The Prince’s Beloved is Aiming for Someone Else - Chapter 28

Chapter 28: Wei Jiang’s Visit

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Zhou Ji’nan shook his fan. “What do you know? This place is elegant. Girls will like it.”

Moreover, the place was quiet and remote, so there would be no room for outsiders to disturb them. It was the best.

He sat by the lake early in the morning and maintained his posture for a long time; however, no one came.

…

It was the Li family.

Li Baojia was going to leave. But just as she was about to get out, someone came to inform her that Wei Jiang of the Wei family was at the door waiting to see her.

Li Baojia thought, “The man riding the horse in the street last time? Why is he here?”

Li Baojia had to let someone put things away. Then, she let him in and went to the front hall.

As soon as she entered the door, a figure suddenly got down on one knee in front of her.

She was startled. “You…”

The person on the ground cupped his hand. He looked handsome and elegant, but his body looked thin and weak.

Some of his hair was hanging loose on his forehead and his clothes were a bit untidy. He seemed to have come out of prison just a moment ago. Still, he did not hurry back to clean up but rushed here.

He said, “I am Wei Jiang of the Wei family. I almost hurt you with my horse yesterday, so I came to apologize. I hope you will be generous and forgive me.”

His voice was clear. Although he was kneeling, his attitude was serious and not humble as if he was not the one kneeling.

He was very different from the flushed, delirious look on horseback the previous day.

It was as if he was not the same person.

Li Baojia hurriedly said, “No need to be so… I didn’t get injured yesterday. Please get up. Quickly.”

She could not care about the etiquette of males and females anymore and was about to reach out to help him up.

Wei Jiang, who was on the ground, only then raised his head. He froze for a moment when he saw Li Baojia.

She was slightly bent over. Her fair face was free of any makeup and her cheeks had some baby fat. She had round eyes, and the corners of her eyes were slightly upturned, making her childish eyes more charming.

Although she dressed simply, she was wearing something very delicate. She must be well-raised.

Only when Li Baojia’s hand was on his arm, he realized that he had been staring at her for a long time. He did not dare to touch her when he came back to his senses, so he stepped back and got up on his own.

Li Baojia secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If he was still kneeling, she would have been more embarrassed.

She was not hurt yesterday. He was exaggerating too much.

Wei Jiang turned around and signaled his attendant to bring several exquisite boxes. “These are the gifts I just bought outside. Please, take them. I can only get these because of the limitation of time. So, please forgive me. If there is anything else needed, I can go buy again.”

Then, he lowered his head, no longer having the courage to look at her.

In fact, he knew that these gifts had cost him several months of monthly allowances. Also, he had been even more broke recently.

But who would believe him?

He, the eldest son of Duke Wei, lived on the monthly allowances he received and had nothing more.

He was like a transparent person in the family, and his stepmother wanted him to disappear so that she could make room for her own son.

After all, as long as he was in the family, he would be the firstborn son and the first heir to the title, and her son would never inherit the title.

When he thought of drinking the liquor the previous day, waking up inexplicably on horseback, and even hitting and injuring one person, he clenched his fist.

He was over 20 but had not yet married a wife because he knew his situation.

He did not know what would happen to him as if he was walking on thin ice. He had to be extremely careful every day. He did not know when he would be used to save the Wei family by his father, who treated him as nothing. After all, what the Wei family was doing…

So, he did not want to marry another person and harm her.

He did not dare to deal with ordinary girls, not to mention the noble daughter of Grand Preceptor Li. Moreover, she was the crown prince’s woman.

When he thought of what Mr. Huang, the crown prince’s servant on his side, said to him in the morning, he buried his head even lower.

Li Baojia quickly said, “You don’t have to be so… I was fine yesterday. It was an accident. You don’t have to take it to heart.”

In fact, she was a little annoyed the previous day, thinking that the son of the Wei family was so arrogant that he dared to ride the horse in the street and hurt people after drinking.

But looking at his attitude right now, she thought he really did not look like an indulgent person. Perhaps there was something else she did not know.

But it was not something that she could control.

Wei Jiang breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that the girl from the Li family was unexpectedly easy to talk to and did not make things difficult for him, he was grateful in his heart and had more good feelings for Li Baojia.

Then, he went out gratefully. Li Baojia kept saying that he did not have to be like that and made a great effort to persuade him to go back.

After he left, Taotao handed her a cup of tea and said, “Miss Baojia, drink some water. You have been talking for a long time.”

Li Baojia finished the water in one gulp. “It’s too tiring.”

She thought, “Who is apologizing to whom?”

Wei Jiang was at least the son of Duke Wei. Although he had scared her the previous day, she wasn’t hurt. Why would he do that?

Li Baojia shook her head. She could not understand.

But she also completely changed the direction of the matter the previous day. Prince Liang’s son and the princess, who originally had to die, survived. Besides, Wei Jiang was not put to death.

The incident proved that the future could be changed and made her relieved.

If there had been things that seemed to have changed insignificantly because of her rebirth, it seemed that these changes were huge.

They might bring a violent storm. She had a vague feeling that everything, all of it, would lead to a future that no one knew or predicted.

But no matter what the future would be like, she had to do her best to make the Li family safe and get Uncle Wei’s family out of danger.

She shook her head and said, “Finally, we can go. Come on. Bring those things to the residence of Duke Jing’an.”

It would be noon if she was delayed again.

…

The carriage stopped steadily at the entrance of the residence of Duke Jing’an. Li Baojia was supported by Taotao to get off the carriage carefully.

Zhou Ji’nan waited until he was about to fall asleep before someone came to inform him that Li Baojia had arrived.

He took a special leave of absence from work, but she made him wait for so long.

Although he was the son of Duke Jing’an, he only had an idle job in the court, which was repairing the scroll.

However, he grew up with a dream of being a general. Unfortunately, he was the son of a noble family, and his mother especially opposed his desire to join the army, saying that only people from poor families would join the army to win a future. He was born noble and had his own future, so he did not have to suffer that type of situation.

Although his articles were good and very famous in Imperial City, he was quite bored with literary things. Also, he was impatient to read books. He only loved to read detailed military books or travelogues.

He casually shoved the book from his hand into his arms and said, “Ask her to come over.”

Someone with a sharp eye could see that the book he had just read was neither the art of war nor a travelogue.

The dark blue pages had only a few words on them. “A Guide to Courting Girls.”

No one knew from which stall he bought the strange book. The author also signed the book with a strange name called Priest Kongkong.