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

Chapter 217

217~

"Xiyan, don't you think Her Highness Mo is a bit strange?"

"Mm... Indeed."

She also felt the little Princess was acting weird, as if deliberately trying to lure her away.

"Forget it, Xiyan, you go prepare breakfast for Her Highness Mo first. I'll go back and check on Her Highness Mo to prevent anything from going wrong."

"Okay."

She was also somewhat afraid something would happen to the little Princess.

And so, Red Leaf, who had only walked a few steps, turned back and pushed open the bedchamber door.

"R-Red Leaf!?"

The little Princess huddled on the bed, somewhat shocked that Red Leaf had suddenly returned.

"Your Highness Mo, I just came back to find something Xiyan accidentally left behind."

"I see... Then hurry and find it. I'm going to sleep in first!"

"Okay."

On the surface, there didn't seem to be any problems with the little Princess, but she'd already gotten up and come out to urge Xiyan to make her a cup of hot cocoa, yet was going to sleep in. This point was somewhat suspicious.

She somehow felt the little Princess's blankets seemed to be hiding something. With the little Princess's small frame, it shouldn't be possible to make the blankets bulge this much, right? Or was the little Princess currently sleeping with her legs propped up?

"Your Highness Mo, could you please get up for a moment? The thing Xiyan left behind seems to be on the bed."

Mo: "!!!"

This was basically wanting to flip open her little blankets to see what exactly was hidden inside them, right!?

"No, there's nothing on my bed."

"How can you be sure?"

"Because... I looked before getting into bed!"

"..."

Of course, just saying it with her mouth was useless, so Red Leaf directly reached out intending to flip open the blankets.

Even if she wrongly accused the little Princess in the end, she'd just apologize and plead guilty. The little Princess couldn't impose any serious punishment on her anyway. If punishment were to be imposed, only the Empress could impose it.

But if something happened to the little Princess, that would be a big problem.

"Don't come over! You're not allowed to come near here!"

The little Princess shouted.

Since she was already suspected, she might as well give up! No more acting!

"Your Highness Mo, what exactly are you hiding in your blankets?"

Was it some dangerous things again?

"It's my treasure! Is there a problem? Anyway, you're not allowed to look! I'm going to hug my treasure and sleep in!"

Tightly clamping Xuan's spare body that looked exactly like her with her legs, she'd already decided to fight Red Leaf to the bitter end!

"Your Highness Mo, to ensure you're not hiding something bad, I apologize in advance."

Saying this, Red Leaf was about to directly flip the little blankets open.

"Stop! If you dare flip them open, I'll have Fei punish you severely! Punish you until you can't get out of bed for three days!"

"..."

Red Leaf hesitated slightly, but thinking that if something went wrong on the little Princess's side, she couldn't bear the Empress's blame.

"Wu wu..."

"Your Highness Mo?"

Oh no, why did Her Highness Mo suddenly start crying!?

She hadn't done anything to bully Her Highness Mo, right? She simply wanted to check what exactly was under the blankets.

"Don't flip them open... I... wu..."

"Your Highness Mo, don't cry, don't cry. You can talk about it slowly."

Red Leaf gently patted the little Princess's back comfortingly.

In any case, she should first stabilize the little Princess's emotions before continuing.

"I... wet the bed..."

"Wet..."

Red Leaf suddenly stood up. Although somewhat shocked, the little Princess was clearly already eighteen years old yet could still wet the bed, but this obviously bulging area was also not right.

"Then, Your Highness Mo, can you tell me what your legs are clamping?"

"It's a bath towel..."

"Hiss..."

Well, she now roughly understood why the little Princess refused to let her flip open the blankets no matter what.

Was it because she wet the bed and felt it was too embarrassing, so she refused to let her see the disgraceful state?

At least after meeting with the little Princess, she'd never seen the little Princess cry. Even if she had, it was only heard that in the Empress's bedchamber, she cried because of what the Empress did.

"I understand, Your Highness Mo. May I ask what you need now?"

"Don't tell anyone!"

"Okay, Red Leaf won't casually tell others."

Of course, if the Empress asked about it, then she couldn't be blamed. The master-servant contract between her and the Empress required no reservations whatsoever. Any situation, as long as the Empress asked, she must tell the Empress without any reservations.

"Then go out first. I'll handle it myself!"

"Okay."

"By the way, help me hold back Xiyan for a bit!"

"Okay, Red Leaf understands."

...

After finally getting Red Leaf to leave as well, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This way she should have sufficient time to open the Divine Realm and retrieve this spare body of Xuan's, right?

This spare body absolutely couldn't be seen by anyone in Scarlet Phoenix Nation.

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...

"So, how is Mo? Is there anything unusual?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Her Highness Mo wet the bed today."

"Huh? Wet the bed?"

Although somewhat disbelieving, after all, this was what Red Leaf said personally. She knew Red Leaf couldn't possibly deceive her.

"What happened?"

"Not clear, but this morning..."

Red Leaf told the Empress everything that happened this morning in one breath.

"I see."

"Yes, Red Leaf has already told Your Majesty everything that happened."

"Mm, well done."

However, Mo could actually still wet the bed? That really was unexpected. It seemed she'd inadvertently discovered some of Mo's little secrets.

Although this wasn't really a small secret, strictly speaking, it should count as Mo's embarrassing history, right?

Anyway, no matter what, after learning from Red Leaf that the little Princess wet the bed, her mood today suddenly improved greatly.

She really looked forward to the little Princess's reaction today~ She could use this to tease her a little.

On the other side, the little Princess looked at the blankets in the wardrobe and fell into thought.

So how was she supposed to round out the lie she'd told?

Since she'd already said she wet the bed, if the sheets weren't wet, that wouldn't make sense either. Even if she said she'd handle it, she'd still have to hand it over to Red Leaf to deal with.

By common sense, at a time like this, she should hand over the dirty items to someone who already knew and could be trusted, which was Red Leaf, to handle these blankets. But the problem now was that she hadn't wet the bed at all! Did she still have to drink more water, then directly on the bed...

"Mm..."

She knew she shouldn't have used this excuse...

She somehow felt that if she really did this, she'd lose something very important!

"Knock knock knock..."

"Your Highness Mo? May I come in?"

Outside the door was the little loli maid Xiyan's voice.

"Wait a moment, wait outside now. I'm changing clothes!"

"Oh oh... Okay."

Damn it! I'll go all in!!!

Tinkle tinkle tinkle...

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"Your Highness Mo?"

"What is it?"

"By the way, why were the blankets changed?"