Little glutton!
Mo Yanchen grumbled inwardly, wanting to look away. But he realized that in this garden… well, only this little toddler was somewhat interesting.
Just then, the servant pouring tea for Xiao Yunshu accidentally spilled it on her.
“Ah! This servant… this servant knows her crime, please forgive me, Junzhu!” The maid fell to her knees in terror.
A governess stepped forward to scold her, “What is going on? So clumsy! Someone, take her away!”
“Forget it,” Xiao Yunshu waved her hand. “It’s no big deal, it’s fine.”
The governess quickly said, “Junzhu, there are clean clothes prepared in the side courtyard. This servant will take you there to change.”
“Very well.”
Xiao Yunshu nodded and said to Nuannuan, “Nuannuan, sit here and be good. Auntie will be right back.”
Nuannuan suddenly reached out and hugged Xiao Yunshu. “No, no! Nuannuan go too!”
Dragon Dragon said there were bad people; she had to protect her auntie!
Xiao Yunshu saw how clingy she was and could only carry her along. After all, it was just a change of clothes.
Seeing her holding the child, the governess shot a hidden glance toward a certain direction, then lowered her eyes and led the way.
Mo Yanchen, who had been watching, frowned.
Fool!
What was wrong with this Junzhu of the Wu’an Wangfu? Couldn’t she see through such a simple trap? In the palace, that maid and governess would have been seized and interrogated long ago!
“Yanchen, what’s wrong?”
Chang Gongzhu asked in confusion as she saw her young nephew stand up.
“Huang Gumu, I’m going for a walk.”
Mo Yanchen gave a formal bow to Chang Gongzhu and headed in the direction Xiao Yunshu had gone.
Chang Gongzhu didn’t ask further; although this nephew was young, he had always been headstrong and capable. Besides, with Shadow Guards following him, nothing could go wrong.
Xiao Yunshu followed the governess into a room in the side courtyard. She had just closed the door to change when she keenly sensed something strange in the scent of the incense burning in the room.
Under the influence of the fragrance, her body gradually began to feel weak, accompanied by an indescribable sensation. She immediately picked up Nuannuan, intending to turn and leave, but she hadn’t expected the door to have already been locked from the outside.
“Open the door! Open it quickly!”
How could Xiao Yunshu not understand that someone was targeting her? She hurriedly tried to grab something to smash the door, but found that under the effect of the fragrance, she couldn’t muster any strength at all. She didn’t even have the strength to hold Nuannuan anymore.
“Nuannuan, I’m sorry. Auntie was careless and failed to protect you!” Xiao Yunshu looked at Nuannuan with deep regret. “Nuannuan, don’t worry. Even if Auntie has to give her life, she won’t let them hurt you!”
Nuannuan, however, was surprised to find that from her perspective, her auntie began to emit a black qi, just like her daddy and the others.
“Auntie black… Auntie, black-black…”
As Nuannuan spoke, she reached out her small hand and grabbed Xiao Yunshu’s hand. Immediately, the black qi followed her hand, entered her mind, and was swallowed by the Purple Dragon Egg.
Dragon Dragon, hurry and eat!
Nuannuan shouted in her heart.
Eat it! Eat it! Eat all the black-black stuff!
Nuannuan worked hard to capture the black qi on Xiao Yunshu with her tiny hands. Inside her mind, the Purple Dragon Egg seemed to hear Nuannuan’s call, as it diligently devoured the black qi. As the black qi was consumed, the originally dull shell of the Purple Dragon Egg gradually began to become lustrous and radiant.
There wasn’t much black qi on Xiao Yunshu to begin with. After it was absorbed by Nuannuan, her previously groggy thoughts instantly cleared. The strange sensation in her body vanished as well.
Xiao Yunshu had initially worried that the poisonous incense would affect Nuannuan’s health, but upon observation, she found that Nuannuan seemed entirely unaffected by the fragrance. In fact, after the child’s small hand touched her, her strength gradually returned.
“This…”
Xiao Yunshu’s eyes widened in shock. She remembered her father saying that Nuannuan was the “glimmer of hope” for the Wu’an Wangfu mentioned by the divine fortune-teller. She had been somewhat dismissive before, but now she believed it completely.
However, what followed was a wave of intense fear. She felt deep remorse; if Nuannuan had come with her and suffered any harm, she wouldn’t be able to atone for her crime even in death. Nuannuan was the only hope of their Wu’an Wangfu!
At that moment, the door was opened from the outside. A man with a lewd expression slipped in and quickly closed the door again.
Upon seeing the person who entered, Xiao Yunshu’s expression changed. “Duan Chenlang? It’s you!”
“Yunshu Junzhu, don’t worry, I’ll be very gentle. I’ll treat you well from now on.” Duan Chenlang rubbed his hands together, his eyes greedily fixed on Xiao Yunshu’s exquisite face.
She was like a blazing sun in the capital, the dream wife of countless men. However, those men couldn’t even get near Xiao Yunshu before being blocked by her three exceptionally talented brothers. Who could have thought that the one to finally have her would be him?
He was already imagining the envious and admiring looks from other men after today.
“Auntie, bad man! Hit! Hit him!”
Seeing Duan Chenlang’s lecherous smile, Nuannuan’s face turned red with anger. She clenched her tiny fists, ready to swing at his face.
“Nuannuan, don’t touch him, he’s filthy!”
Xiao Yunshu said coldly, her gaze looking at Duan Chenlang as if he were a dead man. “Duan Chenlang, how dare you insult me like this? Do you really think there is no one left in the Wu’an Wangfu?”
Duan Chenlang sneered. “Who else is left in your Wu’an Wangfu? Your father, who is over fifty? Your eldest brother, who has one foot in the grave? Your second brother, who is a crippled paralytic? Or… your third brother, who has become a male concubine toyed with by women?”
“Yunshu Junzhu, just obey me, and let me cherish you from now on!”
In the past, Duan Chenlang would never have dared to say such things. But now, the Wu’an Wangfu was left with only the old, weak, sick, and disabled—nothing to worry about. Xiao Yunshu was currently under the influence of his lust-inducing drug. Once he slept with her, he would not only gain a peerless beauty but also seize the power of the Wu’an Wangfu for himself.
Thinking of this, Duan Chenlang impatiently reached out toward Nuannuan, intending to toss the eyesore aside.
Bang!
Before his hand could touch Nuannuan, Xiao Yunshu kicked him hard in the stomach, sending him flying backward.
“Ah!”
Duan Chenlang clutched his churning stomach, looking at Xiao Yunshu in disbelief. “How? How do you still have strength?”
His medicine was the most potent lust-inducing drug; after smelling it for so long, she should have been slumped on the ground without a shred of strength, begging for his affection!