Obsessively Raised by My Doll 78

Chapter 78

Zuo Xiaoya’s face was written with guilt. It was clear that she was hiding something.

Her eyes were also darting around, looking at the lakeside pavilion one moment, and at the Crown Princess the next, as if afraid that the other wouldn’t notice.

Gu Shuyuan was already holding his forehead and wanting to sigh.

With such a self-confessed look, who wouldn’t be suspicious of you?

It was only that the Crown Princess was not the nosy type. As long as the matter wasn’t brought before her, she would just watch coldly.

When Zuo Manzhi and Lu Dieqing had finished talking and were walking along the lakeside pavilion, they only saw Zuo Xiaoya and Gu Shuyuan looking at them with a look of wanting to say something but holding back, as if the sky were about to fall and there was no one tall to hold it up.

“Sister…” Zuo Xiaoya buried her head and rushed to her sister’s side.

“Look over there…”

Zuo Manzhi and Lu Dieqing both looked in that direction with confusion.

Zheng Xuening was leaning against a tree, her slanted gaze cold and indifferent.

Zuo Manzhi’s heart felt as if it had swallowed ten thousand pounds of bitter herbs. She was suffering in silence.

Her original intention was to explain a few more things to Miss Lu for her sister’s sake, so as not to cause any unnecessary misunderstandings.

Now, it seemed that she was the one who had been misunderstood first!

Looking at the Crown Princess’s gaze, it was so cold and indifferent, as if she were looking at a lifeless object.

“Miss Lu… is Her Highness here to see you?”

She quickly looked at Lu Dieqing beside her and reminded her.

Lu Dieqing said “oh” and came back to her senses. She immediately lifted her little skirt and pattered towards Zheng Xuening.

She was also thinking of the Crown Princess in her heart, wondering if the other was angry with her.

The plum blossom trees in the snow had light yellow petals, dotting the garden and giving the snowy winter a few more different emotions.

But the most colorful thing was the girl standing under the tree in Lu Dieqing’s eyes.

The Crown Princess usually wore crescent-colored clothes and rarely wore dark-colored ones. Today, she was wearing a fox fur coat outside, with a circle of red fluff around the collar and cuffs, which made her pale face look even more fairy-like and beautiful.

Even if the Zuo sisters hadn’t pointed her out, Lu Dieqing would still have been able to spot the Crown Princess in a crowd at a glance.

The Zuo sisters, along with Gu Shuyuan, had quietly walked away when Lu Dieqing was walking towards the Crown Princess, leaving space for them.

Zuo Xiaoya tiptoed after her sister towards the academy, but she didn’t forget to look back.

“Sister, what secret did you have to tell Miss Lu alone?”

And to have been caught by the Crown Princess.

What couldn’t be said in front of her, so she could also know?

Zuo Manzhi’s palms were sweating at this moment. Hearing her sister say this, she just pulled her along and told her not to look back too much.

“Don’t be nosy,” she said, with no intention of explaining to her sister.

Zuo Xiaoya looked at her sister’s cold face and couldn’t help but sigh.

“You’re telling me off, but aren’t you the same? You’re not making me worry-free. Just now, I was afraid that the Crown Princess would fly into a rage, and our Zuo family’s lives would not be guaranteed. But, I don’t think the Crown Princess is as irritable as the rumors say. She’s quite reasonable, just a little cold.”

She didn’t know why their Zuo family had valued the Second Prince so much before.

In her opinion, the Second Prince was a bit too frivolous. Every time he saw a female family member, his gaze made people feel uncomfortable.

But the Crown Princess would not give people this impression.

Even if she was cold and indifferent, standing there, she was a scene in herself and would not be boring.

“Sister, do you think the Crown Princess will blame Miss Lu…”

As they walked away, Zuo Xiaoya’s cowardice from just now was gone, and she began to worry for that beautiful girl.

Zuo Manzhi pressed her lips together. “She won’t.”

