Alluring His Wife: The Evil King's Fifth Consort

She walked over with a bright smile on her face, just like a beautiful apricot in the spring wind. Her eyes were filled with the sparkle of broken jade, together with the earrings of her bright pearls.

Wei Guanshu"s fingers, which were wrapped around Yun Xiu"s sleeves, curled tightly. She only hated himself and Yun Xie for missing out on so many beautiful years, and even though the current her was beautiful, after all, he had been a wife for a few years, and all the spirit in his body was gone.

Any man would definitely like such a woman with such an oppressive aura, right? A trace of panic flashed across Wei Guanshu"s heart at this moment, and it was even a sense of inferiority that she was unwilling to admit.

Wei Yuanwei casually sat down, she raised his head and glanced at Wei Guanshu who was standing at the side and did not want to sit down, and laughed: "Elder sister, quickly sit down, why are you being so courteous, are you all sisters from your own clan?"

"Thank you, sister." Wei Guanshu smiled gently, then sat down gracefully.

Wei Yuanwei smiled and said: "I am the most amiable person here. My prince is usually busy with official business, so when I eat alone, I will let my maidservants sit with me."

Wei Guanshu"s mouth twitched, and then recovered its gentle smile, as though there was no more ripples on the calm surface of the lake.

From the moment she entered the door, Wei Yuanwei had been intentionally or unintentionally targeting her. Not only could she not get angry, she even had to curry favor with Wei Yuanwei. What she needed to do now was not to confront Wei Yuanwei head-on, but to win back Yun Xie"s heart.

Looking at Wei Guanshu"s pure and innocent appearance, Wei Yuanwei laughed coldly in his heart. She refused to believe that Wei Guanshu was some kind of white lotus, and had only disguised himself, but she couldn"t help but admire Wei Guanshu"s endurance. Even though she had provoked him hundreds of times, Wei Guanshu"s face was still as calm as before, as if her fist had just landed on cotton.

Since she was so fond of acting the part of a sister, she was happy to accompany her. In any case, it was a long night in the palace, and she was here to spend these boring days.

My little sister has a taste of the osmanthus cake that I made. I mixed the best osmanthus flower into a powder by drying it under the sun, then mixed it with Lotus Root Starch, and added some peanut oil when I came out of the pot. The fragrance of the flower is overwhelming, it"s soft and delicious. Wei Guanshu smiled as he placed the osmanthus cake in front of Wei Yuanwei.

Wei Yuanwei did not even touch it, she suddenly rolled his eyes and directly pushed the fragrant osmanthus cracker to Princess Xi Ya: "Princess Xi Ya, try it, this is a dish that Xiling cannot afford to eat."

Princess Xi Ya"s recent appet.i.te was not good, and he could not bear the greasy and smelly things either, so he immediately covered his mouth and ran out.

Wei Yuanwei laughed: "Looks like Princess Xi Ya isn"t blessed."

Wei Guanshu indifferently swept her gaze at the back of Princess Xi Ya, a cold glint flashed past her eyes.

Yun Xie liked the Thousand-wedding Pie so much that she pushed it to her. "You made such a big fuss on the way here, now that we"re at the Duke Palace, there"s no need to be so polite."

He had already felt the strangeness in the atmosphere, the reason why he asked this question was only because he wanted Wei Yuanwei to calm down.

Wei Yuanwei naturally knew when to stop. She smiled sweetly at Yun Xie, and revealed a bashful expression: "I didn"t think that Your Highness would still remember."

The atmosphere of the meal was extremely weird. Wei Yuanwei ate quite a bit, Yun Xie merely ate a few bites, but Wei Guanshu picked up the chopsticks and put them down.

After eating, Yun Xie went to the study room to discuss the Spring Auction with Xuan Li.

The Eastern Chu"s army would hold the Spring Tournament every spring, which was to let the best in the army fight against the best, and those who obtained the final victory would be crowned, and be rewarded with a thousand silver.

Every soldier in the army was extremely pa.s.sionate about this, because not only were the soldiers able to improve their relationship through sparring, they were also able to gain the appreciation of the prince.

The Spring Auction did not exist when the Prince did not have control over the military. Ever since the Prince had proposed this kind of contest that was a mix of fun and compet.i.tive nature, the soldiers" enthusiasm and cohesiveness had never been seen before, and even the army had been dispirited. As long as there were no major or minor wars in the country, this event would still be carried out without incident.

"Your Highness, the Crown Prince of Xiling has asked us to bring his group of people to partic.i.p.ate in the Spring Tournament. Should we reject him?" Xuan Li bowed and said, after all the so called Spring Melody was just an internal compet.i.tion of the army, there had never been a foreign state that had come to fight.

If the warriors of the Eastern Chu lost in the compet.i.tion, the Duke and the entire Eastern Chu would lose face. If the warriors of the Xiling were injured, the best way to do so would be to refuse.

"Alright, we will inform the Crown Prince of Xiling tomorrow. If you have the interest, feel free to come." She naturally knew what Zhong Lixian was planning, how could he extinguish her arrogance and the determination of others?

"Here." Xuan Li bowed and left.

Only Shangli and Yun Xie were left in the house.

"Your Highness, this subordinate has something that I don"t understand. Since you have tied the princess"s ident.i.ty to your heart, why did you still leave Wei Guanshu in the Palace?"

Three women acting together. Princess Xi Ya and Wei Yuanwei originally went against each other, but now with the addition of Wei Guanshu, the entire Duke Palaces would probably never again be peaceful and peaceful.

"I naturally have my reasons." Yun Xie lowered his eyes in silence.

"Is it related to the Tiger Tattooed Jade Pendant?" Shangli was not only Yun Xie"s bodyguard, many times, a kind of tacit understanding had already formed between the two of them.

Yun Xie just smiled and did not reply.

Wei Yuanwei was playing cards with Ah Qing for fun. She had drawn a symbol on a piece of white paper and pa.s.sed it to Xiao Qing and Yin Sheng to play cards.

"You"re not allowed to peek!" Wei Yuanwei praised Ah Qing.

"Mistress, you"ve already won this servant"s money, can"t you let me win once?" Ah Qing pouted miserably.

"Humph!" "It"s just that you"re not allowed to cheat and can only win money based on skill." Wei Yuanwei said while grinning.

"Haha, the two of you can just bicker. This time, I finished the hand I was using first, so all of this silver is mine." Yin Sheng laughed as he held the silver in his arms.

Seeing Ah Qing"s dejected face, Yin Sheng giggled and said: "Alright Ah Qing, don"t be angry, Big Sis will buy you a candied fruit to eat tomorrow."

Ah Qing just smiled.

While everyone was having fun, they were interrupted by a light knock on the door.

"Who is it that"s so annoying? My luck is just a bit better." Ah Qing pouted with anger.

Who else other than Wei Guanshu would come to pay a visit at this time?

"Put away your cards and go make some tea." Since Wei Guanshu wanted to chat with her, she was also willing to accompany him.

After the door was opened, Wei Guanshu walked in with a smile, her posture extremely graceful.