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Apart from Zhou Ruo and the Crown Prince, everyone else in the private room looked at Zhou Ruo while she was speaking, but after she finished, their gazes shifted to the Crown Prince.

At this moment, everyone is waiting for the Crown Prince's reaction.

The onlookers were now personified in this private room.

The prince was stunned, his brows furrowed, his eyes glazed over, and his breathing was uneven.

Seeing that he didn't react, Zhou Ruo waved her small hand in front of the Crown Prince, "Am I right?"

The crown prince slowly came to his senses, looking at the young girl before him in disbelief. "How did you know?"

"I really don't understand..." Zhou Ruo had only uttered half of this sentence when his stomach started growling.

She picked up the pastry from the plate in front of her, took a bite, frowned, and said, "Ugh, this is awful."

Zhao Jinzhong handed her a pear, and she was delighted. She took a bite; it was sweet and delicious. Then she continued speaking.

"I understand why you burn incense and wear jade pendants, but why do you sleep with a ball in your arms?"

The crown prince coughed twice, his face showing reluctance.

Zhao Jinzhong pretended to scold Zhou Ruo, "Ruo Ruo, you've been rude again, quickly give me..."

The Crown Prince raised his hand to stop Zhao Jinzhong, "It's alright. Girl, how did you know?"

Could it be that the General's Mansion planted spies in the Eastern Palace?

But if even one child knows this, doesn't that mean everyone in the General's Mansion knows?

The crown prince then turned to Zhao Jinzhong and asked, "You know what she said too?"

Zhao Jinzhong shook his head. "Your subject does not know."

The crown prince was somewhat skeptical: "You really don't know?"

The Seventh Princess didn't understand why the Crown Prince would ask Zhao Jinzhong that question. She said,

"Your Majesty, I know nothing of what Zhou Ruo said, so how could I possibly know anything of Jinzhong's opinion?"

The Crown Prince pointed at Zhou Ruo and asked the Seventh Princess, "Then how did she know?"

"She..." The Seventh Princess didn't know either.

While the Crown Prince was talking to his older brother and sister, Zhou Ruo finished eating a pear.

She raised her sleeve to wipe her mouth before slowly saying, "I saw it."

The Crown Prince's gaze suddenly darkened, and he asked Zhou Ruo sternly, "You've been to the Eastern Palace? Why haven't I seen you there?"

Logically speaking, it would be highly unlikely that a servant would bring such a young child into the Eastern Palace.

If one were to secretly climb through the dog hole and sneak in, to discover these three things about the Crown Prince, one must have entered his bedchamber.

And he was there when he went to bed at night.

The prince should have seen her before.

The more the prince thought about it, the more frightened he became.

"Where is the Eastern Palace?" Zhou Ruo asked Zhao Jinzhong, tilting her head.

Zhao Jinzhong told her, "The Eastern Palace is where the Crown Prince lives."

He then explained to the Crown Prince, "Your Highness, I assure you that my sister has never been to the Eastern Palace."

"I've never been to the Eastern Palace. What's so great about it? I much prefer the General's Mansion, oh right, and the Prince An's Mansion!"

Zhou Ruo said with a grin, making Zhao Jinzhong and An Chang's hair stand on end.

An Chang was secretly worried for Zhou Ruo. "Ruo Ruo, please don't say anything!"

Although he had beaten the prince in the mud when he was a child, that was only when he was a child.

At that time, he had not yet been formally appointed as the crown prince, nor had he moved into the Eastern Palace.

Things are different now. The Crown Prince is now someone who can make someone disappear if he's unhappy.

Zhao Jinzhong was also anxious. He urged Zhou Ruo, "Ruo Ruo, quickly explain this to His Highness the Crown Prince!"

"Oh...but I can't explain it clearly..."

The Seventh Princess remembered that Zhou Ruoneng could see her true face even when she was wearing a veil.

