Chapter 28

Because of this incident, Zixiu had to put on hold his plan to explore the surroundings with full use of hanging about in the park. As soon as he returned to his chamber, he burrowed into the quilt with his face covered, pretending to be tired, which was the only way he could avoid Xingyi’s sharp gaze.

Zixiu had thought that he was alone here, and nobody would have known where he had ended up, so he was both surprised and overjoyed when he heard that guard call his name. However, after calming himself down and thinking it twice, he had a feeling that something didn’t make sense. “I’ve never seen that guard, so how come he knows my name? Before I lost my memory, my family had been living in the secluded mountains, so we would never have known a guard of a prince’s mansion thousands of miles away. What’s more, that pervert has cut everyone off from the news of Princess Liuxu’s missing and I look exactly like her when cross-dressed, so even if that guard knows me, he couldn’t have recognized me at the first glance when he saw me in a woman’s attire at Prince Mu’s Mansion. Was he sent by that jerk to probe my attitude? But a person as arrogant and proud as that pervert seems to have no reason to bother about such a frivolous thing. It’s so weird! Who the hell is that guard?”

The more he thought, the more confused Zixiu felt. He had always had a lazy brain and if it weren’t for lack of other options, he wouldn’t have racked his brain to struggle with Nangong Du these days, which took a lot of effort. Moreover, with so few clues, he was unable to figure out who that mysterious guard might have been. Therefore, he stopped pondering and fell asleep soon.

Needless to say, Xingyi would never be “kind” enough to wake this ‘princess’ up for dinner, so when Zixiu awakened with a rumbling stomach, it was already afternoon.

Rubbing his eyes, he sat up slowly before he suddenly saw a face zooming in front of him. Zixiu was taken aback and he pushed it away instinctively.

“How dare you push me?” Nangong Du’s cold voice suddenly rang in his ear.

Zixiu stiffened for a moment and then realized that he had done something stupid again, so he immediately explained, “Your… Your Highness, I didn’t mean it. I just woke up and I’m not fully awake yet. I didn’t mean to do it, so please don’t be mad at me! What’s more, rage might be detrimental to your health! Your Highness…”

“Guess if it were someone else, you wouldn’t have pushed him away. Am I right?” Nangong Du suddenly blurted out something that muddleheaded Zixiu.

“Someone else? What did he mean?” Zixiu wondered with a puzzled look.

With a snort, Nangong Du continued, “Honey, I heard that you hooked up with a young guard in the garden this morning!”

“Hook up?!” Hearing this phrase, Zixiu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, as if he had just heard the most ridiculous dry joke in the world. “Are you kidding me? How could a straight man like me try to attract attention from the same sex?” he thought resentfully.

“Are you trying to deny it?” Seeing that Zixiu was caught dumbfounded, Nan Gongdu said even more harshly. “Liu Zixiu, I told you that I would hate to see you fall victim to your own cleverness. You’re my legal wife now, so I won’t show mercy if I catch you flirting with any other man and having physical contact with him again!”

Though Zixiu grew angrier at his words, he didn’t think that Nangong Du was deliberately humiliating him. “Is this psycho starting to doubt that guard’s identity as well?” he wondered.

“Did you hear me?” Hearing no response from Zixiu, Nangong Du suddenly raised his voice in rage.

After coming back to his senses, Zixiu nodded in a panic and answered, “Got it, Your Highness! I’ll bear it in mind…”

“How come you simply addressed yourself ‘I’ in front of me?” Nangong Du began to pick on him for no reason.

Zixiu was even more overwhelmed. “What should I address myself in addition to ‘I’? This psycho is too difficult to please!” When he was complaining secretly, Nangong Du suddenly grabbed him by the collar.

“Liu Zixiu, if you dare treat me so disrespectfully again, you’ll lose your tongue forever and be turned into a…”

“Your Highness, calm down please!” At the thought of what this asshole was about to say, Zixiu couldn’t help trembling. However, he had no idea what he said that made this prince feel offended. “Could that be because the word ‘I’ is a taboo in this household? Wait…” At this point, a self-effacing address ‘humble consort’ suddenly came to his mind.

The murder of the maid from the Wen delegation had been solved this morning, and Nangong Du was going to attend the dinner party at the imperial palace with the new princess tonight, so he did need Zixiu to address himself this way when speaking to him in public.