Time slipped slowly by without anyone noticing.
As Chu Wenzong's health gradually improved, Chu Youning was finally about to reach the first major milestone of her life-her coming-of-age hairpin ceremony.
When Chu Wenzong appeared before her with a thick booklet, Chu Youning felt like faking her death and disappearing.
"Brother, I think you just have too much time on your hands. If you have nothing to do, why not show the Crown Prince some consideration and help him handle more state affairs?"
Her hairpin ceremony was still a month away.
Yet this was already the seventeenth time in the past fortnight that Chu Wenzong had revised the finer details of the proceedings for her.
Seeing that he had successfully annoyed his younger sister yet again, Chu Wenzong was very pleased:
"Listen to yourself! Isn't your hairpin ceremony, as the Elder Princess, the most eagerly anticipated event in all of Great Yu right now?"
"I am personally overseeing and revising the proceedings because I care about you as your elder brother. Don't be difficult and let all my painstaking efforts go to waste!"
"...Are you sure you aren't using official business to settle a personal score?"
Seeing that the booklet had grown several pages thicker again, Chu Youning exposed him without hesitation.
Chu Wenzong remained unmoved, continuing to smile amiably beside her. "Sister, don't measure a gentleman's heart with a petty person's yardstick."
He certainly wouldn't deliberately set aside a pile of state affairs just to watch his sister look furious and helpless over those few chests of treasure he couldn't get back.
"Then... how do you feel about your revisions this time, Brother? Is anything still missing? Why not spend another seven or eight months revising them? Once Your Venerable Majesty is satisfied, we can hold the ceremony."
Chu Youning