Chapter 19 Mixed-breed; Not Favored? (1/2)
After giving his prayers in front of Madam Ming's coffin, Prince Yi left with his entourage without waiting for Ning Zu'an to return. It wasn't until he left that Ning Lingyun finally dared to come out of the side room.
Ning Zu'an had come over with the others while she was hiding inside the side room. Two stone-faced guards watched the entrance, making it impossible for her and her maid to return to the mourning hall. Thus, she had no idea of what happened inside the hall.
She hastily came out to investigate as soon as she saw the outsiders leave.
When she saw that Qingyu was helping Ning Xueyan swallow a pill, she thought that Ning Xueyan was so frightened that her illness flared. She stared at Ning Xueyan in contempt while inwardly mocked the latter for being so useless. She had forgotten how she hid inside the side room earlier, too afraid to even move a limb.
Without people around, Ning Lingyun refused to call Ning Xueyan her younger sister. With her chin raised, she asked rudely, ”You there, what happened earlier? Why did Father come and then left?”
”A noble guest came to pay his respects to my mom,” Ning Xueyan replied indifferently. She had Qingyu put away the bottle of uneaten pills that the imperial physician gave her earlier. He said the medicine could neutralize the poison in her bloodstream but whether it could destroy the roots of her illness was still undetermined. They could only wait and see until she finished this bottle of pills.
”A noble guest came to pay his respects your mom?!” A dumbfounded Ning Lingyun looked at the coffin lying in the middle of the mourning hall and curled her lips. She said bitterly, ”Are you making up stories? Don't you know what kind of status your mom had? What kind of noble guest would come and personally pay his respects? It's already commendable if he even sends a housekeeper over! Do you think she was the official wife of the Lord Protector's Manor?!”
”When Father and Grandmother come, I'll inform them that you don't have to keep watch here. My mom doesn't need an insincere person serving her altar,” Ning Xueyan said coolly.
She glanced at Ning Lingyun with a dark expression. The reason why a concubine's daughter like Ning Lingyun would take advantage of her was that she was easily bullied!
Ning Lingyun never imagined that Ning Xueyan would dare go against her.
Ning Xueyan's glance added to her fury. She rushed to Ning Xueyan, pointed at her face, and began scolding her!
”Ning Xueyan, who do you think you are? How dare you order me around! Did you think you're the first wife's daughter of this manor?! You're just an unfavored girl and a mixed-breed born in this manor! How dare you show me the temper of a first wife's daughter!”
Mixed-breed? Unfavored?
Ning Lingyun's words riled Ning Xueyan up. Her gaze suddenly turned so razor-sharp that it frightened Ning Lingyun. Her bravado in bullying Ning Xueyan instantly weakened significantly.