Chapter 12 (1/2)

The Mrs. Long San who is plotted against

Feng Ning’s mood was indeed better for a spell, but not waiting for her to rampage on for too long, that “wasteful squanderer” husband of hers already came to retaliate. Long San wasn’t uncivilized like Feng Ning, naturally he wouldn’t break things, he also wouldn’t beat the other person up, he just used his probing eyes to stare at Feng Ning.

“Say it, what exactly is wrong with you?”

What is there to say, Feng Ning cast her head to one side, she would rather die than admit that she was taking her anger out on him. Actually, the moment Long San came over to reprimand her, she had already begun to feel guilty. She is now but a vicious suspect who had conspired to kill her husband. she was ashamed to face him, but this matter she choked back and couldn’t say, her heart felt painfully suffocated.

Long San crossed his arms, and said: “I admit, you are different than before, and I don’t believe you have any bad intentions, but that doesn’t mean you can act unruly and make a scene in my household. You unreasonably went to my courtyard and caused a ruckus, who do you think you are?”

His tone of voice was per usual, his expression had no sign of resentment, but Feng Ning was very clearly aware that he was really angry. She began to feel fl.u.s.tered, but in spite of that, she still did not dare to say what exactly was bothering her, those clues that she found, she just couldn’t bring herself to speak about it. She bit her lips, resiliently not speaking.

Long San stared at her for a while, then coldly said: “If you don’t want others to get fed up with you, then don’t go making trouble without reason.”

His words were like knives painfully piercing her heart, she didn’t know what she should say, but he just turned around and left.

Feng Ning watched his back, suddenly feeling like the energy she had stored up in advance was gone. Today’s dinner, there was no one to accompany her. The food was sent to her residence, Feng Ning did not dare to complain about the simplicity of the dishes. She was like a child who did something wrong, sitting there restlessly.

Feng Ning was someone who could not hide what was on her mind, during the night, she was unable to sleep peacefully. She thought about the things that she did in the past two days, she and Long San had agreed not to hide anything from each other, not to tell lies, and to go after the truth together. But right now she has a clue, yet she  was keeping it from him, she was someone who did not act on her words,  this made her mood worsen from the pent-up frustrations. But being irritable by herself hadn’t been enough, she had to come back and use him as a punching bag. She thought back, had she let him lose face in front of his henchmen?

The more Feng Ning thought about it, the more she felt that she had done wrong, she felt that she had to do something to restore her and Long San’s good relations.h.i.+p. Thinking of this, she could no longer lie still, she put her clothes on, ran to Long San’s courtyard and knocked on his room door.

Long San draped an outer garment over his shoulders, loosely tousled his hair and opened the door, it was clear that he had just fallen asleep. Seeing Feng Ning come over, he looked at her without much expression: “What?”

Feng Ning clenched her teeth, said: “I’m here to apologize.”

Long San sounded an “mm”, and replied: “I’m listening.”

The way he held himself, high posture, not giving her any way out of embarra.s.sment, made Feng Ning not very happy. She lowered her head, looked at his bare feet wearing slippers, really wanting to stamp on them. She moved the tips of her toes but still endured it. She mumbled to herself: “I shouldn’t have thrown a temper, shouldn’t have made you lose face in front of your henchmen, shouldn’t have kicked you, shouldn’t have flung the table……”

When she was acknowledging her wrongs she was actually quite honest, Long San was a bit surprised, he stared at the top of her head, lightly coughed twice, and said: “Then you tell me, why were you acting so unreasonably?”

Feng Ning was caught off guard, why must the reason still be a.n.a.lyzed when I’m apologizing? But the reason she was angry can’t be told, what to do? She lifted her eyes and looked at Long San, he was staring at her waiting for her to speak, she stammered a bit, then finally composed herself: “I was jealous, I went to Jade Clothes Pavilion, and came across that Qin Ya Yin, she took the love token you gifted her and flaunted it, I…… of course I would be angry, once I was angry, I couldn’t think straight, once I was unable to think calmly, I wanted to go find you…… so……”

“Love token?”  The corners of Long San’s mouth hooked upwards grinning: “You were really jealous?”

Feng Ning was very unhappy, but this time since she wants to reconcile, she can only summon up the courage and force herself to admit it: “mm.” She thought for a bit, then added: “This, even Xiao Qing saw, she can confirm it. So just forgive me okay? Next time I won’t throw this kind of unreasonable temper.”

Long San looked at her reaction and gently laughed, he warmly and tenderly closed in next to her ear and said: “Once you’re willing to tell me the truth, you can come and find me.” He lightly pushed her out, and closed the door.

Feng Ning looked at the tightly shut door in a daze, dumbfounded. After a long while she finally came around realizing her lie had been seen through, the unspeakable frustration in her heart, only after a while did she say through the door panels: “Don’t be so stingy ah, I only have you, my single friend to speak with……”

Unfortunately no one answered her from inside, Feng Ning blankly stood there for a while, gloomily lowered her head and left.

In the next two days, sure enough, Long San did as he said, and did not see Feng Ning. Feng Ning had stamped down the fire, and exchanged it for a cold shoulder, naturally she was unhappy. But she thought it over, and felt she still couldn’t tell Long San, she made up her mind to first investigate herself, just in case the matter wasn’t as bad as she imagined, if the a.s.sa.s.sin was actually someone else, then she could at least straighten her spine and work it out with Long San. Thus, she paid exceptional attention to any news of that Xia Er, waiting for the moment she got better and can leave bed, intending to find her and investigate to the bottom of the matter.

Unexpectedly, things still didn’t go as she antic.i.p.ated, the next evening, Feng Ning suddenly received news, Xia Er continuously did not get better, so her family had come to take her home to recuperate. Xiao Qing also told Feng Ning, she heard that Xia Er’s family decided they might as well take this chance to sell her to prost.i.tution.