She had not had much contact with the Crown Princess, but through Lu Dieqing, she could also get a glimpse of Her Highness’s tolerance for the other.

To be able to suppress the opinions of many old stubborn people and let a hostage study at the academy, and to be able to secretly make those with opinions all shut their mouths obediently.

The Crown Princess probably had a lot on her mind for Lu Dieqing.

Moreover, she had also talked with Lu Dieqing just now and felt that the other did not have any subservient attitude in front of the Crown Princess. It was clear that she was well-protected.

The affection of the powerful for people also depended on the situation.

If they only treated the other as a beloved little thing and pampered them, Lu Dieqing would not be so slow-witted. Only by truly respecting a person could the other relax so much and develop their own unique personality.

Perhaps, in front of Lu Dieqing, the Crown Princess was not the indifferent person everyone saw.

Who knew?

Zuo Manzhi pulled her sister and quickened her pace a few steps.

“In the future, when you get along with Miss Lu, don’t have those thoughts anymore. Friends should be like friends,” she couldn’t help but instruct again.

Zuo Xiaoya hung her head, listening to her sister’s scolding pitifully, but she didn’t talk back, knowing that her sister was doing it for her own good.

However, she didn’t forget to add, “What about you, sister? Do you really have no other thoughts about Miss Lu? If not, why did you pull her to the pavilion to whisper? What was it that I couldn’t hear?”

Seeing that her sister was about to start nagging again, a vein popped on Zuo Manzhi’s forehead, and she covered her mouth. “Shut up.”

Gu Shuyuan shrugged at the side as if he was used to it. Anyway, there was no room for him to interject.

Under the plum blossom tree, Lu Dieqing looked at today’s Crown Princess and felt inexplicably guilty and nervous.

She clenched her small hands and carefully studied the other’s expression.

“I shouldn’t have spoken like that yesterday. I’m sorry.”

She took the initiative to apologize.

The girl who obediently apologized had blinking almond eyes, a face as white as porcelain, and bright and clear eyes.

Her eyes were only filled with Zheng Xuening.

If one took a step forward and looked at these eyes seriously, they could see their own reflection in the depths of the girl’s eyes.

As the two of them looked at each other, Zheng Xuening’s brows relaxed, and she pressed her lips together.

“What did you say yesterday? This Princess has forgotten.”

Lu Dieqing froze, fidgeted for a while, and lowered her head to say honestly, “It was… it was the things I said when you bit me.”

Now that she thought about it, she felt that she had been a bit too much.

“You didn’t even bite me hard. You were just playing with me, but I made such a big fuss. It was my fault…”

The more she spoke, the guiltier she felt.

Lu Dieqing was about to shrink into a ball.

Zheng Xuening was a head taller than her. When she stood up straight, she could see the girl’s smooth and fair neck, and her dark and soft hair.

Lu Dieqing didn’t use any hairpins or jewelry, only a simple bun and a jade hairpin. Compared to other girls, she was indeed a little plain.

But perhaps because the girl was naturally beautiful, this face, with its original looks alone, surpassed those who had been carefully dressed up.

Zheng Xuening looked at her for a long time and sighed slightly.

“Little fool. You did nothing wrong.”

She ruffled the girl’s head.

“But you were angry,” Lu Dieqing said, biting her lip. Her fair, pink face had been blown red by the wind after standing outside for so long.

Zheng Xuening’s internal energy surged. She pressed her two hands against the girl’s cheeks, warming her face.

“I wasn’t angry.”

Lu Dieqing’s almond eyes lit up. “It’s so warm.”

She even pressed her face a little closer to the Crown Princess’s palm and blinked.

“But you left last night and didn’t stay. It was different from before.”

Zheng Xuening was at a loss for words.

She hadn’t expected this girl to be so sharp.

After a long moment, she curved her lips, a faint gentleness appearing in her phoenix eyes.

“Then how about I make it up to you tonight?”