Chapter 258 – The Youngster With The Dog! (1/2)
Chapter 258: The youngster with the dog!
Chu Ning, as a Princess of West Wind Kingdom, has learnt to paint from a young age, but had lost to Li Muyang in a painting contest. She became a laughingstock of West Wind, which made the prideful and sensitive father who was always concerned about his reputation furious, and wrote a letter reprimanding her, his words filled with the intent of summoning Chu Ning back to Tiandu.
Even though Chu Ning could pretend that she had not seen the letter, but hearing Song Tinyun mention 'the emperor was shocked', her heart still felt very uncomfortable.
How was the emperor shocked? The emperor was outraged.
In his letter, her father made no secret of his dislike of Li Muyang, calling him a 'murderer criminal'. If Li Muyang went to Tiandu, then greeting him would not be cheers of the people, but most likely swords, spears, arrows and the palace guards?
However, Li Muyang's parents and sisters were all at Tiandu, does that mean he can't go back and meet them?
With this thought, Chu Ning looked even more downcast. Like a layer of black clouds had blanketed the moon, she became irate.
Chu Ning coldly looked at Song Tinyun, saying: “is it because of Cui Xiaoxin?”
Song Tinyun was taken aback. “What?”
“Cousin is doing this because of that Bright Moon of the Cui family?” Chu Ning's gaze was on Li Muyang and her words were bitingly cold.
“I don't understand what you mean.”
“Cui Xiaoxin was friends with Li Muyang in Jiangnan, they were very close. Cousin must have felt very uncomfortable when you heard such news. After all, that is the woman that is betrothed to you.” Chu Ning's lips curled into a mocking smile, for some reason after she returned these words, her heart instantly felt much better.
When others hurt you, then you also make them feel pain—this was also a way of venting, right?
“Because of the fight for the position of the left minister, that matter has been temporarily put aside. However, if Lu Xingkong of the Lu family won the position of minister, then the Song family and the Cui family will have more of a reason to unite through marriage, right?”
Song Tinyun's pupils narrowed, his face void of expression. “Li Muyang? A toad wants to eat swan meat?”
“As I thought.” Chu Ning chuckled. “You have hatred for him, so you want to use me to get rid of him. You've been stirring up trouble time and time again, was it not to deepen my hostility towards him?”
Song Tinyun gave a surprised look at Chu Ning. “Don't you dislike him? I thought we were the same kind of people.”
“I did dislike him.” Chu Ning said. “I really hated him before. Whether it was the fact that he achieved the first place in the imperial exams or wounded people of my Chu clan. But women change. You see, which woman does not like good-looking and talented men? I now think he is more and more pleasing to the eye, more handsome and excellent.”
“——”
Chu Ning walked toward the direction of Li Muyang as she said, “As his defeated opponent, I also have some questions to ask for his advice——cousin must not be willing to lower your status, right?”
“——”
Song Tinyun gazed at Chu Ning's distant receding figure, thinking that this unruly and extremely vain cousin was not as stupid as he thought.
Chu Ning did not lie, she really brought her recently drawn painting 'The boy racing in spring' over to Li Muyang to comment on.
“Teacher Gu said that I did not observe carefully, so the boy's eyes lacked innocence. These past days I've searched for countless paintings of boys to study and understand, and I also went to ask the boss of the restaurant outside to see his three-year-old son——Could you take a look at the painting for me, are the boy's eyes more lively?”
Li Muyang carefully studied the painting, then smiled and said, “You've improved a lot, Princess Chu Ning really put in a lot of effort.”