Committing Crime is not Romantic, Children

The grass was green, the sky was blue and all that nonsense yada yada.

Bai Jingfei was slowly prancing towards the prison and could not care less about anything going on around her. She had one aim and one aim only.

To release the prisoners in the left prison.

That is, the rival faction and political criminals. People who could make the royal family's life hell if they managed to get out of the jail they were trapped in.

All of them had great influence and power, and had at one point, gone "missing".

For instance, the emperor's brother…

Or the general's third son who had mysteriously "died" at war.

Or the second prince of the neighboring kingdom.

Bai Jingfei had overheard her father begging the king to release them in fear of the consequences that would follow if the king was found to have imprisoned them.

But the consequences of letting them out would be a revolt.

Precisely what Bai Jingfei was hoping for.

The prison yard was surprisingly desolate and Bai Jingfei easily skipped her way over to the empty entrance and picked up all the keys hanging on the wall.

She had never stopped to be suspicious of why such a high security prison was unguarded or why the gate was wide open. If she had thought about it she would've saved herself a lot of trouble.

Deep inside the damp and stinky prison was a well dressed and handsome thug twirling a set of keys on his index finger.

"As long as you deal with the emperor it won't be too hard to let you out" laughed the man smugly looking down at a man sitting on the floor.

On the floor, behind a set of bars was the emperor's brother, Wang Shu.

He looked messy and completely covered in dirt. He ran his hand through his hair which made Bai Jingfei shudder in disgust.

Water was dripping off the ceiling walls into a puddle on the floor that was a breeding hotspot for mosquitos. Along with that, the sticky feeling of the moisture in the air permeated through the surroundings and onto the stone walls of the prison covered in moss.

Bai Jingfei was honestly revolted and wanted to leave but she had to release a couple of high profile political criminals to cause enough trouble.

"And why should I trust you?" asked Wang Shu to the handsome thug.

Bai Jingfei naturally scooted forward to eavesdrop some more.

She was pretty shameless when it came to this sort of thing.

"If you want to get out I'd say you have no other choice."

There was silence in the prison as Wang Shu contemplated his choices. Bai Jingfei stood behind the wall with baited breath and waited for more information.

The thuggish man continued, "Would you rather waste away in prison or just make an innocent deal with us? We don't want much, you know?"

Wang Shu sat on the floor looking up and Bai Jingfei could see a hint of desperation in his eyes. It was evident that Mr. Thug had caught a hint of that desperation too.

"Song Yongrui, you know I have no choice but to accept your proposal..." he said, his voice brimming with frustration.

Song Yongrui huh.

Bai Jingfei had never heard of him, but she hadn't heard of most things so that was a pretty valid excuse, at least in her case.

He was quite tall and had jet black hair. His clothes seemed expensive but they were tossed on casually. He would look quite the part of a prince if he wasn't twirling his knife around and didn't have splotches of blood all over him.

"So you're aware of your situation…" laughed Song Yongrui.

Bai Jingfei flinched hearing the mocking tone of his voice even though she knew it wasn't directed at her.

As she flinched, Song Yongrui suddenly turned and glanced in her general direction. Bai Jingfei immediately ducked which led to her tripping over herself and rolling into open view.

With a groan she rubbed her backside feeling pain shoot through it yet again. She'd lost count of how many times this had happened so far.

"Anyways, I'll let you out now. I need to go deal with that rat over there"

Bai Jingfei heard the jingling of keys and the creak of the gate to Wang Shu's prison. She looked up to see what was going on when she realized that Song Yongrui was standing next to her and looking down.

"How much of that did you hear, little girl?"

Bai Jingfei had gone completely dumb from shock so instead of denying she just groaned.

"Could I get those keys please..." she asked with puppy dog eyes.

"Looks like you're here to cause trouble too. I'm going to do something fun, why don't you join me?" laughed Song Yongrui, extending his arm to Bai Jingfei.

Bai Jingfei reached out and grabbed his arm to support herself up, using Song Yongrui much like an oversized crutch or walking stick.

"I'm in." whispered Bai Jingfei in a tone that could only be called nefarious.

There was an evil glint in her eyes that exactly matched the one in Song Yongrui's.

The two of them made the perfect couple. A couple of greedy, scheming, crazy people about to commit something that could only be called a crime.

Song Yongrui went ahead and unlocked the other 3 people in prison. There were only four people in the entire prison but since they were political prisoners it made sense that there would be very few of them left alive.

Each one of these prisoners released was a civil war or an uprising at the very least.

Fun stuff.

Bai Jingfei and Song Yongrui left the building after releasing everyone in it, and Bai Jingfei couldn't help but giggle.

"That was fun thank you"

Song Yongrui looked back at Bai Jingfei who was walking behind him, and slowed down his pace. An evil grin emerged on his face and Bai Jingfei could feel her heart thudding in anticipation.

"I have something even more fun... Are you going to join me?" he whispered into her ear.

Bai Jingfei blushed violently and nodded but the obviously crazy glint in her eyes could not be mistaken for anything else.

"Of course I'll join you."