Chapter 151: We Are Both in Pain

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

Qi Cheng approached him, put the spirit jar on the stone table and looked at him. “Brother Qingye, I’ll be with you.” ‘I would never leave you, and you’re the only one in my heart.’

Qi Cheng didn’t say the later words for he didn’t dare.

Lin Qingye sat back on the stool. Perhaps he had drunk too much, his head was a little confused, but he got soberer.

“I told you, leave me alone. You get out.”

Qi Cheng smiled bitterly. “What the hell is it with Ke Ruan? What has he done for you?”

‘Would he do his best to protect Brother Qingye like me?

Will he give up everything and accompany Brother Qingye?’

Lin Qingye looked in the direction where no human figure existed, and there was a ghost of smile at the corner of his mouth with infinite gentleness and warmth. The fingertip of his right hand gently touched his lower lip.

He remembered the feeling on his lips, he remembered his burning temperature, the warm hug, and the heart-breaking pain.

For him, Ke Ruan was always the young man in the Qiao Mountain, and he always had his Highness in his heart.

It was unknown if this kind of action had touched Qi Cheng on his most sensitive spot.

The man he loved could remember the person he would lose and spend time forgetting him.

However, he couldn’t see Lin Qingye like that, as if his heart was filled with that person, which he couldn’t stand for a moment.

Qi Cheng stepped forward and grabbed his wrist madly, and even the throbbing pain in his chest seemed to have disappeared.

Suddenly being interrupted, Lin Qingye frowned in disgust.

‘He hates me.

Brother Qingye hates me, why, why?’

He increased his force to pull Lin Qingye up from the stone stool and held his shoulder tightly. His eyes were red, “Brother Qingye, wake up. He already belongs to Si Yuhan. He’s already the empress of Si Yuhan. He’s not yours. He doesn’t like you. Give up please. I beg you.”

Lin Qingye lowered his head and didn’t say anything. ‘Give up? How could I do that?’

Qi Cheng suddenly reached out his hands and hugged him. Now that seven years had passed, Qi Cheng was already the height of half a head taller than Lin Qingye, but he hugged Lin Qingye and buried his head in his neck like a poor child begging for some love.

Qi Cheng choked. “Brother Qingye, please don’t be like this. Can you stop loving Ke Ruan? Can you…” ‘Love me.’

Lin Qingye seemed to be drunk and didn’t reject Qi Cheng’s sudden action. However, when Qi Cheng asked if he could stop loving Ke Ruan, he still subconsciously opened his mouth.

“Your Highness, Your Highness, Your Majesty, Your Majesty…”

“Why, why?” Qi Cheng clenched his hands hard which were hugging him. ‘Why couldn’t you see anything good about me? I’m thousands of times better than Ke Ruan.’

“Brother Qingye, you’re mine, mine, from childhood to adulthood.” Qi Cheng’s muffled voice came from the hollow in Lin Qingye’s shoulder, but there was a ghost of unknown emotion, which was a little obscure.

Qi Cheng let go of Lin Qingye. Without any support. Lin Qingye’ stumbled a bit and he was a little dazed about the scenery in front of him. He also subconsciously swayed and Qi Cheng threw his right arm around his waist.

“Brother Qingye, you’re drunk.”

Lin Qingye raised his delicate eyebrows, “No, I’m not drunk.”

Qi Cheng suddenly approached him, and a scorching breath blew on his face. A strange light flashed in his black eyes, “Brother Qingye, you’re really drunk. I’ll take you back to rest, okay? After a good sleep, you’ll have nothing to worry about.”

Chapter 152: The Drunken Indulgence

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

Lin Qingye seemed to be quite drunk and had been uproarious for such a long time. He stood obediently and let most of his body lean on Qi Cheng, not responding to Qi Cheng’s words.

With the right arm around Lin Qingye’s neck, Qi Cheng put the left arm around the back of his knees and carried him up to his house.

His chest was throbbing with dull pain, which made the lines of Qi Cheng’s cheeks become colder and harder, and his eyes also became deeper.

He carefully put Lin Qingye on his bed, then gently removed his ornament on his head. His black hair was scattered on the pillow, and his fair cheeks slightly blashed because of the alcohol, making a beautiful but decadent view.

When his head touched the pillow, Lin Qingye instinctively closed his eyes and was about to fall asleep.

Qi Cheng smiled in a low voice. His Brother Qingye was like this every time. He was not good at drinking, but after drinking, he was so obedient that he kept quiet and would just fall asleep.

