The eldest daughter's scheming, the crown prince's exclusive favor to the venomous concubi

Instantly, she felt a surge of anger, but since it wasn't the right time to lash out, she had to suppress her rage and instead smiled at Jian Yue.

Seeing Jian Yue holding the hairpin and lingering with reluctance in her eyes, Qiu Lingfeng gritted her teeth and said, "Since you like it, little sister, then I'll give it to you as a return gift for the noodles you cooked for me today!"

Upon hearing this, Jian Yue's face lit up with joy. She immediately put the jade hairpin on her head and said, "Thank you, elder sister. I will cook noodles for you every day from now on."

Qiu Lingfeng had lost her usual patience and felt her stomach churning. She wished Jian Yue would disappear immediately.

Heaven knows that the noodles were so bad even a dog wouldn't eat them. She only took one bite and her stomach started churning. She wasn't sick before, but now she really was sick because she had eaten something bad.

After Jian Yue left, Qiu Lingfeng's courtyard was in complete chaos. Jian Yue was unaware of this and didn't care. Her purpose was simply to play the role of a good-for-nothing, greedy fake legitimate daughter.

Back in her room, Jian Yue paused slightly, then looked behind her and said, "Xiao Rou, you should go back and rest first. You got up early this morning and are a little tired. I'll take a nap. Xiao Cui will stay at the door."

Xiao Rou nodded obediently, asked no questions, and left. However, the smile on her face vanished in an instant as she turned away.

After Xiao Cui left, Jian Yue smiled and walked into the house, saying as she went, "You're used to being a flower thief, aren't you? You didn't come in through the front door, did you sneak in through the window? Or the roof?"

Jian Yue looked up at the roof. The roof was the same as before, with no trace of the tiles being moved. A gust of wind brushed past her ear, and then she was embraced by a warm hug.

"The guards at the Qiu residence are all useless. Even if I walked in through the main gate, they wouldn't be able to see me. If my wife agrees, this flower thief would be willing to guard this place day and night."

Jian Yue laughed and scolded, "You're so irresponsible. We only parted last night, what are you doing here now?"

"As the saying goes, a night apart feels like three autumns. If the mountain won't come to me, I'll come to the mountain. If my wife doesn't look for me, I have no choice but to come to her to ease the pain of longing."

As Bai Jianan spoke, he had already led Jian Yue to the bedside and was about to cling to her shamelessly. Upon seeing this, Jian Yue suddenly drew her sword from her sleeve and attacked his face. Bai Jianan chuckled and dodged, then turned to look at Jian Yue with a mournful expression and said, "Wife, are you trying to murder your husband?"

Jian Yue sheathed her shuriken and put it back in her sleeve, then laughed and said, "Let's practice. Otherwise, if we get rusty, it would be a loss if that playboy took advantage of us."

Bai Jianan shook his head helplessly: "Does my wife think I'm a libertine? Do I only act libertine under your nose? Other women, even if you asked me to, I wouldn't act libertine."

As he spoke, he suddenly flashed, Jian Yue narrowed his eyes, and the next moment, he waved his hands, and two hundred crescent blades appeared in his hands. His sleeves fluttered and the curved blades spun, preventing Bai Jianan, who rushed up, from getting close.

At this moment, Bai Jianan truly discovered his wife's real skills. He exclaimed in surprise, "I didn't expect my wife to have this. Beautiful!"

Jian Yue's scimitar is more rounded than ordinary scimitars, with the tip and hilt almost joined together. The blade is not even, with sharp spikes protruding everywhere, which is chilling to look at.

This curved sword is clearly custom-made. If one is not an expert in this craft, it is probably unusable. The sword itself could easily cut the hand holding the hilt if one is not careful.

Jian Yue smiled slightly after hearing Bai Jianan's words, her eyes crinkling upwards, and said, "There's still a lot you can't imagine."

As she spoke, she raised the curved sword and pressed a protrusion on the hilt. Suddenly, the sharp spikes on the sword flew out and headed towards Bai Jianan's face.

Bai Jianan snapped out of his shock and unleashed his inner strength in his hands, instantly blocking the spikes and preventing them from advancing. Just then, the spikes seemed to have grown eyes and limbs, and they returned to the scimitar, merging with it once more.

Bang bang bang~

"My lady, who made this? It's truly exquisite."

Jian Yue stopped her move, smiled and raised her scimitar. Bai Jianan thought Jian Yue was about to make another sudden attack, so he instinctively went to defend himself. But then he saw Jian Yue press something, and the two scimitars were instantly retracted into their hilts.

At that moment, Jian Yue snapped the two knife handles together, and a shiny gold bracelet appeared before her eyes.

Bai Jianan's gaze was intense, and he had to take it seriously. He said, "If it weren't for a master mechanic, it would be absolutely impossible to make something like this."

Just thinking about those spikes makes it impossible for them to be completely retracted into the bracelet-like hilt, unless the blade itself is hollow. But if that were the case, the entire blade would be too light and too thin, making it practically useless.

