Si Ning quickly jumped up almost tumbling and kicking away the chamberstick. He yanked the wardrobe doors wide open, his hands all over the wall pulling the clothes that hinders him from inspecting the walls and dumping them on the floor. After searching for some time and found nothing, Si Ning had to clear out the wardrobe and started checking from the angles, tracing the edges with his fingers till he found a thin wooden plank that covered a cavity in the wall.The wooden plank was so thin blending in with the wall smoothly that Si Ning wondered how his sister was able to find it. He even struggled before he was able to remove the plank and there was a box that sat on the hardwood in the wall and Si Ning quickly bought it out. It was a beautiful silver box that had his name inscribed on it with beautiful calligraphy. It was quite heavy and Si Ning hoped it contained more than the letters.Si Ning had to tiptoe to avoid stepping on his clothes. He placed the box on th

"Oh, Si Nan." Song Feng smiled widely as he stood up."Brother Song Feng, it has been long since I have seen you. I heard you are going to marry Mo Qi." Si Nan said brightly, already looking for a juicy detail.Song Feng's eyes darted to Si Ning before clearing his throat. "Ehmm about that..." He pursed his lips."Si Nan, you should know that is a private matter and you shouldn’t be asking about things concerning a private life." Si Ning said quickly hoping Si Nan would not get into trouble one day of how blunt she was.Si Nan was totally different from Si Ning. Si Ning prefers observing people for a short time before labeling them according to the conclusion of his observation and he was the opposite Si Nan who would attack people with questions and her results were mostly based on facts, not on hypothesis."Young Master." Ah Dai called softly as a means to remind Si Ning of his other visitors waiting for him."Oh Ah Dai!" Si Nan quic

"I like you great General Si Ning." Qiu Bai declared when he stopped laughing and then brought out a golden paper hand fan and spread it open, he stared at the bird emblem imprinted on it."Hmm." Si Ning doesn’t know what to say since an unexpected statement was thrown at him out of nowhere but his lips curled up in a small smile when he heard Qiu Bai called him a great General without any hint of sarcasm. "And yet this great General does not know why an important guest graced my house?" He prayed Qiu Bai finally get his hint to start talking about the main purpose of his visit.Since Qiu Bai was staring at the bird emblem so much, Si Ning slightly stretched his neck to take a better look. It was just like the flag Shen Yu’s army carried but Si Ning could see the bird emblem wasn’t entirely blue, it had some red, green, and gold in it. It looked like a peacock but Si Ning knew it wasn’t a peacock, it was a strange bird he had never seen.

After some time that Qiu Bai left and Si Ning was still standing there absentminded, he suddenly felt sluggish and tired, he knew that the medicine was finally kicking in and he couldn’t wait to go to his room and take one of the sleeping tablets Song Feng gave him and write ’do not disturb’ boldly on a paper and paste it outside his door.It was only noon and Si Ning knew he had to see Shao Lang first but then he sat down slowly and lowered his head on the table, his mass of hair poured over the table covering his face like a curtain that he had to close his eyes just to rest for a bit.Si Ning started feeling sleepy yet he couldn’t sleep because his mind was restless. There he was thinking to marry Xiu Zhicheng was his biggest problem and also finding a way to leave his post but Qiu Bai just basically told him he was planning to declare an all-out war on Xiu.This Qiu Bai he met was different from the Qiu Bai he knew in the twenty-first

"So you mean Song Feng..." Si Ning had to pause to think of the proper words to use. "So Song Feng is in love with me?" He decided to be blunt and not beat around the bush.Shao Lang coughed, a little shocked at how Si Ning constructed his words but he nodded since he was too embarrassed to reply to Si Ning with words, he quickly looked away in embarrassment as his ears tinted into a lighter shade of red that Si Ning almost rolled his eyes at how Shao Lang was acting so shy like the word love was an embarrassing word he shouldn't say lightly.Song Feng being in love with him was something Si Ning never expected that he had to close his eyes to think about it and based on how Song Feng interacted with him, there was nothing out of the ordinary except he calls Si Ning by name and played his role as a doctor and when Xiu Zhicheng gave him gifts, Si Ning was more worried about how to act that he wasn’t able to see Song Feng’s expression. Song Feng making porrid