The Devious First Daughter

Chapter 42. The pheonix earring

"What's the difference? Maybe she is more mature because her mother died." Xia Yuhang smiled unnaturally, a subtle look of complexity crossing his eyes.

"Another day, I saw her outside Cloud Reflection Courtyard. She was standing beside a tree and looking at Cloud Reflection Courtyard in a trance," Ning Huaiyuan said. He poured a glass of wine for Xia Yuhang, and then for himself.

Cloud Reflection Courtyard? Xia Yuhang's heart beat fast. He grasped the wine glass more firmly, as if he wanted to hold something in his hand.

"Does Ning Xueyan really know what happened between Ning Ziying and me?" he wondered. Ning Xueyan had been at the gate of Cloud Reflection Courtyard when he saw her last time. Now Ning Huaiyuan told him that he had seen Ning Xueyan near Cloud Reflection Courtyard. He also recalled what Madam Ling had said. Thinking about these, Xia Yuhang couldn't help but feel something wrong.

"Maybe she likes that place," Xia Yuhang answered with a smile, hiding the suspicion in his eyes.

"Maybe!" A cold and thoughtful look appeared in Ning Huaiyuan's eyes.

He had secretly visited Madam Ling last night. Madam Ling gritted her teeth when she talked about Ning Xueyan. She told him that if not because of Ning Xueyan, she wouldn't have been locked up in the Buddha Hall and Ning Yuling wouldn't have been sent away. She asked him to find a way and get rid of that b*tch.

It seemed they couldn't continue the topic about Ning Xueyan anymore, so they chatted at random. While they were talking, a young male servant of Ning Huaiyuan ran in.

"Eldest Young Master, Madam Dowager was extremely angry and she had Third Young Lady's personal maid beaten to death!"

"When did that happen?" Ning Huaiyuan stood up and asked in surprise. He was shocked not because a maid had been beaten to death, but because he wondered why Madam Dowager had lost her temper like that.

"I don't know. It's said Third Young Lady wanted to take the power of administrating the manor... so her personal maid was jealous of Fifth Young Lady helping Madam Dowager with the internal affairs... and she deliberately stained the account book Fifth Young Lady was going to check." The young male servant wasn't quite clear about this matter, so he faltered and described what he had heard briefly.

"Yuhang, I have to leave now." Hearing what happened in his manor, Ning Huaiyuan couldn't stay calm any longer. He then said good-bye to Xia Yuhang.

Xia Yuhang nodded and didn't ask him to stay longer. He then saw him off at the gate.

"Arrange someone to investigate the background of Fifth Young Lady of the Lord Protector's Manor. I want the detailed information about her," Xia Yuhang ordered his servant on his way back to his manor after Ning Huaiyuan had left. He couldn't help but think of the jet-black eyes. They looked familiar, but the coldness in them was totally strange to him.

Her action of touching the tea cup looked so familiar.

Did he really see this girl the first time?

"Got it," the young male servant answered and ran away.

After returning to Bright Frost Garden, Ning Xueyan asked Mother Han to buy a new account book cover. She then began to tear off the stained cover with Lanning and Qingyu. Ning Xueyan had sprayed some fragrant powder on the new cover she had made, so the fishy smell was covered by the smell of the fragrant powder.

But the fragrant powder had a characteristic that it would disappear after an hour. Now her two maids had to cover their noses while tearing off the cover due to the strong fishy smell.