Then, he thought of something and his smiling eyes instantly turned cold. His eyes wandered from his forehead, nose, mouth towards Adam’s apple.

Suddenly, Qi Cheng reached out his hand and gently caressed Lin Qingye’s cheek. His skin was just as white and tender as the tofu.

As if being possessed by the devil, Qi Cheng lowered his head but didn’t kiss his lips. He was just inches from him and their breathing tangled together.

The hot breath blew on his face, which made Qi Cheng feel itching all over, and his palms on both sides of Lin Qingye’s head kept tightening.

“Brother Qingye, do you know how much I love you? Even after I’ve been away from you for so many years, you’ve always been in my heart. I really regret it. Why have I been away from you for so long? If I hadn’t left at that time, we wouldn’t have…”

Actually, Qi Cheng knew very clearly that no matter whether he left or not, Lin Qingye wouldn’t have put him in his heart for the past seven years.

He was so unwilling to accept it.

Suddenly, resentment and persistence were growing wildly in his heart, and crazy thoughts also appeared in his mind.

If the cold face under him was dyed with the color of decadence, it would definitely be the most beautiful scenery in the world.

Qi Cheng whispered into Lin Qingye’s ear, “Brother Qingye, you are mine, right? Tell me, you are mine.”

Even being asleep, Lin Qingye frowned tightly and Qi Cheng’s breathing made him tremble.

The man’s voice echoed in his ears.

‘So annoying!’

Lin Qingye opened his eyes and met a pair of secretive eyes. He blinked subconsciously.

He looked muddled and in a daze, just like a lazy cat, which made Qi Cheng’s heart soften.

The belly of his finger gently rubbed his cheek.

And his action was gentle and tenderly attached.

Lin Qingye was in a daze. He stared at Qi Cheng, his eyes slowly showing affection, “Your Majesty, Your Majesty…”

Qi Cheng’s fingers suddenly froze and his gentle eyes changed instantly. He stared at Lin Qingye’s face and said with a faint smile, “Brother Qingye, do you love me?”

When it came to love, the eyes of Lin Qingye who was drunk unconsciously showed a ghost of shame, hemming and hawing, not daring to speak.

“Are you shy?” Qi Cheng chuckled with a strong bitterness.

“But, I love you. I love you very much,” Qi Cheng lowered his head, their foreheads against each other.

It was not sure if he had drunk too much, but Lin Qingye’s cheek was hot. Qi Cheng couldn’t help nuzzling his cheek.

Lin Qingye obediently let Qi Cheng do it.

Qi Cheng chuckled. It turned out that only the current Brother Qingye would not keep himself distant from him.

Chapter 153: I Would Never Regret

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

Qi Cheng added his strength as if he wanted to fuse Lin Qingye with himself.

He stared at Lin Qingye’s glistening eyes and said slowly, “Brother Qingye, you are mine. Only I can bring you happiness.”

Qi Cheng hugged him tightly, bent over and pinned him down on the bed. He looked at him with a pair of scared but eager eyes with careful love, as if he was looking at himself.

Qi Cheng gritted his teeth and stretched out his hand to cover his eyes. He took advantage of Brother Qingye’s drunken unconsciousness, and he also took advantage of Brother Qingye mistaking him for Ke Ruan.

Even if Brother Qingye accused him of being shameless, despicable, and wanted to kill him after he woke up, Qi Cheng would still do what he wanted to do now.

How could he be willing to give up the person who he had loved for so many years?

“Sorry, Brother Qingye.”

“I love you.”

The next day, Ke Ruan woke up because of the heat. It wasn’t that he couldn’t feel the heat last night, but he was just too tired. He didn’t want to move, let alone open his eyes.

When he couldn’t stand the heat and naturally woke up, he began to recover his whole consciousness. The first thing he could feel was the suffocation on his body.

The temperature was high and the suffocation was hard like iron.

He felt that he was hugged by someone like a bear. Except Si Yuhan, who would dare climb into the bed?

Ke Ruan opened his eyes and saw that he was hugged by Si Yuhan as expected.

‘Am I touched?

F**king touched, my whole body is aching. When ever did this guy come here?’

Ke Ruan moved and Si Yuhan immediately opened his eyes with the intention of killing.

Coincidentally, Ke Ruan just met Si Yuhan’s face. Naturally, he also clearly saw the killing intention in his eyes.

