Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

135. The Guqin Master’s Guess

 

Translator: Flying Lines

 

Far away in State Yanhui, the emperor’s temper had gradually become a little grumpy in recent days.

And when he fell asleep at night, he always felt dizzy of the head and dim of sight.

The emperor sent for the doctor, but the doctor could not find any clue. He only said that the emperor had tired himself out with a host of matters every day, so he prescribed the emperor a formula of tonics.

The emperor didn’t know if it was because of psychological reasons. After taking the tonics, the emperor felt his previous condition was obviously lessened, so he didn’t think too much.

At this time, the Emperor remembered his two sons – Xiao ShengNian and Xiao ShengXian.

“Why haven’t you come back after you left for this long?”

The emperor muttered to himself as he reviewed the memorial. What he didn’t notice was that there was a small gray dot on each of his palm, both too light and small to be noticed.

At the Prince Qin Mansion, there was a sound of string being plucked.

With the crisp and clear cries of the baby, Xiao LuoXuan had his first child.

“Congratulations, your highness, her highness gave birth to a baby girl.” The maid was holding the baby in her arms, and the baby girl was still crying, but Xiao LuoXuan only took a calm look at his daughter and went to the Guqin Master’s yard.

“Uncle.” Xiao Luoxuan hurriedly stepped forward and stilled called when hearing the Guqin Master playing zither.

The Guqin Master stopped. He was livid and asked in an unfriendly tone, “What’s wrong?”

“Xiu Ning gave birth to a baby.”

“Then why don’t you go to see your child? Why are you running to me?” the Guqin Master’s face was full of coldness. Recently, he was in a bad mood. To begin with, the removal of the Gu poison in Sharp Sword’s body had hurt his body to some degree. Later, he sent some of his men of sacrifice to kill Sharp Sword but failed. Then Busha Pavilion was wanted and chased after under the order of State Yanhui’s emperor, and Sharp Sword disappeared.

Where had Sharp Sword gone?

Did he escape with Zhou ZaiYue?

The more the Guqin Master thought about it, the colder he felt. He was not afraid of Su Jie, but of Zhou ZaiYue, who had superb skills.

The Guqin Master had thought that Zhou ZaiYue had removed the gu poison in Sharp Sword’s body because of him. After all, he had robbed Zhou ZaiYue’s handbook where he recorded all of his study on poison. The Guqin Master was still worrying if Zhou Zaiyue would deal with him. Who knew that Zhou Zhaiyue had disappeared with Sharp Sword?

“Is it because Zhou ZaiYue knows Sharp Sword?” the Guqin Master felt strange. Sharp Sword had been in his control, and there was no chance for him to know Zhou ZaiYue. How did they get to know each other?

It was a very difficult task to remove the Death Gu. And Zhou ZaiYue would not help Sharp Sword to detoxify it unconditionally.

Did he miss any secret about Sharp Sword?

The Guqin Master couldn’t figure out anything no matter how hard he tried, so he had been in a bad mood these days, almost playing the zither every day.

“Uncle, I want to find Sharp Sword back.” Xiao LuoXuan’s breath was a little short. When he said this, he was filled with nervousness and unease. He really couldn’t forget Sharp Sword. The weeds of longing for him grew frantically in his heart, making him suffer day and night.

And, the worst thing was that Sharp Sword was missing.

Where could Sharp Sword, who had neither kin nor friends, go?

In Xiao LuoXuan’s eyes, Su Jie had always been loyal, and Xiao LuoXuan could feel Sharp Sword’s admiration for him.

However, Xiao LuoXuan had always taken Sharp Sword’s kindness and loyalty to him as granted. He could tell Sharp Sword to do anything, and Sharp Sword would never disobey him.

Xiao LuoXuan had never thought that Sharp Sword would leave him.

He thought Sharp Sword would stay with him all the time, witnessing him ascending to the throne of State YanHui and how he had become mature and powerful from his young and weak self.

“Sharp Sword is nowhere to be found now. You are still thinking of him.” The Guqin Master sneered, obviously angered by Xiao LuoXuan’s persistent attitude of finding Su Jie.

Xiao LuoXuan defended himself, “Uncle, Sharp Sword’s sudden disappearance must have something to do with Xiao ShengNian. I heard that the crown prince of the State YanLing is back, and Xiao ShengNian also went to State YanLing. I can’t tell if Xiao ShengNian is plotting something.”

Xiao LuoXuan’s words enlightened the Guqin Master, who slapped his zither and said, laughing, “I figure it all out!”

“Uncle …” Xiao LuoXuan was startled, not knowing what to say.

“Luoxuan, you just enlightened me. I will send men to investigate crown prince of State YanLing.” Because of his good mood, the gloom on the Guqin Master’s face disappeared. He had a bold guess in his heart. Guqin Master hadn’t connected the disappearance of Su Jie with State YanLing, but just now Xiao LuoXuan’s complaining about Xiao Shengnian gave him a lightbulb moment.

Was it possible that Sharp Sword was the crown prince who returned to State YanLing?

The Guqin Master thought the possibility was very little, but what if it was true?

If so, did it follow that Xiao ShengNian went to State YanLing to find Sharp Sword?

The Guqin Master connected the cause and effect of the matter, and then felt that his guess was perfectly logical and reasonable.

It seemed that Zhou ZaiYue removed the death gu poison for Sharp Sword, perhaps because Sharp Sword had such a noble status?

The Guqin Master pondered for a moment and showed a vicious smile on his face.

If Sharp Sword was the crown prince of State YanLing, then… he would consider sending Man of Sacrifice to get rid of Xiao ShengNian who was related to Sharp Sword.

Besides, he had to find a way to re-control Sharp Sword and make Sharp Sword work for him again…

“If you want to find Sharp Sword, I won’t disagree.” A strange smile appeared on the Guqin Master’s face. He had been guiding Su Jie towards the direction of falling for Xiao LuoXuan as he had always believed that Death Gu alone could not make a person completely loyal to him. Only love could make a person have weakness, so he had never intervened when knowing Su Jie’s feelings for Xiao Luoxuan.

The Guqin Master did succeed, for a very long time. He used a series of hints to make Su Jie hell-bent on loving Xiao LuoXuan, but the Guqin Master had never expected that he had done the wrong move when he killed Su Shuche and Qin Zheng. It was because of his mistake that Su Jie had chosen the opposite side forever without any room for improvement.

Although Su Jie was loyal and hell-bent on his feelings, once he gave up one thing, he would never turn back. So when Su Jie decided to give up Xiao LuoXuan completely, he would never again develop feelings for Xiao LuoXuan for his whole life.

The Guqin Master even had a ridiculous idea in his mind. He felt that Zhou Zaiyue must have forced Su Jie not to go back to Prince Qin after removing the Death Gu.

“Sharp Sword has always cared about love. He has been in love with you for so long that he won’t let it go easily.” The Guqin Master comforted Xiao LuoXuan, but sounded more like comforting himself.

Hearing the Guqin Master’s words, Xiao LuoXuan seemed to lift a big stone in his heart. He laughed happily and said in a very confident tone, “Sharp Sword once risked his life for me. He loves me more than himself. As long as I am here, he will always be on my side.”

“He is really a good killing weapon,” the Guqin Master laughed.