Chapter: 092 out of 513 – Setting out on a journey (1) (2/2)

Seeing that she was going to continue working, the person behind her finally couldn’t resist stuffily harrumphing, “Did you not hear what I just said?”

Ji Man hurriedly turned her head, “What did you say?”

Ning Yuxuan felt like strangling her. This was already the third time that he had urged her to rest early. Was she really pretending that she hadn’t heard?

However, he wasn’t thick-faced enough to repeat himself for the fourth time. He could only purse his lips and say, “I’m sleepy.”

Ji Man was completely focused on making the wedding dress. Hearing his words, she casually replied, “Then you should go to sleep early.”

Marquis Moyu, “…”

Enough is enough! It was already a rare opportunity for her that he was here. He had only come here because he felt that the quality of sleep he got here was pretty good. But, what was the end result? Nie Sangyu completely didn’t have the intention of doing a woman’s basic duty.

Ning Yuxuan took a deep breath, then he stood up with an unhappy expression, walked to Nie Sangyu’s side, swiped her scissors from her hand, picked her up, and threw her onto the bed.

“Ow!” Ji Man couldn’t resist quietly yelping. This wasn’t a modern day mattress. Although there were two layers of cotton padding, it would still hurt a lot to be thrown onto this bed! What a rotten man!

Sensing Nie Sangyu’s unfriendly gaze, Ning Yuxuan wanted to apologize, but his pride stopped him. He could only harden his voice and say, “It’s your fault for taking so long to come to bed. If you don’t sleep, how can I sleep?”

Why? Was he afraid that she would sneak attack him in the middle of the night? In a bad mood, Ji Man rolled her eyes. It was really hard to serve someone with a prince syndrome.

(T/N: Prince/princess syndrome is an east Asian term used to describe someone who acts really spoiled like a prince or princess. Jay Chou has a silly song about this topic. Here’s a link for the official MV without translations and a link that has the English translations.)

Ning Yuxuan looked at her expression. After being somewhat astonished and shocked, he moved closer. “Did you just roll your eyes at me?”

“Of course not.” Ji Man immediately put on a smiling expression. “My lord, you must have saw wrong.”

“Really?” Ning Yuxuan lied down on the bed. After pulling up the quilt, he carefully examined her face.

Ji Man dryly coughed twice. She hurriedly removed her outer clothing and lied down next to him. “In two days, we’ll be leaving for the trip to the south. This servant has already made arrangement for everything. While this servant is out with the marquis, Siling will be the one managing everything in the household.”

Marquis Moyu looked at her, “You’re quite clever.”

She knew that he wouldn’t have a reason to refuse if her responsibilities were given to Qi Siling. If she handed her responsibilities to Wen Wan, it wouldn’t be easy for her to ask the main wife for the inner court’s account book back after the trip. Qi Siling was only an honored concubine. It would be much easier to get the account book back from her.

“My lord, your words are too flattering. Madam’s mood has been very good lately. This servant will be able to go on the trip with the marquis without any worries.” As Ji Man said these words, she yawned. She seemed very sleepy. “Tomorrow, this servant will arrange for people to attend to old madame while this servant is gone.”

“En.” Ning Yuxuan looked at her closed eyes for a while before closing his eyes too. Why was he feeling that Nie Sangyu was rather suitable at managing a household? Was it just a misconception?