"Yes, but things aren't that simple." Cao Haoran sighed and looked at the young kid latching onto his leg with a hit of pity in his eyes. "Your guardians really did keep you out of sorts. You don't even know this."
"...Yes. I'm not aware of what's going on." Li Mei pouted and sniffed as if she would burst out crying any moment. "No one cares about me."
And she started to wail. Of course, she wasn't crying for real, but she really did pretend to cry as she would do in her childhood days to earn sympathy from those old female servants. She had thought such a trick wouldn't work on this cold and indifferent prince, but who knew he would scoop her up in his arms again and gently pat her back?
"There, there, don't cry. Big men don't cry."
"….." Li Mei wanted to say she wasn't a man, but she could tell it was too late to reveal her identity.
She would have to be careful in the future. Even if she revealed, she already had an excuse.
