Chapter 548 - BONUS CHAPTER 2 (1/2)

The snow had fallen since last night and despite today was a shiny day, the wind was still cold.

An eight years old little girl was holding his father hand tightly while her other hand tried to secure the white fur cloak around her.

She didn't like winter as she would be easily got sick. When the wind blew on her face, she sneezed twice, before her mother picked her up and wiped her snot with brown handkerchief with named 'Qi' embedded on it.

Today was the first day the little girl entered the palace, her father had just been promoted as government officer Qi, as today there was a banquet to celebrate the Emperor's nephew birthday, the young Prince Xiao Wu Xie.

She was dressed prettily, but she still didn't like to be outside in the snowy days like this. She wanted to be in her comfortable room.

Once the three of them entered the banquet hall, both of her parents need to sit on their respective seat while Qianru needed to sit together with other officers' son and daughter who were around her age.

The little girl sat there timidly, not comfortable with her surroundings. When the loud and dignify voice of Azura's Emperor echoed inside the room, Qianru lifted her head and there, the little girl saw him for the first time.

He was scolding his little brother beside him who was frowning with annoyance. Qianru didn't know what they were arguing about, but the sight made her smile.

'It is good to have big brother' that's what all she thought at that time. At least, she has someone to talk to at time like this.

Probably, the young boy felt someone was looking at his direction when he looked at Qianru who was stunned and abruptly averted her gaze.

It wasn't appropriate to look intently at the royal family like that, thus the little girl lower her head and didn't dare to look at the platform in front of her again throughout the event, even when the party moved to the yard, she sat and ate obediently on the bench.

Later on, when the event had done and all the people were ready to leave, the little Qianru got lost when she was about to find her parents.

Her little step frantically ran around the empty corridor. She was too afraid to ask the guard as their faces were very stern.

At that time, she heard a voice of young boy. If it was someone around her age, she wouldn't be very timid. Thus, she followed the source of the voice and found him.

”Who is there?” The same boy who was scolding his brother earlier caught a sight of her.

He was standing in front of his brother who looked younger than Qianru.

”Oh, I saw you before.” He exclaimed, ”What are you doing here?”

”I got lost…” Qianru said timidly.

He crossed his arms and looked at her up and down, before he said. ”Come here.” He waved his hand. ”I will help you find your parents if you help me first.”

Qianru looked at him and walked over without slightest suspicion. ”What can I do to help?”

”I have been teaching my little brother martial arts, but he still didn't understand my point. I will practice with you, so my brother can see the movement clearly.”

”But I don't know how…” Qianru froze, she had never been taught anything about martial arts.

”It's alright, you just need to do what I said.” He smiled smugly while his little brother squatted down uninterested. ”If I say 'raise your hand' you have to raise your hand like this.” He gave her an example.

Qianru nodded warily.

”Okay, I will start now.” He took a step back. ”Tianyao, stand up and watch this!”

Xiao Tianyao reluctantly stood up and looked at his brother. ”Jun, you look like you are bullying her.”

”I told you to call me brother.” Xiao Jun grumbled and then his face turned serious. ”I will start now.”

Looking at how serious Xiao Jun became, Qianru gulp hard and regretted her decision to help. ”Can I …” Before she could finish her words, Xiao Jun had charged toward her while yelling.

”Raise your hand!”

Instead of raising her hand, the frightened little girl squatted down and threw her arms over her head while screaming, as a result, Xiao Jun's kick landed on her shoulder that knocked her down quite hard.

Xiao Jun was still ten years old and he just started to learn martial arts, so his agility didn't develop yet.

The kick was stunned the three of them.