“I’ll stay tonight.”
Myrna sat on the tree and watched the punishment from afar before looking away after losing interest.
She caught a glimpse of white clothes in the corner of her eye and was immediately in high spirits.
She had finally spotted the man and must probe answers out of him!
Using light movement skill, she quickly moved through the branches.
The person below seemed unaware. Even if someone glanced up at times, they could only see the rustling leaves, like it was disturbed by the breeze.
At first Wei Lian was going back to Zhongling Palace, but when he heard the faint rustling leaf sounds, he paused before taking a turn, heading straight to a more secluded place.
When there was no one else in sight, Myrna jumped out of the tree and appeared before Wei Lian.
She had switched to wearing red with a crescent shaped crimson jade on her forehead, and her veil rose with the wind. A very exotic appearance.
Wei Lian pretended to be surprised. “Lady Mai?”
“...What Lady Mai!” Myrna almost lost her footing. “My surname is Carolyn烏若蘭 This is why I can’t translate project in western setting, because of their names. In this instant, Caroline Wilson popped up in the search engine with one word different but with the same sounding. So I just searched for a name similar to Caroline and picked a nice looking one for her surname.
. My full name is Myrna Carolyn!”
Wei Lian asked politely, “Does the young lady need this subject for something?”
Myrna coiled her pigtail around her fingertip, which was coated with scarlet nail polish. Her beautiful eyes wandered shyly, “I’ve come to thank you.”
“Oh?”
“Thank you for warning me yesterday.” Myrna flung her braid behind her, picked up her skirts and spun one rotation in front of Wei Lian. When the skirts twirled, the layers bloomed like a brilliant red flower.
“Does it look good?” She asked.
Wei Lian uttered, “...Yes.”
But what does this have to do with him?
“You said not to wear purple so I specially changed my outfit.” She smiled brightly. “You’re a good person.”
Good-person Lian: “...”
So what exactly does this Saintess want from him?
He soon found out the answer.
“Hiss—”
Two brightly coloured snakes slithered out of the grass and approached them silently, flicking out their forked tongues.
Wei Lian had already noticed them, but he continued to act ignorant.
As a ‘weak gentleman lacking the strength even to truss a chicken’, how could he possibly possess such keen senses?
Seeing no reaction from the man after a long time, Myrna rolled her eyes. She cried out, face turning pale, “Ah! Snakes!”
Acting frightened, she quickly hid behind Wei Lian. “Gongzi, save me!”
This was about the time for the man to protect her, wasn’t it?
If Wei Lian was the man in green clothes, with his advanced martial arts, he would not sit and do nothing in a dangerous situation.
She felt that her plan was perfect.
But who knew that when Wei Lian saw the two snakes, his reaction was even more extreme than hers.
The young man turned ghostly pale and used a faster speed to hide behind Myrna. “My apologies, I am also afraid of snakes!”
Myrna’s mouth and eyes were wide. “Why are you hiding behind me for? Do you call yourself a man!”
Wei Lian replied with a trembling voice, “I was bitten by a snake when I was a child. I feel faint just from looking at them. Could the young lady block them while I call for the guards?!”
Myrna: “...”
Are you even speaking human?
She quickly moved her fingertips slightly and the two small snakes quietly retreated back.
“Oh! It’s fine now, it looks like the snakes are gone.” She turned back to the handsome young man with a white complexion and suddenly felt somewhat guilty.
Fine, she had confirmed that this man was not the same one from the Lantern Festival.
There was no way for the mysterious man to be so…delicate when he was clearly tougher than she was.
Since she got the wrong person, it was really unkind of her to frighten the man like this.
Wei Lian asked with caution, “Are they really gone?”
“Yes, they are gone.”
He was finally relieved before increasing the distance between him and Myrna, saying gently, “Apologies for my rudeness.”
Myrna mumbled, “...Don’t mention it.”
Wei Lian saluted again. “Then I’ll go back to the palace.”
Myrna uttered, “...Watch your step.”
Watching the young man’s departure, she soon fell into a state of confusion.
“Ahhh, so annoying!” She kicked a pebble on the ground and scratched her head, making a mess out of her hair and screaming, “Which bastard stole my huanhun pill!?”
Wei Lian, who was stamped as ‘soft and weak’ by Myrna, caught the two snakes hiding between the stone cracks after walking a distance. He looked expressionlessly at the snakes between his thumb and fingers.
