Chapter 17: Chapter 17

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“… Perhaps, you’re the only one in the world that knows that you’re a girl,” said Mu Qingge suddenly.

Mu Ge raised her brows and looked up, as if waiting for her next sentence, but she was complaining in her heart. ‘No, there’s still that darned peeping tom!’

He appeared when the illusion enchantment was repairing itself and she was also washing the dirt off her body, so he had taken complete advantage of her.

The good thing was that this petite figure had nothing much to look at, and she did not lose out much with the inner wear she had.

“Now, I only remember that when I came of age, Mother told me I can’t take off the earring if I want Grandpa to be happy and the Mu Residence to be safe.” Mu Qingge closed her eyes and spoke lightly, as if she was immersed in her memories.

Mu Ge kept quiet.

She could roughly guess a few key points.

Mu Residence had a special status in the Kingdom of Qin, and Mu Xiong’s military troops were too powerful, causing the Emperor to fear him. If Mu Residence did not have any male descendants, the Emperor could naturally take back the Lord position. If he was harsher, he could directly get her to marry some prince and silently swallow the Mu Residence whole, leaving Mu Xiong with nothing.

However, if the Mu Residence had a descendant, the Emperor could not touch them easily, no matter how much he wanted to. He had to meticulously handle his relationship with the Mu Residence. No matter what he did in the dark, he must act close on the surface. If not, the Kingdom of Qin’s soldiers’ hearts and the civilians’ hearts would become cold.

This was the second time Mu Ge became curious about the body’s mother. What kind of woman was she, which allowed her to have such an enchantment and even use her own daughter in this set up?

Mu Ge’s eyes turned and her cold gaze landed on the translucent Mu Qingge. “I think you said that your only blood-related kin in the Mu Residence is your grandfather and your aunt. What about your parents?”

Parents…

That word seemed to have touched Mu Qingge’s sore spot, as pain flashed across her eyes. She then said slowly, “My dad died in battle when I was four. My mom refused to believe this, so she went to the battlefield to find my dad alone. Then, we lost all news from her. Mother is an orphan and met Father while training. After she left, Grandpa had also sent people to look for them but to no avail.”

When she was four… Mu Qingge was already fiften this year.

They had lost all news from them for eleven years. Perhaps…

Mu Ge looked at Mu Qingge silently and seemed to start to understand the latter’s extreme methods when she was alive.

A very young child kept an earth-shattering secret all to herself, and had to carry the burden of the family from a young age. Mu Qingge did not have the same thinking of an adult like Mu Ge, so Mu Qingge could only count on herself to finish the mission her mother left behind.

It was a pity that she was a good-for-nothing and could not cultivate. Under all sorts of pressure, she could only use her identity as a rich man’s son to make everyone remember Kingdom of Qin’s Mu Residence.

The human and the ghost kept quiet for some time. Eventually, Mu Ge was the one who broke the silence.

“Talk about that person with the last name ‘He’.” Mu Ge placed her hands behind her head and lay down on the mattress, as she stared at the top of the tent.

Strong murderous intentions gathered in Mu Qingge’s eyes when this topic was brought up. Her teeth clenched tightly as her cold voice sounded, “He Cheng.”

“What’s He Cheng?” Mu Ge’s gaze shifted, but it was dark and hard to understand. “Based on Old Master’s character, he would definitely kill the person, who set his precious grandson – the only Mu family’s descendant – up and indirectly caused the death of 500 guards, without you saying a word. Why did he tell me that I can’t kill him?”

Mu Qingge’s eyes darkened. “That’s because the He family belongs to Prince Rui’s group. As long as He Cheng didn’t die, the He family would not say anything about how we treat him. But once he did, the He family would take the chance to suppress the Mu family. The person on top might even use this chance to retract a portion of Grandpa’s military power. The Mu family never gets involved in the royal family’s conflicts, but I’m the reason why there seems to be a close relation between the Mu Residence and Prince Rui Residence. Now that the Emperor is getting older and the princes are more impulsive, Grandpa doesn’t want to get involved at this point, so he won’t let you kill He Cheng and would ask you to keep your distance from Prince Rui.”

“You understand it pretty clearly,” sneered Mu Ge in a seemingly mocking manner.

However, Mu Qingge did not say a word and got lost in her thoughts again.

Looking at her face, Mu Ge guessed that she still missed that Prince Rui.

They did not continue talking, and Mu Ge started planning in her heart. ‘There’s definitely more than one killer for He Cheng’s incident. That Prince Rui… He probably came over with Old Master Mu to personally see if Mu Qingge was alive or dead and because of that He Cheng.’

‘Does he want to save He Cheng from the Mu Residence?’

Mu Ge’s lips suddenly curved up in a defiant and sinister smile, as her eyes looked a lot more playful.

‘We’ll need to see if I agree to that!’

‘It’s okay if I can’t kill him. I can play with him slowly.’ Mu Ge’s smile looked more heartless. ‘I’ll let those who offend me to clearly know what it means to be better dead than alive.’

How could one rotten life be compared to the Mu family’s 500 brave heroes?