maid had reported that Concubine Ma was missing in the morning. She said that Concubine Ma had been very upset recently and she could not fall asleep at midni