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âYoung Prince Chen, where is your house? I think itâs the time you go back, isnât it? Going too far from home will certainly make your family anxious, especially at a very young age, if itâs not too important, it would be nice for a young person at your age to be with your family until the time comes to be adults.â
The Crown Princeâs words made Chen Ming lift his head. LuoXiangâs eyes were looking at him with a smiling face, however, the atmosphere around him is black full of evil air and cold, thatâs when he meets the Crown Princeâs sharp deep eyes whoâs stared at him with a murderous aura.
âEh, Your Majesty, Iâm an orphan, so it doesnât matter at all if I go back or not to that place, all of my close relatives are gone, thatâs why I decided to wanderer, just, didnât expect to get this farâ
âOhâ LuoXiang rounded his mouth, he stood up from his seat, folded his arms behind his waist, looked out the open window where the view of the garden behind the dark pavilion and the sky was clearly visible.
âHemh, still, young master Chen canât continue to live in the palace for free, just because you think youâre a prince, as you said, thatâs why I, the venerable Crown Prince accepted you, but, if this young master turns out to be an orphan, so itâs hard to say whether you are really young Prince WahYe or not? After all, that country has been extinct since seventy years ago, how is, a kid your age, who is still very young can know about it? Or, all your stories were fake? Is this a lie you invented to tease me? You are, so confident.â
ChenMing swallowed hard as the Crown Prince turned his head towards him, waiting for his answer.
âEh that...â
âHeh, young master Chen, do you know what the punishment is for the one who has deceived the Crown Prince? Not to mention acting impudently towards the Crown Prince? I could just take your head off right now.â
Hearing the Crown Princeâs terrifying words, ChenMing clenched his two fists in front of his head and lowered his head deeply to the floor.
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âForgive servant, Your Majesty, forgive me for acting impudently beyond measure, what I did was only to test your loyalty, nothing else, and, I am, the young Prince of WahYe, although small but we still have our own village where everyone is a pure descendant of WahYe, Iâm not lyingâ
LuoXiang smirked, he still couldnât forgive what that young man did, what an insult, test? Who do you think he is? But this time for the sake of much more valuable information LuoXiang would put aside his personal irritation, the Crown Prince sat back in his chair, grabbing his teacup to take a sip back.
âHeh, WahYe was extinct, how could the original descendants still exist? After all, what are you guys planning to do? By gathering and not assimilating with other citizens? Do, you guys might be planning a rebellion?â
ChenMing raised his head.
âThatâs not true Your Majesty, my grandmother, it is impossible to plan a rebellion, I dare to guarantee with my own lifeâ
LuoXiang smirked, the young man in front of him guaranteed his life, who did he think he was?
Hearing LuoXiangâs smirk, ChenMing slowly raised his head.
âI know, that concubine Hua, is also a descendant of WahYe.â
Almost choking on the tea that had already entered his mouth, LuoXiang was surprised by what the young man who was looking at him in front of him said, looking straight at him who didnât take his eyes off.
âWhat, do you mean by you know?â
ChenMing smiled, sitting up straight.
âHeh, concubine Hua is HuaBaiYing, the sole son of Princess SanNiang with local YueYang, heh, just didnât expect such a mixed blood, to have such an important Memory coin in his handsâ
Hearing that LuoXiang couldnât hold back anymore, he rushed forward and grabbed ChenMingâs collar.
âWatch your mouth, I wonât tolerate people who say bad things about my YingYing, let alone words from the mouth of a fake prince who doesnât know himself, arenât you afraid of death?â
Chen Ming smirked.
âHeh, kill me, then Your Majesty and the others will forever not know what is the secret that has been the cause of SanNiangâs killing? Are you willing, Your Majesty, to let Your Majestyâs favorite concubine be chased by someone you donât even know yet?â
LuoXiang restrained himself from gripping harder, however, he didnât want to hold back any longer, and, he didnât like being threatened, the young man in front of him was getting more and more out of his position, his grip tightened so that in a second he could just break that slender neck with ease, but, ChenMingâs hand then raised to hit his chest, the profound strength suddenly released from the young man was nothing compared to LuoXiangâs, which very easily broke his attack and pushed him back to the chair so hard, making the sturdy chair instantly shatter in pieces.
âBrukkk!â
Pragg!!â
Prakkk!!
Pretty loud sound.
The young manâs body was pushed down along with the shattered chair, crashing heavily onto the floor.
âAh!â
BeiYau and the other bodyguards who were in the room just looked at him, the Crown Prince hadnât even expended a tenth of his energy, even though the young man in front of him had quite a strong internal power but who was he compared to the Crown Prince?
