Obsessively Raised by My Doll 31

Chapter 31

Lu Dieqing was truly curious about why her little doll became motionless every day.

She pressed the little doll for an answer.

Zheng Xuening replied stiffly.

“I don’t understand.”

The Crown Princess was unwilling to lie, but she couldn’t not answer, so she could only stonewall.

Fortunately, Lu Dieqing was a good-tempered girl. Hearing her little doll’s reply, she thought blankly for a while.

“Or is it that, every time you’re awake, you’re right here with me? You yourself don’t know that you’re not here during the day?”

Lu Dieqing was trying to figure out what was going on with the spirit in the wooden doll, which would disappear from time to time.

Zheng Xuening: “Headache.”

In fact, in this wooden doll’s body, the chronic headaches that had plagued her for years had almost completely disappeared. But… when Lu Dieqing asked her a question she couldn’t answer, she subconsciously blurted out the fact about her headaches.

Hearing the little doll say this, Lu Dieqing immediately grew anxious.

She held the little doll, stroked its face, and asked with a mix of confusion and worry, “Headache? You can feel pain already?”

“Let me rub your head for you. Will that make it better?”

As she spoke, Lu Dieqing had already begun to slowly and gently rub the edges of the wooden doll’s head.

The girl’s hands were soft and light. Wherever they brushed, a wave of warmth followed.

Zheng Xuening only felt a tingling sensation on her scalp. The places the girl’s hands passed over were like a current of electricity. She almost cried out as a conditioned reflex.

“Stop.”

The little doll’s voice appeared urgently in her mind, sounding as if it didn’t like this kind of massage.

Lu Dieqing stopped, feeling a little guilty.

“I can’t do anything right.”

Even now, she could still feel that her little doll was not that close to her.

“You’re overthinking it.” The wooden doll was not used to comforting people, but it was trying to adapt to this role. At least, in front of Lu Dieqing, it was beginning to learn this skill, albeit clumsily.

Seeing that she was no longer speaking, Zheng Xuening controlled the wooden doll’s body and pushed the girl’s finger.

“Speak.”

Having accompanied Lu Dieqing for the better part of the day in her identity as the Crown Princess, she had almost gotten used to that perspective. Suddenly switching back to being a doll, she could only look up at the girl from a very small angle.

Zheng Xuening was quite unused to it.

But this didn’t seem to hinder her appreciation of Lu Dieqing’s beauty.

When they first met, the Little Princess of Shan had stood among a group of palace staff, looking so out of place, her beauty ethereal and refined, truly a crane standing among chickens.

Zheng Xuening still remembered that stunning first glimpse.

How could she have known back then that the peerless beauty she had mistaken for a little palace maid would later become so deeply entangled with her?

Lu Dieqing’s beauty truly had no bad angles. Every angle was exquisite. And in private, her expressions were so lively. When she felt wronged, the corners of her lips would press together, and the corners of her eyes would droop slightly, her entire appearance innocent and pitiful, so poignant.

Every time she blinked, her long lashes were particularly eye-catching, making one want to touch them.

Zheng Xuening felt that her ability to patiently stay in this girl’s embrace and be a good little wooden doll was, on the one hand, greatly related to the relief of her headaches.

But on the other hand…

It couldn’t be ruled out that Lu Dieqing was completely her type.

Not ugly, in fact, quite beautiful. Even when this girl cried in front of her, it was like a pear blossom in the rain, strangely beautiful, not at all repulsive.

Sometimes, Zheng Xuening even discovered a wicked streak in herself, a desire to tease and bully Lu Dieqing a little.

Growing up to be such a well-behaved and soft little rabbit, it seemed that no matter how you pinched her cheeks, she would only stare at you with wide eyes and let out a few soft whimpers. It made one’s heart desire to bully her even more.

Zheng Xuening had never thought of herself as so wicked before, but this wickedness was addictive, and she had no intention of changing.

“When I’m not here during the day, where are you, and what are you doing?”

The wooden doll took the initiative to ask.

Lu Dieqing blinked. Because the light in the room was not good, it was somewhat hazy, which instead gave her face a beauty that was almost elfin. She was very otherworldly, but her voice was timid and a little soft and tender.

