Ch96 - This Highness was probably thoroughly full of tricks and schemes (2/2)
“Yes.”
“Want to go?”
“This is about my origins. I have to go.” Xue Ling drank a cup of tea and spoke lazily. “I don’t need you to help me. I’m just giving you a chance, so if you…”
“I’ll help you.” Lou Cen turned over countless methods in his mind and said, “But after entering, you cannot leave my side.”
Xue Ling nodded and expressed that that was not a problem.
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At this time, the Empire did not know much about the deep-sea merfolk. Most of the information was suppressed by the upper levels of Empire’s government. Lou Cen was only a General now, and although he was the hope for the future, he still did not have the power to know about anything beyond his jurisdiction.
Even before he had cleared out the laboratory, Lou Cen had entered the underground city many times undercover. Xue Ling had only brought up his request to have the other party bring him along because he had deduced this. It would be great if he could meet another deep-sea merperson in the underground city – that way he would have more people he could make use of.
Over the years, many deep-sea merfolk had sneaked into the human world to explore. They had constantly been searching for the original host. The original owner of this body had no opportunity to return to the sea, but Xue Ling could help the deep-sea merfolk survive the upcoming disaster.
Merfolk were the guardians of the ocean. Legends said that the ancestors of the deep-sea mermaids was a famous sea god, and the royal lineage had the sea god’s ability to control the ocean in their bloodline. Once the last inheritor of the royal lineage died, the entire ocean would be in turmoil. At that time, the crisis would affect more than just the merfolk.
The ocean would become a dead sea, and mankind would slowly fall into a worse situation under the influence of the ocean’s atmosphere.
Of course, the prerequisite for all this was that the bloodline of the last direct descendant of the deep-sea royal lineage dissipated.
For Xue Ling to die? Were they joking?
According to Lou Cen’s previous promise, he sent Xue Ling all the way home. Most of the people of the Duke’s Palace were gathered at the front entrance. Xue Ling was seated in his merfolk chair, hiding behind Lou Cen and looking exactly like a delicate, frail merchild.
In addition to the Duke and Duchess, and the three brothers Yan Chuhuan, Yan Zhaiyan and Yan Qingjun, there was another breeder standing at the door.
Xue Ling searched through the original host’s memories for a good while before finding information about this person. He popped his head out from behind Lou Cen and greeted the breeder. “Greetings to His Highness the Prince”
Lou Cen was obviously familiar with His Highness. He bowed, and gave a simple greeting. His Highness did not care much about things like etiquette when he was outside.
His Highness the Prince of the Empire was SS-class breeder. The difference in strength between him and Lou Cen had not been big previously. Now, he was one step behind, but he was still very powerful. He was the future Emperor of the Empire, but he had always been very kind to the people. In the original host’s memory, His Highness was a very gentle person, and was very attractive when he smiled.
Xue Ling measured him up for a moment. He really was a very easy-going person, and his gentleness was not a hypocritical mask that he had put on for show. He stood next to Yan Qingjun, and the two seemed very well matched. After all, that kind of mild temperament that was like a ‘Holy Mother’ and ‘Holy Father’ were not very different…
In the original plot, there were not many mentions of His Highness the Prince. He should have ascended the throne the normal way…
Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.
Lou Cen stretched out his hand, and blocked out Xue Ling’s line of sight to His Highness the Prince.
Xue Ling: “…” If he didn’t want him to look, then he won’t look. In any case, the Prince was not as good looking as him.
Perhaps because His Highness the Prince was next to them, the Duke and Duchess who were planning to give Xue Ling a proper lecture did not say stern words. Yan Chuhuan grabbed Xue Ling’s ears and scolded quite a lot, making His Highness the Prince joke that he looked more like a mother more than the Duchess.
Yan Chuhuan could no longer say anything after that. Yan Zhaiyan had been hiding from Xue Ling during this period of time, and now, although the look he sent to Lou Cen seemed like he was eager to bite him to death, he managed to hold back and did not speak out.
Xue Ling was handed over to the Duke’s family by Lou Cen, and was reminded again to call him if he wanted to go out so that he could come pick him up, before he was finally let into the house.
Xue Ling clutched at Yan Qingjun’s hand and leaned in close to catch up with the gossip. Only then did he learn that His Highness Prince was going to have dinner at their house this evening. Rumors said that he had come to propose marriage, wanting to settle matters before the Duke’s Palace announced news regarding their youngest son.
Although the Duke formally rejected his proposal, he still shamelessly stayed behind for dinner.
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Xue Ling found it strange, and asked Yan Qingjun, “It’s really strange. Has he seen Junjun before? Why would he suddenly come to propose marriage?” Although he had also planned to do this, he had not yet implemented his plan when the person automatically sent himself to their door. It was a bit weird no matter how one looked at it.
“I don’t know… I was there when he was talking… His original words were that he liked me very much when I was an egg. Now, when he sees the color of my fish tail, he feels that I’m particularly suitable to be an Imperial Princess. Because he was worried that mother and father would introduce me to more people who would come with proposals, he wanted to propose ahead of time.”
Xue Ling’s gaze landed on the seemingly serious and upright prince, and he got a smile in return. Xue Ling changed his personality in his mind from gentle to black-bellied. This Highness was probably thoroughly full of tricks and schemes. “… Well, this kind of reason is very convincing… or not.”
“You don’t believe it, right? Father doesn’t believe it either… So they declined.”
“But I think His Highness the Prince’s looks like he is determined… It doesn’t seem like a joke…”
“Maybe it’s just because he needs to marry someone from the Duke’s Palace?”
“There’s shouldn’t be any need for that. He had never treated me differently before. Although I’m only an adoptive son, and it wouldn’t be very useful to marry me. Oh. Maybe he doesn’t like black and gold?”
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“… Don’t you like Lou Cen?”
“Well, yes, then I won’t fight over His Highness the Prince with you.”
Yan Qingjun: “…” What kind of logic is this? Did he get stumped by a child???