Duke Jing's younger sister

Chapter 210 Enough is Enough

Jiang Li took in everything in the courtyard and couldn't help feeling puzzled.

Did he never leave the palace, or did he come back again?

Before she could come to her senses, he had already swaggered in.

Without being invited, he simply lifted his robe and sat down on the couch, then reached out to pour himself a cup of tea.

The movements were smooth and flowing, and he felt as comfortable as if he was at home.

"Luo Zhi——"

he called softly.

"I'm here." Luo Zhi responded quickly.

"Go and boil some hot water."

Luo Zhi lowered her head and accepted the order, and before leaving, she did not forget to pull Xingping out of the house.

Others may not know how much the Duke cares about the girl, but Luo Zhi knows it very well.

Now that he is back, maybe the girl's marriage can turn around!

Jiang Li felt a little uncomfortable being alone with him in this unfamiliar environment.

"Brother, why didn't you leave?"

"I just came back from the palace."

He said, extending his hand towards her, but she hurriedly stood up from the couch and put some distance between her and him.

Shen Beiqi frowned slightly and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"I am someone else's wife now," Jiang Li tried to keep her voice steady, "You are...making me feel...I am..."

"I can only stay in the city for three days."

Shen Beiqi interrupted her and explained calmly, "So, I will live here for the time being."

Jiang Li's pupils trembled slightly.

Three days?

Are you leaving so soon?

Then she reacted.

"You want to... live here?"

Jiang Li was stunned, with disbelief written all over her face, "Isn't this inappropriate? After all, I have already..."

Shen Beiqi: "Do you really have to do this?"

"...What?"

Jiang Li was puzzled.

He suddenly stood up and spread his legs.

Every step brought a suffocating sense of oppression, gradually approaching her.

Jiang Li stepped back subconsciously, not understanding what he wanted to do.

He moved quickly, grabbing her slender waist and holding it tightly, as if he wanted to rub her into his body.

"If you dare to remind me again and again that you are someone else's wife, I will let you learn a lesson about the ability of a 'lover' like me!"

There was a dangerous look in his eyes.

Jiang Li opened her red lips slightly and was about to speak, but was fiercely blocked by his lips.

He pressed his lips against hers for a moment and warned again: "Enough is enough!"

Jiang Li's face turned red and white, and she felt ashamed and annoyed.

He is the one who should stop!

"Haven't you always been unwilling to let others know about your relationship with the Third Prince?"

Jiang Li finally managed to break free from his embrace and panted, "Then if you live here, won't you be exposed?"

Shen Beiqi sat back in his chair and picked up the teacup on the table as if nothing had happened.

Jiang Li wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

That was...her teacup.

“I really needed to avoid it before.”

He took a sip of tea, his eyes slightly raised, revealing a hint of frivolity that was hard to fathom, "But now, it doesn't matter."

"Then you can't live with me."

Jiang Li still found it hard to accept, "The palace is so spacious, there will naturally be guest rooms for you to stay in."

"It's not a bad idea to stay in the guest room."

He is so easy to talk to?

Jiang Li was extremely surprised.

However, the next moment, he chuckled and said, "Then you must come to see me at night. Given our current relationship, it's just right for us to meet secretly... at night!"

He read the last few words word for word and glanced at her calmly.

Jiang Li was suddenly speechless.

This person is simply...

It's simply overwhelmed!

"Are you and the Third Prince friends?" Jiang Li asked.

"I know what you want to say," Shen Beiqi said, "Don't worry, he and I always remember that a friend's wife should not be cheated on."

Jiang Li was speechless again.

After Luo Zhi prepared the hot water, Yue Yang just happened to rush back from the Shen Mansion and brought some clean clothes for Shen Beiqi.

Jiang Li now understood that he was really going to live here.

Fortunately, he is only good at talking.

After bathing in the bathroom, he went to the side hall of Yiranju to rest.

I guess he was really tired, as he slept until dawn the next day.

......

Taking advantage of the night, Han Yunning changed into the clothes of a palace maid and quietly slipped into the East Palace.

Xiao Wenhao was holding the wine cup alone, drinking to drown his sorrows, and looked quite depressed.

"Your Highness," Han Yunning stepped forward and begged, "Please help my father."

Xiao Wenhao tilted his head and glanced at her with drunken eyes, "Has Concubine Ning encountered a difficult situation? Is that why you thought of me?"

He stood up and staggered over to her.

"I don't know who it is, but ever since I got pregnant with the Dragonborn, he has been avoiding me like the plague, fearing that..."

He drawled out the words and grasped her slender neck.

The neck is so thin that he can break it with just a little force!

"Are you afraid that I will hinder your ambition? Han Yunning, I didn't know you were so sinister and vicious. At the flower viewing banquet, you dared to use the obsidian snake to frame my mother. Who gave you the courage?"

His men exerted a little force, but did not dare to be too presumptuous.

After all, she is now deeply favored by Emperor Hongyang, and her popularity even surpasses that of the former Concubine Zhao.

If she can successfully give birth to a prince, promotion to imperial concubine is just around the corner.

"...I am just..."

Han Yunning gasped for air, "I was just following my father's orders. How would I know... what the venomous snake was going to be used for?"

She didn't lie.

The night before the flower-viewing banquet, her father summoned her and ordered her to bring two poisonous snakes into the palace and mix them into the fourth princess's snake bag.

Xiao Wushuang harbored resentment towards Shen Beiqi because of what happened to her, and sent people to catch many rat snakes in the Imperial Garden, something she had already known about.

Her father also gave her a handkerchief, saying that the handkerchief had a strange fragrance that could attract the poisonous snake.

She also repeatedly instructed to give the handkerchief to the maidservant beside Concubine Zhao.

At that time, she just felt it was strange. Even if her father had joined the prince's faction, why would he attack the concubines in the harem?

What benefits would the prince gain by killing Concubine Zhao?

But she didn't ask too many questions, and she knew that even if she asked, her father wouldn't say much.

Xiao Wenhao suddenly let her go.

Han Yunning's face turned pale and blue in an instant, and he coughed for a long time before he recovered his breath.

"You are now the favorite concubine of the emperor father." He sat back at the table and poured himself a glass of wine. "Why don't you ask him for help but ask me for help instead?"