The Phoenix Reborn Book II

Chapter 4 The Hand of the Guifei

Hearing Huang Wushuang's remark, Liang Fenghong whose face was partially invisible to the Crown Princess frowned. As someone who had such a close standing with the royal family, Liang Fenghong knew clearly what would happen to a girl the moment he set foot into the palace. No matter what the girl was originally of the nature, there was one thing that could not be avoided after entering into being a member of the palace.

Cunning.

Huang Wushuang who still lives in the Huang residence is just a girl with high dreams who is guided by her mother's cunning. No matter how intelligent she feels and able to control people with her beauty, but the truth is that without her mother's help, she is just a plain girl who knows nothing. Ah, with the addition of a terrible selfish nature.

Now, Huang Wushuang had become part of the palace's inhabitants. Even if it only lasted about three to four months, but it was long enough to form the typical cunning of the palace dwellers in the woman. From the tone of speech, behavior, and decisions taken, it was obvious that Huang Wushuang who was now— was as stupid as that wish— had become fully part of the royal family.

With that in mind, Liang Fenghong had two scenarios in his brain. Between Huang Wushuang really wanted to show some respect to Wu Meilan or just wanted to look at who exactly was the person inside the palanquin.

Liang Fenghong's eyebrows are linked. Moments ago, Yuanli recounted that an intruder was said to have attacked the courtyard of Emperor Weixin and was in pursuit. Knowing this, does not the second explanation make much more sense than the first explanation?

If the bodyguard who told Yuanli was telling the truth, then it would not make sense for Huang Wushuang to roam the palace like this right now. Instead, this woman should have stayed in her courtyard. Even if he wanted to get out, there had to be a large number of bodyguards guarding him.

Liang Fenghong re-launched the expression on his face. ‘It turns out, you were involved .. Huang Wushuang,’ thought. His eyes emitted a burning fire. ‘Then, don't blame me for not pestering you.’ He turned around and faced Huang Wushuang. “What an unfortunate coincidence, the condition of the body of the Princess today is not good and must immediately return to her residence. Preferably, the Crown Princess in particular visited the Princess in another day.”

Liang Fenghong's words made Huang Wushuang and Xiaoxue frown. As if it was still not deterred enough by Liang Fenghong's cold treatment, Xiaoxue spoke up again, “Mr Meilan didn't say anything, why are you expressing objections?” It seemed, his thread of sanity had long since broken off.

Although the thread of his sanity had broken, Xiaoxue was actually quite intelligent. She knew that Huang Wushuang had to avoid conflict with the Wu side of the kingdom because her position as the Crown Princess was quite fragile. By acting boldly before Liang Fenghong, Xiaoxue knew that Huang Wushuang would feel herself to be reliable and in the future would prefer to use it compared to Yuanli. This was a great opportunity for him to go up the level of being a high servant.

While Xiaoxue was busy thinking about it, Huang Wushuang's mind was drifting to another place. His eyes glanced towards the stretcher. Then, he glanced towards Wang Junsi's courtyard and returned to Liang Fenghong's figure. At that moment, his heart was beating fast, knowing that he had to take a risk in this.

‘On the stretcher .. is Huang Miaoling. I'm sure!’ pekik Huang Wushuang in heart. A loud laugh resounded in his heart. ‘Liang Fenghong, don't you think I'll be afraid of your status as the prime minister's son. As Xiaoxue said, I am still a crown princess. If it wasn't Wu Meilan himself who kicked me out, I would never have retreated until I got Huang Miaoling!’

*On the previous day*

The clinking sound of an iron glass slammed onto the floor could be heard from inside Huang Wushuang's room. Seeing that Yuanli had just walked out of the courtyard while he had just returned, Xiaoxue realized that something was wrong. He kept the letter he had just received into his sleeve and stepped over to his master's room. His eyes pointed out of the courtyard for a while, ensuring that Yuanli's figure would not return anytime soon.

