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Chapter 4988: 5.0740 Provocation

Anyway, there will always be opportunities to meet in the palace later, so there's no rush now.

Having made up her mind, Qi Lire admonished Xiao Ju, "Your mouth always likes to blurt things out. If you're in front of His Majesty, you're not allowed to speak carelessly."

Xiao Ju stuck out her tongue, then nodded repeatedly, promising not to speak carelessly.

The mistress and servant hadn't walked far along the palace wall when they saw Wu Ruomei, dressed in a red, short-sleeved top with cinched sleeves, riding a half-human-tall large dog, running towards them.

Xiao Ju gasped, quickly stepping in front of her mistress, her small face turning from ashen to pale, and let out a shrill scream, "You, what are you doing?"

Wu Ruomei quickly reined in the dog's leash, letting out a "Whoa." The big dog panted, its tongue hanging out, and stopped in front of the mistress and servant.

Qi Lire took several steps back, her pretty face subtly changing. Wu Ruomei is truly outrageous, riding a large dog and charging around the imperial inner court like this. Relying on His Majesty's trust in her father to be so presumptuous, she has absolutely no etiquette or demeanor of a young lady from a prominent family. Unacceptable!

Seeing it was Qi Lire, Wu Ruomei quickly smiled and said, "Didn't mean to scare Miss Qi, did I?"

"Miss Wu, your dog?"

"Oh! This big dog? I bought it the day before yesterday at a newly opened spirit beast garden!" Wu Ruomei smiled, stroking the dog's head. "Doesn't it look incredibly majestic and imposing? I truly love it."

Qi Lire couldn't help but secretly roll her eyes at this. Believe you, you ghost! In three sentences from Miss Wu, I wonder if even half of them are true. Not to mention that no spirit beast garden had ever been seen at the foot of the Imperial City, even if there were one... A person could only form a contract with one beast in their lifetime, and Wu Ruomei already had a spirit beast by her side; it certainly wasn't this big dog. If she claimed it was just a mount, that wouldn't be possible either. This big dog was clearly a low-tier spirit hound, and a beast that had opened its intelligence would certainly not humble itself to be a human's mount.

Wu Ruomei swiftly hopped off the ground, cupped her hands towards the pale-faced Miss Qi, and said with a hearty laugh, "Miss Qi, you're not angry, are you? I-I didn't do it on purpose. Th-that, what was it, didn't hit you, did it?"

"Don't touch our young lady!" Xiao Ju, like a protective mother hen, quickly puffed out her chest and stood in front of the Third Miss, looking disgusted as if Miss Wu's outstretched left hand was contaminated with some virus.

Wu Ruomei got a snub, her face sheepish. She retracted her hand and cleared her throat. "Then, if there's nothing else, I, I'll go ahead." If others despise her so much, there's no need for her to shamelessly try to befriend them, right? Wu Ruomei also has her own backbone, hmph.

Qi Lire's eyes shifted, and she suddenly spoke, "Miss Wu, it's fine if you ride your dog wildly in the inner court and bump into me. But if you bump into the esteemed Crown Princess, I'm afraid... His Majesty would be the first to not let you off."

Wu Ruomei was startled by this, quickly pulling on the dog's leash and turning to look at Qi Lire. "Ah? Oh, right! I heard my father say that the Crown Princess of Shenzhou has come here, right? Hey, then I really should go see her!"

Qi Lire frowned. Wu Ruomei's reaction seemed somewhat different from what she had expected. It appeared this woman was also quite calculating.