“I… so much happened today.”

The topic having been brought up, Lu Dieqing’s mood immediately returned to its usual cheerfulness. She hugged the little doll and happily shared everything about her day.

“…Anyway, by a strange twist of fate, the Crown Princess took me out of the palace.”

When Lu Dieqing spoke of the happy parts, she even nuzzled the little doll with her cheek.

“It’s a pity I didn’t find a chance to buy materials, or I could have given you a new body.”

“I’ve heard that powerful puppeteers can turn their dolls into living, breathing people. So I have to make your body a little bigger. If you’re taller, even if you can’t win a fight, you can run faster with long legs.”

In front of her little doll, Lu Dieqing’s guard was completely down. The more she spoke, the more excited and relaxed she became.

Zheng Xuening: “…This Pri—” She was about to say, “How could this Princess not win against others,” but she swallowed the words back down before they were even fully formed.

Lu Dieqing was puzzled. “What’s wrong, Xinxin? What were you about to say?”

Zheng Xuening adjusted her tone and said unhurriedly and proudly, “If I ran away, what would you do?”

In any case, she would absolutely not admit that, as a doll, she might one day have to flee because she couldn’t win against someone. That was the greatest joke under the heavens. As the heir of a nation, Zheng Xuening had mastered both horsemanship and archery, as well as ordinary martial arts and swordsmanship. Ordinary people were no match for her. Even as a doll, these skills would not be lost. How could she be the kind of useless person who would run away?

Zheng Xuening looked down on cowards and deserters, and she would certainly never allow herself to be one.

Lu Dieqing stared at her blankly for a while.

Zheng Xuening sensed something was wrong. “What’s wrong with you?”

Suddenly falling silent was very strange. Zheng Xuening had already grown accustomed to this girl’s chirping, oriole-like nature. If Lu Dieqing was silent, something must be wrong.

Lu Dieqing suddenly pressed herself against the wooden doll’s body, nuzzling it with her cheek, whimpering and acting cute like a little kitten.

“Sob, sob, sob, Xinxin, I’m so touched.”

Just now, Xinxin had said, “If I ran away, what would you do?”

Lu Dieqing’s heart was completely struck, a mix of sourness and sweetness. Her eyes grew warm, and she felt like crying.

But this time, it wasn’t the usual desire to cry from sadness, grief, or fear. She was moved and happy.

Her little doll had her in its heart! Even if it couldn’t win a fight, it wasn’t willing to abandon her!

So touching.

Lu Dieqing lay on the bed, held the wooden doll up high, and gently kissed its cheek.

“My good Xinxin, you are truly the best doll in the world.”

The moved Lu Dieqing’s emotions were like a gushing spring, nourishing the parched soil.

Zheng Xuening’s heart, which had been parched for many years as the Crown Princess, was suddenly irrigated.

She didn’t even understand why Lu Dieqing was so happy, but she liked this feeling of being watched and praised with wholehearted devotion.

It wasn’t because she was the heir of the Chaoying Kingdom.

All of this had nothing to do with her status, position, or power. There were no schemes, no intrigues, no defenses.

Only a pair of clean, clear eyes, and the girl’s pure and passionate heart.

It felt so comfortable.

Zheng Xuening was held again, as a small, insignificant wooden doll, treasured in the girl’s embrace.

And so, she finally understood what it was that had troubled her for so many years, what she had sought but could not find.

—It was the gaze of a person who cared for you with their entire heart.

—It was love.

It might be love, but it was different from her mother’s.

Zheng Xuening rolled the wooden doll’s body, nuzzling against Lu Dieqing’s neck. A thought popped into her mind.

Perhaps she really should let Lu Dieqing give her a new body.

“The new body has to be bigger, taller than you.”

The wooden doll began to make demands.

Lu Dieqing froze for a moment, then, realizing what the other was saying, she immediately agreed softly.

“Okay.”

Zheng Xuening was satisfied.

If the new doll’s body was a little taller, she could hold the entire Lu Dieqing in her arms when they slept at night.

Compared to being held, the Crown Princess preferred to be the one in possession.