" YANG NING, YOU!! Why are you still standing outside the palace and not going inside? And….what is all this? Why are you wearing this kind of cheap dress?"
Yang Ning who was happily admiring the magnificent beauty of the royal palace, her happy moment was disrupted by a loud-cold voice of a man.
When she turned around, she found the man glaring at her in rage as if she had committed some kind of crime. " Dress?" She looked at the clothes that she was wearing in confusion and then looked at the man, " What's wrong with my clothes?" She blurted out, not knowing why this stranger was pointing at her dress as if she wasn't wearing a dress but a dirty rag to the banquet.
Xiaowei's complexion went pale to see Yang Ning answering back to Lord Yang Luoyang and could feel her end approaching sooner than she had expected. " MY LORD!! You're here." She immediately lowered her head and greeted him, trying to cut off this intense face-off between father and daughter.
" We were just about to go inside." She answered politely.
" Lord?" Yang Ning murmured in a low voice and realized that the man in front of her was none other than the greedy and self-centered father of Yang Ning.
Just now, she failed to recognize him because she doesn't have the memories of Yang Ning and things are especially difficult for her because she isn't aware of who is who and how things work in this world.
It was already hard enough to accept the fact that she is not Fang Li anymore but the villainess in the novel, Yang Ning. On top of that, she was forced to attend this royal banquet before she could understand the workings of this world.
Things are more chaotic because nothing is proceeding as she had read in the novel. The novel started from the later timeline, where the Crown Prince had already acquired the Crown and became the Emperor of the country, meanwhile, Yang Ning was the Empress, the Villainous Empress.
That's why she is solely depending on Xiaowei for everything and her knowledge about the novel and the characters. How amazing it would be if the people in this world would come with a character tag, it would be easier for her to recognize them right away.
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A frown appeared on Yang Ning's forehead to see Yang Luoyang standing in front of her, who was glaring at her with a gaze of loathing and disgust in his eyes.
'Is he Yang Ning's Father? How can a father look at his child with such a hateful and loathing gaze?' She wondered.
When reading the novel, she hated him the most. More than the real Villainess, Yang Ning. Because he was the core reason why Yang Ning became a vicious and heartless person. Although she was the villainess in the novel, there were times when she pitied her more than anyone.
She simply wanted to come into the good books of her father. That was her only fault. Because of the said reason, she became part of the crimes that she never wanted to happen in the first place.
If he had treated her right and loved her like his eldest daughter, she wouldn't have to face that kind of dreadful and humiliating end.
" YOU!! Didn't I tell you to put on a beautiful dress for today's celebration banquet? Then why are you wearing such a simple-looking dress? Do you want people to look down on the Yang Family? Huh?" Yang Luoyang, who had just gotten off his horse carriage and was about to go inside the royal palace to attend the banquet, was stunned to see Yang Ning standing outside and looking in the direction of the palace.
He had sent Yang Ning earlier to the Banquet so that she could reach earlier and welcome the esteemed guests as the future Crown Prince, who are coming from far away kingdoms to attend the Banquet. However, not only was she wasting precious time by standing outside but was also wearing a simple-looking, ordinary dress that isn't suitable for the status of the Future Crown Princess.
" Chang Ah! Didn't I tell you to arrange a dress for her to wear to the Banquet? Then what the hell is this? How come she is wearing this kind of trash dress to the banquet?" Yang Luoyang lashed out at his wife, who was standing next to him and was frowning to see Yang Ning in a simple, yellow color dress that isn't embedded with any precious gems or had any special handicraft on it.
Chang Ah's face turned pale after being faced by her husband's wrath. Even though his voice wasn't too loud as they were still in front of the palace, she could feel the rage in his words.
"My…My Lord. I do not know anything about it. This…This is not the dress that I prepared for Yang Ning. She is not wearing the dress that I sent for her in the morning." Chang Ah retorted.
She was telling the truth. This was not the dress that she had sent for Yang Ning, to wear to the Celebration Banquet.
The dress she sent was of loud red color with matching accessories. However, the dress that Yang Ning was wearing at the moment was of yellow color that does not have any kind of handwork done on it. She wasn't wearing many accessories as well, just a pair of decent-looking earrings and a beautiful hairpin which isn't the same hairpin that she had sent in the morning.
" Yang Ning, my child. Why aren't you wearing the dress and accessories that I had prepared for you? How can you embarrass your mother like that in front of your father and everyone?"
