Chapter 352.2: A Banquet With Escorts (II)
Qin Yining looked in the direction of the sounds to discover a group of musicians; they had been waiting behind pearl curtains hanging from the scarlet-red pillars around them.
Several dancers wearing gauze drifted in with the euphonious lody. Stepping lightly in ti to elegant dance, their footsteps were so airy that they seed to be walking on lotus flowers.
At this ti, several n slowly walked into the room.
They were all dressed differently, built and looked differently, and had differing auras. But all of them were uncommonly eye-catching with remarkable bearing. There were tall, scholarly types and buff, stocky types. There were also two arresting young n who looked the sa. One was dressed in red and the other in white, offsetting each other like red and white plum blossoms.
It was puzzling to Qin Yining why so many n had co, but of one thing she was certain of: she disliked this banquet more and more so.
It looks like Mada Lu really doesn’t care about the rules. How can outside males enter a ladies’ banquet?
The mada smiled when she saw the arrivals. She pointed at bulky young man with a chiseled face, wearing a silvery-white tunic with cut-off sleeves. “Go fill the princess’ wine cup. Step to it.”
She then pointed at another elegant and demure scholar clad in white, who looked roughly eighteen years old. “Go serve Miss Qin wine as well.”
The reserved scholar smiled faintly and moved to Qin Yining’s side. His pale, slender fingers grasped the jade wine jug and filled the jade cup in front of the Qin fourth miss.
He then took a seat in a chair right by Qin Yining!
Expressionless, the girl watched as the muscular man eerily reminiscent of Pang Xiao sat next to the princess. Pouring wine with his left hand, his right arm draped intimately over the seat back of the princess’ chair. When faced with such an affront, the princess blushed furiously and ducked her head after looking bashfully at the man’s profile.
Qin Yining finally understood what these people were here for!
Just like n had female escorts keep them company during business etings, this was what Mada Lu had invited her here today for!
But she was an unmarried girl! What did the mada an by this??
Thinking back to the host’s opening remarks, Qin Yining grew so furious that the scarlet of her face crept to her neck.
These people must feel that since she’d already been carried off by Pang Xiao, she already knew of matters between n and won. And given how Pang Xiao had taken her, she might not like brawny and ferocious type, which was why a genteel and tender scholar had been sent to serve her.
anwhile, the princess liked Pang Xiao, but they weren’t close. This was why Mada Lu had arranged for a man similar to the prince to serve her.
...should she complint Mada Lu for putting in so much effort?
“Miss Qin.” The refined man offered the wine cup when he saw that Qin Yining had yet to drink. He looked at her tenderly, the warmth in his light-brown eyes enough to lt winter snow. “Miss Qin, please have a cup. This has been distilled from fruit and especially prepared for you. The alcohol content isn’t high, and it’s refreshing on the palate.”
The girl’s lips were slightly compressed and she pushed away the cup that was being brought to her lips. “I’m fine without.” Her tone was coldly aloof.
This was absolutely a red wedding. Mada Lu had arranged beforehand for these n to keep them company, so how would she dare partake in anything offered at this banquet?
The man had been entranced by Qin Yining’s srizing profile. That she would refuse the wine was the last thing on his mind, so in his unpreparedness, the wine splashed on his sleeve and half his shirt.
The disturbance imdiately alard those at the head seat.
Mada Lu’s red lips were slightly parted as she was accepting the red-clad twin’s offering of an orange bite with his mouth. She was leaning coquettishly in the white-clad twin’s embrace and looked over angrily at the developnt.
Qin Yining rose and dipped a curtsey to Mada Lu and Li Helan. “Many thanks to the mada and princess for your good intentions. This little girl has so affairs to attend to at ho and must depart early. I will take my leave now.”
She turned to call a furiously blushing Jiyun to her and left.
Mada Lu bounced to an upright seated position and slamd her hand on the table. “Née Qin! How dare you deny face like this! Don’t bla for being rciless if you dare set one foot out this door!”
Qin Yining sniffed contemptuously and whipped back with a stern glare. “Do you think that would actually scare ? You and I have just t, what kind of prior relationship can you draw on? I’d like to ask Her Highness however, does the Marquis of Northern Stability know that you’ve co to this banquet?”
“How dare you!” Li Helan flew into a rage, but panic flooded her heart as a sense of guilt crept up on her. She spoke without thinking. “What are you acting all superior and pure for?! You’re just a broken toy that big brother Pang’s gotten tired of! You have the chance to taste so gentle loving today, how dare you not be grateful!”
Qin Yining’s expression had frozen over. “Then did Your Highness request such a person because you want to taste so fierce and passionate action?”
“Despicably shaless!” Li Helan was both humiliated and furious that her vulnerable point had been jabbed at. Tears filled her eyes. The man who was built exceedingly like Pang Xiao quickly hugged the princess and whispered comforting nothings in her ear.
Qin Yining looked at those in the hall and then at Li Helan. “You’re just lying to yourself. They may look similar, but it’s hardly the sa thing. What can you really get a taste of? You’re just reaching a new low with what you’re doing now. This is all I’m going to say. Please enjoy yourselves, everyone.”
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