Chapter 154
The thought was lovely, but reality was harsh.
Before Qiu Chi even came out, the others in the room couldn't take it anymore.
“Y-Y-Young... Young Miss, if... if there’s nothing else, we’ll... we’ll be taking our leave. You must have had a nightmare and become hysterical. This room is so bright, there can’t possibly be anyone else here.”
Jian Ninghua gave them an icy glance, then continued to call for Qiu Chi to come out.
Qiu Chi didn't come out.
But she sent a gust of cold wind.
The sudden gust of wind made the already terrified people scream. They didn't care whether Jian Ninghua gave them permission or not; they just screamed and fled.
Qiu Chi's voice, tinged with mocking laughter, still echoed in Jian Ninghua's ear: "Oh my, they've all run away. You're not much of a Young Miss, are you? No one listens to you. Look how useless you are. Not only are you useless as a man, you're just as useless as a woman. How shameful."
“Shut up!”
Not only did Qiu Chi not shut up, she kept calling him useless, telling him to just admit it already.
Jian Ninghua nearly went mad.
With such a huge commotion in the courtyard, Madam Jian naturally couldn't sleep anymore.
General Jian was currently at the military barracks, which meant Madam Jian was in charge of the General's Manor.
She came to Jian Ninghua's room, looked at the brightly lit room, then at Jian Ninghua's ferocious expression as he kept saying "Shut up! I'm not!", and directly slapped him across the face.
The slap was quite effective. At the very least, Jian Ninghua calmed down. He looked at Madam Jian before him, his lips moved, and he softly called out, "Mother."
Madam Jian said with a grim face, "Have you calmed down?"
Jian Ninghua pressed his lips together and said nothing.
But Madam Jian spoke directly: "How do I usually teach you? Look at the state you're in now! I even agreed to that ridiculous thing you wanted to do this afternoon, but look at what you're doing now?"
“Making such an ugly scene, causing such a commotion, what will our enemies think of us? Do you want the enemy to discover your identity and our plans?”
The enemy Madam Jian spoke of was the Emperor.
Jian Ninghua lowered his head and remained silent, while Qiu Chi's voice continued in his ear, not forgetting to speak: "Resist her. She's using you as a tool, a pawn, controlling your life, your everything. Why don't you resist her? Is it because you're useless?"
“You are useless, aren't you? Just admit it, you useless thing.”
With Madam Jian present, even though Jian Ninghua was furious to the point of madness, he suppressed it all. His fists were clenched tightly, and it felt as if a coppery sweetness was rising in his throat, but he forced it back down.
Madam Jian continued to lecture him, the content of her lecture more or less the same as what she had said before.
Almost as soon as Madam Jian finished one sentence, he could guess what she was going to say next.
He was really tired of Madam Jian's words.
But, so what? He still couldn't resist.
Why couldn't he resist? Jian Ninghua didn't know either. Was it because she was his mother? Because his mother was already pitiful enough? In any case, it was definitely not for the reason that skulking person had said.
He just felt sorry for his mother, that's all. He wasn't useless. Yes, that was it.
After Jian Ninghua had hypnotized himself for a bit, Madam Jian's words came to an end. She sighed and said, "Mother knows this is unfair to you, but if there were any other choice, Mother wouldn't want this either. So, Ninghua, you must make us proud. All of Mother's hopes are on you."
Jian Ninghua nodded. "I know, I know everything. Mother, don't worry. I was reckless today. It won't happen again."
Madam Jian raised her hand and stroked Jian Ninghua's head. "Rest and recover well these next few days. Don't get angry and reopen your wounds. Mother will definitely not let the person who hurt you get away. You're probably under too much stress, which is why this happened. Just rest well for a few days. You can't live here anymore, let's change you to another courtyard."
“Okay, I'll listen to whatever Mother says.”
After this incident with Madam Jian, Jian Ninghua calmed down a lot.
After changing rooms and dismissing the others, he didn't care if Qiu Chi was still there and spoke directly, "You don't need to provoke me anymore. It's useless. I wasn't calm enough before, which is why you were able to agitate me. Now that I've calmed down, your words mean nothing to me."
Of course, Qiu Chi was there.
It was just that after hearing Jian Ninghua's words, she only wanted to laugh.
“Oh? Is that so? Do you really not care and think it's nothing, or are you just deceiving yourself?”
“If you really didn't care, why would you bother saying all this to me? Don't you think these words of yours reek of self-deception?”
Jian Ninghua's fists clenched and unclenched, then clenched again.
Finally, he slowly exhaled and lay down on the bed. "Think whatever you want. When I say I don't care, I don't care."
“Since you've said that, I must give you a gift. I hope you enjoy it, and be sure to remember the words you've just spoken.”
Qiu Chi's gift was, naturally, the recordings of her calling Jian Ninghua useless.
She left a Recording Stone in the room and departed.
And Jian Ninghua's ears were filled with the word "useless."
Did he not care? Of course, he cared.
That whole speech to Qiu Chi just now was merely to hypnotize himself.
But how could he have expected Qiu Chi to be so ruthless?
"Useless" echoed in his ears again and again. He endured it and endured it, but in the end, he finally couldn't take it anymore and roared, "Shut up!"
Qiu Chi wasn't there, so of course the Recording Stone wouldn't shut up. The word "useless" continued, again and again.
In the end, Jian Ninghua was finally overcome by a fit of rage and fainted.
When Qiu Chi returned, the Tanhua Lang was already asleep, wrapped in a quilt.
This time, he wasn't slumped over the table, but curled up on it, using the table as a bed.
Qiu Chi felt a bit disgusted and decided to have someone replace the table tomorrow.
The next few days were very calm and peaceful.
Qiu Chi felt she had provoked Jian Ninghua quite harshly last night, so she didn't go to the General's Manor today.
It wasn't until the three days were up that Qiu Chi left the Princess's Manor and went to the imperial palace.
There weren't many servants in the Eastern Palace, but they all knew Pei Siyi's true gender.
When Qiu Chi arrived, they immediately set to work dressing her up as a man.
Qiu Chi took a look and found that, based on appearance alone, the disguise was quite convincing.
Furthermore, whenever the Crown Prince Pei Siyi appeared before everyone, she was either high and mighty, keeping her distance, or surrounded by a large group of guards for protection. It was understandable that others, just looking from the outside, couldn't tell that Pei Siyi was a woman.
The male disguise was similar to her usual appearance, but for the male look, her eyebrows were darkened and some dark powder was applied to her face. This accentuated the lines of her face, making her look much more rugged.
In terms of height, Pei Siyi wasn't short. Because she was raised as a man from the beginning, the imperial physicians had naturally tried every method to make her grow taller. Pei Siyi was 172 cm tall, and her shoes could be thickened for extra height.
As for the most obvious part, that naturally required a chest binding.
After experiencing it for a moment, Qiu Chi immediately took it off and used a shapeshifting technique to transform herself into her male disguise.
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