Pregnant Before the Royal Marriage

Chapter 887: Chapter 887: Your Highness, Don’t Treat Her Like This_1

Jiang Ning shook her wrist, enthusiastically asking, “Can I try it?”

“Yes, you can.”

“I’ll aim for that tree.” Jiang Ning straightened her right arm, targeting a crabapple tree in front of her. She took off the safety latch with her left hand, then pressed the button—

Shhh—

A nearly invisible flash of light shot out from the wrist guard, disappearing from Jiang Ning’s line of sight.

“Did it hit?” Jiang Ning immediately checked the tree, searching for the poison needle. She found no trace of it.

Had she missed?

If some children were to find the needle and play with it, the consequences would be dire.

She turned and looked at Gucheng, silently begging for help.

“You should avoid things that you can’t control.” Li Hongyuan suddenly appeared. He walked over to the tree and casually pulled out the silver needle tucked in a flower’s stamen.

Gucheng quietly said, “Your Highness, it is poisonous.”

“I know.” Li Hongyuan replied cooly, “Gucheng, you’ve been teaching the Princess Consort martial arts, and that’s fine. However, you gave her something as dangerous as this, and I think it’s inappropriate.”

“This thing has a safety latch; it’s safe,” Jiang Ning explained.

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“There are many children in the East Palace. Can you guarantee they won’t inadvertently come across it during your regular interactions?” Li Hongyuan took her wrist, intending to remove her wrist guard.

Jiang Ning immediately retreated, “Why are you so fast to take action? If you keep this up, I’ll get angry!”

Li Hongyuan stopped his movement, gazing at her and slowly asked, “Is there really someone in the palace that you need to use this poison needle against?”

Jiang Ning was taken aback. With deep meaning in her words, she asked, “Have you forgotten your concubine mother?”

Li Hongyuan remained silent.

Not willing to dig into this sore spot, Jiang Ning continued, “Didn’t the Prince of Huai and his consort intend to harm me in the palace as well?”

“Times change. Now the East Palace is mine.”

“Alright then, since you don’t want me to protect myself, take this.” Jiang Ning lifted her arm, staring into his eyes.

Li Hongyuan locked eyes with her for a moment, then released his grip, saying, “Perhaps you haven’t realized, but you’ve always been wary and hostile towards the palace. You never truly considered it home.”

After pondering a moment Jiang Ning said, “When I’m in the palace, I’ll keep the wrist guard put away and only use it when I leave. Will that satisfy you?”

“As you wish.”

Li Hongyuan glanced at Gucheng and asked, “Did you create this concealed weapon?”

Gucheng nodded silently.

“You’ve really put yourself out for Seventh Miss Jiang. You’ve taught her for three days, yet she hasn’t learned a thing. As the chief of the Jiang Family’s Shadow Guards, you’ve probably never encountered such a dense student.”

Jiang Ning: “…”

This Li Hongyuan just couldn’t resist getting a few jabs in at her, evidently finding pleasure in her irritation.

“I’m going to rest.”

She lifted her sleeve, wiping off the beads of sweat on her forehead, then walked away leisurely.

She seemed to lack energy – whether due to tiredness or upset, one couldn’t tell.

Li Hongyuan stared at her receding figure, Gucheng’s voice reaching his ears.

“She’s not slow. Seventh Miss was injured when she was young, and her bones are not suited for martial arts,” Gucheng said seriously, “Seventh Miss has a hard time. You should not treat her like this, Your Highness.”

Li Hongyuan was taken aback, his gaze falling once more on Jiang Ning’s retreating form.

Gucheng continued, “The Grand General once asked me to look into Seventh Miss’s past. She has suffered a lot.”

She broke her leg as a child and didn’t receive proper treatment, enduring the pain until it left her with a limp for ten years. If not for He Tang’s assistance, she wouldn’t have survived.

That night, Li Hongyuan visited the Crystal Clear Manor and saw Jiang Ning, tucked in a corner playing with her wrist guard. Seeing him approach, she immediately hid.

“Are you so afraid of me?” Li Hongyuan asked, smirking.

“I just don’t want to accidentally hurt you!”

Jiang Ning stowed the wrist guard in a box, carefully locked it up, stored the key, then situated herself in a reclining chair. She smiled, “Your Highness, you can rest somewhere else tonight. I cannot entertain you here.”