Chapter 61 (1/2)

Chapter 61

Chapter: 061 out of 513 – The role of the supporting male and female characters (2)

Feiwan Courtyard.

Marquis Moyu was leaning against the side of the bed and his long eyelashes were lowered. His expression actually looked somewhat lonely.

After Ji Man untied her hair and freshened up, she sat down on the bed and asked, “My lord, what’s wrong?”

Ning Yuxuan opened his eyes. He actually looked somewhat childish as he asked, “Sangyu, tell me. Who’s better looking, me or Ning Mingjie?”

This… Ji Man secretly rolled her eyes, then she said, “The marquis's cousin has always hidden his face behind a mask, so naturally it’s my lord that’s better looking.”

Hadn’t Nie Sangyu previously said several years ago that in terms of appearances, Ning Mingjie resembled a piece of white jade more? But, she couldn’t say these words. She was afraid that Ning Yuxuan would choke her to death in a fit of anger.

“If he took off his mask, then I won’t be as good looking as him?”

She didn’t know what was wrong with Ning Yuxuan. Why was he quibbling over a minor detail?

Ji Man lightly smiled and said, “The marquis is the best looking person in this servant’s eyes. Isn’t there such a saying? “My wife said that I was more handsome because she was partial towards me. My concubine said I was more handsome because she felt reverence and fear towards me.”*

* (T/N: These lines are from an ancient Chinese text, Strategies of the Warring States, that contains anecdotes of political manipulation and

warfare. For a little extra background, Zhou Ji, the person who originally asked this question, knew that he wasn’t more handsome than the person he was comparing himself to. He was using this question as an example to show the emperor that these types of people wouldn’t necessarily give him a truthful answer.)

After Marquis Moyu fully contemplated these words, his face sunk and he said, “Are you saying that you’re flattering me because you’re scared of me?”

Ji Man innocently blinked her eyes. Her eyes were thoroughly bright as if they were filled with sparking, translucent snowflakes.

Seeing this sight, Ning Yuxuan slightly lost control of his senses and couldn’t resist pulling her arm to draw her closer to him. He carefully looked at her eyes.

The eyes were the windows to a person’s soul. Ji Man knew that she should be displaying intense feelings in her eyes, and then she should pretend to suppress those fake feelings. When this man saw those feelings, he would know that he was in her heart and would be more softhearted towards her in the future.

But, this was something only a leading actress could pull off. Ji Man could only try her best. She didn’t know what Marquis Moyu saw in her eyes, but his expression became much better. He gently pushed her away and said, “Did you change the incense that you were using in your room?”

Changing the topic? Ji Man raised her eyebrows, then she climbed onto the bed and obediently lied down next to him.

him. She yawned and said, “The previous type of incense always smelled stale, so I had Muxu replace it with an incense that has a fresh and clean smell.”

Marquis Moyu was silent for a while, then he said, “I like the previous type of incense better.”

A marquis was a marquis. He was so unreasonably overbearing. He was even insisting that she uses incense that he likes. Ji Man secretly rolled her eyes and brightly smiled as she said, “This servant will have it changed back tomorrow.”

“En.”