Feng Guang tilted his head and asked, "Why aren't you saying anything?"
"Aren't you afraid?" Si Jia whispered. "Maybe I'm a wicked person."
“You’re not, I just know you’re not.” Feng Guang chuckled, changed his position, looked directly at the full moon above, clasped his hands behind his back, and smiled softly: “The moon is really beautiful tonight.”
Si Jia suddenly asked, "What is your wish?"
"A wish? Does wanting to leave the palace count?" Her eyes reflected the moonlight, and seemed to sparkle like stars.
He said, "Life outside the palace is not the same as life inside the palace."
Therefore, she had no need to be curious about life outside the palace.
"I know life outside the palace is different from life outside the palace, but I just want to go out and see it. By the way, why don't you take me out with you?" She took a step closer to him, tilted her delicate face up and stared intently at him.
Sijia couldn't help but take a step back. "The princess leaving the palace is a major event."
She took another step closer. "But it's also a big deal that you just tied me up."
"It's a necessity," he said, taking another step back.
Feng Guang smiled knowingly and continued to approach as if it were the most natural thing in the world. "Then just pretend you're forced to do this. Taking me out is easy for you, isn't it? You're so capable, the Imperial Guards haven't even followed us yet."
"Your Highness..."
"Hey, don't back down!" She grabbed his hand and said playfully, "If you back down any further, you'll fall. You're so pretty, you can't hurt your face."
Si Jia then realized that he was standing on the edge of the roof. He looked at his hand, which she was holding, and remained silent for a moment before pulling his hand away and asking calmly, "Is your wish really just to leave the palace?"
"More real than pearls!" she blinked her bright, sparkling eyes.
"Alright, I'll take you out of the palace."
Her face lit up with excitement, "That's great!"
"But there are only three days."
"Oh? Only three days..." The girl, who had just been excited, now felt down, but quickly she said happily, "Three days is good too!"
Despite Feng Guang's lovely smile, Si Jia's cold expression remained unchanged. He gripped his sword tightly; it was only a matter of three days...
That very night, Princess Changning, the most precious treasure in the palace, disappeared, while in the bustling city outside the palace gates, an ordinary young lady from a wealthy merchant family appeared.
Hmm... This is what Si Jia told her. Her noble air doesn't seem like that of a commoner's daughter. In order to dispel other people's doubts, we can only say that she is the daughter of a merchant family in Jiangnan.
At this moment, Feng Guang and Si Jia were sitting in a carriage leaving the city. The carriage was used by a farmer living in a village outside the city to transport goods, so it was not the kind of expensive carriage with doors and windows, but a simple... open-top carriage.
This is how the scenery is defined. She lay on the haystack, looking at the stars in the sky, and breathed a sigh of relief. Then, she turned to the side and carefully looked at the man sitting upright next to her, pretending to be asleep with his eyes closed. She stared at him aimlessly for a long time.
"Why aren't you asleep yet?" Si Jia finally opened his eyes and looked at her. Her gaze was so intense that even if he was completely focused, he could still sense it.
Her hair was simply tied up with a red ribbon. Because she was lying down, her black hair and the red ribbon fell around her neck and ears, making her face look even whiter. She chuckled, revealing two cute dimples. "I'm too excited to sleep."
So that's why she's been staring at him for so long?
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