I woke up as the Villainous Empress

Chapter 19: Banquet (VIII)

” These people....” Xiaowei gritted her teeth as she couldn’t bear to listen to the ill things that people were talking about Yang Ning. They do not even know her properly, yet they speak as if they know everything about her.

It was her who kneeled on the ground to calm down the anger of Yang Luoyang and Yang Ning tried to stop her from doing so. Yet they are making stories about how Yang Ning tortured her in front of the royal palace and forced her to kneel on the ground.

How can they tarnish someone’s reputation so easily? She can never understand who makes such ridiculous, false stories without thinking twice about how such rumors could affect someone’s reputation and life?

” My lady, are you alright? If you want, we can go outside to take a stroll.” Xiaowei bit her lower lip as she asked Yang Ning hesitantly. She was worried that her health would be affected after listening to such rumors about her.

Their voices were so loud and clear, how can she not hear them?

She was suffering from a high fever yesterday and managed to attend the banquet after taking the medicine that the physician prepared for her.

However, it does not mean that she has gotten better completely. She is still sick and weak. She needs plenty of rest to recuperate her energy to get better.

.....

Listening to such false rumors and ill things about her in this state, will not only upset her but also affect her health adversely.

Yang Ning looked at Xiaowei with her dull gaze and sighed heavily as she looked at her in disappointment. ” How can I be alright? I haven’t eaten anything since last night, do you expect me to be perfectly fine in this state?”

” I cannot believe that these people can be so heart-” Xiaowei was upset to see Yang Ning in such a terrible state and wanted to comfort her with her words at the least, but as she was talking, she suddenly halted in her words.

“Eh? You...were not talking about these people? So you are not upset about the things that people were talking about you?” Xiaowei was speechless when she realized that Yang Ning was not talking about the false rumors but she was complaining about the food.

Yang Ning looked at her and nodded seriously. ” Don’t talk as if it’s nothing. I am dying of hunger here, how can I be worried about the words of people who mean nothing to me?”

She wasn’t lying. She was indeed dying of hunger at the moment. When she woke up in this world last night, before she could eat anything to fill her monstrous stomach, she passed out.

And when she woke up in the morning, she was forced to get ready for the banquet hurriedly and was brought here without giving her any food.

She was told that there is no time to eat and that she can eat whatever she wants at the banquet.

She also agreed to this condition and was looking forward to eating delicious, royal food but all she got was a bitter tea on her empty stomach with no snacks.

How sad!

Xiaowei smiled awkwardly and exclaimed, ” Ah....so you were hungry! And I thought you were-Hah!”

Xiaowei took a deep breath and explained to Yang Ning calmly, ” You...can get to eat when His Majesty is done with meeting with the people and move to the dining hall where everyone can sit together to enjoy the Feast.”

” WHAT? Xiaowei, have you seen the queue of people who are still waiting to greet his Majesty? If this continues, I will not get to eat anything for the next two hours. DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG TWO HOURS ARE?.” Yang Ning was devastated when she heard the words of Xiaowei.

How can she wait another two hours to eat when her stomach was growling non-stop and was making weird, monstrous noises?

“Lady Yang Ning!”

” My lady, you can-” Before Xiaowei could say anything to comfort Yang Ning who was hungry with her empty words was startled when she heard a charming voice that interrupted her.

This time, she did not need to turn around to know to whom the voice belonged.

” Greetings to His Highness!” Xiaowei greeted Zheng Liang, before stepping a few steps back from the two, giving them the privacy that they needed.

“Hey!” Yang Ning murmured in a low voice to see Xiaowei going away from her as she did not want to be left alone with the Crown Prince.

Why aren’t the stars not on her side? She was already hungry and was in a cranky mood, yet the Crown Prince came to make things worse for her.

Seeing his handsome face, all she can think of is her miserable ending in the . Death Punishment!

” Lady Yang Ning, are you feeling sick? Your face looks pale now.” Zheng Liang asked worriedly to see the pale complexion of Yang Ning.

From the moment they entered the palace together, his eyes were following her everywhere.

He even noticed how nervous she looked when greeting His and Her Majesty. Her hands were even trembling when she was performing the tea ceremony with him before.

He even saw her getting out of the crowd and before she could follow her, she vanished into the crowd.

However, now when he had spotted her, she was looking paler than before and does not look well. He had heard the words that people were talking about her earlier, is she not feeling well because of that? He wondered.

Yang Ning raised her brows and touched her face awkwardly, ” Ah? Do I look unwell? Erm... I don’t know. I think it’s alright.” She smiled awkwardly as she tried to close the topic.

However, it seems like the stars were indeed not on her side. She was trying to pretend to be alright, but her monstrous stomach had some different plans.

~GROWWLLL~

As soon as the music stopped in the background, her stomach made a loud noise that told him the embarrassing truth that she was trying to hide from him.

Zheng Liang: “.....”

Xiaowei clasped her hands tightly as she closed her eyes, feeling embarrassed for her lady.

There was complete silence between the three people as they awkwardly exchanged glances with each other.

Zheng Liang pursed his lips tightly as he tried hard to control his chuckle. He never thought that she was looking pale, not because she was sick but because she was hungry.

It was his first time witnessing something like this in front of him.

Generally, ladies present their best behavior in front of them and always try to look as much as graceful and elegant as possible, however, it looks like Lady Yang Ning was not as elegant as he heard of her to be.

” Ha....Haha!! It wasn’t me. Not me!” Yang Ning laughed awkwardly as she covered her abdomen with her hands and could feel her face turning red in embarrassment.

‘Arghhh!! Just kill me already.’ She was screaming in her head for ruining her image in front of her charming male lead.

At this moment, dying by his hands was not an issue. Because her self-respect has already been butchered in front of him.

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