Princess"s First Gorgeous Adventure (1) “Knock–” The sound of knocking abruptly attracted Xia Yiduo"s attention.
Withdrawing her mind from the current arrangement, she looked up to the door of the room. Her voice was calm and gentle like water, “Please come in—”
Steward w.a.n.g Ji pushed through the door with one hand while holding a crystal tray in the other.
Upon seeing the steward, Xia Yiduo closed the book she had been reading then placed it on the desk. She stood up from her seat, taking a few steps towards w.a.n.g Ji to receive the tray.
“Hoo–” The moment she lowered the crystal tray on her desk, she breathed a long sigh of relief.
With the light weight taken from his hands, w.a.n.g Ji did not have the fear or anxiety that other servants should have, but looked at the girl who had taken a long breath under the crystal lamp, and his eyes glowed with kindness.
w.a.n.g Ji was the steward of Xia"s house and the only servant in Xia"s house.
Because Xiafu and Xiamu lived abroad all year around, they rarely got to stay at home. The four brothers of the Xia family did not like outsiders breaking into their happy little world, nor did they like the so-called maids drooling over them every day. Xiaoxiao missed them, but they did let the part-time workers come to clean regularly.
On the crystal tray, there was a gla.s.s of steaming milk, and a bowl of eight-treasure porridge made from eight-treasure rice.
Xia Yiduo had the habit of eating breakfast and supper three hours after meal time. Everyone in the Xia family knew about this.
“w.a.n.g Ji, what about my brothers?” Xia Duo turned and asked curiously. In the past, almost every time one of her brothers would come to give supper. Why was it w.a.n.g Ji this time? This was indeed suspicious!
Upon hearing this, w.a.n.g Ji smiled kindly. “Master Er said that he was afraid you would be angry, so he will not appear in front of you tonight.”
Thinking of the incident in the afternoon, Xia Duo hummed twice, before pouting: “They know what they know.”
Her phone"s ringing interrupted the conversation. Xia Duo picked it up to see a small chathead on the screen, so she quickly connected, “Nana–“
w.a.n.g Ji saw Xia Yiduo answering the phone, so he silently retreated out of the room.
“Eh? Go out?Tonight? I don"t think I can, you should go on…” Xia Duo looked up at the clock on the wall, it was already eight o"clock. It wasn"t always easy to make up an excuse to go outside during the day, let alone at night.
“Oh little miss boohoo! Just go and tell your demon brothers! Maybe they"ll let you!”
“And it"s not just going to be us tonight. The whole cla.s.s is going to be there. You"re always so separated from your cla.s.smates just because of those brothers of yours. If you can"t be at the last party before graduation, just ask yourself, can you live with this?!”
“But…” Xia Duo bit her lip, her face embarra.s.sed.
“Don"t but me! You have to go! You won"t be getting a whole ton of graduations in life, maybe this"ll be the last time we"ll all meet, and besides, we"re all going to leave each other soon enough, and we can"t even get our youth back, would you really be able to live and not regret?!”
“…” Xia Duo knew that since graduation was imminent, her cla.s.smates would have a party. Usually, she wouldn"t attend any of these, but this time the situation was special.
“Girl, grow some b.a.l.l.s!”
“Think! Since you were a child, you were only told off by your demon brothers, and they took care of you like flowers in a greenhouse. But don"t you want to see this world? Don"t you want to see how fun life can be? You don"t want to perpetuate this monotonous and colorless life forever, right!? “
“…” Undeniably, Nana"s last sentence poked at Xia Duo"s heart.