Lady Fang hugged her goddaughter’s delicate little body and felt her maternal instincts rising up from deep within her heart. As if she was coaxing an infant, she gently patted Xiaocao’s shoulder. Xiaocao, who had originally planned on resting for a bit, had actually fell into a deep slumber under her godmother’s gently patting.

When they arrived in the town, Xiaocao was still asleep, but Lady Fang couldn’t bear to wake her up. In the end, it was the hawking outside the carriage that woke the sleeping Xiaocao up. She sat up and used her small hands to rub her eyes. She blinked sleepily and had a dazed expression on her face, as if she didn’t know where she was. Looking at the dazed Xiaocao, Lady Fang’s heart melted into a pool of water.  

“Ah! We’re already in town?” Xiaocao’s pair of abnormally big eyes brightened up again. As soon as she turned her head, she saw an unidentified water stain on the front of her godmother’s clothes. She blinked her eyes twice in confusion. When she finally realized what the water stain was, her face instantly flushed.

Lady Fang lowered her head to look at the trace of saliva that her goddaughter left on her clothes, and then she calmly said, “It’s alright. I brought spare clothes, so I can just change in inner room of the watermelon shop.”

Linglong showed the small bag in...