Chapter 53 (1/2)

Chapter 53

Chapter: 053 out of 513 – The world changes whether you want it to or not (2)

Ning Yuxuan didn’t like to look around the table while he was eating, but during this meal, he raised his head twice.

By coincidence, he saw Nie Sangyu staring at Ning Mingjie like a love-struck idiot both times.

He slightly raised his eyebrows. Finding the situation somewhat laughable, he kicked Ning Mingjie’s leg.

“En?” Ning Mingjie looked at him in confusion.

“Be careful that you don’t get stung by a fly,” Marquis Moyu whispered.

It was the middle of winter. How could there be a fly? Ning Mingjie felt that his words were very odd. In the pa.s.sing, he raised his head and looked around. He saw Nie Sangyu with her head slightly lowered as she conscientiously added food to Wen Wan’s bowl. Part of her neck was exposed and when the wind blew by, it shrunk inward like a turtle.

She had become significantly quieter since the last time he saw her. Ning Mingjie had previously come to the capital for Marquis Moyu’s grand wedding and had seen Nie Sangyu causing a disturbance. She and Errong had almost started a fight with each other during that time. But, for some unknown reason, they had become good friends afterwards.

He didn’t have much of an impression of her. He only remembered hearing her shouting to the concubines and bed servants that attended the wedding, “No one likes Yuxuan as much as me!”, while

she was standing in the main hall during the wedding with her head covered by her wedding veil. She had been carefree and not afraid of idle gossip.

These words later became a source of laughter for the people in the capital during their leisure time. They said that this Nie Clan’s daughter truly wasn’t bashful. This was also a reason why Ning Yuxuan rarely went to her courtyard after the wedding night.

She had been a girl that had been so ardent with her love. But now, she was able to quietly stand by the woman that Ning Yuxuan liked the most and add food to her bowl after she had become a concubine. Nie Sangyu’s face was as calm as a lake without ripples as if she had severed off all thoughts.

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Ning Mingjie lowered his head and continued to eat.

By the time the meal was over, the sky had become dark. After old madame talked with Marquis Jingwen for a while, she had Wen Wan guide this uncle and these cousins to their rooms.

Ji Man followed after Honored Concubine Xue. Qi Siling and Mu Shuiqing were also walking with them. Just as they pa.s.sed by the southern courtyard’s grape trellis and were walking on a small stone bridge, someone suddenly pushed Ji Man’s back very hard and she couldn’t help falling towards Honored

Honored Concubine Xue.

“Ah!” A cry in surprise and the surrounding people became a disorderly mess. The servants, who had been carrying the lanterns, turned around to look and saw that Mu Shuiqing had already fallen over the bridge and into the clear stream.

“Master Qing!” Banxia had been walking at the very back and didn't make it in time to save her from falling into the water. She could only yell out, “Hurry and save Master Qing! Her pregnant body can’t suffer shock!”

Ji Man had fallen down with Qian Lianxue pressed underneath her and had caused the delicate beauty to suffer a terrible fall. At the front, Wen Wan had also stumbled. Originally, Ning Mingjie was going to step forward to help her, but Ning Errong had stepped forward one moment earlier and was already supporting her.