Chapter 663: Chapter 647: Let’s Make a Bet—I’ll Advance to Fourth Rank Tomorrow
The Council Hall was bustling with noise and activity.
However, over by the Seventh Princess’s side, the room was empty!
The girl had run away!
With a flicker of her figure, she left Qingqiu and headed straight for Zuo Zhi Lake. Just as she waved her hand to pick the peach blossoms from the tree, prepared to escape aboard the Peach Blossom Boat, a figure gracefully landed on the boat before her. It was her third elder sister.
“What’s this? Trying to run away?” Third Sister Miao Mu gave a sweeping glance, causing the peach blossoms under her feet to fly back up to the branches.
The Seventh Princess grabbed her: “Third Sister, you have to help me!”
“Help you run away?”
“Yes, I have to run. Those old geezers are too terrifying. They even pulled father into their camp, and they insist on sending me to be ruined by that old uncle. I can’t stand it; I have to run!” the Seventh Princess said.
“He’s currently a fifth rank official! He’s a rising star in the officialdom! If you marry him, you’ll become a court official’s wife! And you still want to run away from such a husband?” Third Sister said.
“I like Brother Su!”
Third Sister was speechless: “There you go again with Brother Su. Your Brother Su ran away a long time ago.”
“The monk may run, but the temple stays. I’ll find him at the Ancient Sect!”
“Oh my god, you’re so stubborn…” Third Sister sighed deeply. “Pity you can’t reach the Ancient Divine Ruins!”
“Nothing in the world is difficult if you put your heart into it! I have the heart; I can definitely get there!”
“Your marriage is in less than three months. In a mere three months’ time, you won’t make it out of the Great Wilderness at all!” Third Sister said, “Even if I let you go, the elders of the clan will definitely drag you back. Whether you wish it or not, you won’t escape this marriage.”
“Can’t escape, can’t escape! Why? I just like Brother Su. I just want to be with him. You’ve all swallowed the Mist of the surname Li!” the Seventh Princess fumed.
“You’re the one who swallowed the Mist of the surname Su!” Third Sister was furious. “You haven’t even talked to him, why must it be him?”
“He’s handsome!”
Here we go again!
“…” Third Sister gritted her teeth.
“He specially went to Qingqiu and played that tune for me. He even clearly said he would marry me. If I just nod, everything would work! Just as I rushed out to nod, you jumped out to drag me back, look at how you ruined things…” the Seventh Princess said. “Third Sister, since you ruined my good thing, you should make it up to me… good Sister, can you see me off?”
A mix of soft and hard tactics.
Third Sister finally lost her patience, reached out and grabbed her, ignoring her loud protests, and dragged her back to the clan, locked the door; once locked, it became a sealed array.
The Seventh Princess fussed for a long time but couldn’t open the door. As dusk gradually fell, she rolled her eyes: “Little Rou!”
A maid came to the door: “Seventh Princess!”
“Come in!”
“This servant dares not come in. This servant thinks the Seventh Princess surely wants to run away.” The girl answered from outside.
“Run my grandmother’s head… I want to go into seclusion, bring me some Primordial Crystal!”
Seclusion is serious business; seclusion is good!
The girl opened the door from outside, breaking the array.
The Seventh Princess shut the door and started taking off her clothes, startling the maid: “Seventh Princess, you… what are you doing?”
“Your guess was right, I really am planning to run away, so you’ll impersonate the Princess to fool them!” The Seventh Princess was very excited.
“I can’t, Princess. The elders will kill me if they find out.”
“Don’t worry, they won’t find out!” The Seventh Princess stretched out her hand, and a bracelet on her hand mysteriously changed, splitting into two, one of which she put on the maid’s hand.
The maid’s face bizarrely changed, and she herself transformed.
The maid firmly refused, begged, fussed, even resisted.
The Seventh Princess dropped a bombshell: “Why the fuss? I promise, once I’m married, I’ll take you too. You can be a concubine maid and I’ll allow you to sleep with him three times a month! Is that okay?”
The maid quieted down, her eyes gleaming with “fortune favors the bold.”
The Seventh Princess, dressed in the maid’s clothes, tilted her head to appraise the maid sitting on the ground: “Hmm, my mother’s Heavenly Fox Bracelet should be used like this!”
Leaving the room, she locked the door from the outside, and grandiosely left Qingqiu.
Half an hour later, Third Sister arrived outside the room, peeking through the window at the “Seventh Princess” inside, sensing her specific aura.
Hmm, going into seclusion is just right.
When your seclusion ends, you’ll go straight to the bridal sedan chair and settle this marriage.
She would never imagine that the Seventh Princess inside the room was a deception, able to fool her detection thanks to the Heavenly Fox Bracelet her mother gave her.
The Heavenly Fox Bracelet demonstrated the Fox Clan’s transformation arts to the fullest.
In general, the Seventh Princess treasured this bracelet greatly and rarely used it, but today she split the Heavenly Fox Bracelet into two, indirectly reducing its power by half.
Because she was going to do something big!
If one were to describe this big plan with four words, it would be: “Underhanded victory!”