Alone, Beautifully – Chapter 130
by Little PandaBestowing Upon You the Realm (12)
Painting a red plum blossom.
Lü Luo trembled uncontrollably.
She had long known that she could gain Xu Jiao’s favor because her appearance closely resembled this Lord Yu. Who would have thought that before she could successfully secure her position, Yu Ye would discover her little scheme? She feared her life wouldn’t last much longer!
Xu Jiao’s peripheral vision noticed Lü Luo’s fear, but her face remained calm. She showed no panic at being discovered with a lover, and even looked at Yu Ye with a somewhat righteous air:
“As you can see, Lord Yu, my maid just got sand in her eyes from the wind outside the window. I’m helping her take a look—”
“By the way, it’s your birthday today, Lord Yu. How do you have time to come to my quarters?”
Yu Ye’s gaze rested on Lü Luo, unsure whether to believe Xu Jiao’s explanation.
After two seconds, she said neither lightly nor heavily: “If sand got in her eyes, she can rub them herself. How can the master be troubled with such matters? What kind of etiquette is this?”
Lü Luo trembled like “sifted chaff” (a Chinese idiom meaning to shake violently from fear) as she prostrated herself on the ground, her back pressed very low, her voice also trembling: “Yes, this slave has overstepped. Please, Your Highness and My Lord, punish me.”
Yu Ye now couldn’t be bothered with the issue of overstepping the Crown Prince’s authority to punish someone under her command. As her anger rose, she was about to lash out at this unseeing maid.
Xu Jiao, seeing Yu Ye’s anger, spoke first: “It’s fine, just be more careful next time.”
Yu Ye’s anger got stuck in her throat, unable to go up or down. Her star-like eyes looked at Xu Jiao, only to see Xu Jiao curling her lips slightly, seemingly oblivious to her mood, and confirming with her again: “Lord Yu is also concerned about me. With the previous minor accident, you fear the Eastern Palace might become disorderly, and you’re not intentionally targeting anyone in particular, right, Lord Yu?”
Yu Ye: “…”
The hat had been put on her (a Chinese expression meaning to be put in a difficult position), and now she had no reason to lash out at Lü Luo.
She squeezed out a “Yes” from between her teeth, and the tone sounded as if she had a mouthful of blood in her throat.
Fearing that Yu Ye might find an excuse to vent on her people, Xu Jiao quickly waved her hand, dismissing everyone around her. Lü Luo, having escaped with her life, didn’t even dare to breathe as she passed by Yu Ye, only feeling lightheaded from holding her breath for too long after running out of the hall.
She cautiously looked back. The water-blue palace dress she wore made her look as graceful as a willow branch in spring. By all accounts, she should have had some confidence in her appearance.
But thinking of the Regent Yu Ye, who could decide her life or death with a single thought, she felt utterly unconfident in her charms for the first time.
Xu Jiao in the study didn’t know what the grand palace maid beside her was thinking.
Because Yu Ye’s question quickly occupied her attention: “Your Highness seems to be very fond of that palace maid called Lü Luo?”
Xu Jiao returned to her painting scroll, casually throwing the not-so-lifelike red plum blossom drawing into the nearby wastebasket. A good while after Yu Ye’s voice fell, she looked up from the desk, her deep brown eyes holding a faint, elusive smile, like the cold wind of winter inadvertently knocking open a window.
She slowly replied: “Mm, she’s quite good at pleasing me, serves me well.”
This was an acknowledgment of Yu Ye’s words.
Who knew that upon hearing this, Yu Ye’s eyes would float with some disdain, as if extremely contemptuous of Lü Luo’s type who curried favor. She immediately said to Xu Jiao in a reproachful tone: “Your Highness should be close to worthy ministers and distance petty men, gather more subordinates who offer honest advice, and stay away from those who serve with their looks.”
Xu Jiao picked up her brush intending to make a new painting, but upon hearing this, the brush tip paused on the paper, not knowing how to proceed. Perhaps because Yu Ye’s presence before her was too strong, facing this face, she found it difficult to capture the spirit belonging to Zheng Zhiyu.
