"We won't let you climb up there, Your Highness!"
That smart guardsman said, and the other guardsmen and handmaidens were all relieved.
"Hmph! I'll complain to my mother right now!" Having no other choice, Longyuan could only complain about it.
He shook off the handmaidens' hold over him and dashed towards the Dark Moon Palace.
He definitely would have his mother dismiss those despicable guardsmen.
Behind him, the two dozen guardsmen and handmaidens followed him nervously.
Nonetheless, Longyuan soon reached the Dark Moon Palace, wheezing as he coldly snapped at the guardsmen and handmaidens behind him. "Just you wait! I'll have Mother dismiss all of you! Hmph!"
The guardsmen and handmaidens were all stunned by his outburst. They were paid quite well at the moment and reluctant to lose their current posts, but would the empress really buy into the crown prince word and dismiss them?
It was possible, after all!
Everyone hence waited apprehensively outside the Dark Moon Palace.
***
"Eh? Yuan'er, you're early. Are you going to study?" Liu Rushuang smiled in surprise—it was naturally a good thing if her son was willing to study.
"No, Mother! I didn't come back to study!" Longyuan retorted earnestly at his mother.
Feeling as if she had a bucket of ice water splashed on her, Liu Rushuang's lips twitched as her tone turned colder, "Then what did you come back for?"
"I came back to complain, Mother!"
Longyuan's dark, round eyes held his mother's with a look of grief, and he appeared to be on the verge of tears.
Liu Rushuang's heartstrings were tugged right then, and she quickly asked, "What's wrong, Yuan'er? Who bullied you?"
Tears streamed from Longuyan's eyes right away as he sobbed, "It's those guardsmen and handmaidens, Mother!"
"Eh? Why would they bully you?"
Liu Rushuang naturally doubted it since she and Han Moze personally picked those guardsmen and handmaidens. They naturally screened through their character personally, so why would they bully a crown prince?
"Sob… Mother… T-They pulled my hair, slapped me, and stripped my pants to look at my birdy! They liked to see me cry, and laugh whenever I cried."
Longyuan cried resoundingly and hysterically even as he spoke about his own method of bullying, creating a tearful, heartrending sight.
Liu Rushuang was caught by his theatrics. Frowning and looking at Longyuan sadly, she reached out to catch his tears and tenderly said, "Don't cry, Yuan'er. I'll look into the matter myself and get even for you, alright?"
"You don't have to look into it, Mother! They would definitely say they didn't do it! Just dismiss them right away!" Longyuan told Liu Rushuang earnestly and tearfully.
"Poor Brother… Mother, you have to get even for Brother after he was bullied so much."
Fengwu added sympathetically with a frown as well.
Liu Rushuang nodded at Fengwu. "Alright, let's do this right now."
With that, she rose and started outside the palace, with Fengwu and Longyuan flanking her with, keeping up with their tiny feet adorably.
Even so, they were different at the core: one was a demon, while the other was an angel.
Sunlight streamed in when the front doors were opened, illuminating Liu Rushuang's unparalleled beauty and the children with her.
"Greetings, Your Majesty!"
Two handmaidens and over a dozen guardsmen promptly kneeled in salute, acting compliant and not at all like people who bullied princes.