Chapter 5 (1/2)

Chapter 5

Mistakenly Made a Consort

Xi Yan changed her clothes.  By the time she reached Wan Mei Hall, Mu Yan was staring at the plum blossom outside with her hand supporting her cheek, her eyes beautiful like water, with overflowing grace and elegance.

As the second daughter in her family, she is also known as the most beautiful maiden in the entire city.  She has always been the subject of Xi Yan’s envy.

She is not envious of her beauty even though Mu Yan’s face are the kind that could potentially bring a ruin to a city.  What she is envious of is Mu Yan’s ability to leave her clan’s residence as she please.

These past 13 years, she had known a lot of influential family’s miss, but in the end, the one she was close to was only Mu Yan.

Every couple of days, Mu Yan would visit her, bringing a lot of things from the outside world.

Today is the Lantern Festival, Mu Yan must have brought a couple of gifts for her.  Xi Yan secretly circle her from behind, intending to surprise her, but got distracted by the hairpin she put on in her head instead.  It is an exquisitely carved pin and upon closer look, one would notice that it is actually in the form of a Xi Yan flower.

It is of the color of jade, with textures like gla.s.s, s.h.i.+ny when reflected in Xi Yan’s eyes.  She raised her hand and removed that hairpin from Mu Yan’s head, prompting Mu Yan to turn around in shock.  Xi Yan laughed at her, “This is good, did you get it from the city’s lantern festival celebration?”  Her snow-like hands wave the hairpin at Mu Yan’s direction.

A particular expression surfaced in Mu Yan’s beautiful face, one that pa.s.ses in a flash and went unnoticed by Xi Yan.  She merely took it, thinking Mu Yan deliberately brought it for her since everybody knows how much she likes Xi Yan flower.

“That—“ Mu Yan hesitated for a moment, before she smile, “I got it from a small stall just now.  It is not expensive, but I know how much you like Xi Yan flower, so I thought you might like them.”