The brush didn’t know how to fall.
Then let it not fall.
Xu Jiao no longer had the mood to paint, her smile much fainter, but not wanting Yu Ye to see, she maintained a lowered head posture, seemingly casually answering Yu Ye: “Lord Yu’s words are too heavy. Lü Luo, being a servant, has only the thought of pleasing her master. If I am comfortable and happy, her days will be better. Those in lower positions are mostly like this, it can’t be said to be the ways of petty people. She has no intention of harming me, moreover…”
Yu Ye, in a dark-colored python robe, stepped closer, the black shadow standing in front of the desk, asking in a deep voice: “Moreover what?”
Xu Jiao smiled, adjusted her emotions imperceptibly, and smiled at her without showing any change: “Moreover, as the Crown Prince, I will eventually need someone to manage internal affairs in the palace. Lü Luo is also a palace woman, her family background is decent, if I were to take her in, it seems there would be nothing improper.”
If I were to take her in, it seems there would be nothing improper.
Yu Ye’s mind was full of Xu Jiao’s words, constantly revolving in her mind, making her feel that the fire in her heart hadn’t subsided, yet a chill arose.
It was as if her entire being had been thrown into an ice and fire hell, anger roasting her nearly to charcoal, while on the other side freezing her into a millennia-old ice sculpture that couldn’t melt.
“Preposterous!”
Yu Ye raised her hand and slapped the desk in front of her.
Because she hadn’t quite controlled her strength, this palm strike, although it didn’t crack the golden silk nanmu wood desk, splashed the pigments from the orchid grass patterned paint palette. The paper was covered with a patch of bright red, droplets and spots, a shocking sight.
This alone would have been fine.
But those pigments also dyed half of Xu Jiao’s clothes, and some even fell on her neck. One who didn’t know might think she had personally witnessed some execution scene to end up with this half-body of blood color.
Xu Jiao’s eyelashes trembled, but she wasn’t intimidated by Yu Ye’s imposing manner. Her hand very steadily put down the brush, and she looked up at Yu Ye with a wider smile: “Why is Lord Yu so angry? Logically speaking, as long as I don’t like you, whoever I choose to favor is my business, isn’t it? Why should you get so worked up over my affairs?”
“You are now a pillar of the state, you must take care of your health. If you were to fall, wouldn’t Da Yan be in chaos?”
All the words were good advice, but somehow, paired with her voice, Yu Ye only wanted to severely… severely teach her a lesson.
Yu Ye had now completely forgotten the original purpose of coming to the Eastern Palace today. Her mood had fallen to the extreme due to this back-and-forth with Xu Jiao, and now hearing Xu Jiao’s remarks which summed up to “none of your business,” her anger reached its peak, and she also laughed along.
“Fine—”
“It seems I can’t persuade you today.”
“Come here.”
Xu Jiao saw her call for her subordinates, the smile on her face slightly restrained, her deep brown eyes carrying some wariness, her lips also tightly pressed, as if ready to respond to any unreasonable orders at any time.
After the palace guards entered, Yu Ye looked at Xu Jiao with a cold smile, saying word by word:
“Her Highness the Crown Prince is now bewitched by a seductress. From today on, until she comes to her senses, she is not allowed to step out of this study for a day. All of you watch her, if you let her escape, I’ll have your heads.”
Xu Jiao: “!”
Her original composure and calmness all changed under Yu Ye’s unreasonable threat of force.
She walked out from behind the desk, irritably saying to Yu Ye: “Lord Yu truly has great power. When you can’t win an argument, you just directly confine me, is that it?”
Yu Ye stared at her steadily, her lips curling in a not-quite-smile, proving with actual action that she could do even worse: “The palace maid Lü Luo has bewitched her master, she is to be expelled from the Eastern Palace immediately and returned to the Imperial Wardrobe Department.”
