Prince Pei Yuanxiu stood at the door with a faint smile on his face.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?" I was startled, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "I pay my respects to His Highness the Crown Prince."

He walked in slowly and walked up to me. His snow-white clothes fluttered gently in front of his eyes. He looked down at me and said gently: "Get up."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

I didn’t dare to say anything because I was afraid that I would be caught imitating his handwriting, but he smiled faintly and walked to the bookshelf to read, as if nothing happened.

There was a silence in the inner pavilion, as if every time he came here in the past, it was as quiet as water. I still bowed my head and followed him, waiting quietly. At this time, Pei Yuanxiu was reading a book.

He said casually: "Why weren't you here on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year?"

The fifth day of the Lunar New Year? I was stunned for a moment, and immediately recalled that I was supposed to be on duty on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, but that day Pei Yuanhao went to Yeting to find someone, so we were all left there, and no one was on duty in the Neizang Pavilion.

How could His Highness the Prince know that he came to the Neizang Pavilion to borrow a book that day?

I hurriedly said: "On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, His Highness the Third Highness came to Yeting for some business, and all the servants were left behind."

"Oh," Pei Yuanxiu raised his eyebrows, as if he remembered something: "By the way, I heard that that day he went to find a palace maid he had favored. Did he find it?"

"Found it."

"Who is it?"

"It's a female official named Yao Yingxue."

"Yao Yingxue..." The prince recited the name silently, then looked down at me, suddenly smiled and said, "That's fine, I thought he took you away."

"Ah?" My heart skipped a beat, and I raised my head to look at him, only to see Pei Yuanxiu looking at me with a smile. The sunlight shone on his fair and handsome face, showing a faint luster, as gentle as jade.

And his eyes are so gentle, even in such a slightly cold weather, it feels like a warm spring breeze.

I turned red at the sight of this and lowered my head.

Looking at me, he smiled again, turned his head and continued to look at the books on the bookshelf. He stopped talking, and only my breathing and his breathing sounded softly in the air.

However, after a long time, he just looked at it and did not take down a book from the bookshelf.

I thought about it and said softly: "Your Highness, I don't know which book your Highness is looking for. Please help your Highness find it."

"I have found it, but——"

"Just what?"

He smiled slightly and turned to look at me: "I don't know if you have finished reading it."

I was stunned, then understood immediately, and hurriedly held out the "Commentaries on the Thirteen Classics" with both hands, and said: "You deserve to die, this slave. I don't know that this is the book that His Highness is looking for, this slave -"

"What's the damn thing?" He chuckled: "If no one reads the book, it's just a pile of waste paper. What's the point?"

After saying that, he took the book in my hand, flipped through it twice, and then looked up at me: "Yue Qingying."

"Your Highness, do you have any other instructions?"

"..."
Chapter completed!