A Lonesome Fragrance Waiting to be Appreciated 1

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Pingting lowered her head, pensive. She started to chuckle, "I guess that was wrong of me. I'm not in a very good mood right now because Duke isn't here and started to vent my frustration on you."

Moran's face studied her. Her face was gentle.

Sleeping gas or sleeping pills? Pingting quietly calculated as she walked inside.

Unfortunately, she had neither at her disposal. The contents of sleeping gas were hard to get and there were too many ways of making sleeping pills. There was a relatively easy recipe, but she would require certain common herb for that one.

She, who used to hate the time when she had to learn these things with her Master had now found the information to be quite useful..

Sleeping pills it is then.

"Cough......cough........." She coughed two times.

Chu Moran took two careful steps towards her: "Is Miss Yangfeng feeling unwell? I'll get Chen Guanzhi..."

"No need, the herbs he prescribes never work, even when I have a lot, I don't recover fast enough." Pingting pretended to frown, "I'm sure my own prescription will be much better than his." She sat down at a table and wrote a list, then handed it to Moran, "Here. Buy these for me."

Pingting calmly watched Chu Moran scanned the list.

He couldn't find anything suspicious and consented. He turned to the nearest guard and had him fetch the ingredients for the medicine on the list Pingting had written.

Not seeing anything suspicious, Chu Moran nodded approvingly "Alrigt". He handed the list to a guard, "Go, and getthe herbs on this list."

Pingting smiled before retreating into her room, and closed the door behind her.

Chu Moran stood outside the door.

The room was gorgeous, Chu Beijie had personally designed and selected each piece inside himself. Bronze mirrors glowed and beautiful carvings adorned the room. On an exquisite dressing table that was placed in the corner there were three strands of jet black hair on it. These had fallen off while Chu Beijie washed her hair today.

Pingting felt a wave of nostalgia rushed through her and sighed. She ambled to the dressing table and opened the jewellery box.

Every woman's lifetime desires could be found within that box: gold hairpins, jade rings and brooches and an exquisite pearl necklace.

She picked a three unremarkable ones out of the lot and proceeded to hide them up her sleeve.

Everything was now ready. As soon as the sleeping pills were made, she would use them on Moran and after that, everything would be much easier.

She took a deep breath, pushing all of her desires to the back of her mind.

The bodyguard had already been taking a long time and almost two hours had already passed by. Pingting didn't want to ask Chu Moran since she did not want him to have any suspicious at this critical time. She decided to start coughing again. Outside, Chu Moran listened to her 'sickness' and only then, did he feel obliged to ask "Why haven't the herbs here already?" to one of the other guards beside him. It was in that moment, when someone suddenly came in.

"What's wrong, you feeling unwell again?" Chu Beijie strode towards her. "It's cold today, so don't just sit there," he murmured.

"Why're you back so soon?" Pingting was surprised, she hadn't expected to see Chu Beijie beside her today, "Have you finished your work yet?"

"Not yet, but Moran said you were sick and coughing really hard, so he told someone to fetch me."

Pingting instantly began to detest Chu Moran. She bit down on her lip, he had ruined her chance to escape. She brightened, "I'm fine. Moran was over-exaggerating; you don't need to worry about me. You should go back to your work. You're a Duke, so don't spend your time with a woman all day." She gently pushed him away.

"Haha, finally you're acting like a duchess." Chu Beijie let go of her and said, "It's nothing important though. I just caught someone close to He Xia and I was in the middle of questioning him when I heard that you were sick, so I came here."

Pingting's body jolted at the mention of her companions but she hid it by pretending to cough.

Chu Beijie patted her on the back, "What's wrong? You said that you were fine, but I reckon we have yet to cure the root of your disease. I've ordered them to find the best medicine already."

Pingting stopped coughing, looked up and asked, "What about you? If you don't question the prisoner, how are you supposed to report to the King?"

"I've already asked some people to bring him here. I can question him within my own residence."

"Who is this very important person?"

"He isn't that important, just a brat called Dongzhuo."