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As soon as she said the words, the face under the lamp suddenly stirred.

“Oh my, he’s awake?!” The young attendant exclaimed in surprise.

Under the glow of the lamp, a pair of azure pupils strained to open, gazing in confusion at the source of brightness, and his lips opened and closed as he weakly uttered something.

“You’re awake?” The older maid lifted her hand and plucked the loose strands of hair from the young shark’s face, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and then said in a loving tone, “My name is Ruo Ping and her name is Xiao Hui, both of us are from the House of the Red King. How are you feeling? Would you like some water?”

The little shark was silent, just staring at them blankly, and his pupils looked disoriented, as if he failed for a moment to remember where he was – and yet, when the maid’s fingers brushed his forehead, the child suddenly shuddered and subconsciously pushed her hand away!

“Don’t touch me!” The child screeched sharply, “Stay away.”

Ruo Ping was caught off guard and almost stumbled to the ground. The child had already stood up, cowering in a corner, but in his hand, he was holding a knife that had been used for peeling fruits on the table! The child’s eyes looked particularly bright under the light, terribly hostile and wary, like a wild animal ready to pounce and devour.

“Who are you? No… don’t come near me.” The child tried desperately to hold himself together, but his voice was weak as he murmured, “I… want to see my sister.”

“Sister?” Ruo Ping, who was after all a little more experienced, composed herself, “Are you talking about the Princess Zhu Yan?”

Sumo gripped his knife and nodded without making a sound, “Where is she?”

“She is not in the Mansion,” Ruo Ping softened her tone, careful not to offend the boy, “She followed the King into the Capital a few days ago.”

“Ah?” The child was stunned for a moment, and his voice brimmed with disappointment, “What about… Grandma Sheng?”

Ruo Ping shook her head, “She also followed the Princess into the Capital.”

“What?” The tip of the knife in the child’s hand faltered, “They… they’re all gone?”

It had been a long and troubled journey from the Abyss of Cangwu to here, a long journey of ten thousand miles. There was no telling how much he had suffered, it had been so difficult to make it back to Yecheng – and yet, his sister was no longer here? Didn’t she say that she would never leave him alone under any circumstances?

Seeing him scowling like this, Ruo Ping and Xiao Hui looked at each other. Ruo Ping opened her mouth, and her voice was gentle as she tried to comfort the young shark, “Don’t be afraid, even if the Princess is not here, we will still take care of you, quickly put the knife in your hand down!”

“What did she… went there to do?” The child, however, refused to relent, holding the knife and looking at them, asking, “When will she be back?”

“The Princess is following the Red King and his wife into the Capital for an audience with the Emperor,” Ruo Ping spoke one word at a time as the steward had instructed, cautiously looking at the child’s expression, “The Emperor is going to preside over the marriage between the White and Red clans. When the big wedding ceremony is over, the Princess won’t be returning to the Red King’s Residence and will probably go straight to her husband’s house at the Governor’s Residence in Yecheng.”

“What?” The shark child was taken aback, “A marriage union?”

“Yes, she’s getting a good husband,” Xiao Hui said with great joy, and Ruo Ping added, “She’s marrying the Governor of Yecheng, Bai Fenglin, and she’ll probably be the White Queen in the future!”

The child suddenly shouted sternly, “Liar!”

Ruo Ping and Xiao Hui were startled both at the same time, “What?”

“You are lying!” The child gripped the knife, its tip shaking violently, and his voice was tinged with anger and disbelief as he glared at the two of them, “She… told me that what she loves is obviously a shark! How could she marry the Governor of Yecheng and become some kind of White King Consort? You… guys are lying!”

The child’s eyes burned with fire, and in his anger, he was so articulate that the two witty maids could not help but remain speechless for a moment.

This shark child was a bit difficult to coax after all?

“We didn’t lie to you,” Ruo Ping said as she settled down and hurriedly spoke up, “You can ask around, the whole world knows that our Zhu Yan is getting married! It’s true!”

“…” Perhaps catching the underlying tone of her words, the child stopped talking, and after a moment of silence, suddenly opened his mouth, and spoke in a thin, slightly shaky voice, “So… Did she say when she was coming to pick me up?”

In that moment, a sense of helplessness surfaced in the child’s azure pupils. Xiao Hui was young after all, and as she watched, she felt a pain in her heart, and could not repeat what the Head Housekeeper instructed earlier. Next to her, Ruo Ping glared at her and spoke up with a smile, “Don’t be anxious, the Princess has already instructed before leaving. She told us to return the deed to you and set you free, and even left you a thousand golden baht.”

“What…?” Sumo froze for a moment, with an expression of disbelief in his eyes.

“Don’t worry, the Princess has planned everything,” Ruo Ping brought out the Danshu deed and placed it on the cabinet, smiling, “Take this back and you are free! You don’t have to be a slave, you can go wherever you want, I wonder how many sharks on Yunhuang are going to envy you…”

The child was dumbstruck, looking at the piece of paper under the lamp – it was indeed his personal deed, with the Governor of Yecheng’s signature and seal on it, which was originally being held in Zhu Yan’s custody, but had been brought here at this very moment. So, all this arrangement was really her will?

Sumo remained silent for a long time before he finally opened his mouth, “Sister… she doesn’t want me anymore?”

Ruo Ping and Xiao Hui looked at each other, knowing that the critical point had been reached, so they tried to put on a condescending tone: “Hey, the Princess is also doing it for your own good… She’s already married, so she can’t bring a little shark slave into her husband’s house with her! You know the Governor doesn’t like to keep any sharks around…”

However, before the words were out of her mouth, the child suddenly jumped to the ground, grabbed the puppet and headed out.

“Hey, where are you going?” Xiao Hui became anxious and hurriedly chased after him and yanked back his hand, when suddenly she let go with a cry of pain. Scalding blood dripped from between her fingers, because unexpectedly, he slashed her hand!

“Go away! Don’t touch me!” The child was branding the knife soaked in blood and was pointing it back at the two of them, while his eyes glanced viciously at them, “I’m going to the Imperial Capital to ask her for clarification! My sister won’t abandon me… she won’t marry some Governor of Yecheng! I don’t believe a word you people say!”

The child finished those words almost shouting, clutching the short knife as he stepped out of the room without looking back.

“Come back quickly!” They didn’t expect this child to be so unruly and untamed, but things took a sharp turn and even Ruo Ping couldn’t help but panic and hurriedly chased after him while lifting her skirt – how could she let this child run away? If she failed to do what the Head Housekeeper had ordered, she would be…

However, with the train of the skirt in her hand, she could not run fast enough to catch up with the child.

As he was about to push open the garden’s gate and escape, a dark figure suddenly crossed the doorway and struck the child in the back of the head with a lightning-fast blow!

Without even uttering a cry, Sumo collapsed forward.

“What’s the matter, two people still can’t guard a child?” The man shouted lowly and picked up the unconscious child with one hand; strong and powerful with slim waist and tough arms, he was the chief guard in the Red King’s Palace.

“My lord!” Ruo Ping looked at the man who landed from the air in front of her with surprise, “Luckily you are here!”

“Truly useless.” The head guard glanced at the maid guarding the child and sneered, “You can’t even coax a child? Luckily, I got here just in time, otherwise the child would have escaped!”

“You don’t know, my lord, this child is so evil!” Xiao Hui covered her wound, frightened and shocked, she couldn’t help but cry, “At such a young age, he dares to use the knife to hurt someone!”

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