Pet Addiction: The Prince’s Desire to Spoil His Pet - Chapter 103 - My Little Girl (93)

Chapter 103: My Little Girl (93)

Shu Nuan helped pick up her things silently and then supported her in getting up. Wen Zhigu waited for her to get up and raise her head. She saw that it was Shu Nuan and was stumped for words. Clearly uncomfortable, she muttered, “Thank you.”

“What’s wrong with your hand?”

Shu Nuan had noticed the blood-stained gauze wrapped around Wen Zhigu’s wrist, and she always had negative ideas about things.

But she only got a simple response.

“I was careless and scratched myself.”

With that, the girl turned to leave, but before she could take even half a step, she felt dizzy and tottered. Shu Nuan grasped her right hand. She realised the girl didn’t want to say how her wrist had been hurt, and so she didn’t ask her again. Taking her to a nearby stone chair, Shu Nuan sat her down. She frowned and asked, “Would you like to have a rest first?”

“I need to go buy some medicine.”

“What medicine? Let me buy it for you,” Shu Nuan offered.

Wen Zhigu looked at her and whispered, “Musk.”

[T/N: Musk – rubbing musk into navel can prevent pregnancy]

Shu Nuan wasn’t able to respond for a while.

“What do you buy that for?”

Wen Zhigu stared at Shu Nuan with an odd expression. In a voice tinged with mockery, she asked, “Has the Fourth Prince deflowered your body yet?”

Shu Nuan was stunned and her face flushed.

To her, Wen Zhigu was a pure and cold young girl, and not someone who could say such a thing. Shu Nuan hadn’t expected her to speak in a blatant manner.

“I… with him… we haven’t…”

Shu Nuan wasn’t sure what to say. But Wen Zhigu stared at her for a while, and then she blinked her eyes in understanding and withdrew her eyes. With a cold smile, she said, “He’s very good to you then.”

Shu Nuan realized the meaning of her words. But stunned, her eyes came to rest on Wen Zhigu’s still flat abdomen. She really didn’t know what to say, and uttered, “Is it Ji Xubai?”

Wen Zhigu hung her eyes, meaning the guess was right.

Shu Nuan had never thought that Ji Xubai could be such a beast. She frowned and said, “Why don’t you mention this to Teacher Li and Head Master Chen? Such a man as Ji Xubai is not fit to be a teacher of the academy.”

Wen Zhigu listened to the naive remarks and felt they were humorous. She smiled and opened her mouth to softly answer, “I looked for Master Chen once. He fined Ji Xubai a month’s salary, and later my brother was sold to Hancheng as a slave.”

Shu Nuan was quiet. She understood what Wen Zhigu had meant. She lowered her eyes and said nothing more.

Here in Beiguo Kingdom, where status was authority, the humble were the ones who suffered.

Shu Nuan faced Wen Zhigu and asked, “If there was a good person who had the power, would you expose Ji Xubai?”

Wen Zhigu ask flatly, “Do you mean the Fourth Prince?”

Shu Nuan didn’t deny.

But Wen Zhigu thought she was too naive and couldn’t help but make fun of her.

“Shu Nuan, if I recall correctly, you are a slave from the Qing Kingdom, right? These powerful people like you only because you are naive. If you stay low, you can at least have a safe life. And you dare to have the Fourth Prince do something for you?”

Shu Nuan bowed her head and remembered the scene she’d seen outside the barracks not long ago. She didn’t say a word.

“The most important thing is the person you want to expose is Ji Xubai. You know his identity. He is Marquis Ji’s second son, and his sister grew up together with princes like the Fourth Prince, and other nobles. He will not offend the Ji Family for a humble slave like you.”

Wen Zhigu said, paused, and then said, ‘Have you ever heard of a thing that passed through the palace before? Seventh Prince insulted a noble man in the imperial palace. The man who died was a noble man. Why do you think so? These powerful people never taken seriously the people beneath their status.”

Wen Zhigu had stayed in Beiguo for a long time. Gradually, she’d seen through the intricate network of power relations in this kingdom.

Shu Nuan listened to Wen Zhigu’s words, her face still expressionless. However, because of these words, she thought of Jing Fei, and she realized that her ideas were too self-righteous.

She’d almost forgotten there was a “slave” mark on her clavicle, something she couldn’t erase in her life.

She’d almost forgotten that she was branded as a slave.

She’d been indulged in the tender care that Sheng Qianmo had given her, just like Sheng Gu had said before.

Ji Xili and Sheng Qianmo were childhood sweethearts. They stood together in all terms, whether it was appearance, age, family status, or personal position. They were a perfect match.

Compared to her, Nuan herself was nothing.

How could a slave have… What an absurd idea.

Shu Nuan stood up and whispered, “Wait for me here. I’ll go buy it for you.”

She found a medicine hall nearby and asked the doctor for musk.

What she didn’t know at the time was that Zilan, Sheng Gu’s servant, happened to be on the other side of the counter.

Zilan had come to fetch Sheng Gu’s medicine, and she hadn’t expected to meet Shu Nuan here. And she’d heard clearly that the slave girl was here to buy musk…

After Zilan took the medicine and paid for it, she bowed her head and left. She went back to a big courtyard. It was where the prince had brought Sheng Gu to live. Then, Zilan told the story to Sheng Gu and expressed that the whole academy should know the slave’s true face, just as the princess had said: a good student by day, but eagre to climb into the Fourth Prince’s bed at night!

As luck would have it, she was even aborting quitely now…

“Princess… Do you think the Fourth Prince knows?”

Sheng Gu coughed twice and gritted her teeth. “Naturally. How could Fourth Uncle keep a slave’s sin?”

But Zilan had another idea altogether.

“What if the Fourth Prince didn’t know?”

“You mean, Shu Nuan came to buy musk behind his back?”

“Your servant is only guessing…”

Her words caused Sheng Gu to consider the situation again.

If her Fourth Uncle didn’t know, it was inconceivable for Shu Nuan to abort behind his back. After all, If she had his child, she would have some power, a threat, over her Fourth Uncle.

Or… perhaps the child in the slave… wasn’t her Fourth Uncle’s?

Whose could it then be?

Sheng Gu recalled that Sheng Lingyun had always fancied Shu Nuan. Could it be the slave girl had secretly hooked up with him?

Thinking up to here, Sheng Gu’s heart felt restless.

***

After Shu Nuan bid Wen Zhigu goodbye, she returned to the Shenghe Manor.

Just as she entered, by coincidence she happened upon Li Yuan coming out. He saw her stunned look, and asked, “Where did Miss Shu go?”

Shu Nuan answered truthfully, “I’d gone to buy and eat some sweets from the street.”

Li Yuan listened, and then frowned and said, “Miss Shu, go to the Shu Pavilion and explain to His Highness. His Highness thought something had happened to you, and just now he’s sent someone to look for you.”

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