The small snakes wound around his wrist and hissed, showing their forked tongue. The cold pupils fixed on Wei Lian.
He squatted on the ground, holding tightly on the section where the snake’s heart was beneath in one hand and propping his cheek in the other. He inspected them carefully for a while and whispered, “Snake taming, shaman’s craft and poison, and huanhun pill…so it turns out the Liang Empire is a very interesting place.”
He got up, flung his sleeves and threw the two snakes to the ground. Turning up to the sky and seeing the warm sunshine through the clouds he squinted.
“But the Qin palace is not so boring either.”
Two days later, the Lu Empire, Chen Empire, and Xia Empire’s envoys arrived one after another. Only the Yan Empire was still on their way.
The Yan Empire was located in the middle of the sea and it was therefore necessary to travel via ship. It was understandable that the sea is unpredictable and it would take more time.
Wei Lian had long arranged their respective residences, so he wasn’t too worried about them. As for the friction between the envoys of various empires from the accumulated resentment, he cared very little for any of it.
He nestled in Zhongling Palace and leaned comfortably on the imperial couch, drinking the tea from flowers that bloomed during the new year and eating the cake freshly made by the imperial kitchen.
This was what he called a divine lifestyle.
Chang Shou told him about the interesting events in the palace. “Yollig Dan, Prince of the Lu Empire, got into a fight with Huyan Kemu, Prince of the Chen Empire, as soon as they exchanged looks. They caused a huge commotion and destroyed many flowers and plants in the palace.”
The two empires were feuding. Their eyes easily turned furious when they met, it was no wonder a fight broke out.
Wei Lian arranged the residences for these two envoys right next to each other—it was simply…malicious intent.
With the cake in one hand, Wei Lian broke a small piece off with his other hand. “Let the internal management send them the bill. We need to count all the destroyed things, not a single one less.”
Cheng Shou knew that his Gongzi was a big fan of watching the show passively, and shared things that were interesting to Wei Lian, “The two fought in the palace. Naturally, they were soothed by the guards. The truce didn’t last long as both sides started scolding each other in their own language. We didn’t understand it and we didn’t dare to ask.”
Wei Lian sipped his flower tea. “Go on.”
Chang Shou continued, “The two large men’s volumes were equally matched. Unexpectedly, the Saintess from the Liang Empire appeared out of nowhere and helped Prince Yollig scold Prince Huyan bloody.”
Wei Lian chuckled. “In what way was she helping out Yollig Dan? Huyan’s clan was formerly known as the Tu Da Tribe from the grassland who once broke through the South Border’s Twelve Cities with armoured horses. This hatred is absolutely irreconcilable.”
He wondered, “What happened next?”
“That’s when everything became strange.” Chang Shou became tongue-tied for a moment when talking about this point, “Then Prince Yollıg seems to have taken a fancy of the Liang Empire Saintess. What’s even more strange is that it was the same for the scolded Prince Huyan! They fought again, this time for a woman. The Saintess sat on the tree and watched the excitement. To add fuel to the fire, she even added that she would be the victor's prize for tonight…the two princes put their all into the fight, it was brutal, not even ten oxen could pull them apart.”
Chang Shou muttered, “This Saintess is too…wild.” The women in the Qin and Chu Empire were reserved and sweet-tempered. There was never a time where they would be this fierce and bold.
Myrna was worthy of her reputation as the most charming and passionate woman in the Liang Empire.
She could seduce men successfully in every endeavour, only failing when it came to Ji Yue and Wei Lian.
Wei Lian broke off another piece of plum blossom cake. “Anything else interesting?”
“Anything interesting…interesting…” Chang Shou racked his brains and suddenly patted his forehead, “This is not considered interesting, but a pleasant thing happened.”
“This servant saw an imperial doctor hurrying to the imperial study on the way back today. Gongzi, is the Qin Emperor ill? If he is, he wouldn’t have the time to bother you!” Chang Shou saw this as great news.
Instead, his Gongzi who had been listening with a lazy posture immediately turned serious as he asked while sitting up, “He is ill?”
“That’s right, Gong—” Chang Shou noticed that Wei Lian’s dignified expression and his own joy faded. “Gongzi, are you…are you not happy?”
