Chapter 4 (2/2)
The Heavenly Clouds Divine Realm, what a magical and magnificent world, how nice would it be if you could take a trip there. Li Luyou ate a few mouthfuls of fried rice. He saw the lights next door brighten, then go out. It flashed a few dozen times like this, and then the lights didn’t brighten again anymore.
”Pa…Pa…”
That seemed like the sound of something smas.h.i.+ng on the plastic switch. Li Luyou hurriedly ran to the living room and knocked on the door.
The door opened. Annan Xiu’s room was a patch of darkness. The little girl walked out with a face full of unhappiness, a huge gem in her hands. Li Luyou guessed she had been pounding on the plastic switch with this huge gem.
A grumpy little girl. There was an additional layer to Li Luyou’s impression of her. She had no knowledge about things like electric currents and electric lights, that was why a problem had arisen. Her way of solving it on her own was actually to grab something and smash it… Li Luyou thought by a.s.sociation that if he did something wrong in the future, she probably wouldn’t also take such a huge gem to pound him, right? That would be pretty good…
”What are you doing…” Li Luyou stepped back a little. She walked out from the shadows. The Imperial Highness in front of him had changed out of that gorgeously extravagant palace clothes and long skirt, trading it for a comparatively much simpler plain white girdled dress. The swaying hem of her skirt made her waist appear even more slender. The uncovered collarbone was tender and delicate while the shoulders emitted a mellow gloss. She didn’t have much of a young maiden’s nimble curves, but she radiated a kind of soft and lovable freshness with that long hair hanging loose and gently swaying in the background.
She originally looked like a doll in a cupboard, seemingly separated by a layer of gla.s.s as people witnessed her dazzling appearance, but now she looked like the little teddy bear quietly lying on the sofa in your own house, seeming to wait for its master to hug it into their arms. Very small, very frail, very pitiful.
Li Luyou was very curious where she got this dress from. She hadn’t taken anything earlier when she’d gone inside the room. Could it be a trend on the Heavenly Clouds Divine Realm to wear several dresses stacked at the same time? That wasn’t impossible actually.
Annan Xiu said as if nothing happened, ”That lamp doesn’t want to light up anymore.”
Li Luyou looked at the switch. Several scars had been smashed out of it. He pressed it. It was probably a broken bulb. He sighed and said, ”Only children two or three years old would play at pus.h.i.+ng the lamp switch on and off without getting bored. Flas.h.i.+ng the light on and off is very fresh for them, also very fun.”
Annan Xiu glared at Li Luyou, her fair cheeks faintly red with heat. ”As if I’m interested in turning the lights on and off… There’s nothing interesting about aboriginal things.”
”I have to go buy light bulbs… I still need to buy a few daily necessities for you, you want to come along?” Li Luyou didn’t pay attention to her words that didn’t follow her thoughts. It was the same as his heart itching with curiosity toward those so-called divine spells of Annan Xiu’s. It would be weird if she didn’t have any interest for those things she couldn’t understand.
Annan Xiu thought a bit and nodded. ”Then I’ll go change into my regular clothes.”
Li Luyou could only wait. She walked out after a while, having very mysteriously changed into a set of palace clothes with slightly less complicated decorations. The ribbon wasn’t there, those complicated mysterious runes weren’t there, but it was gorgeous and exquisite all the same, dragging down on the floor all the same.
”Better you just dress up like earlier.”
”But that was my nightgown.” Annan Xiu looked at Li Luyou with dissatisfaction. ”It seems like I have to carefully teach you court etiquette. You actually planned to let a princess randomly stroll everywhere in a nightgown. As an attendant, it is your duty to point things out when you see the princess words and bearing not conforming to proper etiquette. You can absolute not offer any preposterous suggestion that would be harmful to the image of a princess.”
”Then I’ll go alone.” Li Luyou wasn’t one to buy that. He wouldn’t sink so deeply into the role of an attendant.
The little girl stood in the doorway, coldly watching Li Luyou, her hands tightly gripping the gem. Li Luyou could only hurry to explain out of fear she would smash him with the gem until he caved in, just like she’d smashed the switch: ”Just listen to me if you don’t want people to keep staring at you.”
Only then did Annan Xiu go back into the room to change her dress. Compared to the issue between nightgown and regular clothes, being encircled and stared at was obviously an even greater provocation to Her Imperial Highness’ prestige and dignity.
Li Luyou was very satisfied. It was fortunate this Imperial Highness wasn’t like the ones you couldn’t communicate with like in those TV series and movies.
The street shrouded by the colors of the night still emitted a roasting hot atmosphere. Annan Xiu wore a white dress and small soft flat shoes as she walked behind Li Luyou. Annan Xiu’s wrinkled brows never loosened as she watched Li Luyou looking east and west in his t-s.h.i.+rt and shorts.
She didn’t require him to have the martial might to cleave open a mountain with a strike of the sword. But smooth hair, a neat look, clothes without a thread loose, a stature straight as a ramrod, a steady and earnest expression, slow and staunch footsteps, as well as constantly maintaining a reserved but polite smile, only this could describe a qualified attendant. Annan Xiu shook her head. He was the first attendant in her life she’d personally chosen, but there was no way to hold too much hope for him.
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