His slowly rising resentment disappeared in an instant too.

Ke Ruan said in embarrassment, “Good morning…”

The first thing he saw when he woke up was the face he he had missed daily and nightly in his thoughts. Si Yuhan was very satisfied, and even there was warmth in his eyes.

But he quickly buried his emotions.

“Good morning?”

It wasn’t that Ke Ruan couldn’t hear the rhetorical tone of Si Yuhan’s words. He looked out the window. Although it was indeed not early, since he just woke up, it should be reasonable to say ‘good morning’.

Si Yuhan sat up and his left arm was numb. Ke Ruan’s head had been pillowed on Si Yuhan’s arm all night, so his arm felt feeble for a while.

He moved slightly and sneered, looking at Ke Ruan’s face. “My dear, did you have a good sleep?”

‘No, not at all.’

Seeing how strange Si Yuhan’s expression was, if he answered yes, he would definitely be unhappy. But if his answer was no, wouldn’t he die that he dared to say it under the situation that Si Yuhan had stayed with him all night?

It was really a catch-22 situation.

Ke Ruan smiled. “If Your Majesty had a good sleep, then I also did. If not, then I didn’t either.”

Si Yuhan smiled. ‘You grow smart, don’t you?’

He absolutely saw the joy in Ke Ruan’s eyes, ‘Do you think it’s over in this way?’

“I slept very badly.”

Ke Ruan, “…” For some reason, he felt that he had to answer his next questions well.

“Why did you sleep badly, my dear?”

‘May I say I didn’t sleep well after being hugged all night?’ No, he still wanted to be alive.

But how should he answer the question?

Ke Ruan was thinking it over while Si Yuhan was in no hurry. He looked at him to see what excuse he could make up.

Ke Ruan felt that the male lead just had nothing to do, so he came to tease him. Why did he have to go against him? He was not as cute as he used to be in his childhood.

Chapter 154: Serve Si Yuhan

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

For a moment, he felt a little sad and disappointed. His Little Han, the male lead who would always act like a spoiled child or be fractious from time to time, would never come back.

In this way, he looked at Si Yuhan with some resentment.

Did he resent him?

Si Yuhan stood up and Ke Ruan breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously. ‘It’s good for him not to plague me. He gave me too much pressure. I’m so scared of him.’

Si Yuhan said coldly, “Come in.”

The palace maids walked in with their heads lowered, carrying some clothes and basins of water for washing up. Ke Ruan sat on the bed and lowered his head, saying nothing.

Si Yuhan looked at Ke Ruan who would burrow his head into the soil like the ostrich and an heartwarming look flashed across his eyes. Then he coldly said, “What’s wrong? As the Empress, don’t you know what to do?”

“Ah?” Ke Ruan raised his head and looked at him in a daze.

It was the first time he had become the empress. How could he know what to do?

“Wait on me. Help me wash up and change the clothes.”

‘I need to wait on you and help you wash up and change clothes?

There’s nothing wrong with your brain, right?’

‘You’re not disabled, why do you let me wait on you? I reject it.’ Ke Ruan looked like he was having a life-or-death struggle against him, but when he met Si Yuhan’s cold eyes…

He instantly wilted.

He immediately got out of bed, stepped barefoot on the ground, and hurriedly ran over to him.

‘Isn’t it just serving him to wash up and change clothes? How difficult could it be?’

Si Yuhan stared at Ke Ruan’s feet. Even if he wore socks, the floor still felt cold.

Ke Ruan’s heart had a sudden leap when he saw Lin Qingye’s knitted eyebrows. ‘Do you want to making things difficult for me again? What a demanding man you are.’

“As the Empress of a country, is this how you look like?”

Ke Ruan, “…” ‘What do I look like? I look like I’m driven crazy by you, right?’

‘You would just talk nonsense all day, which is easy for you.’

Even so, Ke Ruan did not dare to retort directly. He could only smile at Si Yuhan and asked respectfully, “Your Majesty, what is the Empress of a country supposed to look like?”

“Put your shoes on properly.”

The corner of Ke Ruan’s mouth twitched. ‘You’re f**king meddlesome. I’ll crawl back in bed to take a small nap soon.’

He turned around and put his shoes on. When he came back, Si Yuhan’s face softened.

Ke Ruan took the handkerchief from the palace maid’s hand, dipped it in water, prepared to scrub at his face for him, and looked up at him.

Ke Ruan, “…” ‘You have grown much taller during such a short time. Have you been injected with the hormone?’