" Even though I am not your birth mother, I still care for you as my child. I prepared that dress for you just so that you can wear it on a special day like today. How can you not wear it and look down on me as your mother? Huh?" Chang Ah looked at Yang Ning with her moist eyes and sobbed as if Yang Ning had wronged her by not wearing the dress that she had prepared for her.
Yang Luoyang gritted his teeth as he looked at Yang Ning with his reddened eyes in rage.
This girl!! He knew it.
She did it to embarrass him and Chang Ah in front of His Majesty and the Crown Prince. After yesterday, the Crown Prince already has an impression that the Yang family doesn't treat her well.
And not wearing an appropriate dress to the banquet will give everyone a reason to point their fingers at him and Chang Ah, who is the stepmother of Yang Ning.
" Yang Ning, You're so shameless. Were you trying to ruin my reputation in front of the Crown Prince and His Majesty? Huh? Don't you dare to enter the palace looking like that!"
" You! Take her back and get her changed into the dress that Chang Ah had prepared for her." Yang Luoyang turned to Xiaowei, who was getting anxious to see things unfolding in different directions.
That's not the reason why Yang Ning decided to wear a different dress.
" My Lord! The Banquet is going to start soon. If we leave now….." Xiaowei said nervously while hoping he would calm down and listen to their explanation.
The Banquet is soon going to start and if they go back to get changed, they will miss the starting ceremony. If this happens, Yang Ning won't be able to greet his Majesty along with the Crown Prince where both of them are supposed to start the Celebration Banquet by greeting the Emperor and receiving his blessing.
Yang Ning, who was silent all this while and was observing the drama unfolding in front of her, raised her hand to silent Xiaowei. She not only stopped Xiaowei from making excuses but glanced at Chang Ah before turning her attention to Minister Yang.
" We are not going anywhere. Since I am already here, I will only go back after attending the banquet, or if I were to leave this place now, I will not come back to attend the Banquet. Now you can make a decision. Either attend the Banquet in this dress or sleep peacefully at home?" Yang Ning announced while looking into Yang Luoyang's eyes with confidence.
The kind of confidence that she never had in herself when facing Yang Luoyang.
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There was a loud silence after Yang Ning completed her words. Everyone was dumbstruck and couldn't comprehend what just happened, especially Yang Luoyang.
Not only did Yang Ning not address him as 'Father' this time, her words sounded more colder and informal than usual. It was not the tone in which Yang Ning used to talk in front of him.
He has always seen Yang Ning to comply with his words without any other question asked and she has always held her head low in front of him. However, today she not only refuted his words but was also looking straight into his eyes, without avoiding his gaze.
" YOU….HOW DARE YOU? ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOU WILL NOT DO AS I SAY?" He gritted his teeth and glared at her with his intimidating gaze however, rather than avoiding him, she calmly looked at him and was waiting for his decision.
" No! I am saying that I will do whatever you decide. So make a decision, should I go back and never return to attend the banquet or just attend the banquet in this dress as it is?" She said in a calm and composed manner. She even smiled after completing her words, which caused Yang Luoyang to scoff at her in disbelief.
'Did…Did the fever reach upto her head or what? How come the girl who never dared to meet his eyes is arguing with him right now?'
Seeing Yang Ning talking so eloquently, even Chang Ah was baffled. She has never seen this girl speak so much in front of Yang Luoyang before. Not only that, she never even talked back to her, forget doing that in front of her father.
" Yang Ning. Why are you being like this? Your father is thinking about your well-being only. If you go inside while looking like this, everyone will talk about you and will look down on you and the Yang Family. Do you want people to laugh at your father because of your stubbornness?" Chang Ah said.
Rather than being stern to her, Chang Ah decided to take the path of a 'Mother Fairy' and used the sweetest voice she can to persuade Yang Ning with her words and also to prove her point to Yang Luoyang.
" Am I being stubborn right now? I don't think so. I am simply giving him a choice and saving everyone's precious time." Yang Ning responded to Chang Ah's words seriously while looking at her with an expression that was saying, ' What do you want me to do?'
" Also, he is the Minister of Finance at the royal court. Who will dare to make fun of him? Aren't I right, Fa…Fa…My Lord?" Yang Ning said with a slight hesitation in her words.
