Earlier, after hearing Your Highness's secret instructions, she was taken aback. As the maid responsible for Your Highness's daily life, she knew Your Highness's temperant too well.
When had she ever shown any man special treatnt?
Back when the Crown Prince tried to find a suitor for her, his own sister, what was the result?
Your Highness directly chased him across the court with a sword, leaving the Crown Prince humiliated among the ministers, never daring to bring up the matter again.
If she could do that to the Crown Prince, how much more ruthless would she be to other suitors?
If they were of decent character, she'd just send them to the army; if not, depending on the severity of their misconduct, she had confiscated property, exiled, and even executed them.
But such a Your Highness, tonight, actually used a beauty ploy on a man who appeared out of nowhere—was it worth it?
Especially... it was the first ti she had ever seen Your Highness run out so flustered.
Although unsure if the beauty ploy had worked, Ming Lan truly felt uneasy, for this wasn't like Your Highness at all.
"It is worth it." Dongfang Xinglan said calmly.
She knew most clearly what she wanted. She wanted more than just a manipulated Eastern Dynasty!
She wanted to be an Empress ascending to the sky!
And in the current Eastern Dynasty, this goal could only be achieved with the help of Lu Jin'an.
Ming Lan looked at Dongfang Xinglan's profile, opened her mouth but didn't know what to say.
There were so things Dongfang Xinglan wouldn't openly discuss with her subordinates, so she just smiled faintly: "I like him, truly."
Ming Lan was stunned, then recalled sothing and asked: "He, he wouldn't be the barbarian you ntioned eting outside the border, would he?"
Dongfang Xinglan looked at her with a smiling expression: "He's not a barbarian. Putting aside everything else, he's very handso, and..."
Her eyes flickered, and whatever she thought of, she chose not to say more.
"So it's him..." Ming Lan's mood improved significantly, how could using a beauty sche on soone she liked count as a sche?
This is love!
"Hmm." Dongfang Xinglan dismissed a certain image from her mind and softly said: "During his ti at the Prince Qin Mansion, make sure he's well-treated, but say nothing. He doesn't know about this, understood?"
Ming Lan quickly nodded: "Understood, understood."
"Go about your business." Dongfang Xinglan waved her hand: "Also, have Hong Ying co see directly when she returns tomorrow."
"As you command."
Ming Lan retreated with light steps, not forgetting to glance at the direction of the Hot Spring Garden in the back courtyard before leaving.
That person had been wearing a mask since entering Prince Qin Mansion. Who knew how handso Your Highness ant when she said 'handso'.
However, being Your Highness's personal maid, she was bound to et him sooner or later.
Moreover, from another perspective, his presence gives Your Highness a mont to rest, which is a significant achievent in itself.
After standing in the courtyard for a while longer, Dongfang Xinglan turned to a remote area, where the bodies of Dongfang Xingbai and Dongfang Xingshu, brought back from Dragon Valley Ridge, lay.
'Within seven days, you can extract the Destiny of the Dragon Qi...'
Dongfang Xinglan pondered quietly. On the journey outside the border, she knew the dragon, a real demon beast, existed. But did Dragon Qi truly exist for an emperor?
What is the Dragon Soul?
Could going to the Land of Prosperity truly crown one as Supre?
"It shouldn't deceive , or why co so far to find ..."
Dongfang Xinglan muttered to herself; she raised her hand, using the Qin King Sword to cut open her palm. Blood dripped onto the ground as she slowly spoke.
"I, the 550th daughter of Emperor Jianing Dongfang Xinglan, hereby bear the 4,449-year Dragon Vein destiny of the Eastern Dynasty!"
As her voice fell, Dongfang Xinglan clearly saw her blood that fell on the ground suddenly vanish, yet she felt no change within herself.
No, the corpses of Dongfang Xingshu and Dongfang Xingbai had changed.
In her eyes, these deceased half-siblings appeared more ordinary.
This subtle perception would have gone unnoticed had she not known about Dragon Stealing.
She turned to leave the room, saying blandly: "Throw them into the mountains."
Two guards silently packed the bodies into sacks and carried them away.
Dongfang Xinglan exhaled gently; since it proved useful, the Land of Prosperity should be found.
'Dragon Suspended in the Sky, recognizable from the east; only visible in the southeast of Ancient Crossing...'
"Where could it be?"
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Author: Eleven thousand two hundred words owed.
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