I Became the Eye Candy: Four Bigshots Claimed to be My Dad?-Chapter 64: The Reason for the Soaring Fortune
"Father, I don’t usually go out. I don’t need guards."
"You don’t understand. Sometimes, it isn’t even safe inside the mansion. These four guards will stay near you, but they won’t show themselves unless there’s trouble." Xiang Minghou was clearly still shaken by the past, wary of another visit from Zhan Chi.
Hidden Guards?
"Are they very skilled?" Ye Qianning asked.
"Of course. I trained them myself. Their skills are definitely superior to that brat Zhan Chi’s," Xiang Minghou said with great confidence.
"What about their Qinggong?" Having seen Zhan Chi’s, Ye Qianning was rather curious.
Although she didn’t understand the principles behind Qinggong, she felt her own abilities weren’t half bad. After all, she could scale a hundred-story building with her bare hands without a problem.
"Their Qinggong is also excellent. Come, give her a demonstration," Xiang Minghou commanded.
The four young men leaped onto the roof, their movements as light as a swallow’s. They circled above Yuehua Small Building, their speed, form, and breathing all remarkably steady.
Ye Qianning didn’t know how the ancients ranked Inner Strength, but there were almost no presences she couldn’t detect. Even without using her powers, her hearing was several times more sensitive than a normal person’s.
’Although their movements are crystal clear to my ears, I suppose they could be considered mid-level experts.’
"So, what do you think?" Xiang Minghou was quite pleased with them.
"They’re great." Ye Qianning didn’t want to reject her father’s kind gesture.
"From now on, these four will follow you. If anyone gives you trouble, just have them beat the person to a pulp."
Ye Qianning nodded. ’This could work,’ she thought suddenly. ’If I run into any trouble, I won’t have to get my own hands dirty.’
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Deep in her sleep that night, Ye Qianning once again sensed a change in her space. Entering it, she was shocked to discover that her blessing value, which had been at twenty-five percent, had suddenly shot up to ninety percent.
The sheer speed of the increase stunned her. She had only gone out for a meal with Zhan Chi today and hadn’t done anything else. ’Why would my blessing value suddenly skyrocket?’
Ye Qianning couldn’t make heads or tails of it. As she thought back on the details of the last two surges, a person suddenly came to mind—Sang Zhi.
The day her blessing value last surged, she had run into Sang Zhi at the Changyang Prince Mansion. Today, she had run into him again. For her blessing value to surge just from casually helping a child... didn’t that seem a little far-fetched?
’But Sang Zhi is the only explanation that makes sense,’ she thought. ’If helping him causes my blessing value to skyrocket, then won’t this be easy?’
The next day, Ye Qianning went to her father’s concubines to ask about the palace’s princes. Even though the women rarely left the Prince Mansion, they were a first-rate source of gossip.
Sang Zhi’s mother, Princess Consort Zhen, was a princess from East Shu, sent for a political marriage. It was said that the princess originally destined for the marriage with Beili wasn’t Sang Zhi’s mother, but the Seventh Princess of East Shu.
Something happened to the Seventh Princess at the time, so East Shu had Sang Zhi’s mother, the Eighth Princess, take her place. The substitution was only discovered after she had already married into the Beili court.
By then, Princess Consort Zhen was already with child. But because the Eighth Princess of East Shu had been deemed inauspicious since birth, she immediately lost the emperor’s favor.
Princess Consort Zhen was colorblind, and when she gave birth to Sang Zhi, he was colorblind as well. The imperial court, just like East Shu years ago, saw this as a sign of misfortune.
The Beili Emperor paid this son almost no mind, so his life in the palace was not an easy one.
Ye Qianning, however, believed Sang Zhi’s eyes could indeed distinguish colors. She had noticed it the very first time she saw him. ’But why would he hide it?’
"Sisters, the Second Master is back with the child!" Sansan announced, scurrying into the courtyard with a mincing gait.
"Hmph. I knew it. With his personality, it’s a miracle he even managed to stay away for two days." Huaihua scoffed, cracking a melon seed with a look of disdain.
