Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

64. Message Passed by Stealth

Translator: Flying Lines

In the early morning when the first ray of sunlight appeared, Xiao Shengnian and his group left the inn by carriage. After several days of rushing, they were approaching the capital. After about an hour or so, the carriage entered City Yang.

Zhou Zaiyue craved to see the blooming of peony flowers. Since they were now nearing the capital, Xiao Shengnian did not object. They parked their carriages near the inn and took Sun Shu to enjoy the flowers.

City Yang was one of the surrounding cities of the capital. In addition, its peony flower was famous all over the world. The delicate and colourful petals of the peony flowers showed endless tenderness in the spring breeze. The fully bloomed flower had layers of petals of snow white with vermilion at the tips, displaying beauty unmatched by any other flowers in the world.

” I have heard about the famous peony flowers in City Yang. After seeing it today, it really deserves its reputation. This old man’s life has not lived in vain!” Zhou Zaiyue walked in the lead in high spirit, his eyes showing a glimmer of light. Eyes on the captivating flowers, Zhou Zaiyue didn’t pay attention to his steps and almost tripped over the ankle of a teenager napping by the flower bush.

The youth jolted awake, opened his eyes, and glared at Zhou Zaiyue: “Watch where you are going!”

Zhou Zaiyue frowned and said, “This old man didn’t mean it. But If you are sleepy, you might as well go home and sleep. Now it’s not as warm as in the afternoon, why should you be by the flowers disturbing this old man to appreciate them.”

The youth pattered the dust off his clothes, stood up and approached Zhou Zaiyue with a cold hum as if he was going to resort to violence. Viciously he said, “I like sleeping wherever I want. What can you do about it?”

With that being said, the young man wanted to reach out to grab Zhou Zaiyue’s collar, but was stopped by a hand.

The young man turned his head slightly and saw Su Jie in a gorgeous red robe.

“Oh? What a handsome boy.” The youth raised his eyebrows when he saw Su Jie. His ordinary facial features became more vivid as he smiled pleasingly, “What is your name?”

After saying this, he suddenly felt a chilly gaze looking at him. The youth couldn’t help but turn his head in doubt and saw a gentle man in luxurious clothes, elegantly walking towards him. Following behind him was a man with a cold and expressionless face. The look in the eyes of the cold-faced man was sharp like piercing blades, making his glare even scarier. The two men were naturally Xiao Shengnian and Zhui Xing.

The youth murmured in his heart, shamelessly continuing to chat with Su Jie.

Su Jie’s facial expression remained as usual. He did not answer, but rather calmly grasped the young man’s wrist, and then pressed it slightly harder——

“It’s so painful!” The youth grimaced in pain, tears welling up in his eyes. But Su Jie had no intention of letting him go, not until the youth repeatedly begged for leniency.

“I didn’t expect you to be practicing martial arts.” The youth looked at Su Jie with a bitter face, and stepped back as if he was afraid of him. Seeing that Su Jie had no intention of pursuing the issue, the youth rolled his eyes and moved a step to the side, looking like he was trying to escape.

Su Jie ignored him and turned to look at Zhou Zaiyue: ” Elder Zhou, are you okay?”

“I’m fine.” Zhou Zaiyue shook his head. He didn’t give another glance at the youth and continued to admire the peony flowers.

The youth had walked a few steps away while rubbing his swollen wrist but somehow turned back to look in the direction where Zhou Zaiyue and the others had gone, some unwillingness in his eyes, but finally walked in the other direction.

“Liu’er, have you seen Elder Zhou?” In the alley, a young but flighty-looking man asked with a piece of grass in his mouth.

“Yes, I have.” Shang Liu (Six) replied, rubbing his still aching wrist, ” I’ve just met up with Elder Zhou. It seems that he is planning to let us do it at noon.”

“Where then?” The dandiacal youth, Xuan Wu spat out the grass that was in his mouth onto the ground, massaged his wrist, and asked with a smile.

“The Arrival Inn.” Shang Liu also let out a cry of excitement, and continued, “This time, let’s complete the task perfectly so that Elder Zhou will reward us.”

“Tch! What are you excited about?” Xuan Wu (Five) smiled, gave Shang Liu’s shoulder a light punch, and said, “We are just bringing Lord Sun Shu out of the Inn after Elder Zhou drugs and knocks out everyone. We just need to be smart and don’t make any mistakes. This kind of small task is just a piece of cake!”

“We shouldn’t be careless. Our actions will also be related to the great course of restoration.” Shang Liu was not satisfied with his partner’s attitude.

“You think you can do anything to help restore the country? You will have to find His Royal Highness to begin with.” Xuan Wu snorted.

“Okay, you just can’t stop quarrelling with me for a day, can you?” feeling exasperated, Shang Liu rushed over preparing to fight it out with Xuan Wu. Xuan Wu raised his hands and surrendered, ” Okay, okay, stop it. We should start to prepare as well. If the plan gets messed up, I will beat myself up even if Elder Zhou doesn’t blame either of us.”

“Hmph!” Not until hearing these words did Shang Liu let him go.

On the other side, Xiao Shengnian and his party were still appreciating the flowers, while Yu Che followed closely after Sun Shu. After taking a few steps, Sun Shu suddenly said: “I’m not going to run so don’t be so nervous.”

Yu Che did not answer, and continued to follow Sun Shu.

Sun Shu slowly walked behind Xiao Shengnian and Su Jie. He occasionally smiled when glancing at the peony flowers around him.

At this moment, Xiao Shengnian and his party hadn’t realized that even though the youth and Zhou Zaiyue had only exchanged a few words, the message had already been passed along.

When the sun began to shine, Zhou Zaiyue wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, “Shall we head back to the inn?”

“Let’s head back.” Xiao Shengnian nodded. Shang Liu’s teasing Su Jie ignited the domineering personality in him. He held Su Jie’s hand as though he was declaring his ownership to the people around them.

Regarding this, although Su Jie was not as flustered as he had been for the first time, his heart trembled slightly. Xiao Shengnian’s unscrupulous behavior caused the pedestrians on the road to constantly glance curiously at them. He was still calm and composed, as if the things that he was doing was as normal as it could be.

Although Su Jie was able to remain unaffected on the face, there was a thin layer of sweat on his palm. Generally speaking, a prince would not do something this unruly when in public, but Xiao Shengnian was so… unscrupulous.