After Defeat, the Empress’s Negotiating Chip Turns Out to Be Me

Chapter 111

111~ The Scarlet Phoenix Nation's Runaway Imperial Consort (3)~

"May I ask what your next plan is, Your Highness?"

"No plan."

"Uh..."

The tailor lady was directly speechless. So this Princess Mo wanted to secretly slip out, but had completely not even a bit of a plan?

She definitely didn't believe this point. Since she'd already escaped from the Imperial Palace, she definitely prepared a plan.

Speaking of which, she still held doubts about why Her Majesty the Empress's Imperial Consort would secretly escape on her own. Clearly by the Empress's side she could enjoy a lifetime of wealth and honor. Moreover, Glaze Nation had already established an alliance relationship with the Scarlet Phoenix Nation. Just looking at these two points, no matter how one looked at it, the little Princess didn't possess a motive for wanting to escape.

She truly couldn't figure out why the little Princess would want to flee...

"Alright, go out for a bit. I need to change clothes."

The little Princess took out a set of clean clothing from her Magic Space Ring.

She didn't plan to go out today. She wanted to continue staying here to properly formulate a plan.

Just as she said, she truly didn't have even a bit of a plan. Running out of the Imperial Palace at first was mainly to probe the Empress. Now that the Empress had dispatched soldiers to search for her traces, she could roughly confirm the Empress didn't have means to determine her specific location.

This was a great opportunity. If she was caught by the Empress and brought back this time, who knows how she'd be tormented.

Halfway through changing, she suddenly remembered last night she seemed to have not bathed yet.

Damn...

She'd almost forgotten. If it weren't for changing clothes and suddenly feeling somewhat sticky on her body, she would have forgotten she hadn't bathed yet.

"..."

Just as she wanted to call the tailor lady over to ask if there was a bathroom for her to take a bath, she suddenly remembered she still didn't know the tailor lady's name yet. Calling her directly seemed somewhat awkward. She might as well go ask herself.

Putting the clothes back on, she opened the door. Seeing the tailor lady, she inquired:

"Do you have a place to bathe here?"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Afterward, she was led by the tailor lady to the bathroom.

This was the only place in the entire house where one could bathe. However, another world didn't have things like body wash or shampoo. They almost all used that kind of pure natural plant essence extracted for washing. The disadvantage was it was very expensive. Ordinary households usually only used it once every few days.

Soaking in the bathtub, she rarely relaxed. These past few days, after the Empress changed into a strange appearance, she hadn't had a good rest for a period of time. Before bathing, she'd also been constantly worried the soldiers the Empress dispatched to search would capture her and bring her back.

Fortunately, the Empress wasn't deranged enough to have soldiers forcibly enter residents' homes to search. Otherwise, right now she'd probably be bound hand and foot, tossed on the Empress's bed waiting for punishment.

"Your Highness? I've brought bathing essential oils for you. Do you need them?"

"Mm..."

When she came out, she also didn't bring this thing. But bathing without using it, she always felt something was missing.

So after casually grabbing a bath towel to wrap around her body, she let the tailor lady come in.

"This should be enough for you to wash with, right?"

The tailor lady placed the essential oils to the side. This was already enough quantity for three people to bathe with. So what did she take her for?

The little Princess's mouth twitched slightly.

"Enough. I'm not trying to wash off a layer of skin. I don't need this much."

"Uh..."

"Alright, you go out first and open your shop. When you return at noon, I'll find you then."

"Okay, okay."

After bidding farewell to the little Princess, the tailor lady hurriedly tidied her clothes and went to open her shop.

"Sigh..."

The little Princess sighed.

She really didn't know what this person was after. Clearly there were plenty of opportunities to ask her for money. She also expressed she could give her money. But up until now, she hadn't shown any intention of wanting to ask her for it.

She didn't know what the Empress was thinking in her heart right now. She felt somewhat chilled. According to the Empress's temperament, right now she should be thinking about how to punish her after catching her and bringing her back, right?

So she had to quickly formulate a plan to escape from Scarlet City, escape far away, and return to her own Glaze Nation.

Taking out a pen and small notebook from her storage ring, she wrote down all the methods she thought of in her mind and methods that couldn't be used.

...

...

"Your Highness?"

The tailor lady cautiously knocked on the door. Seeing no response from inside, she opened the door and entered the room. She only saw the little Princess had already fallen asleep lying on the table, with a notebook still cushioning her arm.

Although she really wanted to see what was written in the notebook, she was afraid of waking the little Princess.

In the end, she still helped the little Princess cover herself with a blanket, then went to cook.

"So Your Highness, have you figured out how to escape?"

"Not yet."

Racking her brains, she still couldn't think of any method to get out, unless she grew a pair of wings.

The only method was to use that precious magic scroll. But after using it, on the journey back to Glaze Nation there would be no guarantee. Unlike when she came, when there was a guard team escort with an Archmage accompanying the team. Returning to Glaze Nation, there would be no guard team escort...

So this magic scroll, she wanted to save it if she could. Although Xuan's mark planted on her was said to guarantee her safety, she couldn't always rely on that thing, right?

"Then when Your Highness figures it out, can you tell me?"

"Tell you?"

The little Princess raised an eyebrow.

So what exactly did this tailor lady want to do?

On the surface she remained expressionless, but her wariness toward the tailor lady deepened somewhat.

"Yes, I want to go out together with Your Highness."

Mo: "..."

After a moment of silence, the little Princess continued asking:

"What do you want to do escaping with me?"

"I want money."

Want money?

The little Princess now felt somewhat speechless. If she wanted money, she'd said before she could give it to her but she didn't want it. Now she was pulling this stunt again.

She was certain this tailor lady wanted definitely wasn't as simple as money. She absolutely had ulterior motives. Previously it was only ninety percent certainty that this possibility existed. Now it was one hundred percent.

Suspicious, truly too suspicious. No matter where one looked, it completely didn't look like she was after money.

If it was money, that would be fine. The money on her body was completely enough. Even if it wasn't enough, when she returned to Glaze Nation, sending money to the tailor lady would also be completely no problem.

This tailor lady from start to finish had never shown an appearance of being interested in money. Instead, after hearing she was formulating a plan, she revealed an eager-to-try expression. No matter how one looked at it, it was extremely, extremely suspicious.

"If you want money, you can ask me for it right now. But you, wanting to escape together with me, having a perfectly good home not staying in, a perfectly good shop not opening, wanting to escape together with me, what exactly are you after?"

The little Princess changed to an icy cold expression, crossed her legs, one hand propping up her chin, staring at the tailor lady and asking.