Chapter 6 - His Majesty’s Dragon Bed Is Occupied (2/2)

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Xue Yuan leisurely waited at the back for the emperor’s rage.

He knew Chang Yuyan. Even if Chang Yuyan tried to annoy his father, he would make it big. But as time passed by, the people at the front were still merry, and Chang Yuyan also did not come back.

Xue Yuan’s eyebrows gradually wrinkled up. Has Chang Yuyan not moved yet?

He wanted to see the young emperor make a fool of himself and waited for his rage. He even sent people to wait outside the palace in advance to spread Chang Yuyan’s satirical works in the capital the first time.

Xue Yuan sighed with disappointment and walked a few steps quickly. It happened that the emperor and his party at the front went to a corner. At a glance, Xue Yuan saw his father smiled until his face wrinkled and even his mouth unclosed, following the emperor.

Xue Yuan quietly walked over and stood in the shadow behind General Xue. Immediately after he stood still, he saw the emperor at the front suddenly stopped. The emperor stretched out his white to transparent hand from the layers of wide sleeves and picked a beautiful blooming flower among the green shrubs.

“The flowers are blooming well.” Then he picked up the flower and sniffed it. The fragrance should be in accord with his heart so that he suddenly smiled in delight.

The emperor was slender and weak; his illness was severe. Yet, he smiled like a hundred flowers in full bloom, with exuberant and vigorous vitality. Hidden in the dark, Xue Yuan looked up and saw the smile on the corner of the emperor’s lips. Only then did he find out that the sick and weak emperor had an incomparable good look of an autumn moon.

Xue Yuan watched him for a while, frowning and thinking absently.

The emperor, who scolded him so hard in front of all the officials, hadn’t even grown hair5?

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At noon, when the music of the bamboo instruments started to play, the palace banquet began.

Chang Yuyan sat at the back, looking at the dishes on the table in a trance.

Sitting at the side, Xue Yuan specially picked out beautiful imperial dishes to eat, “Today’s poem is good.”

“You know…” Chang Yuyan rubbed his eyebrows. “I didn’t expect that when I was facing His Majesty, I would be opportunistic.”

Xue Yuan smiled gentlemanly but wickedly tsked, “His Majesty has good tricks.”

Chang Yuyan frowned slightly, “How can you say such about His Majesty?”

Xue Yuan raised his eyebrows and turned his head to take a look at this odd good friend. Then he squinted and looked at the emperor from afar.

Gu Yuanbai sat on the top of a high position. He inevitably drank some wine today. The alcohol content of an ancient liquor was not high, but he hadn’t drink it a few times since he came here. After a few cups, he ordered people to add water to the wine pot.

Warmth spread from the stomach to the four limbs. Gu Yuanbai exhaled a breath and felt his face also heated up.

He couldn’t drink anymore. Gu Yuanbai knew how delicate and weak the body was. He stopped drinking and drank hot tea to sober up.

People attentively watched the emperor’s every move, and they often saw the emperor treated the ministers well. Some of the youngsters who saw the emperor for the first time peeked at him from their peripheral vision.

One of the most gleaming vision was Xue Yuan’s.

You can get a red face from drinking wine, are you even a man?

Such an emperor could make Chang Yuyan waver. Was there something he didn’t notice happened when they tour the imperial garden?

Xue Yuan’s hand tapped against the wine cup as he pondered inwardly.

The palace banquet didn’t last long. After it was over, the weather then turned gloomy. Tian Fusheng took many eunuchs to send the ministers out one by one. When there was no one left, he pulled Captain of the Imperial Bodyguard Zhang Xu aside and told him something mysteriously.

After taking a bath, Gu Yuanbai opened the Han Feizi6 at his desk while it was still early.

Gu Yuanbai had a big flaw compared with an orthodox man in ancient times. His idealogy came from later generations. The unconventional idealogy of later generations was unapplicable to the current environment.

He pointed out what beneficial and what brought disaster to the country. He had never read one of these ancient books before. Since he came to this world, he had to read day and night, stayed up late, and took time to read them. He combined this body’s memory to understand them thoroughly. The original emperor did not do a good job, so he had to learn the monarch’s mind from the books.

There was a modern saying if you didn’t rebel after you transmigrated into the Qing Dynasty, you deserved a drill up your butt.7 Even if Great Heng was a dynasty that had never appeared in his memory, or the world itself existed in a novel, the books and historical traces that appeared were closely related to his memory. Gu Yuanbai could not treat this country with a playful attitude.

As the male protagonists in this world, both Chu Wei and Xue Yuan had strong governing abilities.

Truthfully, Gu Yuanbai even craved for their abilities.

Although Gu Yuanbai did not understand why they fell in love, he respected them. If he could live longer, he could even confer a marriage to win them over.

Unfortunately, King Yan8 had reserved his life long ago. Gu Yuanbai could only wait for his life to come to an end. Maybe after some time, he could only lie in bed and unable to move.

Gu Yuanbai sighed deeply.

Tian Fusheng raised his head and asked, “Is Your Majesty sleepy?”

Gu Yuanbai shook his head and said, “Zhen is just thinking. Human beings are bound to die. No matter how much Zhen prepares, even Zhen feels anxious and fearful in the face of death.”

Tian Fusheng was frightened. His knees went weak and immediately knelt on the ground. Gu Yuanbai laughed, “Scared of what? Zhen is only lamenting.”

Still suffering from shock, Tian Fusheng said, “Don’t say these things to scare this little one. This little one’s heart is going to jump out.”

Gu Yuanbai shook his head helplessly. No longer in the mood of reading, he put down the book. All the servants in the Imperial Sleeping Palace had already retired. Gu Yuanbai went to the bedroom and lifted the bed curtain. His eyes widened in the next second.

A beauty with hands tied behind her back lay on his dragon bed. Her phoenix eyes were serene and ruthlessly hidden with killing intentions.

Gu Yuanbai subconsciously looked at the beauty’s chest. His face abruptly turned green. It was a man.

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