The Devious First-Daughter

“Who’s targeting me? You can give me your opinion, prince.” Biting her lips, she suppressed the uncomfortable feeling in her eyes and looked to the side as if she was distracted by something. Now she always felt that something was different from the past, so that she had the feeling that she was a little lowlier in momentum, but she did not know if it was because she and he now had a perfectly justifiable relationship.

“Ao Mingyu is so good! He even dares to take a fancy to my woman.” Ao Chenyi snorted coldly. Today’s jubilant color made him look more superbly handsome.

Although he had an unpleasant expression, Ning Xueyan realized something inexplicably, feeling a little uncomfortable. Although it was true that she was married to him now and could be counted as a member of his… mansion, she still felt that this was a little… different.

“Who was the person in the sedan chair?” Lying in Ao Chenyi’s arms, she blinked her watery eyes and asked. She had already realized that this had something to do with peolpe around Ao Chenyi, so she was not so surprised. The auspicious moment of departure was not what anyone who wanted to know it could know.

The message bearing the auspicious moment predicted by the Bureau of Astronomy was directly sent to the Lord Peace’s Manor and the Lord Protector’s Manor. During this time, if tricks were not practiced, even the Lord Peace’s Manor would not know the time of departure of the bridal sedan chair of the Lord Protector’s Manor.

“That’s not important. It was just a gift for Ao Mingyu!” Ao Chenyi barely closed his eyes, but a wicked smile appeared on his lips. Getting married was a lifelong event. Since Ao Mingyu gave him such a generous gift, he had to return a gift to him, of course.

Ao Chenyi was never a man who would keep silent after suffering losses. Today Ao Mingyu dared to trap him at this time, and Ning Xueyan believed that Ao Mingyu would never get a nice result. Realizing this, she had an inexplicable feeling of relief, and a bit of contemplation appeared in her black jade-like eyes. “It seems that the person in the sedan chair is closely related to Ao Mingyu.”

“What? You are stunned by my handsome looks, Yan’er?” Ao Chenyi, who seemed to be in a good mood today, was no longer like the one who was full of coldness and ferociousness he used to be. Observing that Ning Xueyan was stunned gazing at his face, he suddenly opened his thin, long eyes and spoke to her lazily.

Having no time to take back her gaze, Ning Xueyan was instantly shocked, blushed, and turned her head hurriedly. Just now, Ao Chenyi closed his eyes, and she did take a few more looks at him and then even stared at him in a daze, thinking about her own things.

“Prince, it is unsuitable for you not to go to Commandery Princess Xianyun’s place, isn’t it?” Ning Xueyan said in shame.

“I won’t go. When she was married into my prince’s mansion and lived here on the first day, she even dared to plot against me.” Ao Chenyi coldly snorted and had a trace of evil coldness in his eyes, but then he held Ning Xueyan’s hand with his hand and threw another hand around her waist, so that she could not get up for a while.

“This… has something to do with her?” Ning Xueyan widened her eyes suddenly and looked at Ao Chenyi in shock.

“I heard that the message bearing the auspicious moment was sent to the Lord Peace’s Manor first,” Ao Chenyi lightly tore the dark hair on Ning Xueyan’s body with his fingers and said lazily.

The message bearing the auspicious moment came from the Bureau of Astronomy in the palace. Of course, the first one whom it should be sent to was the princess, Commandery Princess Xianyun of the Lord Peace’s Manor, and then the consort, Fifth Young Lady of the Lord Protector’s Manor. Anyway, this rule was not wrong: the princess first, and then the consort.

If anyone else would know it, apart from someone of the Lord Protector’s Manor, it was someone of the Lord Peace’s Manor. After all, when the message was brought in, the people of the Lord Peace’s Manor would ask the messenger of the Bureau of Astronomy to sit for a while and have a rest. During this short time, it was not difficult for someone to peek at the auspicious moment.

Silent, Ning Xueyan snuggled up in his arms casually and closed her eyes rather tiredly. “Sure enough, Prince Yi’s Manor is not a comfortable place. Commandery Princess Xianyun is here, and this is the main reason why Ao Chenyi wanted to bring me into Prince Yi’s Manor!”

“It is said that he has overwhelming power in the realm. Now he is the crown younger brother of the emperor, and he will be the emperor in the future. But he, Prince Yi, is not as honorable as he seems, right?

“The emperor has suspicions about Ao Chenyi, so he can’t even make the decision about his marriage so easily, right?” She was even a little inexplicably sad.

The air was quiet. In the room, only the violently jumping flame of the red candle made a sound, and the candle tears ran down with it. What was left were Ao Chenyi’s hands, with which he took down the hairpins from her head slowly and threw them aside at random. Then all her hair fell down, as black as satin.

And his hands touched her hair on and off.

“What are you going to do, prince?” Ning Xueyan sighed. No matter what Commandery Princess Xianyun would do, she knew very well that she stood in line with Ao Chenyi.

“I don’t want to do anything for the time being. As long as she behaves herself, I don’t even mind that she continues to stay in Prince Yi’s Manor.” Ao Chenyi snorted coldly. The hand that pressed Ning Xueyan’s hair paused, and some bloody coldness appeared in his eyes. “For so many years, the Lord Peace’s Manor has not woken up from their ambitious dream that they want a female of their family to be an emperor’s wife. It is ridiculous indeed!”

