A young lady was holding up the hem of her voluminous skirt with one hand, and stretching the other hand out in front to stop the carriage, with burrs clinging to her skirt, indicating she must have just dashed out from the roadside.
Her slightly disheveled black shoulder-length curly hair framed her fair complexion, and her dress was styled like informal courtwear, suggesting she might be a young noblewoman.
Upon seeing Mu Ying emerge from the carriage, Princess Shirley gave her a curtsy and said with a hint of embarrassment, "I'm terribly sorry, my name is Shirley. I fled to the forest to evade my stepmother's poison, but I have run out of the snacks I brought with me and am terribly hungry, so I took the liberty of stopping your carriage to ask for something to eat."
"Shirley? The princess from the Rose Kingdom?" Mu Ying inquired.
Although she had been traveling in Sunset Forest lately, she had actually reached the forest area close to Trebia, the capital of the Rose Kingdom.
