"Your Highness, you enjoy listening to music too?"
As he spoke, Jiang Xiaobai looked at Helian Zhaoyue, his expression visibly surprised.
And Helian Zhaoyue even knew about that master.
Clearly, she had done her homework before coming to Great Hua!
"Yes."
Helian Zhaoyue answered softly, "I listen now and then."
"All right!"
Jiang Xiaobai glanced at Helian Zhaoyue and said, "Then let's take a stroll through the Imperial Garden!"
Having said that, Jiang Xiaobai seemed to remember something else and changed the subject. "But when do you intend to pay me the ten thousand taels you just lost to me, Princess?"
"Ten thousand taels?"
The corners of Helian Zhaoyue's lips lifted slightly. "There's no hurry. After all, when we made our wager, we never set a deadline for payment!"
As she spoke, Helian Zhaoyue looked at Jiang Xiaobai with a cold smile. "So... in eight or ten years, whenever you finally look upon me with favor, Heir Jiang!"
"It won't be too late for me to pay you then!"
Huh?
Jiang Xiaobai visibly froze at her words, then was left utterly speechless.
Indeed, he had never expected this girl to turn the tables and pull one over on him!
The Elder Princess sat beside them, a hint of a smile crossing her face beneath her bamboo hat.
Jiang Xiaobai never came out on the losing end of a verbal exchange.
Now... he had finally met his match!
Tang Ningshuang also gave a soft snort, looking rather pleased at his misfortune.
Served him right for talking like that at the Imperial College. Now... he was getting a taste of his own medicine!
Jiang Xiaobai shook his head helplessly and simply stopped dwelling on it. Instead, he resumed pondering what Helian Zhaoyue had hoped to accomplish by saying those things at the