Everyone fell silent and looked up.
The commoners who had been kneeling and pleading with Duke Yan rose angrily to their feet, their faces full of malice.
"You still dare enter Hezhou!!!"
The person he was pointing at was Xia Wanwan.
But even as he spoke, a little boy flipped through the air and kicked his pointing hand aside.
Liu Zi Xing landed neatly and rebuked him coldly. "Who do you think you are, pointing at my little sister!"
Only then did the commoners clearly see the group surrounding Princess Ximing.
Qiao Zhishu entered through the city gates and loudly announced the identities of the Ninth Prince and the Ninth Prince's Consort.
Then government soldiers joined the troops in surrounding the rioting commoners.
The commoners went deathly pale with fright. No one dared make trouble.
The people before them were actually the Ninth Prince and the Ninth Prince's Consort?
Even Duke Yan could not afford to offend them.
They must have come to back Princess Ximing!
Heavy troops already surrounded the city gates. This time, it was the commoners who were in danger.
"Ninth Prince, have you brought troops here to shield the princess by killing everyone who could speak against her?" Duke Yan asked from atop the city wall.
Xia Siheng curled his lips into a cold smile and lifted Xia Wanwan into his arms with one hand.
Then he ascended the city wall, step by step.
No one knew what he intended to do, but they felt deeply uneasy.
"People of Hezhou City, don't you want an explanation? Why beg Duke Yan? As Princess Ximing's father, what is there you cannot say to me?"
Xia Siheng let the little dumpling lean against his shoulder.
The man stood atop the wall, his expression indifferent as he looked down upon