She was complaining incessantly when suddenly, the Fifth Prince trotted into the courtyard of Kunning Palace.

"His Highness the Fifth Prince is here. Is there anything I can do for you?" asked the palace maid who was in charge of taking care of Xia Miaoyuan.

"I'm here to see my sister. There's no need to inform the Queen." The fifth prince went straight to Xia Miaoyuan.

【Hey, isn't this a little fool? 】

Fifth Prince: I'm your lovely fifth brother, okay? I'm not stupid. Can you please stop calling me a little fool?

"Look, sister, what did I bring you?" The fifth prince took out two skewers of lamb from behind his back in a mysterious manner.

【Ahhhhh…it’s meat, it’s lamb skewers!】

Xia Miaoyuan hadn't tasted meat for several months since she turned into a princess. Now, when she saw the greasy and fragrant lamb skewers, her mouth instantly watered.

She immediately sat up, supporting herself with one hand on the rattan mat, and stretched forward with the other hand to reach the lamb skewers in the fifth prince's hand.

"Fifth Prince, you can't do that!" The palace maid was so frightened when she saw this that her face turned pale and she cried out in shock.

"The princess is still too young, we can't let her eat this..." The maid reached out to stop her.

"It's okay, just give her a taste!" The fifth prince dodged the palace maid.

"Chengshun! What are you doing!?" Suddenly, a deep male voice came.

This was followed by a burst of messy footsteps.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw Xia Zhengqi walking hurriedly towards the rattan mat.

The palace maids and eunuchs present hurriedly saluted Xia Zhengqi.

The maid in charge of looking after the little princess reported swiftly, "I was watching over the little princess in the courtyard while she was enjoying the cool breeze. Just now, the fifth prince came to play with her and suddenly brought out some mutton skewers..."

"He wanted to feed it to the little princess, but I stopped him..." The palace maid said the latter part, but stopped herself from saying anything else.

Xia Zhengqi's eyebrows knitted up instantly, and he shouted sternly: "You kid, you actually want to give Miao'er mutton skewers!"