“I’ve always been so silver-tongued!” said Shangguan Linglan with pride.

Jing Yan’s face turned extremely sullen. Watching them walking away, Jing Yan found it hard to choke down her anger. She clearly saw the snake, why it disappeared in an instant!?

“Did my eyes deceive me?

No… no way!

It must be Jing Yue’s trick!”

As soon as Jing Yue cheerfully left the stage, she saw the carriage of Xiao Chen, which was just waiting in the distance, surrounded by people in heated discussion. Jing Yue sighed and turned to look at Shangguan Linglan and Ning Xiangyuan.

“All right, we know your Ninth Imperial Uncle has come to pick you up.” Shangguan Linglan and Ning Xiangyuan also saw Xiao Chen’s carriage. Thus, Shangguan Linglan waved her hand after putting on an envious look, “Go ahead, quickly!”

“How nice of you two!” Jing Yue jovially hugged them, “I’ll buy you lunch in Delectable Delicacies Chamber tomorrow!”

“Oh, you want to please us?” Shangguan Linglan said with a smile, “I’ll eat you out of house and home.”

“I can’t wait for that!” Jing Yue smiled and said goodbye to Shangguan Linglan and Ning Xiangyuan. Then she turned away and joyfully jumped on Xiao Chen’s carriage. Ning Xiangyuan followed Jing Yue’s disappearing figure and glimpsed a man’s side face from the lifted curtain of the carriage.

Just a fleeting glimpse had already made Ning Xiangyuan so amazed and obsessed. She went blank with hands clenched in front of her abdomen until Shangguan Linglan gently called her, “Yuanyuan, what happened to you? What are you looking at?”

Shangguan Linglan looked at Ning Xiangyuan with knitted brows and followed Ning Xiangyuan’s sight but only found Ninth Imperial Uncle’s disappearing carriage. She felt puzzled since Ning Xiangyuan seemed to hide something on her mind.

“Ah…nothing.” Ning Xiangyuan hurriedly stopped gazing. When she turned to look at Shangguan Linglan and smiled, all the sparkles in her eyes had gone, “I was just thinking that Jing Yue once mentioned you are the respected guest of Delectable Delicacies Chamber.”

“Oh! I almost forgot!” Shangguan Linglan looked at the ring on her hand and angrily said, “What an ungrateful brat! She intends to treat us to lunch but doesn’t want to spend a penny. We should ask her to invite us to Flowing Clouds Loft instead of Delectable Delicacies Chamber.”

“If Yueyue knew that her plan had failed, she would be depressed for a while again.” Ning Xiangyuan giggled with mouth covered while Shangguan Linglan wore a triumphant look.

Jing Yue sneezed in the carriage, thinking to herself as she rubbed her itchy nose, “Who is scheming against me on my back?”

“Oh yeah… finally the study has come to an end.” Jing Yue sighed as she lay face down on the soft couch of the carriage. Xiao Chen cupped his chin and stared at Jing Yue with a smile, “I can’t find any change of you even after such a long etiquette training.”

“It’s just superficial in any case, don’t be so serious.” Jing Yue pouted and said ruefully, “It is all your fault.”

“…” Xiao Chen became slightly rigid and stayed silent.

“Have you found the place to build my house?” Jing Yue turned over and asked.

“Xing Yi has found some places and you can have a look at them tomorrow.” Xiao Chen said casually