"Princess."
### "We pay our respects to the Princess."
### "We pay our respects to Princess Changning."
### Chu Ning strode arrogantly through the restricted imperial gardens, followed by a host of palace maids and eunuchs. Everyone they passed knelt and bowed, greeting her obsequiously. Although Chu Ning was the Former Emperor's Grand Princess, the blood of the Chu Clan still flowed through her veins. The clan's elders and the current ruler all belonged to the same family.
### Moreover, Prince Hui was extremely protective of Chu Ning and treated her as his own daughter. Not only had he preserved her title and privileges as Princess Changning, he had also allowed her to move freely in and out of the palace without ever interfering. Compared with her brothers—some murdered, others demoted—she was a hundred times luckier.
### Among the crowd, a small eunuch with delicate features kept his head lowered and his back bent, looking timid and cautious. Yet as he walked, he constantly surveyed the winding routes of this forbidden ground and the guards stationed in the open and hidden corners with the corner of his eye.
### Throughout the entire Xifeng Empire, aside from the little courtyard where the Old Immortal of the Song Family lived, this was probably the hardest place to breach, right?
### Chu Ning did not even glance at those people or give them any response. She continued to maintain the haughty, willful temperament she had shown before.
### It was said that this behavior greatly displeased Prince Hui's children. They felt that she remained utterly foolish, unable to restrain herself even with disaster looming over her head. Prince Hui, however, praised her conduct to the skies, calling it "frank and genuine," and forcibly left all his daughters choking with resentment.
### Chu Ning