Chapter 93
Awu, Ningning is using a beauty trap on me!
Lu Dieqing was a little dizzy, as if she had mistakenly wandered into a garden full of blooming flowers and was dazed by their beauty.
Zheng Xuening had clearly bathed before coming.
Lu Dieqing calmed down and at once smelled the faint fragrance on the other’s body.
She ground her little white teeth and pretended to be fierce.
“I can bite too.”
Zheng Xuening was not at all afraid and gently blinked at her, her charm overflowing.
The former Empress’s beauty was devastatingly beautiful. Zheng Xuening had fully inherited this beauty, but her usual aura was too cold and composed, which made people overlook her looks.
Now, in front of Lu Dieqing, she was releasing her beauty like this.
How could Lu Dieqing resist?
The little girl felt like a flower picker. She had already tried her best to avoid picking the flower.
But the most beautiful flower in the garden was swaying its leaves in front of her, and even extending its petals to her, letting her smell its fragrance.
Lu Dieqing closed her eyes, looking as if she were going all out, and also learned from the Crown Princess’s previous actions, gently biting her cheek.
A touch and a release, she didn’t dare to linger at all.
Thinking that her saliva was all over the other’s face, she was embarrassed and really wanted to raise her hand to wipe it off for the Crown Princess with her sleeve.
A little kitten really doesn’t know how to bully people.
Even if it musters its courage to come up, it is tiptoeing, not even showing its sharp teeth.
She was really naive.
Zheng Xuening was completely melted by such a girl.
“Forget it. Let’s go to sleep.”
She scooped up the girl and took her to the bed.
Lu Dieqing tried to struggle.
“I haven’t learned carving yet today.”
Her heart was also always on Xinxin. She was always remembering to get a good body for her.
Zheng Xuening gave her no chance to refuse, directly pressing her onto the bed and wrapping her in the quilt into a ball.
How could Lu Dieqing be a match for the Crown Princess, who had practiced martial arts for many years?
She had only taken two breaths, and she was already wrapped in the quilt, with only her cute little head exposed, looking pitiful.
“Sob, sob, sob, Ningning…”
After becoming a silkworm cocoon, it was easy to act cute.
Zheng Xuening, however, seemed to have learned how to have a heart of stone this time. She was completely unmoved and gently covered Lu Dieqing’s eyes.
“Hurry up and sleep. We have to set off before dawn. There won’t be a bed for you to sleep in on the road.”
Oh, so that was it.
Hearing that there was business to attend to, Lu Dieqing immediately stopped struggling. Without Zheng Xuening having to continue to cover her eyes, the girl closed them herself.
Before going to sleep, she didn’t forget to say to Zheng Xuening, “I’m going to sleep, Ningning. Have a good dream.”
Zheng Xuening said “mhm,” “Hurry up and sleep.”
Lu Dieqing, however, seemed to remember something, paused, and said weakly, “Xinxin, I’m going to sleep.”
She hadn’t forgotten her little doll.
Even though the little doll had once told her that as long as the Crown Princess was by her side, it would not speak to her.
But she couldn’t ignore Xinxin.
After speaking with the little doll, however, there was no response from the bottom of Lu Dieqing’s heart.
The girl was silent for a moment, blinked her almond eyes twice, her long lashes evoking a sense of pity.
Zheng Xuening, at the side, coughed lightly.
If only she could split herself into two, one to accompany Lu Dieqing with her current identity, and the other to control the doll’s body.
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The night was not yet over.
Zheng Xuening picked up the girl from the bed.
This was not the first time Zheng Xuening had picked up Lu Dieqing, but the girl still felt the same as when she had first held her, light, with almost no weight.
She hadn’t let the girl take off her outer clothes when she was sleeping just now. Now, suddenly carrying her out of the bedchamber, and with the cold air outside, afraid that she would catch a cold, Zheng Xuening simply wrapped her in the quilt and carried her through the underground palace.
Since she could remember, Zheng Xuening had often walked alone in the night. Every time she passed through the underground passage, she would always feel that it was incomparably long.
So she had inlaid huge luminous pearls in every part of the underground passage for lighting.
But the feeling of loneliness in her heart was something that countless luminous pearls could not dispel.
Only at a time like tonight, when the sky was not yet bright, and everything was silent, the underground passage was also quiet, with only the sound of her own footsteps.
The light of the luminous pearls was faint, not very bright, but she felt that no matter how long this road was, she could continue to walk, because there was someone in her arms, someone who was depending on her.
She was not alone.
When Lu Dieqing woke up, she found herself in a swaying carriage and was in a daze for a while.
The inside of the carriage was quite spacious, with a thick velvet blanket spread on the floor. At the side was a delicate little coffee table with an unopened box of pastries on it.
Lu Dieqing rubbed her eyes, lifted the curtain, and looked for Zheng Xuening’s figure.
She was a little annoyed. How could she have slept so soundly? She had even forgotten when she had gotten into the carriage.
Where is Ningning?
The carriage curtain was lifted, and what met her eyes was an unfamiliar official road. Passersby were carrying their luggage, and there were also people on horseback. Everyone had their heads bowed and were in a hurry.
Lu Dieqing’s gaze swept over these people. She didn’t see the person she was looking for, and she also realized that she was already outside the palace. She quickly lowered the curtain and retreated into the carriage.
Just as she was feeling a little apprehensive and was wondering where the Crown Princess was, the carriage stopped.
The curtain in front was lifted, and a beautiful hand reached in.
A delicate water flask was handed to Lu Dieqing, and a familiar voice came through the curtain.
“You’re awake. Have some water.”
It was the Crown Princess’s voice!
The stone hanging in mid-air in Lu Dieqing’s heart suddenly fell to the ground.
She took the water flask, but she did not drink immediately. Instead, she leaned closer to the curtain, poked her little head out, and looked at the Crown Princess driving the carriage outside, her eyes full of surprise.
“Ningning, you’re driving?”
The girl who had just woken up was like a beautiful begonia flower, her face fair with a hint of red, her complexion so good that she looked plump and delicious.
She looked so charming, with the aura of a young lady from a wealthy family out on a scenic tour.
Zheng Xuening looked back at her, a faint trace of melancholy rising in her heart.
—This girl’s looks were outstanding, unlike an ordinary person, and her personality was naive and simple. If she were to walk outside the palace without someone to protect her, she would look like she could easily get lost or be abducted.
“What. You want to drive too?”
Zheng Xuening could see the girl’s longing for the outside world.
Lu Dieqing tested Zheng Xuening’s tone. Seeing that she was easy to talk to, she immediately moved out of the carriage with a charming smile.
“Can I?”
Her mouth said “can I,” but her actions were not at all delayed. Half of her body was already out of the curtain, and she almost fell out.
It was Zheng Xuening who was quick with her eyes and hands, who immediately supported the girl and held her half in her arms to steady her.
The girl’s soft body pressed against her, like a dependent little animal.
Zheng Xuening’s heart suddenly beat very fast. She released her hands and gestured for the girl to sit next to her.
“Be careful. We’re outside.”
Lu Dieqing was pulled away, and after a moment of daze, she said in a small voice, “Can’t we hug when we’re outside?”
So Ningning can also be shy.