The young Prince noticed that Jin Lanyue was wearing a gauze skirt and had several exquisite hairpins tucked into her hair, creating a dazzling display.
Yet her round, large eyes, delicate tiny nose and mouth, fair, tender skin, and round face made her look exactly like a porcelain doll.
It made the clinking and clanking ornaments all over her head appear lively and animated.
“So cute! She is way cuter than that Chaoyun fellow!” The young Prince completely shed his previously arrogant attitude, his eyes turning into starry pools. “Which family’s young lady are you? You look so cute. I’m going to throw Chaoyun away and have you be my sister instead.”
The name Chaoyun sounds so familiar…
Jin Lanyue pondered for a moment. Where had she heard it before?
Her little mind was completely blank, and she couldn’t recall it for the time being.
Since the young Prince before her was still staring at her, Jin Lanyue timidly curtsied and replied in a milky voice, “Answering Your Highness, I am the Princess’s study companion…”
“What?” The young Prince’s expression warped instantly, the smile disappearing from his round face in a flash. “You belong to that annoying brat?”
“Curse it! I knew you weren’t any good person!” The young Prince made a complete hundred-and-eighty-degree turn in attitude. “Men, seize this little brat for me!”
The two young eunuchs behind him looked at each other, neither of them daring to actually lay a hand on such a tiny baby.
Seeing this, the young Prince stamped his feet in a fury. “Useless! I’ll do it myself!”
Saying this, he reached his hand out to yank at Little Jin Lanyue’s hair buns.
“Wah…” The little dumpling’s eyes brimmed with tears from fright. She automatically retreated backward, but accidentally stepped on her own skirt, landing flat on her bottom on the ground with a loud plop.
She happened to sit right on the arrow the young Prince had shot moments ago, and the arrow shaft snapped into two pieces with a sharp crack.
“My golden arrow!” The young Prince shrieked, lunging forward to strike her. “Pay for my arrow!”
In her panic, Little Jin Lanyue scrambled to dodge to the side. Who would have thought that because the young Prince lunged too fiercely, he stepped right on the broken arrow. His foot slipped, and with an “Ouch!”, he slid right over and tumbled to the ground.
The brocade pants he wore tore open with a loud rip, exposing the white underpants beneath.
“Pfft…” A palace servant truly couldn’t hold it in and let out a laugh.
Shame and fury hit the young Prince all at once, his chubby little face flushing completely crimson. “You, how dare you…”
“I…” Jin Lanyue was startled by this as well. After a brief internal struggle, she still scrambled up from the ground, wanting to help him up.
Unexpectedly, the young Prince was also scrambling to get up at that exact moment. The moment Jin Lanyue stepped forward, her tiny foot accidentally stepped on his hem.
Thus, with her tiny foot stepping down, he bolted upward—
Riiip—
It was the sound of fabric tearing once more. This time, even his underpants ripped open a large hole, exposing a good half of his bottom.
The young Prince instantly lost all capacity to “bully” Jin Lanyue. In a frantic frenzy, he hoisted his pants with one hand while covering his bottom with the other.
He spun his head around to survey his surroundings, only to find that the palace servants nearby were either holding back their laughter or laughing out loud.
At the thought that his noble bottom had been seen by so many people, the young Prince shrieked as his mental defenses completely shattered: “Aaaah! You scoundrel!”
Little Jin Lanyue stood on the spot, entirely at a loss for what to do. “Yue’er didn’t do it on purpose…”
A flash of inspiration struck her, and she proactively pulled out her tiny handkerchief. “It will be fine if I use my little hanky to cover Your Highness’s bottom…”
“Who wants your trashy handkerchief!” Seething with rage, the young Prince slapped her hand away. However, due to overexerting his strength, he landed flat on his bottom once more.
His bare buttocks rubbed directly against the floorboards, causing him to grimace and bare his teeth in pain.
The young Prince scrambled up from the ground in a wretched state, his round face completely smudged with dirt, and the hole in his underpants jiggled with his every movement.
He glared viciously at the little dumpling who had caused his public humiliation. Suddenly, like an infuriated little tiger, he lunged toward her. “You went too far!”
Little Jin Lanyue retreated backward in terror. Just as she was about to be tackled to the ground, the little Princess rushed out from behind her like a whirlwind.
“Stop right there!” Like a little mother hen protecting her chick, the little Princess spread her arms wide, shielding her little study companion. “You are not allowed to bully my person!”
