Feng Wu said, “The best I can do is promise you that if you stop bothering me, I won’t show this to everyone else.”
“Feng Wu!” Jun Wuxia glared at Feng Wu. “You broke your promise!”
Feng Wu said, “Heh, Jun Wuxia, you sound as if you always keep your promises.”
Jun Wuxia said, “You —”
Feng Wu said, “If you do, then why are you doing this again when you promised last time that you would leave me alone?”
Jun Wuxia said, “You —”
Feng Wu said, “So, what’s wrong with me answering in kind when dealing with an untrustworthy person like you?”
Jun Wuxia said, “You —”
Feng Wu said, “So, if you mess with me again, I’ll expose you. Heh, I can’t wait to restore my reputation.”
Jun Wuxia said, “Feng Wu!”
Feng Wu chuckled. “Jun Wuxia, do you know what will happen if you keep acting so willfully?”
Feng Wu didn’t go into detail, but Jun Wuxia wasn’t a fool, and she could certainly understand the threat behind it.
Zuo Qingyu immediately tugged at Jun Wuxia’s sleeve.
Jun Wuxia glared at Zuo Qingyu and dcided that she would settle accounts with her later.
“Feng Wu, you win! I won’t forget this!” With one last threat, Jun Wuxia stormed off.
Feng Wu smiled as she watched Jun Wuxia and Zuo Qingyu leave.
Little Phoenix only came out of its hiding place in the reeds after making sure that the other two had left. It then landed on Feng Wu’s shoulder.
Poor Jun Wuxia. When she and Zuo Qingyu walked out of the reeds, they ran into an old friend — Feng Xun.
“Argh!”
Feng Xun jumped in fright when he saw them coming out of the reeds.
“Hey, who are you… Wait, isn’t it Princess Jun Wuxia? And this is… Zuo Qingyu?” Feng Xun stared at them in disbelief.
Because with their swollen faces, they looked like completely different people.
Jun Wuxia’s face already hurt a lot. When the teenager she had a crush on saw her at her ugliest, she was so frustrated that she burst into tears.
“Hey, Jun Wuxia —”
Before Feng Xun could ask anything, Jun Wuxia had run off, crying loudly.
Zuo Qingyu also picked up the lower hem of her dress and hurried off after Jun Wuxia.
Feng Xun scratched his head.
He couldn’t help but ask Feng Wu when he saw her, “Xiao Wu, did you give them a hard time again?”
Feng Wu threw a dirty look at him. “What do you mean by ‘give them a hard time’? One is a princess and the other is a daughter of the Zuo family. How am I, a commoner, supposed to give them a hard time?”
Feng Xun threw a dirty look at Feng Wu. “Of course you can. With your intelligence, even Her Majesty the empress dowager has to tolerate you, let alone the princess.”
Feng Wu said, “Hey, Feng Xun, don’t drag me down with you. Her Majesty the empress dowager still dislikes me a lot.”
“Not necessarily.” Feng Xun grinned. “From what I’ve heard, Her Majesty likes you a lot better now.”
“How so?” Feng Wu asked.
“At least she’s not trashing you whenever she has the chance,” said Feng Xun.
Feng Wu said, “Is that what you call ‘likes me a lot better’?”
Feng Xun said, “Well… it’s improving, isn’t it? You helped her make two breakthroughs.”
Feng Wu shook her head with a wry smile. “If Her Majesty really was a grateful person, she wouldn’t still be unaffected after all the help I’ve given her. She might look like a kind old lady, but deep down, she has a heart of stone.”