‘Say that the girl's first employer is First Miss Huang, it seems ... the girl will go see her.’ Xiaoxue glanced towards the door. ‘Perhaps, he asked permission to see First Miss Huang and cause the Crown Princess to be angry?’ dugup.

Xiaoxue turned around and pushed the door carefully. With a light step, he walked into the room and realized the existence of the glass that was on the floor. His gaze lifted to look at Huang Wushuang who was bowed with an indecipherable expression.

“Your Highness Crown Princess,” call Xiaoxue nervously. “There's a letter for you.” He was sure that Huang Wushuang's mood was very bad. It seemed, her relationship with First Miss Huang was not as good as she thought.

Huang Wushuang's dark gaze lifted slowly, staring intently at Xiaoxue. “Who?” the short question without a glimmer of the usual majesty is always present for the palace dwellers and other higher-ups.

Xiaoxue walked up to Huang Wushuang and whispered while taking out a small roll of mail from her sleeve, “Li Guifei.”

Hearing that name, Huang Wushuang's eyes widened. ‘Li Guifei?’ thought. His forehead was furrowed and his eyebrows were clutched, a little reluctant to deal with Li Hongxia's descendant, the man who almost made him lose his life on the eve of his wedding.

As Huang Wushuang's hand reached out to grab the letter from her hand, Xiaoxue explained, “The palace maid chief of the Grand Concubine, Shuixiang, sent it to me herself earlier.” Her lips re-open, “Because it was Shuixiang's own sister who intervened, it looks like this is very important.”

As Huang Wushuang's eyes moved from top right to bottom left, the expression on his face revealed a hopeful shock. ‘She wants to help me out of the snare of Huang Miaoling?’ he said in his heart repeating the writing on the paper. His eyes stopped at the last sentence that made his heart beat. ‘Agree, then come meet at his residence?’

Xiaoxue only stared silently at Huang Wushuang, not daring to say anything because she herself did not know about what had really happened. However, his common sense said that Huang Wushuang and Huang Miaoling were on two different sides.

Wh why? How can a servant without knowledge think so?

Although Xiaoxue was only a servant, but she was very adept at relating the relationship of one palace dweller to another. Not only that, he also likes to dig and find information to gossip with other servants about government officials. Therefore, he knew clearly how Li Guifei was in this moment.

Li Guifei was part of the Li family, the daughter of Li Hongxia, the man who had lost his life in Wu kingdom due to his intention to control Shi kingdom through his grandson, the Seventh Prince, Wang Xiangqi. The ones responsible for Li Hongxia's death were many, but there were only four main people who came from Shi kingdom.

Huang Yade, Huang Miaoling, Wang Junsi, and Wang Chengliu.

Judging from Li Guifei's actions contacting Huang Wushuang, Xiaoxue boldly concluded that their first target was a member of the Huang family. At first, the servant thought that Li Guifei would take Huang Wushuang hostage or make it difficult for the woman to threaten and avenge the Huang family. However, looking at Huang Wushuang's expression as if given a chance, Xiaoxue felt that her guess was not right. It made more sense that the Grand Concubine wanted to cooperate with Huang Wushuang to take down someone.

Huang Wushuang's eyes shot up to Xiaoxue, the woman looked at her servant deeply. “Xiaoxue, this is .. You'd better hide it from Yuanli.”

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A/S:

Lately there have been many more things the same thing, than I answered again and again, I wrote here, yes,

FAQ:

a. Brother, how is the book I nanggung abisnya? Why move to book II?

Answer: Short story, adjust platform policy.

b. Brother, is it short?

Answer: Busy, yes. + more krg mood. So write it up. The important thing is:") be grateful first. Sown first if you feel short.

c. Brother, whose early part is talking?

Answer: That's the mystery:) Tell me first, imagine who's talking ohoho. I was going to split up into epilogues, but short bgt, so I went to chapter I.

d. Sis, already mo end, why move book II?

Approaching ending\, yes. But the distance is gk I said deket gangs :")\, mngkn still tens or hundreds. Move to Book II so that you can still get results krn.. *read the income requirements*:)