Ninth Prince: "Really?"
Qi Qi: "Mmm!"
Ninth Prince: "After class, I asked Amu, and he didn't dare to hide it from me."
Qi Qi was shocked: "No, no, no, don't ask him. These are things that children shouldn't hear. They're very, um, very strange and terrible things."
The Ninth Prince already knew how to handle the chubby boy. He turned and walked away, but sure enough, after only a few steps, his hand was grabbed and he was pulled back to the stone bench.
"...I heard that the steward and concubine of Lord Chen's household were discovered having an affair, and the steward set fire to the house and fled..."
The Ninth Prince had thought he was about to reveal something shocking and disgusting, but it turned out to be just this? He couldn't help but glance at the chubby boy: "Is this strange?"
"ah?"
"It's not as bad as the last time I saw guards and palace maids having sex in the back garden under the open sky."
Qi Qi was greatly shocked, his eyes wide open. He felt that the calm Ninth Prince was quite something. Poor thing, at such a young age, would he suffer from psychological trauma? The rumors in the harem were indeed true!
Aren't you afraid?
The Ninth Prince sneered, "What's there to be afraid of? Later, I had them both dragged away..." He glanced at Qi Qi and said, "They were dragged away and punished with fifty strokes of the cane."
Qi Qi: "Hiss!"
There are many shady dealings in the palace, and the Emperor's ways are far more elaborate than this. The Ninth Prince is precocious and sensitive, and after being exposed to these kinds of things for a while, he understands them and finds them disgusting. Seeing that the little eunuch was not reacting, and thinking that he might be shocked, he said, "Alright, what's the big deal? It's not interesting at all. Are you hungry?"
Qi Qi also felt that it was better to avoid gossiping about colors, as it could negatively impact children's mental and physical well-being.
The swings in front of him were made to fit children's bodies. There were only two of them, woven from blue-dyed ropes. They looked fun. After asking the Ninth Prince, Qi Qi walked to the side, sat down, and took a few steps back to play by himself.
There was no girlish, silvery laughter; all Qi Qi could say was, "Wuhu!"
The Ninth Prince watched from the side, thinking he was incredibly stupid, and sneered twice.
"Your Highness, aren't you going to play?"
"You're being childish. Don't break the swing."
When Qi Qi was attacked about her weight, she instantly remembered her weight loss mission that she had forgotten about these past two days, shut her mouth, and stopped shaking.
Ninth Prince: "..."
She only said one sentence, then stopped responding.
After thinking for a moment, he stood up and walked closer, condescending to push the swing for Qi Qi: "Just kidding, you're not fat."
Qi Qi had been spending a lot of time with him these past few days and didn't think anything of it, so she asked, "Then why were you pushing so hard?"
"Your Highness, let's exercise together. Look, you're frail and I'm fat, it's hard for us to even walk, it's not good."
The Ninth Prince pushed hard: "Empty?"
Qi Qi flew up: "Yes, I'm watching you. You should eat well and sleep well to replenish your energy, and then we'll be able to run even faster than the Seventh Prince."
The Ninth Prince recalled how An Eleven had been pestering him for the past two days, wanting him to fly a couple more times, and reluctantly said, "Alright."
The two played for a few more minutes before heading back.
Teacher Nie continued lecturing diligently in the classroom, not even raising his head when the Ninth Prince returned.
Two minutes later, another boy returned from outside. He came through the back door, but instead of heading towards the pageboy, he went to the screen and stood in the last row by the window, closest to Qi Qi.
For some reason, Qi Qi saw the boy smile at him as he walked by.
Seeing Qi Qi glance at him, Amu said, "This is the son of the deposed Consort Li, the Fifth Prince."
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