The Whole Dynasty Spoils the Tyrant's Beloved Youngest Daughter-Chapter 131: Exposed

Chapter 131: Chapter 131: Exposed
Lifted by the stilts, her height increased. With a veil to disguise her youthful face, on such a night filled with darkness, no one could tell she was a child.
However, walking on stilts was truly uncomfortable and made her walking posture somewhat strange, as if she were afflicted with some strange illness and unable to walk properly.
Wherever she passed, people would glance at her.
"What are you looking at? Never seen a beautiful woman?"
Being frequently stared at, Jun Ning finally said this.
That indeed did the trick; people stopped looking at her so much. However, before they stopped, they all gave Jun Ning a mocking sidelong glance as if to say, "Is that how a beautiful woman walks?"
Jun Ning ignored them and continued forward.
There were indeed a lot of people in the Black Market, all sorts of people.
She cautiously probed for information and then uncovered something particularly strange.
Besides various shady transactions at the Black Market, in the corner of the West Lane, in the dead of night, crying sounds of children often emanated. The cries were eerie and ghastly, leading everyone to believe the West Lane was haunted, so they avoided that place whenever possible.
"How could it possibly be haunted for real?"
"If it’s haunted, then why is it not big ghosts but little ones?"
"Could there truly be little ghosts hiding, or is there some secret concealed?"
Jun Ning muttered to herself.
Her voice was very soft, so most people wouldn’t hear it, but someone trained in martial arts with better hearing could.
Among them, a tall man in a white silk robe, handsome with noble features, standing not far behind her, heard what she said.
He looked at Jun Ning with surprise.
He was also investigating the missing children case in the Imperial City but had found no clues after several days. Out of options, he came to the Black Market to try his luck, and unexpectedly heard such talk.
Even more surprising was that it was a woman with such a strange appearance who spoke these words. Like someone gravely ill.
But to conjecture such things, her mind must be quite exceptional.
The man in white approached Jun Ning, pretending to be lost with a clueless expression, "Miss, it seems I’ve gotten lost. Can you tell me how to get out of this Black Market? Could you accompany me?"
Upon seeing the man’s looks, Jun Ning’s eyes widened instantly.
The the the... The Crown Prince? How could he be here?
And acting lost? Could it be he recognized who she was and wanted to capture her and have her executed?
Jun Ning hurriedly pinched her throat and said, "I have no plans to leave the Black Market for now. Please find someone else to guide you, sir."
After saying this, she prepared to leave, but the Crown Prince caught up to her, "I can follow you until you leave the Black Market." And perhaps learn something about the missing children.
The Crown Prince calculated skillfully.
Jun Ning, for the sake of her safety, was unwilling to let him follow her.
The two argued about this for a long time without reaching a conclusion.
Jun Ning never imagined that the elegant and graceful Crown Prince she often saw in her father’s Imperial Study Room would turn out to be so shameless?
Even though she didn’t want him following her, he persisted stubbornly and wouldn’t leave no matter how she scolded.
Jun Ning couldn’t help but wonder if the Crown Prince got his position by being so shameless?
Sigh—
Who knows.
In the end, seeing that the Crown Prince couldn’t be rid of and he didn’t seem to recognize her identity, she stopped insisting and let him follow.
Later, when they reached the Black Market’s West Lane, she would find a way to shake him off.
Jun Ning had already made her plans.
But heaven does not always go your way!
Before Jun Ning could reach the Black Market, she was surrounded by a group of men in black.
Though these men were masked, hiding their appearances, their piercing and murderous gazes were unmistakable even amid the endless night.
Even more frightening, these men were targeting Jun Ning alone.
Their eyes filled with killing intent remained fixed solely on Jun Ning, while the Crown Prince standing beside her was utterly ignored.
Were they here to kill her?
Jun Ning bit her lip.
"What are you standing there for? Run!" The Crown Prince also realized Jun Ning was being targeted by these people. Although clueless about the reason, he wouldn’t stand by and watch a good girl be killed without helping.
But when he tried to pull Jun Ning away, he found she couldn’t run. Moreover, there was something odd about her hand—why was it so small?
As sharp as the Crown Prince was, he immediately discerned something.
These hands clearly belonged to a child.
Glancing at Jun Ning, he lifted her skirt slightly and discovered the two stilts bound to her feet beneath it.
The Crown Prince’s lips twitched.
No wonder her walking was so awkward with unsteady balance; this was why.
This person who appeared to be an adult was actually a child in disguise?
So mischievous.
If her family learned about this, they’d be furious enough to spank her for sure.
"Alright, I’ll carry you. Hold on tight to me." The Crown Prince didn’t ask anything but quickly lifted Jun Ning onto his back and ran towards the crowd in the Black Market.
However, because of the ghost rumors, the West Lane had few people around. Despite running for a long time, he didn’t encounter many people or find a suitable hiding place.
The men in black relentlessly pursued them.
He looked around, seeking an appropriate hiding spot.
Jun Ning, with her sharp eyes, soon spotted one. Clinging to the Crown Prince’s neck with one hand, she pointed toward a haystack not far away, suggesting, "We can hide in that haystack."
The Crown Prince took only a glance before refusing, "Dirty, not going."
"Not going?"
Oh, what a fitting response for the noble Crown Prince!
So pretentious.
"If you won’t go, I will." Jun Ning jumped down from the Crown Prince’s back, removed her stilts, and walked toward the haystack.
"You, you, you..."
At some point, the veil on Jun Ning’s face had fallen off.
As she sat on the ground removing her stilts, the Crown Prince saw her face by the light of the moon in the sky.
Wasn’t this the one who was often cozied up in the Emperor’s embrace in the Imperial Study Room, enjoying privileges he had never received as the Eighteenth Princess?
No, no, no, not the Eighteenth Princess but the Eighteenth Prince disguised as a girl, now wanted by all ministers to be caught on sight.
After the Emperor found out she was missing, a decree was posted everywhere with a reward for her capture, and yet she had ended up here?
"Come, let’s go back to see the Emperor, and I can claim the reward." The Crown Prince shamelessly said.
The bounty of a thousand taels of gold; being the Crown Prince, there were many expenses he needed to cover. This money was like a windfall for him, so of course, he wanted to claim it.