He managed to scrub carefully at his face by standing on tiptoe. But after a while, he also felt tired. When he was about to stop standing on tiptoe and wash the handkerchief, a pair of hot palms suddenly appeared around his waist.

Ke Ruan trembled and subconsciously looked at Si Yuhan.

Si Yuhan’s expression didn’t change at all as if it was just an ordinary action.

Ke Ruan’s face was a little stiff, but Si Yuhan had no expression. Would it be strange if he thought about it too much?

‘We are just two men. And I’m short, so it’s reasonable for Si Yuhan to help me, right?’

Thinking of this, he let Si Yuhan hug him. With some of the strength supporting him, he also wasn’t so tired.

Ke Ruan who kept his mind on wiping Si Yuhan’s face didn’t notice how intimate their gestures were. To outsiders, they seemed to love each other so much.

After scrubbing at his face, Ke Ruan said, “Let go of me, I’ll help you get changed.”

Si Yuhan cooperatively loosened his grip.

Ke Ruan took the emperor’s uniform from the palace maid’s hand and lowered his head to help Si Yuhan put on the clothes. In order to make it easier for Ke Ruan, Si Yuhan stretched out his hands and let him do it when Ke Ruan was fastening the belt for him,.

From this angle, Si Yuhan could see Ke Ruan’s cute little whorl of the hair, and the look in his eyes became more meaningful.

Chapter 155: What an Intelligent Operation

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

“Well, you can go to the court now, Your Majesty,” Ke Ruan was bursting with impatience to send away this annoying Si Yuhan.

Si Yuhan looked at Ke Ruan who could hardly suppress his smile, and the corners of his mouth curved. He turned around and said, “My dear, you’ve worked hard last night. Have a good rest.”

Then he strode out.

Ke Ruan, “…”

All of his urge to sleep disappeared at this moment.

“Si Yuhan did it on purpose. He just did it deliberately! He really wound me up. I’m so angry now!”

Ke Ruan stood there and snarled. If he wan’t the empress and had due ability, he would have chased after him, grabbed his neck, drag him by the head and asked him what the hell he meant, and if he wanted to die.

“Your Majesty, do you still need to rest?” The palace maid lowered her head and stepped forward.

‘Of course not!.’

Ke Ruan waved his hand. “No, fetch some water for me.”

He was not in the mood to sleep at all.

After washing up, Ke Ruan quickly grabbed Xiaoluzi’s hand. “Where did Si Yuhan take General Lin and my sister to?”

He knew that as long as Qi Cheng was here, Si Yuhan would do him a favor for the sake of Qi Cheng, so there was no need for him to worry about Lin Qingye, but how about his sister? He had just met her once yesterday since such a long time. He didn’t know how Ke Nuo was now. This child had never left her family before, so she would be afraid.

Xiaoluzi said, “Your Majesty, don’t worry. His Majesty has an order that General Lin is under the command of General Qi. As for your sister, His Majesty has issued an order to grant her the title of Princess Changle.”

“Princess Changle?” Ke Ruan did not expect Si Yuhan to do such a thing.

“Take me to her place.”

Xiaoluzi knelt down and said, “His Majesty said that if Your Majesty want to see Princess Changle, you need the consent of His Majesty. Only with the permission of His Majesty will Your Majesty be able to meet her.”

Ke Ruan, “…” ‘F**k, he is being difficult on purpose.’

Si Yuhan clearly wanted him to beg him, but he didn’t want to spend more time with him.

“Your Majesty, are you going to see His Majesty?”

Ke Ruan pursed his lips, “Damn, no.”

Just now he tried so hard to let Si Yuhan leave. And all the palace servants here were Si Yuhan’s men. ‘If he wants me to obey, he could just take tough measures, couldn’t he? Why did he do it in a very roundabout way?’

Xiaoluzi didn’t say anything. ‘In this world, the only person who dares to talk to His Majesty in such a way is probably only the man in front of me.’

Ke Ruan was annoyed when he saw these people. He waved his hand and said, “Get out of here! So annoying!”

He pointed to a group of palace maids. “And you,get out right away, leave me alone.”

They didn’t tell him where his sister was, fine, wouldn’t he look for her by himself? He didn’t believe that in such a short time, Si Yuhan could still build a residence for her outside the palace, so his sister would definitely stay in the palace.

