“You!” Qing Ming’s palm tightened, so enraged he almost struck the woman before him with a palm.
He had been in the prince’s manor for so many years, and no one had ever dared to be so disrespectful to him!
A watchdog! She actually dared to say it!
“What’s wrong? Want to hit me?”
Chu Qianli lifted her chin, completely unafraid of him.
“Your prince, no matter how incompetent, is still a man. Does it fall to you to lecture his woman?”
“You…”
“You are willing to admit that you are this prince’s woman?”
Feng Yexuan narrowed his eyes, staring at Chu Qianli, who was half-hidden by Qing Ming’s tall physique.
He let out a cold snort, “Since you know you are this prince’s woman, why aren’t you rolling in here to serve this prince?”
Qing Ming’s chest heaved, furious!
But he knew that in front of the prince, he could do nothing to her.
The prince had spent last night in this woman’s room!
Ultimately, she was the prince’s woman!
“You’d better not anger the prince again, or I won’t let you off!”
“If you truly had the ability, then the one who would be going mad with anger now would be me,” Chu Qianli said with a dismissive smile.
Qing Ming truly wished he could strangle her on the spot.
This woman, demoted to a concubine, yet not showing the slightest bit of sadness.
Did she have any sense of shame?
Although Qing Ming was angry, he dared not disobey the prince’s orders.
He could only step aside, allowing Chu Qianli to enter.
Xi’er did not dare to follow and could only retreat to the side, quietly guarding.
She also dared not provoke Master Qing Ming.
The Princess Consort… alas, now Miss Li, had no power or influence in the manor.
A concubine was truly… very humble, her status could not be compared to Master Qing Ming’s.
Offending Master Qing Ming like this, she wondered if she would face retaliation later.
Xi’er was truly worried but helpless.
After Chu Qianli entered, the smile on her lips vanished instantly.
“I want to return to the Duke’s manor,” she said coldly.
Feng Yexuan put down the military treatise he was holding and looked at her coldly, “Did this prince say he wouldn’t allow you to go out?”
“You ordered people to guard the gate, completely preventing me from leaving!”
She was injured now and could not fight.
He had also dispatched over a dozen experts to guard the front and back gates; how could she leave?
This damned man!
Feng Yexuan remained calm and collected, picked up his teacup, and slowly drank his tea, as if she were not even present in the room.
Chu Qianli took a deep breath, suppressing her anger.
Her grandfather’s poison was not yet cleared. Although she had left medicine for Steward Han, she still needed to return to give her grandfather acupuncture.
At this moment, she did not want to argue with Feng Yexuan.
She just wanted to go back, and she had to go back!
Otherwise, her grandfather’s health would be in danger!
“Your Highness,” Chu Qianli tried to calm herself.
Looking up at his indifferent face, she softened her voice, “My grandfather is unwell. I must return to see him today. I beg Your Highness to grant my request.”
“What did you just say?” Feng Yexuan suddenly asked.
Chu Qianli blinked, just now?
What had she said just now?
“Didn’t you say you are this prince’s woman?” he raised an eyebrow. “Since you are this prince’s woman, why are you here if not to serve this prince?”
Chu Qianli truly wanted to grab something and hurl it at that face that deceived women all over the world.
Hadn’t she said that just to retort to Qing Ming?
She had never been willing to admit she was his woman.
But whether as Princess Consort or concubine, he himself had been proclaiming to everyone that she was his.
She had merely used his words to shut Qing Ming up!
Feng Yexuan gazed at her slowly reddening face, his eyes devoid of any emotion, “Do you still want to go out?”
“Yes!”
This was not the time to be stubborn with him; she didn’t just want to, she had to!
She absolutely had to return to the Duke’s manor.
“So?” Feng Yexuan leaned back in his chair, his gaze on her carrying a hint of sarcasm.
“Do you need this prince to teach you how to do it?”
Chu Qianli bit her lip and finally, slowly, walked to his side.
“I’ve never served a man before, so I really don’t know how to do it? I wonder if Your Highness could bestow his guidance?”
She almost rolled her eyes!
Fortunately, this was the study, and the door had been pushed open by his own palm strike earlier.
Now, in broad daylight, with people guarding outside, this damned man shouldn’t do anything too outrageous.
To return to the Duke’s manor, she could only endure.
Feng Yexuan almost wanted to crush her.
She didn’t even know how to serve a man?
However, her words, “never served a man,” inexplicably suppressed the anger in his heart.
“Give this prince a leg massage,” he said blandly.
He picked up the military treatise and continued reading.
Chu Qianli looked at his two long legs, still somewhat reluctant.
Serving a man! The mere thought made every cell in her body resist.
Moreover, to massage his legs, wouldn’t she have to kneel by his legs?
This scene… no matter how she looked at it, it felt indescribably intimate.
“If you don’t want to go out, then get back!” The man beside her had very limited patience.
Chu Qianli suppressed the urge to roll her eyes at him.
Finally, she knelt down beside him.
She raised her hand, and accidentally, her shoulder ached.
She couldn’t help but gasp, but still endured the pain and raised her hand.
“Serving this prince with an injured arm?”
Feng Yexuan seemed to find it utterly disgusting and snorted, “Take it away!”
“What exactly do you want?” Chu Qianli’s temper had never been good!
She glared at him, so angry she was about to explode.
She was enduring the pain to serve him, and he was still finding fault with this and that!
If it weren’t for the sake of leaving the prince’s manor smoothly, did he really think she would be willing to serve him?
Feng Yexuan remained silent, still reading his book.
It was as if she were not even present beside him.
Chu Qianli still wanted to lift her injured arm to massage him.
But then she thought, he disliked this arm of hers so much…
Finally, she only used her uninjured hand to rub his legs with moderate pressure.
She found it comfortable, and her shoulder blade no longer hurt.
Time passed bit by bit. As she massaged, Chu Qianli herself began to feel a little bored.
She secretly glanced at the book Feng Yexuan was reading, tilted her head, and became engrossed in it.
Her hand moved casually, but her gaze was fixed on his book.
“Actually, in this battle between Prince Qi and Prince Xuan, if he had divided his forces and avoided Prince Xuan’s main army, attacking them from the east and west flanks, he could have defeated them one by one.”
“By the time Prince Xuan discovered it and turned back, Prince Qi’s side would have already occupied advantageous terrain. In this way, the situation might have been changed.”
“You understand military treatises?” Feng Yexuan frowned, somewhat surprised.
However, thinking about her performance in the battle at Phoenix Mountain, he wasn’t so astonished anymore.
But it was still somewhat amazing.
In this era, apart from the women of Long Teng Kingdom, which girls from other countries understood warfare?
“Who taught you tactics?”
“Who needs to teach me? Isn’t this very obvious?”
To see the words on the military treatise clearly, Chu Qianli subconsciously leaned forward.
She had forgotten that she was kneeling beside a certain man’s legs.
With that lean forward, half of her body pressed onto his legs.
She pointed at the military treatise, “Look, starting from here, Prince Qi’s tactics were wrong.”
Feng Yexuan’s gaze, however, fell upon her.
The soft touch pressed against his legs, and it continued to push forward…
Blood rushed to his head.
Was this woman doing it on purpose?
Trying to seduce him?