Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

51. You Need More Practice

Translator: Flying Lines

Xiao ShengNian ignored all the officials and lowered his gaze to look at the boy in his arms.

“Are you being shy?” Xiao ShengNian asked in an extremely gentle and doting voice, displaying his extreme affection and love for Su Jie.

Officials of City Hao couldn’t stand it anymore. One of them stood out under the pressure and bowed deeply while saying, “Your Highness, the banquet to welcome you is ready. Please…”

“No need. Business before pleasure. Father’s order bears no delay. I’m going to State Xi right now.” Xiao ShengNian said with great casualness, his handsome face looking dazzling under the sunlight. With his lips slightly pressed, he got back into the carriage with Su Jie in his arms.

At this point, officials of City Hao were struck by how wrong the rumors they had heard about Prince Rui were.

Although Prince Rui was indeed gentle and amicable, what about his manners? He put them in such an awkward situation!

Slowly, the carriage drove away while the officers watched, with the most mixed feelings, until it was out of sight.

In the carriage, Xiao ShengNian asked, “My little slave, why is your face so burning hot?”

Su Jie’s fair cheeks were now rosy like the morning glow, looking extremely inviting.

“Perhaps because I’m thin-skinned.” Su Jie tossed Xiao ShengNian a glance while touching his own cheek.

“Then you need more practice.” Xiao ShengNian looked at Su Jie, all smiles, and nodded firmly.

Su Jie sat straight and said, “Your Highness, I’ve always thought you looking fabulous. Now I know that you’re fabulously thick-skinned, probably thicker than even the city wall.”

Xiao ShengNian didn’t mind his teasing. He smiled as traces of warmth emerged in his eyes while saying, “I’m flattered.”

Su Jie burst out laughing, so did Xiao ShengNian.

You will meet many people in your life, some of whom you have known for a long time but still maintain an indifferent relationship, and some of whom you know only for a short while but feel very relaxed and happy when you get along with them.

For Su Jie, he had spent much less time with Xiao ShengNian than with Prince Qin Xiao LuoXuan. However, before Xiao ShengNian, he could be himself, joking around without any scruples. When with Prince Qin, he would immediately turn into a ruthless Man of Sacrifice waiting for his order.

It’s amazing how people get along with each other. Like two separate souls naturally falling for each other when the time comes.

Pity that he was still in the name of Wen NianXuan. As long as the Death Gu Poison was in his body, he had to be Prince Qin’s Man of Sacrifice, a ruthless killer void of any emotion.

Su Jie calmed himself down from the laughing and lifted the carriage curtain to take a look, not talking to Xiao ShengNian.

Would Zhou ZaiYue be able to help get rid of the poison? Su Jie got a bit upset. The Death Gu Poison had been in him for a very long time, which would get active every month and only the Guqin Master had the pills to suppress it. Without the antidote, the pain he suffered would worsen every time. It was a thing that all Men of Sacrifice hated the most but had to accept.

Their life was not their own choice to make, but at the mercy of the Guqin Master.

If that year he was saved by Xiao ShengNian, then everything would be different, right? Su Jie couldn’t help but force a wry smile.

Xiao ShengNian, however, had no idea that his encounter with this boy before him was nothing but a scheme. And the boy had an origin much more complicated than he expected.

Xiao ShengNian, this this point, had a firm belief that Su Jie would be with him forever.

But how long would be deemed forever? Maybe a lifetime, or maybe just a blink of an eye.