Wei Lian abandoned the cake on the plate, got up and said, “I’ll go check.”
“Ah, Gongzi!” Chang Shou watched Wei Lian disappear out of the door and looked back at the unfinished cake on the plate. “Why do I think that Gongzi is…”
He shook his head harshly and hypnotised himself, “It’s just all in my head, just my imagination.”
Wei Lian hurried all the way to imperial study. When he saw the door, he suddenly stopped.
…What was he doing rushing here like this?
What could happen to Ji Yue?
Since he was here already, there was no reason to return, since he was not happy to come here in vain.
Wei Lian slowed down his pace and walked slowly up the palace steps, the guards saw him and cupped his fist to salute, “Gongzi.”
Wei Lian asked, “Is his Majesty discussing official business with the ministers?”
One of the guards replied, “No.”
Good, he could walk straight in.
Wei Lian pushed the door in without saying anything.
The newer guard moved slightly and was thinking whether to stop Wei Lian, but he stopped when he saw the face of the guard who stood opposite of him.
The new guard was at a loss. Shouldn’t he wait outside first while one of us delivers the message to his Majesty?
The more experienced guard’s eyes said ‘you clueless fool’.
This was the most favoured Guijun in the whole palace. Why was there a need to stop him? Not to mention the prior story of how his Majesty showed intimacy towards Lian Gongzi in the imperial study. The younger man also suddenly barged into the study two days ago. Was his Majesty mad? Of course not, not only was there no punishment, his Majesty coaxed Gongzi in his arms for a long time.
When Lian Gongzi came out of the study that day, there was a lingering love between the two that even the senior guard was thinking how it was about time for him to get married himself.
Wei Lian went in without warning and saw Ji Yue was busy with something in his hand. The older man put aside the thing in his hand before quickly covering it with a memorial.
“You’re really getting more unruly. Is the imperial study a place you can barge in whenever you feel like it?” Ji Yue chided.
Wei Lian looked at him. “Can’t I?”
“...Yes you can.”
Wei Lian’s eyes suddenly fell on the older man’s hand. “Your hand?”
He strode forward quickly and pulled Ji Yue’s wrist, quietly and quickly checked the pulse.
The pulse was stable and very healthy.
Then…Wei Lian stared at the small cut on Ji Yue’s fingertip.
If he had come any later, the wound would have healed.
Did Ji Yue specially send the imperial doctor for such a small wound?
His previous worries seemed to be fed to A’Meng.
Unlikely, very unlikely.
The Qin Emperor commanded a very powerful army and had suffered countless injuries, from large to small. There was no way for him to be so delicate and fuss over such a flesh wound.
“How did it happen?” Wei Lian asked.
Ji Yue coughed uncomfortably, “...An accident while handing the memorial.”
Wei Lian gave him a contemptuous look. “You are not a kid anymore, how could you be so careless.”
As Ji Yue was about to reply ‘You cried and you’re not a kid as well’ when he saw the young man lower his head and put his finger into his rosy-soft mouth.
He could feel the younger man licking his wound using the tip of his tongue.
As well as being somewhat soft it caused an itching sensation lower down.
Ji Yue was immediately shocked as a blush quickly spread from his neck to his ears.
Excuse him, blame his brain for turning the scene of two phoenix dancing顛鸞倒鳳 Have sexual intercourse, sixty-nine to be exact.
in the air. This position was very easy for him to recall the time of the drunken night when the young man put his fingers into his mouth.
Who could resist it?
So when Wei Lian released Ji Yue’s finger, he was surprised to find that there was a strange thing…at the older man’s lower body.
He only put the other’s finger into his mouth, how could that provoke this? Did the older man think he was licking…
How did Ji Yue usually hold back?
This gave birth to Wei Lian’s sympathy for Ji Yue.
He lowered his eyes. After a long time, he whispered, “I’ll stay tonight.”
…He actually.
No longer felt conflicted.
Editor's NSFW Note.The 'sixty-nine' referenced in the 'two phoenix dancing' is a sexual position in which partner's 'top and tail' (head near the feet of the other person). This position is used for mutual oral intercourse. The use of '69' as the position's description should be...obvious. 😉
That Myrna is causing trouble left and right >__>
Oooh? Was there someone reading a yellow book and consulting the doctor about certain stuff? >D
Thx for the ch ٩( >ヮ<)۶