In the imperial palace of the Red Flame Country, there was none who was more familiar with the structure and buildings of this place than him. He didn’t believe that he couldn’t find her by searching one place after another.

Before Ke Ruan could stand up, Xiaoluzi’s voice came from outside the door, “Your Majesty, the concubines will come to send regards to you.”

‘Send regards to me? They just come here to laugh at him, right?’ Thinking about the plots he had seen in those palace dramas that these women were all extremely respectful and flattering to the Empress while they were uncertain to think of using which method to make him die without being noticed by anyone.

Ke Ruan shivered. ‘It’s f**king terrible.’

Especially his current identity was still so awkward.

Chapter 156: Meet the Concubines in the Imperial Garden

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

“No, just tell them that I’m not feeling well. And they needn’t to send regards to me in the future.”

Xiaoluzi hesitated. “Your Majesty, it’s against the rules, isn’t it?”

“Forget about the rules. What’s the big deal? Just say that I won’t meet them.”

Xiaoluzi replied, “Yes!”

When the voice outside slowly disappeared, Ke Ruan immediately sneaked out of the palace like a cat. ‘Could they stop me here? No way!’ .

However, what he didn’t know was that his every move was under Si Yuhan’s control.

In the imperial study, there was a man in a black clothes kneeling under the emperor’s desk.

“Since he couldn’t keep idle, I’ll find something for him to do,” Si Yuhan opened the memorial to the throne on the desk. After Si Yuhan took some tough methods these days, few people dared to speak ill of Ke Ruan.

As for those who would always gossip, it would be okay to kill them.

After all, he was never a kind person.

“Those concubines want to send regards to the Empress, right? Then let them gather together.”

“Yes!”

Although Si Yuhan’s eyes alighted on the memorial to the throne in his hand, he did not keep his mind on it at all. His mind was filled with Ke Ruan’s quiet asleep face yesterday and his vivacious face today.

He really wanted to possess him completely, but he didn’t dare to do it. It was ridiculous he had spent two lifetimes but he would still be afraid of it.

After leaving Ruanhan Palace, Ke Ruan had already come up with the plan. Even if they were the palaces of the concubines, he would have to find them out. He had already known how twisted the male lead was.

In order to avoid the guards along the way, he also had made great efforts.

“Your Majesty?” A surprised female voice reached his ears.

Before Ke Ruan could make her shut up, he heard her calling out, “Ladies, come over! The Empress is here.”

Then there were the noises of footsteps. Now Ke Ruan couldn’t leave even if he wanted to.

Seeing a group of women walking towards him like a banch of butterflies, Ke Ruan forced out a smile. “What a coincidence.”

“This morning, we went to send regards for Your Majesty. But we heard that you’re not feeling well, and we thought it was true. Therefore, we didn’t disturb you. And we didn’t expect to meet you here.”

The woman who was speaking was dressed in a purple palace outfit. Her round eyes gave off a gentle glow. Her rosy lips was tender like the skin of a baby, and her skin was smooth and fair.

The long hair like the silk was soft and beautiful, and thousands of her black hair was fixed by a purple jade hairpin. A pair of slender jade-like hands were properly exposed outside, not hidden in the sleeves like a lady or a miss. On the left hand was a red jade bracelet that was polished beautifully, which crossed over at the middle finger and decorated from the back of the hand to the wrist, making the skin white like the snow.

Ke Ruan was a little dazed. He couldn’t say how he felt about her. Such a beautiful woman was once his concubine.

But now she had to be his sister.

‘F**k!

Damn sister.’

Ke Ruan shook his head and patted himself on the head. “I’m really uncomfortable, so I came to the imperial garden for a walk.”

He glanced around and breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he ran to the imperial garden. If he accidentally ran into someone’s palace, he wouldn’t be able to explain it clearly even if he had ten mouths.

“You…”

“In that case, let’s accompany you, Your Majesty.”

Before Ke Ruan told them to go back first, a concubine suggested to stay with him.

The concubines even echoed her opinion. Even if Ke Ruan wanted to refuse it, they didn’t give him a chance at all.

“Your Majesty, let’s sit in the pavilion for a while.”

“Well… okay.”

A man and woman’s voices rang out at the same time.

Chapter 157: The Empress of Ke Ruan

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

It was silent all around for a few seconds. Not to mention that the concubines didn’t dare to speak, even Ke Ruan was a little dazed. He subconsciously looked at the woman speaking at the same time with him.

