Chapter 96: The Princess Arrives
The spring breeze blew, and the earth, parched for an entire winter, began to sprout tiny green buds.
The fresh greenery of early spring always puts one in a pleasant mood.
A carriage rattled along the rugged mountain road, driven by an extremely effeminate man.
He was dressed in black, which clung to his towering physique, and a pitch-black long blade—fully two zhang and two chi in length—was strapped to his back.
With such a massive black blade on his back, anyone who saw him would think that a person capable of wielding such a giant weapon could never be a person of mediocrity.
Yet, this man with such a commanding physique wore rouge, painted his lips red, and even held his fingers in an orchid gesture while clutching the reins.
“Giddy up~”
The sound he made was also strange; it should have been rugged, yet it was thin and shrill, like a duck straining its throat.
Beside the carriage was a jujube-red horse, upon which sat a maidservant.
She was clearly a maidservant, for she was riding a horse rather than sitting inside the carriage.
Yet her attire was hardly that of a maidservant; the hairpin on her head alone was pure gold, to say nothing of the phoenix blood stone set upon it—red as fire, seeming to glow even in the daylight.
A phoenix blood stone of such quality, even just the size of a thumb, would be enough to feed and clothe a poor family for a lifetime.
“Princess…”
The carriage curtain was lifted, and a woman leaned out. Her moth-eyebrows were lightly traced, her eyes were like autumn water, her lips were like a dab of crimson, and her fair, delicate face was as smooth as frost and snow—she was a woman of extraordinary beauty.
