Chapter 12 (1/2)

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The roo down Yan Xiaohan's gaze dropped in concentration Out of the corner of his eye, he glily tired

Only then did he bring to mind that thein thehim the next day

“Rest first We'll talkthe curtains over Fu Shen made a ‘mn' that was thick with exhaustion “Thanks for your trouble,” he said softly

Sitting back down on the low bench at the bedside, Yan Xiaohan wasn't a single bit fatigued Fu Shen's words continuously spun about in his mind So that's why the Yuantai Emperor was so i Khadun, who's of the ene's descendant back to the Central Plains both look like tells of a brewing rebellion The Ele to replace the first wife's son in succession was a tender spot in his heart, and if you bu with his life The broken legs plus decreed e were a lucky outco wish of his predecessor, he'd turn his back on his way of life… it's impossible that he didn't knoould be in store for hiht

Yet he always see tasks

Why?

“There are sos in this world that will always need someone to do theht, abruptly stirred from his conte so, Mister Yan, you could stare the dead back to life,” Fu Shen mocked

Yan Xiaohan had siaze had landed upon Fu Shen this whole ti expression on his face, he knehat he was thinking, and his own heart couldn't help but soften up with the desire to tease hi's descendant was the wish of my uncle and His Majesty, the Prince of Su For that reason, I would do it no ret”

“You were gravely injured and your effort asted Is that not regrettable?”

The sound of Fu Shen's gentle laughter echoed within the dark night

Yan Xiaohan paused, enlighten on him

“The two different routes were the first diversionary tactic, and the Han diplomat on the envoy was the second… in reality, you and the Prince of Su had sent the real descendant off a good tiht?”

“H very seriously “If it had been as you said where everything I did was for nothing, I probably would have hung enuinely be too asha his eyes up to Yan Xiaohan “Quit stretching your face like that now, Mister Yan I didn't even know that you could feel so sorry for ”

Yan Xiaohan couldn't tell where he had seen ‘sorry for you' written on his face, but he could tell that he waswith hi to be a family later,” he thusly responded, with just a hint of coolness

Fu Shen: “……”

“You seriously… don't have any sort of filter,” he grills hi how to react to this “You've felled a thousand eneht-hundred yourself – yet you're still willing to go be a ‘family' with h, Marquis,” Yan Xiaohan said patiently “You're first-rank, I'm third-rank If we truly do become one household, then I won't suffer any losses; I'll profit”

Fu Shen was struck h to start spitting fire at hi a step to the side and trying to keep the peace “Alright, if we talk anyht out Don't tire yourself out and go to sleep”

Fu Shen's raised hackles went back down instantaneously He are that Yan Xiaohan was trying to coax hi a little sleepy fro on and on about rubbish for half the night, only lying down to rest for a while at fourth watch[1] At daybreak, a few notes froot up fro to them He didn't expect that his o?” he asked drowsily

“Mhm” Yan Xiaohan ca his forehead toout a corner of the bedding that had flipped over His long hair slipped down to land on the edge of the pillohen he leaned over, gently grazing the side of Fu Shen's face “I have to go take ”

Fu Shen closed his eyes,hair softly brushed his cheek, a sently sway He heard footsteps walking away fro around soh fro even if there's a few doors of separation between the in the external noises of water, footsteps, speech, the soft bu picked up and put down, and then Yan Xiaohan's instructions that he deliberately kept in a hushed voice “…do not disturb him Shen Yi'ce will come in the afternoon… eat and take medicine on ti considerate to hi in the contrast of his colleagues having to get up and go in the ets to sleep in at hoood hts wandered aimlessly until they yanked out the dust-covered memory of a line frohts with the cold‘s annual passing” [2]

General FuMaster of a rich fae was rather limited This was a book he'd studied for his teacher before, yet he actually can't think of any verse before or after that!

He can hazily recall that the poeet out of bed, and it happens to have Yan Xiaohan's naain to himself until the noises outside ceased Even when he fell into a deep sleep once

He napped 'til the sun hung high in the sky, when a maid of the Yan Estate came to help hi his nose and downing a big bowl of bitter medicine, Fu Shen still hadn't remembered the poem's full na, will dig into the heart of the insur before theand thinking about it for half the day, he bluntly said to theme a few poem collections They must have seven-character quatrains” [3]

The maid had received instructions earlier froht hih the books Yan Xiaohan was not a man of many literary pursuits and didn't have ht back a s respectfully, “This is every poetry anthology from the study, Marquis”

Fu Shen picked up a book and leafed through it, unexpectedly jeering as he perused “Unskilled and unlearned”

Thefor a short period of tiies for no less than a shi+chen, he at last found the portion of the verse that had been vexing hiray-lettered book of Tang Dynasty folk titled ‘Exists There', the full poem was: [7]

Exists there a wondrous beauty behind a clouded screen,

hts with the cold's annual passing

It was senseless to marry off to a wealthy husband;