The woman’s eyes were almost translucent black like the black gemstones. She had curved eyebrows and her long eyelashes trembled slightly. Her fair and flawless skin took on a faint pink hue, and her thin lips were delicate like rose petals.

Her temperament was as gentle as water, but as inviolable as a noble swan.

According to the gesture, she was the former Empress he hadn’t met before.

‘Anyone would like such a girl, perhaps.’

Ke Ruan sighed silently, “Let’s go.”

The incident just now had been over, and the concubines looked at her with obvious mockery.

Ke Ruan didn’t look good either. ‘Do you really consider her as a blind person that she couldn’t see anything or a fool that she couldn’t feel your mockery?’

‘What’s the point in laughing at her? Her face is already several times better than yours. What gives you the confidence to laugh her?’

“Your Majesty, look, how beautiful the scenery is.”

Ke Ruan sneered, “What, you haven’t seen it before, right?”

The concubines had already entered the harem a long time ago. As for the little things between women, didn’t they just go to the imperial garden every day and show off their faces or their clothes?

The concubine who was retorted by Ke Ruan froze, but she couldn’t express it that her face was a little twisted.

Ke Ruan looked at her even more disdainfully and waved his hand, “Get out of the way. You’re blocking my view of the scenery. Didn’t you say that it’s pretty? I’ll take a look too.”

“Yes…” The woman lowered her head and turned to the side.

Ke Ruan looked at his former Empress. “You, come here and sit next to me.”

She walked over with her head lowered.

Ke Ruan asked, “What’s your name?”

The woman’s voice was as gentle as herself. “I’m Lin Jingsheng.”

“Lin Jingsheng?” Ke Ruan repeated it, then he smiled and said, “For the water is deep like the sea, it could keep quiet, and one could play the reed pipe wind instrument on the sea because it was calm. it’s a good name.”

Lin Jingsheng met his pair of bright eyes and suddenly blushed. “Thanks for your praise, Your Majesty. This is what my parents meant when they gave me the name.”

Ke Ruan was speechless. ‘Oh goodness, what the f**king title of the Empress.’

“I just know the poem by accident, which is very compatible with your personality.”

He said the truth.

Lin Jingsheng tightened her grip on the handkerchief, hiding under her long eyelashes was resentment and admiration.

Without Si Yuhan, she would have been his Empress. Ke Ruan would never have known that she had fallen in love with him who had been the young man who liked smiling a long time ago.

When she tried to make herself better to be worthy of him, all her expectations were broken by Si Yuhan.

How couldn’t she feel resentment?

Ke Ruan’s special treatment of Lin Jingsheng made the other concubines jealous. But when they thought about Ke Ruan’s identity, they felt that they didn’t know what to do.

He used to be their husband, but now…

Everything that happened in the imperial garden was seen by Si Yuhan’s eyes. As these women were talking to Ke Ruan, he had already appeared not far away, clearly seeing everything.

Naturally, he also saw how special Ke Ruan treated Lin Jingsheng and the admiration in Lin Jingsheng’s eyes.

His eyes instantly became cold. It seemed to be the worst decision he had made to let these women stay in the imperial palace.

“Qi Cheng!”

Qi Cheng stood by the side thinking about other things without any response. Seeing that there was no reply, he glanced sideways at him and called him again.

Chapter 158: What’s There to Tease with a Man?

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

“I’m here.” Qi Cheng quickly reacted. He turned his head drastically, which exposed the teeth mark on his neck.

Si Yuhan squinted his eyes. Qi Cheng felt the emperor’s gaze and suddenly pulled up his collar. However, he made it even more obvious due to his nervousness.

Qi Cheng knelt down, “Please forgive me, Your Majesty.”

Si Yuhan raised his eyebrows, his dark eyes flickering in a strange way. He didn’t expect that Qi Cheng acted so quickly. Good. Now there was no reason left for Lin Qingye to cling to Ke Ruan.

“What are you guilty of?”

Not only was he innocent, he also made a great contribution.

Qi Cheng didn’t know how to put this, “I’m, uh….”

Si Yuhan waved his hand. “Just go. You don’t have to follow me anymore.”

“Yes!”

Si Yuhan looked at Ke Ruan who was laughing like a pretty flower in the pavilion and sneered. He didn’t know that Ke Ruan was such a romantic man. Since he couldn’t change him for who he was, at least he could figure out a way to isolate him, keeping all those girls away.

He walked out.

“You seem very happy. Can I know what are you talking about?”

