A soft bundle, like cotton, with a sweet scent mixed with milk and fruits, made his heart feel tender.
If he had a younger sister, she might be just like Miss Tang, soft and sweet.
In fact, as long as he took back what he deserved, he could also claim her as a sister and give her the title of Commandery Princess, or even Princess—
Thinking of this, Li Mu suddenly felt that the goal he had been striving for over the years wasn’t so cold and distant.
If he were truly the Crown Prince with support, how would Yao He dare to deceive her? How would Zhao Jing dare to bully her? Even the Gu Family wouldn’t dare to scold her like that.
Rembering her gloomy expression when she ca out of the Vermilion Pavilion, Li Mu couldn’t help but hug her small body a little tighter, softly saying, "Madam might have spoken unintentionally, don’t feel sad..."
Tang Xiaobai’s laughter stopped, she steadied herself, wiped away the tears of laughter from the corner of her eye, and looked up to smile at him again: "I’m not sad, Mother just cares for my sister and is anxious, she didn’t an to be fierce, I know!"
Moreover, she wasn’t really the Second Miss Tang.
She was soone forcefully inserted into the Tang family’s minds, a piece of mory with no proper na, inevitably frail.
Comparatively speaking, her feelings with the Tang family and the Gu family couldn’t match Tang Jiaojiao’s.
However—
Reason aside! At the mont of being scolded, there was indeed a tiny bit of... well...
Tang Xiaobai was curving her lips to keep smiling when suddenly, the handso young man in front of her raised his hand and gently patted her head, his expression much more natural than the first ti, with even a discernible amount of tenderness in his eyes.
"Ah Xiao—" she couldn’t help calling out to him.
Seeing his puzzled look, she suddenly laughed, hugging his arm again: "Ah Xiao, it’s really good to have you with ..."
She thought she was protecting him, but in reality, he was also accompanying her.
What the original intention was seed to no longer matter.
Li Mu saw her low and gentle deanor and listened to her words of reflection, feeling even more like she had been wronged. So he let her lean on him for a while before softly asking, "Were you scared today?"
She first shook her head, then nodded: "A bit, but it’s okay, fortunately, Su Shunqing arrived in ti."
Listening to the gratitude in her words, Li Mu frowned slightly and said, "Didn’t you escape from Zhao Jing before he arrived?"
"It was Su Shunqing’s guard who used hidden weapons to injure Zhao Jing, which allowed my sister and to escape from him." Tang Xiaobai recalled he might be unaware of the details, so she explained.
Li Mu listened, his gaze darkening: "Su Shunqing’s guard used hidden weapons? How do you know?"
Clearly, it was Mo Ji whom he had instructed to secretly circle around to the side and seize the opportunity to use hidden weapons, so how did it beco Su Shunqing and Li Xingyuan’s credit?
Tang Xiaobai, seeing he didn’t believe it, explained the situation in detail.
"...Zhao Jing must have been injured in the arm, which is why he suddenly let go of my sister. Among the people present, only the guard brought by Su Shunqing had martial arts skills; it must have been him."
In fact, Su Shunqing was also a master, but currently, a hidden one, so it was hard to reveal.
And that tall, bearded guard, she sowhat suspected was the assassin who appeared in the Duke Yan Mansion’s back garden in early April.
To say the least, Su Shunqing daring to let him go alone to explore the Crown Prince’s mansion must an he’s a master too.
Despite her explaining so clearly, the Little Ancestor still stubbornly didn’t believe: "Those two ca from the alley entrance after you escaped Zhao Jing, how could it be them?"
Tang Xiaobai patiently continued to explain: "You don’t know, a master can kill invisibly from a hundred paces with hidden weapons! They hadn’t arrived, but the hidden weapons arrived first, and those of us who don’t know martial arts can’t see it clearly!"
Li Mu looked at the little girl who was shorter than him by more than a head and couldn’t help saying: "I don’t understand, and you do?"
The little Miss Tang imdiately showed a pampering and indulgent expression: "Alright, alright, I don’t understand..."
Li Mu: ...
...
Back in his room, Li Mu made a gesture to summon two Shadow Guards.
"Inform Mr. Wang about today’s incident in Jinchang Village and seize the opportunity to take down Zhao Jing."
"Yes!"
"Investigate whether the Wannian County Chief of Evil, Yao He, is being instructed by soone behind the scenes."
"Yes!"
Silence.
Mo Ji couldn’t help but urge: "Does the Young Master have any other orders?"
Li Mu cleared his throat: "I... want to learn hidden weapons!"
...
Even though such an incident happened the day before, Tang Jiaojiao still arrived at the Bright Moon Building as usual when she just got up.
"Don’t think you can be lazy and skip school today!" Although her voice was a bit hoarse, it didn’t stop the young lady from being as domineering as ever.
"I didn’t slack off..." Tang Xiaobai muttered as she watched her.
The thin sumr shirt revealed a slender, jade-like neck, with dark fingerprints glaringly exposed, making a shocking sight.
"Sister—"
"Doesn’t hurt!" Before she could ask, Tang Jiaojiao answered first, then instructed for als to be served.
"Aren’t we eating at Mother’s today?" Tang Xiaobai asked curiously.
Could it be that the Gu family was ill?
"Mother went to the Palace."
"Went to complain?" Tang Xiaobai was instantly excited.
Tang Jiaojiao sneered softly: "Early this morning, Grandmother, Aunt, and Mother went to the Palace together to ask the Empress Dowager for justice! How could the Duke Yan Mansion suffer such a loss?"
"Then what will happen to Zhao Jing?" Tang Xiaobai was a bit curious.
Tang Jiaojiao replied with a single word: "Ha!"
Tang Xiaobai could only ponder for herself.
In the original book, there was no role for Zhao Jing. Could this prelude scenario have also happened, resulting in Zhao Jing’s end?
So did the emotionally hurt Pingyang Princess henceforth have nurous affairs and amuse herself in the world?
Thinking of this, Tang Xiaobai couldn’t help but feel a chill in her heart.
She still had to keep an eye on her family’s Little Ancestor!
...
In this world, many things go against one’s wishes.
—Half an hour later, Tang Xiaobai pondered this in her heart.
Reflecting on it, she quickly popped out of the carriage, hastily saluting: "Princess!"
Her carriage had just exited the West Gate of Qinren Street, moving aside to yield to the Princess, but the Pingyang Princess didn’t enter through the gate; she reined in her horse in front of her carriage, her gaze cold, with a murderous look between her brows.
Tang Xiaobai, seeing the Princess’s gaze fixated on her, didn’t know whether to feel relieved or tense.
It seed that even if she didn’t intentionally co to block her, she was definitely targeting her now.
What was she planning to do?
"Co with !" Pingyang Princess suddenly reached out her hand to her.
"Where to?" Tang Xiaobai asked.
With such a stern face, who dared to go with her?
But the Pingyang Princess didn’t care whether she dared or not, she directly leaned over from the horseback to grab her.
"Princess!" Gu Hui and Gu You, who accompanied Tang Xiaobai today, cried out in unison to intervene.
But soone was even faster than them.
Just as the cry was heard, a hand knife cut out from the side, striking fiercely towards the Princess’s wrist.
Pingyang Princess abruptly withdrew her hand, angrily shouting: "Audacious!"
However, she was stunned when her furious gaze swept to the audacious person—
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