Masquerade in Bridal Attire and Marry the Prince

39. The Son of Duke Ningyuan

Translator: Antonia

However, his self-consolation was immediately invalidated and turned into a sheer face-slap.

Soon after he shouted that out loud, the bush in front of them was split open and there walked out a soldier, who was wearing Shenglan uniform.

He was a guard sent out in search of the Crown Prince. With loose bowels, he was left alone by the searching team. Hearing the voice, he hurriedly walked out, surprisingly saw the living Crown Prince and Princess, and for a time almost peed from scare.

“Ghost! Ghost!” He yelled, in a trembling voice, and turned to run desperately in the opposite direction.

Yuxing Tianrui’s just-built defense of self-consolation instantly collapsed. Seeing the suggestive grin on Du Chuxuan’s face, he quickly realized what he had said, “Just do what you should. I was being muddle-headed. I said nothing.”

He left the sentence and turned to chase after the soldier.

Du Chuxuan stayed where he was and looked at the escaping boy, confused. He had never planned to be the bottom, even though being the top was more tiring. Yet, his little Prince was too fragile to take the hard labor.

In this sense, he was quite a good husband.

But why his suggestion sounding nice to everyone else wasn’t satisfying to his little Prince? He insisted to be bottom? What an annoyance! He just wouldn’t let him rest. What a sweet burden!

As X-rated scenes were on play in Du Chuxuan’s mind, Yuxing Tianrui had caught up with the freaked out soldier whose yelling attracted over more nearby members of the searching team.

Everyone was stunned for a second and then kneeled down upon seeing the intact Crown Prince and a little injured Crown Princess. These soldiers were quite calm and less crazy than the previous one, “We’re glad to meet Your Highness.”

Yuxing Tianrui had put on a proper expression at this moment. Although his clothes were messy, his bearing as an imperial member was still there. The soldiers all kneeled submissively, waiting for his order.

“Why are you here? What’s the situation in the barracks now?” Yuxing Tianrui’s voice was so indifferent that all of them—except Du Chuxuan—thought nothing had happened to His Highness.

The team leader gave a look to the freaked out soldier, who finally regained his reason and knew that he had offended His Highness, trembling and kneeling to wait for punishment.

Yuxing Tianrui saw clearly the interaction between the two soldiers and said nothing. In fact, since the moment when the soldier yelled like crazy, he had known that the barracks must be a mess now.

“Your Highness. Since the last battle against the Turks, Your and Her Highness disappeared. We only found Ada dying on the ground. According to him, Your and Her Highness have broken out of the siege but were chased by the enemies.

Therefore, General Leng ordered us to search for Your and Her Highness. But it’s been so many days—” He didn’t need to finish and Yuxing Tianrui already knew roughly what had happened next.

The military tiger token had been in his hand, but when he went on march, it was put in the main tent in the barracks and protected by one of his close guard. Even if Yuxing Tianrui died, as long as there was one general, he could take the tiger token and command over Shenglan Army.

But the premise was that this person must obtain his written edict before taking over the tiger token from the close guard. After so many days of fruitless searching, they must believe that they had died. Therefore, the news was sent to the capital, and very likely a person had already been sent over from the capital.

Du Chuxuan slowly walked over from behind. His martial cultivation gave him a better hearing than ordinary people, so naturally he heard what they said. He took a fondling glance at Yuxing Tianrui and said to the soldiers, in view that Yuxing Tianrui was silent, “If this is the case, just protect us back to the barracks.”

The soldiers readily took Du Chuxuan’s order. It was said that His Highness was very compliant with Her Highness. Now that seemed true. He said nothing else after she ordered to go back.

In the end, the soldier didn’t dare to ask Yuxing Tianrui what had happened during this period of time. The generals would take care of these things after they went back to the barracks. The lower-level soldiers had no right to ask.

It wasn’t very far from the barracks and they arrived before evening. However, the news was suppressed by Yuxing Tianrui. Under his guidance, the soldiers helped them sneak in.

It wasn’t until Du Chuxuan had enough food did he understand why Yuxing Tianrui did so.

“What’s the name of the son of Duke Ningyuan?” He tore off a big bite of a chicken leg and asked Dongxiang, who was a clever person because when everyone else said she was dead, only Dongxiang believed that they were still alive and preserved a meal for her every day.

But what made Du Chuxuan happier was Yuxing Tianrui’s change. After knowing that he was a man, he no longer controlled on his food and specially gave him more drumsticks. What a sweet boy!

Dongxiang’s voice still sounded sobbing which was resulted from seeing Du Chuxuan again. He quickly wiped away the tears at the corners of his eyes and answered, “The son of Duke Ningyuan is named Shan Zhongli. He’s one of the Four Gorgeous Men in Shenglan. Why don’t you know that?”

Wasn’t this the kind of thing unmarried girls cared most? It was okay that His Highness didn’t know that, but surprising that Her Highness didn’t know either. Surely, she only cared about His Highness.

Du Chuxuan had no idea of what was in Dongxiang’s mind and repeated the name several times. It was a good name, but not a good person. He only hoped that the man wouldn’t use his slyness on him, because he was too lazy to deal with such a person.

Seeing Du Chuxuan gorging on food, Dongxiang wondered if he should remind her a little. How should the Crown Princess be so not like a graceful lady. Was it good for her to eat like this?

Du Chuxuan noticed Dongxiang’s intent gaze and thought he wanted to have meat too. However, the drumsticks were too delicious and this was the last one.

“Don’t worry. If I have more drumsticks in the future, I’ll surely give you some.”