After having its "lunch" on New Year's Day, the bird took a nap on the windowsill. The warm sunlight fell on the bird's pink feathers, as if it were coated with a layer of gold dust.
Green Sprout was dozing off on the tatami mat when the door suddenly creaked open, startling her awake.
Upon opening her eyes and seeing Xiao Changqi, who was still in his court robes, walk in, Lüya quickly curtsied and greeted him: "Your Highness."
Xiao Changqi nodded slightly, his gaze falling on the little pink ball on the windowsill, his brows furrowing slightly: "How long has Yuanyuan been asleep?"
Green Sprout replied respectfully, "No more than half an hour."
Yuan Qing squeezed in and looked around: "Your Highness, where is your pet bird?"
Xiao Changqi glanced at him sideways, said nothing, and walked straight to the window, reaching out to lift up the chubby little bird that was showing signs of waking up.
Yuan Qing stepped forward, bent down to look at the little bird in Xiao Changqi's hand that was as fat as a ball, and his expression was really hard to describe: "Your Highness, isn't this bird you're raising a bit... too fat?"
When I was half asleep on New Year's Day, I kept hearing people talking in my ear.
She opened her sleepy little eyes with displeasure and looked at Yuan Qing's handsome and dashing face with a longing gaze.
"Chirp?"
Who are you?
The wistful look in Yuandan's eyes turned into confusion the moment she saw a stranger.
Xiao Changqi patted the silly little bird's head and said in a deep voice, "He is Yuandan's older brother."
New Year:"?"
How could she hear the tyrant's voice?
Yuan Dan turned around abruptly, and as soon as he raised his head, he met a pair of dark and deep phoenix eyes.
New Year's Day: "Chirp chirp."
When did you get back?
"Your Highness, the bird you keep is not only fat, but it also doesn't seem very smart," Yuan Qing concluded after observing it for a while.
New Year:"……"
Yuan Dan slowly turned his head, his gaze shooting towards Yuan Qing like a sharp blade—
What did you just say?
Yuan Qing raised an eyebrow: "What? You're so fat, but you won't let others say that?"
New Year's Day: "Chirp!"
Xiao Changqi swiftly stopped the little bird that was about to pounce on Yuan Qing in anger, and his cool gaze lightly swept over Yuan Qing: "Don't bother seeing me out."
Yuan Qing: "..."
Your Highness, you have truly been bewitched by this little bird.
He's been here for less than half an incense stick's time.
"Chirp chirp." Yuan Dan patted Xiao Changqi's wrist, indicating that he should touch the ahoge (cowlick) on his head.
Xiao Changqi knowingly grabbed the little bird's tuft of feathers, and then heard an anxious female voice: "We can't let him leave yet, I want to see his sister."
Yuan Qing didn't know what Xiao Changqi was doing with that chubby little bird, but he could clearly feel a chill run down his spine, and even the temperature around him seemed to drop several degrees.
Yuan Qing: "..."
Could it be that this little bird is complaining to the prince?
But he couldn't understand what the chubby little bird was saying. Could the prince understand it?
And the little chubby bird looks really stupid, does it even know what it's saying?
"I will go with you to the Prime Minister's residence later," Xiao Changqi suddenly said in a cold voice.
Yuan Qing asked in confusion, "Do you need to see your grandfather?"
"To visit your sister."
Yuan Qing: "?"
"Your Highness, I didn't hear you clearly just now. Could you please say it again?" Yuan Qing said with a serious expression.
Xiao Changqi said indifferently, "I saved Yuanyuan on New Year's Day."
"Yuanyuan?" Yuan Qing was puzzled for only half a second before realizing what was going on. "You mean, Yuanyuan once saved this little chubby bird you were raising?"
On New Year's Day, she gritted her teeth in anger, her green bean eyes wide open as she glared at him.
Try criticizing my figure again?
Xiao Changqi soothed her immediately, and his deep, magnetic voice slowly rang out from above: "Yuanyuan isn't fat."
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