The Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir

Chapter 45: The position of the secondary wife

Hearing something off in his voice, she looked in his direction and saw a silver fox fur cloak hanging on the divider screen. It was a valuable cloak embroidered with a golden dragon with four-claws.

She sighed. This cloak had nothing to do with her. Early this morning, when the crown prince had come to pay respect to Noble Consort Nie, a part of the cloak had been damaged when it was being hanged. Noble Consort Nie knew that she was very skillful with needlework, so she had handed the cloak to her to mend.

But, Ning Yuxuan thought about this matter differently. He knew Zhao Zhe better than anyone else and had negative mental associations when he saw the cloak here.

"Are you very close with the crown prince?"

Ji Man seriously said, "This matter has to be clearly explained. I'm not familiar with the crown prince and I'm not mending this cloak because of him. Noble Consort Nie was the one that handed me this cloak to mend."

Ning Yuxuan made a sound of acknowledgement. The corners of his lips faintly curved. "It's true that your embroidery skills are very good, but there are plenty of people in the palace. The noble consort doesn't need to order you around like a servant girl."

His words made it seem like she was deliberately trying to show off. Ji Man decided not to argue with this person. Otherwise, she would be the one that was angered to death.

"My lord, you've been here long enough. You should go back to keep Madam company," Ji Man considerately said with a smile. "You only need to go through the motions here. This servant won't say any unnecessary words in front of Old Madame and the noble consort. You don't have worry. This servant will only say good things about you in front of them."

Marquis Moyu's expression sunk. His peach blossom eyes seemed like they were full of needles. "You've become very mature. You used to eagerly hope that I would stay longer. Now, you eagerly hope that I'll leave sooner."

"People will always change." Ji Man lightly smiled. "Wouldn't it be so stupid to spend an entire lifetime loving a person that didn't love you back? My lord, walk slowly. It's slippery outside. Have the servants support you more while you're walking."

Ning Yuxuan didn't know what to say. He sullenly flung his sleeve and started to leave the ting yu xuan. However, he saw the crown prince after only walking a few steps.

Zhao Zhe had a Casanova-like smile. "Marquis, did you just go to pay your respect to Old Madame?"

Ning Yuxuan stopped walking. "Your Highness, weren't you staying home to work on your assignments? Why are you here?"

Zhao Zhe rubbed his nose and said with a smile, "I came to the palace early this morning and ordered the servants to say I was working on assignments. You understand why I have to use those cheap tricks. Otherwise, other people will think I'm a hedonistic crown prince that doesn't know how to diligent."

Ning Yuxuan raised his eyebrows, but stayed silent.

But, the crown prince was in a very good mood and he said, "It's good that I met you here. Bring out my silver fox cloak for me. Let's go to Chun Feng."

(T/N: Literal translation of Chun Feng is spring breeze.)

She's like a spring breeze in the three-mile long Yangzhou Street. There are many rolled up beaded screens, yet there is no one equal to her.*

* (T/N: These are lines from a Tang poem that's about a beautiful songstress.)

As the capital's most popular money squandering establishment, Chun Feng had captivating women that were very understanding of their customers' needs. Ning Yuxuan wasn't an ascetic person and he frequently went there at the request of others. He wasn't in a very good mood today. Thinking that it would be good place to get over his unhappiness, he agreed.