Chapter 10: Weak and Kind

No wonder. If it weren't for the Prince, who else would have the strength to find her in such a short amount of time?

And camp out waiting for her?

Did he want to throw her into a grand prison?

If only the Prince had said so earlier.

If she had known he was the Prince, she definitely wouldn't have provoked him.

Xia Wanwan cried out inwardly.

Automatically ignoring Yan Zhi's words about her stealing, she wore a forced smile and greeted him, "What a coincidence."

"Coming to find this Prince so quickly... are you missing my kiss?" A smile, neither too deep nor too shallow, hung on the corners of Yan Zhi's mouth.

Xia Wanwan felt a chill down her spine.

"Hehe..." Xia Wanwan rubbed the back of her head and gave a dry laugh, her gaze shifting toward the ten tough men guarding the door.

She had no sharp weapons on her, nor any poison.

With her petite stature, she was no match for them at all.

She had already lost in terms of physique alone.

She couldn't fight them, and she couldn't run.

Then her only option was to play the fool.

"Prince, could you ask them to step aside for a moment? I have an urgent need to use the restroom."

"You stole this Prince's token of love, and now you want to slip away?" How could Yan Zhi not know her little schemes?

A token of love?

She had merely stolen his carriage and his silver; where was there any token of love?

Could it be that he had lost his own token of love and was framing her for it?

She couldn't afford to bear that kind of sin.

"I didn't steal your token of love, Prince." As soon as Xia Wanwan heard Yan Zhi's voice, she immediately hid the money bag she had led from him inside her clothes, then innocently spread her hands to show she had taken nothing.

She hadn't seen any token of love in the money bag.

"You still claim you didn't steal it!" Zuo Chao pointed angrily at the carriage outside the door. "You led it here to pawn it. If you didn't steal it, then who did?"

Xia Wanwan's eyes peered past the ten burly men toward the carriage parked outside the pawnshop, feigning composure. "I picked it up."

Zuo Chao sneered, "You certainly know how to pick things up. Why didn't anyone else pick it up?"

"I just have better luck." Xia Wanwan was quite thick-skinned; she felt no shame at all while telling this lie.

Yan Zhi looked at her indifferently and said nonchalantly, "This Prince's token of love is not something just anyone can pick up."

Xia Wanwan was confused. "Prince, did you lose a token of love, or did you lose a carriage?"

"My Prince's carriage is his token of love for his future Princess!" Zuo Chao was extremely annoyed with her. "See that horse? That is an extremely precious sweat-blood horse from the distant frontiers. And it's red, with thin skin and fine hair; there is only one such horse in the entire Sheng Territory. Everyone in the capital knows that whoever obtains the Prince's sweat-blood horse obtains the position of Princess."

Xia Wanwan was somewhat stunned.

How was she supposed to know all that?

She had never seen a sweat-blood horse, so how would she know that Yan Zhi's carriage was driven by one?

She certainly wouldn't have known that the sweat-blood horse was that trashy token of love.

Xia Wanwan blinked calmly and smiled at Yan Zhi. "Such a precious token of love—you'll have to keep a better eye on it in the future. Today, I happened to pick it up, so consider yourself lucky. If someone else had picked it up, they might have slaughtered it for food. By then, your token of love would be gone."

Pfft!

Upon hearing her words, the crowd nearly burst into laughter.

There were people in history who ate horse meat to stave off hunger, but this horse was extraordinary!

Was there something wrong with this woman's head?

Who would slaughter a treasure like a sweat-blood horse to eat it?

It would be a complete waste of a heavenly gift!

"It's clearly you who stole it, and you still have the face to say you picked it up?" Zuo Chao was extremely dissatisfied with Xia Wanwan's explanation.

"Who saw me steal it? Find a witness and then speak to me like that, otherwise, I will sue you for slander. Even if you are the Prince's man, you cannot just falsely accuse a weak and kind woman like me."