Chapter 14 (1/2)
Chapter Fourteen
Su Yue was banished from Pei Jin’s manor.
Yan Shi Ning reflected on Pei Jin’s plan and she frowned. She followed his plan but he gave her a surprise. Indeed he asked Su Yue to bring a bowl of herbal soup to her. As planned there was no poison in the herbal soup, but there was a poison powder in her fingernails. When she was blowing on the spoon of herbal soup, she slipped the poison into the bowl to frame Su Yue. What she didn’t expect was that the same poison was found in Su Yue’s chamber.
The poison in Yan Shi Ning’s hand was given to her by Pei Jin. After Bei Dou examined the poison found in Su Yue’s chamber it was the same poison as the poison Pei Jin gave her. Initially she thought Pei Jin framed Su Yue by putting the bottle of poison in Su Yue’s chamber. But she saw Su Yue’s guilty expression and she realised the poison did belong to Su Yue. She suspected that Pei Jin knew long ago that Su Yue hid poison in Su Yue’s chamber. That meant someone wanted to harm Pei Jin and Pei Jin used his enemy’s poison to deflect his enemy’s scheme. She was impressed by how calculating Pei Jin could be.
Yan Shi Ning wasn’t certain if Su Yue’s poison was intended to harm her or Pei Jin. Also, she didn’t know if Su Yue bought the poison on her own or someone secretly gave it to Su Yue. Perhaps someone at Huang Guo’s manor was involved.
Yan Shi Ning remembered what Pei Jin whispered in her ear and her heart stirred immensely.
After the maids left the chamber, Pei Jin held her wrists.
‘Big brother, what are you doing?’ Yan Shi Ning asked and failed to free her wrists.
Pei Jin waved a small scissors in front of Yan Shi Ning. ‘Cutting your fingernails. It’s too dangerous to keep the poison in your fingernails for a long time.’
In the past Yan Shi Ning hated having long fingernails and kept her fingernails short. But after she entered the Yan Manor, Yan Shi Ting criticized her fingernails were ugly so she kept them long.
Yan Shi Ning wasn’t depressed Pei Jin was cutting her fingernails. But a strange feeling stirred in her heart while Pei Jin was holding her hands and cutting her fingernails.
Pei Jin wasn’t satisfied to only cut Yan Shi Ning’s fingernails. He dipped her hands in a basin of warm water.
‘Big brother, there was only a little poison in my fingernails,’ Yan Shi Ning said. ‘You already cut my fingernails, there’s no need to soak my hands.’
‘It’s an extra precaution,’ Pei Jin said. ‘What if you accidently put it in your mouth? What am I going to do if I lose little lion?’
Yan Shi Ning played dead.