Chapter 33 Your Highness! You're back!
As soon as the pink dress settled, Nuanya turned around abruptly, her eyes filled with such venom that they seemed capable of piercing a hole through Mu Jianjian, "Your Highness, it was she who framed me! You must do justice for me!"
"Did I give you permission to speak?" Bai Ji glanced impatiently at Nuan Ya kneeling on the ground, then turned his cold smile to the pink-clad woman who had just entered. "Don't you have anything to explain?"
Nuanya trembled, her whole body almost pressed against the ground.
"Your Highness, I don't know." Mu Jianjian shook her head repeatedly, her voice filled with grievance and confusion.
“Sing the song you taught her again now. If you can’t remember it, I can give you a second option,” Bai Ji’s words drifted gently into Mu Jianjian’s ears. “The white tiger in the courtyard has been lacking someone to keep it company for a long time. You can go and add someone to its ranks.”
You have to sing even if you can't...
Mu Jianjian swallowed hard and began calculating the probability of her successfully killing the tiger. Finally, a sound came out of her throat.
"Raise your head." Bai Ji raised his hand, and the two maids behind him who were waving fans immediately stopped and walked to the side with their heads down.
Mu Jianjian raised her head shakily, trying her best to create the feeling of a "frail beauty". Her eyes met Bai Ji's and she saw the young man wearing a gold and black robe.
The young man sat high on a jade chair, his right hand supporting his head. His black hair cascaded down with his movements, and his handsome face exuded nobility, looking down with an air of superiority that made him seem unapproachable.
"I love you... I can love you endlessly, every day, every month, every year, forever..." Mu Jianjian sang for a while before returning to the tune.
"Isn't there dancing? Let's dance." Bai Ji opened his mouth, and a grape was peeled by the maid behind him and put into his mouth.
Mu Jianjian was already mentally conjuring up images of villas in her mind, but she was still forced to wave her hand and start dancing. Her forced smile looked incredibly strange.
"I'm your little apple~ I can never love you enough... I got too into the role, and in the end, I'm all alone, waiting foolishly in the same spot..."
The enchanting voice of the woman in pink echoed throughout the courtyard.
Mu Jianjian felt that she was alive, but in fact she was already dead.
What a miscalculation!
"Is it over?" Bai Ji saw that the woman had finished singing and stopped moving after a long time. After she nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, he said, "Tell Nuan Ya that I like this?"
Oh no! Barbie Q is gone!
“Nuanya misunderstood,” Mu Jianjian said, noticing the other’s coldness with a keen eye, and put on her standard fake smile. “What I meant before was that His Highness might like people who take the initiative to express their love, so… I encouraged her to express her endless admiration for His Highness.”
Nuanya nodded frantically beside her.
"Drag her to Baihu." Bai Ji snorted and glanced at the guards beside him.
Just as Mu Jianjian was wondering whether she should try to show off again or run away quickly, Nuanya next to her was dragged away, accompanied by screams.
“It’s so noisy,” Bai Ji waved his hand. “Knock out her teeth, pull out her tongue, and then take her away.”
Break their teeth and pull out their tongue!
A chill rose in Mu Jianjian's heart.
"You may all step back."
The maids and guards behind Bai Ji said "Yes" and left. Mu Jianjian had just taken a step when she was called back.
"I didn't tell you to leave, what's the rush?" The boy's voice was clear, but now it sounded like a demon's whisper. "Come here."
Mu Jianjian bit her lip and walked to Bai Ji's side, bowing her head.
"I'm very curious, how did you survive in the dark dungeon last night?" Bai Ji tapped his index finger on the jade table beside him. "Even people with true qi can't survive a night, let alone you."
She knew it; what was meant to happen would happen.
Mu Jianjian said softly, "I...I don't know. I just took a nap inside, and...nothing happened when I woke up."
She had to remain ignorant, so that Bai Ji could investigate and use her. If she revealed the reason directly, she would probably lose both her golden hook and her life.
"Didn't you see anyone in the dark cell?"
Mu Jianjian looked up and met the eyes of the boy with narrow eyes, and inexplicably lied, "No."
Bai Ji nodded thoughtfully, which suited that person's personality.
“Your actions yesterday were a capital offense, but if you complete the task I have given you, not only will I spare your life, but I will also give you a chance.”
