In the quiet, secluded mountain forest, a figure drifted down from midair.
Lu Chuan turned at the sound and looked over. From the surprise when he first saw her to the delight and smile that followed, he was quite certain his face had already displayed all of it.
"The Princess came too?" Emperor Lu said in "pleasant surprise."
Good thing he had noticed early. Otherwise, what came would not have been a pleasant surprise.
It was also because of the constraints of Heavenly Law; naturally, they could no longer address each other as they had before.
"Emperor Lu is rather attentive when it comes to their affairs," Longji said calmly.
"Am I?"
Lu Chuan looked astonished. Was there something behind his wife's words?
Though his conscience was clear, Emperor Lu still felt a little guilty.
But that shouldn't be the case!
Just now, he and his little sisters-in-law had all been very proper.
"Hey, since I happened to notice, I naturally couldn't pretend I hadn't seen it!"
As Emperor Lu spoke, he changed the subject. "But why has the Princess descended to the mortal realm?"
"Huang'er was worried, so she secretly came to Yaochi to find me, and I came down."
As Longji spoke, her tone shifted. Looking at Lu Chuan, she walked toward him step by step. "But these girls really have grown more and more unbridled under Emperor Lu's indulgence. Now they've actually learned to sneak down from the Heavenly Court to play, and not just once or twice either. Emperor Lu, what do you think should be done about this..."
"Punish them. They must be punished!"
Lu Chuan made the decision on the spot.
Longji smiled. "How should they be punished? Would informing Father and Mother be good?"
"Well..."
Emperor Lu pondered, then probed, "For such a