Chapter 341 : It’s Not Easy Being the Head of Household 25 (1/2)
“Beat them!” A woman’s clear voice sounded from outside the restaurant.
A figure entered the door, her gaze landing on the people who had been discussing Ling Yue just now.
They only had their bad luck to blame to be sitting beside a window where Shi Sheng could overhear them.
The guards following Shi Sheng swarmed these people and gave them a beating. Everyone else retreated into a corner, giving Ling Yue a complicated look.
‘Just a few sentences prompted a beating from the Prime Minister…
This little priest must have some skills in bed, if he could coax the Prime Minister into pampering him this much!
It’s really unexpected that a priest with such an aloof appearance has such skill in gaining favour!
…Maybe we should go find a little priest of our own to test this out?’
“Come on, let’s go home.” Shi Sheng reached out to pull Ling Yue’s hand. “These people are too much with their words. If you come across this situation again, just go ahead and get people to beat them up!”
The frost between his brows faded, replaced by a faint gentleness. Ling Yue held on to Shi Sheng’s hand. “Why are you here?”
“Just so happened to be leaving the palace and saw people from the residence here, so I guessed you might be here. I came to accompany you home.”
‘Home… I have a home now.’
“En. Let’s go home.”
Ling Yue didn’t know that Shi Sheng had returned to her residence first, and she had only especially come here to look for him after hearing he’d gone out.
Everyone in the capital knew that you couldn’t talk about the Prime Minister’s male pet and come out unscathed.
You couldn’t say a single word about him. Even if you were praising him, there’d still be the possibility of getting beaten up.
All the noble lordlings who once feared the Prime Minister before now wished they could turn back time, after seeing how much Shi Sheng pampered Ling Yue.
They felt that had they taken a little more initiative, they might have been the ones receiving this treatment.
A fair number of noble lordlings stewed in their own regret.
However, seeing that Shi Sheng had yet to officially marry Ling Yue and remembering that he was merely a priest, these lordlings got fired up.
‘There’s no way anyone would allow a lowly priest to become the Master of a noble clan! The Prime Minister will have to take someone else as her first husband!
We still have a chance!’
As a result, several noble lordlings began pushing themselves onto Shi Sheng.
‘Coincidental’ meetings, ‘accidents’, ‘robberies’… They utilised everything they could think of but never managed to even touch her clothing.
However, this only served to further ignite their fighting spirit. They swore up and down that they would sooner or later take down the Prime Minister’s walls.
……
Shi Sheng didn’t feel like going outside anymore because the moment she left the residence, she’d be swarmed by a horde of crazy men. Not even putting on a fierce expression could scare them off.
“Still haven’t found her yet?”
“No. We put the city on lockdown before and searched every street meticulously. There’s no way we would’ve missed her. Your Excellency…do you think the Ning Princess might have already died?”
‘It was so chaotic that day. It’s possible the Ning Princess was killed by someone and her body ended up being burned along with the others.’
“She’s not.” ‘As if it’s that easy to kill off the FL… She won’t die till her luck is exhausted.’
Although Dai Yue didn’t know why her lady was so certain, she still followed Shi Sheng’s orders and arranged for people to search the outskirts of the city.
When Shi Sheng returned to the room, she found that Gu Su—‘That damn brat!’—was in the room as well, standing very close to Ling Yue.
‘Who let this brat in?!’
“Senior Brother…” Gu Su was very afraid of Shi Sheng, so he shrunk into Ling Yue’s arms upon noticing her entry.
‘This woman is so scary! Even Senior Brother is bullied by her!’
Shi Sheng reached out to grab Gu Su, but Ling Yue retreated, bringing Gu Su with him as he frowned at her.
Shi Sheng, “…”