127 I Would Send You Back (1/2)

That day, Prince Lu Wei entered the palace with a mixed feeling. The prince was anxious. The Emperor had summoned him into the palace just after the Crown Princess proposed marriage with him. He did not know how he should answer if the Emperor asked him about it. After all, Prince Lu Wei had not given much thought about the matter.

Yesterday, when he returned to his room, Prince Lu Wei had found a letter from his grandmother. When the Prince asked around, the servants said that no one came to deliver a message. Then, it could only mean that the people sent by his grandmother was too skilled that he could sneak into his room without any of the servants and guards noticing. Or, one of the servants and guards were his grandmother's people.

The letter from his grandmother was brief. She only wrote that she knew his situation with Qian Rong. If Prince Lu Wei wanted to return to their clan, all he needed to do was to leave the bamboo emblem at a stationery shop at the eastern side of the city. Then, his grandmother will arrange for people to take him back to Sui Country.

Prince Lu Wei did not know whether he wanted to return. Sui Country was the place where his mother grew up until she was a fifteen. Back then, when his clan was massacred, his mother, along with a few others escaped to Qian Rong. Once his mother met the Emperor of Qian Rong and had him, she never returned to the place where she was born and raised.

However, his grandmother had sent letters to her frequently, assuring his mother that the others who stayed in Sui Country live well. In the prince's memory, he had only seen his grandmother twice.

When his mother was chosen to accompany the Emperor to visit a state in Qian Rong, his mother's maidservants would help to let the mother and daughter secretly.

Prince Lu Wei snapped out of his thought when he heard the shrill voice of a eunuch announcing his arrival. After a minute of waiting outside, the eunuch ushered him into the Emperor's study.

When he entered the study, the Emperor was sitting behind the table. His hand was holding a brush, and his attention was on the paper.

”Your Majesty. May you live long and prosper,” Prince Lu Wei cupped his hands and bowed to greet.

The Emperor of Da Cheng did not make a sound and continued his job. Only when he put down the brush on his hand did the Emperor raised his head to look at the prince. ”You can be at ease.”

”Thank you, Your Majesty.”