"Didn't this fellow just have lunch a little while ago?"
Tang Ningshuang watched Jiang Xiaobai's hastily retreating figure, looking puzzled.
And another thing...
Why had he suddenly run off so fast?
But Tang Ningshuang did not dwell on it. She turned around, ready to return to her room and finish changing.
Wait, changing?
Tang Ningshuang stopped and glanced down at the long dress she was wearing. The next moment, something dawned on her.
Her face visibly flushed bright red.
"Ah! Jiang Xiaobai, stop right there!"
With a shriek, Tang Ningshuang grabbed her sword in one hand and gathered her skirt in the other, then stormed after him.
"Don't worry! I absolutely, absolutely, absolutely won't hack you to death..."
Early the next morning.
The tightly shut gates of the Elder Princess's Residence slowly opened.
Four figures emerged from the residence, one after another.
They were none other than Xiao Qingxiu and the three heirs apparent of Dingyuan Prefecture.
"Jiang Xiaobai, I won't forget this!"
Xiao Qingxiu stared at the gates as they closed again, his teeth grinding audibly.
Damn it!
He was the exalted Young Prince of the Eighth Prince's Residence. Wherever he went, people treated him with respect.
Yet he had actually been confined in the Elder Princess's Residence for three whole days!
Over those three days, he had tried to leave several times, only to be stopped by the people of the Elder Princess's Residence.
Even when the Eighth Prince's Residence learned what had happened and sent people specifically to negotiate, it had not helped in the slightest.
It had been utterly stifling!
Naturally, he laid all of it at Jiang Xiaobai's door.
Indeed, if Jiang Xiaobai had not falsely accused him at the banquet that day, why would the Elder Princess have detained him?
How could he