Jiang Yingcheng slapped the table and sprang to her feet. Without waiting for anyone's reaction, she pattered around from behind her handsome imperial father into the center of the hall and reached for the longsword in the Zhujin Kingdom's "princess's" hand.
She held out her hand for quite some time, but the other girl made no response.
Her arm was starting to ache.
"Give it to Chengcheng?!" Seeing the other girl standing motionless as a statue, Jiang Yingcheng could not help urging her.
At last, that urging drew a reaction from Xu Suxue.
She slowly turned her head and stared blankly at her "imperial father," who was still seated where he had been. She was utterly bewildered.
The Ruler of the Zhujin Kingdom seemed not to have expected things to reach this point either. His wine goblet froze in midair, and inwardly, he was almost smoking with rage.
This whole performance had been arranged to target Great Rui's Second Princess, yet this little thing, so dearly favored by Emperor Mingze, just had to stick her nose into it!
Even Great Rui's empress cradled this little thing carefully in her arms. Even if they made her lose face, how could that count as a show of allegiance to the Crown Prince?!
Besides, even if such a tiny little thing lost, wouldn't she simply think she had played an amusing game?!
Xu Suxue turned back and looked at the puff-cheeked little dumpling before her.
According to their plans, after she said those words, a princess of Great Rui would indeed slap the table, rise, walk over to her, and proudly take the longsword from her hand.
Everything that had happened bore out her "imperial father's" predictions, but-
Xu Suxue's pupils trembled.
It was the wrong person!!
**What on earth was this little