Chapter 198 - Complacent Assassin (1/2)

”Stop pacing, it's irritating.” A certain young man irritatedly said as he covered his eyes and leaned back in the chair and stretched out.

The other occupant in the room paid his complaint no heed and continued his pacing. The man had a side fringe covering a deep scar on the side of his face, which peeked through the hair as he paced along. ”I think...after all, we need to storm the palace...”

”There's still an army sitting outside the capital...you couldn't even bring all your men here, much less make an attempt to ”storm” into the palace...”

”Then let's sneak into the palace, I have enough men here for a covert operation.”

”We don't have anyone in the palace prison, all our contacts within the palace guards are gone. That stupid Emperor is unfortunately not an idiot... and I'm not going in blind.” The sitting man calmly interjected.

The scarred man stopped pacing and narrowed his eyes at the other man as he let out an irritated breath, ”Then let's send for you uncle, I'm sure he hasn't go-”

”What can he do? I don't need anyone scolding me for nothing s-...”

”Then what are we to do?!” The scarred man roared with a glare.

”Can't you see I'm trying to think?!” The other man roared back returning the glare.

”You've been thinking for over three days now!” The scarred man roared, ”I would have already gone to-”

”Gone there to die or complicate the situation. If we rush in and fail, then she'll die for sure. Now she's just being punished because her ”mistress” of choice is an idiot...”

”But that's even more dangerous, servants are killed all the time. She doesn't have anyone looking out for. What if they -” The scarred man stopped and sat down, filled with worry, ”I knew this was a stupid plan. I should have tried harder to dissuade her, it's m-”

”It's not your fault. It's all that idiot Houyi's fault and of course, my stupid sister's fault...”

The two sat quietly for a while, then the scarred man spoke up again, ”Maybe we should send a message to Prince Houyi, he is the eldest Prince, maybe he can talk to his father and king can -”

”Can do what?” Chun Hai snorted, ”Send a message to the Long Emperor stating how his son's concubine - Ah, she's not even a concubine yet, his son's aspiring ”wife-to-be” is currently posing as a maid imprisoned in the Long palace and request her release? Forget your king even doing that, Houyi would never do anything troublesome for himself. He's a selfish self-centered bastard!” Chun Hai finished with an irritated sigh.