The Devious First Daughter

Chapter 145. Trickery in Chenyuan palace

Having felt her reliance and trust, Ao Chenyi took her hand away from his face, held it gently in his hand, and had a small doting smile in his constantly eerie, cold eyes.

He loved to see that she was like a little wild cat with her hair standing on end and that she relied on him wholeheartedly, and he more loved that she trusted him absolutely. It seemed that no matter what she was like, he loved her, so he reached out to hold her tightly in his arms, feeling her softness.

Previously, he had thought that no woman could enter his heart, but he hadn't expected that he had become interested in such a small woman so silently...

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Prince Yi's Manor had held the banquet quite smoothly, so all the people thought that Princess Ning had behaved naturally. Although she was still young, either her bearing or her words or other aspects of her had shown that she was like the real princess of Prince Yi. In contrast, due to the matter of Yun Luoluo, all mansions had become full of scorn toward Lord Peace's Manor. In the past, they had thought that Commandery Princess Xianyun was an unfairly treated woman, but now they thought that the treatment served her completely right.

No matter what aim she had held when directing this drama with Yun Luoluo in it, she hadn't considered the profit of Prince Yi's Manor or stood on the side of it. Compared with her, Ning Xueyan had reacted resolutely, stopping the slander about this matter immediately and making Yun Luoluo fail to defend herself with just a few words. With that, the matter hadn't developed into a scandal.

And it had been proven that Prince Yi had returned from the palace at that time.

These things seemed to show that Commandery Princess Xianyun couldn't be a princess anymore. She had dared to plot against Prince Yi in the public eye, but it was not what the princess of Prince Yi should do, and it also reflected that the family education of Lord Peace's Manor was really much too filthy.

After the banquet, these visitors didn't linger anymore. They knew that this incident was sure to have sequels because Prince Yi was not a person who was willing to simply suffer losses. Some had sensitively felt that the glory of Lord Peace's Manor in Empress Dowager's period might never come back.

Compared with Yun Luoluo's event, the fight between the third young lady of Lord Protector's Manor and Ao Xian, Commandery Princess's princely heir, made people quite look down upon Third Young Lady Ning, who showed proper manners in public but behaved so impolitely behind people's backs, but it didn't have connections with politics on the whole and only a few parties cared about it, so its influence was a bit less.

Ning Qingshan and Ning Lingyun had left the prince's mansion early, but it was not that they had taken the initiative to go back, but that Madam Dowager had sent people to receive them. Ning Xueyan had sent a message to Madam Dowager a long time ago, and Madam Dowager had been so angry that she had sent a carriage here.

Third Prince's carriage went into Lord Protector's Manor together with the carriage of Lord Protector's Manor. After getting off, he didn't care about Ning Qingshan's loving voice but went straight to see Ning Zu'an. After a long time of talk with Ning Zu'an in his study, he then left.

As soon as she stepped into the courtyard, Ning Qingshan was forbidden to go anywhere. After a short time, two etiquette-teaching Mammies came from the palace, teaching her to talk and behave. If she did anything slightly improper, she would be punished. It was said that they had been specially invited here by Third Prince, in case Ning Qingshan was disgraceful after marrying into Third Prince's Manor.

When such a thing had happened, Ning Qingshan thought that it was worth it for her to be just punished like this, so she gritted her teeth to bear it, but what she didn't know was that she, who was supposed to be a consort according to the original plan, had now been lowered to a senior concubine, and the consort's position had been given to Ning Lingyun.