"Okay!" The little dumpling agreed without thinking. She buried her head in the boy's arms, rolled her soft little body into his embrace, found a comfortable spot, smacked her lips, and went back to sleep peacefully and comfortably.
Before long, the little baby started purring sweetly, her pink little mouth opening and closing, her sleeping face rosy and tender, utterly adorable.
The boy held the warm, soft little bundle of flesh in his arms, and his heart seemed to gradually settle down. With such a warm little baby in his bed, his huge Eastern Palace was never lonely.
The boy closed his eyes and, unsurprisingly, heard the sounds outside. It was Jiang Nanny and Zhuang You who were charging in aggressively.
Tonight, the person on night watch in the main hall is Eunuch Fu Man, whom he had just promoted. Huo Chengche listened to the sounds outside and a satisfied smile appeared on his thin lips.
The boy closed his eyes to rest, gently patting the little girl's back with one hand to lull her into a deep sleep, while using the other hand to hold her little head against his chest, so that all she could hear in her dreams was the steady, powerful beat of his heart, with no other noise around her.
He remembered that she loved to fall asleep to the sound of his heartbeat.
The voices outside were still audible, and Nanny Jiang was practically driven mad by the eunuchs at Huo Chengche's place.
No matter what she said, whether it was gentle persuasion or force, the other person only smiled and said one thing:
His Highness has never gone out, and you have no evidence to prove that it was the Crown Prince who stole the little princess. The girl was lost at your Fifth Young Master's place; you should be questioning your Fifth Young Master, not disturbing his Highness's rest.
Jiang was so angry she almost wanted to barge in, but luckily Zhuangyou was good-tempered.
Seeing that things were going wrong, she quickly pulled the furious wet nurse Jiang aside and whispered, "Wet nurse, don't be impulsive. We really don't have any evidence. If we just barge in like this, what if that little prince hides our little princess? Then we'll lose our right to be in the right."
Jiang, the wet nurse, turned ashen-faced with rage. She flung Zhuang You's hand away, furious. "What are we going to do?! I've never seen such a shameless scoundrel! Prince, my foot! I think he's just a lecherous bastard!"
Zhuangyou didn't pull Jiang Nanny far away. Jiang Nanny was furious and didn't lower her voice. If it weren't for her deeply ingrained manners and etiquette, she probably would have pointed at Fuman's nose and cursed him.
Hearing Granny Jiang's furious words, Fu Man couldn't help but touch his nose and give a wry smile to himself.
Although he helped the Crown Prince fend off the wet nurse and the head maid, he felt from the bottom of his heart that what his Crown Prince had done was indeed unethical.
Zhuangyou glanced at Fuman's embarrassed expression behind her, and shook her head speechlessly, realizing what kind of image the young prince had in the eyes of his subordinates.
She pulled the wet nurse aside and whispered, "We have our pride, so naturally we can't argue with this little eunuch who's as thick-skinned as his master. When the Fifth Young Master arrives, let him deal with him. Anyway, even if we go in now, we probably won't be able to snatch the little princess back from that little prince."
"Fifth Young Master?" Upon hearing the name Fifth Young Master, Nanny Jiang became even angrier. "Now that we're in the capital without the Prince to keep an eye on him, who knows where he'll be running wild. Waiting for him? We'll probably have to wait until dawn!"
Zhuangyou smiled, "Don't worry, wet nurse, the Fifth Young Master will be here soon."
"Hmm?" Nanny Jiang looked at Zhuang You with a puzzled expression, but saw that the latter smiled without saying a word.
The next moment—
"ah--?!!"
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