While ChenMing was still trying to get up from his fall, LuoXiang waved his wide sleeves, shake off some bits of wood splinter that had hit him, then sat back gracefully in his chair, lifted his teacup, and took a slow sip.
âThat chair is YingYingâs favorite if he comes here, heh, too bad, he will definitely be angry when he visits and finds out that itâs gone, Bei, go look for the same exact chair, I donât want YingYing to pout over a small matterâ
BeiYau lowered his head.
âYes Your Majestyâ
ChenMing looked at LuoXiang with big eyes, wiped his bleeding lips from the strong pressure with the Crown Prince, even if just a moment was enough to hurt him, that man, not an ordinary person, he could easily kill him in an instant.
âCough coughâ
And, it seems that that person had deliberately provoked him so that he could release his inner strength, he had underestimated him.
âHeh, Your Majesty, have you known all along?â ChenMing asked.
LuoXiang did not have many expressions, his face was very calm, he was a Crown Prince, what could be passed from his observation?
âHehe, you are too obvious young master Chen, from the beginning I knew that you had quite a great martial arts skill, but, it is very strange that you have been pretending and hiding it, I am also curious about that, how did you find out about YingYingâs identity very clear as well as the function of the Memory Coin before everyone even knew it, how, you know, thatâs what makes you so valuable, otherwise I might have sent you to the border with the other prisoners because you were a petty thief who was caught by SanPo city officials, I canât imagine what will happen to you, a young man with a pretty face in the midst of prisoners who are mostly rude violent people, murderers, even rapists of women, and sweet boys like youâ
Chenming widened his eyes, swallowed round, he could not hide his fears.
âIâm not a thief! itâs all a trick so that I can enter the palace, does, Your Highness the Crown Prince doesnât want to know, how much do I know about Concubine Huaâs identity?â
LuoXiang glanced at BeiYau, in order to order the unrelated maids and bodyguards to leave the room.
Before long in the room, there were only LuoXiang, ChenMing, and BeiYau, and also ShinYa was called to join.
ChenMing looked at ShinYa for a moment, it made ShinYa stutter, moreover, the Crown Prince looked at him too, the young shaman immediately waved his hand.
âServant has nothing to do with him Your Majesty, trust meâ
LuoXiang pulled his lips at the sight of the clumsy ShinYa, then turned back to ChenMing, who immediately took out something from inside his clothes, a gold coin, similar to BaiYingâs.
âThisâ ShinYa asked, somewhat hesitantly took the coin in ChenMingâs hand, and handed it to the Crown Prince.
LuoXiang frowned, seeing the shape and size of the coin which was slightly larger than BaiYingâs, he glanced at the youth in front of him.
âThis is a Tracking Coin, this belongs to my grandmother, with this coin, I can find HuaBaiYingâs whereabouts, the tracking coin will work when we ask it, same as BaiYingâs, this coin will also work if it stained with a drop of blood of the ownerâs lineageâ
Crown Prince looking at ShinYa, the young shaman seemed to know about it.
âHere, I know that there are indeed three coins for each Prince and Princess of His Majesty the Great King YenHui, just, donât really understand what each function is, a Memory Coin, a Tracking Coin, and the other one, definitely is a Savior Coinâ
ShinYa handed the coin returned to ChenMingâs hand.
âSo, only you who know about YingYingâs whereabouts here? Also the Memory coin he has? Why did the coin become so important?â LuoXiang asked.
ChenMing put a coin inside his clothes.
âServant, not really sure what the secret is in that coin, but, according to my grandmother, the secret is so important that it can be used to revive WahYeâ
LuoXiang looked at ShinYa, then at BeiYau who was standing beside him, if so, maybe since at the beginning of the assassination of SanNiang, BaiYingâs mother was after the coin, which BaiYing had hidden at the time of the incident. The Crown Prince stroked his chin.
âShow me where your base is,â said LuoXiang.
ChenMing was silent, he stuttered, looking at LuoXiang with big eyes.
âBut, thereâs no way Your Majesty, servant, could be put to death by my grandmother.â
LuoXiang patted the table with his hand hard.
Prakk!
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âWhat are you guys hiding? If you werenât the perpetrators of the murder of SanNiang and my mother, as well as the entire Hua family, shouldnât you be hiding in the forest? Is it true that you guys were planning a rebellion?â his voice was loud, making ChenMing speechless.
âY-Your Majesty, b-butâ
LuoXiang stood up from his seat.
âBeiYau, escort young master Chen to his room, give him some time to think for the nightâ
BeiYau lowered his head in respect.
âYes, Your Majesty.â
Then slowly moved to help ChenMing to his feet.
âYoung master, please.â
ChenMing looked at LuoXiang for a moment, until he had no choice and followed BeiYau out of the room.
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