Chapter 494 - 153 Xiao Hong_3
He glanced at Jiang Li and said, "Don’t be foolish."
Jiang Li silently sighed in her heart, looking at the now empty birdcage, and silently stopped speaking.
After walking a few steps away from the empty birdcage with Jih Heng, Jiang Li said, "Duke, I must wait here for my friend Liu Xu. I’m afraid I cannot accompany you any further. Besides..." Besides, it would likely arouse curious stares if she were seen walking with Jih Heng at the Shen family’s residence.
Jih Heng looked at her intently, as if trying to see right through her, and suddenly asked, "How do you plan to deal with Xiao Deyin?"
Jiang Li was startled. Jih Heng continued, "The piece you played earlier, ’Guanshan Yue,’ greatly disturbed Xiao Deyin. Although I do not know the reason," he said, fondling the handle of his folding fan, "you played it for her."
He knew about that too. When exactly had he come? Feeling his probing gaze, Jiang Li thought for a moment and said, "It’s a long story. That piece was indeed played for Xiao Deyin. What I want to do next is simple. I want Princess Yongning to feel that Xiao Deyin’s existence is a threat, and that she needs to silence her."
"You cannot stop Yongning from silencing Xiao Deyin," Jih Heng stated pointedly, "She will not give you a chance to save Xiao Deyin, and you have no reason to save her anyway."
Always able to pinpoint the essence of the problem, Jiang Li smiled faintly and said, "That’s why I have no real intention of letting Princess Yongning silence Xiao Deyin because if Xiao Deyin were really dead, Xue Fangfei’s case would lose a witness. I won’t let that happen," she said, "I just need Xiao Deyin to believe that it was Princess Yongning who sent someone after her, that’s all."
"Are you planning to sow discord?" Jih Heng’s lips curled in a smile, as if he was praising a pet he had raised that had finally learned to bite, "Clever girl."
"You could say that. I have to make Xiao Deyin believe that Yongning will act against her while making Yongning believe Xiao Deyin is unreliable. Of course, I will find a way to keep Xiao Deyin alive. She should live to face her punishment, and not die and cause trouble for others."