"Fourth Prince, this servant deserves to die, this servant deserves to die..."
Before Li Tiao could react, another eunuch, who had also fallen due to her fall, was slapping himself in the face while kneeling and moving to Li Tiao's side.
At the same time, he rudely pulled Li Tiao off the Fourth Prince.
When she was dragged off the Fourth Prince in one fell swoop as if she were being pulled by some ominous thing, Li Tiao snapped out of her reverie.
She knelt there, trembling like a leaf, pleading, "Fourth Prince, spare me! Fourth Prince, spare me..."
The cries for mercy rose and fell, making Li Tiao feel as if she might really lose her head at any moment. She prayed that the Fourth Prince hadn't recognized her.
But then they heard the Fourth Prince's deep voice: "Go down."
"Thank you, Fourth Prince, thank you, Fourth Prince..."
Li Tiao subconsciously tried to stand up, but saw that the eunuch with her was kneeling and inching his way out.
She froze. Although she didn't want to be so humiliated, she had no choice but to move out for the sake of her life.
The door slammed shut, and Li Tiao finally breathed a sigh of relief, raising her arm to wipe the cold sweat from her forehead.
Having finally escaped, Li Yao only wanted to leave as quickly as possible. However, just as she turned around in a hasty retreat, she inadvertently overheard the little eunuch's mutterings.
Startled, Li Tiao stopped in her tracks again and turned back in disbelief, asking, "What did you say?"
The other person looked around, then whispered back to Li Tiao what they had just been muttering: "It's said that the Fourth Prince can't do 'that'..."
Li Tiao almost coughed up her lungs before she could swallow her saliva!
"How could the Fourth Prince... possibly..." Li Tiao had previously thought that since the Fourth Prince hadn't done anything on their wedding night, he probably didn't like her. Who knew that this would actually... actually... She had a look of utter astonishment on her face.
"The Fourth Prince should have a maidservant by now, but he hasn't. The mistresses of Yonghe Palace don't seem to care much about him. They're always trying to find suitable maidservants for him, but it's said that girls are sent in, and girls come out..."
Besides, didn't the Fourth Prince marry a concubine a few days ago? I heard that on their wedding night, the Fourth Prince didn't even stay in that concubine's room.
Li Tiao was still feeling embarrassed after eating a half-ripe melon when another person appeared out of nowhere and asked in a low voice, "What are you muttering about!"
Looking up, Li Tiao saw the Fourth Prince standing close by with his hands behind his back, and she thought she should just die.
Li Tiao was so trembling that she could barely speak her greetings properly, and even the eunuch who had been whispering with her just moments before was on the verge of tears.
Although it was a matter of risking her life or not, Li Tiao knew that the Fourth Prince absolutely could not know what the two of them had just said.
And we also need to pray that the Fourth Prince didn't hear it.
Even worse, Fourth Prince, please don't recognize me! Just pretend to be blind as always!
Just as Li Tiao began to pray to the famous gods and immortals, she heard the Fourth Prince say, "Come with me."
Li Tiao subconsciously glanced at her companion, only to find that the other person was fleeing and distancing themselves from her.
"Fourth Prince, are you calling me?" Li Yao asked, her voice trembling.
"Otherwise what?"
Li Tiao glanced at her companions, and seeing that they were no longer looking at her, she went to look at the Fourth Prince, only to find that he had already turned and walked away.
Left with no other choice, Li Tiao reluctantly followed the Fourth Prince into the study.
After entering, the Fourth Prince did not speak, but his eyes sized up Li Yao.
Li Tiao felt extremely uncomfortable and embarrassed under his scrutinizing gaze, so embarrassed that she wished the Earth Goddess would jump out from underground and drag her away.
Because the Fourth Prince's gaze finally settled on the area below her neck, slightly above her heart.
Li Tiao instinctively hunched her shoulders, then caught a glimpse of the Fourth Prince's gaze and realized what it meant to "protest without a trace."
Standing straight doesn't feel right, and not standing straight and always hunching over doesn't seem right either. Caught in this dilemma, she decided to adopt a somewhat nonchalant attitude.
"Who are you planning to meet looking like that?"
Upon hearing the Fourth Prince's words, Li Tiao continued to stubbornly deny it, saying, "This servant doesn't understand what Your Highness means..."
As soon as the address was uttered, Li Tiao bit her lip in annoyance.
I'm a eunuch now, how could I be called a "servant"?
The eunuch called himself a servant!
Li Tiao couldn't tell the Fourth Prince the truth about her attire, but she was at a loss as to how to appease him. Just then, she heard the Fourth Prince ask:
Didn't Granny Liu teach you manners?
Li Tiao didn't understand what the Fourth Prince meant, but when she noticed that his gaze was still on her, she realized that her posture was a bit indecent, so she quickly stood up straight.
"Did you see the person you were supposed to see?"
While Li Tiao was still pondering what to do next, she was caught off guard by the Fourth Prince's question. Without even reacting, she instinctively shook her head and said, "No..."
But as soon as the words were on the tip of his tongue, he realized what he had done and quickly swallowed them back, feeling extremely annoyed.
However, even if he didn't say it, the Fourth Prince wasn't stupid. He didn't recognize Li Tiao at first because he didn't expect her to be so "unique" in disguising herself as a eunuch. If he still couldn't recognize Li Tiao now, then he must be truly blind.
She felt extremely uncomfortable. Li Tiao had never been afraid of her flattery, and she couldn't continue staring at each other like this.
"Fourth Prince..."
As soon as she spoke, the Fourth Prince stood up and slowly walked over to her, then grabbed her chin.
Forced to look up, Li Tiao smiled awkwardly: "Fourth Prince, I am ugly and don't want to offend your eyes."
With one hand gripping Li Tiao's chin, the Fourth Prince looked down at her and said, "So you can be humble too."
Feeling the Fourth Prince loosen his grip, Li Tiao's goosebumps slowly began to subside, but then she heard the Fourth Prince say, "Was this forehead hit?"
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, he pressed his hand against the spot where Li Tiao's forehead had hit the wall.
The pain was so intense that Li Tiao couldn't help but hiss.
"Replying to Fourth Prince, no, it wasn't from being hit. I accidentally bumped into the wall and hit my head..." Li Tiao explained, enduring the pain.
Li Tiao felt like her neck was about to break from looking up, but the Fourth Prince still held her chin tightly, looking down at her.
Li Tiao finally understood what it meant to be "meat on a felt board."
But the humiliation wasn't the most important thing, because the Fourth Prince then said something that struck a chord with Li Tiao: "You know what, if it weren't for this bump on her forehead, it really would look like her, almost exactly the same. But a fake can never become real."
Because of the Fourth Prince's words, and remembering that she had married in place of someone else, Li Tiao felt as if she could already sense the breath of the King of Hell...
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