Startled Magpie

While carrying out an assignment for His Majesty, Wen Huiguan encountered a foreign woman covered in wounds in the south.

He had no intention of getting involved, but the woman woke up, tugged at his sleeve, and called him her savior.

Looking into her innocent eyes, Wen Huiguan's heart softened. He agreed to her request, letting her disguise herself as his maid and stay by his side. He named her Jingque.

Wen Huiguan never pretended to be a saint. Jingque was simply too alluring, and she tempted him into breaking his own rules. He thought that once he brought Jingque back to the capital, he could keep her by his side. Whether as a maid or a concubine, he would take responsibility for her.

When Li Qingyun woke, she found herself looking at a strange man. She didn't want to die out in the wilderness, so she had no choice but to beg him to take her away.

To repay him, she gave herself to him. It was her first time, but she found herself quite enthusiastic about it.

She couldn't read Chinese, and she knew she was an outsider. So when Wen Huiguan asked her to be his maid, Li Qingyun agreed without hesitation.

But when she woke on the fourth day, she wanted to slap herself.

She wasn't some unwanted woman at all. She was the little princess of the Jinwu Kingdom, and she'd run away to escape an arranged marriage. Who could have guessed she'd be so unlucky as to fall off a cliff and be picked up by Wen Huiguan?

Remembering Wen Huiguan's ways, she silently glanced at her purse and decided she could put up with him a little longer.

She would endure it until she'd gotten enough travel money from Wen Huiguan, then pack up and head straight home.

What a pervert! Her butt still hurt!

When Wen Huiguan learned that Jingque had run away, fury surged through him, and he ordered people to search everywhere.

In the end, they found nothing.

Until he saw a portrait of a beauty on His Majesty's desk in the Imperial Study.

Only then did he learn that Jingque was actually named Li Qingyun, the little princess of the Jinwu Kingdom.

He rolled his wrist and stood inside the room where Jingque had lived.

If she wouldn't behave, then he would marry her and teach her properly.

Theme: Love is unexpected, and hard to put into words.