novelraw Chapter 124
Chapter 124
124~ About to Visit~
"I'm saying, Princess... Even if you love playing around, there should be some limit, right?"
She didn't know if it was because she'd been suppressed too long in Scarlet Phoenix Nation, but playing around all day today, the Maid Xiao Xi only felt some subtle changes occurring in her mentality.
Her family's Princess had already been playing outside until evening and still hadn't had enough, still wanting to continue playing!
She felt it was time for her to make her Princess recognize reality...
Just as she was preparing to forcibly carry the little Princess back to the palace, the little Princess turned back to her and said:
"After playing one last thing, we'll go back."
"One last thing..."
The Maid Xiao Xi considered slightly, temporarily putting down her previous thought of forcibly carrying the little Princess back to the palace.
"Xiao Xi, does this place have something called 'Sky Lanterns'?"
"Sky Lanterns?"
The Maid Xiao Xi tilted her head. She didn't know what this "Sky Lantern" thing her family's Princess was talking about was.
Sky Lanterns... Could it be lanterns in the sky? But how could there be lanterns in the sky? It was impossible to make lanterns float in midair without falling.
"Don't have them?"
The little Princess was somewhat disappointed. Looked like this was something only found in Scarlet Phoenix Nation.
"If that's the case, then shall I first take you back to the palace, Princess?"
"I already said one last thing."
Although Glaze Nation didn't have "Sky Lanterns" to play with, there were still "River Lanterns" to play with.
It was actually lanterns that floated in the river. Each river lantern stored a person's wish or hope. Letting the river lantern drift with the current in the river meant things would develop smoothly.
This was actually something she'd proposed. Initially it was to make the lifeless palace have some human warmth and fireworks, but she didn't know who'd spread the manufacturing method outside, and even said it was something she'd invented, also spreading the meaning contained within it. This led to every city in Glaze Nation now, as long as there was a river, definitely having river lanterns drifting on the river every evening.
"Princess, have you been very interested in these things lately?"
"More or less."
The little Princess had no intention of hiding it.
Probably Ye Zixin had stimulated her, making her recall some things from her previous life. Her heart wanted to use this to relax her spirit a bit.
The Maid Xiao Xi just quietly stood to the side, watching her family's Princess light a river lantern and place it in the river, then release her hand, letting the river lantern slowly drift along with the current.
"Xiao Xi, do you want to release one?"
"I don't need to. Princess, you just play yourself."
What she wanted more was for the little Princess to quickly return to the palace. Otherwise, being out this long, after going back she'd have to see His Majesty Gong's worried appearance again.
The little Princess also didn't say she'd play one more. She took the Maid Xiao Xi's hand and walked toward the palace's direction.
All the way back to the palace, nothing worth noting happened on the road, until the two returned to the little Princess's bedchamber...
"Princess Mo! I've finally waited for you!"
Nina was somewhat excited upon seeing the little Princess.
This couldn't be blamed on her. No matter who waited here for a full two hours for someone and finally met them would be somewhat excited, right?
"Mm? What is it? Is there something?"
"It's about the contract. I want to dissolve the contract now."
This contract was originally signed to prove she absolutely wouldn't backstab along the way and to put the little Princess at ease. Now having already returned to Glaze Nation, and her objective having basically been achieved, this contract could be dissolved.
"Mm, alright then."
The little Princess summoned the contract. Without the slightest bit of hesitation, she directly tore up the contract right in front of Nina.
Unlike the Empress erasing contract contents, the Empress forcibly erased clauses from the original contract. The contract itself was still there, just incomplete after erasing. She directly tore up the entire contract, making the contract directly become a pile of paper scraps.
"Is this okay?"
The little Princess patted her hands and asked.
"It's fine."
"Then you go rest first. Next time if you come looking for me and discover I'm not here, you can tell other maids. Just have the maids relay it to me later when I return. No need to be this troublesome."
"Alright..."
After sending Nina away, the little Princess entered her bedchamber and directly threw herself onto the bed. For the upcoming time she had no plans. She just planned to keep waiting, waiting until the Empress arrived...
At that time, whatever would be would be. Since she chose to escape, when the Empress came to catch her and bring her back, the consequences she'd need to bear afterward couldn't be escaped no matter what.
That the Empress hadn't made a move against Glaze Nation until now showed the Empress was still upholding the promise she'd established at the start, absolutely not easily going to war against Glaze Nation.
She'd just quietly wait here, waiting for the Empress's arrival...
Time continuously passed for a full week. The feeling that freedom brought her had gradually made her forget the days of being imprisoned in Scarlet Phoenix Nation.
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"Princess? Are you awake?"
The Maid Xiao Xi gently shook the little Princess who was still unwilling to get up on the bed.
"Let me sleep a bit more..."
The Maid Xiao Xi was somewhat helpless. She knew at this very moment her family's Princess was definitely already completely awake. Not wanting to get up was just escaping reality.
Today was the day of the Empress's visit. In her eyes, that the little Princess wanted to escape reality was quite normal. After all, no one would want to be imprisoned.
Of course, those perverted masochists were excluded. The little Princess wasn't a perverted masochist. How could she possibly want to be imprisoned?
"His Majesty Gong had me call you over. If you stay in bed, I can adopt special measures to make you get up, then take you out to wash up."
Knowing the Maid Xiao Xi wasn't joking, the little Princess could only climb up and obediently follow the Maid Xiao Xi to wash up.
"Please don't move around, Princess."
The Maid Xiao Xi patted the little Princess's shoulder.
She was combing hair. Some swaying was completely fine, but the problem was Princess's head was swaying left and right like a big pendulum clock, and from time to time even shaking forward and backward. How was she supposed to comb!?
Finally finishing combing the hair, she then came to the dining table swaying like she'd lost her soul.
Although before this day arrived she'd already made psychological preparations, when it truly arrived her heart inevitably had some fear. After all, she was going to be caught and imprisoned by the Empress again...
After finishing breakfast, the little Princess still had an absent-minded appearance, leaning against the white tiger she'd raised since childhood in a private room in the garden.
"Roar..."
Little White rubbed its head against its owner to express comfort.
Although it didn't know what had happened and couldn't understand what its owner was worried about, it could sense its owner's current mood: anxious, fearful, uneasy...
About this, it could only nuzzle its owner for comfort.