Chapter 55: Nangong Lian’s Embarrassment
Translator: Claire.KK
Wu Ju looked up and saw a big gold banner with nine dragons around. On it were big characters, “Mansion of Eldest Prince’s”.

“There we are, Your Highness!” said Wu Ju gently. However, she sounded disgruntled which she didn’t use to. That was just because a girl was sitting in the cart with the Crown Prince. They had wished that the Crown Prince could fall in love with some girl. But this girl, as far as they were concerned, was not as good enough for the Crown Prince.

Inside the cart, Nangong Lian heard Wu Ju. And she realized Wu Ju was dissatisfied with her. These days, she tried to stay in the room as far as she could. But people in the Crown Prince’s Mansion still didn’t like her. They gave her disgusted looks as if she had done something evil to the Crown Prince.

“Hey, if I really marry you, do you think your maidservants and your chief will kill me?” Nangong Lian joked. She realized the Crown Prince didn’t smile much, just like her own brother. So, she couldn’t help messing up with the Crown Prince, just as she did to her brother. Unfortunately, the Crown Prince didn’t reply much.

Shang Wuxin stared at Nangong Lian. She smiled brightly. She was wearing a long purple dress with large sleeves. The jade pendant clanked. She looked graceful with bright eyes. Cute, but still elegant, as if she were a flying phoenix. She would have been a rare beauty, without the tattoo on her face. However, even if she had the tattoo, Shang Wuxin still thought she was a pretty girl.

“You can try!” Shang Wuxin replied. As expected, Nangong Lian’s face flushed. Nangong Lian was a bit older than Shang Wuxin and she used to be open-minded. But after all, she was a girl who could be shy.

Maybe because she thought her red face was quite humiliating, Nangong Lian looked up at the pretty “boy” and said, “Okay. Who cares?”

“But you are not my cup of tea!” Shang Wuxin broke Nangong Lian’s ambition directly. She dared to say so, just because she knew Nangong Lian didn’t have a crush on her. Instead, she might just treat her as a close friend.

If someone else said so, Nangong Lin would think he was laughing at her tattoo. But she knew the Crown Prince didn’t mean to humiliate her. So, she didn’t feel sad. She put on the veil and walked behind the Crown Prince. She murmured bitterly, “You really don’t know how to have compassion for girls! If you meet my brother someday, I’ll have you make friends with him!”

Shang Wuxin didn’t mind. Right at this moment, she didn’t expect that she would soon meet the prince who didn’t have compassion for girls just like her.

Shang Wuxin and Nangong Lian walked in to the Mansion of Eldest Prince, followed by Wu Wei and Wu Ju in blue. Nearly everyone else had arrived before they did. Even though the Crown Prince was late, no one dared to argue. But to Shang Wuxin’s surprise, Leng Yufeng was also here today. Everyone else was shocked, too. They thought General Leng worked for the Eldest Prince. But later when they found that General Leng just sat and said nothing for whatever happened, they realized something wrong.

“Here comes the Crown Prince!” yelled the butler of the Eldest Prince. Everyone else stood up and saluted to Shang Wuxin.

After that, they were surprised to see a girl in purple stood beside the Crown Prince. They failed to see her face. But from her figure and attitude, they could tell that she must be a girl from a noble family. They couldn’t help guessing around.

Looking at the girl who stood beside Shang Wuxin, Leng Yufeng clenched his fists. He knew this could come someday. But when he really saw this, all he wanted was just to kill the girl!

He forced himself to look at Shang Wuxin. Unexpectedly, he found Shang Wuxin still look coldly at the girl without any warmness. He let out of a sigh of relief because he knew Shang Wuxin didn’t like the girl. But he also wondered if the girl was “his” concubine or something. After all, Shang Wuxin should have been married. Not everyone else was as chaste as him or Huan Moche. Thinking that Shang Wuxin also had sexual needs, Leng Yufeng’s neck flushed. He didn’t dare to imagine how Shang Wuxin would look like when “he” had sexual passions.

Shang Wuxin sat beside Leng Yufeng with Nangong Lian. She noticed Leng Yufeng was absent-minded, but she didn’t know he was having sex fantasy on her.

“Hi, General Leng!” greeted Shang Wuxin. In her eyes, Leng Yufeng was a good young general. She remembered how he cared for her and protected her.

Maybe because he just had sexual fantasy about Shang Wuxin, he didn’t dare to look at her. But he had no idea that his neck flushed. And so did his face.

Seeing this, Shang Wuxin no longer stared at him. Just then, she noticed the girl who gave her a sad look. Shang Wuxin thought about it and realized the girl was Wanwan at the imperial dinner that day. But she looked as if Shang Wuxin abandoned her.

After cups of wine, everyone began to have fun. Shang Wuxin didn’t drink, though. She had only some tea. Luckily, no one dared to urge her.

Just when Shang Wuxin was wondering why everything was so smooth, a man who seemed to be drunk walked to her table. She knew this man always followed the Eldest Prince. He was kind of Shang Chenzhao’s minion.

“Congratulations, Your Highness. You have such a beautiful girl. I wonder who she is?” asked the man with the help of the alcohol. Shang Wuxin knew it was also what Shang Chenzhao urged to know.

But she didn’t even look up and then she replied coldly, “You don’t deserve to know her name!” Well, she was telling the truth. After all, Nangong Lian was a princess from Nangong State and the little sister of the most powerful prince Nangong Qian. This man was merely a son of a minister. How dared he ask the name of a princess?

Hearing what she said, the man’s face got deathly pale. Wanwan, who had been jealous, glared at Nangong Lian in purple. Then she said something to her maidservant while no one was noticing.

The man looked at Shang Wuxin. But before Shang Wuxin looked up, General Leng suddenly glared at him. Instead of cold eyes, General Leng looked brutal this time. The man was so scared that he took up his cup and went back to his seat timidly.

Just then, the maidservant who was filling cups suddenly yanked Nangong Lian’s veil. Instantly, everyone saw the scar on her face. As expected, girls screamed with fear while men gave a contemptuous laugh.

“Why is she so ugly?”

“How scary she looks! How dare she stay with the Crown Prince! How shameless she is!”

“If such an ugly girl stayed with me, I couldn’t even have any appetite. Could the Crown Prince like ugly things?”

“Did the Crown Prince not know what the girl looked like? What the hell!”

Nangong Lian was used to hearing such stern remarks, but she still felt upset. If she were in her own state, she could have killed them. Unfortunately, she was in the Shang State where she had no authority to kill anyone.

When everyone else was staring at Nangong Lian as if she were a monster, Shang Wuxin yanked back the veil from the maidservant. Looking at Shang Wuxin’s white-skinned hand, the maidservant panicked.