Chapter 2 Meeting the Princess
After Xiao Ning had recovered from his injury for a few days and his voice had just recovered, he sent someone to deliver a visiting card to Princess Duanhui.
"Sir, the princess's residence replied... saying that the princess and her husband will be married in a few days, and it would be unlucky to meet before the wedding."
The servant Chunsheng stood beside Xiao Ning with a hunched back and answered.
The rumored domineering and eccentric Princess Duanhui doesn't seem to care about good or bad luck.
He probably just didn't want to see her.
Yes, such a good princess was married to a famous playboy in Shengjing City, who was also a homosexual. She would be angry too.
But then again, even if the emperor was pretending, he couldn't have promised the princess to the original owner. The original owner had a terrible reputation in Shengjing. Even if the princess's body had been seen, even if her reputation wasn't particularly good, how could the royal family's dignity be easily violated? Especially since the emperor still doted on Princess Duanhui, it would have been reasonable to severely punish the original owner, but the emperor had granted the marriage.
Xiao Ning was puzzled.
She waved her hand, signaling Chunsheng to go down first.
Chunsheng had just left the room when Xiao Ning called him in again, "Chunsheng, come here and do me a favor."
"Please give your orders, my lord."
Soon, Xiao Ning, wearing Chunsheng's clothes, lowered his head and avoided people, walked out of Zhengdeju, and came to a remote and abandoned corner.
Looking at the inconspicuous dog hole in the corner of the wall, Xiao Ning sighed, squatted down and crawled out as if resigned to his fate.
With the original owner's memories, she quickly arrived at Princess Duanhui's residence.
There is a vermilion lacquered gate with several guards standing at the door and a pair of stone lions standing at the steps, which looks very majestic.
Xiao Ning went up the stairs, bowed to the guard at the door, and said politely, "Young man, could you please tell me that the Marquis of Jingyuan, Xiao Ning, has an important matter to present to Her Royal Highness the Princess?"
The guard looked at her twice, then turned and went inside to pass the message.
A moment later, he and Princess Minghui's personal maid, Furong, came out together. The maid leaned towards Xiao Ning and said with a smile, "Prince Xiao, just now, when the servant from your mansion came to hand over the wedding card, the princess made it very clear that it was not appropriate to meet before the wedding."
Xiao Ning said, "I really have something important to discuss with the princess."
"If the prince really has something urgent to say, please tell this servant and I will tell the princess."
Xiao Ning: “…”
It seems that Princess Duanhui is determined not to see her.
Xiao Ning exhaled and bowed to Furong: "It's nothing serious, aunt, you can go and do your work."
Furong looked at Xiao Ning and said with a smile, "I've always heard that Prince Xiao was a playboy, but I didn't expect that after meeting him today, he is such a gentle and refined gentleman."
Xiao Ning's heart trembled when he heard this.
She had been staying in the mansion to recuperate these days and had forgotten about the original owner's playboy personality. Fortunately, no one in the mansion cared about her except for a few servants around her, and the original owner was very kind to the servants around her. For a while, no one noticed that Xiao Ning had already changed her inner self.
Xiao Ning laughed heartily, a hint of arrogance revealed between his eyebrows, and he looked quite pleased with himself: "Auntie is still a good judge of taste!"
Furong smiled and bowed, "Since Master Xiao is alright, I will take my leave first."
The vermilion door closed again.
Xiao Ning walked around the wall of the princess's mansion. Willow branches swayed in the wind and gently stroked her face. Xiao Ning grabbed the willow branch, casually plucked off a leaf, and put it in his mouth. He thought to himself, as a playboy, it would be more in line with his character to turn around and leave after being rejected, or it would be more in line with his character to climb over the wall and go in.
In the end, Xiao Ning decided to climb over the wall.
She chose a secluded corner, took a few running steps, jumped onto the wall, and easily climbed into the yard.
After landing, he rolled neatly to relieve most of the force. Xiao Ning patted the dust on his hands and was about to get up when suddenly a pair of satin shoes with red soles and gold embroidery appeared in front of him. The shoe surface was inlaid with pearls the size of fingernails.
The fiery red skirt swayed slightly, covering the pearls on the shoe surface, leaving only a petal of peony embroidered with gold thread.
She slowly raised her head along the hem of her skirt. She was a slender and graceful woman with very fair skin and beautiful features, especially her eyes, which looked as if someone had crushed stars and scattered them in them, sparkling and clear.
Xiao Ning's eyes were filled with unstoppable amazement.
Although she had seen Princess Duanhui in the original owner's memory, it was still just a passing fancy. She didn't expect that Princess Duanhui in reality would be so beautiful.
Shang Xi lowered her eyebrows and looked at her. Seeing Xiao Ning staring at her, her brows furrowed. "Look at me again and I'll have your eyes gouged out!"
The voice was cold, with a certain androgynous beauty that was very pleasant to the ear.
Xiao Ning came back to his senses, propped himself up on his knees and stood up. He bowed to Shang Xi and smiled a smile that he thought was suave but was actually a bit greasy. "It's because Your Highness is so beautiful that I lost my mind for a moment."
Shang Xi's gaze on her was cold and dangerous, "Don't you like men?"
Xiao Ning admitted generously: "Yes, I like men. So... Princess, do you really not mind this marriage?"
When he said the latter sentence, a hint of uneasiness and nervousness appeared in his eyes.
Shang Xi smiled. "It's a great honor for His Majesty to grant me this marriage. Could it be that Prince Xiao is dissatisfied with His Majesty's arrangement?"
"Thunder, rain, and dew are all grace from the king. I have no complaints, but I feel it's not worth it for the princess."
"Is it not worth it for me?" Shang Xi walked up to Xiao Ning and patted Xiao Ning's shoulder with the round fan in his hand, smiling: "What on earth is Master Xiao thinking?"
Xiao Ning seemed a little anxious, with sweat on his forehead. "Princess, princess, you are a rare talent, you should be paired with the best man in the world. I, I, am not worthy of you!"
Shang Xi waved her round fan gently, her posture elegant. "I think they are a good match."
Xiao Ning really couldn't figure out Princess Duanhui's thoughts.
Logically speaking, any normal woman would not be disgusted by the fact that her soon-to-be-married husband is a playboy, useless and a homosexual, let alone the high and mighty Princess.
But after she said so much, the princess didn't show any sign of being angry.
Strange, so strange!
However, Xiao Ning was not discouraged. She sighed and continued her performance: "Princess, you are so wise and righteous. I, your minister..."
Xiao Ning clenched his fists, closed his eyes, and steeled his heart. He said loudly, "To be honest, I'm different from those men who have numerous wives and concubines and keep male prostitutes. I'm only interested in male beauty and have no interest in women. Even using drugs to arouse me is difficult... ahem, besides, I, this troublemaker, really, really dare not touch the princess's body..."
After she finished speaking, she staggered back two steps, leaning against the wall and gasping for breath, as if these words had exhausted all her strength and revealed all her shame.
The elegant and calm expression on Princess Duanhui's face from beginning to end finally cracked.
She squinted her eyes and looked at Xiao Ning for a while, her round fan half covering her face, and she laughed softly, "Prince Xiao is really a man of temperament. If he is worried..."
His frivolous and disdainful eyes traced between Xiao Ning's legs. "I have countless concubines. There are people who will do this for you, Master Xiao. You don't need to worry about it."
Such a look on a man was undoubtedly extremely disrespectful. Xiao Ning felt that her dignity as a man was insulted - even though her character was set up to be impotent towards women.
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