Chu Qitong paused in her motion to return the medicine box to the inner chamber. She looked back at the woman. Without uttering a word, her expression, unchanging, had already answered the woman's question. She was the princess of the Great Chu Dynasty, the master of this palace.

"I've never seen a princess like you before." The woman looked at Chu Qitong for a while, then suddenly covered her mouth and laughed. Her belt was still untied, and her clothes hung loosely on her body, with both shoulders exposed. Fortunately, there was a warm stove burning in the room, so it wasn't cold.

Chu Qitong initially ignored the woman and went into the inner chamber to put away the medicine box before asking, "So what are the princesses you've seen like?"

Chu Qitong's words left the woman at a loss. As someone who had experienced the ins and outs of the martial world, she had never seen a princess before. Her impression of princesses was solely based on her imagination. She felt that princesses held a lofty position and were always accompanied by overbearing arrogance, no matter what.

Seeing Chu Qitong now completely subverted the girl's imagination of a princess in her heart, so it's no wonder she blurted out that question without thinking.

Staring intensely under Chu Qitong's burning gaze, the woman felt her face grew slightly warm. She surmised it must be the influence of the warm furnace in Qiwu Hall. Indeed, the palace was truly different, even the furnaces were warmer compared to other places.

The woman was at a loss for how to respond to Chu Qitong's words. Her eyes flickered for a moment, and then she jumped up from the soft couch. In the blink of an eye, she appeared beside Chu Qitong, wrapping her arms around her waist. Her tone was flirtatious as she said, "No matter what kind of princesses I've seen before, since I've met you, all the princesses I see are just like you."

After finishing speaking, the woman tightened her grip around Chu Qitong's waist. Because of her movements, her clothes slipped down slightly, revealing a large part of her red midriff. However, she seemed oblivious to it and instead pulled her clothes down a bit further.

The woman's increasingly frivolous actions made Chu Qitong furrow her brows slightly. She moved her lips as if about to say something to educate the woman, but she heard the woman say again, "Tsk tsk, the princess is truly different. Even her waist is softer than ordinary women."

Listening to the woman's words spoken in a lofty tone, Chu Qitong felt a slight displeasure in her heart. She exerted some force and pushed away the woman who had her arm around her waist, and said impatiently, "You have injuries on your body, so you should rest properly."

"Is little beauty feeling shy or angry?" The woman looked at Chu Qitong's appearance and smiled, her tone becoming more flirtatious. She pulled her outer garment to her waist, revealing the lingerie inside her shirt completely. She laughed like a sprite, every gesture carrying a seductive intention. Chu Qitong turned her head away without looking at her.

Chu Qitong felt that this girl seemed to be completely unaware of the cold. From the first time they met, she could tell that the girl was barely dressed, but now she realized that the girl was only wearing a thin coat with a bellyband underneath. Chu Qitong couldn't imagine how she managed to walk in the wind and snow dressed like that.

The woman felt a slight boredom when she saw that Chu Qitong was ignoring her. She lowered her head and neatened her clothes, then fastened her belt. She walked up to Chu Qitong once again and said, "I am grateful to the princess for saving my life. I will trouble the princess in the coming days. My name is Ning Zhuangyan, princess, please remember it."