Xu Jiao looked at her expressionlessly: “Yu Ye, you—”
Yu Ye’s smile didn’t reach her eyes: “Your Highness can threaten me one more time, then the place she’ll stay won’t be as comfortable as the Imperial Wardrobe Department. Just recently, the Imperial Guards’ prison has come up with some new severe punishments, but the death row cells are all empty. The Imperial Guards are just worried they can’t find anyone to test the effects.”
Xu Jiao: “…”
The outcome of two immature people confronting each other was that both were equally angered, and there was no winner.
She angrily returned to sit behind the desk, no longer saying another word to Yu Ye, and immediately decided to wait in this world until this female protagonist kicked the bucket, then she would return to the system space.
Let’s see who can outlast whom.
Yu Ye saw that she was quite angry, but she herself didn’t feel much joy in this verbal victory. She swept her sleeves and headed out.
Only silence remained in the study.
Xu Jiao stared fixedly at the sheet of paper in front of her, stained with large patches of red pigment, feeling that she, who hadn’t been angry for a long time, was now like an active volcano ready to erupt at any moment. She took a deep breath.
She shouldn’t be like this.
Why get angry with a paper-thin female protagonist?
Calm down, stay composed, the female lead is bound to die. When Yu Ye kicks the bucket, she will definitely go to dance on her grave to vent her anger.
At this moment, the system’s voice sounded: “Detected that the female protagonist has been hit by a curse, life in danger, 200 meters away from you!”
Xu Jiao was stunned for a moment: “Who?”
System: “The female protagonist.”
Xu Jiao: “Life in danger? Are you sure?”
System: “… The mission contents are all stable and true!”
Xu Jiao immediately clapped her hands, all the anger that couldn’t be dissipated earlier instantly vanished, feeling unprecedentedly relaxed: “Great, when will she die? Let me know when she dies, I’ll go observe her corpse.”
System: “…”
It never imagined that Xu Jiao could develop such a deep rift with the female protagonist in this world. After a few seconds of silence, it reminded Xu Jiao: “Passive negligence is very likely to lead to failure in achieving a happy ending in this world.”
Xu Jiao didn’t even think: “Let it fail then, hurry up and fail so I can go to the next world.”
System: “If the ending is still modified unsuccessfully this time, your identity in the next world will become poor and miserable, worse than an extra or cannon fodder, greatly increasing the difficulty of the task.”
Xu Jiao let out a “Ha,” completely unmoved.
The system, seeing her appearance, belatedly realized that this person had grown up being scared. In the previous few worlds, female protagonists died in front of her for her sake, and she didn’t even blink. How could she possibly be shaken by this?
A miscalculation.
It seems this world can only fail.
The system sighed deeply, while not forgetting to fulfill Xu Jiao’s wish to see Yu Ye’s miserable end, almost giving Xu Jiao a live broadcast of Yu Ye’s situation:
“Detected that the female protagonist’s curse has taken effect, she has now turned into a cat, all martial arts lost.”
“In the next quarter of an hour, she will be chased by the palace guards, and finally caught by an unknown eunuch, who will singe off her fur with fire, then press her into water to drown her, and finally cut open her belly—”
Xu Jiao listened until she felt a bit physically uncomfortable: “Stop.”
She stood up: “Where is Yu Ye? Give me a direction.”
The system asked her with some surprise: “Weren’t you not going to save her? I was about to tell you where her corpse would be in the end, to satisfy your wish to observe her dead state.”
Xu Jiao raised her hand to fan herself, silently walked to the door, listened to the movement of the guards outside, while saying in her heart: “I was just angry talk, I don’t have such a perverted hobby.”
Realizing that there was no way to break through from the door, she went towards the window, walking and thinking. Yu Ye’s decision to confine her might lead to the failure of saving Yu Ye due to inability to leave this study. She had already thought of an epitaph for Yu Ye’s tombstone, four big characters that could summarize her life—
Self-inflicted (自作自受, zì zuò zì shòu, an idiom meaning to reap what one sows).
In short, she deserved it.
