Chapter 52 (1/2)

Soon, Qin Ce had no time to think about love problems.

Because the capital had declared martial law, he couldn’t mix into the city last time. But because of the recent disaster, an influx of displaced people had gathered at the city gate, sending the defense guards into chaos, it was a good opportunity to sneak in.

He made up an excuse to leave Zhang Jia, and disguised himself as a guard to easily mix into the palace.

The emperor had a lot of loyal ministers in the palace, if he died and the little prince quickly followed, the ministers would inevitably get suspicious and cause a lot of trouble. This made the Queen Mother bide her time, waiting for her son to succeed the throne and then slowly drug the prince, so he could follow in his father’s footsteps.

Qin Ce smoothly entered the palace and was about to collect the small prince when he was accidentally spotted by some patrolling guards, causing a city-wide search.

At the same time, Zhu Jia’s servant brought him some news. Shen Wei Hou Shizi’s Vice Lieutenant General and his search requirements were very consistent. He was 6ft tall, looked dignified, had a strong build, and had a smoking habit, in fact, in the army, he was nicknamed ‘old smokey’.

Zhou Yun Sheng was overjoyed, he spent a lot of money to bribe some of the capital’s guards to allow him into the city. He rented a room in an inn near the Lieutenant’s mansion and patiently waited.

He waited for a whole day, but the man never showed up. He felt quite frustrated. Tweety and Lushi ate their lunch and then returned to their rooms to rest.

“Sir, your bath is ready, please get in.” The inn keeper moved the bath screen and exposed a tub filled with hot water, but also baskets full of petals.

“What’s this?” Zhou Yun Sheng pointed to the baskets, his mouth twitched.

“This was prepared by your maidservants for your bath to be fragrant. I’ll help sprinkle some into the bath.”

Tweety and Lushi thought that their young master had traveled into the city to meet his lover, naturally, their imaginations had ran wild. Zhou Yun Sheng was amused, he threw two silver to the too diligent inn worker, then stared stupidly at the floating petals.

Forget it, he could even give birth now, why should he care about this kind of thing? He grinned, took off his clothes and slowly sank into the water. A few minutes later, the window behind him was suddenly forcefully pushed in, a masked man entered the window frame, then froze, staring at him.

More precisely, he was staring at the Zhusha Zhi between his eyebrows.

“…. You’re a Ger?” The shadowed man asked.

“…Little Black?” Zhou Yun Sheng twisted his eyebrows. He heard messy footsteps running around downstairs, then the man quickly shut the window and jumped into his bath, sinking himself to the bottom of the barrel. Fortunately, the water was covered with petals, hiding everything underneath them.

The door came crashing down, and a row of soldiers rushed in, waving around their swords. They pushed away the screen to find a terrified young man, clutching his chest, staring at them with wide eyes.

“Who are you? Why did you break into my room? I’ll tell you right now, I’m the fiancé of Zou Army’s Commander, Fei Wenhai, if you offend him, you’ll have hell to pay!!”

Zhou Yun Sheng didn’t say this without reason. The Queen Mother had control over the five squadrons in the You Army, and was trying to win over the Zou Army to help with her fight against Qin’s Army. She naturally didn’t dare offend any of the army commanders. Plus, Commander Fei was an upright nobility and he was indeed planning to marry a second wife.

The person in the tub was extraordinarily beautiful, and because of his rage, his cheeks were filled with color, and the dot between his eyebrows was red like a drop of blood. Such a stunning beauty could only belong to a rich noble. Several soldiers constantly looked back for another peek as they retreated to behind the screen. They checked under the bed, wardrobe and any other places where a person could hide, then piled out.

Tweety and Lushi quickly locked the door behind them.

Qin burst out of the water, gritted his teeth and asked, “You’re engaged to Fei Wenhai?”

“Nope. It was just a ploy.” Zhou Yun Sheng casually waved away his concerns. He jumped out from the tub and leisurely put on his robe. He’d never been anything but a man, he wasn’t shy in front of Qin Ce.

Qin Ce stared at his very firm buttocks and slender straight legs. His nose heated up and two lines of blood actually started trailing out, his crotch was also painfully tight, like it was about to explode.

Zhou Yun Sheng tied his belt, walked barefoot to his table and poured some tea, he asked, “Why are you suddenly here? You’re even being chased by officers. Did you do something bad?”

“…It’s hard to explain.” Qin Xu immediately washed away the nosebleed, but he didn’t dare stand-up from the tub. He didn’t want the huge sea-creature to be found out by the young man.

Zhou Yun Sheng already knew all the events that would happen, he naturally wasn’t interested in perusing further. Even if he didn’t know, he wouldn’t expect Qin Ce to tell him the truth. He walked to the tub again and smiled, “How about we make a deal?”

“What deal?” Qin Ce carefully breathed and forced himself not to look at the man’s body, which was clearly outlined under his damp robe.

“I’ll help you escape the hunt, and you’ll forget about me being a Ger.”

“Why not just let people know you’re a Ger?” Qin Ce looked at him. He pushed down his excitement as he added, “Since I’ve seen your body, I should be responsible.”

“If you’re ‘responsible’ for me, then what would Zhang Shulin do? Don’t you guys already have a fixed engagement? Do you fancy acting like a king, warming up as many beds as you can? Where do you get off on such a big ego?” Zhou Yun Sheng sneered.

He added, “I don’t need you to be responsible, I have a sweetheart already. Frankly, I came to Beijing just to meet him.”

Qin Ce wanted to explain his relationship with Zhang Shulin, but was stunned by the last sentence. He flinched as if someone had inserted a knife into his chest, cut a circle around his heart and pulled out his beating heart, squeezing it to mush. He hated himself for hastily promising himself to Zhang Shulin, but he hated the person Zhu Ziyu fell in love with even more. He’d do anything to meet that person and tear them to pieces.

“Who’s your sweetheart? I wonder if I can have the privilege of meeting them.” He asked nonchalantly, face expressionless, but his heart was planning a murder.

“Wait for me to meet him, then ask me this again.” Zhou Yun Sheng said, feeling depressed.

You haven’t met him yet? Good, he will disappear forever. Qin lowered his eyelids, blocking the blood thirsty glint in his eye. After soaking in the cold water for a long time, he climbed out of the tub and took the clean clothes the young man handed to him.