Chapter 590   I Never Want You to Be My Princess

“Qiu Huan, Commandery Princess Xianyun’s maid, hit the wall and killed herself?” Ning Xueyan looked at Eunuch Zhu, astounded.

“Yes, it happened just now. Princess Yun sent a servant here to report, but I didn’t see her,” Eunuch Zhu answered respectfully. Ao Chenyi sat at the table, leaned back against the back of the chair, showed a little meaningful coldness, but didn’t say anything.

“Why did she end her life by hitting the wall?” Ning Xueyan had to ask further.

“I heard that it is related to Second Young Lady Yun’s matter. It seems that such a thing happened to the second young lady because of Qiu Huan’s instigation, but I don’t know the detail. That maid coming to report trembled and didn’t say it clearly.”

Ning Xueyan was speechless. She really felt quite speechless. Last time, Yun Luoluo’s case had ended up with Xiangrong’s death; this time, Yun Luoluo’s case had made Qiu Huan dead. The two maids Commandery Princess Xianyun had brought here had all been used as scapegoats, but she, Commandery Princess Xianyun, was still pure and innocent, knowing nothing.

“She used to be very gentle and demure, didn’t she?” Ning Xueyan sighed. It was unknown whether these words were said for Ao Chenyi to hear or for herself to hear.

“She did it just for others to see. She thinks she has quite a distinguished status, and she is also ambitious. When plotting against others, she never thought about what the words ‘one has to reap what he has sown’ mean. When she can’t bear the setback, she becomes crazy.” Ao Chenyi put an ice-cold smile on his lips and waved his hand to Eunuch Zhu, saying, “Go. Since she wants to see me, bring her here.”

According to their original plan, they were about to visit the imperial palace at this time. Of course, Commandery Princess Xianyun’s matter would not end so simply.

Unexpectedly, Commandery Princess Xianyun had resorted to such a method, for she wanted to stop the matter from developing further before Ao Chenyi went to the imperial palace, but it was unknown what kind of trick she was going to play.

Commandery Princess Xianyun came quite soon. As soon as she entered the room, she saw Ao Chenyi. Immediately, she looked at him in tears, sad, aggrieved, and even a little guilty of herself.

Ning Xueyan saw her silently, ready to rise. No matter what, Commandery Princess Xianyun was indeed a bit higher than she was in status, but her hand on the table was held by Ao Chenyi’s hand on the other side. Now, the two were sitting across a table.

Since Ao Chenyi insisted, Ning Xueyan surely didn’t think that she must stand up. Commandery Princess Xianyun wanted to harm her most, so she, Ning Xueyan, was not that tolerant.

Commandery Princess Xianyun looked quite pathetic. Her expression was even more touching, with faintly seen tear marks on her face; behind the exquisite makeup was an even more plaintive face; a few hairs of her hair bun fell, but they were not in a mess. Instead, they made others think that she was so apprehensive and pathetic because of being frightened.

And her clothes were slightly disheveled, but this disheveled dressing seemed to be the result of a careful design. It didn’t make her look disheveled but made her look even slenderer and more graceful.

It was fair to say that every part of her dressing was beautiful and had been carefully designed. Besides, she had a bit of panic and miserableness on her face. Then, it was suitable to claim that she was even more beautiful and more charming than usual! The words “when a lady just awakes, she looks as beautiful as the Chinese flowering apple, and she has better charms at this time” were perfect to describe her beauty at the moment.

Ning Xueyan lowered her head, picked up the teacup at hand, and took a light sip. Under her long eyelashes were the eyes which were giving off slight ridicule. She used a maid’s death to exchange for Ao Chenyi’s forgiveness, with the help of such careful makeup. For Ning Xueyan, she really didn’t know what Commandery Princess Xianyun thought.

“Prince!” Commandery Princess Xianyun looked quite panicky and ignored Ning Xueyan sitting beside her completely, but she looked at Ao Chenyi tearfully.

“Anything to say?” Ao Chenyi said casually and coldly. He narrowed his eyes slightly, but there was a strange viciousness there.

As her heart beat panickily, Commandery Princess Xianyun almost exposed her fright on the face. She took steps back unconsciously, but then she gritted her teeth and half looked up at Ao Chenyi in a trance, ready to open her mouth, but saw that he frowned and waved his hand in front of his tall, handsome nose.

“Don’t come so close! I’m allergic to such a cheap and unpleasant scent!”

Ning Xueyan was speechless and bit her lips. “This man really dares to say anything. That fragrance of Commandery Princess Xianyun is obviously the best and the most elegant and pleasant, but how could it be like that in his words?”

Commandery Princess Xianyun was a little embarrassed. As the noblest daughter of an official wife from an aristocratic family, she had been using the best one of any kind of thing since she was young, and she had never been despised like this before. However, she had to swallow the embarrassment and grievance now, and she also took one step back and said, “Prince, I... I want to say that it is Qiu Huan who instigated my second sister and used her love of you. I didn’t expect my second sister to do something so shameless.”

“That is something shameless? But you still learned it. I heard that it is you who asked Yun Luoluo to come here,” Ao Chenyi raised his eyebrows and said quite impatiently.

“He didn’t save Commandery Princess Xianyun any face.” Ning Xueyan lost her words about it and fiddled with the handkerchief in her hands.

“Prince, I really don’t know about this. If I had known, I would have never let my second sister do such a thing to ruin the reputations of Prince Yi’s Manor and Lord Peace’s Manor. This is bad for both you and me, so how could I do something so stupid?”

Commandery Princess Xianyun looked at Ao Chenyi sadly, with two drops of tears dangling at the corners of her eyes and her red lips trembling slightly. No matter how she was viewed, she was so beautiful that the beholder would feel the pain in his heart, let alone she had affectionate love in her tears. Then, what kind of man could resist it?