She slowly walked towards the window, glanced at the palace people patrolling back and forth outside. It was daytime now, if she ran from this large window, it would be too conspicuous.
She frowned, quickly surveyed the room again, and having no other option, she could only look up at the roof beams.
A moment later.
The sound of something falling to the ground came from the study, along with the painful cries of a woman calling for help.
The guards at the door exchanged glances, and soon, two palace maids hurriedly entered, saying to her: “Your Highness, Your Highness, what’s wrong?”
Xu Jiao glanced towards the outside of the room, then looked at these palace people, and said while holding her stomach: “My stomach suddenly hurts so much… Quick, quick, go find the imperial physician, I can’t take it anymore, I must have eaten something wrong…”
The palace maids anxiously stood up, preparing to go out, but Xu Jiao suddenly pulled one of them back, smiling—
Half a quarter of an hour later.
A female official with heavy makeup and an excessively eye-catching appearance was walking hurriedly on the palace path, hastily lifting her skirts. Anyone who saw her appearance was startled, and then turned their heads away, unable to bear looking directly at her.
Xu Jiao didn’t have time to care about their gazes, only asking the system in her mind: “Which direction? Quick, guide me, I can’t tell east from west.”
The system casually said: “Go to the left intersection, go around the corridor, the rockery behind is the place.”
Xu Jiao walked according to its directions, not forgetting to emphasize: “Let me be clear, I don’t want to save the female protagonist, I just have a love for small animals.”
System: “Whether you do or don’t, what does it have to do with me?”
Xu Jiao: “…”
Well said, she must have been infected by this childish Yu Ye after arguing with her too much, becoming so tsundere.
She no longer wasted time on conversation, but hurriedly went towards the rockery. Just as she went over, she sharp-eyedly caught sight of a eunuch wearing blue clothes, with a complexion paler than ordinary people, dragging a white cat’s tail out, saying in a somewhat shrill voice:
“Come out obediently! Don’t struggle! Falling into my hands, you—”
“You’re out of luck?” Xu Jiao walked up close, finishing the little eunuch’s words. She stood with her hands folded, leisurely, and while speaking, didn’t forget to glance at the white cat, not quite sure if Yu Ye, a living person, had really turned into a cat.
It felt quite unreal.
That white cat had originally been constantly kicking the eunuch’s hand with its hind legs, even emitting low, fierce threatening sounds from its throat, but somehow, upon seeing Xu Jiao, its eyes brightened for an instant, instinctively wanting to run in her direction.
The system’s voice happened to sound: “Confirmed to be the female protagonist.”
Xu Jiao’s gaze met the cat’s, seeing its pair of beautiful large blue eyes, and also seeing its constant struggling movements to kick the eunuch.
Perhaps because each of its hind paw movements was unsparing, it quickly scratched the eunuch’s delicate hand open. The eunuch laughed, directly pulling up the fur on its nape, and looking at Xu Jiao’s clothes, seemingly recognizing that this palace maid held a high position in the palace. While patting the cat’s head, he bowed and smiled at her:
“Sister doesn’t know, today the imperial kitchen kept losing fresh ingredients, the chef ordered me to quickly catch the culprit. I finally found this cat with great difficulty, I’m just following orders. Sister, it’s best not to meddle in this affair, right?”
This eunuch looked kind and gentle; if Xu Jiao hadn’t known from the system what would happen later, she would never have associated this person with someone who would torture small animals.
Truly, one can’t judge a book by its cover.
After hearing the eunuch’s words, she just curled her lips: “What a coincidence? Today, that Crown Prince in the Eastern Palace just happened to instruct palace people to find some entertainment for her, and there was a snow-white cat with blue eyes, very similar to the one in your arms. I’m afraid, little brother, you’ve mistaken the cat and taken the Eastern Palace’s to make up for it?”
The eunuch wanted to say something, but the cat he was holding, disregarding the pain of its nape fur being pulled, seized the opportunity and bit his wrist hard. Then, stepping on his waistband, it jumped into Xu Jiao’s arms, but while jumping over, it couldn’t help thinking:
She clearly ordered people to keep Xu Jiao confined, how did this person still slip out?
