Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

108. I Recognize You

Translator: Flying Lines

When the carriage reached City Yang, Su Jie paid the coachman and got off the carriage with Zhou Zaiyue.

At this time, it was midday. Su Jie’s tummy had already started to rumble. He found a restaurant with Zhou Zaiyue, and the two ate some mouthfuls of rice hurriedly. Suddenly, they heard a ruckus coming from outside. It sounded like there was a fight.

“You dare to hit me? You must be tired of living?” a young man cried out. He was running away, but when his pursuers caught up with him, he refused to admit defeat. By then, several people were kicking him, causing him to cry out in pain.

Su Jie swallowed the rice in his mouth, vaguely feeling that the voice of the youth outside sounded very familiar. Even the tone of his words was extremely alike to… Yue Wanzhi.

But Yue Wanzhi should be bossing around servants at his home in the capital city. How could he be at City Yang?

Su Jie smiled as he shook his head, not understanding.

Yet, in the next moment, he heard the youth cry and shout in pain. “Beat me to death if you truly dare! Let me tell you, my name is Yue Wanzhi, my… Ow!”

Maybe it was because they found the youth too annoying because they put more strength into their kicks, causing him to suffer wordlessly.

“What is it?” Zhou Zaiyue asked when he saw Su Jie smiling.

“I’m going out to intervene to help that old friend.” Su Jie laughed as he walked out of the inn. Anyway, he was in disguise. Yue Wanzhi probably wouldn’t be able to recognize him.

Outside the inn, he could only see a young man clutching his head in front of the road. Su Jie couldn’t see what the young man looked like, but his wailing sounded like Yue Wanzhi. There were around five or six young men surrounding and kicking fiercely at the youth holding his head. One directly yanked at Yue Wanzhi’s hair and gave him a harsh slap.

At that one slap, Yue Wanshi felt ashamed and angry. He was the Prime Minister’s son! Never mind being beaten up on the streets, he was even slapped!

In Yue Wanzhi’s opinion, being beaten up didn’t mean much. The important thing was that his face mustn’t be hit. Even though he didn’t rely on his looks to earn money, his face represented his dignity.

Since his dignity was damaged, Yue Wanzhi lashed out. He reached out to curl his arm around the man’s calf and bit it.

Seeing this scene, the corner of Su Jie’s lips twitched. Without another word, he took down the other men who were still hurting Yue Wanzhi. As for the one Yue Wanzhi was biting, Su Jie felt somewhat helpless. He thought for a bit and still helped to restrain the man’s arms so that he couldn’t hit Yue Wanzhi.

“Ah——” the man screeched. He felt as if the flesh on his calf was bitten off. Feeling the fierce pain, he used his other leg to kick Yue Wanzhi. Yet, before he could, he was blocked by Su Jie’s leg and landed on his bottom when he fell to the ground.

Yue Wanzhi opened his mouth and breathed harshly. He glanced upwards at Su Jie, but instead of saying a word of thanks, he said, “Humph! Even though Father didn’t allow you guys to intervene, you just sat back and watched me being beaten up?”

Obviously, Yue Wanzhi mistook Su Jie as someone sent to protect him secretly.

When he was in the capital city, Yue Wanzhi was too arrogant and provoked the eldest prince’s son. Additionally, whenever he went out, he was protected by over a hundred servants and such a large entourage couldn’t be ignored. Because of this, the prime minister sent Yue Wanzhi to the private school in City Yang, since he had no other ways to disciple his spoiled son. Also, in order to soften Yue Wanzhi’s rough edges, he just gave Yue Wanzhi a few pieces of silver, no servants or any other help. But who would have thought that Yue Wanzhi would continue like he normally did even in City Yang? It was truly embarrassing to have been beaten up on the streets today.

At this moment, Yue Wanzhi opened his mouth to complain at Su Jie, “My Father didn’t send me here to suffer. He left you guys, who are meant to protect me secretly, here so that I wouldn’t get into trouble. Look at you! You only came to save me when I was almost beaten to death!”

Su Jie squatted down, waited till Yue Wanzhi finished his complaints and said, “How does it feel to be beaten up?”

Yue Wanzhi was furious when he heard that, but he wasn’t an idiot. He saw that there wasn’t fear or respect in Su Jie’s expression. It was then when Yue Wanzhi realized that this good samaritan wasn’t someone sent by his father. But on second thought, this person’s martial arts probably weren’t weak. Why did he help him?

Yue Wanzhi’s eyes roamed around and stared at Su Jie with suspicion for a bit.

Su Jie was confident in his disguise technique, so he let Yue Wanzhi openly stare at him.

“Why did you save me?” Yue Wanzhi asked, a glimmer of light flashing in his eyes.

Su Jie smiled, “I did it on a whim. I was happy, so I saved you. And when I’m not happy, I could even take part in beating you up.”

Hearing this, Yue Wanzhi became amused. He even wanted to stretch out his hand to pinch Su Jie’s face, but Su Jie dodged away.

“Don’t be so touchy-feely.” Su Jie frowned.

Yue Wanzhi stopped without minding too much. There was a hint of pride in his expression as he laughed, “I recognize you. Did you use a disguise technique? Even though your appearance has changed, I am still familiar with your voice.”