And her words were extremely reasonable, with every word showing that she would never do this because she was not stupid, and no one had ever said that Commandery Princess Xianyun was stupid.

After hearing these words and seeing such an expression, almost every normal man would soften his heart.

Unfortunately, this man was Ao Chenyi.

Ning Xueyan cast a sidelong glance at him and surely saw an evil and cold small smile on his handsome face and impatience in his eyes.

“Xianyun, I don’t care whether your servants die or not. Even if you killed all the people you brought here as part of your dowry, I would let you do it, but don’t treat me like an idiot, and don’t think about doing anything to me. Yun Luoluo is not so tight-lipped. She must have already told everything in Lord Peace’s Manor now!” Ao Chenyi said coldly, with his handsome face full of maliciousness and disgust.

Commandery Princess Xianyun’s face instantly turned pale. Ao Chenyi’s words were almost a sharp warning. She had just thought that no matter how insolent Ao Chenyi was, he could not punish Yun Luoluo, and as long as Yun Luoluo didn’t expose her, she could say whatever she wanted. But she had forgotten Yun Luoluo’s character. Under such circumstances, she was sure to let her, Commandery Princess Xianyun, take all the blame even if no one asked her.

“Prince, I was really wronged,” Commandery Princess Xianyun cried out sadly. Her cry was so miserable that a little desperation appeared and vanished in her eyes, and her tears ran down drop by drop. “I... I don’t know why my second sister said so. Does she still hate me for the thing I did to her in the past? Prince, how could I... I do something so vicious that would harm others but wouldn’t benefit me?”

Now she was really anxious. Being agitated all over, she shook, looking at Ao Chenyi with wide-open eyes.

“None of those wicked things was done by you, right? You wanted to kill my favored concubine but let Yan’er take the blame. Next, you wanted to spread the rumor about me and Yun Luoluo at Yan’er’s banquet, which would make Yan’er lose face in public and me disgraceful and even make me feel guilty about Lord Peace’s Manor. Then, whatever you wanted to do, I would have to turn a blind eye!”

Ao Chenyi glanced sideways at her, with ice-cold bloodthirst beneath his beautiful long eyelashes. “You want me to kill the whole Lord Peace’s Manor, don’t you?”

Commandery Princess Xianyun was truly desperate. She widened her eyes to show her anger and desperation and could no longer take care of her appearance, letting the tears run out of her eyes and mix with the powder on her face.

“Prince, why do you do this to me? I am the princess given to you with the imperial edict, the official princess with a marriage granted by the emperor, but who is she? She was but a consort, a casually appointed consort. Then how could she become a princess, have the same status as me, and have also taken my position? Now she even held a banquet in Prince Yi’s Manor! Prince, how could I bear this? I am your official wife!”

Commandery Princess Xianyun was so agitated that she shook violently. She wiped away her tears with her sleeve and spoke while pointing at Ning Xueyan.

Ning Xueyan looked up at her calmly, her eyes cold and indifferent. She had been vigilant to Commandery Princess Xianyun. From her unmarried period to the time after her marriage, the latter had plotted against her numerous times, so she couldn’t persuade herself to have sympathy for her no matter how pathetic she seemed to be now.

If Commandery Princess Xianyun’s scheme had succeeded each time, she, Ning Xueyan, would have doomed eternally!

Since she hadn’t dealt with this woman with deadly means, it meant that she was kind enough.

The room was very quiet. Both Lanning and Eunuch Zhu maintained the posture of looking down quietly, showing that they were well-behaved servants, and they were oblivious to the indignation of Commandery Princess Xianyun.

“You really don’t know or you pretend to be ignorant? In my heart, I never want you to be my princess. If you hadn’t begged the empress to issue an edict, why did I have to let Yan’er take the inferior position of a consort? Initially, I thought that if you could behave yourself, I would not mind raising one more person in my house.”

“She, she is different? Why, why does she have the qualification? Isn’t she the one granted by the imperial palace like me?” Commandery Princess Xianyun pointed at Ning Xueyan and shouted.

“She was given by the imperial palace, but she was also the woman I chose. I have someone in my heart. You can give up now!” Ao Chenyi said coldly with fierce eyes. With all his patience spent, he rose to his feet and said, “Guard, take her back to the Bright Mind Garden. I’ll deal with her when I have come back from the imperial palace.”

“She is different? She turns out to be his beloved woman. Favored concubine, favored concubine? Perhaps this is just a trap!” Commandery Princess Xianyun suddenly felt that she had learned everything. She instantly got rid of the guard coming to take her and crazily wanted to charge at Ning Xueyan. “Sure enough, my guess is with proof. She is really different.”

“Let me go. Ning Xueyan, you, you turn out to be so contemptible and so vicious!” Commandery Princess Xianyun shouted crazily and hit the guard’s hand hard with hers. This look showed that she was almost crazy, and she yelled hysterically. What was in her eyes was all venomous jealousy. She was no longer the previous gentle and noble lady of an aristocratic family.

Ning Xueyan looked at her indifferently, and the watery eyes beneath the long eyelashes were eerily cold, but she ignored the crazily roaring Commandery Princess Xianyun. It seemed that she was really about to be crazy; otherwise, how could the official wife’s daughter of Empress Dowager’s parents’ family do such an impropriate thing?

Yun Luoluo’s case had almost ruined the reputation of the entire Lord Peace’s Manor. As the schemer of it, Commandery Princess Xianyun would make every one of Lord Peace’s Manor angry, so she was sure to be abandoned by the manor, but what about the empress? The empress of the imperial palace and she were of one mind.

Then, going to the imperial palace didn’t seem to be something easy to deal with.