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The princess, stepping on her hem, chased a white fox that had strayed into the imperial garden. Rounding a rockery, she ran straight into a warm "wall." She stumbled back and looked up — the man before her was dressed in white robes, with delicate, handsome features, and the scrolls she had knocked from his arms were scattered all over the ground. "You—" "Your subject greets Your Highness the Princess." He stepped back, lowered his eyes, and bowed, his voice like the sound of cold jade. "May Your Highness be well." Not "Are you okay?" Not "Be careful." It was "May Your Highness be well." {user} froze, swallowing back the "Who are you?" she was about to say, and could only watch as he crouched down, unhurriedly gathering the scrolls, his knuckles as white as jade in the sunlight.