The boy's white fingers picked up a grape, placed it between his red lips and teeth, and bit it off.
"What mission?"
"I want you to gain that person's trust in the dark dungeon." Bai Ji picked up another grape and held it to the pink-clad woman's lips. "You know who that person is."
Mu Jianjian brushed the grapes from her lips; the opportunity was self-evident.
She smiled gently, but instead of eating the grape, she peeled it and placed it near Bai Ji's lips. "Yes, Your Highness."
Mu Jianjian knew she had no right to refuse. Recalling the environment of the underwater palace, she immediately asked, "Can I make some requests?"
——
“Your Highness, the Emperor and Empress dote on you so much and despise that person, you don’t need to send anyone to monitor him…” An old man slowly walked out of the palace behind him.
Bai Ji looked at the white tiger being led over, his gaze lingering on the bright red bloodstains on the white fur beside its mouth, and slowly smiled, "Elder Wen, the only possibility that she entered the Black Prison unharmed without any true qi is that the person tampered with her to protect her."
Tempted? Liking someone? Or is it a calculated move?
Whatever the reason that prompted his poor brother to take action, he was very interested.
So when Bai Ji heard that Nuan Ya had been bewitched by Yao Ling to sing and dance in front of him, he specially ordered someone to call her over, firstly to see the difference in Yao Ling, and secondly to use her as a pawn to be placed next to that person.
Bai Ji was very confident that no one would refuse his offer, especially not the woman who had always admired him.
Isn't he arrogant, looking down on everything and disdainful of it?
Then he shattered everything before his eyes.
——
Mu Jianjian took the sign Bai Ji threw to her and ran all the way to the Imperial Household Department to start choosing furniture.
So she's gained the young prince's trust, huh? Then she'll show him!
I promise I won't make him bleed!
After giving all the instructions in the Imperial Household Department, Mu Jianjian returned to the underwater palace alone to begin a thorough cleaning. She originally thought that such a large palace would be difficult to clean, but to her surprise, apart from the study which took a while to clean, the other rooms were spacious and didn't take long at all.
Mu Jianjian rolled up her sleeves and worked for two or three hours, finally getting everything done. The stone brick walls were clean and reflective, and even the books that were messy on the floor of the study were placed on the cabinet in an orderly manner.
She stood in the main hall by the entrance, very satisfied with the results of her work, and then waited at the entrance for the steward from the Imperial Household Department to deliver the furniture.
The steward looked unwilling, even fearful. He handed the spatial bag to Mu Jianjian and was about to leave when he was stopped.
“I’ll have to trouble you to come in with me,” Mu Jianjian said, spreading her hands and taking out the token Bai Ji had given her. “I don’t have true qi, so I can’t open the spatial bag—this is all His Highness’s idea.”
"Don't worry, with me here, you won't get eaten by the grass," she added.
——
When the white-clad youth returned to the hidden palace at the bottom of the lake late at night, he found that everything was different. He suddenly stopped and his gaze fell on the fresh flowers in the porcelain vase on the wooden cabinet.
The little shadow followed behind, carrying the books. Because his view was blocked by the pile of books, he almost bumped into the boy's back.
"Your Highness, what's wrong?" The little shadow looked up at the boy and then realized that the once dark and gloomy front hall was now unusually bright. The ground was clean and there were no water stains. The torches on the four walls had long been replaced by countless luminous pearls.
The empty hall was filled with jade tables and stools arranged in an orderly fashion, with carpets laid underneath. Behind a six-sided screen of gauze curtains, there were even incense porcelain bottles, from which wisps of purple smoke rose, diluting the usual musty smell in the palace.
Little Shadow rubbed her eyes in disbelief, letting the books in her hands scatter all over the floor. "Your Highness, am I seeing things? Have we come to the wrong place?"
He excitedly rushed into the palace and opened each room one by one, then ran back to the boy in white. "Your Highness, the rooms inside are also filled with wonderful things, each one is so beautiful!"
The young man in white lowered his eyes. He could naturally tell that these things were all top-quality items from the palace, but the question was, who would be happy to come here to clean and tidy up these things, especially since he was still alive?
His...mother? Impossible, she hates him to the core.
Bai Ji? Even less likely.
Just as he was pondering, a bright female voice rang out in the hall, "Your Highness! You're back!"
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