"You're joking, Princess. I just wanted to feel whether the hands of a golden branch and jade leaf really were soft." As if nothing had happened, Jiang Yourning smiled and pulled a large bag of sunflower seeds straight from her sleeve. "Here, these are for you~"
"That's more like it."
Chu Lange accepted the bag of sunflower seeds with satisfaction, but when she opened it, she discovered that their color was different from the ones she had eaten earlier. They smelled different, too.
"These aren't the ones from before."
"Wouldn't eating just one flavor get boring? I brought you a different one. These are caramel. Try them."
Jiang Yourning calmly poured herself a cup of tea as though she were in her own home.
It wasn't that she insisted on changing the flavor. She was simply afraid of getting a beating if the princess's lips swelled into sausages from eating the spicy ones.
Chu Lange tentatively ate a couple, then nodded in satisfaction. "Then keep me company and eat some with me."
"Sure."
After eating and drinking their fill, Jiang Yourning and the other two left the Princess's Residence, and Chu Lange reluctantly withdrew her gaze.
With them gone, the Princess's Residence seemed to have grown much colder and quieter again. How boring.
Still, she kept feeling as though she had forgotten something, but she just couldn't remember what.
But that didn't matter.
She and Jiang Yourning were friends now. They would have plenty of chances to see each other.
As she was thinking this, a man dressed as a guard hurried in from outside and knelt.
"Forgive us, Princess! We searched the entire Capital, but no one sells the sunflower seeds you wanted."
"No one?"
Chu Lange suddenly remembered Jiang Yourning saying that nowhere else sold them-only she