When had Hua Xiao ever seen this vicious woman so humiliated? She was even slapped in the face like this, yet she could only vent her anger on the maids here.
She was arrogant and domineering in the Princess's mansion, but in the palace, she was just a concubine-born princess. What was she anyway?
Hua Xiao's smile was distorted.
The young palace maid following Hua Xiao felt uneasy seeing Hua Xiao's expression and whispered a reminder, "Miss Xiao, we've been out for quite a while now. Qinghua Tower should have already served the meal..."
The maid's voice suddenly brought her to her senses. The moment she looked down, she turned back to look at the maid, and there she was again—that gentle and frail little girl.
"I...I'm not hungry. The princess is over there. I'm scared..." Hua Xiao clutched her handkerchief, lowered her head, and took two steps back tremblingly before running towards the Shouci Palace. "Let's go find the little princess. I don't dare go back."
"Eh eh..." The little palace maid was dumbfounded. She didn't expect Hua Xiao to suddenly run back. It was too late to stop her.
She could only hurry after her, calling out softly from behind, "Miss Xiao! Miss Xiao, now that the Empress Dowager's Shouci Palace is full of masters, it's not appropriate for you to go there. Let's go back to Qinghua Tower for our meal."
The maid's words made Hua Xiao stop in her tracks, lower her head and stand still. The maid who followed saw the girl with her head down, as if she had melted into the shadows under the trees at dusk, making her look particularly sinister.
The young palace maid suddenly felt afraid and didn't dare to approach her for a moment, looking nervously at the girl with her head down.
The next moment, Hua Xiao suddenly raised her head and looked straight ahead through the gaps in the tree branches.
It was Huo Chengche and his group of little ones. The little one was whimpering and trying to pounce on the eunuch holding the food box, but Huo Chengche picked him up and ordered the eunuch to take the food box away.
Huo Chengche gently patted the little dumpling's chubby bottom and said in a deep voice, "How can Niannian eat other people's food? Didn't Niannian promise Crown Prince that she would only eat food given by Crown Prince, except for Sister Zhuangyou, the wet nurse, and Fifth Brother, and not food given by others?"
The little dumpling pouted and snuggled against his older brother's neck, then nestled against his shoulder, pretending to be dead, looking like a little bear who "knows his mistake but won't admit it."
Huo Chengche patted her little bottom with a headache, and in the end could only sigh helplessly, realizing she had no bottom line.
Hua Xiao stood in the shadows under the tree, watching this scene. Her expression was hidden in the dappled shadows, making her look sinister and unpredictable.
Huo Chengche, carrying the little boy, naturally took the main road, while Hua Xiao came from a side path and easily caught up with them.
The next moment, the little boy turned his head and looked directly at Hua Xiao, who was hiding in the shade of the tree.
The little boy met Hua Xiao's dark and eerie eyes. His usually smiling face was now expressionless as he stared straight at her, his face dappled with shadows, like a strange doll in the shadows, staring at her gloomily.
The little boy didn't recognize Hua Xiao at first, which startled him so much that he cried out "Wah!" and whimpered as he burrowed into his older brother's arms, bursting into tears.
"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, Niannian will never lie again! Waaaaah, someone's coming to catch the lying baby! Prince brother, save Niannian, waaaaah..."
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