Hearing the voice, Ke Ruan looked like he was poured from head to toe by a bucket of ice water. He looked at Si Yuhan rigidly.

By the moment Si Yuhan showed up, all the concubines had already knelt down on the ground. Even Lin Jingsheng, who was sitting next to him, had stood up and bowed towards Si Yuhan.

Only Ke Ruan still sat there, with his eyes fixed on Si Yuhan.

“What’s wrong? I only saw you this morning. Why are you looking so surprised to see me? Was there something on my face?”

Ke Ruan was speechless. He was not being surprised. He was being shocked and scared, okay?

He grinned, “I thought you are busy. How do you have time to wander around in the royal garden? ”

He should stay in his imperial study to deal with government affairs, not walking around here!

Si Yuhan pulled his robe and sat on where Lin Jingsheng was sitting before. “I came here for the same reason as you.”

Ke Ruan was startled and his inquisitive gaze fell on Si Yuhan. He came here to find his sister. Did he already know this?

‘If he did, does this mean that every move I take was actually under his control?”

The more Ke Ruan thought about it, the more he thought it was possible. Otherwise, he shouldn’t have come here shortly after him. There were so many places in the imperial palace of Red Flame Country. It couldn’t be just coincidence that Si Yuhan came here just like he did.

He suddenly felt a chill in his spine.

Si Yuhan squinted his eyes and reached out to pinch his chin, getting closer to his red lips and then said, “What? I own everything, including you. I didn’t know that I have to report to you when I want to go somewhere.”

“Or, you love me so much that you need to know wherever I go?”

Ke Ruan’s cheeks instantly turned red. ‘ What are you taking about? I am straight, totally straight!’

They must look weird in their posture.

Now thinking about it, it actually made sense. He was now at the mercy of Si Yuhan. He didn’t need to supervise him. Si Yuhan could do anything as he wanted to him. Besides, the leading character was really not those kind of person who liked to act covertly.

Ke Ruan pushed his hand away and a faint shadow of disappointment flickered in Si Yuhan’s eyes, which was so fast that it was unnoticeable.

He knew Ke Ruan. This man appeared to be extremely stupid, but when he really put efforts on something, there was no way to conceive him.

Lei Zhen from back then was a good example. Otherwise, how could one explain that such a long-lived treacherous minister was suddenly taken down by a loser prince that everyone had looked down on before?

Chapter 159 Willing to Die for Him

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

Si Yuhan coldly glanced at these women with unobtrusive disgust in his eyes. “All of you, go away.”

“Don’t, don’t, don’t, it’s not easy to come. How could you ask them to leave so soon?” Ke Ruan hurriedly said. ‘Is he kidding me? If I have to face him alone, I’d rather die.”

The male lead definitely wouldn’t have time to bother him when there were so many women fighting for him. He could make up an excuse and sneak away without being noticed. These women could hold up Si Yuhan, so it would be much easier for him to find his sister.

Si Yuhan knew well about the plan that Ke Ruan was contemplating. His hand on the stone table suddenly grabbed Ke Ruan’s wrist. Before Ke Ruan knew what was going on, he was already in his arms.

“You…” Ke Ruan widened his eyes.

Before Ke Ruan could say anything, Si Yuhan leaned closer and whispered in his ear, “What? Do I need to remind you of the agreement that we signed?”

Ke Ruan was lost for words. Could he say that he hadn’t read the agreement properly?

“Looks like you have forgotten. Since you are not willing to give up your ex-concubines, go read the agreement together with them.”

“Don’t…” Ke Ruan grabbed Si Yuhan’s hand with a flattering smile. “They’d better not know about the agreement, which soils your reputation. I’ll read it myself. I’ll read it myself.”

Si Yuhan picked up a strand of Ke Ruan’s hair with his slender fingers. “It’s better to enjoy the fun with others than by yourself. Read it with them.”

“No, no, Your Majesty, I was wrong. Please let them go.”

Ke Ruan hadn’t lived if he still couldn’t tell that Si Yuhan was threatening him at this moment.

“Do you think I’m forcing you?”

Ke Ruan shook his head earnestly. “No, not at all.”

Si Yuhan smirked. “Very good. If that’s the case, please tell them yourself, my empress.”

Ke Ruan looked at the ferocious women behind him. Si Yuhan deliberately made him the enemy of these women.

He cleared his throat. “Well… My dear.. No. All of you, leave now. I have something to say to His Majesty.”