“To be an emperor’s wife!” Ning Xueyan was horrified and suddenly looked up at Ao Chenyi. “The Lord Peace’s Manor even has such a big ambition, and it is fair to say that even Commandery Princess Xianyun has such a big ambition.”

The previous empress dowager was the one who once ruled the nation, but her real ruling days did not last long. The current emperor was not a person who could stand the life of living under someone else’s power for so long. The final result was that the empress dowager died of illness early, and the Lord Peace’s Manor became weak and declined into an ordinary aristocratic family.

After that, Commandery Princess Xianyun, the most prestigious and gentle, kind-hearted, and reasonable lady in the Lord Peace’s Manor, appeared in the public eye. Everyone knew that Commandery Princess Xianyun was sure to marry into the royal family. Otherwise, this marriage would have not been delayed again and again until now. Some even said that Commandery Princess Xianyun would enter the palace directly. After all, the current empress was childless.

If Commandery Princess Xianyun entered the palace to be the emperor’s concubine and gave birth to a son for the emperor, it was perhaps not a big problem for her to be the emperor’s wife who ruled the nation in the future.

Of course, this was just a guess, and the guess was not the fact.

“The people in Lord Peace’s Manor seem to have a very good and leisurely life. I did underestimate them previously. They even dared to plot against me.” Ao Chenyi’s eyes were stained with a trace of bloodiness.

Ning Xueyan didn’t say anything. At this moment, she did not know what to say, and it seemed that saying anything was wrong, so she bit her lip.

After a long while, she made a sound. “Maybe Commandery Princess Xianyun even doesn’t know about it.”

She said this very hesitantly, and even she herself did not really believe it. As for the character of Commandery Princess Xianyun, she had witnessed it a few times. Not just one thing could arouse her suspicion, but the thing that happened in the Manor of the Duke of State, the affair of County Princess Yuanyun, and the banquet at which Ning Ziyan was invited that day, all could arouse her suspicion.

There were always her traces in them, but when she thought about them carefully, she could not find concrete evidence about her wrongdoings. She could only admit that it was not easy to deal with Commandery Princess Xianyun.

“Well, don’t care about the business of others. Let’s talk about the business between you and me!” Ao Chenyi waved his hand, skewed her head to look at her, and put on a lazy smile on his beautiful lips.

Ning Xueyan was inexplicably nervous, subconsciously wanting to come down from him.

There was always some coldness in her looks, but her face was a little red at this time, making her a little more seductively charming. With a soft look in her eyes, she was gorgeous. Maybe because she was still young, her delicate, beautiful facial features would not instantly amaze the onlookers, but when they tasted them carefully, they would find that there were charms in her lucid and elegant beauty.

When she grew mature in a few years, she, who had those looks with her charming figure, would be quite seductive.

“Come on, let’s do what we should do.” Ao Chenyi squinted at the petite woman in his arms, with a touch of softness in his eyes.

“Our, our business.” It was obvious that Ning Xueyan was frightened. She turned stiff, did not dare to move at all, and could not raise her head because she did not know how to behave herself. Today Ao Chenyi was obviously different from the past. Surprisingly, she found a bit of warmth in the cold look his eyes always showed.

She did not know what to do and only felt that she seemed to have forgotten a few things. Subconsciously, she grasped Ao Chenyi’s robe. A trace of fear flashed across her face, and her mind went blank. Without knowing what to do, she looked at Ao Chenyi with the guide of consciousness. For the first time in front of him, she exposed a timid, dazed expression.

Under his big hands, she trembled all over, like a falling leaf in the wind. The bright eyes she used to have were more like a small frightened beast. Now she was not herself at all. The red color on her face faded bit by bit, and what was left was the trace of paleness.

“What’s wrong with you?” Seeing that something was wrong with her, Ao Chenyi frowned, sat up, lowered his head, held her hand with his, opened her clenched fist, and frowned slightly.

Ning Xueyan was still in his arms. He held her tightly with one hand and went to open her clenched fist with the other hand. The two were close together. Ning Xueyan could clearly hear the strong heartbeat in his chest and feel the hot breath at her forehead.

As her heart beat violently once, she seemed to almost unconsciously hold his hand with her opened fist, not letting go.

The wedding bed was bright red, and so were the mosquito net, the clothes, and the candles. Right, everything was bright red. But this reminded her of the time when she looked at the bright red sky through the water.

The suffocation-like pain and despair made her breath involuntarily disordered. Her heart beat frantically, and her teeth sank hard into her lip, almost with all her strength, as if she was the girl struggling in the lotus pond that day. She struggled desperately, but she still died a tragic death in the end.

On her wedding night, she could get the thing that she had asked for but could not get in her previous life. But for that reason, she died at only 16 back then.

Hears fell drop by drop, blurring her vision. What appeared in front of her was the gentle and elegant face, but then it gradually became hideous and evil, as if to choose someone to eat. She turned stiff and cold. Under the long eyelashes, the pair of eyes became so beautiful that they seemed to be covered with a layer of mist, but they were also filled with despair and sorrow. She trembled in Ao Chenyi’s arms, and some light color blood oozed out of the corner of her pale mouth.

“What’s the matter with you?” Ao Chenyi frowned, and his thin, long eyes fell on Ning Xueyan’s face. He put down the hand that clenched hers, used it to push away the teeth that bit the corner of her lips tightly, and looking at the watery eyes that were as dazed and horrified as a little beast, said gently, “Afraid? Right? Don’t worry. Although I’m not tender to women, I’m not cruel to destroy them.”