And how did Xu Jiao know she was here?
What connection does her sudden change have with this Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace?
The eunuch couldn’t help but wince in pain, his eyes towards the cat already carrying killing intent, but he quickly concealed it, just smiling amiably at Xu Jiao: “What is sister saying? This little beast has a terrible temper, it certainly can’t be kept by the master’s side to serve. You’d better hand it over to me to complete my task.”
Xu Jiao raised her hand to catch the white cat, noticing the tuft of fur missing from its nape, unconsciously rubbing the cat’s neck, and said to the little eunuch with a half-smile: “Are you trying to snatch something from the Eastern Palace?”
That eunuch was stunned for a moment and hurriedly said: “I wouldn’t dare.”
He made a gesture of invitation to Xu Jiao, bowing his back, silently retreating.
Xu Jiao turned around, not having time to ask the system anything, when she suddenly heard movement coming from behind. She reflexively dodged, while freeing her right hand, turning back and simultaneously disarming the white blade, snatching the dagger the eunuch was swinging at her, and at the same time, struck hard with the handle on the side of his neck—
That person fell down in disbelief.
Xu Jiao flipped the short blade in her hand, frowning as she looked at the person at her feet.
What’s wrong with this eunuch?
Has he killed so many small animals that he now wants to kill people?
Who gave him the guts to lay hands on someone from the Eastern Palace?
The more she thought, the more it didn’t seem right. Xu Jiao lowered her head, wanting to search through the eunuch’s belongings, when she smelled a very faint, very strange scent, like… some kind of flower.
The system’s voice sounded in her mind: “Gardenia.”
Xu Jiao: “Right, how do you know?”
System: “… Because in your original text settings, those death soldiers from Korea were raised on secret drugs, controlled by poison, usually showing no signs, only a very faint gardenia scent to distinguish their identity.”
Xu Jiao belatedly remembered the most mysterious country among the five nations—
Han (韓, likely referring to ancient Korea).
Its territory was at the southernmost edge, rose to prominence through trade, had very strong witchcraft worship habits internally, its national power mysterious, generally not participating in the mixed warfare between the other countries, presenting an appearance of being cut off from the world.
If she remembered correctly, in the main text, Nie Yunyue traveled to Han in his youth and was favored by a little princess. Later, his main wife, the female protagonist, suffered quite a bit because of this, as that supporting female character princess from Han knew quite a few witchcraft techniques, and this country was also the most difficult to eliminate. The male and female protagonists stumbled quite a few times with this country.
The problem is, why did Han suddenly make a move against Yu Ye?
Xu Jiao thought briefly and quickly knew the answer… because Yu Ye had changed the plot direction.
She confined Nie Yunyue in Da Yan at this time, and that princess from Han was very favored at home, had no other shortcomings except for her naive and stubborn personality, so Yu Ye’s move against Nie Yunyue was equivalent to inadvertently offending the other party.
Thinking about it this way, Yu Ye truly lived up to holding the villain’s script, even the price of victory came so heavily.
She looked down at the cat that had been quietly looking up at her since coming into her arms.
Only upon lowering her head did she realize that the cat had been maintaining a posture of looking up at her for who knows how long, its gaze focused and serious.
Xu Jiao unconsciously spoke: “What are you looking at me like that for? Haven’t you seen such ugly makeup?”
Yu Ye: “…”
She looked at Xu Jiao, thinking of her swift movements just now, not knowing where Xu Jiao’s martial arts came from, and also not knowing how she knew she was in danger, so she narrowed her eyes, her tail sweeping left and right.
Xu Jiao belatedly realized she had exposed herself.
Her martial arts were exposed, and her foreknowledge was also exposed.
She pretended to be calm as she exchanged a glance with the cat, feeling she could still salvage the situation: “You’re lucky, I was originally planning to get out of this boring palace today, but since you’ve run into my hands, I’ll take you back—”
“By the way, let me tell you a secret, I’ve been confined by an annoying person, when you come back to the study with me, remember to behave yourself, don’t expose me, otherwise I won’t give you meat to eat.”