But when Jian Yue made that move, Bai Jianan used 50% of his internal force. If it were ordinary steel, the spikes should have broken long ago. But in Bai Jianan's eyes, the thing didn't even show a crack. It even went back to its nest like an old horse that knew its way back. But Bai Jianan didn't see any threads or anything connecting the spikes.

Jian Yue smiled, put the bracelet on her left wrist, and said while playing with it, "It was indeed made by a master craftsman. What, you've got your eye on it?"

Bai Jianan laughed and said, "What do you think? You brought this out today not just to practice with me, right?"

Jian Yue nodded and said, "This thing is not difficult to forge, and the materials are easy to find. However, there are very few people who can forge it. The Qilin Pavilion spans the entire continent, and I believe that the best weapon for intelligence gathering is a short blade that can be easily carried. So, if you don't want this thing?"

"Yes, on conditions."

Bai Jianan did not hesitate at all. First, the woman in front of him was the wife he had chosen. Second, this thing was indeed what the Qilin Pavilion needed at the moment. Third, he wanted the person who could forge this thing.

Jian Yue was well aware that once she revealed this item, everyone would want it, and the Qilin Pavilion would be the first to be targeted. After all, given the relationship, she couldn't let outsiders benefit from it.

She smiled and said, "This thing isn't mine, and the conditions aren't set by me. What's yours is mine, and what's mine will be yours. So, the person who created this thing will negotiate the conditions with you personally, and I'm just acting as an intermediary."

Bai Jianan raised an eyebrow: "So, who is the forger?"

"Hua Xiangrong".

Bai Jianan's eyes narrowed into slits: "Hua Xiangrong? The owner of Lanyue Tower? As expected, she's a woman of great talent and cunning."

Jian Yue smiled and said, "I advise your Qilin Pavilion not to attack Lan Yue Tower. I'm not doing this for myself, but because even if Lan Yue Tower had nothing to do with me, you wouldn't be able to handle it."

Bai Jianan didn't speak, but just looked at Jian Yue. Jian Yue walked to the bedside and took out a dagger from under the pillow. A ruthless glint flashed in Bai Jianan's eyes.

"You took Chu Tianyi's sword?"

Jian Yue shook her head and looked at Bai Jianan, saying, "You think it looks like it?"

Bai Jianan countered, "Isn't that right?"

"Of course not."

As she spoke, Jian Yue swiftly pulled out the dagger, shocking Bai Jianan once again.

From the outside, this dagger looks exactly the same as the one Chu Tianyi was going to give to Jian Yue, even the gems inlaid on the scabbard are polished exactly the same, but the inside is completely different.

Chu Tianyi's dagger is just a dagger; it is a symbol of the Northwest Princess.

But the dagger in Jian Yue's hand, when drawn out, turned out to be a sharp sword.

Jian Yue flicked the sword, and it made a buzzing sound. Then, she pinched the tip of the sword with two fingers, and the sword, like a soft sword, was bent into its original shape. As Jian Yue let go, the sword returned to its original state.

Jian Yue smiled, then swung her sword at Bai Jianan. Bai Jianan leaned back and the sword slammed into the table, instantly cutting it in two. The sword mark was clean, and there wasn't even a single splinter on the table.

Jian Yue picked up the sword, blew on the blade, and laughed, "This thing is much more practical than a sword. It can be used to chop, slash, stab, and bleed."

As she spoke, as if using a scimitar, she seemed to have triggered some mechanism, and the blade suddenly changed shape, taking on a triangular form with a groove appearing on each side.

Bai Jianan found a complete chair, sat down again, and said, "Did you have Hua Xiangrong make this thing after you saw Chu Tianyi's sword?"

Jian Yue nodded: "I only drew the appearance of this thing for Sister Hua, and Sister Hua made it. I just didn't expect that she installed so many mechanisms inside. What I demonstrated was only a small part. If you really want to use it, you will need to familiarize yourself with it more."

As she spoke, Jian Yue restored the sword to its original form, sheathed it, and placed it back under her pillow. She clapped her hands and said, "It looks like a little self-defense gadget, but in reality, it's a deadly weapon."

Bai Jianan nodded, his gaze dark: "Indeed, it's so exquisite, truly a deadly weapon. Have you ever considered Hua Xiangrong's true identity?"

Upon hearing this, Jian Yue smiled and said, "Why should I bother to find out?"

Bai Jianan raised an eyebrow: "You trust her that much?"

Jian Yue retorted, "Then why do you trust me so much?"

Bai Jianan remained silent, and Jian Yue continued, "Just like I trust you, between the two of us, if she were plotting against me, to be honest, I wouldn't even have a chance to turn the tables. How could she allow me to return here and get to where I am now?"

Bai Jianan remained silent. Indeed, if Hua Xiangrong truly harbored some kind of conspiracy against Jian Yue, then Jian Yue at this moment would certainly not be Jian Yue anymore.

Jian Yue, on the other hand, felt that meeting Hua Xiangrong in this life was truly a blessing from God. She sighed, "I saved Sister Hua at the manor three years ago. At that time, Sister Hua was lying on the mountainside covered in blood. When I saved her, she even tried to kill me. Do you think I would consider her an ordinary person?"