Your Majesty, please stop messing around.

Seeing the little maid in front of him who was obviously very nervous and restrained, but yet ran back, Lin Jiangnian was speechless. He glanced out the window and half-smiled: "Can you serve me?"

Xiaozhu intertwined her little hands, her delicate body was nervous and trembling, but she forced herself to calm down: "Slave, this slave can learn..."

Lin Jiangnian looked her up and down, looking at her pitiful and nervous look, and thought for a moment: "Okay, can you come over and rub my prince's back?"

"good……"

Hearing His Highness ask her to rub his back, Xiaozhu felt slightly relieved. He carefully moved to the edge of the bath, secretly raised his head and took a look at the bath.

The mist filled the whole room, and the bath was hazy and hot. She vaguely saw His Highness lying beside the bath. The exposed back made her feel shy and her face was hot. Carefully picking up the bath towel next to him, he tremblingly began to rub His Highness's back...

…

Lin Jiangnian was lying beside the bathtub, comfortably enjoying the service of the little maid.

This little maid is not very strong, and is soft and soft, more like a massage.

"Harder!"

"Try harder, harder...More...have you not eaten?"

"Don't stop...get comfortable..."

"..."

Xiaozhu squatted and knelt by the bathtub, rolled up her sleeves, her pretty face was flushed, her little face was tight, and she was panting. She almost used all her strength with her hands to rub and rub on His Highness's back...

tired!

So tired!

After rubbing for a while, she was so tired that she was out of breath and felt that all her strength was used up... Did His Highness deliberately bully her?

The little maid felt aggrieved but did not dare to resist. Although I was very tired, I gritted my teeth and persisted.

"Okay, that's almost it."

Finally, Lin Jiangnian asked her to stop.

The little maid was relieved. Her little hands were red from rubbing her hands, and her arms were so weak that she could hardly lift them up.

Her face was flushed and she was panting. She never thought that serving His Highness would be so tiring. She glanced at the bath, and when her eyes fell on His Highness's back, which was a little red from being rubbed by her, her face turned red again, and she turned away in panic.

"Okay, step back."

Lin Jiangnian glanced at the maid with her little head lowered, and could not guess what she was thinking.

The little maid took a few steps back, and when she saw His Highness getting up from the bath, she quickly turned around.

"You are not allowed to peek at my prince!"

Lin Jiangnian's playful voice came from behind.

The little maid's delicate body trembled, her face turned red, and her little face was even tighter with shame and anger.

She, she wouldn’t peek!

But suddenly I remembered that I had accidentally glanced at it a few times... and I suddenly felt guilty again.

Just when the little maid was troubled and confused, Lin Jiangnian had already gotten up from the bath, dried herself and put on clothes.

Looking up, he saw the little maid standing in the corner with her back to him. The petite body looks a little helpless, which is particularly endearing.

Seeing this, Lin Jiangnian came up behind her with light steps. As soon as he got closer, he noticed the fair and red profile of this little maid, which was really pretty.

It's as pink and tender as a girl's first glow, and it's so watery that it makes you want to take a sip.

Lin Jiangnian looked down and caught a glimpse of the little maid's snow-white and slender neck, and further down... There were a lot of water stains on her dress by the bathtub, clinging to her body, and the looming snow-white skin...

Lin Jiangnian's little bit of conscience that he finally found seemed to be fading away.

"Why are you dazed?"

Lin Jiangnian looked away and spoke abruptly.

"ah?!"

The little maid was caught off guard and was frightened when she heard Lin Jiangnian's voice behind her.

Her delicate body trembled violently!

When she turned around, she saw His Highness standing behind her at some point, looking at her with 'malicious intent'.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

He was already feeling guilty, but at this moment his delicate little face was even more nervous and flushed, and he lowered his head and did not dare to look at her.

"Okay, let's go."

Seeing her expression, Lin Jiangnian stopped teasing her and turned around and walked outside.

Xiaozhu stood there, staring blankly at His Highness's leaving figure. When His Highness' figure almost disappeared from the door, she woke up from a dream and hurriedly followed him.

At night, the quiet palace.

Lin Jiangnian was walking on the eaves corridor, glanced at the little maid behind him who was two steps behind him, her head lowered and following every step, and suddenly asked: "Did you meet anyone after you went out just now?"

Xiaozhu lowered his head and hummed softly.

"who is it?"

"Sister Zhiyuan..."

"What did she tell you?"

Xiaozhu whispered nervously: "Zhi, Sister Zhiyuan, please let me have your servant come in and serve His Highness..."

"Gone?"

"Um……"

Lin Jiangnian narrowed his eyes, why did she come?

Although Zhiyuan was nominally Prince Lin's maid, she had not taken care of Prince Lin's daily life. These things were all done by other maids and maids in the house, and she basically didn't interfere.

Why did she come suddenly tonight?

Or...is she suspecting something?

Lin Jiangnian turned his head and glanced at the little maid beside him, thoughtfully.

The master and servant returned to the courtyard and stopped at the door of the prince's room. Lin Jiangnian seemed to have thought of something and stopped.

"Okay, I'm going to take a rest, please step aside first."

Xiaozhu, who followed His Highness all the way, was originally worried whether His Highness would catch her to warm the bed tonight. Hearing this, he immediately raised his head and felt relieved.

"Then, that slave has withdrawn?"

Lin Jiangnian waved his hand.

Xiaozhu felt relieved and then cautiously stepped back.

Lin Jiangnian stood at the door and made sure there was no one else in the surrounding courtyard before opening the door and walking in.

In the dark and quiet room, Lin Jiangnian closed the door and locked it out of habit. Light the oil lamp and quickly light up the entire room.

only……

The room was empty.

Lin Jiangnian's eyes fell on the table not far away. He hadn't come yet?

According to the habit of the past two days, the woman in red should have been sitting at the table waiting for him by this time.

Haven't you come today?

Lin Jiangnian came to the table and sat down, waiting quietly.

However, until the oil lamp burned out and in the dead of night, the woman in red still did not appear.

Won't you come tonight?

Lin Jiangnian yawned. After a day of hard work, he was indeed tired and sleepy.

Turn off the lights and go to sleep!

…

It's quiet at night, outside the courtyard.

A beautiful figure stood there, and it wasn't until the lights in Lin Jiangnian's room went out that he finally looked away.

The cold and delicate face is calm.

"There is nothing strange about His Highness these past two days. However, His Highness has been very close to the maid named Xiaozhu these past two days. Tonight, he asked Xiaozhu to serve him by name. I am afraid he has fallen in love with her..."

Beside him, a maid bowed her head and spoke respectfully.

Zhiyuan, who was wearing a purple shirt and long skirt, still looked calmly, her dark eyes blending into the night, elegant and cold.

But there seemed to be some doubts in those eyes.

His Highness is still the same His Highness!

But for some reason, she still felt that His Highness was a little strange. It was an instinctive intuition, hard to explain.

Ever since His Highness was assassinated, I have always felt a little bit... strange?

Especially today...

As if thinking of something, there was something strange in Zhiyuan's cold eyes.

Maybe she is really too sensitive? !

His Highness is still the same His Highness, the one who will lose his mind at all costs to protect the princess...

Just like two years ago, exactly the same.

There was silence all around. Zhiyuan took a deep look at the darkened room and looked back.

"Let Xiaozhu come to see me."

"yes."

"..."