9 Qinwangs birthday 1 (2/2)

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After a while of waiting, finally the qinwang came walking in the main hall and apologized for his lateness. All of them greeted him with well wishes and many approached him to give presents.

The First Rank prince or 'qinwang' did not share blood with the royal family and because he blocked off the assassin's spear that was pointed towards the previous emperor, he was bestowed with the title Qinwang after the assassination failed. And since then, his relationship with the current emperor had been good and cordial.

Earlier no one felt the presence of the qinwang who had been standing by the entrance of the main hall. Zhao Gao (the qinwang's name) had been watching everyone's reaction, movement and listened to the bustle inside. He was planning to go inside but at that time, the Liu family had come.

Zhao Gao recognized the familiar faces of the family member of the Liu family but he had never heard and seen the young female in purple dress and when he get a word from the hushed voices from the people near him, he was stunned to know that the First Branch's miss had come and seeing that people have gathered around her and got their attention. He, the qinwang who's birthday is today can't let anyone steal the spotlight.

Sitting at the top most seat in the middle of the hall, Zhao Gao took huge gulps on his cup and said, ”Now that everyone is here, I would like to thank everyone who came to give me well-wishes and since this old one has come past the age to do anything anymore but sit here. It would be my shame if I stop you all from doing your things and don't mind my old self here.”

One of the officials stood up and cupped his hand, bowing and said, ”We would not dare accept the qinwang's thanks.”After he spoke chorus after chorus of people said the same thing.

”No need to keep up with the rules, today is a happy day and your joy in my event is the biggest present this old one will ever get.”

”We would not dare.” The people in the hall acted as if they did not hear the mention of not keeping up with the rules and just chorused again. praising the qinwang.

Zhao Gao was pleased by their manners and silently continued gulping down his drink and sat down, his gaze trailing towards the young female in purple dress beside the other young misses of Liu family.

Jiao Yu felt the gaze that was on her and felt uncomfortable, casually looking up to look around to see who was it but unfortunately, with so many eyes occasionally fall on her slim figure, she could not find it.

Zhang Yi looked worriedly at Jiao Yu who was sitting beside his sisters, knowing that she'd ever gone outside and didn't know a lot of people, he felt more anxious.

Though, both Zhang Yi and Jiao Yu were not close and were just cousins, when they were young he had been playing with her occasionally. He felt pity towards such a young girl to fell ill and after the drowning incident he felt even more sorrow for her.

Just as he was thinking, he saw that young female's slightly concentrated eyes landing on him. In a short moment Zhang Yi tensed up as he had never seen the look in Jiao Yu' eyes before. However, when he was about to smile at her, he saw Jiao Yu turning away, as if it was just an accident. Zhang Yi felt a somewhat loss in his heart. He did not know why but during these past years, he had been occupied with the path laid upon him by his father Liu Buwei and did not get a chance to see her again but nevertheless, there's still more chances to see her now that she has recovered and well.

Before one could wait for Zhang Yi to clear this inexplicable thought of his, a tall man in the front hall was already laughing, ”Liu Sheng Xiao, What made you change your mind from putting your daughter inside your fu's walls?”

Liu Sheng Xiao slightly frowned before showing a blooming smile, ”Daren must be kidding, everyone knows that my daughter's body had been weak since young and now that her health had been recovering, I thought maybe this was the time for her to see the world and intended for her to go out more often.”

When those words were spoken, the people present were stunned since everyone in the Jing knew how overprotective he is towards his daughter and no one would think that he would say that in front of so many people. But now he had spoken and intended for her to mix with the other noble young ladies to play outside, isn't this the same, saying that he's letting his daughter be after keeping her for years? But isn't this a bit too late for a sixteen years old young female?

Everyone seemed to be surprised but Jiao Yu who had been sipping from her tea was the most extremely shocked to Liu Sheng Xiao's statement. If not because she was wearing a veil, she would've spilled the tea in her mouth but thankfully she swallowed back any profanity she almost blurted out, and instead choked.

”Cough..... Cough...” Jiao Yu's eyes stared daggers towards the panicked Liu Sheng Xiao.

'Is his brain working alright? What about our plan?'

Liu Sheng Xiao who's smile turned stiff, inevitably looked at Jiao Yu who just coughed and saw her narrowing her eyes, making him fear 'his' daughter more than anything else.

Clearly, the two of them understood the nature of their plan and now that he had said all that, there would be drastic changes in it and probably there would be too many disturbance.