The figure was so familiar that I recognized it at a glance, and my whole body stiffened all at once.

Pei Yuanhao! How did he come here?!

Just when I was stunned, he had already walked to the door of the Inner Pavilion, those deep and bottomless eyes looked at me coldly, I felt a chill in my heart, and hurriedly knelt down and bowed: "Slave maid to meet His Royal Highness the Third Prince." ”

"Get up."

He said lightly, and walked into the Inner Pavilion.

Looking at his appearance, he probably didn't remember me anymore, so I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart and cautiously followed in.

I saw him walking slowly between the bookshelves, looking at the books on it, he didn't speak, and I didn't dare to breathe, and the entire inner pavilion suddenly fell into silence, as if even the air was about to condense, which was suffocating.

Just when I was nervous, he slowly took a book from the shelf, turned two pages, and said casually: "Just now, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came down?" ”

"Yes."

"How often does he come?"

"No, no."

Originally, in the face of this man, my heart was already aching, and listening to him ask about the prince, I don't know why I felt an unspeakable panic, subconsciously stammered, his eyebrows frowned slightly, and he glanced back at me, the gaze was as sharp as two swords, and I immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

At this time, Pei Yuanhao walked in front of me step by step.

He was so close to me, and the hot breath hit my forehead with a shuddering sensation, and even if I didn't dare to look up into his eyes, I could feel his sharp gaze on me, as if surrounded by a wild beast, and I was so nervous that even my fingertips trembled.

He's not going to recognize me, is he?

Just when I was so nervous, a book suddenly came to me.

"Go."

"Huh?"

I was in a trance for a while, I looked up at him in a daze, and he frowned again: "What, borrowing books in the Inner Pavilion, don't you need to enter the book?" ”

"Oh, oh."

I hurriedly took the book in his hand and walked to the desk, picked up the brush and opened the booklet to record it, he stood quietly in front of the bookcase and watched me write, and suddenly said: "Why do you know how to read?" ”

I bowed my head: "When the slave maid was young, there was a master at home to teach. ”

"Oh? Where is your home? ”

With a twitch of his fingertips, a drop of ink fell onto the book.

For so many years, except for the time when I first entered the palace, there was a steward eunuch who asked about the situation at home, and no one mentioned it for a long time, and gradually, I seemed to have forgotten that for the palace maids, home is really too far away.

Unexpectedly, the first person to ask me was him.

I lowered my head and said softly, "Slave, I don't remember." ”

“……”

As soon as I finished speaking, I knew that I had done something stupid, and I obviously remembered that I was literate at home, how could I not remember where my home was, sure enough, Pei Yuanhao's eyes flashed, and his eyes became sharper when he looked at me, a faint precursor to anger.

My heart sank, and then I heard a voice from the door: "Third Highness? ”