Masquerade in Bridal Attire and Marry the Prince

40. Gossips

Translator: Antonia

Yuxing Tianrui saw this scene on entering the tent. His mouth twitching in the corner, he walked directly to the table and sat down deservedly.

Dongxiang was stunned for a while. Usually His Highness never came to Her Highness’s tent. Even if he did, he would notice her in advance. This was the reason why everyone praised that His Highness respected Her Highness very much.

However, after the couple returned, something he didn’t understand seemed to have changed. Yuxing Tianrui was dissatisfied at Dongxiang’s inability to read the air, so he gave him a small glare, which Dongxiang got instantly.

“Your Highness, please call me if you need anything. I’m guarding outside.” He bowed and went out.

Yuxing Tianrui snorted. Though Dongxiang looked thin and weak, not like a man capable of killing the enemies on the battlefield, he was very clever. If there was the need, he could be sent to the Crown Prince Mansion as Du Chuxuan’s servant. The man should have no presentable servants and took with him several dowry girls!

Du Chuxuan didn’t know what Yuxing Tianrui was thinking because he was very satisfied now. As the saying goes, men should be content. He was a content person—as long as he has meat.

“Your Highness saw the person?” By keeping secret the news of their returning, Yuxing Tianrui aimed to deceive the Turks.

After all, to Ashina Yi, Yuxing Tianrui was a true rival, but Shan Zhongli was nothing. When Ashina Yi came to the realization, he would launch an attack at any moment.

By then, Yuxing Tianrui only needed to catch the turtle in the urn. Although the metaphor made Du Chuxuan feel like being cursed at the same time, he also thought this was the most energy-saving way to win.

Speaking of Shan Zhongli, Yuxing Tianrui pulled a long face, “Father still doesn’t recover from the sadness after receiving the news and rests in the bedroom. Mother also cries all day long.”

It was truly his fault. He could stay there to take care of Du Chuxuan, but also he could have at least found a way to send some news back to the barracks.

Yuxing Tianrui blamed himself hard on this matter, which made Du Chuxuan a little worried, “Don’t think too much, Your Highness. It’s not necessarily a bad thing for us.”

He knew that by Yuxing Tianrui’s plan, he must have secretly passed the news that he was still alive to the Emperor and the Empress. The imperial members surely had their own methods of sending messages, a way Du Chuxuan didn’t know how but couldn’t be cheap.

Yuxing Tianrui raised his brows, obviously waiting for the explanation of what he meant by not a bad thing. Du Chuxuan didn’t hesitate and came directly to the point.

“Look,” He clapped his hands and wiped out the oil with a cloth, “that Ashina Yi is obviously trying to make some immediate feats, or he wouldn’t have fallen into your traps again and again.”

This sounded pleasant to Yuxing Tianrui. He nodded and waited for Du Chuxuan to continue, “If so, only when the capital is in a complete mess and everyone believes you’re died will he, a dubious person, also believe it.”

Du Chuxuan was a little guilty saying that. Though he was helping his own country, Ashina Yi was his sect-brother after all. He was a little tough on him.

But Yuxing Tianrui didn’t have as much complicated feelings as he did. Hearing the words, his eyes shone with brilliance, “So it’s the best. To others, your tent is forbidden now, so I’d better stay here these days.” Du Chuxuan rolled his eyes. It seemed the last sentence was the key points of so much that Yuxing Tianrui had said.

“Could you please tell me, Your Highness, who is so bold that occupies your tent?” He thought the boy was merely trying to get an excuse to live with him.

Du Chuxuan appeared to be happy, but actually, he was overjoyed deep down.

Yuxing Tianrui’s expression froze for a second and he had to tell him, even if he never wanted to, “The son of Duke Ningyuan has an imperial edict saying he is now the real manager of tiger token.”

Du Chuxuan was also stunned for a while. He certainly learned the news of this person’s presence, but he didn’t expect that he had an imperial edict. As the saying goes, two tigers can’t live on the same mountain. The son of Duke Ningyuan wouldn’t have occupied the main tent so eagerly and blatantly as long as he was less ambitious.

Seeing Yuxing Tianrui’s aggrieved expression, he couldn’t say anything to let him down and readily agreed, exclaiming generously, a bird couple always live in the same grove—of course he didn’t say the latter half of the saying, that they fly separate ways at a disaster.

In Yuxing Tianrui’s unhappy gaze, Du Chuxuan hurriedly found a better way to put it, “I mean I’m injured and it’ll be inconvenient to send for doctors to heal me, so I have to bother Your Highness to take care of me.”

His words surely made the boy happier who put on an ‘it’s-your-honor’ expression.

Du Chuxuan grinned. Whatever the reason, he was happy as long as his little highness was.

As for that Shan Zhongli, he would find a way to deal with. How dared he bully his prince! Didn’t he know that the Prince was under Du Chuxuan’s protection?!

Dongxiang received Du Chuxuan’s order the next morning and quickly spread the gossip out. Before noon, nearly everyone in the barracks knew that Shan Zhongli was living in the Crown Prince’s tent.

But the gossip changed as it passed down. At first, Du Chuxuan only intended to let everyone know Shan Zhongli’s ambition. Surprisingly, the public opinion was a better version than as expected.

“Do you know that the son of Duke Ningyuan fell in love with Her Highness?! Though Her Highness has her own tent, he still chose to live in His Highness’s tent only because she lived there for a long time.”

The listener was shocked, “Really? I don’t know if this is true, but is it proper that he openly moves in like this before we find the bodies of His and Her Highness?”

“Of course not. I don’t believe the thinly-built son of Duke Ningyuan is a martial cultivator. It’s said he learned martial arts at five. But in my view, he looks so weak and sick. I don’t think he can live long.”