"Got it." Xiao Jiu responded dejectedly, feeling incredibly wronged. Anyone could tell it didn’t want to follow Long Rui into the palace.

Long Rui raised an eyebrow, sweeping his sharp gaze over Xiao Jiu, and said icily, "You rotten bird, you look so unwilling. Is it that you don’t want to go into the palace with this prince?"

Long Rui looked as if he’d pluck its feathers and roast it if Xiao Jiu dared nod.

Xiao Jiu was startled and immediately flapped in front of Long Rui, saying fawningly, "Cluck cluck... Prince, don’t misunderstand, Xiao Jiu really likes you. Wherever you go, Xiao Jiu follows, cluck cluck cluck...!"

The Prince was like a Plague God. Even if it flew into the air, just one stretch of his hand could pull it back from the sky. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Xiao Jiu chickened out, wisely choosing to compromise immediately.

Xiao Jiu wanted to flatter him, but its laughter was too ear-piercing, like a saw cutting wood, causing everyone present to cover their ears.

Long Rui dug his ears with his fingers, saying icily, "If you dare laugh one more time, do you believe this prince will cut off your bird mouth?"

Xiao Jiu, standing on Long Rui’s shoulder, abruptly stopped laughing, quickly covering its long beak with its wings, not daring to laugh again.

What a joke, it still needed its mouth to eat delicious food. If the Plague God prince really cut it off, who would it cry to?

"Get off!" Long Rui turned his head, his eyes as sharp as blades, coldly piercing toward the Xiao Jiu on his shoulder.

Xiao Jiu was so scared its legs went weak, and it tumbled off Long Rui’s shoulder, landing on the carriage floor with a series of pitiful cries: "Chirp chirp chirp...! It hurts so much, it hurts so much."

Zi Xia and Xuexue watched from the side, laughing until they bent over. Xiao Jiu had quite the guts to stand on the prince’s shoulder. Long Rui not breaking its two bird claws was already giving it a lot of face.

Long Rui disdainfully patted his shoulder, saying, "You rotten bird, you’ve got the guts to stand on this prince. No one can touch this prince’s body except my wife."

Xiao Jiu felt extremely bitter inside. Prince, you can’t bully people, no, bully birds like this.

Xuexue laughed with arched eyebrows, saying while laughing, "Alright, alright, stop playing around, hurry into the palace! It’s getting late, the sooner you go, the sooner you return."

"Hey, my wife, I’m leaving!"

Long Rui replied, lowering the carriage curtain.

Xuexue waved her hand: "Okay, sure!"

"Clip-clop clip-clop...!"

The carriage slowly started, walking about ten or twenty meters. Just as Xuexue and Zi Xia were about to turn back to the War Prince’s Mansion, suddenly, a small black shadow whooshed out of the carriage.

"Chirp chirp chirp...! Help, help!" Following was a sharp screeching cry.

The black shadow flapped its wings, flying up into the sky when thrown halfway.

A cold voice came from inside the carriage: "You rotten bird, you stink. You’re not allowed to be in the same carriage as this prince, fly outside on your own."

"Chirp chirp chirp...!"

"Master, the prince threw me." Xiao Jiu flew back to Xuexue, chattering grievances.

Before Xuexue could speak, Zi Xia said, "Serves you right, who told you to sit with the prince? You know the prince can’t stand your bird feathers, always pecking around and leaving bird feathers everywhere."

Xiao Jiu felt utterly wronged: "Master, I really didn’t peck, the prince just couldn’t stand me and deliberately made things difficult. My bird life is too hard, I almost turned into a bald bird just now."

"Pfft!"

Xuexue and Zi Xia couldn’t help but laugh: "You’re perfectly fine; how did you turn into a bald bird?"