The crowd heard a girl’s voice but didn’t see her figure, just the fluttering pink cherry blossoms and a glint of a sword.
Seeing that familiar move, Lin Xiao immediately guessed the identity of the person so he immediately stopped his counter and just stood there. He wouldn’t dodge even if ShenDai JianRen’s attack hit him square in the face.
“Cherry dance, blossom!”
The light of the cold blade was accompanied by flying cherry blossoms, ShenDai JianRen realized it wasn’t good so he immediately try to stop his momentum, but he was still half a beat too slow. The scary wolf head that appeared was cut in half and swung down directly towards his hands!
That’s not good! This sword was going to cut off his hands!
It’s over… ShenDai JianRen had no choice, he could only throw himself downwards and roll on the floor as a last-ditch attempt to save his hands.
A swoosh sound was heard as the cheery blossoms abruptly disappeared with a beautiful girl appearing in front of everyone.
“ShenDai… Ying?”
Everyone watching was dumbstruck.
She was standing between the two men, wearing a rose ornament on her head and a gorgeous white and red kimono accented with light gold feathers.
Unlike her usual charming and affectionate expression, her current face was stone cold, gripping her favorite sword Snow in her left hand and her right hand on the handle as she just sheathed her sword.
Everyone was shocked at ShenDai Ying’s sudden appearance, she swept her eyes around her surroundings, even if her shoulders were half revealed and the swaying bottom of her clothes partially revealed her pale legs, she was still just as imposing.
Kimonon, sword, girl… Lin Xiao was fixated at this sight.
Was this still the soft spoken Sister Ying that he knew? She was currently exuding a noble and luxurious aura.
“Sister… Ying…”
Lin Xiao originally wanted to greet her like usual when he saw her, but he quickly swallowed those words.
She was still that person, but her position changed.
Now, she was the eye-catching celebrity in the crowd, a noble princess, and he was just a poor brat who came from who knows where. He even almost got into a fight with someone, he was humiliated, where would he have the face to strike up a conversation with a princess.
Noticing his inner turmoil, ShenDai Ying turned to glance at Lin Xiao, she couldn’t really say much in front of everyone else and just gave him a comforting gaze.
When their eyes met, Lin Xiao understood her meaning, she was telling him not to worry.
Even just an insignificant look was enough to give Lin Xiao immediate relief and that gorgeous girl didn’t feel like a stranger anymore.
“Tsk, scum.”
Noticing him staring and foolishly giggling to himself, the maid stomped on his foot!
“No reason, I just wanted to. Perverts should be stepped on.” Elena muttered then stepped on him again.
“Y-you’re doing it again! You stinking disobedient maid…”
“Eh? W-what are you doing?”
In order to not be stepped on anymore, Lin Xiao could only use the ultimate move… since they were already hugging, he simply grabbed her largest weakness, her breasts, to immobilize her.
As expected, after her weakness was grasped, she immediately settled down. Her complexion flushed, her knees weakened as she leaned against Lin Xiao and stopped messing around.
“Tsk, you two…”
ShenDai Ying’s eyes darkened as she glanced over and saw those two flirting regardless of time and place. She couldn’t help but regret herself considerately giving Lin Xiao a look earlier. She wanted to get the guards to immediately toss this perverted poor boy out!
But of course she wouldn’t do that.
Her discontent thoughts flashed by and she coughed gently to break the silence.
“JianRen, what’s going on?”
“Miss!? Um…”
ShenDai JianRen was still kneeling on the ground with a dull look and hadn’t recovered from the previous scare yet. He just looked up and responded quickly to ShenDai Ying’s question and then continued looking at the cut sleeve on his right arm.
She really had killing intent earlier! She was serious about cutting his arm off at one point, he was clear about that! The only reason his hand wasn’t cut off wasn’t because of his last-ditch attempt, it was because she didn’t get serious.
He knew full well of her strength, she was the top one or two killers in Shen Yue Ge. Her true strength was unfathomable, there was no one that could survive after seeing her true strength, and she never left anyone alive.
When he thought about that, he had a scary thought, was she taking this as an opportunity to get rid of him?
