Please always remember one thing: Unless you are a Xyrin Emperor, you should never provoke Sandora.
The huge claims made by Her Highness, the princess, caught everyone by surprise. Ding Bai immediately choked up as he continued to writhe on the ground. He groaned and then started making quacking noises. I could only imagine the shock and anger he was feeling inside. He had only come here to try and cozy up to the princess. At the same time, he wanted to chase away this little brat who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
He never expected that not only would the princess protect this unassuming, poor boy; but that she would also be so sly and cunning. In just two or three sentences, she conjured up such a scary story about being threatened by political spies. Although he had his own family to back him up and Ding Bai firmly believed that he would not be prosecuted for this, he would still never be able to wash his reputation clean.
Although Sandora was not an important member of the government and she was here merely as a guest, a princess from an imperial country was no ordinary character. Receiving her gave Ding Bai unimaginable pressure. What’s more, Sandora had been so strong-headed from the beginning. She had even been sending weak spiritual interferences to the people around her. Now, Ding Bai was at a complete loss as to how to handle the situation.
The people around also looked at one another, confused. Everybody saw what happened very clearly. This Ding Bai had not done any political spying. Princess Sandora was only making life difficult for him on purpose. Yet, it was inappropriate for them to speak up on his behalf. Sandora was telling the truth although she was exaggerating Ding Bai’s motivations.
At that moment, beads of cold sweat appeared on the soldier-like man’s forehead. He smiled and said, “Well… Your Highness, I wonder if there has been some misunderstanding. I can promise that Mr. Ding has no such motive. He is only—”
“He is only considering my own safety and security and fulfilling his obligations as a host?” Sandora asked coldly. The man was trembling involuntarily under her questioning look. Still, he plucked up the courage to argue, “If Mr. Ding offended you or your friends, I apologize on his behalf. However, I hope that—”
Sandora waved her hand in frustration and looked at Ding Bai—who was still on the ground—with disdain. “I don’t like trouble, and I don’t want to sour the relationship between both parties. Since you can confirm this man’s motivations, I believe you. As for what happened earlier, I apologize.”
Seeing that Sandora was finally softening, the other party heaved a sigh of relief. Then, he quickly helped Ding Bai up and retreated.
After what happened, the entire atmosphere at the banquet tensed up considerably. Nobody dared to try and cozy up to Sandora after that. For fear that Sandora would pin an anti-human crime on them, everyone rushed to end the banquet.
As for dancing… at first, I thought that even though I did not know how, it would be nice to take the opportunity to get intimate with Qianqian. However, Sandora expressed a great amount of resistance to this idea. Similarly, Qianqian refused to let Sandora dance with me. In the end… both of them became dance partners, and I had no choice but to sit by the side and enjoy desserts with Pandora. Nevertheless, it felt quite pleasant to be able to cuddle with this Lolita as I watched two beauties dance in front of me. Of course, that was if I ignored the evil glares they were shooting at each other.
The next day…
The one-day holiday passed in the blink of an eye. My classmates were all reluctant to come back to school. However, the winter was approaching, and everyone had something to look forward to. Even though the junior year was tough, it would never get so tough that our holidays would be canceled.
The moment I entered the classroom today, I felt something different in the atmosphere. It was almost like everyone had their eyes on me. I was confused.
“What’s the matter?” I turned curiously to Fatty Zhao who was seated behind me.
Fatty Zhao looked at me as if I was an alien and said, “You brat, are you still acting stupid? The princess! Sandora is the princess! Oh my gosh, I’m not dreaming, am I?”
I finally understood why all of my classmates were reacting in this way. After the welcome party yesterday, Sandora’s identity was out in the open. With the ever-updated Fatty Zhao around, the class must have learned that Sandora was the princess from Riska. What’s more, if Fatty Zhao’s social network expanded even to the high-class society in the inner area of the city plaza, he would have learned about what Princess Sandora did to stand up for me at the banquet.
It did not matter even if he did not know about that; from the day that Sandora set foot into this classroom and jumped into my arms, what people witnessed with their own eyes was even more terrifying than the news they heard from Fatty Zhao.
“Chen Jun,” Fatty Zhao suddenly called out in a stern voice, “are we still on Earth?”
“Go back to Mars!” I said, irritated.
