Masquerade in Bridal Attire and Marry the Prince

85. His Highness is Learning Martial Arts

Translator: Antonia

The moment Du Chuxuan spoke, Jiu Dengdan regretted inwardly. What a disciple he had taken! Look at others’ disciples. Each and every of them were nice and sweet, but his own disciple had a belly of tricks and was calculating on his shifu!

Ada was also stunned for a second, but quickly he was delighted because he was just in need of a chance to exchange moves with this man, and it thrust upon him from heaven. Immediately, regardless of Jiu Dengdan’s expression, Ada gestured to him to get ready. After all, this man was Her Highness’s shifu, and he wouldn’t be merciless during the fight.

Jiu Dengdan was invited out by Ada to communicate on martial arts. Du Chuxuan turned around and saw Yuxing Tianrui’s sulky face, knowing that the prince was still mad, “Why are you still angry, Your Highness? If you were a frog, your belly would be exploding by now.” He grunted with a smile, given Yuxing Tianrui’s look, not daring to say it loud and clear.

Staying in the dark, Luo Yi almost laughed his head off. Previously, there had been a group of guards, so he had gone to investigate on the Zhao family. When he came back, unexpectedly, he saw a man standing in Her Highness’s room and figured his identity before he walked out to help Du Chuxuan. Therefore, he had been staying still in the dark.

To his surprise, the shifu and disciple were so funny. But on the second thought, only this kind of shifu would cultivate an interesting disciple like Her Highness. Thinking of this, Luo Yi silently wrote down what Jiu Dengdan had said about the Morning Star. He knew he had said it to remind them.

Yuxing Tianrui ignored Du Chuxuan and turned to Dongxiang to have the things brought over. Luo Qing had felt Du Chuxuan’s pulse yesterday and found there was coldness in his body, which required daily herbal soup for better nutrition. Yuxing Tianrui remembered this very well.

Seeing the chicken soup served, which meant he could finally have a taste of meat, Du Chuxuan certainly became happier and quickly helped himself a bowl, drinking and chewing carefully in his mouth before he swallowed all.

Yuxing Tianrui sat next to him and couldn’t help feeling gratified at the scene. Du Chuxuan was just a simple person as such. Only some nice food would make him very happy, just like a cute pet that turned meek whenever it got something nice to eat. Thinking of this, he found there was nothing bad to have a man as his wife. He even felt quite lucky, because even a harem of several concubines was no better than him alone.

“When you’re well, teach me martial arts.” Yuxing Tianrui was picking food for Du Chuxuan and asked casually.

Du Chuxuan took a shocking glance at Yuxing Tianrui, oblivious to the fact that the vegetable put into his plate was celery, which he didn’t like, “What did you say?” He didn’t ask deliberately, but the truth was that Yuxing Tianrui, as the Crown Prince, was too busy to learn martial arts, not to mention that his physical condition in fact wasn’t very suitable for martial arts.

Yuxing Tianrui smiled. This was what had occurred to him earlier today. Last night, when he saw Du Chuxuan get injured again because of him, this idea had flashed across his mind, “I said I wanted to learn martial arts. If you refuse to teach me, I’ll just find another teacher.”

Du Chuxuan instantly put on a big smile and agreed, “Your Highness, drop the courtesy with me. We’re a couple of loving birds. If you learn martial arts, of course you learn from me, or who else could I teach?” Du Chuxuan finished his remark, joyfully considering how to eat more tofu through this opportunity.

After the Emperor completed the morning session, he went to the Empress’s palace for breakfast. Also because Du Chuxuan was injured, Yuxing Tianrui had asked for an absence and the couple didn’t come to greet the Empress this morning. Yet, the Emperor saw Concubine Xiao and the third prince here, frowning at once, “Why are you still here at this hour?”

As a rule, he had breakfast with the Empress. After all, he was an emperor and didn’t have much time to accompany the Empress, so he had developed this habit. In the past, there hadn’t been other women in the palace, so he naturally forgot it. Now seeing the mother and son here, he actually felt a little uncomfortable.

“Good morning, Your Majesty.” “Good morning, father.” The two greeted respectfully.

The Emperor waved his hand and took a seat next to the Empress. Seeing the maidservants flooding in to serve the breakfast, he intended to drive the mother and son away, “I guess you came to greet the Empress. I happen to have something to discuss with her later. If you have nothing important, you may leave now.”

The words were quite callous, and the third prince had a sullen look on his face, but in the end, he managed to hold it in check and didn’t vent out. To him, this was an act of thoughtfulness in front of the Emperor, but in the Emperor’s eyes, he only felt this son that had been raised outside the palace was a scheming person.

After Concubine Xiao left, the Emperor ordered everyone out, “This morning, Tiarnui asked for a day off.” He didn’t finish yet when the Empress took his hand, “Is there anything serious? What’s the matter?” She knew her son very well. He had never asked for leave.

The Emperor understood her concern towards her son and slightly sighed, “Last night, there were assassins. I’ve sent people to console the couple. Tianrui is fine, but Yue is wounded for him and still stays in a coma till this morning, so that they didn’t come to greet you, did they?”

The Empress was stilled in shock for a while and came to the realization. Yuxing Tianrui had been very considerate that the maid he sent over had only said without other details that the Crown Princess wasn’t very well.

The Empress was a lenient person and naturally didn’t mind Du Chuxuan’s rudeness for once. Now, knowing the situation, she had a mixture of feelings.

Nonetheless, they had undergone numerous crisis and could at once grasp the point, “Who is so daring as to assassinate in the palace? Where were the guards?”

The Emperor sighed. This was what worried him most. Last night, not to mention the guards across the palace, even the guards in the East Palace hadn’t found anything wrong beforehand. Hadn’t the palace guards had a trustworthy leader, he would have worried that one day there would be a violent usurping of the throne without him knowing in advance.

The Empress figured the Emperor’s concern and shook her head helplessly, “Alright. Since Tianrui didn’t want to make it public, I guess he’s following the vine to get the melon. Now, it’s also an eventful time in court. Very likely the assassins are the Turks, right?”

Little wonder that she thought in this way. After all, they had just fought a war against the Turks, and the so-called political marriage was merely a tact of the Turks to buy some time.