Chapter 86
The darkening sky was like a natural barrier, separating the daytime hustle and bustle of the Caiyun Academy.
Except for the people in the dining hall kitchen, the Caiyun Academy was almost empty at this time.
Lu Dieqing was like a pitiful little rabbit that had been carried back to the wolf’s den. With her rabbit ears bitten, her whole body went limp, and she could only wait pitifully to be eaten.
All the words she had said to Zheng Xuening just now had become boomerangs, hitting the little rabbit herself.
Zheng Xuening, when bullying the little rabbit, did not hide her wickedness at all. She nibbled on her earlobe, then bit it again.
Lu Dieqing was like a hot little furnace, her whole body as if a current of electricity had passed through her. Her mind was filled with fireworks, and she couldn’t hear what the Crown Princess was saying at all.
But the little girl would cry. Feeling that she had been bullied, she clutched the Crown Princess’s sleeve, and two strings of tears rolled down.
She had finally managed to connect the words she had said before with the Crown Princess’s current attitude.
The girl, with watery eyes, complained, “That’s not it… you’re twisting my words…”
Zheng Xuening’s heart began to ache from her crying, and it softened into water. She was at a loss.
“Why do you cry so much?”
She held Lu Dieqing’s chin, her narrowed phoenix eyes full of confusion.
Such a pair of glistening, watery eyes, not at all annoying when she cried, always so poignant, so moving.
She almost suspected that the little girl had secretly learned some kind of dark magic and used it on her.
Otherwise, how could a person like her, who was so troublesome and not at all soft-hearted, always lose her temper in front of Lu Dieqing?
Zheng Xuening hadn’t forgotten what had caused her impulse just now.
She took a deep breath, lifted the girl’s chin, and looked at her closely.
“Don’t cry. This Princess was just seeing how much courage you have.”
She didn’t even believe these words herself.
Lu Dieqing, however, believed her. The girl pressed her lips together and couldn’t help but touch her ear.
“…”
Seeing that her ear was still on her head, she seemed to sigh in relief and retracted her hand into her sleeve.
“The dagger fell.”
Lu Dieqing squatted down and picked up the dagger that had fallen on the ground.
Her face was fair. In the dark depths of the rockery, the blush on her face was not obvious.
But it did seem that she was no longer pursuing the matter of Zheng Xuening’s offensive actions just now.
Only the hand hidden in her sleeve, tightly gripping the little doll, revealed that her emotions were not as calm as they appeared.
Zheng Xuening looked at her deeply, also adjusting her own mood, and couldn’t help but recall her mental journey just now.
Just now, she had urged the girl to go back several times, but Lu Dieqing had looked at her with a reluctant expression, clinging to her, holding her arm, and always looking up at her, her almond eyes as if they could speak.
She didn’t know why, but before she could react, her body had already taken Lu Dieqing to the rockery.
This series of actions was a single, fluid motion. By the time she had reacted, she had already bitten her a few times and scared Lu Dieqing into tears.
Zheng Xuening finally understood a little why those fatuous rulers who had given up their kingdoms for beauty had made such a choice.
Perhaps their minds were dizzy, and only their instincts were left. Before they could react, they had already chosen the more important one at a time of life and death.
—Lu Dieqing was truly dangerous.
The Crown Princess, who could scheme against the great noble families without batting an eye, who was used to intrigues and bloodshed, and who considered herself cold-hearted, after discovering that her so-called self-control was not worth mentioning in front of Lu Dieqing.
She was a little helpless, but she had to admit this fact.
Lu Dieqing was like the totem of the Chaoying Kingdom, the “bamboo and cherry blossom.” On the surface, she looked delicate and harmless, but if you got close and sniffed, you would find that the scent of this beautiful bamboo and cherry blossom could make a person lose all resistance and fall to the ground.
She led the girl out of the rockery again. Lu Dieqing, who was following behind her, gently patted her chest, as if she had escaped from the tiger’s mouth, and her whole body relaxed.
Although Zheng Xuening’s back was to her and she couldn’t see the girl’s expression, just by listening to the change in her breathing, she knew what Lu Dieqing was like.
Lu Dieqing trotted a few steps, caught up with the Crown Princess, and walked side by side with her.
She looked as if she wanted to say something, but she didn’t know how to start.
“Your Highness…”
Zheng Xuening glanced at her, her eyebrow slightly raised.
“Don’t speak.”
Lu Dieqing pressed her lips together. Her long lashes looked slender and beautiful, but they would unknowingly make one change their mind and lose their original resistance.
She wanted to speak, but she was not allowed to.
This made the girl a little wronged.
Zheng Xuening, before she could show a wronged expression, stopped in her tracks, looked at her deeply, and threw down a sentence.
“If you don’t want to be taken to that place by this Princess again, then don’t speak.”
She was afraid that she would be so charmed by her cuteness that she would lose her senses and go mad again.
Lu Dieqing immediately covered her lips, like a startled little mountain sparrow.
So cute.
Zheng Xuening suppressed the urge that welled up in her heart.
This time, she personally sent Lu Dieqing into the soft sedan chair and watched her lower the curtain.
Lu Dieqing was well-behaved all the while and did not stick her little head out to say anything more.
Zheng Xuening felt a slight regret in her heart, wondering if she had been too fierce to this girl just now and had scared her.
In fact, the girl, who was holding the little doll tightly in the sedan chair, her head was now in a complete mess.
She raised her hand to touch her earlobe, and it seemed she could still feel the moist and warm touch.
When the soft sedan chair started to jolt and was lifted, Lu Dieqing seemed to remember something and slightly lifted the curtain.
A certain someone standing outside the sedan chair met her deep gaze.
Lu Dieqing quickly lowered the curtain, like a little snail retreating into its shell.
What should I do?
Now, when I see the Crown Princess and my eyes meet hers, my heart will beat faster and faster.
This doesn’t seem to be fear, so what is it?
*
Lu Dieqing decided to appropriately tell her mother about her doubts.
However, before she voiced her doubts, she first told her mother about leaving on a long journey in two days.
“What? You’re leaving the palace with the Crown Princess?”
Hearing her daughter’s words, Lu He almost jumped up from the ground.
Her mother’s reaction was so agitated that it startled Lu Dieqing.
At the side, Bai Ming promptly pulled Lu He’s arm.
“You’re scaring our daughter.”
Lu He composed herself and looked at her daughter. She found that Lu Dieqing’s little face was indeed pale, and her expression was a little flustered, as if she were afraid that she was angry.
“Ai. Qingqing, come here. I have something to say to you.”
She pulled her daughter into the side room and said with a serious face, “Let me ask you, has the Crown Princess done anything inappropriate or overstepped her bounds with you?”
Inappropriate or overstepped her bounds?
Lu Dieqing blinked her almond eyes, her heart suddenly beating faster, and her ears began to turn red.
What… what is “inappropriate or overstepped her bounds”?
Does what happened today count?