“I’m not joking; I’m being serious this time. How did you become friends with the princess? Dear heavens, that’s a princess! I thought that I would only ever see such characters on television. Now, she’s standing right in front of me, together with you—”
“Stop talking nonsense!” I interrupted, panicked. It took so much for me to get Qianqian to interact peacefully with Sandora. It was not a good idea to allow this fatty to run his mouth off. “Sandora and I are just ordinary friends. If you continue spouting nonsense, I will kill you…”
“Ordinary friends?” Sun Yang, who sat in front of me, turned around with a sorrowful yet angry expression. “Would ordinary friends jump into your arms? Beast… you really are the common enemy of the bachelor party!”
At that moment, one of the girls walked up to join us. In a suggestive tone, she said, “It looks like we’ve found the reason why Her Highness came to an ordinary school like ours. I’ll say, even on an exchange program, a princess like her should attend top schools in the country like Cang Lan. I was wondering why she would come to an average school like ours. So…”
I’ll say, you have a really powerful imagination, don’t you?
Right then, the noisy class immediately quieted down. Curiously, I turned to look past the bachelor Sun Yang’s crestfallen face. There, I saw Sandora and Qianqian walking into the classroom, holding hands.
I was really confused by the two of them. Sometimes, they would fight each other like water and fire; at other times, they would be as close as a pair of sisters. Did the saying ‘women’s hearts are unfathomable’ apply to aliens as well?
Thanks to my suggestion, Sandora no longer brought her bodyguards to school with her. What’s more, she even allowed the commanders of Pandora’s heavily-armed army to organize the Xyrin subordinates she brought to China with her. After all, the three hundred commanders were now quite familiar with this place. En, the arrangement would be fine as long as Sandora’s subordinates did not turn the three hundred commanders into unlicensed hawkers.
The commotion the two beauties caused by appearing together was quite huge. What’s more, one of them was a legendary princess. Naturally, everyone was even more flustered to see them. My classmates tried to catch their breaths; the truth about Sandora seemed to press down on their lungs.
“Hi, everyone!” Sandora waved as she stepped into the classroom, a warm smile on her face. Suddenly, it felt like the warm sunlight was shining into the classroom. Everyone immediately relaxed.
I heard Sandora’s voice in my head: “I went back to think about it and decided to listen to you. I’ll interact properly with these carbon-based beings.”
It looked like my persuasion worked. Sandora finally decided to truly integrate herself into this class. She was not going to come here and mess around with the carbon-based beings for fun. I heaved a sigh of relief. To my classmates, interacting with a dignified beauty was much easier than interacting with a cool princess.
Sandora’s greeting made everyone calm down immediately. One by one, they greeted her back. A few bolder classmates even teased her, saying, “Good morning, Your Highness, our princess!”
Sandora smiled warmly and elegantly. Then, she walked towards me with Qianqian. They sat down on either side of me.
“Ah Jun,” Qianqian called out, leaning towards me, “why do I feel like Sandora has become much better? It’s suddenly so much easier to talk to her.”
I came up with a pretty good reason: “She has always been easy to get along with. She just did not know how to interact with people after being cooped up in the palace for such a long time.”
“That’s right, Ah Jun,” Qianqian suddenly said as if she suddenly recalled something. Excitedly, she said, “There’s another half a month more before we go on our winter holidays. Have you thought of anywhere fun to go to?”
“Where can we go?” I shrugged my shoulders. “We’re already in our junior year. Although we’re on holiday, it’s only two weeks. There’s nothing fun to do. I’ll go home and spend time with my big sister.”
“Only you are thinking that way!” Qianqian pursed her lips and said adorably, “A few days ago, Big Sister Chen Qing told me that she wanted to bring Lili overseas over the New Year! I’m thinking…”—at this point, Qianqian lowered her voice and leaned in to whisper in my ear—”you and Lin Xue should discuss this and get her organization to bring us somewhere fun to travel to. How’s that? That’s our last holiday as high school students, and I really don’t want to waste it.”
Travel? I mumbled to myself for a moment. In the past, I always spent my winter holidays with my big sister. However, we had no relatives who came to visit us. It was not a bad idea to go overseas on holiday.
“Alright!” I nodded. “We will go overseas this winter holiday!”