Chapter 789 - Imminent Disaster as His Majesty Is In (1/2)

Standing outside the side hall, the emperor asked sternly, “Where is Prince Xin?”

Outside the side hall, Shuqi stood there with a pale face, staring blankly at the emperor. Then, she dropped to her knees.

Why was the emperor here? How could the emperor be here?

“It should be the general steward who came here with some people, shouldn’t he? How could it not be him?” Even if she didn’t know the emperor, she knew that only the emperor could wear such clothes in the palace.

“Where is Prince Xin?” Seeing the maid standing a little far from the room door outside, the emperor became angrier. He strode forward, lifted the door curtain, and went straight into the room.

“A man and a woman in the room alone without even a maid watching them! What does Shao Jing’s daughter want to do?”

Inside the room, Chu Liuxin closed his eyes for a moment, feeling even hotter. In his eyes, Shao Yanru looked even more delicate and alluring and her watery eyes seemed to contain great charms. He felt that his heart was so itchy that he couldn’t help wanting to see the water in Shao Yanru’s eyes clearly.

When he suddenly heard a sound coming from the door, he looked back but was surprised to see that his father was standing there. The heat that was gushing forth from his heart vanished as if someone had immediately poured a basin of cold water down his head. He was cold all over.

He said bluntly, “Father…”

“Get out!” The emperor looked at him and said coldly.

Chu Liuxin finally realized that something had been wrong moments earlier, so he became anxious, wishing to explain. “Father, I’m not…”

“Get out!” The emperor rebuked with a dark face.

Chu Liuxin did not dare to explain anymore. Instead, he ran out hurriedly. When he was outside, he took a deep breath. Instantly, the clean and cold air drove away all the surging heat in him, but he suddenly had a sense of horror.

Why did he think Shao Yanru was very beautiful just now? He even thought that she was the most beautiful woman, and he even wanted to hold her in his arms and enjoy her.

He liked Fifth Miss of Duke Xing’s Mansion, but when did he have this intent toward her? Obviously, he wanted to get close to Fifth Miss Shao by taking the chance of visiting First Miss Shao in her sickbed. “What happened to him just now?”

He rubbed his forehead and knitted his eyebrows, depressed and ashamed. How could he do that?

The general steward of the Phoenix Palace walked up to him with a grin and greeted him. “Fifth Prince!”

Chu Liuxin calmed down and tried to look indifferent, asking, “Why is my father here?”

“The emperor heard that you were here, so he came over to have a look. Where were you just now, Prince Xin?” The general steward looked back and asked uneasily. The situation today was obviously bad. As soon as he heard that Prince Xin was in First Miss Shao’s place, the emperor came over angrily. Was there any other secret behind it?

When he suddenly thought of something, he gasped and narrowed his eyes. The incident with Prince Zhou and Prince Yue involved was still vivid in his mind. “Is the emperor also involved?”

First Miss Shao was really sophisticated. She could even make so many people interest in her, and they were the emperor and his sons. He must report it to the empress and let her make a decision.

The general steward was the general keeper of the Phoenix Palace, not the chief eunuch of the emperor, so he didn’t know about the emperor’s thoughts.

Rolling his eyes, he didn’t think that he could make a decision about the current situation, so he took a few steps outside and pointed at a little eunuch who was sweeping the floor outside, asking him to come over. Then he took him aside and whispered a few words to him.

The little eunuch threw away his broom, turned around, and trotted to report to the empress.

Shao Wanru came out of the small room on the side and looked at the eyes of Chu Liuxin, who was standing outside in a daze. At the sight of Shao Wanru, Chu Liuxin became even more ashamed and blushed, feeling that he didn’t know how to face her. With a red face, he swung his sleeves and strode away.

He didn’t know how to face Shao Wanru now.

At the moment when he was in the room just now, he even had a crush on Shao Yanru, which was beyond his imagination. How could he be interested in Shao Yanru? He obviously liked Shao Wanru and wanted her to be his princess.

With his mind being in a mess, he was too ashamed to see Shao Wanru, especially at this time. Now he felt like he had been caught while fornicating with a woman in bed. Being upset, how could he have the mood to continue to stay here at this time?

Seeing Chu Liuxin turn around and leave without saying anything, Yujie asked curiously, “What’s wrong with Chu Liuxin, Miss?”

Shao Wanru shook her head and fixed her eyes on the general steward of the Phoenix Palace. Judging from the eunuch’s clothes, she could tell that this man should be the general steward of the Phoenix Palace. And she frowned.