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“So did you find him or not?” The Red King frowned.

“Your Highness, indeed, I have found him.” The steward looked around, approached and lowered his voice, “Just yesterday I received news from Yecheng’s end, saying that a ragged little shark knocked on the gate in the middle of the night, and when the door opened, he fainted outside Yecheng’s Palace…”

“What?” The Red King jumped up, “That little brat has returned?”

“Yeah. That little one has been quite lucky.” The steward, unsure of the Red King’s attitude towards the matter, worded his words carefully, watching the Vassal King’s face, “I wonder where that little one has been all these days – the doctor says the boy looks weak and seems to have travelled thousands of miles to get back to Yecheng.”

The Red King turned pale and blurted out, “Damn it! This must not come to Ah-Yan’s attention.”

Huh? So, the King doesn’t want an incident to happen? The steward instantly grasped what the Red King was thinking and hurriedly said, “Yes! Fortunately, when that little brat returned, the Princess had already left Yecheng – my servant had already asked the head guard there to isolate that little brat separately at the first opportunity, and assigned two trusted maids to keep an eye on him, so that no outsiders would know about this.”

“Well done.” The Red King breathed a sigh of relief, the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and for a moment his eyes grew full of anger, “Why a shark again! Wasn’t the shark in the house last time enough to get us into trouble?”

“Yes, yes.” Having learned which side he should take, the steward hurriedly nodded, “Your humble servant has already sent someone to keep a close watch on that scoundrel, and will definitely not let him have the chance to escape again!”

“Watch over what?” When the Red King heard this, he scolded him fiercely, “Why don’t you hurry up and get rid of him?”

“But… the Princess’s temper is also well-known to Your Highness.” The steward was in an awkward position, carefully choosing his words, “If she cannot find that child, how will she be willing to give up?”

“Then do something to discourage her! Aren’t you renowned as a wise man?” The Red King looked at his trusted advisor with resentment, “You don’t have to escort me to the Palace tomorrow, go back to Yecheng first and take care of this matter – make sure everything goes smoothly, and don’t let that little devil appear in front of Ah-Yan again!”

“Yes,” the steward nodded hastily, “I know what Your Majesty means!”

The Red King paused and suddenly stared at him, asking again rhetorically, “Do you really understand?”

Seeing the look in the Red King’s eyes, the steward secretly winced and nodded heavily, “Yes, your servant understood! No matter what means we use, we must make sure the young brat disappears forever!”

The Red King’s voice was cold, “And, without a trace, it must never make a return.”

“Yes!” The housekeeper nodded and hurriedly retreated.

The Red King slapped the table heavily and let out a long sigh, with a strange scowl – Ah-Yan, don’t blame your father for being cruel. As the only Princess of the Red Clan, you will soon be married to the White Clan, so how can I let the future harmony between the two clans be affected by a small shark slave? The lesson of the past has been learned. No matter what, I cannot allow the events of the past years with Yuan to repeat themselves!

So, let your father remove this potential scourge for you!

Just as I removed Yu Fei and Yun Man for you in the old days.

Yecheng, at the southern end of Mirror Lake, is magnificently lit up after nightfall, like a bright pearl set on the edge of the sea, indicating its status as the most prosperous city in Yunhuang.

In the Palace of the Red King in Yecheng, someone was examining the sleeping child on the sofa with the help of a candlelight.

“Still not awake?” A servant girl sighed, “Poor thing, so thin that he only has one breath left.”

“This child must have walked a long way, his feet are covered in blisters.” Another older maid also sighed, “The doctor said he hadn’t eaten for at least three days before he fainted – he had nothing with him but a dummy puppet, so I don’t know how he survived the journey.”

” A dummy puppet?” The young maid, however, became curious.

“Yes, there it is.” The older maid pointed to the bedside cabinet where there was a cloth bag, “The puppet, it looks exactly the same as this child.”

“Is that so?” The younger maid went over and carefully opened it to have a look, but couldn’t help exclaiming in a whisper – It was a tiny doll less than an inch, made of some unknown material, soft to the touch, with well-defined features, each joint studded with a golden thorn, made of who knows what metal, its limbs hanging limply, motionless.

“Huh, it’s so exquisitely made, and the joints can move!” The young maid curiously pulled up the arm of the little puppet, “It looks very much like one of those puppet dolls in the shadow puppet shows!”

As she said this, she couldn’t resist picking up a handkerchief and putting it like a little garment around the dummy, using pins to make it look like a custom-made dress.

“Hey, it really does look almost identical to this child!” The young chambermaid finished dressing the little puppet in his little outfit, and after examining it for a moment, she couldn’t help but marvel, “The craftsmanship, truly a masterpiece!”

The little dummy opened its eyes and looked at the two of them, and under the candlelight, the azure eyes appeared to be alive, staring at the young maid and seemingly blinking mischievously. The young maid was startled and threw it back on the table with a snap as she took a step backwards: “This… thing was so weird!”

“Yeah, it’s not very comfortable to look at,” the older maid said, “Better bundle it up.”

“Mhm.” The younger maid hurriedly resealed the cloth bag, not daring to look at the little doll in the eyes again, muttering, “Why does this child carry such a thing with him?”

“I don’t know.” The older maid shook her head, glanced at the unconscious sickly child and sighed, “I heard that this child is a young slave adopted recently by the young Princess, highly adored, who got lost during the rebellion of the Restoration Army a while back – everyone thought they would never find him again, but it turned out that he actually found his way back to the Red King’s Residence on his own.”

“He came back on his own?” The young servant girl was taken aback, looking at the small sleeping shark with an incredulous expression, “These shark slaves are all disobedient, and when they are not closely guarded, they find a way to escape… but this little one actually managed to find his way back all by himself?”

“Perhaps the Princess has been good to him.” The older maid sighed softly, “It’s just unfortunate…”

“Yes!” The younger maid remembered something and couldn’t help but shudder as well, gazing once again at the unconscious little shark on the sofa and couldn’t help but whisper, “I really don’t understand why the housekeeper would want to treat a small child like this… Would the Princess approve?”

“Hush. Don’t ask too many questions about that. Just say and do as you’re told,” the older attendant said mutely, “In the King’s House, people who talk too much often end up in a bad way.”

“Yes!” The young maid nodded hastily and shut her mouth.

“It’s not so difficult, it’s just coaxing a child.” The older maid glanced at her nervous companion and smiled, “You’ve been in the house for several years now, can’t you still handle a seven-eight-year-old child? When you successfully managed to coax this child away, the Chief Steward will reward you heavily.”

“Yes.” The young servant girl nodded hastily.

After another moment of silence, the little sleeping slave on the sofa still did not wake up, his face under the shadow of the lamp looked so pale, his long eyelashes covering his cheeks, and although he was only a child, he already possessed a stunning beauty. The two maids looked at him in silence and for a brief moment they were both somewhat rendered speechless.

“No wonder the Princess is so fond of this little one, such a beautiful child… hardly resembles anything human on this earth!” The young attendant muttered, with a softened heart.

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