TSFLIP Chapter 856

When Fengguang saw the man leading the group—a man carrying a blade and holding a big yellow dog—her eye twitched, and her head began to ache.

The man in black bowed. “Your Highness, Crown Princess.”

The dog barked excitedly.

Fengguang kept a full ten paces between them, doing her best to ignore the dog as she asked, “And you are?”

“Your servant, Liu Qi, Commander of the Embroidered Guard. Greetings to Your Highness.”
His tone was respectful, but not servile.

Fengguang raised a brow. “I remember you.”

Yesterday, when she’d been dragged off by the tiger, he had been running right behind her—yet completely unable to do anything.

Liu Qi clearly understood what she meant. He immediately bowed again.
“Please forgive us, Crown Princess. Yesterday’s incident happened too suddenly. We truly had no way to react.”

She didn’t believe a word of that.

Fengguang snorted. “I know you’re investigating the assassins. I won’t make things difficult for you. You take your time. I’ll be going now.”

“Crown Princess, please wait.”

She turned back impatiently. “What now?”

“For this investigation, Your Highness must also be included.”
Liu Qi’s expression didn’t change at all. He didn’t seem worried in the slightest about offending her.

Fengguang’s voice rose immediately. “Your investigation includes me?”

“Lord Song has ordered that everyone in the palace is to be treated equally. Crown Princess, your understanding is requested.”

“You mean Song Wuxia?”

The people around them gasped in horror.

Fengguang glanced at them. Feiyu, behind her, was so frightened she could barely move. Liu Qi’s expression had also turned peculiar. Fengguang blinked innocently.

“What? I said Song Wuxia—”

Another round of sharp inhalations.

She paused. “Is his name something you’re not allowed to say?”

“It has been a very long time, Your Highness,” Liu Qi said carefully, “since anyone has dared call Lord Song by his given name.”

“Is his name taboo?”

“No, miss…” Feiyu whispered from behind her. “In the palace, everyone—including His Majesty—addresses him as Lord Song. No one dares say his full name out loud.”

“Names are for calling, aren’t they?”

Feiyu sighed heavily. Clearly, her lady had lost her memory and hadn’t yet realized how terrifying that man was.

Fengguang was done with this conversation. She turned around.
“I don’t care what you’re investigating—I have urgent business. No one is stopping me.”

The moment she finished speaking, Liu Qi hadn’t reacted yet—
but the big yellow dog did.

Tiger-Bite yanked free from the rope around its neck, barked twice at Fengguang, and charged straight toward her.

This time, Fengguang reacted quickly. She darted behind Feiyu and shouted at Liu Qi,
“Hurry up and tie that dog!”

Liu Qi snapped out of it and reached to restrain Tiger-Bite—but Tiger-Bite was no ordinary dog. It dodged neatly, looped around Feiyu, and continued straight for Fengguang.

Fengguang had no choice but to run.
As she fled, she shouted,
“Why are you all just standing there?! Catch it!”

At that moment, the Eastern Palace staff finally snapped back to their senses. The scene that followed was absurdly familiar: Fengguang running in front, Tiger-Bite chasing behind, and behind the dog—a whole group of palace maids, eunuchs, and Embroidered Guards.

(And no, they weren’t trying to protect her—they were trying to make sure no one hurt the dog.)

But Fengguang, who had never exercised a day in her life, was doomed to lose to a massive beast. Just as Tiger-Bite was about to grab her skirt, she gritted her teeth, scrambled up the gardener’s ladder onto the palace wall—and when she saw the dog about to climb after her, she kicked the ladder down.

Tiger-Bite could only bark up at her from below.
Standing atop the wall, Fengguang finally exhaled in relief.
Honestly, she had never known she could move that fast.

Not far away, a tall figure approached. A faint smile played at his lips.

“What happened here? The Crown Princess seems quite energetic today.”