Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

107. Let’s Go

Translator: Flying Lines

“Father, I will marry only him in my whole life.” Xiao Shengnian didn’t get up, remaining on his knees.

“Get up, I won’t force you…” The Emperor gave a long sigh. Even though his words held some helplessness of an elder, he didn’t take this matter too seriously. The Emperor had more than twenty sons, and his eldest grandchild was already twelve years old. He didn’t have to worry about whether Xiao Shengnian only had eyes for men.

“Thank you, father, for allowing me so.”

After Xiao Shengnian left the royal palace, all the constables in the capital city had already received the order to search. Since this was the capital city, the constables here were naturally very hard-working. Even if Busha Pavilion’s assassins were any more powerful, they were still a group of men of sacrifice who worked in the shadows. They wouldn’t be able to resist against the whole country searching for them. And when the Guqin Master received this message, he was so angry that even his face became twisted.

“What an emperor! What a Prince Rui! One dotes on his son without limit, and the other arrogant because he is favored. They’re forcing my Busha Pavilion to shrink in power and cower away!” The Guqin Master broke a string of the guqin, but that did little to calm the anger inside him.

Xiao Luoxuan was vaguely aware that something was wrong. The twelve shadows who were always by his side were sent away last night, and they still hadn’t returned. Couple that with receiving father’s orders to search for Busha Pavilion today, Xiao Luoxuan somewhat figured the reason for this.

“Uncle, where are the twelve shadows?”

“Those useless trash have already died!” The Guqin Master’s tone was gloomy and pitiful. And his gaze was so cold that it would freeze people. Xiao Luoxuan suddenly became silent.

“Xiao Luoxuan, since State Yanhui’s Emperor wants to eliminate my Busha Pavilion, it looks like we will have to push forward our plan. Humph! What a preposterous, muddleheaded, and unseeing emperor of State Yanhui! In the beginning, he let my little sister die in the cold palace and now, he wants to destroy my Busha Pavilion. I will make him regret this!” the Guqin Master said as his expression twisted.

Xiao Luoxuan seemed to be strangled. When faced with a Guqin Master like this, Xiao Luoxuan was terrified. He was extremely afraid of his uncle. Even if he once contradicted the Guqin Master defiantly, his fear of the man was deeply rooted in his heart. He didn’t have the ability nor the courage to resist.

“Don’t worry about it. Everything in State Yanhui will definitely be yours one day. I will assist you to ascend to the highest position.” After raging, the Guqin Master’s face revealed a strange smile.

“I will not betray Uncle’s hopes.” Xiao Luoxuan answered hurriedly.

*

At this moment, Zhou Zaiyue and Su Jie hadn’t left the capital city yet.

Su Jie changed into a simple grey robe, and he covered up his beautiful appearance with a disguising technique. After the disguise, the young man had a very ordinary aura, the type of aura that would be hard to pick out from a crowd.

Zhou Zaiyue watched Su Jie, whose aura had undergone a large change, and spat out a sentence after quite a while of silence, “Your Highness, if you were to walk past me like this, I definitely wouldn’t be able to recognize you.”

“Don’t forget that I am the Sharp Sword. Even the Guqin Master praises my camouflaging abilities.” Su Jie answered and smiled.

“Then do I need to disguise myself as well?”

“You sit down. I’ll help you.”

Su Jie made some small changes to Zhou Zaiyue’s nose and the corner of his lips. And immediately, Zhou Zaiyue’s appearance gave people a different feeling from before. Unless someone observed carefully, or it would be really difficult to tell who this old man was.

“Your Highness’s skills are truly outstanding.” Zhou Zaiyue said smilingly as he watched his reflection in the mirror for a while.

Su Jie watched Zhou Zaiyue, his usually calm face revealing a faint smile. He picked up a simple bundle that was beside him and tied it into his back, asking all of a sudden, “Oh right, Elder Zhou, Da Hua and the parrot are still at Prince Rui’s residence. Can we just leave like this?”

“Don’t worry. Xiao Shengnian will look after them well. The most important thing right now is to escort Your Highness safely to Yanling.”

Zhou Zaiyue smiled compassionately. He then said, “I have sent a message out via the flute. In order to prevent accidents happening when we travel, there will be Yanling citizens dressing up as us to confuse people.”

When he heard that Zhou Zaiyue had planned this out so comprehensively, Su Jie didn’t say anything else. However, he still possessed a few hints of unwillingness to part with State Yanhui in his heart. After all, he had lived in this country for a long time, and it was a place he was familiar with. After they left, he wasn’t sure if he could return in the future.

In the past, Su Jie thought State Yanhui would be his last home. Assisting Prince Qin to the throne was his only wish. But now, things were different. Not only did he escape from the control of the Death Gu, but he also attained an extraordinary identity and an extra responsibility.

When they got out of the capital city, the horizon before him widened. There were many empty carriages at the city gates. The coachmen were chatting with each other in high spirits, yet competed against each other for business when customers came looking for a carriage ride.

“Your Highness, even though there is a difference between yourself, a ruler, and myself, a subject, I can only ask you to bear with this as we ride the same carriage together.”

“Don’t talk like this, Elder Zhou. You are kind to me. No matter what identity I have, I will never dare to forget your kindness in my whole life.”

Su Jie and Zhou Zaiyue rode in the same carriage. The carriage moved across the land, gradually taking them further and further away from the capital city.