The Devious First Daughter

Chapter 50. The wound she has been concealing

"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 catch the assassins every day. He really pushed him too far!

But Ao Mingyu could not tell anyone, because it was his father's stratagem. His father had told him that if they failed to provoke Ao Chenyi and cause chaos at the party, they should order the assassins to kill Ao Mingyu directly. They had plotted to have the assassins mingle with the imperial guards, and all the assassins had worn the same suits as the imperial guards. They had dispatched forty assassins in total, and now all their bodies were in the yard of the imperial palace.

Where could he find any other assassins?

"Those assassins appeared in all of sudden, so I think they must have allies to help them at the imperial palace. We need to check carefully. Even a slightest mistake will cause a disaster." Ao Mingyu's face darkened, as if he did not want to continue the topic.

Ning Huaiyuan was a smart person and he would not ask for a snub at this moment. Ao Mingwan did not want to annoy Ao Mingyu, so he did not ask anything about this anymore. Then the three of them began to talk about something else casually.

While they were chatting excitedly, Ning Xueyan returned her courtyard. The moment she stepped into the room, she received the invitation from Ning Qingshan. Ning Qingshan said that it was shining outside, so she wanted Ning Xueyan and Ning Lingyun to go to her courtyard to enjoy flowers and chat. After that, they would go for dinner together.

Ning Xueyan nodded. After freshening herself up and changing her clothes, she walked toward Ning Qingshan's courtyard with Lanning.

Fourth Prince watched Bright Frost Garden through the telescope from time to time while chatting with Ao Mingyu and Ning Huaiyuan in the tall building. Suddenly, he caught sight of Ning Xueyan and he became excited at once. Seeing that the other two did not notice him, he quickly stood up quietly. He walked to the rail, as if he was enjoying the distant view, but in fact, his eyes were gluing on Ning Xueyan.

She deserved his love! No matter looking from which direction, she was so beautiful!

It was a pity that she was too thin! It was said that she had been living in the nunnery before, so she must have led a poor life there. That was why she was so thin and her face was so pale. The rumors said that Ning Zu'an liked her very much. However, no matter how well he treated her, she was only an adopted daughter. How could she be more favored than those biological daughters of Ning Zu'an?

At the thought of this, Ao Mingwan was a little indignant for Ning Qingshan.

After a while, he would tell Madam Dowager in a tactful way that he was fond of Third Young Lady, and he would let the others of the manor know that he cared about her and would not allow Fifth Young Lady to bully her anymore. He did not believe that she had fought with Fifth Young Lady for an account book as the rumors said. How could such a gentle and weak girl fight with the others for an account book? It must be that Fifth Young Lady had set her up on purpose with some evil intentions!