Di Jingling grew increasingly furious as he listened.
What did she say?
He bit her, and she actually thought he was dirty?
The man, growing angrier as he listened, grabbed the back of her head and bit her hard again.
The hot pot flavor is strong.
Ruyi, who was staring in disbelief, smashed the bowl in her hand on the ground with a thud.
Yan Jiu wore a shocked expression, as if he had never seen anything like it before.
Xiao Tang was bitten twice, which made her angry.
[Since we're already doing this much, let's just finish the rest of the hugging and lifting-up tasks at the same time!]
[As long as I act fast enough, the villainous dog can't keep up with my thought process!]
Thinking of this, she generously threw down the bowl in her hand and threw herself into the man's arms, secretly using a bit of force to lift him up!
[Wow, the villain is so heavy.]
Now, Yan Jiu and Ru Yi weren't just dumbfounded, they were completely petrified!
The air suddenly became eerily still, and it seemed as if crows were cawing overhead.
The man being lifted high by a woman had a livid face.
Xiao Tang completed the mission, and the system's cold notification sounded in his mind: [Congratulations, host, mission complete. Reward: one 'Lone Shadow Grass' for preparing the antidote.]
Xiao Tang: (⊙_⊙)?
What? That's it?
She risked her life to complete this three-piece task, and all she got in return was a single blade of grass?
To be honest, preparing the antidote requires a total of twenty ingredients; the system tricked her!
I thought this aloof system would remain silent, but to my surprise, it offered an explanation: "Host, you should know that this Lonely Shadow Grass is worth a hundred taels of silver, and you certainly don't have that much silver to buy it."
The implication is that exchanging ten points for a herb worth a hundred taels of silver is already a very good deal.
Xiao Tang gritted her teeth.
[You dog system, you've got guts!]
Despite her cursing, she could still manage a smile when facing Di Jingling, whose face was now ashen.
You can't hit someone who's smiling at you; you can't do anything to me, you scoundrel.
She was indeed smiling, a radiant smile.
The man's thin lips pressed into a cold arc: "Put me down."
At this moment, Xiao Tang seemed to suddenly realize that she had been holding the man high up for so long, and her arms were so sore.
Setting the man down, she winked seductively and said tenderly, "My lord, did I do a good job?"
The man who should have killed her held back his words of reproach.
Considering that she had prepared the antidote for him, he no longer held her rude behavior against her.
"Clean up and go back to your Qingxin Courtyard."
With those words spoken coldly, the man finally strode away.
Xiao Tang glanced at the hot pot, which still contained more than half of the ingredients, and smacked her lips. "Come on, Ruyi, let's take the pot back to eat."
Ruyi was both amused and exasperated.
She admired the princess... She was so scared she almost lost her soul, yet the princess still had the appetite to eat!
Upon returning to his study, Di Jingling accepted a brocade handkerchief handed to him by Yan Jiu.
The man wiped the hot pot oil stains from the corners of his mouth, but as he did so, he suddenly found the hot pot quite delicious.
"Your Highness, would you like to take a bath and change your clothes?"
Yan Jiu's reminder made the man suddenly lower his eyes to look at his black robe.
The black robe was also stained with Xiao Tang's masterpiece of hot pot oil.
Yan Jiu knew that the Regent had an extremely severe obsession with cleanliness.
In the past, the Regent would find such oily, spicy, and numbing foods too offensive to even look at, let alone put them in his mouth.
But to my utter surprise...
He actually agreed to kiss that oil-stained princess?
That's incredible.
Could it be that the Regent has truly taken an interest in this mentally challenged young lady sent by the Duke of Xiao?
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
