The Devious First Daughter

Chapter 44. Third Prince's suspicion

Ning Xueyan pulled Heng Yuqing's hand and stopped her. She nodded with a smile and removed a jade bracelet from her wrist. She passed it to the palace maid and said, "Thank you very much for telling me about this. Please accept it as my thanks."

"Thank you so much, Fifth Young Lady!" From the precious gem set on the bracelet, she could tell the bracelet was very valuable. The palace maid hadn't expected that she would get this benefit by conveying a note for others. She took the bracelet joyfully and bowed to Ning Xueyan. Then she put the note into Ning Xueyan's hand and turned to leave.

Ning Xueyan turned her head and said something to Lanning. Lanning nodded and then walked toward a palace maid who was standing behind the banquet table with a smile. She whispered in the palace maid's ear, looked a little embarrassed. Then the palace maid nodded and led Lanning out.

Ning Xueyan spread the note in front of her and Heng Yuqing, and began to read it.

There were only several words on the note, "Fifth Young Lady, please come to the Graceful Moon Pavilion soon! Xia Yuhang."

"Graceful Moon Pavilion? Xia Yuhang?" Ning Xueyan was surprised at the beginning, and then her eyes turned to be dark and cold. She had managed to change her direction when she was knocked fly out the gate because she heard Xia Yuhang's voice. At that point, she would rather die than touch that man.

That was why she had bumped against Wen Xueran, and then fallen into Ao Chenyi's arms. When Ling Xue was punished, Ning Xueyan had glanced at everyone present, but didn't find Xia Yuhang. She had heard him call her 'Ziying' seemed to be only a hallucination. But Ning Xueyan was sure that Xia Yuhang had been there.

"Could this note be written by Xia Yuhang?" Ning Xueyan sneered. Then she covered the sarcasm in the depth of her eyes.

She knew that was impossible.

She didn't know why Xia Yuhang suddenly called her 'Ziying', but he was a thoughtful man, and he would definitely not ask her to meet him at the imperial palace.

At the cost of her blood, she had known what kind of person Xia Yuhang was. But if it was Ning Xueyan who knew nothing about Xia Yuhang, she would believe that the note was written by him. After all, Xia Yuhang was Ning Ziyan's husband. She would think that Xia Yuhang wanted to meet her because something happened to Ning Ziyan and she needed her in urgent, so she would definitely go and meet Xia Yuhang.

Except Ning Qingshan, nobody knew Ning Xueyan so well about and hoped something bad happen to her.

Ning Xueyan became more confident when she smelled a faint fragrance on the note. Her contempt for Ning Qingshan grew. To frame her, Ning Qingshan had spared no effort. The fragrant powder was one of the few she was most familiar with. They were made of a kind of herbal medicine named 'white orange' and some fragrant powder.

Because the fragrant powder was so special, she remembered it clearly. Besides, she had happened made some yesterday and it was now in her sleeve.

Yes. This kind of fragrant powder was really special!

"What does your brother-in-law want with you? Could something have happened to your elder sister?" Reading the words on the note, Heng Yuqing exclaimed and then seemed to have figured out what had happened.

Ning Qingshan must have guessed her reaction.

"Where is the Graceful Moon Pavilion?" Ning Xueyan crumpled the note into a ball and asked.

"I know this place. Go straight down the road from the Plum Garden, and then turn right at the intersection. Do you see it? The Graceful Moon Pavilion is at the end of the walk," Heng Yuqing said, pointing at the road outside the Plum Garden.