' SHIT! I almost called him Father. Argh!! I am getting goosebumps.' Yang Ning smiled as if nothing had happened while rubbing her arms nonchalantly, smoothing the goosebumps that she was feeling in her body.
She will never call this snake her 'Father'. Never!
Her father is a lovely and caring man who always thinks about the well-being of his children, unlike this trash who only cares about his reputation and lineage. He even made his son who was just a child to turn into a rude and arrogant person, just like him.
Yang Luoyang's face turned crimson in anger as he controlled his outrage by clenching his hand into a tight fist and glared at Yang Ning with his reddened eyes as he said in a low voice, " You! Do you think I will not punish you just because you are going to become the Crown Princess? Huh?"
" Don't forget that you're still my daughter and have to return to Yang Household after this Banquet. Do you think you can bear the consequences of acting in front of me like this?" Yang Luoyang said in a low and deep voice, threatening her indirectly.
At that moment, the color of Yang Ning's face started to become pale. Did she overdo it?
She almost forgot it when she faced Yang Luoyang just now, but this trash father is not a normal trash. He is the stinkiest trash…Father character that she has ever met…or should she say…read?
In the novel, there were a few scenes of Yang Ning and Yang Luoyang together. In those scenes, Yang Ning used to become mum in front of him and sometimes tremble whenever he shouts at her or comes close to her.
It was because when Yang Ning was young, Yang Luoyang used to punish her harshly by hitting her many times with a whip or making her stand outside the whole night in cold weather without any warm clothes, in her undergarments only for every single childish mistake she made.
That's also one of the reasons why Yang Ning has a meek personality and weak constitution which causes her to get sick easily.
It was one of the moments when Fang Li felt bad for Yang Ning while reading the novel. Even if she was the villainous character in the novel, there was a reason why she became like this.
Her Father who never treated her like his daughter but a 'Thing' which can be bartered for his material gains caused her to become the puppet of her monstrous father and follow his greedy and evil orders with a blind eye.
Even if she wanted to go against him, she couldn't do so because she had no one by her side to support her and pull her out of this muddy puddle.
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Yang Ning pursed her lips as she unconsciously stepped back upon facing Yang Luoyang's monstrous face that he was hiding behind his 'smile' that was meant for show to others.
Earlier, she was trying to control her emotions to the max and not act out of character, but seems like she still upsetted him in a way. However, that was her most calm and composed demeanor that she had shown to him and answered him as poltitly as she could.
Wasn't she doing just as he told her to do? However, to make things simpler, she just gave a choice. That's it.
Why is he treating her this way? Mainly, who the hell is he to treat her this way? Is he asking for a fight with her?
Ah….wait! He is not treating her this way, but his daughter, Yang Ning.
' Damn it. Wasn't Yang Ning supposed to be the villainess of the novel, then why is her character weaker than the female lead?
That's so unfair.'
Before Yang Ning could find her composure back and face Yang Luoyang with confidence and not be intimidated by him, Xiaowei jumped in between the conversation and kneeled in front of Yang Luoyang.
" MY LORD!! Please forgive my lady. She is still unwell and has a fever, that's why she does not know what she is saying. Please forgive her. I will take her back to the Yang Household right away and will make sure that she attends the banquet in the dress that Madam has prepared for her." Xiaowei said and begged for his mercy on Yang Ning.
She does not know why Yang Ning is acting this way but it will not going to help them in any way. He might have not punished Yang Ning since her engagement has been fixed with the Crown Prince but there is no surety that he will not do that again.
Also, she hasn't forgotten about the warning that he had given her last night. Yang Ning's actions are simply making the situation even more worse.
Yang Ning has just gotten up from a high fever and still hasn't recovered her health properly. If she were to get punished in this state, it can be dangerous for her.
Yang Ning frowned to see Xiaowei kneeling on the ground and felt wronged to see her protecting her in this way. If they were to agree to this man's order now, he will continue to treat her like trash just like he used to do before.
However, she could also understand Xiaowei's feelings. She was simply trying to protect Yang Ning from the punishment. She was the only person who always stood next to Yang Ning and supported her in every possible way.
While protecting her in the novel, she even sacrificed her life for her. Why do all the nice characters have to die so early and wrongfully?
" Xiaowei, Stand up. You don't have to do this here." Yang Ning tried to pull Xiaowei up and make her stand, but she didn't budge from the ground and continued to kneel on.
" We did nothing wrong. You don't have to-"
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