Quick Transmigration: Irresistible Beauty
Chapter 146 - 146: Loyal Maid Who Died Because of Beauty (16)

Yi Yan nodded in satisfaction when receiving the young girl's answer.

…

Since Yue Ran lived in the front yard, Lu Heng would come to her every day after participating in the morning court, and he had never gone to the backyard since then.

Lu Heng only guarded Yue Ran all day and night, much to Yue Ran's annoyance. Naturally, Yue Ran did not want or plan to say a word to Lu Heng at all.

She was angry! She was angry at him for not letting her go, and she was also angry that she was "caged" in the front yard just like this without being able to walk out of the room at all!

Originally, there was not enough time for the third prince to enter the backyard because more than half of the time was previously occupied by Yi Yan. The other five or six days would be spent with Chu Ning, Li Xin, and Bai Fen. The rest of the concubines only have a few days left to spare.

There were only thirty days in a month, so there was clearly not enough time for everyone to see or even spend time with the third prince, the master of the harem. No one had the time to even show off their worth.

If it were before, these concubines could still see the third prince from afar, but now, not even his shadow could be seen at all, which made many of the concubines in the backyard complain. No one knew how many pieces of handkerchief they had torn away due to the anger in their hearts. But after all, there was nothing they could do about it since they could not actually control the third prince's leg to make him come to them.

…

While eating, Lu Heng meticulously served Yue Ran the dishes in front of her.

"Come on, Yue Ran, try this," Lu Heng said. "This prince had specially ordered the kitchen to cook this for you. It was made with the best snow swallow nest, which is good for your body."

In front of Yue Ran was a bowl of peach gum snow swallow tremella sweet soup and a bowl of red date porridge that had just been boiled.

Yue Ran ignored those two bowls and continued to eat the bowl of rice she was eating with the stir-fried vegetables and meat. She was acting as if she could not hear any of the third prince's words, but she answered the man anyway so as to make sure that she could still keep her life.

"Your Highness does not have to worry about Ran Ran," Yue Ran said. "It is better to leave such precious things to the Madam."

Naturally, both understood that the "Madam" here referred to Yi Yan.

Facing Yue Ran's cold face every day, Lu Heng did not feel discouraged at all. He was even in good physical condition after being abused.

"Since you do not want to drink it now, then you do not need to drink it for now," Lu Heng replied patiently. "Yue Ran can drink it whenever Yue Ran feels like it."

Before Yue Ran had the time to roll her eyes, Wang Li had already come in with a little eunuch behind him. The young girl noticed that the little eunuch behind Wang Li was carrying quite a lot of things in his hands on a large tray.

"Your Highness," Wang Li said. "These are the tonics sent by the wives and concubines in the backyard. Do you want to try any of them?"

Right now, how could Lu Heng have the appetite to try them?

"No need," Lu Heng answered perfunctorily. "Just distribute these things to the servants later."

If it were normal times, Lu Heng would still have some thoughts about tasting and enjoying the love of his wives and concubines, but now, forget it. He was not in the mood to do so.

Looking at the hesitant expression of Wang Li, who seemed to want to speak but did not know if he should speak out loud or not, Lu Heng frowned and said, "What do you want to say? Speak directly if you have something to say. Why hesitate?"

"Well, Your Highness, it is like this," Wang Li started. "The Madam asked this servant to ask Your Highness why he has not yet entered the backyard after so long. Is it because Your Highness has someone he wants to bring into the palace that Your Highness was too preoccupied and thus did not have time to visit the wives and concubines? These were the Madam's words."

Wang Li just had to emphasize the latter sentence so that if anything were to go wrong, he was not in the wrong. With that said, Wang Li was also carefully watching the expressions of Lu Heng and Yue Ran, wanting to note their changes in his heart so that he would know how he should react by then.

In the past two days, it was the first time that the third prince had treated someone so tenderly. He even served that person so carefully for fear that something would go wrong when he was not there.

Anyone who heard Wang Li's words could clearly understand what he meant, let alone Lu Heng, who had experienced many intrigues in the imperial palace since he was just a child.

Lu Heng took a glance at Yue Ran to see her reaction, only to be greeted with the unchanging face of the young girl, who continued eating without any interference. It was almost as if anything were not worth her attention.

The young man did not know how to feel about this for a while.

"This prince understands." Lu Heng decided to answer Wang Li first. "Tell the Madam that this prince will see her when this prince has time later on."

In any case, Lu Heng still has to keep up appearances and show respect for this main wife of his. Not to mention that he still had to rely on the added power of the Chu family to facilitate his future actions so that everything would go smoothly.

Wang Li, who had gotten an order, immediately withdrew and did not want to disturb his master and Yue Ran's two-person world.

Yue Ran: Two-person world?

Ruan Ruan: (makes a weird face)

Yue Ran, who had eaten her bowl of lunch completely, put down the bowl and chopsticks on her hand before saying, "Your Highness does not have to do this for this servant. This servant also does not need Your Highness' kindness as well."

As soon as the young girl finished her words, she stood up and got back into her "room" in the front yard, or rather, the place that she was temporarily staying in.

…

Upon receiving the news from Wang Li, Chu Ning hurriedly started to dress herself up.

"Lian Ya, do you think that His Highness would like me wearing this dress?" Chu Ning looked at the bronze mirror and asked her maid, Lian Ya, who was combing her hair.

"Do not worry, Madam, you are the third prince's main wife, so how could the third prince not like it?" Lian Ya gave a quick-witted response.

Hearing Lian Ya's praise, Chu Ning, who was still feeling a little happy at first, looked at her mediocre appearance in the mirror and felt a little disappointed.

"That is right. I am just the third prince's main wife, but it was not out of the third prince's volition," Chu Ning said self-depreciatingly. "The third prince previously liked Yi Yan, and now it is Yue Ran. When is the third prince ever going to see me in his eyes?"

Chu Ning touched her own face and muttered to herself as she stared at her own reflection.

…

Hearing a little eunuch's greeting from outside the door, Chu Ning immediately straightened her back and then looked at her own reflection in the mirror.

"This servant greets Your Highness, the third prince." A greeting came from outside Chu Ning's boudoir.

When Chu Ning saw Lu Heng's appearance as the doors opened, she smiled and bowed sideways as she said, "I greet Your Highness, the third prince."

"Rise," Lu Heng said.

"Thank you, Your Highness," Chu Ning replied a little shyly as the young man helped her sit on the seat together.

It was then that Lu Heng started to explain the purpose of coming to find Chu Ning.

"This prince knows that this prince has not been in the backyard for quite a while, and there will definitely be some complaints that you may have received," Lu Heng started. "But you, as the main wife, should handle these things well and share the worries with this prince, understand? Otherwise, how can this prince be rest assured to hand over the power of the management of the backyard to you?"

Hearing Lu Heng's semi-threatening words, Chu Ning hurriedly stood up from her seat in panic to plead guilty.

"It was my fault that Your Highness was distracted by it," Chu Ning hurriedly said. "I will definitely deal with this matter in the future and will not let these kinds of unimportant matters bother Your Highness in the slightest bit."

In fact, this matter was also led by Chu Ning so that it could reach the third prince's ears. This was because she, as the main wife, had seen that the third prince did not enter the backyard because of Yue Ran, so she felt uneasy and thus indulged Li Xin and the others in making trouble.