The Flirtatious Prince and His Savage Concubine

On the tenth day of September in the twenty-fifth year of Jiayu, it was Lu Lingxi’s sixteenth birthday.

This year's birthday was not as grand as last year's coming-of-age ceremony, so this year we only invited His Royal Highness the Crown Prince at Lu Lingxi's request.

After Lu Lingxi had breakfast and washed up, she did not ask Chunhong to help her dress up as usual. Instead, she sent Chunhong and Liulu out, saying that she wanted to put on a different makeup that they had never seen before.

Lu Lingxi closed the door and fiddled in the room for a long time. When she opened the door and came out, her face was covered with a veil. She explained that this was the first time she met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so she had to retain a sense of mystery and give His Royal Highness the Crown Prince a small surprise to leave him a deep first impression.

Seeing that Chunhong and Liulu believed what he said, Lu Lingxi raised the corners of his mouth under his veil and smiled maliciously as if his evil plan had succeeded. He coughed lightly and said, "Let's go to the pavilion and wait for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

After walking a few steps, he suddenly stopped, muttering to himself: "No, I have to hold a book in my hand to appear to be well-educated." Then he turned and ran towards the room.

When he went out again, he was holding a copy of "Three Character Classic" in his hand.

After seeing the book Lu Lingxi was holding, Liu Lu said frankly, "Miss, you are holding a copy of the Three Character Classic just to 'appear' to be cultured, but you are not really cultured. Who is still studying the Three Character Classic at your age? You should change to another book."

Lu Lingxi said unhappily: "Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. I have my reasons for reading the Three Character Classic now." But she was very happy in her heart. That's right, she just wanted to leave the first impression that she was very pretentious and artificial in the prince's mind, so that he would hate her and feel that he was not worthy of the high position of the crown princess.

After Lu Lingxi arrived at the pavilion, he stood facing the artificial lake, leaving his back facing the direction where the prince was coming.

After waiting for about two quarters of an hour, Lu Lingxi heard footsteps approaching from afar. She did not turn around immediately, but continued to pretend to study the book in her hand. The cool breeze by the lake gently blew up the corners of her clothes, and her back looked really ethereal.

When Lu Lingxi felt the footsteps not far behind her, she turned around at the right time and bowed her head obediently: "I greet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

The visitor said with a suppressed laugh: "Lingxi, you don't have to be so polite when you meet me."

Lu Lingxi thought the voice sounded very familiar, so he looked up quickly, "Xiao Yu'er! Why is it you?"

Lu Lingxi raised her head a little too much, and suddenly there was a strong wind, and the veil on her face fell off. She revealed her carefully designed makeup today. The most conspicuous thing was her big red lips. The lip balm was applied outside the lip line of her original cherry mouth, giving her a bloody mouth. There were deep dark circles under her eyes, and many spots. There were many red spots on her cheeks, and some of the red spots had some white spots, as if she had acne and suppuration. The skin condition of her whole face was also very bad, and it looked very sallow. She really played ugly to the fullest.

Xiao Yuer was shocked to see Lu Lingxi like this, took a small step back, and then hurried forward to ask with concern: "Lingxi, what's wrong with you? How come your face has become like this after just over a month of not seeing you?"

Lu Lingxi waved his hand indifferently and looked behind Xiao Yuer: "My face is fine. By the way, where is your Crown Prince? Is he behind?"

Seeing Lu Lingxi's indifferent attitude, Xiao Yuer understood that this little girl thought that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had never seen her, so she pretended to be ugly. The corners of her mouth could not help but curl up into an arc, smiling dotingly. Just when she was about to say, "I am the Crown Prince you are waiting for?"

Lu Lingxi picked up the fallen veil, put it back on her face, turned her back, and left herself with a fabulous back. When she turned around, Lu Lingxi was still muttering: "What's wrong with the Crown Prince? If he doesn't come, I will tease him later, so that I won't wait for so long."

Xiao Yuer suddenly lost the courage to say that he was the prince. He had just mustered up a lot of courage and was going to speak clearly, but with this interruption, his courage was instantly drained. Lingxi hated the prince so much, did it mean that if she made it clear now, the little bit of good impression she had accumulated in the past would be gone? Besides, today was her birthday, so he shouldn't make her unhappy. Wait until next time, and I will definitely make it clear to her next time.

So as soon as Lu Lingxi stood up, Xiao Yuer said, "Lingxi, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has something important to do today and can't spare time, so he sent me here to give you a birthday present. Here! Open it and see if you like it?" Then he took out a wooden box and handed it to Lu Lingxi.

Lu Lingxi became unhappy when he heard this, and turned around and said unhappily: "Your prince is really busy. I couldn't even invite him to my birthday party, and now he wants to marry me? Humph! He has no sincerity at all. Let me see what gift he gave me?" After saying that, he still took the gift from Xiaoyuer's hand and didn't make things difficult for him. Xiaoyuer was just a messenger, and there was no point in getting angry with him.

In fact, what made Lu Lingxi angry was not that the Crown Prince didn't care about her birthday, but that she had gotten up early and worked hard for a long time, but no one even showed up. What a waste of expression. She would have to think of other ways to disgust him next time, which was also very tiring.

Lu Lingxi thought about it and opened the wooden box with some annoyance. In the wooden box was a wooden hairpin with a silver chain at the end. Under the chain was a cat carved out of white jade. The cat was holding a small light yellow ball in its hand. When you look closely, you can even see the texture of the cat's hair. Lu Lingxi finally felt a little better after looking at this gift. He praised it, "This hairpin is quite unique. The cat's expression is lively and cute. Even the cat's hair seems to be able to move. The workmanship is so delicate."

When Xiao Yuer heard Lu Lingxi say that he liked it, he was so happy that he couldn't help but proudly said, "This was carved by our... our Crown Prince himself in seven days. He said that Lingxi is lively and outgoing, just like a cat. This hairpin must suit you very well."

"He has never seen me, how does he know what my personality is like?" Lu Lingxi narrowed his eyes and looked at Xiao Yuer, and saw that he lowered his head guiltily.

"Did you tell him? How can you be like this? I really treat you as a friend, but you are spying on me and reporting my every word and action to your master? I guess I have to be more careful with you in the future, right?" In order to show that he was angry, Lu Lingxi crossed his arms in front of his chest and tilted his head to one side, looking like he didn't want to talk to Xiao Yuer.

"You and His Royal Highness will get married sooner or later. His Royal Highness will know what kind of person you are sooner or later. Is this okay? I promise that I have never said anything bad about you in front of His Royal Highness. I have only praised you..."

Before Xiao Yu'er could finish his words, he was interrupted by Lu Lingxi, "No, so the Crown Prince also knows about my appearance? Did you tell him?"

Xiao Yuer nodded, then shook his head, and then quickly explained: "This has nothing to do with me. Not long after the imperial decree of your engagement came down, the Ministry of Rites gave your portrait to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. He must have seen you at a banquet in the palace before. He already knew what you looked like."

"Ah? Why am I still here pretending to be so smart? How silly. Liu Lu, quickly get me a basin of water. I applied too thick rouge today and it hurts." As she spoke, she fanned her face with her hands to make the skin feel refreshed.