Chapter 131
Chapter 131
Nalan Muxue lifted her eyes to look at him.
After a long while, she finally spoke, her voice utterly devoid of emotion. “Why waste so much breath? If you’re going to do it, hurry up. If not, get out.”
The Evil Lord’s grip on her chin tightened. She must have felt the pain, yet her face remained expressionless.
“I’m not in the mood to touch you tonight,” the Evil Lord snarled. “I’m here to warn you. At tomorrow’s palace banquet, you’d better not get any ideas about the Dongli Envoy Delegation. They will never help you! And Di Xiulan, along with that woman beside him-you stay away from them!”
With that, he shoved her away in irritation and strode off.
Nalan Muxue watched his retreating figure, her fingers clenched so tightly they had gone white.
She did not know who this person was, but he was no longer the Feng Jin she once knew.
Tears welled in her icy eyes.
A year ago, the young State Preceptor who had grown up with her, who had been as warm and pure as jade, made a deal with a devil for her sake. After that, he became what he was now…
Throughout all of Xiliu, no one’s cultivation could rival his.
Now, she could only place her hopes on Dali’s Regent King. In the entire Glazed Continent, only he was a match for Feng Jin!
But as a prince of Dali, would he agree to help her?
No matter what, she had to try…
The Regent King had brought his fiancée with him. She had deliberately observed them today. The two of them chatted and smiled together, looking perfectly in sync.
Nalan Muxue lowered her gaze in thought, and an idea came to her.
At tomorrow’s palace banquet, she would not be able to meet the Regent King alone, but she could meet his fiancée. It would be perfectly reasonable for two women who hit it off at once to share a few heartfelt words.
And Feng Jin had specifically warned her just now to stay away from the woman beside Di Xiulan. That meant the woman must be capable in her own right…
At that thought, a faint hope stirred in Nalan Muxue’s heart.
The next day.
The banquet Xiliu held to receive the Dali envoy delegation was hosted in the royal palace.
The Queen of Xiliu sat in the seat of honor. The first guest seats to her left were occupied by Di Xiulan and Ye Piaoling, followed by Liang Yun and the other Dali envoys. The first seat to her right belonged to State Preceptor Feng Jin, with the rest of Xiliu’s important ministers lined up after him.
The Evil Lord knew Ye Piaoling suspected him, so he assumed she would keep testing him at today’s banquet. He had long since prepared himself to endure it.
Unexpectedly, Ye Piaoling ignored him completely today.
Instead, she kept sneaking glances at Nalan Muxue in the seat of honor.
Nalan Muxue also kept glancing back at her, returning her looks with almost frantic enthusiasm.
And so the two girls kept exchanging meaningful glances.
Everyone: “…”
Why did this feel so strange?
Xiliu’s ministers were utterly baffled. Their queen was ignoring two peerlessly handsome men-the State Preceptor and Dali’s Regent King-and instead kept staring at the Regent King’s fiancée, flirting with her through her eyes…
With such a promising citrus situation unfolding, could it be that their queen had certain special preferences?
Even Di Xiulan could not stand it anymore.
Sourly, he took Ye Piaoling’s hand beneath the table and reminded her, “Just act according to plan. Is there any need for all this winking and signaling?”
Ye Piaoling estimated that the timing was about right, took a gift box from her storage pouch, and stepped forward. “Queen Sister, this is a small gift I prepared for you-a ceremonial dress woven from Dali white jade heavenly silk. Congratulations on your ascension, Sister. May you stay eighteen forever!”
Xiliu’s ministers: “…”
What kind of bizarre diplomatic language was this?
It completely disregarded etiquette, and she even dared to call Her Majesty “Sister”?
Her Majesty had a cold and severe temperament. Hearing such frivolous words, she would surely be angry…
Yet to everyone’s surprise, Nalan Muxue was not angry at all. A smile even appeared on her usually frost-cold face.
She accepted the gift box presented by the maid and opened it. With a gasp of admiration, she said, “It’s so beautiful!”
Ye Piaoling said, “This dress will definitely make Sister look like a fairy. It’s just that the ties are very complicated, and the palace maids may not handle them properly. Let me help Sister put it on!”
Nalan Muxue rose with a smile. “Come with me.”
With that, she was about to take Ye Piaoling alone into the inner palace.
Xiliu’s ministers were all stunned.
Her Majesty not only did not reprimand this Dongli woman for her rudeness, she was even warmly asking her to help change her clothes on the spot?!
The Evil Lord secretly gritted his teeth. The thing he feared most had happened after all. Ye Piaoling, that Damn Woman, had indeed started seducing the queen!
No. He absolutely could not let her be alone with the queen!