“Miss! This isn’t my fault! The person that was causing trouble was him, I was planning on driving them out!” ShenDai JianRen explained in a hurry and even forgot that he was still on the ground, and should have gotten up first in front of all these nobles.
“Causing trouble? How was he causing trouble?” ShenDai Ying coldly laughed and glanced back at Lin Xiao who was still holding his maid’s breast. She squinted and stared daggers into him, that scared him to quickly let go and push Elena behind him, pretending that nothing ever happened.
“This damn brat, he, he-h-h…”
ShenDai JianRen felt that something wasn’t quite right, so he stammered and couldn’t finish his sentence.
Seeing that, a girl dressed in a gorgeous dress walked over.
“ShenDai Ying, I’ll tell you.”
“Oh? Pelle, you know?”
“I watched this farce from the beginning, so I’m the most qualified to speak.” Princess Pelle maintained a polite smile while walking over and then looked at the nearby guard captain, “All of you can leave now.”
“But Priness Pelle, we have to protect the guests and your safety, if he does something again, then…”
“Hehe, what are you talking about? Do you not recognize who this is? Do you see that sword, with her here, who can do anything? Who dares to do anything?”
“Uh… okay Princess Pelle, I understand… all of you, withdraw!”
With a few words, Princess Pelle sent away the guards, and with them gone the atmosphere eased. Even the original two men were replaced with two eye catching beauties.
That only resulted in the crowd increasing and not decreasing as most of the guests crowed at the door, wanting to see what will happen next.
“ShenDai Ying, if you were going to blame your attendant, then you would be making a mistake, because he didn’t do anything wrong.”
“Oh? Then Pelle, can you tell me who I should blame?”
Since Pelle was approaching, she couldn’t fiercely hold her sword so she causally tossed it behind her.
The exquisitely engraved sword made a beautiful arc in the air and was firmly caught by small hands.
“Xiao Hua?”
Seeing the freckled girl, Lin Xiao couldn’t help but call out, and she hugged the sword and spat out her tongue at him with an evasive gaze, feeling guilt for the trouble her mistake caused.
“Even though your attendant is a lowlife with coarse words and is perverted, often wretchedly stealing glances at my breasts and wanting to rip the maids clothes and take advantage of her, but I guess he was till doing his job.”
Pelle smiled as she said that, at first it sounded like she was trying to help ShenDai JianRen, but she was actually making complaints about his conduct.
“I apologize, it’s my fault he wasn’t disciplined enough. JianRen is someone a distant relative wanted me to bring with to Winterless City, I didn’t have a choice… hehe, if he has offended you, please don’t take it personally.” ShenDai Ying laughed as she responded while she shamelessly took her arm.
To others, they looked like a pair of intimate ‘sisters’, but they both knew that it was just an act for the crowd.
Who would be sisters with this slutty bitch princess? If it wasn’t because of her identity, she wouldn’t want to be called sister by her, she wouldn’t even come to today’s banquet!
But it’s fine, since she’s already here, she might as well find some fun for herself! And those two fighting idiots provide her with just that.
“No worries, I don’t mind… but ShenDai Ying, that poor boy hired a maid and pretended to be a noble to try and sneak in. He even spoke nonsense after being discovered by your attendant and sent him flying, which caused this mess… So what do you think we should do about this?”
“Hm? You’re saying that Lin Xiao was trying to sneak in? Puh…” ShenDai Ying blinked at a loss then understood what had happened, she couldn’t help but cover her mouth to chuckle as she glanced at Lin Xiao’s innocent expression.
Pelle heard ‘Lin Xiao’ but didn’t react to why she would know his name and continued with the lines she thought out beforehand, trying to give her a hard time.
“Yes, he was trying to attend the banquet. I’m guessing that he likes you so he took the effort to try and meet you at the banquet.”
“Likes me? Hm, although you did get that part right…”
“Hm? ShenDai Ying, do you know him?”
“Hm… how should I put this.”
ShenDai Ying quietly spoke to herself, while observing Lin Xiao’s nervous micro-expressions with interest and also deliberating her words to give princess Pelle a reasonable explanation.
To ShenDai Ying, he wasn’t some poor kid.
An avid suitor?
That doesn’t seem right either.
If she had to label him for the crowd…
