Chapter 533 - Can Your Father Rule the Country? (1/2)

“Yuanqing, please help me!” Qiu Yu took Wen Xichi’s hand and called his courtesy name excitedly.

Both the Qiu family and the Wen family were aristocratic families, and Qiu Yu’s father was on friendly terms with the Deputy Prime Minister. Although the Qiu family was also an aristocratic family, Qiu Yu was the lineal youngest son, so he was more unrestrained than his eldest brother who was about to inherit the title. His father now worked as an assistant minister in the Ministry of Justice and could be considered quite capable among the noble.

Wen Xichi and Qiu Yu had grown up together and had been friends since they were children. So Qiu Yu was excited at the sight of Wen Xichi at this moment. Wen Xichi, who had enjoyed the reputation as a genius since he was a child, must be smart enough to think of a way to help him out of the current predicament.

“What’s the matter?” Wen Xichi shook off Qiu Yu’s hand, stepped back in disgust, and then turned around to leave slowly and said, “Hearing that you’re here, I especially come over to find you after coming up the mountain!”

Wen Xichi came up the mountain today. He now worked in the Ministry of Justice. After such a great incident, the Ministry of Justice had transferred every transferrable official here and made them work in shifts every few days. Today it was Wen Xichi’s turn to come up the mountain. He, who didn’t know some details, came over to find Qiu Yu after learning that Qiu Yu was here.

Unexpectedly, he saw Qiu Yu and the First Miss of Duke Xing’s Mansion.

The Wen’s Mansion and Duke Xing’s Mansion were neighbors, and the children of the two families played together occasionally when they were young, so they naturally had a better relationship. Nevertheless, after they grew up, it was inappropriate for them to meet each other, so they gradually drifted apart from each other.

“Yuanqing, please help me. I… I like the First Miss of Duke Xing’s Mansion. I’m wondering if it is possible…” Qiu Yu felt a little embarrassed in front of his good friend, so he muttered.

“Impossible!” Wen Xichi interrupted Qiu Yu without hesitation and gave him a sidelong glance. It was inappropriate for him to make something clear to Qiu Yu, otherwise Qiu Yu would probably suspect that he tried to ruin a girl’s reputation.

When he was a child, he could tell that this First Miss Shao was a scheming and deep-minded person. At that time, his younger sister was still alive. Shao Yanru seemed to like to play with his younger sister very much, while treating his cousin coldly. Nevertheless, when there was anything wrong, she had always made his younger sister take the blame and then comforted her gently behind others.

However, his silly younger sister was ignorant and kept chasing after Shao Yanru happily after being deceived. Even though she felt wronged and knew that it was done by Shao Yanru, she immediately wiped away her tears and chased after Shao Yanru happily as usual after hearing Shao Yanru’s pleasing words in private.

“Why is it impossible? My father is Count Liyang and an assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice. Although I can’t inherit the title as the youngest son, ordinary people can’t compare with me.” Without Shao Yanru around, Qiu Yu became active, struck his chest and said proudly. He didn’t consider himself arrogant. There were numerous girls wanting to marry him. He just kept finding excuses to delay his marriage because he had no desire to get married.

“Can your father rule the country?” Wen Xichi asked coldly.

“You…” Qiu Yu was shocked and said with his face turning pale. How dare Wen Xichi say that? He looked around and felt relieved after finding no one else around. He didn’t understand why Wen Xichi, who had always been cautious, would say something like that.

“Yuanqing, stop talking nonsense!” Qiu Yu lowered his voice to say.

“Prince Yue, Prince Zhou, and even Prince Xin take a fancy to the First Miss Shao. What makes you think that you can win the First Miss Shao’s favor? All three of them are royal descendants, and one of them will even inherit the throne in the future. If you are not powerful enough to rule the country, how can you compare with them?” Wen Xichi said with a smile. It seemed that his friend was not completely stupid. At least he knew that he should be scared at this moment.

Qiu Yu took a deep breath and said, “Do you mean that all the three princes take a fancy to the First Miss Shao?”

“I suppose so. She can’t even pick one from them. Who do you think you are?” Wen Xichi frustrated him mercilessly with an indifferent smile on his handsome and gentle face.

“I… I’m nothing indeed!” Qiu Yu said with his head down. If it were someone else, he would dare to compete with him. However, he could not compare with the three princes. One among them could soar to the peak of power and stand high above the masses in the future. At this point, he was completely inferior to them.

Thinking of this, he suddenly recalled another thing and asked with his eyes suddenly opened wide, “Prince Chen… Prince Chen is on the mountain. Does he also come here for the First Miss Shao?”

Feeling nervous, Qiu Yu stammered.

Wen Xichi squinted at him lightly and said, “Prince Chen is different from you, who treat her as a treasure!”

Wen Xichi had met Prince Chen before and knew that Prince Chen looked ravishing as a man. But even so, he could only sigh that Prince Chen was destined to be a tragedy because of his origin.

Nevertheless, it had nothing to do with him. Prince Chen did not like to show up in public, so he only saw him a few times from a distance and barely had any contact with him. But it did not hinder him from hearing the rumors of Prince Chen. So he knew that Prince Chen just looked gentle but was actually cruel and merciless with no tenderness towards girls.

A beauty was probably just a gaily dressed skeleton in his eyes. Besides, he was so handsome that there would probably be no one in the world that could match him. In fact, the so-called first beauty was not good enough in front of him.