The Blue Robin delivered a love letter. The gesture felt almost dreamlike to Princess Anne, like something that could only happen in a fairy tale.
Flutter, flutter.
After delivering the letter, the two little creatures circled twice above the princess's head before flying out of the estate. Princess Anne watched them until they vanished from sight.
"Your Highness, is something wrong?" a servant asked as she approached. She had seen the princess pick something up from the ground.
"Nothing," Annie replied at once, clenching the letter tightly in her hand.
Annie was delighted inside. She had never expected Jon to come looking for her. But then she began to worry that Jiang Hao would not be able to enter the estate at all.
The estate had guards. Could Jon sneak in?
Have the guards transferred away?
The estate guards were assigned by the Royal Protection Bureau. Even she could not deploy them at will.
Annie worried until nightfall. The only thing she could do was secretly leave the balcony door open, so that if Jon climbed up from there, he would not be locked out of the room.
A dark figure flashed past, vaulting over the hedge and crossing the formal garden while avoiding the guards' patrol zones. He soon reached the castle rooms. Looking up, Jiang Hao rose into the air with a light push from his toes and landed steadily on the balcony.
The marvels of Lightness Skill made it an essential divine art for stealing beauty and jade. No wonder every lecher in martial arts stories was so skilled at it.
Wearing cute pajamas, Annie lay on the bed and stared wide-eyed at the distant clock. Tick-tock, tick-tock. Its hands moved one tick at a time, and she had never felt time pass so slowly.
"Midnight... will