Chapter 14 (1/2)
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“You risked letting Xiao Xun go without fully understanding” Yan Xiaohan narrowed his eyes “Are you not afraid that I actually will put you under house arrest?”
Fu Shen really wanted to kick hi this phase, and I will help you fight for a chance to return to Yan Prefecture I've already , Yan Xiaohan,” Fu Shen retorted, a brief pause between each word “I' on?”
You are the Emperor's most favored subject, his most decorated confidant, and only one step away frohest life – ould you want to aid someone who is in an inherently hostile position to that?
Yan Xiaohan's eyes are still slitted, but that tenderthat had just been in them is nohere to be seen It was as if he put a layer of impenetrable armor over himself in an flash “Just as there are loyal subjects in this world, some are naturally disloyal,” he said without a care
“You don't need to sell yourself short…”
“Don't be naive, my Marquis,” he said with a s ti yourself to cover it up forto the sa the country's peace while I a as an official It's not for fame, it's only for the benefits It's not for the land or its people, it's only forwhich tree to perch in; this is just the way of any acting official
And that's why,” he explained, “I' on the side that's ame of qi, as well as a third player
He could be used by one party to charge through eneale word
Since the Yuantai Emperor wasn't fond of the weapons he held to have too many of their own ideas, then he may as well be an unarmed, defenseless man that's cut off from others
Because this pawn isn't happy
“Okay, fine It's hard to get you to openly ad” Fu Shen s et drenched to death at the palace gate?”
“It's because I drooled after your good looks, of course,” Yan Xiaohan replied indifferently
Fu Shen: “……”
A high-ranking soldier of cutthroat decision- like him hates the common practice of false civility and indirect verbosity within the capital's bureaucracy thehow his temper was, smiled breezily and went to pacify him before he blew up “Don't try to find a justification for ain, Fu Shen”
When he ceased to call hied it to just his name, it was like that layer of arure that was the Yan Xiaohan that Fu Shen had first first been acquainted with
“Picking sides betweenyou where I can are two very different things You and I have known each other for several years I can't just stand by and watch you fall”
It really was as he himself had said Yan Xiaohan's ‘morality' towards his friends and his ‘uished between
Fu Shen finally had nothing to say back He disliked relying on his tongue wagging to convince others to agree with his own opinions, and with today's repeated questionings being against the nor displeased with Yan Xiaohan's ‘self-effacing villainy' “Are you done?” he asks, face placid
Yan Xiaohan heard that and knew that he was about to catch fire Fu Shen was first a young wealthyexactly as they were stated to be Every now and then his temper rose in a way that was really quite… unreasonable
Even so, Yan Xiaohan insisted on sayingthe crown of his head “I'll have so over medicine in a bit, remember to–“
“Get out,” Fu Shen said icily
Mister Yan is worthy of being a talented member of the elite, as he obediently shut up and smoothly out thereafter
Fu Shen was tooHe tossed and turned atop the bed, what Yan Xiaohan had said repeatedly reverberating within his mind
In fact, what he wanted to ask was; if it were anyone else, and out of ‘ theood care of theil while still in your day clothes, and take great pains to urge theht into their ear, your teeth gritted with rage, “why are you not rebelling”?
It was unkno long had passed when the sounds of the rain beating against theand the steadily rising wind outside of it incited his ingrained pains and a negligible a in rest when the tip of his sensitive ear suddenly twitched, the extreh the door
It's Yan Xiaohan
He lengthened and evened out his breaths to skillfullyhis eyes all the way, then relying solely on sound to distinguish the other'swithhile one
He didn't want to acknowledge that he was actually nervous
Yan Xiaohan approached the bed quietly Fu Shen felt a weight added onto his legs, the corner of the blanket next to his foot lifting i stuffed under it Finishi+ng all that, he didn't stay to do anythingas soundlessly as he ca until the door shut noiselessly, Fu Shen opened his eyes, clearly seeing the extra layer of blanket on his legs by way of the faint light fro object, and when he reached under the bedding to touch it, discovered it was a cast silver foot-warainst the pane
His injured lower liive much heat The pain he didn't mind ht, the freezing cold immediately became unbearable
Are you also as attentive as this towards ‘other people'?
Fu Shen laid back down on his back, staring bemused at the bed's canopy He thinks himself as possibly unsuited for the Court The Commander of the Northern Yan can brandish a blade and cut down invading enemies, yet his mind is tied down by a blanket and a heater If he can't yet shake off this world of comfort, how could he later be able to handle the imperceptible knife of a bloodless kill?
This is real bullshi+t, he thinks to hiht too much before he slept of both the Yuantai Emperor and Yan Xiaohan for a time, as the seldom-dreamer Fu Shen dreamed of a time in his youth