Yu Ye let out a cold laugh, waiting until she recovered, she would definitely find out who taught Xu Jiao martial arts.
Xu Jiao saw her nestled in her arms but still able to reveal a haughty look, always feeling a bit itchy to do something. She turned her eyes, suddenly raised her hand to touch the cat’s nape:
“Wow, you’ve had a big patch of fur pulled out here.”
“So you’re a bald cat now, how about I name you Little Baldy?”
Yu Ye: “…!”
Hearing this extremely ugly name, her appearance that had only been fierce when the eunuch was beating and pulling her earlier, now had all her fur standing on end. She protested with a “meow” at Xu Jiao, while also patting her wrist with a paw.
She didn’t use little strength, and Xu Jiao’s wrist immediately showed a red mark.
Yu Ye looked at that mark, staring at her own paw, as if she hadn’t expected to use such heavy force, her expression also froze for a second. Xu Jiao looked at her for two seconds, suddenly changing her expression—
The next moment.
She slapped the cat’s bottom hard.
“Hit me one more time, and I’ll throw you in this palace to fend for yourself, letting you eat only stinky rats from the gutters and drink this dirty snow water trampled by countless people to survive.”
The roles of the threatener and the threatened were instantly reversed.
Yu Ye didn’t move, only making threatening grumbles from her throat due to unhappiness.
She curled herself into a ball, closing her eyes and nestling in Xu Jiao’s arms, seeming somewhat self-destructive. Fortunately, the cat fur on her face hid her expression of humiliation from being spanked, preventing Xu Jiao from seeing it.
Xu Jiao saw her reluctant appearance of admitting defeat, immediately feeling vindicated. She was about to walk away carrying the cat—
She took a few steps.
Suddenly remembering something, she looked back at that Korean spy, the dagger that had been tucked into her sleeve reappeared on her wrist. Looking left and right at the people, Xu Jiao muttered to herself: “This trouble, it’s better to resolve it.”
She aimed the dagger tip at the person’s heart position, just about to throw the knife with a flying dagger technique, when she remembered something at the last moment.
The white kitten wasn’t heavy, about three or four jin. She pressed the cat’s head towards her clothes, saying casually: “Little one, better not watch the killing scene. If you see it, you’ll have nightmares at night and won’t even enjoy eating dried fish.”
As the words fell.
The dagger accurately pierced the eunuch’s heart. That person passed away while unconscious.
Xu Jiao turned around carrying the cat, heading towards the Eastern Palace. The kitten poked its head out from between her arms, looked back at the previous place once, then raised its head to look at Xu Jiao again.
She didn’t expect this person could be so gentle to cats, not even letting the cat see such a scene.
But as she thought about it, she started to feel sour again—
Why doesn’t Xu Jiao ever use this kind of tone to speak to her?
Hearing the inexplicable grumbling sound by her ear again, Xu Jiao lowered her head to look at the cat in confusion, somewhat helplessly asking: “What have I done to you now? Threatening me again?”
Saying this, she lightly pinched the cat’s ear.
Yu Ye instinctively shook off her fingertip, looking up at her resentfully, then nestled back into her arms, not making a sound.
Half a quarter of an hour later.
Xu Jiao openly carried the cat back to the Eastern Palace, appearing in front of the study door guards. In their wide-eyed, dumbfounded, bewildered expressions, she wiped the makeup off her face:
“I was really bored earlier, so I went for a walk. Don’t worry, brothers, I won’t tell Lord Yu about your dereliction of duty. Please make way, I want to stay in the study again.”
The two guards: “…”
They had been wondering why that palace maid who entered earlier and came out with her face covered looked so strange! So it was this Crown Prince who came out!
They didn’t dare imagine what the result would be if Yu Ye found out about this.
The two were soaked in cold sweat, not even noticing that Xu Jiao had brought back a cat, let alone knowing that they had unknowingly been observed by the Regent and spared their little lives.
