Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

140. Zhou Zaiyue’s Memory (2)

Translator: Flying Lines

“Zhou Zaiyue, I was being kind to impart god’s will to you. You can’t repay kindness with enmity.” Chun Yuzi said with a smile. His eyes were the brightest Zhou Zaiyue had ever seen, as if there was bright sunlight gathering in his eyes.

“To hell the god’s will. His Majesty is only 25 years old this year. How could he die?” Zhou Zaiyue said to Chun Yuzi sullenly.

“Let’s go. I won’t argue with you. Let’s finish the will His Majesty of… Ahem, it’s not a will, it’s an order.” Under Zhou Zaiyue’s cold eyes, Chun Yuzi changed his choice of words.

Zhou Zaiyue snorted and didn’t take what Chun Yuzi had said seriously. After all, Chun Yuzi was a young official historian, not a fortune-teller. How could he know about god’s will?

Zhou Zaiyue thought it was funny, but after ten days, he couldn’t laugh anymore, because news came from State Yanling that the throne switched hands.

It was said that the usurper was the ever-victorious general.

Zhou Zaiyue was furious and went to Chun Yuzi in rage, questioning, “Are you on the same boat with the ever-victorious general? Or, how would you know that His Majesty would… ”

His voice was stuck in his throat, and Zhou Zaiyue felt a chill in his heart as he simply couldn’t bring himself to say the word ‘die’.

“Can you use your brain? If I’m on the same boat with Lan Buhui the ever-victorious general, then why would I follow you all the way to the frontier? I can foresee the future.”

Facing Zhou Zaiyue’s questioning, Chun Yuzi remained calm and composed, his bright smile, his rosy lips and stunningly pretty face dazzling.

“Nonsense, you are just an official historian…”

Zhou Zaiyue frowned, obviously not buying his nonsense, but he didn’t want to argue with Chun Yuzi anymore. Zhou Zaiyue was anxious to return to the capital city, still refusing to believe that the imperial palace had been taken over by the ever-victorious general, the throne changed hands and the city stained by blood.

Chun Yuzi stopped him.

“You are always calm and wise, but I didn’t expect you to be so impulsive at the critical moment. What? Hurry back to the imperial city to seek death?” Chun Yuzi said.

“I’ll go find Ju Liandao in the western border.”

“Hear me out before you go.” Seeing that Zhou Zaiyue was not angry to the point of losing his sanity, Chun Yuzi was relieved.

“What do you want to say?”

“I’ve observed the Qi in the imperial city. Although the purple Qi of the Su dynasty is weak, it has not disappeared. I guess the three-year old crown prince must have survived and fled.”

“His Highness the Crown Prince is still alive?” Zhou Zaiyue had involuntarily begun to believe Chun Yuzi’s words.

Chun Yuzi did not answer his question and continued, “You saved my life by accident. Today I will pay you back. Don’t stay there after you find Ju Liandao. If you want to find the crown prince, you have to go west and go to a great country with mountains and rivers.”

Zhou Zaiyue frowned. To the west of state Yanling lay the state of Xi, then State Yanghui, State Liukong…

With so many countries, how could he know which country His Highness had fled to?

“But when will I find him?”

“It is all fated. It might take you over a dozen years to find him…” Chun Yuzi shook his fan, his attitude of being out of the whole matter. He fished out a book with blue cover out of thin air and threw it to Zhou Zaiyue, saying, “You are not bad in healing art. There is no limit to the merit of saving lives. This is the Profound Art of Healing. You can improve your healing skills as you look for the crown prince.”

“Then what about you? Where are you going?”

“Travelling around.”

“Over a dozen years? If His Highness got spoiled or was led astray…” Zhou Zaiyue had the patience to keep looking, but what if His Highness was led astray…

“I have met that three-year-old crown prince. Fortune is on his side but he is destined to have a lot of troubles in his early years, which he will go through safe and sound. When he is back on the throne, his twisted fate will come to an end. From then on, he will be leading a happy life. As for the character you mentioned – this is not my concern.”

It was a rare thing for Chun Yuzi to say so much a time. He had revealed so much because he had been an official in State YanLing for a while, which had caused a karma between him and the emperor. He could not reverse the situation of the throne switching hands, nor could he reverse the weakening Qi of the royal family. Helpless, Chun Yuzi could only come to Zhou Zaiyue with unsolved karma.

Chun Yuzi had a good personality, but was a little lazy. He had foreseen that the crown prince would encounter a man who would change his fate, but he didn’t know that the man should be Zhou Zaiyue. He didn’t bother to find the fleeing crown prince and chose to put the responsibility on Zhou Zaiyue.

“A great country with great mountains and rivers…” Zhou Zaiyue had a headache about the general scope given by Chun Yuzi. State YanHui and State Liukong could both be considered as big countries, but the question was, which country His Highness was in?

In addition, great countries meant great both in vast areas, but also in power. How could Zhou Zaiyue find His Highness on the vast land?

Chun Yuzi got impatient. He pursed his red lips and looked charmingly cold, which sort of enchanted Zhou Zaiyue.

Zhou Zaiyue had never had the chance to look at him so close before. Although he had dealings with Chun Yuzi, Zhou Zaiyue had been too shy to stare at him because of Chun Yuzi’s handsome appearance.

“State Yanhui is a good place to live.” Chun Yuzi said with a gloomy face.

His words revealed where the crown prince of State YanLing was.

Zhou Zaiyue nodded. Since it was the heir of the royal family, he would definitely search every corner of State Yanhui to find him, even if he had to dig the ground three feet deep.

“You don’t have to look for him. As long as you spend some time connecting with the imperial family of the State Yanhui, when the time is right, the news about the crown prince will naturally come to you. You can find a place to settle before that.”

Chun Yuzi felt that he had made it clear enough. The purple qi of State Yanling had weakened, so did the purple qi of the little crown prince. But that little crown prince was destined to be an emperor, so the most likely thing was he was going to have contact with the imperial families of other countries. So, as long as Zhou Zaiyue could find a way to know the imperial member of State YanHui, he would find the crown prince someday.

“Alright, I’ve told you everything I can say. The rest is up to you.” Chun Yuzi shook his fan, smiling.

“You… will you go back to State YanLing in the future?” Zhou Zaiyue asked.

“I’m not sure. Who knows what will happen in the future? There is likely to be some variables even for what I’ve told you. Maybe the crown prince won’t survive the twists and turns and die young. That being the case, State Yanling will no longer be in the hands of the descents of the immortal.” As soon as Chun Yuzi said this, he saw Zhou Zaiyue’s face turning livid, looking like he was about to go ballistic.

“What I said is the truth, so, I pray that the young crown prince can hold on to the day he ascends the throne…” With that, Chun Yuzi burst into laughter and turned to leave.

*

“That was the last time I met Chun Yuzi.” After saying that, Zhou Zaiyue felt his throat a little dry. The past left Zhou Zaiyue in a moment of a daze. Sixteen years had passed, but what happened to Chun Yuzi?

“That is to say, my difficult days are finally over. As long as I can ascend the throne, what await me will be happiness?” Su Jie blinked in the bucket and smiled. His lips had turned red, and with a charming smile, Zhou Zaiyue feel lost in a deep reverie.

His Highness and Chun Yuzi both smiled so charmingly.

Zhou Zaiyue sighed, “Your highness, the future cannot be told now, even Chun Yuzi…”

He paused suddenly, as if “Chun Yuzi” had a special magic which made Zhou Zaiyue feel depressed. His turbid eyes showed a complex look, and he seemed to see what happened in the past through time again.

‘Chun Yuzi, now I have helped his highness retake the lost throne, and where are you now?’