Masquerade in Bridal Attire and Marry the Prince

6. Assassin

Translator: Antonia

The soldiers and guards in the barracks reacted quickly and surrounded the Prince’s tent.

Yuxing Tianrui and several generals were walking over while chatting. Du Chuxuan, without hesitation, hid himself behind Yuxing Tianrui and gripped his clothes.

With the backing, Du Chuxuan instantly became bolder and arrogant, shouting in a high pitch, “Your Highness! Beat him up! I was holding your love pillow and he broke it!!”

Yuxing Tianrui, “…” He didn’t want to know what the pillow was.

The man in black quickly began to fight against the close guards of the Crown Prince. He was so near the Prince that it was impossible for all the guards to join together. The assassin attacked ferociously and killed three guards in a row. At a time, he seemed unstoppable!

At the scene, Du Chuxuan frowned. This assassin was a top-level martial artist, and the guards couldn’t defeat him. However, there were loads of soldiers and generals. As long as the Prince wasn’t here, the assassin would be defeated anyhow by the group of people.

Hence, it was imperative to keep the Prince away from here.

Du Chuxuan pulled the Prince’s clothes and pretended to be scared. In fact, he was pulling him out of the fighting circle, “Your Highness, I’m so scared. I’m going to pass out. I can’t see things. Hold my hands, please!”

Yuxing Tianrui, suffering a headache from his princess’ crying, was so annoyed that he wanted to beat him up. The two pulled and dragged and were about to get rid of the fighting circle, when a pair of hands stuck out of the crowd and pushed Yuxing Tianrui hard.

Yuxing Tianrui’s clothes were gripped by Du Chuxuan, so when he was pushed, he lost balance and fell on the ground.

Everyone rushed to protect him, but the sword of the assassin already arrived. It was late!!!

Du Chuxuan cursed inwardly and could hide it no more. He drew out the soft sword hidden around his waist, fought against the assassin for a dozen rounds and finally forced the man back!

The crowd had no time to be surprised at their Crown Princess’s excellent martial arts, hurriedly besieged the man and joined the fight together.

Du Chuxuan wanted to fight longer but, seeing they were swarming up, decided to retreat, without credit or fame, by pretending he had run out of strength.

To his surprise, the man suddenly burst out his final potential, breaking the siege and fleeing out. In an instant, he was already hundreds of meters away.

Du Chuxuan reflectively raised his hand to fling the sword. With jarring hissing in the air, the soft sword fully loaded with Du Chuxuan’s powerful internal strength penetrated the thigh of the man.

Everyone: The Crown Princess is amazing!

How powerful her hand is!

A group of people rushed over there to collect the last drop of blood of the assassin. The generals, still in panic, went to check out Yuxing Tianrui. They didn’t fear of sacrifice, but if something happened to the Crown Prince under their nose, that would be a huge crime.

Yuxing Tianrui, having strolled between life and death, looked calmer than the generals. His inky dark eyes were fixed on Du Chuxuan, with feelings inexplicable.

“Du Chuyue, do you have anything to explain to me?”

Du Chuxuan, “I…I think it’s legal that I know martial arts?” Aren’t there imperial concubines who went to the battlefield and killed enemies? Why does the Prince look unhappy?

Yuxing Tianrui sneered and walked away, “The Crown Princess is frightened and needs to rest. Without my permission, she shouldn’t leave the tent.”

Du Chuxuan hadn’t expected to be grounded after saving him and was very confused. However, he didn’t want to go out anyway. It was okay.

The soldiers cleaned up the aftermath, and the Prince went to his intimate subordinate’s tent.

Yuxing Tianrui lay on a reclining chair, tired, and talked with his subordinate about the incident.

“There must be a traitor who pushed me.”

Although Feng Yucheng was only 21 years old, he had a logical and thoughtful mind, and his loyalty gained the Prince’s affection. He associated the incident with the Prince’s reaction and asked, “You’re suspecting her Highness?”

“…No.”

“Then why…?”

Yuxing Tianrui showed his sweet childish side in front of his henchman, “Do you think a couple should keep secrets from each other?”

Feng Yucheng laughed, not expecting such a question, “You didn’t know Her Highness is a martial artist?”

Yuxing Tianrui scratched his fingers in anger, “You don’t know her. She pretends to be silly with me, but in fact has a deep mind. She is such a great martial artist but never told me. Did you notice that she didn’t plan to join the fight at first?”

“But she still did protect you when you were in danger.”

“I don’t know, Yucheng.” Yuxing Tianrui sighed and closed his eyes, “Maybe at the beginning I should have taken the risk of being scolded and punished by father and refused this marriage. I regret to have married her. If Qing and Mr. Lu didn’t live a happy life, I have no reason to marry her. Qing won’t be willing to marry the same husband with her sister.”

Feng Yucheng coughed twice, feeling the Prince was thinking too much. The Lu couple was a pair of famous lovebirds, and, obviously, the Prince was now in love with another lady without knowing it himself.

“I shouldn’t make comments on Your Highness’s relationship. But we must make a thorough investigation since Her Highness is such an amazing martial artist. Such a person, if not loyal to you, must be removed. But if she is innocent, then we could invite her into the army to help you achieve great military success.”

Yuxing Tianrui threw his head, pretending to be scornful, “She? She’s just a girl with little tricks.”

Feng Yucheng was about to say, ‘Don’t underestimate women since in history there were many equally outstanding female generals as males,’ when he heard the Prince said, “She simply doesn’t have the ability to be a spy for foreign countries. She is just playing hard-to-get with me and wants to gain my love.”

Feng Yucheng felt being hit by a blow of display of affection.

“Then what are you worrying about?”

“I’m not worrying. I’m just mad. This stupid girl should hide something from me. She said she loved me. Liar!”

Yuxing Tianrui was angry and aggrieved, eyes getting a little red, complaining, “Women are liars!”

Feng Yucheng couldn’t help it and tittered. Yuxing Tianrui glared at him with dissatisfaction, and he quickly adjusted his expression and attitude.

“It’s true that Her Highness is wrong in this matter. After all, you’re a couple. If she doesn’t trust you, who else could she trust?”

Yuxing Tianrui patted on the table and sprang up, “I’m going to rebuke her. Isn’t she unwilling to tell me that she knows martial arts? Then I’ll just force her to protect me with that!”

“Your Highness is very wise!”

“Stop it. Your titter is too obvious!”

When Yuxing Tianrui sorted out his emotions and stepped out of the tent, he resumed the solemn reliable Crown Prince.

“General Feng, please go to interrogate the assassin. Make sure he doesn’t die.”

Feng Yucheng bowed and saluted, “Yes, Your Highness!”

Yuxing Tianrui glanced in the direction of his tent and said in a low voice, “I have something to discuss with Princess. No one shall enter, no matter what you hear!”

The guards took the order and looked to Feng Yucheng secretly in confusion. Feng Yucheng just smiled and shook his head.

His Highness is still a child in terms of relationship.