Obsessively Raised by My Doll 116

Chapter 116

Zuo Xiaoya had been counting the days on her fingers.

Heavens, have mercy! It’s been five whole days!

It’s been five whole days since Lu Dieqing left the Caiyun Academy!

She had never felt the days pass so slowly in her life. Sob, sob, sob, longing, the bitterness of longing, longing has made me thin.

She hadn’t even gone to the Caiyun Academy for breakfast for several days.

Otherwise, if she went there and couldn’t see Lu Dieqing’s figure, it would be no fun at all.

Thinking that Lu Dieqing had been out of the palace for so many days without any news, and that the Crown Princess had also disappeared these few days, her heart… was sour.

Sob, sob, sob. Now that she had seen this scene with her own eyes, the two of them supporting each other as they got into the carriage, looking so in love, it was simply a critical hit.

Lu Dieqing had originally been so full that she was being supported by Zheng Xuening, and had taken the opportunity to be lazy, leaning half of her body on the other, being a well-behaved doll.

Suddenly hearing someone call her, her whole body shivered.

The girl almost immediately stood up straight.

“Ahem…”

Lu Dieqing was too thin-skinned. To be caught being lazy in the street, and even being supported by the Crown Princess, was truly unsightly. Her face immediately flushed red.

“Xiaoya, Manzhi…”

Lu Dieqing stood by Zheng Xuening’s side and subconsciously called out their names.

Zheng Xuening glanced at her own empty hand, her eyes narrowing.

Like a somewhat annoyed big cat, as if its afternoon rest had been disturbed, her gaze towards them was slightly displeased.

Zuo Manzhi was such a vigilant person.

She had been raised by her family to be sent into the palace in the future, to marry the Second Prince.

Now, although the Second Prince was crippled and this path was no longer viable, the ability to read people’s expressions and the various mental skills that Zuo Manzhi had developed over the years could not be discarded.

She immediately pulled her sister back a step and cupped her hands in a salute to Zheng Xuening.

“We have something to attend to at home. We’ll be leaving now.”

Without any delay, she didn’t even let Zuo Xiaoya say a word before she pulled her sister’s half-body away.

Her series of actions was like greasing the soles of her feet, extremely smooth.

Gu Shuyuan was just a step too slow and seemed very abrupt, left in front of Zheng Xuening and Lu Dieqing, staring at them with wide eyes.

At the critical moment, Gu Shuyuan slapped his head.

“Aiya, I’m looking for the latrine!”

With that, he immediately clutched his stomach and ran far away. After his feet started moving, he was a cloud of dust.

The three acquaintances who had been standing in front of them had all disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Lu Dieqing didn’t react.

She blinked her almond eyes. “What’s wrong with them?”

Why had they all suddenly run off in such a hurry?

Zheng Xuening ruffled her head, took her tender hand, and led her into the carriage.

“They’re in a hurry to go home. It’s getting late.”

Before lowering the curtain, Zheng Xuening’s dark hair covered half of her cheek, but her eyes were still full of gentleness.

“We’re going home too.”

The two words “going home” touched Lu Dieqing’s heart.

The girl smiled sweetly and nodded vigorously. “Mhm! Going home.”

*

The journey back to the imperial palace was the most reluctant one Zheng Xuening had ever taken.

Only by being outside, living with her little rabbit day and night, letting down her guard, could she have a comparison and know how much she resisted the herself who had to put on a mask and be the heir once she stepped into the imperial city.

“Are you staying at Yunxi Hall tonight?”

After entering the palace gate, Zheng Xuening looked back.

Lu Dieqing poked half her head out, cautiously.

“I’m going back to be with my parents.”

She had been away from her parents for five whole days. Her parents must have been worried long ago.

Although her heart was also very reluctant to part with Ningning, the girl knew that they had a long future ahead of them.

She was almost eagerly waiting to go back and see her parents.

Knowing that the girl was anxious to return home, Zheng Xuening pressed her lips together. Although she understood in her heart, she couldn’t help but feel a little sour.

In front of Changning Palace, Helian and a little eunuch, who had been waiting for a long time, quickly took over from Zheng Xuening.

When Helian saw Lu Dieqing, her face was filled with an unconcealable smile, but perhaps because the Crown Princess was at the side, she didn’t say anything.

It was only on the way to send Lu Dieqing back to the side-palace that she whispered to her, “Master doesn’t look like she’s lost weight, so it’s clear she wasn’t mistreated on the road. I can rest assured now.”

Lu Dieqing was being teased and was a little embarrassed, but she also knew that Helian was concerned about her. She couldn’t help but ask, “How have you been in the palace these few days? Has anything happened?”

Although she had only been away with Ningning for five days, it felt like a lifetime.

Nothing seemed quite real. It was only after she had entered the imperial palace and was talking with Helian like this that her mind had truly returned to its original place.

Helian pondered for a moment and said to Lu Dieqing, “Everything has been fine. It’s just that I heard that there was some unpleasantness with the Second Prince and the Third Princess, a bit of a storm. As for the rest, nothing important.”

“You don’t need to worry, miss. Your parents are fine. No one has been so blind as to go there and cause trouble.”

Helian knew what Lu Dieqing was worried about, and her tone became more intimate.

Hearing that her parents were fine, Lu Dieqing’s heart was mostly at ease.

However… the Second Prince and the Third Princess?

There was a conflict between the two of them?

Although she was a little curious, this was not someone important or close to her, so Lu Dieqing quickly suppressed her curiosity and stopped thinking about it.

Lu He was in the courtyard, collecting clothes.

When Lu Dieqing trotted in, she was startled.

“Aiyo, you little thing.” After seeing who had suddenly appeared, Lu He’s eyes immediately reddened.

She threw her arms around her daughter, wanting to hit her a couple of times, but she couldn’t bear to, and just patted her on the shoulder.

“You said you were going out of the palace for two days. How come you were gone for so many days, making your father and me so worried?”

She held Lu Dieqing’s face and looked left and right.

“You’ve lost weight, you’ve lost weight.”

Bai Ming heard the noise and also ran out. Seeing his daughter standing in the courtyard safe and sound, his face also lit up with joy.

“Yes, she’s lost weight. Our daughter has lost weight.”

No matter how the couple looked at Lu Dieqing, they felt that her little face looked pitiful, as if she had been wronged outside.

This was probably the reason why being a parent was the hardest thing in the world.

The two of them surrounded Lu Dieqing, asking her one question after another.

Lu Dieqing could only answer one by one.

She talked about the trip to the forbidden land, and she didn’t hide the illusion formation and the process of getting the puppeteer’s legacy from her parents. She told them everything in detail.

Her parents were the closest people to her in this world. Lu Dieqing would not hide such an opportunity from them.

“Are there really immortals?”

Bai Ming, the scholar, was burning firewood. Hearing this, he almost couldn’t hold the fire stick steady.

Lu He gave him a look, telling him not to make such a fuss and seem ignorant.

However, when she turned her head to speak to her daughter, her expression was just as excited.

“You saw an immortal? And you got the immortal’s legacy? Then can you live forever?”

Four eyes in the room were all wide open, looking at Lu Dieqing with a thirst for knowledge.

Cough, cough, cough. Lu Dieqing slowly straightened her back.

Why did she inexplicably feel as if the tables had turned, and she was the one teaching her parents to read?