154 Brush or Stick?
Yang Ning sucked in her breath nervously as she watched Zheng Liang picking up the paper on which she was writing earlier.
‘Damn it. You’re dood Fang Li.’ She scread in her head. Inwardly, she was going crazy and was running like a mad woman in circles in her imagination but in reality, she was doing her best to keep her cool and smiling nervously.
‘Why do things never go according to her plans?’ She cried while smiling bitterly. She was waiting for him to co the whole day but he had to arrive when she was pouring her heart out on the paper.
What a Good timing!
While Yang Ning was having a ntal breakdown and was forcing herself to smile, Zheng Liang glanced at her before turning around the paper to see what she was scribbling earlier.
He grew curious to see her nervous smile and the way she was stopping him from reading the contents that she wrote on the paper.
What did she write on the paper that she was being so mysterious about? He wondered.
However, when he flipped the paper, he was stunned and looked up at her again to confirm if she was writing this earlier with so much dedication that she didn’t even realize that he ca back.
He was expecting sothing suspicious to be written on it.
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But unlike his imagination, there were random and strange scribbles, rough and clumsy sketches all over the paper, making it look ssy and the pale white paper was covered in black ink dots.
It was as if the person who wrote it was still a beginner and practicing how to write using a brush and ink.
“This was what you were writing so diligently earlier?” Zheng Liang asked while looking at the strange, random scribbles in a daze, wondering if there was any aning behind these drawings.
However, from whichever angle she looks at it, there were only aningless, random strokes on the paper and nothing else.
Yang Ning sighed in relief to see that he could not understand any of the contents of the paper. She was glad that she chose to make rough scribbles to make notes of the events that happened until now rather than writing in words.
At points, she even used English words so that even if this paper goes into soone else’s hands, her secret would not be revealed. Especially in front of Zheng Liang.
Because if he had found out about her secret, she was worried that he might start to doubt her loyalty once again and things would go out of hand.
However, looking at his questionable expressions, she was slightly embarrassed about it. She cleared her throat and said, ” I was waiting for you the whole day but you never ca, just like the other days. I was bored, so I randomly started scribbling on the paper to spend my ti.” She explained and indirectly complained to him about how he made her wait for him the whole day.
The least he could do was to send her a ssage to not wait for him and do sothing else and he will be late. She would have done sothing else to pass her ti but she stayed in her room the whole ti and was eagerly waiting for him to arrive.
“Oh!” Zheng Liang exclaid in surprise as he wasn’t expecting her to wait for him the whole day. He had told her that he would make so ti for her but it took him a long ti to wrap up the afternoon court session and he couldn’t escape from work soon enough.
No doubt that she would be bored alone in the palace. There aren’t many things for her to do to spend her ti, so it was normal for her to get tired of waiting for him.
Because of him, she couldn’t go anywhere either.
“I apologize for making you wait. From now on, I will try to keep my promises and will not make you wait. Also, I will try to co to the chamber more frequently, so that you will not be bored.” He said.
Yang Ning pursed her lips and felt embarrassed when he promised her to co to the chamber more frequently in the future. She didn’t intend to complain to him about him not returning to the chambers at night for the last few days because she is also aware how busy he is these days.
However, for so reason, his words made her delighted. Because in this loneso palace, there are only a few people with whom she can talk and share her feelings.
Out of those few people, Zheng Liang has beco that kind of person to her because he has seen her in her worst monts and she feels connected to him. Maybe because she has read the novel and knows his personality as a person and he was her favorite character in the novel, she feels that there is so connection between them.
Moreover, after they started speaking to each other casually, she feels closer to him than before. It wouldn’t be too bad if he cos to the chamber regularly. She might be able to help him regarding so things using her knowledge about this world.
Although her knowledge about this ti period is limited, it is better than knowing nothing.
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They were about to leave to go to the Main Palace to visit His Majesty when Zheng Liang noticed sothing on the table. He turned to Yang Ning and asked in confusion, ” Were you using this wooden stick to write and not the brush?” He asked while picking up the wooden stick that she was using to write earlier.
There are wooden brushes that were crafted using high-quality wood and material. Yet she was using a low-quality sharpened wooden stick to dip it in the ink and use it to write.
How strange!
“Ah, This!” Yang Ning realized that he was talking about the wooden stick that she crafted herself to write on the paper.
She scratched her nape awkwardly and said, “I was feeling bored so I tried making a wooden stick to write on the paper. It’s quite shabby, isn’t it? Haha.” She was embarrassed that he noticed this.
“However, it is much more stable than a brush and I prefer it over the brush anyti. I cannot control my hands when using a brush.” She said embarrassedly.
No matter how much she tries, she still cannot get adjusted to writing using brushes and not pens.
In the past, she was only good at shooting arrows from the bow, otherwise, she cannot do anything that requires hand skills.
Painting, pottery, those things were out of her league. That’s why she never wasted her ti doing those things and simply focused on her goal to beco the best female archer in the world.
She has Yang Ning’s mories but despite those mories, there are a few things that she needed to use her skills to get accustod to them. Writing with brushes was one of those few things.
That’s why she made this wooden stick to write and after dipping it in the ink, it works almost perfectly just like the other version of pens in her world.
“Oh! Is that so?” Zheng Liang nodded while he examined the sharpened wooden stick that she crafted herself.
No doubt the scribbles on the paper were so rough and clumsy. It was because she was using this wooden stick to write on the paper.
Unlike the brush, the wooden stick cannot hold so much ink to write and needed to be dipped in the ink of almost every word written on the paper, which caused the paper to be covered in black dots and look ssy and stained.
He was eager to tell her the truth however, he decided to not say it to her face and keep his insight to himself only.
She looks so happy and satisfied with her wooden stick. How can he break her heart by giving her a reasonable explanation?
“That’s great. You did a great job in making this. I think we’re getting late. We should leave now otherwise, we won’t be able to et His Majesty today.” He said to change the topic and leave hurriedly, otherwise, he won’t be able to control himself from giving her a lecture about the use of brushes instead of a wooden stick.
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