Chapter 7 - His Majesty Starts to Swindle People (1/2)

Chu Wei had an unsightly expression with a raged look within his phoenix’s eyes. However, Gu Yuanbai, who opened the bed curtain, wore an even more unsightly expression. He only glanced at him, flung his sleeves, and walked away.

For the first time, Chu Wei was tied to a bed for others to do as they please. It was also the first time he saw disgust in the eyes of others. He saw it clearly. When this originally muddleheaded, tyrannical, and incapable ruler looked at him, there was a definite shock and disgust in his eyes.

It seemed as though Chu Wei was a dirty thing, that a glance at him could stain his eyes.

The emperor didn’t intend to get fresh with him, and yet the rage in Chu Wei’s heart was not diminished but magnified instead. He stared rigidly at the curtain made of gauze and looked at the hazy bright yellow figure outside.

Gu Yuanbai calmly sat on the soft recliner outside, waiting for Tian Fusheng’s explanation.

After learning that it was Chu Wei, the shou male protagonist in the book, lying on his bed, Gu Yuanbai slapped his hand on the armrest. The dull sound made people’s hearts tremble. Gu Yuanbai squeezed the armrest firmly to the point his fingertips turned white.

Tian Fusheng had never seen this angry look of the emperor. His heart trembled, knowing that he was in trouble.

“Tian Fusheng,” the emperor’s voice was distorted when it reached the inner palace hall, “what kind of licentious and immoderate image Zhen is in your heart cough…!”

The emperor was angry. All the people in the Imperial Sleeping Palace fell on their knees with a ‘’plop’’.

Chu Wei, who was tied truss up on the bed, heard these words and saw the people kneeling on the ground. His eyes were cold as he hid a sneer. After a moment, a palace attendant came in and lit a lamp. The dim inside of the Imperial Sleeping Palace was suddenly bright as day.

Chu Wei blinked uncomfortably a few times. Outside the bed curtain, the bright yellow figure was supporting himself on the soft recliner, stooping while coughing. The sound was dull but pressing and urgent.

The emperor wore only an inner garment; his figure was slender and thin. The rage in Chu Wei’s heart gradually calmed down and turned into an unfathomable ice pool.

After stopping the fit of cough with difficulty, Gu Yuanbai strenuously straightened his back and slowly walked to the bedside.

Chu Wei stared directly at him through the bed curtain. If the emperor himself did not know about his kidnapping, it meant the emperor’s control over the inner court was truly weak. How did such an emperor disarm the powerful minister Lu Feng?

Chu Wei was studying abroad for the last seven years. Although he was far away from the Imperial Court, he learned some news from his father. However, his father’s low official position and unambitious in his official career made Chu Wei also unclear about the politics of the imperial government.

In a flash, thousands of thoughts rushed into his mind, but a hand reaching into the bed curtain abruptly cut off these thoughts.

This hand was so beautiful, slender, and white. It was no more than a quick look when the emperor lifted the bed curtain with a ‘’swish’’.

Gu Yuanbai was not an egoist. After he assumed the position of an emperor, he had not gotten muddle-headed by power. He put himself in the other’s shoes and thought for a moment. If he got forcibly tied on another man’s bed, he would have murderous intentions toward that person.

Regardless of the method or who the opponent was, he would kill him.

Therefore, he quickly pardoned Chu Wei for showing his murderous intent toward him. He even sounded much gentler to appease the male protagonist, who was implicated by Tian Fusheng.

“No one will know about this…” Halfway through the sentence, an itch rose in his throat. Gu Yuanbai pressed a fist against his lips, coughing sideways.

A full head of fine black hair disheveled along with the slight shaky movement. The palace attendants, who were kneeling on the ground outside, trembled. No one dared to go forward and help the emperor at this time.

The cough was unceasing, and it was heart-wrenching until the end. Gu Yuanbai’s hands trembled as he bent over and powerlessly pressed at the side of the dragon bed.

The bright yellow silk satin embroidered with dragon patterns got wrinkled one after another by the grip of his pale hand. In between, there was suddenly an alluring illusion of poignant.

Chu Wei slowly frowned. Only then did he remember that the emperor just turned 20-year-old last year and that his body also was so frail.

……

He was really useless.

“Your Majesty,” the voice echoed like iced water falling into the pool, “Are you alright?”

Gu Yuanbai abruptly squeezed the bedsheets in his hand.

The blue veins bulged on the back of his pale hand were like veins carefully carved on a jade pendant. Gu Yuanbai leaned against the bedside; the sound of his coughing gradually weakened.

The sound of cough had ceased, but the sound of heavy breathing was still there. Gu Yuanbai closed his eyes and breathed big mouthfuls of fresh air. After quite a while, he tremblingly pressed on the bed and stood.

Gu Yuanbai used to this kind of body.

He stood up laboriously, clearly cutting a sorry figure, but calmly continued to say the words to Chu Wei, “Don’t worry about others knowing, Zhen will order people to send you home secretly and also punish the servants who kidnapped you without authorization.”

Chu Wei calmly looked at him.

The young emperor’s body was worse than he had thought. After coughing, the corners of his eyes were red, and his lips looked like they were dyed with rouge as if he had cried.

Also, his appearance was so much better than he had imagined.

Chu Wei was known as the No. 1 beautiful man in the capital. Nowadays, male homosexuality was taken as a refined activity of the intellectuals. However, after experiencing a lot of suggestions from older and younger men, Chu Wei almost hated all men who bore improper thoughts of him.

When he was tied truss up, he had a heinous killing intent in his heart. After knowing that he got sent to the dragon bed, his killing intent became even fiercer. Even if it was disgraceful to involve his nine clans1, he had to make this incapable ruler pay the price!

Yet, he didn’t expect this was not the emperor’s idea, nor did he expect that the emperor was so beautiful.

Chu Wei wickedly used the word ‘’beautiful’’ in his heart to describe the emperor to relieve the rage he had to push down in his heart previously.