His Rui

The soldiers guarding the entrance of Li Manor looked at Young Lady Li who was peeking at the entrance door. Li Rui smiled in embarrassment when she was caught and came out from behind the wall.

Walking towards the soldiers with small steps, she bowed her head and said

"Rui thanks both the soldier uncles for protecting Li Manor for so many years. It is only because of both the uncles Rui have been sleeping inside her courtyard peacefully at night."

Both the soldiers reciprocated her bow and continued blocking the door. Li Rui didn't go away.

She looked at them and they looked at her. She smiled and they reciprocated with the same.

After a while of silence, she cleared her throat and said

"Soldier uncle must be tired after standing for so long. Why don't you go and rest for a while? Rui will stand here and if someone came, Rui will inform both the uncles. Hmmm… This sounds good. Uncles should go and rest."

Satisfied with her own words, she nodded her head. But she didn't see the soldiers straightening their back suddenly.

"Hmmm, so that you can run out again, right?"

The familiar sound fell in her ears and Li Rui gasped. The soldiers almost laughed out loud seeing her expressions.

"Turn around, my dear daughter."

She really didn't want to turn around and see who it was. Today, she already had heard so many colorful words. Fortunately, her father didn't beat her like her brother. But what was the guarantee she wouldn't be beaten now?

However, she can't ignore her father. So she turned around slowly and saw her father looking down at her with not so smile on his lips.

"My daughter never thanked me for being your father. After all, I am doing the most difficult duty in the whole Xin. Such an unfilial child…"

While saying these words, General Li even squeezed his daughter's soft little face in his hands. He really enjoyed seeing her irritated expression when she couldn't stop him.

She let her father squeeze her face as much as he wanted. At least it was better than hearing those colorful words or getting beaten.

General Li did it a few more times and then left her face. But he didn't walk away and looked at her with narrowed eyes.

"What are you doing here? Have you already copied down the pages I gave you?"

Li Rui nodded her head instantly.

"Yes, Father. Rui didn't dare to come out of her study until she didn't finish copying them."

General looked at her face with full of suspicion for a moment and then nodded his head saying.

"Good. Bring them to my study."

And then he walked away.

The little Li Rui heaved a sigh of relief and ran to her courtyard.

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Inside the study room, sitting on the chair General Li turned the pages in his hands as he looked at the words written on them carefully. In front of him, Li Rui stood looking at him now and then.

She clutched the hem of her dress when she saw her father stopping at a certain page but sighed in relief when he turned the next one.

When he finally put down them on the table and looked at her she made a pitiful face.

Then bowing her head she said

"Rui apologize for making Father worry unnecessarily."

General Li hummed and Li Rui took it as a sign that her father forgave her. She smiled brightly when she raised her head and took a few steps forward to hug her Father's waist.

"Father is so good to Rui."

General Li shook his head with a smile on his lips. He patted his daughter's head and made her sit in his lap.

Leaning her small head on her father's chest, Li Rui called him

"Father…"

General Li stroked her hair lovingly and hummed.

"Father, Rui couldn't even enjoy today's festival. Elder Brother brought Rui straight away to the Manor. Rui will have to stay inside the Manor for so many days again and didn't even enjoy today. Father, don't you think Rui is pitiful? "

General Li's lips twitched.

"Pitiful and you? Whose fault it is that you couldn't enjoy the festival?"

The answer came immediately.

"Horse. Father, All of it was that horse's fault. Neither that horse would have run like that in the street, nor would Rui have jumped in between to save the Princess."

General Li bit his lips to contain his laughter.

Only his daughter was clever enough to turn such a matter into something like this.

"Ohhhhh…now it really seems that Rui is pitiful. It was all that horse's fault."

Li Rui swiftly raised her head to look at her father. Seeing that he really seemed to believe her words she continued with a pitiful face.

"See… Father Rui was not even at fault and you punished Rui. Still, Rui completed her punishment obediently. Shouldn't Father make up for Rui?"

General Li scrutinized at her with interest propping his chin on his hand that was supported by the arm of the chair. He was really curious to know what was going in his little daughter's mind.

"So how do you wish for Father to make up for you?"

Li Rui looked at her father with bright eyes and said with an excitedly

"Father can take Rui to the Imperial Palace tomorrow morning with himself."

The smile disappeared and General Li face instantly became serious. He picked Rui from her arms and made her stand in front of him.

"Rui, take out this thought from your head. You are not going to step inside the Imperial Palace."

Li Rui frowned hearing her father's words. But General Li ignored it and picked the documents from the table.

"Go to your courtyard now."

Li Rui tried to insist again.

"But Father…"

"Rui"

However, General Li didn't let her complete her words and pointed towards the door.

So Little Li Rui could only leave the study with a pout on her lips.