TSFLIP Chapter 852

The old man let out a light laugh. “Cuizhu Pavilion is the residence of a very influential person.”

“There was a man there,” Feng Guang said. Just thinking of him made her teeth itch with anger. “And he was a very bad man!”

“Oh?” the old man asked. “Did that gentleman make the Crown Princess angry?”

“Not just him—his dog, too. And those guards who just stood there watching me get dragged along by that dog and couldn’t do a single thing… none of them are good people.”

The old man explained gently, “Crown Princess, those were the Embroidered Uniform Guard, not the Imperial Guards.”

The Imperial Guards answered directly to the emperor, while the Embroidered Uniform Guard were under the Western Bureau. The two groups were fundamentally different and did not get along at all.

The old man added, “Actually… that gentleman is not a bad person.”

She frowned. “Do you know him?”

Otherwise, why would he speak well of him?

“I wouldn’t dare say I know him,” the old man said kindly with a smile. “How could this old servant be qualified to know someone so noble? I’ve only seen that gentleman from afar a few times.”

“Then how can you say he isn’t bad?”

“If the Crown Princess wishes to refute this old servant’s words, you might first try to understand that gentleman.”

Feng Guang touched her chin. “Why would I want to understand him? You don’t know—after just meeting him once today, I never want to see him again. Sure, he’s kind of good-looking… ahem—but his personality is awful. He bullied me, and his dog bullied me too. What’s there to understand about someone like that?”

“What the Crown Princess says is right. He does indeed have many flaws,” the old man agreed, with a faint trace of a sigh in his tone.

Feng Guang blinked. “You really do know him, don’t you? He refused to tell me his name. Do you know what he’s called?”

“Since he was unwilling to tell the Crown Princess his name, this old servant does not dare to be talkative,” the old man said slowly. “Crown Princess, rest assured. Sooner or later, he will tell you his identity. I only hope that by then, you will not dislike him so much.”

Feng Guang felt the old man’s words were mysterious and hard to grasp. Just as she was about to ask more, two figures in the distance suddenly caught her attention.

At the palace gate, a palace maid held a lantern. Standing before her was a handsome, refined man. In his hands, he held a white flower that looked like a rose.

The old man suddenly said, “The Flower Deity Festival is coming.”

Feng Guang was puzzled. “The Flower Deity Festival?”

“Every year on the fifteenth day of the sixth lunar month, it is the Flower Deity Festival — a day when men and women express their feelings and declare their intentions of love.”

“Express their feelings…” Feng Guang murmured, her gaze drifting toward the man and woman in the distance, momentarily lost in thought.

“Who is there?” the palace maid asked, turning when she heard a sound. When she saw Feng Guang, her eyes widened in shock, and she quickly bowed. “Yi Ren greets the Crown Princess.”

The man turned around as well. The hand holding the flower dropped to his side, and when he saw Feng Guang, he gave a gentle smile.

They were Baili Mo and Yi Ren.

…They had been seen.

Feng Guang looked to her side again. The old man was already gone.

She suddenly felt even more awkward. For some reason, even though she was the legitimate wife, she felt like she was the extra person in this scene…

Bracing herself, she walked over and cleared her throat. “Um… good evening, you two.”

Yi Ren looked extremely embarrassed. After all, being seen standing alone with the Crown Prince in such a secluded place—and by the Crown Princess, no less—no explanation would sound good.

Baili Mo, on the other hand, looked as gentle as ever, without the slightest trace of guilt.

Feng Guang suddenly realized something very important and very sad.

Even after catching a man and woman alone together in such a situation, she felt no anger and no sadness at all.

And that meant only one thing.

She didn’t like this Crown Prince at all.