Repudiating a Good Wife Is Out of the Question

195. Prison Break

Translator: Sissy That Walk

Prince Xing shouted, “Eunuch Liu, ask the rive regulation to shut the wharf, I need to find Cao Mo as soon as possible!”

Eunuch Liu bowed to Prince Xing and rushed out to carry out the order.

Prince Xing indeed had the wicked idea of using Xiao Yi to help him out in marrying that Lady Yang, but he didn’t realize how resolute Cao Mo could be, he meant it when he said he wasn’t going to share Xiao Yi with anyone.

Now Prince Xing wished he hadn’t forced Xiao Yi to marry that Lady Yang, Xiao Yi would hate his guts even thought he released Xiao Yi now.

… …

Xiao Yi, on the other hand, was as restless as ants on a hot pan after Cao Mo had left. He understood Cao Mo’s anger and hate, but he forced himself to calm down and figure a way out.

Xiao Yi recalled the night when Cao Mo kept describing what a ‘modern society’ looked like, they had made fun of Prince Xing and Yao Wenyuan together as well, Xiao Yi shushed Cao Mo in case there were shadow guards lurking around, but it was too late. Prince Xing misunderstood them, he thought the two were disloyal to him.

Prince Xing forced Xiao Yi to marry Lady Yang, otherwise he would punish them for making impertinent remarks about him and Yao Wenyuan.

Xiao Yi was too drunk to think straight when Prince Xing confronted him, so he agreed to marry Yao Wenyuan to save him and Cao Mo. But he didn’t expect how resolute Cao Mo was.

The noise of fast footsteps had dragged Xiao Yi to reality, it was Yao Wenyuan, he came to visit Xiao Yi with a hamper.

“Cousin Yi, I know I’m selfish, I don’t want to be Prince Xing’s concubine, so Prince Xing forced you to marry Lady Yang thus we can get married. I promise you, Cousin Yi, I will do everything to make to you and Mo once I marry Prince Xing! Don’t quit now, we need you to marry Lady Yang!”

Xiao Yi shot Yao Wenyuan a glare, “I asked you to explain this to Mo when I agreed to help you out, why has neither of you bothered to meet Mo and assure him everything is fine?”

Yao Wenyuan lowered his head with guilt, “I meant to… but I’m been feeling under the weather… …”

“And you are feeling better now all of a sudden?” Xiao Yi raised his volume, Yao Wenyuan dared not to raise his head.

“Cao Mo now is heading to the wharf, Prince Xing says whoever started the trouble should end it, you are the only one who can stop him from leaving the capital city!”

“He… he is leaving me?” Xiao Yi frowned lightly, “Unlock my shackles!”

“But what about the Yangs?”

“That’s your problem now, what else do you want me to do for you?”

“But I cannot just release you, even Prince Xing can’t face the consequence.”

“What do you want from me? I have done everything to help you and Prince Xing, and look what I have got, the love of my life is leaving me! Yao Wenyuan, do the right thing now!”

Yao Wenyuan threw the hamper on the ground and grabbed a key to unlock Xiao Yi’s shackle with him hands trembling, “Yi, we need to make this clear, it’s you who has hurt me and stolen the key from the prisoner and escaped, Prince Xing and me nothing to do with this.”

With that Yao Wenyuan withdrew a dagger from his sleeve and cut his arm, “See? It’s you who has cut my arm!”

“You are no longer my cousin!” Xiao Yi turned livid, he kicked Yao Wenyuan on his stomach, leaving Yao Wenyuan groaning on the ground.

With that Xiao Yi rushed out.

Prince Xing entered the prison when Yao Wenyuan picked himself up from the ground.

“Wenyuan, how are you?” Prince Xing asked with concern.

“I’m fine, Your Highness, I have released Cousin Yi, let’s confess this to the emperor and ask for him forgiveness, I’m sure Prince Ning will report this to the emperor in no time!” Yao Wenyuan grimaced, “Cousin Mo will never forgive me.”

“I know, we need to take care of your wound first, I will send for an imperial physician.”

… …

Yao Wenyuan was right, a prison guard had reported this to Prince Ning right after Xiao Yi escaped.

Prince Ning wrote a report to the emperor, accusing Prince Xing of bending the law for the benefit of friends and releasing a prisoner.

The emperor frowned on seeing that, it was him who had thrown Xiao Yi into the jail, he found it hard to believe that his son Prince Xing had released Xiao Yi, because that no difference than despising the emperor’s authority.

The emperor summoned the warden for more information, it turned out Xiao Yi had abducted Yao Wenyuan who visited him and forced the prison guard to release him, Prince Xing wasn’t even in the prison when that happened.

The emperor summoned Yao Wenyuan and asked him whether he regretted about how things turned out for him an Prince Xing.

Yao Wenyuan screamed in his heart, ‘I don’t know whether I’m regretting it or not, all I know is I care about him so much, I would frown when he is upset, I would lose all my appetite when he is busy, I would laugh when he feels happy… … but there’s nothing I can do to stop all those stupid feelings! I cannot just sit back and watch him marrying someone else, it hurts me so bad just to think of it. I understand how Cao Mo sees Xiao Yi, but of course I will protect Prince Xing over anyone else!”

But Yao Wenyuan dared not to mention a word of that, he just kept thumping his head on the ground, “Your Majesty! I know I’m responsible for Xiao Yi’s escape, please punish me! Just don’t blame Prince Xing, he doesn’t know about this!”

The emperor said in a low voice, “You may rise, I know you are very loyal, but you have crossed the line, I should do something about this, otherwise people will complain!”

Prince Xing knelt down outside of the palace, waiting for Yao Wenyuan anxiously, he would steal a glance inside the palace, but he couldn’t see anything.

Prince Ning showed a gloating look, ‘you are going down this time for sure!’

To everyone’s surprise, Eunuch Lai walked out of the palace with a decree asking Prince Xing to reflect on his misdeeds in his own manor.

Prince Xing heaved a sigh of relief, he stuffed a silver ingot into Eunuch Lai’s hand, “How about Officer Yao?”

“Officer Yao recounted what happened in the prison, he didn’t release Shizi, but Shizi managed to escape because of him. So the emperor asked Officer Yao to reflect his misdeed in Mercy Temple?”

The news hit Prince Xing like a thunderbolt, “Father asked Wenyuan to become a monk?”

… …

Xiao Yi had run all the way to the wharf, he didn’t even realize he had lost a shoe. There was no ship in the river when he arrived, he asked a boatman anxiously, “Where are the ships?”

“They have shoved off!” the boatman replied.

“No way! Mo doesn’t have the clearance documents!” Xiao Yi raise his volume.

“Madam Modest has the token in Prince Xing’s manor!”

Xiao Yi closed his eyes in pain, Cao Mo had asked Prince Xing for the token when they built the ships, it looked like Cao Mo had been planing on leaving for a while now.

“Mo!” Xiao Yi shouted at the roaring waves, “Come back! I promise you I will listen to you, please come back!”