Xu Jiao carried the cat back into the study, placed it on the desk, her brows showing some worry.
“System, how do we break this curse? Remind me, I’ve forgotten most of the plot.”
The system searched the original text for her: “One way is to kill the person who cast the curse, the other is slightly better, if the difficulty of this curse is not high, you can wait for the curse to naturally lose effect.”
Xu Jiao: “…”
Xu Jiao: “Great, you might as well have said nothing—”
Even thinking with her toes, she knew that being able to turn Yu Ye into a powerless waste cat was definitely not an ordinary person’s doing, and Xu Jiao currently had no clue how to find the curse caster.
This meant that Yu Ye would exist indefinitely in cat form from now on.
According to Xu Jiao’s plan, she only needed to be a puppet, waiting for the female protagonist to fiercely, coolly, and handsomely beat out a happy ending by herself. Now it’s good, the female protagonist has turned into a cat. One or two days is fine, but in the long run, the Da Yan court will surely fall into chaos. What to do then?
Those people, knowing Yu Ye has disappeared, will definitely think about how to get rid of the most eye-catching Xu Jiao. Her chances of being assassinated while carrying a cat in this palace would become infinitely high.
The more she thought about it, the more headache-inducing it became.
Xu Jiao’s gaze stared gloomily at the white cat in front of her, as if looking at a troublemaker.
Who knew that Yu Ye, already turned into a cat, seemed not to worry about this matter at all. Discovering that the paper she was sitting on had paint stains, she, being somewhat of a cleanliness freak, immediately got up and moved to the side, as if not wanting her fur to be stained by these red marks.
Xu Jiao naturally saw her disgust, and looked at the white paper that had been dyed with large patches of red pigment due to Yu Ye’s movement, not knowing how many layers had been ruined.
She let out a “ha,” not caring about the consequences, immediately dipped the brush in paint and went to paint the cat’s fur. Yu Ye jumped up and down in the study trying to escape, but still couldn’t escape Xu Jiao’s skills, being pressed to the ground and painted with two big eye circles using the pigment.
Xu Jiao said to her in a devilish voice: “I can’t bully Yu Ye that bastard, but can’t I bully a cat like you?”
“Meow? What meow, behave yourself, from now on you’ll have to live watching my mood, be good, honestly try to please me, only then will you have meat to eat tonight, understand?”
“Not convinced? If you’re not convinced, when will you grow up a bit and pin me down to paint me back? But I estimate you probably won’t have that day, right?”
Yu Ye was trembling with anger all over.
She glared fiercely at Xu Jiao with her blue eyes, but was thinking that when she turned back, she would definitely teach Xu Jiao a lesson!
She wanted to strip this hateful Crown Prince naked, then use this pigment to paint every inch of her body!
Yu Ye thought about that scene, and as she thought, she saw Xu Jiao’s chest, slightly loosened by her paw’s struggle, and the slightly lowered neckline, inside was snow-white skin.
At some point, the girl had grown up gracefully, nurtured by her to be both delicate and fair.
Thinking of the red plum blossom Xu Jiao had painted earlier, using red pigment to dot that small flower.
If painting a red plum blossom on her body…
Perhaps she could paint two fewer flower stamens.
After all, there were naturally occurring ones.
At this thought, the white cat that had been struggling strangely stopped moving—
The next instant.
She quietly turned her head away, closing her eyes, making a gesture of resignation.
Xu Jiao saw her looking like she had given up on life, thinking she was angry, so she casually stroked her fur, comforting her in passing: “Alright, I won’t paint anymore. Later I’ll help you take a bath, wash you clean, okay?”
Yu Ye: “!”
Bath!
The cat that had stopped struggling now had its pointed ears instantly turn red, turning its head to stare at Xu Jiao in disbelief, then used unprecedented agility to dart out of her arms!
This Crown Prince! How did she grow up to be such a hooligan!
Bro Yu Ye watch your dirty mind😭😭