I woke up as the Villainous Empress

Chapter 16: Banquet (V)

Everyone became silent to see the loud reaction of Yang Ning. Especially Xiaowei who was almost dying out of embarrassment and fear to see the loud and not-so-graceful reaction of Yang Ning.

She is soon going to become the Crown Princess and if she continues to behave this way, what if the Crown Prince and His Majesty cancels this engagement?

If that happened, it would be a disaster. Disaster!

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Yang Luoyang gritted his teeth and cursed at Yang Ning inwardly for embarrassing him in front of the Crown Prince.

” This girl....Haha. Seems like she is still not well seeing how she is acting inappropriately in front of His Highness.” Yang Luoyang laughed embarrassedly and gave Yang Ning a side glare, while smiling through his teeth.

Yang Ning pursed her lips and face-palmed herself in embarrassment. ‘Fang Li. Keep it down if you still want to protect your neck. This place is more complicated than you think.’ She repeated in her mind and took a deep breath to calm down her overwhelming emotions.

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‘Hah! Who would have thought that the male lead she worshiped would come to her as her Doom?’

While everyone was panicking to see the inappropriate actions of Yang Ning in front of the Crown Prince, Zheng Liang was still trying to register this kind of ‘shocked’ reaction of Yang Ning in his mind.

He had heard that the eldest daughter of Minister Yang is well-versed in lady-like manners and etiquette. Not only that, she is also good at arranging flowers, making different kinds of aromatic teas and is well-known for her beautiful handmade-embroideries. Basically she excels at everything that a noble lady was taught from a very young age to become a good wife and daughter in law in the future.

That’s why she was picked up as the best candidate to become the Crown Princess of the Country. However, from what he had heard, she is good at everything except treating people nicely.

For her, everything is related to class and standard. She treats people nicely for the sake of her gains only. If someone is not beneficial enough to her, she will discard them like a piece of trash.

She is the mirror of her greedy father, who only knows how to accumulate the gains from others.

Then...how can a two-faced woman like her make such a mistake in front of him? Yesterday, she was asking him to ‘save her’ in her unconscious state and today she was acting differently upon seeing him for the first time.

Is this also another scheme of hers or was his presumption about this woman wrong? But how can that be? There would be no smoke without any fire after all.

” Greetings to His Highness.” Yang Ning greeted him politely and curtsied just like Xiaowei teached her before leaving the Yang Household.

” Pardon me for my childish behavior. It’s just...I am still unwell. I had a high fever last night you see.That’s why I am not in my mind right now.” She grinned through her teeth and blamed her sickness for the childish behavior of hers to get out of this awkward situation.

If she does not explain this awkward situation, Yang Luoyang will make a hole in her face through the scary glare of his.

Zheng Liang didn’t say anything to her or pointed her out for speaking informally to him, instead he turned his attention to Yang Luoyang who was rubbing his sweaty hands together in nervousness.

“Minister Yang, How can you disrespect the Royal Family like this? Did you forget what we talked about yesterday? Why did you bring Lady Yang Ning to the banquet today when she was still unwell?”

” Also, what was the commotion that was happening earlier? Why was this young maid kneeling on the ground?”He asked while wearing his usual cold and stoic expressions on his face.

Yang Ning raised her brows and stared at the man in front of her in amusement. Something like that also happened? How come she does not know anything about it? She wondered.

She glanced at Xiaowei in confusion who signaled her to fill her up with the details later.

How come this girl forgot to tell her something so important?

Well, it’s not like it’s entirely her fault. The morning was super hectic for the two as Xiaowei was busy teaching her how to walk in her super long and heavy dress and to perform curtsy to the royal family.

From where will she get the time to tell her about the other things?

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Yang Luoyang’s face stiffened upon hearing the question of Zheng Liang. He thought Zheng Liang would not say anything about it to see the normal condition of Yang Ning, however, Yang Ning’s words reminded him about the conversation that they had last night.

” Your Highness, How can I even think of disrespecting the royal family? As you asked me, I did not force Yang Nung to attend the Banquet.”

“It was her who wanted to attend the Birthday Celebration Banquet of His Highness herself. That’s why she came here, despite me stopping her from coming today.” He said, putting all the blame at Yang Ning for being stubborn and not listening to his words.

” And about this maid kneeling on the ground, it was nothing. She got scared that I would say anything to her for not taking care of Yang Ning, that’s why she went on her knees before I could say anything. Your Highness does not care about such meager affairs at all.”

Yang Ning: “.....”

Yang Ning’s lips curled in disgust to see Yang Luoyang changing his stance to 180 degrees in front of the Crown Prince.

He was the one who ordered her to attend the Banquet even if she was dying of fever. Even a while ago, he was arguing with her about what kind of clothes she was wearing and was shouting at them, now he was putting all the responsibility on her?

Long way to go Mr. Yang. Long way to go! She scoffed as she looked at Yang Ning’s Trashy Father in disgust.

Zheng Liang raised his brows upon hearing the words of Minister Yang and turned to Yang Ning, ” Lady Yang Ning, is that true? Did you come here to attend the banquet on your accord and not because anyone forced you to do so?” He asked seriously, putting his prejudices against Yang Ning aside.

“Ah?” Yang Ning was surprised when he asked her about this out of nowhere. She glanced at Yang Luoyang with a slight smirk on her face before answering the question, ” Well, How does it even matter? What matters is, I am not gravely sick anymore and can attend the Banquet.”

She didn’t answer his question honestly because she is aware that she needs to go back to the Yang Household after this. She cannot take the risk of upsetting Yang Luoyang completely.

It will only hurt her in the end.

“Also, How can I not attend the Birthday Celebration Banquet of Your Highness? It’s your 25th birthday after all.” Yang Ning clapped excitedly as she couldn’t believe that she was witnessing this legendary moment herself.

Her Male lead was stepping one step ahead in his life. How amazing!

“Happy Birthday to Your Highness! Woohoo!” She wished him excitedly, however, seeing everyones shocked reaction, her excitement slowly died down.

‘Why! Why! Why! What wrong did she do now?’ She screamed in her head. They haven’t even entered the royal palace yet and things were already going so wrong.

” Ha...Happy Birthday? What...does it mean?” Zheng Liang repeated the strange words of Yang Ning as he stared at her in confusion. What kind of alien language is she speaking?

” Ah?” Yang Ning was speechless when she realized that he does not know the words that she is using.

That’s right. Since this is the world of a Historical setting novel, the language they speak must be formal and different from the one she uses in her world.

Then he must not be aware of the slangs and the new and simpler words that they use in her world. The language takes different shapes by the period of time, this is a whole different world after all.

How can it be all the same?

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