I could also spot the poison scar on her face at a glance. This child must have some special abilities, but she just doesn't want to say it outright.

"Sister Zhou Ruo, if you can't explain how you could see those things about the Crown Prince, then tell me how these things will affect him?"

The Seventh Princess is a truly intelligent girl, Zhao Jinzhong suddenly realized.

Zhou Ruo thought for a moment, then asked the Crown Prince, "Are you starting to feel dizzy?"

"Dizziness?" The prince thought for a while before remembering, "Not long ago, when I got up from my desk, I felt dizzy for a while."

But the crown prince didn't think there was anything strange about it. Isn't it normal to feel dizzy after sitting for a long time?

Zhou Ru shook her head in denial, "Think about it again?"

The crown prince lowered his eyes and thought carefully for a while before suddenly raising his head. "I remember now!"

"Two months ago, three days before my fourteenth birthday, I suddenly fainted while catching butterflies in the back garden."

She later woke up in Consort Ling's Chang Le Palace.

As he spoke, the prince took out the jade pendant from his chest.

"This jade pendant was a birthday gift from Consort Ling that day. She told me to wear it every day, saying it would protect me."

Zhou Ruo nodded. "That's right, that's the dizziness I wanted to ask about!"

Zhao Jinzhong secretly thought that the Crown Prince was really carefree, he could even forget about fainting while catching butterflies in the back garden.

"Didn't the imperial physician examine the Crown Prince when he fainted that day?" Zhao Jinzhong asked.

"When I woke up, Consort Ling said that the imperial physician had already examined me and said that I had probably been exposed to too much midday sun."

"But the sun wasn't hot that day. I just thought the weather was nice, so I went to catch butterflies."

Seeing that everyone had quieted down, An Chang seized the opportunity to ask, "Your Highness, what's the story behind you sleeping with a ball in your arms?"

An Chang was very curious about this.

When Zhou Ruo was talking about it, he saw that the Crown Prince looked puzzled, and he really wanted to know what kind of ball it was.

Zhou Ruo seconded, "Yeah, why would we hug that thing? Will it keep us warm?"

The prince coughed lightly twice, his cheeks slightly flushed.

He looked around at the people at the table before saying, somewhat embarrassed,

"I'm getting married to the Crown Princess next year, and my father asked the Imperial Advisor to make a ball for me to hug and sleep with every night, cough cough!"

Preparing for next year...

Zhou Ruo didn't understand, "What preparations are needed?"

Zhao Jinzhong quickly covered her mouth.

An Nan didn't understand either. She whispered to An Chang, "What does that mean?"

An Chang covered An Nan's ears with both hands, "Don't listen to what you shouldn't hear!"

The Seventh Princess felt embarrassed upon hearing this. She picked up her teacup and drank some tea to hide her embarrassment.

Seeing everyone's reaction, the crown prince regretted it; he shouldn't have said it.

He looked at Zhou Ruo, the culprit who had embarrassed him, and asked, "So, little girl, what exactly happened?"

Zhou Ruo pulled her face away from Zhao Jinzhong's large hand, and said somewhat unhappily,

"My name isn't Little Girl, it's Zhou Ruo."

"Alright, alright, little Zhou Ruo, hurry up and tell me!" The Crown Prince suppressed his anger, his patience wearing thin.

Zhou Ruochao reached out to the Crown Prince: "Give me the jade pendant."

After hesitating for a moment, the Crown Prince took off the jade pendant, placed it in Zhou Ruo's hand, and instructed, "Don't break it!"

Zhou Ruo drew a manifestation talisman in the air above the jade pendant, and the jade pendant immediately reacted.

The group watched as the emerald green, translucent jade pendant emitted billowing black smoke from Zhou Ruo's hand.

A thick cloud of black mist tightly enveloped the jade pendant.

The prince was so frightened that he stood up, kicking the chair a good ten feet away with his calf.

"What! What's going on?"