They all looked at Si Yuhan, ignoring Ke Ruan, who felt frustrated instantly. He used to be their husband in name, and they changed in a couple of months.

Their betrayal came too quickly.

“What? Can’t you hear what the Empress has said? If you can’t hear her, then your ears are useless.” Si Yuhan’s cold voice carried impatient anger. As soon as he finished talking, more than ten men in black suddenly showed up and knelt down towards Si Yuhan.

“Your Majesty, I know I am wrong, I know I am wrong.”

“Your Majesty, please forgive me.”

…

The women in the palace were the daughters cherished by the ministers and they had never experienced such a situation before. They had heard of Si Yuhan’s cruel coldness, but they had never seen it. From the look of it, he meant it.

A few timid women started to sob in a low voice. Ke Ruan was dumbfounded, tugging at Si Yuhan’s sleeve subconsciously. “It’s nothing serious. Don’t be worked up. Calm down.”

He talked in the same tone as when he soothed Si Yuhan in the past. For a moment, Si Yuhan was dazed.

At this moment, he could not even continue to feign his anger.

There was only one thought in his mind. If Ke Ruan could say sweet words to him and give him more smiles, he was willing to die for him.

Chapter 160: The Unequal Agreement

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

“Get lost.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty. Thank you…”

As if by magic, all the concubines disappeared in the blink of an eye.

“Bring me the thing.”

The thing?

What was it?

Ke Ruan looked at Si Yuhan. Before he asked, his question had been answered.  A secret guard put an imperial decree on the stone table.

“Empress, take a good look.”

Ke Ruan was lost for words. ‘This guy really is…’

“How is it? Have you seen it clearly?” Si Yuhan leaned closer to his ear, “As the Empress, your dos and don’ts are written on it.”

Ke Ruan didn’t read it carefully that day, and he only knew that Si Yuhan wanted him to be his empress, which dazed him. Therefore, he was not in the mood to care about anything else.

Now that Si Yuhan mentioned it again, Ke Ruan had a bad feeling.

“What? Empress, do you want to read it yourself, or do you want me to read it to you?”

“I’ll do it myself. I’ll do it myself.”

Ke Ruan picked up the decree and was about to read it carefully. When he read the first sentence, he was dumbfounded.

“Are you kidding me?” He turned to look at Si Yuhan.

He remembered that it was only a piece of paper back then, but now it became a decree.

“What do you think?”

Ke Ruan’s mouth twitched. “No, don’t trick me. I didn’t read the contents properly at the time, but there weren’t so many words.”

Si Yuhan raised an eyebrow. “Since you say you didn’t read it carefully that day, how do you know that there weren’t so many words that day?”

Ke Ruan glanced at the last clause. “It’s newly added. What the hell do you mean I can’t have any contact with the women in the palace?”

“Just the literal meaning. By the way, why do you think it’s newly added?”

Ke Ruan got near to the decree, squinting at it. He extended his index finger and wiped the decree lightly. “Damn it, the ink isn’t dry yet. If it’s not newly added, are you going to tell me it’s because of the wet weather recently?”

Si Yuhan frowned. He glanced at the bright sunshine. His excuse was not reasonable.

Ke Ruan looked at Si Yuhan complacently, as if saying, “How about that? What excuse can you come up?”

Was he complacent?

What was there to be complacent about?

Si Yuhan pinched his jaw and Ke Ruan was forced to look up into his eyes, which were deep and dark, as if they were sucking him in.

“What can you do if I say it’s damp today?”

Ke Ruan’s eyes widened. Wasn’t he obviously bullying him?

Who could beat him?

Ke Ruan was about to cry. “Yes, Your Majesty, everything you say is right. It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have said so much.”

“It’s good that you know. Now, please read it to me one by one.”

“There is no need, right?” What was the point of reading the unequal agreement?

“Well?” His voice got low somehow, and Ke Ruan was terrified.

“I’ll read. I’ll read.” He just needed to read a few words, right?

“First, as the Empress, you have to always think of your husband and give him sufficient love at any moment.”

Ke Ruan’s mouth twitched.

Si Yuhan hugged Ke Ruan and looked relaxed. “Continue.”

“Second, As the Empress, you have to look out for your husband all the time. You have to prepare three meals a day and personally feed your husband.”

Ke Ruan was lost for words. ‘F**k! What the hell is the Empress? I am even worse than a nanny. I have to feed him food? Do I need to chew it and then feed him?’