804: Gili Suits for a Sneak Attack (Part 1) [Seeking Monthly Tickets]

Qi Cang swaggered off.

Only the Princess and her lady remained in the Princess's residence.

Crackle—crackle—

All that remained by their ears was the sound of their breathing and the occasional pop of the candles. After an unknown length of time, the Princess's aching legs could no longer support her. She slumped to the floor. Coming back to her senses, she realized that cold sweat was streaming down her back, soaking through her underclothes.

A few strange, turbulent emotions swirled in her eyes. She couldn't keep her breathing from quickening. "My lady, do you think he was sent by Father King or my royal brothers to test us?"

As a Princess, she had once lived carefree.

After marrying that hotshot young noble, she had enjoyed a brief period of domestic harmony and affection. She thought she would be happy like that for the rest of her life, until she once more faced the prospect of a political marriage. No, that time hardly even counted as a proper political marriage.

She had gone to wish Father King a happy birthday without a care in the world. During the banquet, she drank a cup of wine handed to her by a palace maid, then promptly lost consciousness. When she woke, night had fallen, and an unfamiliar, burly man was standing with his back to her, pulling on his trousers. He wasn't the Consort Captain! The bedchamber was a complete mess. She had been married for two years by then. How could she not know what had happened? She immediately called for people, intending to have the brute beheaded and punished.

But the man looked surprised. "Wasn't it Your Highness who wanted to share a night of pleasure with this general, and asked the Eldest Young Master to arrange it?"

She felt as