Cunning General Si Ning

Strange.

Si Ning felt well-rested and he was supposed to wake up by daylight but why was it still dark. He blinked once then twice and rubbed his eyes again expecting the day to become brighter but it was still dark.

What if he had been sleeping for three days?

With this thought, Si Ning stood up with a sense of urgency because he wondered if he had been sleeping for long because of the sleeping pill he took.

"Anybody outside." Si Ning called as he walked to open the window wider to look outside, he raised his head to see that the sky was clear but he could see the sun setting then he sighed in relief when he realized it was only dusk but then he still doesn't know what day it was.

Dusk? Did he sleep for a whole day? Or did he sleep for three days?

"Young Master." The door opened to reveal Ah Dai. "Young Master, you are finally awake, you slept for a day." He told Si Ning as he closed the door behind him.

"Oh." Si Ning finally understood that him feeling so weak and his muscles were sore must have been because he slept through the whole day and it was a relief he didn't sleep for days.

"Young Master, let me prepare you a bath and bring your meal. Young Master Song Feng just left and he instructed me to warm your medicine as soon as you wake up and I should send for him when Young Master wakes up." Ah Dai reported waiting for Si Ning's reply.

The fresh breeze caressed Si Ning's face which made him took a deep breath as the breeze made his hair fall behind him, he placed his hands on the windowsill and closed his eyes to remember his discussion with Shao Lang and Qiu Bai.

Ah Dai who stood by the door only stared at his Master's profile without blinking, unable to look away since he knew it was one of the rare opportunities he had to stare at his beautiful kind Master all he wants then he quickly looked away his face flushed when Si Ning suddenly twirled around to face him, his back to the window, his eyes fell on his arm which made Ah Dai quickly folded his hands behind him.

"No need to call him." Si Ning said finally since he doesn't want to face Song Feng yet and the plan he came up with was to avoid Song Feng or make sure they were never alone to prevent any confession from Song Feng and he must keep avoiding him until his wedding with Mo Qi and for now, he doesn't want to see him because he plans not to take the medicine 'cause he wasn't even ill.

"Yes, Young Master." Ah Dai bowed and opened the door to leave.

"Ah Dai, what of your arm?" Si Ning raised a brow. "Don't put too much pressure on it." He quickly added since he doesn't want to deal with the unreasonable part of Ah Dai but after seeing Ah Dai kneeled on the floor he couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"Young Master, I will follow your instruction and not put too much pressure on it, Ah Dai is very grateful for your concern about my health and very grateful that Young Master cares about me and I will never make Young Master regret making Ah Dai his personal servant." Ah Dai said with teary eyes.

Si Ning didn't say a word and only watch him till he stood up and took two steps back before turning around to leave the room. After Ah Dai closed the door behind him, Si Ning walked up to his seat and sat down, his eyes fell on an extremely rough folded paper on the table. He picked it and straightened it to see it was the short message Qiu Bai sent him and if his memory served him well, Si Ning remembered squeezing the paper into a ball before going to bed which means someone must have touched it.

Someone. Someone?

Si Ning's eyes widen when he remembered someone getting into bed with him, the person dressed in black robes and when he was able to see their face it was Xiu Zhicheng.

After realizing that Xiu Zhicheng might have stopped by and slept right next to him on the bed made Si Ning snapped his head back to his bed and he quickly stood up making the chair swirl in the process before falling on the floor but he only rushed to the bed and touched the side he didn't sleep on, it had gone cold. He pulled the blanket off to stare at the bed trying to see if it had any evidence of someone that slept over, when he didn't see any sign, he checked the bed angles and the drawer beside his bed but nothing was amiss. He turned to the wardrobe and opened it, after rummaging through it and even brought out the box in the cavity and checking the letters to see it was just like how he left it.

Seeing that everything was in place made Si Ning take few steps back to look around the room, his room wasn't that big and he couldn't see any sign of someone being in the room except the folded paper he knew he didn't fold.

"Anybody outside?" Si Ning called out as he turned sharply to the door and narrowed his eyes, folding his arms across his chest.

"Greeting General." Xiao Pei walked in and saluted, he glanced at the chair on the floor before turning his full attention to Si Ning.

"Did anyone come in when I was resting?" Si Ning asked, straight to the point watching as Xiao Pei moved next to the fallen chair.

"Nobody came in General." Xiao Pei replied firmly then bent and lifted the chair swiftly. "General, I should change the sheets."

Since it wasn't a question, Si Ning didn't say a word and only watch as Xiao Pei walked up to his bed and started removing the sheets. He doesn't want to miss anything like a paper stuck to his bed. After seeing there was nothing hidden in the bedsheets, Si Ning turned to the window, anyone could come in through the window but thinking that a whole Emperor would take the window to come into his room was so ridiculous that he couldn't imagine it which means he came in through the door and he would meet either Xiao Pei or Jiang Ye at the door.

Si Ning was quite glad he had two guards now. Since Xiao Pei doesn't know then Jiang Ye must know. He concluded turning to the door to call Jiang Ye in.