I'm in trouble again! My best friend, the princess in the group, please save me!

"What are you busy with, my Yan?" Jiang Xingkuo was putting lychees into his mouth while applying facial mask.

"I'm so annoyed. It's still the Qiqiao Festival. The Queen Mother said I should do some needlework for the worship on that day!" An Huanyan buried her head in a pile of cloth. She was so annoyed that she threw the small purse she was sewing to the ground.

"Princess, why don't you let Tengxi do it?" Tengxi picked up the purse at her feet and took a look at it.

The stitches were sparse and crooked. She lowered her head and smiled secretly. This princess had not changed much except for her temperament.

"No... Mother said I have to do it myself. Oh, never mind. I'm going out for a walk. Do you want to come?"

"No, my face can't be exposed to the sun!" Jiang Xingkuo nestled comfortably on the couch and ate fresh seasonal fruits. "Ah, being a princess is good! I can eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks every day, and even in the north, I can eat lychees!"

"You are such a pig! All you do is eat!" An Huanyan said in dismay as she walked out. "Don't follow me! I'll go out for a walk by myself!"

An Huanyan held a long pole with a ball of sticky gluten on the end in one hand, and a net bag in the other, and walked through the long corridor.

Whether in the pavilion or beside the rockery, you can always hear the chirping of cicadas from time to time, sometimes rising and sometimes falling. The hotter the weather, the louder they chirp.

An Huanyan stretched out her hand and the cicada, which was singing loudly, suddenly shut up.

She put the cicadas into the net bag and caught them one after another.

There are several cypress trees next to the Qin'an Hall, with dense vines winding up the trees, and the sound of cicadas in the middle is like heavy rain.

An Huanyan raised the pole in frustration and poked into the leaves.

"what!"

There were screams among the leaves.

She was so scared that she quickly let go and stepped back.

A man jumped down from the tree. There was a ball of gluten stuck in his black hair, and a long pole was attached to the gluten. His face was ashen and his eyes were furious.

That funny look and An Huanyan's laughter resounded throughout the Qin'an Palace.

Wait, this guy looks familiar.

An Huanyan looked closely. My old swan! It was Hai Yanqing.

"Why are you here?!"

"Why can't I be here?" Hai Yanqing's veins bulged.

"How can you just come into the palace so casually? You're just a foreigner!" An Huanyan looked him up and down, as if he had sneaked in.

Hai Yanqing became even angrier. No one had ever questioned him like this, even if the other person was a princess.

"Why can't I enter the palace? My father is the prime minister of the dynasty. He has been by your side since your majesty was in Qianlong and has made great contributions! I also grew up in the palace since I was a child. Shouldn't it be easy for me to enter the palace?"

"Oh. So it's thanks to Dad." An Huanyan grinned, but hit the other person's heart.

"You're not? If you weren't a princess, you would have been beheaded long ago!"

"So what? It's not like I have horns on my head!" She said and ran away.

"Where else do you want to run to?" Hai Yanqing grabbed her collar and pulled her back.

An Huanyan raised her eyelids and saw the pole stuck on his head. She wanted to laugh but didn't dare to. She tried so hard to hold it back that her whole body began to tremble.

"What are you laughing at! Take it down quickly!" Hai Yanqing was furious when he saw her like this.

An Huanyan immediately became serious and reached out to pull the pole down.

Hai Yanqing was half a head shorter than her, so she could only stand on tiptoe and continue to reach out to pull off the sticky gluten bit by bit.

Facing Hai Yanqing so closely, it seemed like... it was just like the last time on the bed...

An Huanyan didn't know why, but she suddenly blushed when she thought of these things.

She lost her balance and fell into Hai Yanqing's arms.

Hai Yanqing's already angry face suddenly froze, but his hands involuntarily wrapped around her waist. With a spin, the two of them landed safely and stood firmly on their feet.

An Huanyan also stared at him blankly, her heart beating so fast that she was almost suffocating.

He quickly let go of her hand, took a step back, and looked at An Huanyan with a vigilant look on his face. "What tricks are you trying to pull?"

"You're crazy! Are you playing tricks? Do you think I'm in a circus? I'm a princess, okay?" Seeing his reaction, An Huanyan suddenly felt that her heartbeat just now was really unfair.

"Princess?! I have never seen a princess so naughty!" Hai Yanqing sneered contemptuously.

"Then find someone to do it yourself! This princess is noble and cold, how can I serve you?" An Huanyan rolled her eyes and turned to leave.

"You are irresponsible for what you did? Didn't you like this the most in the past? You tried every means to get close to me." Hai Yanqing grabbed her hand and pulled her back.

This sentence was said unintentionally, but the listener took it seriously. An Huanyan suddenly didn't know where to put her eyes, and her fingers were fiddling with her long sleeves.

Hai Yanqing was shocked when he saw her shy look, "Who are you doing this for? Do you think I like you?"

An Huanyan's expression suddenly turned cold. She looked away, trying to hide the disappointment in her eyes, but she deliberately said, "You could have let the servants do it, but you insisted on asking me to do it. Are you saying one thing and thinking another?"

"You?! If you weren't a princess, I would have thrown you out long ago." Hai Yanqing still felt unsatisfied, and pointed at the sculpture in the Qin'an Hall and said word by word: "I, Hai Yanqing, swear to the Great Emperor Zhenwu that if I have the slightest love for you, I will be alone for the rest of my life!"

An Huanyan blinked helplessly, her mood as if she had fallen into an ice cellar, but she still stiffened her neck, showing a smile uglier than crying and said: "Who do you think you are? Who else should I look for than you? Your face is so long and smelly, and your clothes are so bad. You wear white all day long. If you don't know, you would think someone has died in your family!"

"You!" Hai Yanqing was furious.

"What do you mean by "you"! And what's more! Your muscles are one big and one small. Are you trying to develop the Kirin arm? Find a good master to learn from you!" An Huanyan cursed in one breath, and before he could react, she ran away.

Hai Yanqing was speechless. He secretly touched the muscles on his arms and thought, "Is it really asymmetrical..."

When he came to his senses, he found that the gluten on his head had dried up and was stuck to his hair and could not be pulled off. He could not help but grit his teeth, but there was nothing he could do.

"I always feel like she's different from before... I can't really tell what's different..."

An Huanyan went out in a upset state, came back angrily, and jumped onto the chair, huffing and puffing.

"What's wrong with you? Why are you like a monkey?" Jiang Xingkuo patted her.

"Stop talking. I met that stinky man again." After drinking some iced black plum soup, An Huanyan's anger subsided a lot, and she told the story again.

"You know, I just bumped into him by accident. Does he have to be so fierce? I'm still a princess! How could he be so rebellious?!" An Huanyan couldn't understand.

Jiang Xingkuo took a deep look at the troubled An Huanyan, and suddenly realized something serious, but he still didn't point it out. He could only smile awkwardly and replied, "Maybe it's because you always threw yourself at him in the past that he became more and more presumptuous and arrogant."

"What? You're teasing me too?!" An Huanyan threw the peach on the table over. "Ah!"

She suddenly screamed, and Jiang Xingkuo's hand shook three times as he caught the peach.

"What! Is this a ghost?" Jiang Xingkuo finally caught Taozi.

"Xingxing, you've become so beautiful!" An Huanyan jumped off the chair and pounced on her.