Thinking of the injured maid before, although the maid had already gone down to get her wound dressed, Yun Xi still told Yu Zhu to go and check on her condition. As for Nightingale, seeing that there was nothing else to do at the moment, she quietly retreated as well.
Seeing Qi Rong still standing behind her, Yun Xi was just about to tell him to leave when she suddenly heard Qi Rong say:
"If you said you don't like me, then why do you care about the affairs of the prince's mansion?"
Qi Rong asked rhetorically, his deep black eyes fixed intently on Yun Xi, the corners of his lips curving into a tenderness that even surprised himself.
Actually, on the day Yun Xi moved into the prince's mansion, he had already given her the power to manage the mansion. However, Yun Xi had been delaying taking over.
The turning point when she finally decided to take over was the day after the residual poison in his body flared up.
He learned from Nightingale that after Yun Xi heard about his poisoning, she had wanted to come to his courtyard to see him, but she didn't because of her stubbornness.
Instead, she went back to the South Courtyard, summoned all the servants in the mansion, and officially took over the power to manage the prince's mansion. She deliberately made an example of those who were lazy and gossiped, and directly kicked them out of the mansion.
Looking at the series of rules Yun Xi had set in the prince's mansion after she took over, what else did he not understand?
Maybe others didn't know, but he knew that for someone who hated trouble as much as she did, to even create an image of being overbearing and unreasonable, it was all to help him get rid of the hidden traitors in the prince's mansion.
To eliminate the hidden threats for him!
If she didn't care about him, how could she go to such lengths for him?
Looking at Qi Rong's overly tender smile, Yun Xi was taken aback for a moment, then deliberately averted her gaze and said:
"Can't I just do it out of my own will?!"
To cover up her uneasiness, she let out a cold snort and followed Yu Zhu's footsteps.
"Yu Zhu, I'll go with you too!"
When Yu Zhu saw Yun Xi following, she was just about to say that the maid's injury wasn't serious. She had just been scratched on the arm by Yu Xueming, and she could go and visit her alone.
But when she turned around and saw Qi Rong still standing there, looking straight at her young lady, and then looked at Yun Xi with a slightly flushed face and an unnatural expression, she immediately understood what was going on.
Yu Zhu couldn't help but smile and sighed in her heart.
She knew that her young lady still had some knots in her heart about the matter with the Prince of Xian and was always being awkward. But she believed that as long as the two truly loved each other, there was no obstacle they couldn't overcome.
Her young lady and the prince, these two lovers, would surely get married in the end.
Thinking of the danger earlier, Yu Zhu couldn't help but sigh:
"Young lady was so amazing just now! When I saw Yu Xueming rushing in with a knife, I was almost scared to death! She looked like she was coming straight for you, completely out of her mind. I was so afraid that you would get hurt!"
Yu Xueming was so desperate. Jealousy gave her extra strength. Even Yu Zhu found it very difficult to wrestle with her. She never thought that her young lady would be able to subdue Yu Xueming!
It was simply incredible!
"Come to think of it, we should really thank the prince. If it weren't for him forcing you to practice martial arts, with your usual physical condition, you wouldn't have been able to protect yourself!"
Listening to Yu Zhu's words, Yun Xi looked at her own hands. Even she herself was a little surprised that she had been able to snatch the dagger from Yu Xueming's hand and even remained unscathed!
Although she didn't want to admit it, it was only now that she had changed from blaming Qi Rong to understanding him.
He wasn't deliberately playing around with her. He really had her safety in mind.
Maybe he knew that there were dangers all around him, so he forced her to learn how to protect herself.
But even so, he let Yu Xueming into the South Courtyard just to let her practice. Yu Xueming even injured her maid, and he even told the guards not to help...
This was something she couldn't understand and made her very angry.
Thankfully, the maid had only been injured on her arm. If she had lost her life, or if she herself didn't have the ability to deal with Yu Xueming and they had been in danger, would he have just left them alone as long as they were still alive?!
It was simply abominable!
She had originally planned to go to Qi Rong's courtyard today to see how he was doing.
But seeing him today, he seemed to be fine, so she felt really relieved.
Angry at his cold - heartedness, she didn't ask him about his condition.
As for Yu Xueming, it was only a month later that she learned that Yu Xueming had entered the palace and become a concubine of Emperor Qi Hong.
Thinking of Yu Xueming's experience, Yun Xi felt a bit sad but couldn't muster up any sympathy.
For someone as proud as Yu Xueming to be able to submit to the emperor who had defiled her was really unimaginable.
Yun Xi could roughly guess the reason why Yu Xueming was so patient. However, she wasn't afraid. Even if Yu Xueming wanted to take revenge on her, she could handle it!
After Qi Rong left Yun Xi's South Courtyard, he told Zhan Feng to gather all the guards in the mansion and bring them to his courtyard. Wu Shuang was also summoned.
It turned out that Qi Rong didn't know in advance that Yu Xueming would go to Yun Xi's courtyard with a knife to take revenge.
The reason why no one came to help when such a big incident happened was that all the guards in the mansion had been deliberately transferred to other places by Wu Shuang.
Wu Shuang knew that Yun Xi was in danger but pretended not to know. If he hadn't told Nightingale to protect Yun Xi secretly in advance, the consequences would have been unimaginable!
He had told Nightingale that he wanted to train Yun Xi intentionally. However, he didn't expect that Yun Xi would encounter such a dangerous situation right from the start. This was definitely not what he had wanted.
Just thinking that Yun Xi might have been injured made Qi Rong extremely angry!
He immediately ordered Zhan Feng to whip each guard ten times severely and told them to keep a close eye on the South Courtyard at all times. From then on, no outsiders were allowed to break into the South Courtyard!
Otherwise, they would all be punished for dereliction of duty!
As for Wu Shuang, Qi Rong ordered her to be confined to the courtyard for a month, and he also transferred some of her powers to others.
Losing the foundation of her position made Wu Shuang feel extremely panicked and scared.
She had sacrificed everything she had to finally climb to her current position and be noticed by Qi Rong.
She thought that her abilities were indispensable to Qi Rong.
But because of her scheme against Yun Xi, in an instant, all her years of hard work were ruined!
Yun Xi didn't know what Qi Rong had done. For a long time, the guards in the prince's mansion were very respectful to her, but there was also a hint of fear in their eyes, which really puzzled Yun Xi.
It was only a long time later that Yun Xi learned about the whole thing from Nightingale, and her misunderstanding of Qi Rong was completely cleared up.
The sun was shining brightly, like a ball of fire. At this time, the capital was in the middle of a scorching summer, but there were several noble guests on the Ke Ke Qin Grassland: the eldest prince Yuan Qi, the third prince Yuan Zhen, and the fifth princess Yuan Zhu.
Their arrival once again stirred up a huge storm in the already restless capital, catching everyone off guard!