Chapter 131: Mixed Emotions (1/2)
Pei Wuchen’s brows were locked tightly together and he had been pacing around at the entrance for a long time before he braced himself to enter the door. As soon as he entered, he encountered Feng Wan’er.
“Senior Chen? Why are you here? Are you here to look for me?” Pei Wuchen could feel his temples pounding and even his scalp was feeling numb.
When Feng Wan’er saw Pei Wuchen’s silent and unpleasant expression, she felt a little suspicious. “Senior brother, are you feeling uncomfortable? I see that you don’t look too well.” She was rather concerned for him.
“Many thanks for junior sister’s concern. I am fine. However, I do have something I need to discuss with junior sister about. Can we speak in the room?”
When Pei Wuchen spoke, there was a grave expression on his face. Feng Wan’er felt that Pei Wuchen really had something urgent to talk to her about and quickly invited him into the room.
“What did you say? You are bringing the princes along for the trip to the Falling Cloud Mountain Range with the Phoenix King Valley?”
Pei Wuchen explained the situation in the imperial study earlier and Feng Wan’er couldn’t sit still when she heard it. She was originally seated properly and when he spoke about how he was going to bring the other princes to the mountain range, she stood up from her seat and looked at Pei Wuchen with her huge, bell-like eyes. Her eyebrows arched upwards and there was an expression of disbelief on her face.
Feng Wan’er looked at Pei Wuchen’s deadpan expression and understood that everything he said was true. She gradually composed herself before sitting down.
“I know, doing so will be making things really difficult for the Phoenix King Valley and yourself. However, Emperor Father was the one who gave the order and I can’t defy him.” Pei Wuchen knew that he was in the wrong and he was speaking softer and softer.
Feng Wan’er didn’t reply immediately and simply closed her eyes. After a long moment, when the air in the room was going stale, she finally opened her eyes and spoke. “Do you know what kind of position I will be in because of this? Those elders in the Phoenix King Valley are already dissatisfied with how arrogant and willful I am when ordering them around. How can you agree to your Emperor Father’s request so easily? Everyone knows about the relationship between you and I, and not a single person will believe me if I said that I had nothing to do with it! Tell me, how am I supposed to handle this?!”
Feng Wan’er might be peevish normally, but she wasn’t a fool. She understood that Pei Wuchen had acted first and informed her later all because he wanted to keep his reputation. Now, he was pushing all this mess to her.
“Yes, he is my father, but he is an Emperor. He is a ruler who will make use of everything to benefit himself and the Cloud Water Nation! That’s right, I am indeed his son but when I address myself as ‘official son’ in front of him, I am his official. ‘If the ruler wants the official dead, the official has to die’. Right now, he wants to make use of me in order to get a share of the pie. Do you think I feel good being sandwiched in the middle?”
Pei Wuchen had always been cultured and refined, it was also how he treated women. Feng Wan’er had never seen Pei Wuchen yelling so hysterically and loudly before and she was shocked.
Pei Wuchen seemed to have realized that his attitude towards Feng Wan’er wasn’t too good. After all, she was someone he loved and even though he had suffered grievance and pressure from his Emperor Father, he shouldn’t vent it all out on Feng Wan’er. He quickly spoke up to comfort her. “I lost control earlier and I hope that junior sister will not take it to heart. I will personally explain this matter to the Hall Master. Hall Master has always been the most partial person in our Phoenix King Valley and will definitely not blame junior sister.”
Seeing that Feng Wan’er wasn’t replying to him, Pei Wuchen immediately left the room to look for the Phoenix King Valley’s old hall master to discuss this matter.