Chapter 256: Punishment
A woman's mouth is a deceiving ghost. The moment she returned to the Crown Prince's Residence, Sun Jiaojiao told the Crown Prince about the Seventeenth Prince visiting Nanfeng Hall, even adding oil and vinegar to her description. She completely forgot how she had teased the young Seventeenth Prince in Nanfeng Hall!
Sun Jiaojiao spread the gossip with great relish, completely failing to notice the Crown Prince's face growing darker and darker.
"Don't you think you did something wrong?"
"Uh... I thought you already had spies monitoring the other princes' movements and already knew, so I told you this gossip... Alright, I get it. A royal secret, I shouldn't spread it."
"And?"
"And?!" Sun Jiaojiao scratched her head. She couldn't think of what else she had done wrong.
"Hmm?"
"Could it be... I shouldn't have revealed my identity to the Seventeenth Prince?"
"Is that all?"
"I really can't think of anything else..." Sun Jiaojiao scratched her head.
"Let me ask you." The Crown Prince raised an eyebrow, making Sun Jiaojiao's heart tremble. "What were you doing at Nanfeng Hall? Don't tell me you went to such a filthy place just to squat and wait for Seventeenth Brother."
Sun Jiaojiao had been so focused on gossiping that she'd almost forgotten that straight men had always hated places like Nanfeng Hall.
Even more fatal, she couldn't possibly say she went to Nanfeng Hall to have an affair with Xiao Ba...
She had truly gotten carried away with gossiping, lifting a rock only to smash her own foot.
"That... it was... it was..." Sun Jiaojiao's eyes darted back and forth, quickly thinking of how to spin this lie. "It was... I saw the Seventeenth Prince enter Nanfeng Hall, but I wasn't sure if it was him, so I quietly followed him in, wanting to find out. I didn't expect it to really be him."
"So, you were following him the whole time?"
"Right! Otherwise, I would have lost him, wouldn't I?" Sun Jiaojiao felt proud of her quick wit.
Unexpectedly, the Crown Prince's next question made Sun Jiaojiao want to cry.
"You discovered the Seventeenth Prince entering Nanfeng Hall, followed him the whole time, went into Nanfeng Hall, confirmed his identity, and interacted with him. So, here's the question: where in the middle of all that did you find the time to change into men's clothes?" The Crown Prince pressed closer to Sun Jiaojiao, his questions linking together, pressing her relentlessly.
"Uh..." Sun Jiaojiao was sweating profusely from the interrogation. How did she forget about that?
Before Sun Jiaojiao could think of how to spin this lie, the Crown Prince grabbed her wrist and slammed her against a pillar.
"What did you run off to do?" His heavy breathing puffed against her ear.
"Your Highness..."
"How should I punish you?"
"Your Highness..."
Sun Jiaojiao still wanted to tell a monstrous lie to get past it, but before she could even think, the Crown Prince tied her hands, binding them behind her to the pillar.
"Your Highness?" A white cloth strip was tied over Sun Jiaojiao's eyes. The sudden blindness made her extremely uncomfortable, but she didn't dare to resist.
What followed was a punishing kiss, and an invasion that made her tremble.
"No... Your Highness... Don't..."
Rain poured over the entire capital. For the whole night, the Crown Princess's sharp cries for mercy continuously echoed from the Crown Prince's room, penetrating the entire Crown Prince's Residence. The lights in the guards' quarters stayed on all night. Everyone tossed and turned, each lost in their own thoughts, but no one dared to do anything. They knew what kind of woman the Crown Princess was, and they knew even better what kind of man the Crown Prince was-apart from the Crown Princess, who would dare risk their life to challenge the Crown Prince's authority?
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