The dove pecked at Xiaoyao Yunshang with a wronged expression, rubbing against him with its  wings. His behavior mirrored that of a spoiled child.

“Throwing a tantrum won’t do anything.” Xiaoyao Yunshang wiped again at the area where Mo Qingli had touched him, his face filled with disgust. “Oh right, what about the a.s.signment I gave you?”

Hearing this, the dove rubbed his wings together, sensing that a chance of atonement was here. He flew a few circles in front of Xiaoyao Yunshang, but sensing no emotion from his master, could only meekly extend his foot.

Xiaoyao Yunshang procured the paper from the dove’s foot, opening it. A moment later, his face filled with glee. “Forget it, you’re forgiven.”

He rubbed the paper between his hands; a moment later, it turned into a pile of smoking ashes.

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“Princess,” Yue Yao hurriedly entered the room. She looked towards Mo Qingli, who was recuperating on a daybed with her eyes closed.

“What kind of news has made you so hurried today?” Mo Qingli lazily opened an eye, then quickly closed it again.

Yue Yao had already become used to Mo Qingli’s lazy appearance, and so did not view the scene before her as unusual. She respectfully kneeled onto the ground, her tone of voice as urgent as before: “Princess, the Fourth Princess has come again! She insists on seeing the Fourth Consort.”

Hearing those words, Mo Qingli’s eyes suddenly snapped open, her entire body emitting an extremely terrifying aura. The kneeling Yue Yao couldn’t help but pull her clothes tighter to herself—so cold.

In the past two months, Mo Qinghan had insisted on visiting Feng Chenling nearly every day, vowing not to give up until she had achieved her goal. For the past few times they had managed to stop her from entering outside the residence; however, no one had expected that she somehow pleaded for the Empress to give her a gold plaque, allowing her unlimited access to all areas, including the Sixth Princess’s residence.

Thinking of this, Mo Qingli’s anger nearly imploded through her head. Not only did the Empress refuse to investigate the incident where Mo Qinghan had murdered so many people, but she even pampered her like this. It really was enough to make someone feel extremely incomprehensible.

Recently, Mo Qingli had also noticed that her body seemed to be out of sorts. She didn’t know why, but her body was no longer as vigorous as before, and whenever she tried to use magic power, she found it an extremely difficult task.

She believed that the source of her body’s weakness had something to do with Mo Qinghan. However, in reality, Mo Qinghan viewed her as an easily bullied person the whole time, which was why she had behaved so boorishly! Now, even the guards outside the residence fawned over Mo Qinghan in fear that she was reciprocate and harm them.

From Yue Yao’s behavior, the Fourth Princess must have already entered the residence.

“Let’s go.” Mo QIngli’s cold voice rang through the room. She grabbed a robe from nearby, throwing it on before she exited.

Seeing this, Yue Yao straightened her back and hurriedly lead the way.

“Chenling, I really love you with all my heart. Why don’t you come with me!” Mo Qinghan reached out to grab Feng Chenling, who narrowly dodged away from her.

“Fourth Princess, please show some decorum,” Feng Chenling said. Suppressing his fear, he pretended to be calm as he addressed Mo Qinghan: “Chenling has already been wed to the Sixth Princess, so I am one of the Sixth Princess’s people. Even when I am dead, I will be one of the Sixty Princess’s ghosts. So please, Fourth Princess, do not waste any energy on pursuing me!”

These days, those words had already been spoken to Mo Qinghan countless times, and hence had no effect on her. In her perspective, this kind of protesting Feng Chenling possessed a different kind of sweetness, one that none of the other men she had ever had had possessed before.

Mo Qinghan ignored Feng Chenling’s rebukes, forcibly grabbing Feng Chenling into her embrace. Her hands tightly wrapped around him. “Be good, don’t move. I will love you ten times more than Mo Qingli ever will!”

“Release me,” Feng Chenling demanded, unable to hold down his calm. His two eyes filled with tears and voice became hoa.r.s.e as he suddenly resisted with full force against Mo Qinghan’s embrace.