16 Ignorant Tang Rue

She must be hallucinating, right?

"Yu Xi," Tang Rue called. "Did you see Ning Xiao Wan at the theatre?"

Yu Xi, her personal maid, bowed her head. "This servant…"

"Did you see her!?" Tang Rue yelled with wide eyes.

"This...this servant saw Young Miss Xiao Wan, this servant saw her walking into the theatre…" Yu Xi trembled.

"No…" She slumped into her chair, "How can she be alive?"

Yu Xi tried to comfort her. "...Maybe she just got lucky."

"Lucky!? She can't just get lucky with a cultivator!" Tang Rue clenched her hands. Her nails almost dug into her palms.

"...Or someone saved her." Yu Xi who had her head down had a strange gleam flashed through her eyes.

"Someone saved her?" Tang Rue creased her graceful eyebrows...

Yu Xi switched the subject while trembling again. "At the theatre, this servant also saw Young Miss Xiao Wan was with...Shen Wang…"

Tang Rue widened her eyes. "With Song Hui Yao?"

"This servant thinks that Ning Wang wants Young Miss Xiao Wan to approach Shen Wang…" Yu Xi's head was lowered so one could not see her face.

"If Ning Wang wants to have a close relationship with Song Hui Yao, he can let Ning Rou Li do it. Why Ning Xiao Wan?" She questioned.

"Princess, you knew how much Ning Wang loves his daughter…" Yu Xi said. "Ning Wang can force Young Miss Xiao Wan to be Shen Wang's betrothed!"

"What!?" Tang Rue smashed the cup in her hand.

Ning Xiao Wan being Song Hui Yao's betrothed? Why!? She did everything and tried so hard to gain Song Hui Yao's favour, but there was no process. But now a little brat that popped out of nowhere could be his betrothed!? What did Ning Xiao Wan have that she didn't?

Beauty? She too was beautiful, graceful, kind, benevolent, and virtuous! She was a princess while that brat was just adopted. So what if Ning Xiao Wan was Ning Wang's niece? She was just a low-life before! A daughter of an emperor could not be compared to a low-life nobody - how humiliating!

Tang Rue's face became extremely ugly. "You may leave!"

Yu Xi stood up and retreated outside Tang Rue's bedchamber. After she walked away, Yu Xi had a smirk on her lips.

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Zhu Xiao Wan was observing Zhu Xiao Qian secretly.

"Xiao Qian, what did you arrange for the future?" Ning Su Cai was holding a sword. He clashed with Zhu Xiao Qian.

Zhu Xiao Qian said, "Cultivate my strength to protect my loved ones." He retreated back.

Ning Su Cai was surrounded by a green glow. "You really are a genius." Just fifteen and he was already at the same stage as him. "A Fourth Stage Green Spirit."

"It's not good enough…" He looked at a rock by his side then his gaze went to Zhu Xiao Wan. He saw her smiling with that same, unchanged, calm expression. He pulled his gaze back to Ning Su Cai and said with sincerity, "Thank you for treating us like your own relatives."

Seeing Zhu Xiao Qian's sincere face, he chuckled soundlessly. "Naturally, it's my, no, our fortune to have a nice sister like Xiao Wan and a brother as kind as you."

Zhu Xiao Qian smiled sheepishly. He was only kind to them and his sister.

When Zhu Xiao Wan heard Ning Su Cai said her brother was kind, her beautiful and elegant brows vaguely furrowed, then she soothed it.

"Xiao Wan!"

Zhu Xiao Wan turned to where the voice was coming from and saw Ning Rou Li and Ning Hai Heng. She smiled but her eyes were hazy.