Chapter 223 (1/2)

Rumours (1)

“Anjie, I’d like to pay a visit to Ye City!” said the empress dowager to the emperor- Long Anjie. With Ye Lang’s appearance, she could no longer hide from this problem any longer.

“I know, I’ll make the arrangements,” Long Anjie didn’t object. He nodded and left to make arrangements. This matter had stressed him out too.

If possible, Long Anjie also wanted to personally visit them to resolve the problems between himself and his sister.

“Oh, little troublemaker, you said if I died, you would be sad and you’d cry. Was that true?” Princess Longji looked at Ye Lang, smiling. She wanted to hear something nice from him again.

“It’s true! When you die, I’ll throw you a grand funeral, I’ll guard your grave!” nodded Ye Lang.

“...”

“And, I’ll kill all the people who wanted to kill you, then bring their heads to you as an offering. Then, I’ll burn lots and lots of paper money for you, servants, mansions, furniture- and if you want, I can burn a paper handsome husband for you…”

“Go away!!”

“...”

“Cousin…”

“What!”

“Please don’t die. If you die, I won’t be able to see you again and I’ll be sad,” Ye Lang looked up at Princess Longji, pleading with his eyes. He didn’t want Princess Longji to leave him.

Her heart warmed, then hugged him tightly. She said gently, “Silly child, I won’t die. I want to care for you for the rest of your life…”

“...”

Ye Lang didn’t speak. It wasn’t because he didn’t want to, but because he couldn’t. He didn’t mind though, it was very, very comfortable…

And just like that, time seemed to stop…

Recently, there’d been a rumour in Dragon City that Princess Longji had a bastard child. Everyone had their opinions, and as the rumour travelled, it became crazier and crazier.

“Did you hear? I heard Princess Longji has a bastard child!” At a random corner of Dragon City, passerby A was speaking very mysteriously, carefully, to passerby B.

“Then do you know whose child is it?” said passerby B.

“This I don’t…” answered passerby A, shaking his head.

“You dare come to me with so little information? Let me tell you about the princess’ child- didn’t she have a passionate fight with the third prince of Ai La Empire a few years ago? It must be him!” declared passerby B.

“Eh, that’s bullshit. They were fighting with passion, that’s true, but it was with knives and swords and they were preparing to kill the other! How could they have been together!!” At this point, passerby C appeared, “Let me tell you something I got from a reliable source. She had this child with one of the aristocrats of the Soaring Sky Empire. She’d never announced it because of the current relations between both kingdoms!!”

“Cheh, that’s impossible. That’s not even Princess Longji’s child. I heard it’s actually the empress dowager’s… And that’s why Princess Longji is just a front. Haven’t you heard, the empress dowager often visits to care for the child…”

“Are you sure…”