"Princess, let’s go back, okay? If the Empress finds out you’ve sneaked out of the palace again, my backside won’t be saved!"
Under the high palace wall, a man in a crescent white robe with his hair tied high was crouching sneakily on the ground, busy trying to enlarge the dog hole in front of him.
Beside him, a young page boy was also crouching sneakily, though disguised as a boy, the voice was that of a young girl.
This girl was nad Lanlan, the personal servant of Princess Cuiwei, the favorite eldest princess of the current emperor.
And the person she was calling "princess" was precisely the man in front working on the dog hole.
"Lanlan!"
Princess Cuiwei shook the dirt off her hands, wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand, and plopped down on the ground: "Lanlan, mother is just offhandedly saying that. You’ve grown up with , she sees you the sa way she sees ; you think she’d actually spank you?"
With two pats, Princess Cuiwei slapped her muddy hands on Lanlan’s little butt, chuckling: "Don’t worry, as long as I’m here, your bouncy little butt is safe!"
Oh dear!
Lanlan imdiately blushed, shyly inching aside: "Princess, really, this outfit is borrowed from Brother Xiao Zhuzi, and now it’s all dirty!"
Not only is it dirty, but there are also two black handprints left on the butt. If Brother Zhuzi sees this, who knows what he’ll say!
Giggling twice, Princess Cuiwei gave her an understanding look, then turned back to working on the dog hole.
"Really, last ti I just had a craving and wanted to go to Lady Chang’s to eat sugar-roasted chestnuts. Did mother need to get so angry? It’s your fault, Lanlan; if you weren’t so nervous last ti, we could have disguised ourselves as little eunuchs to sneak out, instead of crawling through a dog hole like now! Imagine, Cui Wei, at thirteen, doing sothing like this for the first ti!"
Princess Cuiwei grumbled to herself, not noticing that Lanlan, who was endlessly chatting behind her, had suddenly gone silent.
It wasn’t until her bangs drooped over her eyes that she rembered Lanlan: "Lanlan, my hair’s in my eyes, help push it aside!"
"Your Highness, I cannot overstep my duties."
This voice...
Kneeling on the ground, Cui Wei’s body trembled, and she quickly turned around: "It’s you again?!"
Where was the frightened servant girl Lanlan? She had already been replaced by a man!
This man was dressed in a palace guard’s uniform; although only a young guard of seventeen or eighteen, his face lacked the liveliness of his age, only displaying cold sternness.
Seeing Lanlan bowing her head by the guard’s side, Princess Cuiwei felt a surge of anger, jumping up from the ground, furiously shouting at the little guard.
"Don’t you have anything better to do all day? You’re supposed to protect the emperor, not bother a princess like !"
Princess Cuiwei was nearly fuming; last ti, when she and Lanlan tried to sneak out, this little guard caught them.
This ti, they hadn’t even left the palace yet and were caught by him again, how unlucky!
What annoyed her even more was that this little guard was like a wooden post; no matter how she scolded him, his expression remained unchanged, which was infuriating!
"Princess, Princess, let’s go back to the palace!"
Seeing the situation getting worse, Lanlan quickly moved next to Cui Wei, whispering while tugging her sleeve.
"Go back to the palace? No way!"
Cui Wei, also whispering, started consulting with her servant. She had managed to get from the inner palace to the palace wall; she wouldn’t give up so easily now!
With a shift of her eyes, Cui Wei glanced around.
They had already asked Xiao Zhuzi for information; this section of the palace wall had a dog hole rarely visited, thus remaining undiscovered.
So at this mont, there were only Princess Cuiwei, her servant, and the little guard, with no one else around.
"Others don’t patrol this area, yet this guy is so dutiful!"
Muttering a complaint, Princess Cuiwei cleared her throat, adopting a different deanor as she spoke again.
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