"That's more like it! Let's drink this glass and be more honest with each other from now on!" Su Xiaoning looked at the empty glass in her hand with great satisfaction, completely unaware that Xu Xin's face had turned red rapidly.
"Smack!"
Xu Xin knocked the wine glass out of Su Xiaoning's hand. The porcelain fell to the ground and shattered instantly, attracting the attention of the head maid.
"I...I want to go back..." Xu Xin stood up unsteadily. She had given Su Xiaoning a strong dose of medicine, and the effects were overwhelming. Now her head was getting dizzier and dizzier. If she stayed here any longer, who knew what nonsense she would say.
Su Xiaoning, unaware of the situation, tugged at her sleeve and asked with concern, "What's wrong?"
Xu Xin had intended to shake off Su Xiaoning, but suddenly all her strength vanished, and she collapsed to the ground with a thud. Her vision blurred, like looking at flowers through fog, and her consciousness grew increasingly unclear. She felt as if she were floating on clouds, drifting aimlessly.
Just as Su Xiaoning was about to pull Xu Xin up, she suddenly heard Xu Xin laugh strangely a few times, and then shout loudly.
"Don't touch me! I drugged you!"
"What?" Su Xiaoning was stunned, her outstretched hand freezing in mid-air.
Xu Xin was completely under the influence of the drug. She stood up unsteadily, staring at Su Xiaoning with a chilling, sinister smile on her face.
"I'm telling you, Su Xiaoning, I drugged you! I prepared this drug especially for you, I'm really looking forward to seeing how you embarrass yourself after you're drugged... That's not enough! You deserve to die! You could have just admitted it during the physical exam today, I couldn't have gone after Meng Ruqiao, so I had to drug you, hehe..."
In just a few words, the author explains how Xu Xin's current abnormal behavior came about.
Su Xiaoning was speechless for a moment; this was truly a case of reaping what you sow.
However, Xu Xin couldn't be allowed to act recklessly in this situation, so Su Xiaoning kindly tried to persuade her to shut up. But Xu Xin wouldn't listen at all. She cried and laughed, and not content with just cursing Meng Ruqiao and Su Xiaoning, she even started cursing Su Qingcai.
"What a load of rubbish, Ninth Prince! He actually looks down on me! I'm considered a renowned beauty in the capital, what do I lack compared to others? He won't even glance at me! Humph, Ninth Prince, you look down on me, but I look down on you too. Anyway, you might not even get to sit in that position in the future..."
Upon hearing this, everyone in the room was startled.
Su Xiaoning's expression changed. Since Su Qingcai was involved, she could no longer let Xu Xin talk nonsense. She took out a gold needle and stuck it into Xu Xin's neck.
Xu Xin collapsed softly, her eyes still open, but she couldn't say a word.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Su Xiaoning quickly performed acupuncture to save the person. Her skillful use of acupuncture points left everyone in awe.
Before long, Xu Xin regained consciousness. She covered her face and burst into tears, her whole body trembling uncontrollably.
The head maid stepped forward with a solemn expression and said sternly, "Miss Xu, what you did earlier was just a minor incident in our eyes, nothing serious. But it's a different story when the Prince is involved! Words can be dangerous, Miss Xu, you should be more careful next time. You are no longer qualified to be selected as a concubine!"
"What?!" Xu Xin's face turned ashen, and she pleaded incessantly with the nanny. The nanny, however, remained unmoved and ordered people to come up and drag Xu Xin away.
Xu Xin's words were too serious, and the people present simply pretended not to hear them. After a brief silence, the previous liveliness returned, as if Xu Xin had never existed.
Su Xiaoning had lost her appetite and was resting her chin on her hand in a daze when suddenly someone came over and gave her a sweet smile.
"If you're unhappy, can you tell me what's wrong?"
Su Xiaoning turned her head and saw that it was A-Lian. She smiled back, shook her head and said, "I'm fine."
"Looking at you like this, how could you be alright?" A-Lian moved even closer, as if she and Su Xiaoning were very close. "We're friends. You can tell me anything that's on your mind. If you don't want to tell me now, you can tell me next time."
“A-Lian…” Su Xiaoning frowned, about to refuse, when Meng Ruqiao’s cold voice suddenly came from the side.
"Some people just don't know how to read other people's expressions, which is annoying."
Meng Ruqiao stared intently at Alian, who shrank back and actually moved a little further away from Su Xiaoning.
Su Xiaoning glanced at Meng Ruqiao with some surprise. Meng Ruqiao's probing gaze swept over Alian and her before she said indifferently, "Actually, there are some things I don't really want to get involved in, but you did a good job saving people just now. You don't seem as bad as I thought. So let me give you a reminder."
"—Be careful of the people around you."
After Meng Ruqiao finished speaking, word by word, she turned her head away and never looked at Su Xiaoning and Alian again.
A-Lian felt a little guilty and dared not speak again, while Su Xiaoning showed a thoughtful expression.
...
Dinner ended hastily, and Su Xiaoning went straight back to her room.
Not long after, Bing Er quietly entered the house, handed Su Xiaoning a letter, and then left.
It was obvious who it was that Bing Er had sent to deliver the letter. Su Xiaoning felt a sweet warmth in her heart and quickly opened the letter in her hand. The letter was covered with dense writing, and it was indeed Su Qingcai's handwriting.
But after watching for a while, Su Xiaoning showed a subtle expression on her face.
The letter seems to contain a lot of information, but... what is it even about?
Su Qingcai was, after all, a proper person from ancient times. Although he was quite informal in his speech, his writing was in complex classical Chinese. Even though Su Xiaoning had memorized classical Chinese texts since childhood, it didn't mean she could understand an entire passage without annotations!
Su Xiaoning stared at it for a long time, but she was completely confused and didn't understand what Su Qingcai was trying to express at all.
She put aside the letter, found a new blank sheet of paper, and picked up her pen to write a reply to Su Qingcai in her own words. Various thoughts rushed through her mind, but she hesitated to put pen to paper.
If she spoke to Su Qingcai so bluntly, would Su Qingcai think she was uncultured?
She has received nine years of compulsory education and was admitted to a top national university. She absolutely cannot accept that someone thinks she is illiterate!
Su Xiaoning crumpled the blank letter into a ball and threw it away. She carefully kept Su Qingcai's letter and went to bed without paying any more attention to it.
For several days afterward, Bing Er delivered Su Qingcai's letters to Su Xiaoning. However, since Su Xiaoning couldn't understand them, she put them aside without replying, regardless of how anxious Su Qingcai was waiting for a response.
One evening, Su Xiaoning felt like taking a walk in the courtyard.
She walked to a secluded corner, when suddenly a hand reached out from behind and covered her mouth!
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