Chapter 108 - A Surprise at Night (1/2)

The news Mo Yuzhen mentioned was not surprising, and Shi Qingxue had known about Mo Xiangbin’s intention earlier, so she said indifferently, “I know, but I won’t marry him. Don’t worry.”

“You don’t know!” Mo Yuzhen replied anxiously.

Under Qingxue’s stunned eyes, Mo Yuzhen grabbed her friend’s hand and said quickly, “It is not the same as before this time. My father is determined to marry you to Junhao, and Concubine Liu will hold a dinner party in Junhao’s mansion and invite all the noble ladies, in order to confirm it.”

“A dinner party? Why didn’t I know?”

Mo Yuzhen was disappointed at her and poked her forehead, cursing, “You have been hiding in your bedroom these days. What the hell did you know?”

It could be seen how angry Mo Yuzhen was.

Shi Qingxue shrank her neck and listened to her lecture obediently in silence.

After venting all her resentment these days by this chance, Mo Yuzhen said coldly, “The invitation hasn’t been sent to your mansion probably because they are afraid of alerting you, but it will be a dinner with disaster. You can’t attend it. Do you know?”

Qingxue nodded in a hurry and assured her, “Set your mind at ease. I won’t go anywhere these days. I will just stay at home to finish my embroidery.”

She was so obedient, so she wouldn’t make the princess angry anymore, right?

But Mo Yuzhen still looked unhappy. “When I got married, you just gave me some treasures, but you are making the embroidery for Shi Baoning’s wedding. You are so partial.”

Shi Qingxue was unable to answer.

What the hell?

“No. You didn’t tell me then. And you got married in a hurry. You know that I make it slowly,” Shi Qingxue explained in an instant.

Mo Yuzhen didn’t buy it. “I didn’t say that I want your embroidery. Even if you wrote a poem or made a painting for me, it would be better than the emotionless stuff. It’s clear that you don’t keep me in your heart.”

Shi Qingxue replied, “…Please do me a favor and leave here.”

“…Huh, I am off!” The princess was actually “kicked out”. She was going crazy.

Qingxue showed an expression to say, “Goodbye. I won’t see you off.”

Mo Yuzhen took two steps and said loudly, “I am really leaving!”

Shi Qingxue nodded without saying anything.

Her friend didn’t ask her to stay, so Mo Yuzhen had to continue walking out. When she was at the door, she couldn’t help but say sadly, “I won’t come here after leaving.”

“…I know. Take care,” Shi Qingxue responded expressionlessly.

Mo Yuzhen got unhappy. “Why didn’t you ask me to stay? In the past, every time you were unwilling to let me go.”

Shi Qingxue had nothing to say. At this time, mentioning the past would only make both of them awkward and helpless, but Mo Yuzhen said that, and Qingxue couldn’t answer.

She sighed helplessly. “It’s great if both of us are fine. Just go.”

There were tears in Mo Yuzhen’s eyes, but Shi Qingxue didn’t even look at her, so Yuzhen was furious.

Since when did Shi Qingxue become the one who was rational when they needed to make a decision together? Qingxue was the most self-willed one. Why couldn’t she be more self-willed to stop her from leaving?

“Okay.” Mo Yuzhen took a deep breath and held back all her emotions, turning to leave.

Shi Qingxue stood quietly and didn’t come to her senses until Xia Mang called her softly after entering the room to clean up. She asked, “What time is it now?”

“It’s five o’clock. Are you going to have dinner?”

“No, I am not hungry,” Shi Qingxue responded at will and sat on the bedside again to continue with her embroidery.

But soon after, she stopped once more and asked in a fret, “What do you want to say?”

Xia Mang bit her lower lip and asked in a low voice, “Did Her Highness make you angry?”

Shi Qingxue was taken aback. “Why do you think so?”

“When she walked out, she looked depressed and told us to take good care of you. Otherwise, she would punish us.” Xia Mang paused for a while and added hesitantly, “It’s my first time to see that kind of expression on her face, so…”

Shi Qingxue reacted after quite a while and understood Mo Yuzhen’s intention. If a lady from a noble family made a break with a princess, the noble lady must be the one who would suffer. Mo Yuzhen had put the blame on herself and lowered herself, so that others would have some scruple because she defended Qingxue even if they knew that they had stopped contacting each other.

To be frank, Qingxue had never thought that Mo Yuzhen could help her to this point. She was surprised and felt sad as she had lost a great friend.

“I am fine. I am just tired and want to sleep earlier.”

She didn’t have dinner and went to bed. Xia Mang didn’t dare to say anything and put out the candle before closing the door and leaving.

It was silent at night. Shi Qingxue lay on the bed but couldn’t fall asleep. There were a lot of thoughts in her brain till a faint smell came into her nose.

“Who is it?” she whispered and sat up on the bed.

She saw a figure standing in front of the desk, which looked familiar.

“Mo… Junyang?” Qingxue called automatically.

The figure moved and approached her slowly, which made her restless till the man walked to her bedside and the moonlight was on him. It was Mo Junyang indeed.

Shi Qingxue heaved a sigh of relief and pouted unhappily. “Why didn’t you speak just now? You scared me.”

Mo Junyang sat on the bedside and then Qingxue found a box in his hand. The pleasant smell was from it. It was like… She asked, “The osmanthus cake?”