Obsessively Raised by My Doll 87

Chapter 87

After a few turns of her little head, facing her mother’s somewhat anxious and overly serious expression, Lu Dieqing shook her head.

“Mother, the Crown Princess is very good to me. She is my confidante.”

She couldn’t help but speak up for the Crown Princess, wanting to dispel her mother’s worries.

Lu He peeked at her daughter’s expression. Seeing her innocent face, which didn’t look like she was lying at all, her heart relaxed a little.

But thinking of the rumors in the palace, Lu He’s heart clenched again.

“It’s a good thing that you’re so close to the Crown Princess, but I’m worried…”

This daughter of hers was too beautiful.

Lu He knew that she was a person who was a little too cautious. Even as a mother, she lacked decisiveness and rarely had a chance to make decisions.

“You also know that the royal family of this Chaoying Kingdom is not all good people. The Crown Princess’s reputation is well-known, and everyone is afraid of her. The Second Prince is also a person who is fond of beauty. Later, he encountered an assassin, which can be considered as evil getting its due…”

“I used to think that as long as you could enter the Caiyun Academy, get to know more people, understand some principles, and broaden your horizons, in a few days, when your grandmother, the Empress, sends someone to pick you up, you would be better able to establish yourself when you go back.”

“But I was wrong about one thing. You have no foundation. I am not your backer, nor can I give you any help. Besides the Crown Princess, you have no background in the Chaoying Kingdom. What if someone has a prejudice against you because of the Crown Princess and wants to harm you?”

“And what if you are taken a fancy to by some noble?”

Lu He felt that she had been so worried these past few days that she might have aged a lot and become even more timid than before.

She was worried about her daughter’s future, but she also wanted to take a gamble so that her daughter could have a chance to stand out.

Being asked so many questions in a row by her mother, Lu Dieqing was a little dazed.

She began to think about them one by one.

—What if someone wants to harm her because she is close to the Crown Princess?

Lu Dieqing’s lips pressed together. “Mother. I think that in life, no matter what you do, there are gains and losses. You can’t have all the good things and none of the bad.”

“The Crown Princess is good to me. She is my friend. Since I enjoy her protection, it’s normal for those who have a grudge against her to have some feelings of implication towards me, right?”

“I will be more careful myself. You don’t have to worry so much.”

As she spoke, Lu Dieqing raised her small hand to smooth the vertical lines between her mother’s brows and comforted her in a small voice.

“I’m never alone in the academy. I have friends who are always with me. When I leave the academy, there is Helian, who was arranged by the Crown Princess, to pick me up. Mother, you see, Her Highness has already considered all the problems you’ve considered in advance. I’m very safe.”

Originally, Lu Dieqing had wanted to tell her mother everything that had happened in the academy today. But seeing her mother so worried without her even saying anything, the girl ultimately decided to remain silent.

It was better to have less trouble than more. If she said it, it would only make her mother worry and cause unnecessary complications.

As for her mother’s second question.

—What if she was taken a fancy to by some noble?

A noble?

What noble could be greater than the Crown Princess?

Lu Dieqing couldn’t help but touch her earlobe.

She was… a person who could escape from the Crown Princess’s claws in one piece.

Thinking of how she had been frightened by the Crown Princess before and had to warm her bed, and how she had imagined a bunch of things and been so apprehensive and worried, but when she really went to bed, the Crown Princess’s sleeping posture was even more proper than her own, Lu Dieqing inexplicably felt a little more confident.

“Mother. I think the Crown Princess won’t let me be bullied by others.”

When she said this, for some reason, Lu Dieqing’s face turned red.

She actually just wanted to state objectively that she had been living in a safe environment and was not in as much danger as her mother thought.

For example, today, the Third Princess, Zheng Sixin, had suddenly appeared with two guards to block her in the academy.

Normally, she should have died today.

Even if she hadn’t fallen into the pond and drowned, in a corner where no one was paying attention, in short, she definitely wouldn’t have had a good end.

But the Crown Princess had been able to appear behind her in time and protect her.

And before that, in the Second Prince’s bedchamber, she had been rescued in time by the Crown Princess who had run out of the sky prison.

This was the second time she had been protected by this person in a life-and-death crisis.

Lu Dieqing, from the bottom of her heart, had developed a kind of trust in the Crown Princess.

So even though she had been pulled to the rockery today and had seen a completely different side of the Crown Princess from usual, she was not afraid in her heart.

There was an indescribable sweetness in her heart.

The little dimples on the girl’s face became more prominent. For some reason, she smiled like a beautiful little blooming flower.

Lu He saw her daughter’s dazed and innocent smile and really wanted to sigh.

“It seems I’m old. I think about this and that all day, just thinking of useless things to scare myself.”

Lu Dieqing was afraid that her mother would be sad and quickly comforted her.

“Mother, you gave birth to me and raised me. You just love me too much and are afraid that I will encounter danger, which is why you worry so much. With your concern, I feel that I am not lonely. With you and Father here, even if you don’t do anything, my heart will be at ease.”

Lu He didn’t speak, just stroked her daughter’s long hair and sighed inwardly.

“This month, the envoy should be arriving. Where are you going with the Crown Princess?”

She remembered what her daughter had said just now.

Lu Dieqing did not hide it and honestly told her mother.

“We are going to a forbidden land.”

Hearing this, a light flickered in Lu He’s eyes, and she seemed to want to say something but held back.

But looking at Lu Dieqing’s expectant look, the words of worry on her lips were replaced by a forced smile.

“Forget it. You should go.”

She stroked her daughter’s hair again, and when she walked out of the side room, she looked at the moon in the sky and sighed heavily.

Perhaps, she should also fight for her daughter.

Lu He returned to her room and took out a box from under a floor tile.

Bai Ming saw it and asked her, “Are you really going to use it?”

Lu He had made up her mind and gritted her teeth.

“I am also a descendant of the Lu family, and Qingqing is even more so. Since she is so interested in being a puppeteer, she must have some talent in that area…”

“If the envoy doesn’t come, or comes and doesn’t take her away, I have to find a way out for Qingqing. I can’t let her stay in the Chaoying Kingdom like this, a bird raised in a cage.”

“Although that Crown Princess is good to her, what is this goodness based on? I don’t want Qingqing to lose her freedom.”

Bai Ming: “But you also said that the so-called path of seeking immortality is an ethereal path…”

Lu He interrupted him, “That spiritual incense is just a dead thing if it’s left there. It’s better to use it.”

With that, Lu He took out a stick of incense from the box and carefully lit it.

The moment the incense was lit, in an instant, dark clouds rolled in outside, and a clap of thunder, along with a flash of lightning, struck the courtyard, illuminating the entire place.

Lu Dieqing, who was about to go to bed with her little doll, was startled.

The little doll spoke, “Don’t move, lie still.”

Lu Dieqing: “Why is there such a loud thunder tonight?”

Zheng Xuening, with the doll’s vision, looked out the window. Through the window paper, she couldn’t see anything, only the flash of lightning.

The little doll said to Lu Dieqing, “Don’t worry about that. First, tell me what happened today.”

Lu Dieqing suddenly remembered the doubts she had had in the sedan chair.

That’s right, I can’t talk to my mother about this, but I can talk to Xinxin!

The girl was rarely shy and stammered, “Today, the Third Princess brought guards to block me. It was the Crown Princess who appeared in time to save me. And then…”

Clenching her slender fingers, Lu Dieqing’s voice weakened a little.

“She pulled me into the depths of the rockery and bit my ear…”

“I…”

Lu Dieqing seemed to have used a lot of effort to say this, her voice thin and soft.

“…Does she like me?”