"Bu Yaolian has a good plan, and her father is quite shrewd."
"Hmph, she says she's recuperating, but it's obvious she just wants to marry into the royal family."
Yun Duoduo hastily wiped her face.
"The kitchen has prepared your favorite milk bricks and auspicious cakes, and also bought soy milk and meat buns from the first shop in the East Market. His Highness specifically instructed that these are your favorites!"
As she spoke, Qingdai helped Yun Duoduo change her clothes.
Yun Duoduo felt sweet inside. Although there were people to help her prepare all this at Fu Shuang Palace, it felt different.
In Fu Shuang Palace, she was the mistress. The maids and eunuchs prepared her favorite utensils and food, not out of concern for her, but because it was their duty.
However, things were different at the Prince of Jibei's residence. Everything there was prepared for her because Jin Jinzhi cared about her.
"Okay, let's go eat!"
...
After the meal, Yun Duoduo felt a bit full, so she pulled Qingdai and walked towards the garden.
"Come with me for a walk."
"Bring the fruit drink with you, we're getting a bit bored of eating."
Yun Duoduo was unhappy. Although her foot injury hadn't fully healed, she wanted to go outside for some fresh air and clear her head.
Upon arriving at the back garden, they could see Jin Jinzhi and Bu Yaolian playing chess in the distance.
[Has Brother Sumire returned from the palace?]
[Did he play chess with Bu Yaolian as soon as he got back?]
Yun Duoduo felt a pang of sadness, as if an unnamed fire was rising within her.
"Miss Bu, is the urgent matter you mentioned about playing chess with me?"
Jin Jinzhi looked at Bu Yaolian with some annoyance, but Bu Yaolian had taken an arrow for her and suffered a lot in the process.
"Your Highness, Yaolian also has something to say to you." Bu Yaolian smiled sweetly as she looked at Jin Jinzhi.
Yun Duoduo was far away, and the wind was strong outside, so she couldn't hear what the two were saying. She could only see that they were laughing happily.
Bu Yaolian wore a white, fitted lotus-patterned dress and a pearl hairpin, looking charming and pitiful.
Jin Jinzhi was dressed in silver-gray casual clothes, and her hair was tied up high with a silver hair crown and a jade hairpin.
Bu Yaolian saw two figures appear in the garden, glanced at Yun Duoduo, and when she saw her walking over, Bu Yaolian smoothed the stray hairs behind her ear and gave Jin Jinzhi a charming look.
She spoke in a sweet, high-pitched voice, "Yaolian and Brother Jinzhi grew up together since childhood, they can be considered childhood sweethearts. When we were little, I never won against you at chess, but now that we're older, you're letting me win."
Holy crap, childhood sweethearts?!
I'm the childhood sweetheart, okay?!
The tea flavor is so strong...
Who doesn't know how to use seductive tricks to seduce men?!
"Am I beautiful?" Yun Duoduo asked her maid Qingdai.
Qingdai didn't react for a moment, and was stunned for a second. Then she realized what she meant and nodded vigorously, saying, "Beautiful! She's like a celestial being descended to earth!"
The thing she heard most often was people praising her as a fairy.
It seems I'll have to change my style from now on and go down the path of a seductive and alluring concubine.
Yun Duoduo tidied her hair, then took the fruit drinks with her maid and walked over to Jin Jinzhi. She stumbled and fell into his arms, calling out sweetly, "Ah, Brother Jinzhi!"
Jin Jinzhi quickly grabbed her shoulders and asked worriedly, "How could you be so careless? What if you fell?"
"Also, your foot injury hasn't healed yet, so why did you come out?"
He was initially worried that she would get hurt, but when he saw the expression on her face, he realized that she had done it on purpose.
"Hmm? Why aren't you resting in the study?" This sentence was completely different in tone from the previous two, full of teasing and amusement.
What's going on here?
Is she jealous?
[No way, although Duoduo is almost fifteen, she's lived in the palace for so long, she probably hasn't even grasped the concept of romantic love yet.]
Yun Duoduo listened calmly, thinking to herself, "Brother Jinzhi, you underestimate me!"
I probably understand the nature of romantic relationships between men and women even better than you do!
"Thank goodness you're here, otherwise it would have hurt so much if you had fallen!"
Yun Duoduo pouted, thinking to herself, "Hmph, anyone can act cute. It's just a matter of whether they want to or not."
"Oh dear, Brother Jinzhi, it's all Duoduo's fault, I got Brother Jinzhi's clothes all dirty!" Yun Duoduo tugged at Jin Jinzhi's clothes, which were stained with fruit drinks.
"Duoduo, accompany your brother back to his bedchamber to change into clean clothes!"
Yun Duoduo blinked her big eyes, looking at Jin Jinzhi with an innocent and adorable expression.
She kept calling him "brother" over and over, which made Jin Jinzhi's lips curl into a smile.
Yun Duoduo leaned casually against Jin Jinzhi's chest and even brazenly touched Jin Jinzhi's face.
Jin Jinzhi was stunned for a moment. This was the first time she had ever acted so intimately and taken such initiative.
"Okay, that's fine."
"Miss Bu, if there is nothing urgent, I will not keep you company."
As Jin Jinzhi spoke, her eyes remained fixed on Yun Duoduo's face.
"Next time, if you have any urgent business, just go directly to Military Advisor Cao," he said coldly.
"I have important matters to attend to. Playing chess is mentally taxing, and it's windy outside. Let's go back inside and rest."
After saying that, Jin Jinzhi left with Yun Duoduo, who was hanging on her, without even glancing at Bu Yaolian.
"Your Highness!?" Bu Yaolian stood up and called out, then sat down again dejectedly.
"Miss, let me escort you back to your room."
As Bu Yaolian's maid spoke, she reached out to help Bu Yaolian back to her room to rest, but Bu Yaolian forcefully shook off the maid's outstretched hand and turned to leave.
After rounding a rockery, Jin Jinzhi asked, "Have you had enough of this?"
"You're acting strangely today." Jin Jinzhi found it increasingly difficult to understand her. She still looked like an innocent fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, but her temperament was quite different from before, which surprised him greatly.
"Brother Jinzhi, are you blaming me?" Yun Duoduo hooked her arms around his neck and looked at him with her big eyes.
"I meant well. I saw you playing chess and knew you must be thirsty, so I thought I'd bring you some fruit and drinks to quench your thirst."
"But I didn't expect that the ground of the pavilion in the back garden was so uneven that I fell on you."
Jin Jinzhi smiled helplessly: "How could I blame you?"
Yun Duoduo climbed down from Jin Jinzhi's arms and yawned widely: "I'm going back to sleep!"
"Hey, I haven't changed my clothes yet?!"
Jin Jinzhi looked at his clothes, which Yun Duoduo had deliberately dirtied, with a mixture of amusement and exasperation.
"Don't you love playing chess in the wind? The wind will dry your clothes, and you won't need to change them!"
...
Yun Duoduo returned to her bedroom.
Everything in the bedroom had been cleaned up, and there was no longer that unpleasant smell in the room.
She removed her milk-white satin shoes embroidered with pearls, leaned back on the purple jade coral couch, and squinted her eyes.
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