Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“Ah, ah, your highness, your highness! It’s not good, it’s not good!!”
In the palace complex, the door of the main room of the princess’s bedroom was pushed open, and the princess’s personal maid hurriedly rushed in and ran to the princess’s bed.
The curtains hung around the bed, covering it layer by layer, and a vague shadow lying across the middle of the princess’s bed could be vaguely seen.
The maid waited anxiously by the bed but did not wait for any response from behind the curtain. She stood on tiptoe in confusion and asked, “Your Highness?”
Another maid who was standing in the corner of the dormitory looked around, walked to the maid who ran in, and whispered in her ear: “Stop shouting, Her Royal Highness is not inside.”
“Ah?” The maid turned around in surprise, “Then where did Her Highness go?”
The little maid hesitated for a moment, lowered her head and secretly pointed behind her.
The maid turned around.
The balcony door of the gilded terrace leading from the bedroom to the back garden was generously open, and the gauze hanging by the window was being blown by the wind.
The personal maid turned back with a headache: “Didn’t His Majesty the King already order Her Highness to be grounded? Why did she run out again?”
The little maid whispered: “Her Royal Highness made a rope out of the quilt on the bed and said that if the king and queen’s people came, we should say that she was not feeling well and had fallen asleep.”
Personal maid: “…”
Based on the information revealed by the little maid, the princess’s personal maid went around the outside of the palace and searched in the places where their princess was most likely to go.
Sure enough, not long after, she found Her Royal Highness the Princess, who was sitting on the resting couch that had been moved out in the sunniest corner of the back garden, her eyes covered so she didn’t know whether she was sleeping or resting.
The personal maid hurried over: “Your Highness, Your Highness?”
“Well?”
The handkerchief embroidered with gold patterns covering her face was torn off, and the girl with long hair and clean face revealed a delicate and sleepy look.
She was lying in the sun, with her pupils half-closed, like a cat that felt too hot to keep its eyes open.
The personal maid had a headache when she saw her soft hair hanging down the couch: “Your Highness, why did you come out without tying your hair and wearing a crown? If His Majesty saw it, he would definitely reprimand you.”
Gu Nian curled up the corner of her mouth slightly, covered her face with the gold handkerchief again, and said in a light and lazy voice: “I am taking a nap, wearing so many messy things, it is very uncomfortable.”
“Napping? My Highness, how can anyone take a nap outside?” The maid looked around worriedly, lowering her body and lowering her voice, she said, “What if His Majesty discovers that Her Highness has left the palace during the period of confinement, then the period of confinement will definitely be extended.”
“Extension means extension.”
“But since you just want to sleep, why do you have to run out, isn’t it no different?”
“It’s different.” Gu Nian took off the handkerchief and looked at her seriously with a wooden face.
“What’s the difference?” the maid asked, confused.
“Here is the breath of freedom.”
Maid:”…………”
The maid had always been unable to deal with this princess who had had a pretty face since she was a child but could choke people to death when she opened her mouth, and it was the same now.
Gu Nian waited for a while, then raised her eyelids that were so sunburned that she couldn’t keep them open: “You came to me, you didn’t just want me to find a different place to sleep, right?”
The maid stayed for a few seconds, then suddenly realized and her expression immediately changed: “I almost forgot, Her Highness it’s not good, something happened!”
“…I’m very fine, don’t curse me,” Gu Nian said in a lazy voice, “How many times have you said, ‘It’s not good’. Don’t keep saying this on your lips. The more times you say it, the worse it is.”
“Oh…”
“Okay, let’s start again. What do you want to say?”
The maid thought carefully and then said tentatively: “That’s great, Your Highness. It’s that evil dragon, he is coming to invade the empire’s border….”
Gu Nian: “…”
This time, she didn’t bother to correct the wording problem with the maid. Gu Nian tore off the handkerchief that was still half off, sat up from the couch, turned around with a slightly sullen face and asked, “Is it here?”
“Yes, Your Highness!” The maid nodded, “I just slipped out of the palace to buy you snacks from the Western Market as requested by Your Highness, and then I heard people in the market talking about that hateful evil dragon. It went to invade the border and destroyed half the town!”
“Where were the people in these towns?”
“There seemed to be no casualties among the people in the town, because it came during the day this time. It hovered in the sky to the west of the town for a long time. The people in the town were frightened and went to the east, so it got angry and only half of the empty city was destroyed.”
“…”
“This evil dragon is really greedy. The kingdom has enshrined it twice this year. It even gave it the dressing mirror inlaid with gems from your palace, and it still isn’t satisfied!”
Thinking of the dressing mirror given to her by her grandmother that she had kept with her since she was a child, Gu Nian’s expressionless face showed a hint of pain.
With a sullen face, she raised her head and asked, “What are my father and the ministers going to do this time? Are they going to continue to compromise with that evil dragon?”
The maid lowered her head in embarrassment: “In the past, the brave men who went to conquer the evil dragon could never return once they entered the territory of the evil dragon. Now no one dares to go.”
“So they still want to withdraw?”
“Yes. But the evil dragon has been sleeping and waking up very frequently in the past few years. In order to pay tribute to him with gold, silver and gems, the kingdom’s reserves are almost exhausted,” the personal maid sighed, “There should be the last batch of gems, and the ministers are praying that the evil dragon is about to enter its slumber.”
“…”
The maid looked up again, only to find that there was no one on the couch next to her. She quickly turned around and ran after the figure that was about to disappear on the garden path: “Your Highness, where are you going?”
“I want to see my father and queen mother.”
“Huh? But His Majesty has still grounded Your Majesty because of your disobedience in marrying the prince from a neighboring country. Her Majesty can’t leave the palace at this time, right?”
“I can’t control that much.”
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