Chapter 1193 - 102 Clothing (Part 1)
"Please!" Lin Yuan waved his hand to remove the large hand that was pinching her cheek and complained, "Do you think I, Lin Yuan, can be bullied by others? If you really wanted to see, you should have checked out those young ladies coming from the Yao Mansion!"
No sooner had Lin Yuan finished pouting her words than she heard suppressed laughter in the darkness. Her mind racing, she finally realized that Xia Zheng must have been waiting at the entrance of the Yao Mansion for some time. Given that, how could he possibly not have heard what those ladies who left early were saying?
"What are you laughing at? Did you hear something?" Lin Yuan pushed his hand from around her waist to one side and sat up straight to look at him, but her eyesight was not as good as Xia Zheng’s. Even being this close, she still had difficulty clearly discerning the expression on his face.
Xia Zheng steadied her waist with both hands and gently caressed it, chuckling, "You guessed? What else could I laugh at? Of course, it’s you. Attending a banquet and still bringing a dagger; luckily you weren’t entering the Palace; otherwise, the Palace guards would definitely have taken you into custody!"
So that was it.
Lin Yuan raised her eyebrows and also smiled, "The Palace, huh? If there were people in the Palace who looked at me the wrong way, I wouldn’t mind bringing a dagger inside at all!"
Despite her words, the mention of the Palace made Lin Yuan think of what Xia Zheng had told her, and she felt somewhat frustrated.
Xia Zheng, oblivious to her change in mood, rested his chin on the top of her head and said softly, "I had guessed that you would be ostracized at the banquet, but I didn’t expect such an incident to occur."