“Chaoyun! It’s you annoying brat again!” Hoisting his pants, the young Prince stamped his feet. “Who is the one bullying whom here?!”
Oh!
Jin Lanyue finally caught on. Chaoyun was the Little Cloud, and the Little Cloud was the Princess.
The Princess had told her her name before, but she had completely forgotten it…
At this moment, the young Prince was gnashing his teeth, while the little Princess stood righteously. “You were the one bullying her, I saw it all!”
Without another word, she lunged toward the young Prince.
The two precious children of royal blood instantly tangled into a brawl, pulling at hair buns and tearing at collars as they rolled back and forth through the flowerbeds.
“Princess!” Little Jin Lanyue stamped her feet in anxiety.
Seeing the Princess pinned beneath the young Prince, she summon-summoned an unknown wave of courage, rushing forward to grab the young Prince’s pant leg and tugging with all her might. “You are not allowed to bully the Princess!”
Caught completely off guard, the young Prince was tugged into a stagger. Taking advantage of the opening, the Princess rolled over and got on top of him, pinching his ear hard. “That’s for bullying Little Moon!”
“Ouch! Let go!” the young Prince bellowed in a frenzy. “Don’t pull my pants, you scoundrel!”
The three little toddlers fought indistinguishably, sending petals and dirt flying everywhere.
The palace servants rushed over in a panic, the leading young eunuch’s face turning pale with fright. “Oh, my little ancestors! Please stop!”
It took quite an effort for several palace servants to separate the brawling children.
The little Princess’s hair buns were undone, and her dress was covered in grass clippings.
The clinking ornaments atop Jin Lanyue’s head had fallen all over the floor. Having clung onto the young Prince’s pant leg without letting go, she had also rolled on the ground several times, leaving her face covered in gray dust.
The little Princess was currently picking up the hairpins with concern, attempting to re-insert them into her hair.
The two little buns—each bun had to fairly receive three hairpins and four pearl flowers.
As for the young Prince… the young Prince was in a far worse state. Not only did his underpants have a large hole ripped in them, but even his waistband had been torn apart.
“Just you wait!” the young Prince bellowed, clutching his bright red pinched ear as tears welled up and spun in his eyes. “I’m going to tell Imperial Father!”
“You dare!” The little Princess set down her hairpins and brandished her fist. “If you dare to tell on us, I will beat you up every single time I see you!”
The young Prince didn’t dare to speak anymore, his entire little face flushing red from holding back.
He cast a tearful yet mock-ferocious glare at them, then suddenly burst out into a loud waah of crying. “You all bully me!”
With that, he hoisted his pants and limped off toward his own living palace, followed by a crowd of frantic palace servants.
Once the young Prince’s crying faded into the distance, the little Princess turned around to check on her study companion’s condition.
She gently wiped away the dust from Little Jin Lanyue’s face. “Are you okay?”
The little dumpling shook her head, her large eyes still glistening with tears. “Princess, did Yue’er cause trouble-trouble…?”
“Not at all!” The Princess waved her hand generously. “He deserved it! Come on, I’ll take you to the Imperial Study!”
[Task Completed]
You have done very well.
You have thoroughly humiliated Wei Jiayou, teaching him a bitter lesson.
Watching his wretched escape, you feel a wave of satisfaction in your heart.
[Reward Obtained: Advanced Illness-Dispelling Talisman x1]
The little tot blinked her large eyes and wiped away her tears.
Auntie System said she did very well too!
She didn’t cause trouble!
Little Jin Lanyue instantly recovered her energy, taking the Princess’s tiny hand. “Then… we won!”
“Exactly!” The Princess held their clasped hands high. “Working together, we drove the bad guy away!”
Remembering the words her second brother had spoken, the little dumpling said happily, “We rendered justice as heroes! Joining forces, we are invincible under heaven!”
“You are truly talented,” the little Princess cheered along. “We are invincible under heaven!!”
After the two little toddlers were taken by the palace maids to change into clean clothes, the little Princess took Little Jin Lanyue’s hand and tiptoed stealthily toward the direction of the Imperial Study.
“Princess, are we really, really going to go to that Im-peerial Study to find the Grand Tutor and His Majesty?” Little Jin Lanyue nervously clutched the Princess’s sleeve.
She swallowed hard.
It felt so scary.
Would the Grand Tutor’s Grand Tutor be very stern and very fierce?