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'Little Princess… The youngest daughter of the Xuanji Empress? A princess, huh.'

'The legendary prince in the Five Regions Continent… it's him?'

'It seems this princess is interested in him? Then again, he's a rather handsome lad and is very intelligent too. Which girl wouldn't? With his age, he would be able to get engaged since they get married early in the Five Regions Continent,' she thought to herself.

As she was lost in her thoughts, she realized that her surroundings were completely silent. Then, she looked down, and to her utter shock, she had not properly kept the Xuanji Diagram. Half the diagram had slipped away and landed on the cupboard, while the other half had landed on the floor.

Her mind went blank as her heart quickened. Unsure whether the little princess had seen the diagram, she was torn between picking it up or leaving it there. But if the princess was quiet because her eyes were on this diagram, wouldn't she expose herself?

Before she could come to a decision, the doors to the cupboard opened.

It was so sudden that she did not even notice any footsteps. After the initial blindness that the sudden brightness caused, she could see that in front of her was a red and gold dress with layers of hibiscus embroidered on to it, embellished with countless of pearls.

She heard a quiet ”eh” before a small snow-white hand reached in, forcibly grabbing her chin up.

She stared into a pair of eyes.

Those eyes were not a boring black but mixed with a tinge of brown. In those eyes, it was as though there was a horizon, or perhaps, it was the shimmer of star light-years away that she was seeing. Those eyes were quietly profound, yet its gaze seemed to flicker as it landed on her.

Alluring eyes laced with a perplexing glint, it contained nothing of a youthful innocence or loneliness. Rather, those eyes resembled an abyss, an unfathomable abyss.

Lifting her chin in a rather derogatory manner, that little princess questioned her in a hubristic, authoritative manner, ”Who are you?”

This time, she knew she wouldn't be fooling anyone. She remained silent and turned away.

But that little princess probed no further as the princess looked her up and down. Surveying the surroundings, the realization hit the princess. ”Very well, very well.” The princess laughed coldly as she nodded.

Then, the princess' gaze landed on that half a piece of Xuanji diagram. Immediately, her face changed. She perused the diagram once more, again and again, and then, closed her eyes. Then, she lunged forward to grab that diagram.

Anxiously, she snatched the diagram over. Her long nails slit across the skinny girl's hands leaving bloody streaks of red.

Unbothered, the skinny girl quickly stuffed the diagram into her dress.

The skinny girl was caught by surprise. She never expected the princess would try to snatch that. The princess' eyes focused on her. Those initially calm and peaceful eyes were completely replaced with a tinge of wrath that even the skinny girl with the 22-year-old soul feared.

Then, that princess laughed.

Her laugh did not reach her cold eyes. Suddenly, the princess flung her sleeves and brushed past the girl's face.

”What's this?” She laughed inimically. ”He wrote it? No wonder someone said he was here, but he wasn't? He saw you, didn't he? He saw you, didn't he?”

She repeated the last sentence twice. The second time, her tone was icy cold as if lying on a block of ice.

”You? Just you?” She inspected the girl in the cupboard in a blatant, unrespectful manner. The corner of her lips twitched contemptuously, mixed with the fury of being defeated by this unseeming, disheveled girl. Then, she laughed.

The laugh was gentle, with hints of pity in it. ”I guess I wouldn't have to search for that diagram from you, it's way too filthy,” she whispered tenderly.

The princess smiled as she closed the door, pulling out a lock from god knows where. The lock latched with a click and the moment darkness took over the girl's vision, she heard:

”You will obediently offer it to me yourself.”

The cupboard was locked. Between the gaps where the sparse amount of light entered, a rainbow was reflected momentarily from that princess' lavish dress. And then, it slowly disappeared. That prideful princess no longer said anything and actually left.

She heaved a sigh of relief. Hugging her knees, she continued waiting quietly in the darkness.

That little princess was definitely up to no good, but even so, the girl was powerless and could only wait in the darkness for the unknown fate to descend upon her.

'I hope he comes, I hope he comes…'

Footsteps resounded once more from outside. This time, she did not move. She could tell it was her mother's anxious footsteps.

Aside from her mother's footsteps, she could hear another's. It was so familiar, so hateful!

She began to tremble as she felt the hot and the cold alternately prickling against her skin, grinding against her skin like coarse sand to the point where her skin seemed to split apart.

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She could hear the muffled conversations from outside.

”… Her Highness has called for me. I'm already off duty, so I wonder what is wrong. Eunuch Lu… Sorry to trouble you…”