Masquerade in Bridal Attire and Marry the Prince

Chapter 156: Reaction of the Crown Princess

Translator: derekliang

“What’s wrong, Your Highness? You were quite lively when you went out this morning.” But when he came back, he sent someone clever to greet Yuxing Tianrui. Dongxiang was rather confused when he handed over a piece of cake to Du Chuxuan so that Du Chuxuan wouldn’t be too hungry. Then, Dongxiang asked, “Didn’t you visit the Empress? Why are you looking so tired?”

“Where did you learn such a speaking style? Stop talking like that.” Du Chuxuan couldn’t help but furrow his eyebrows. He believed that he should spend more time governing his followers since his followers even started to adopt an unique speaking style and didn’t really know how to properly continue a conversation.

“Haha, I learnt it from a quite popular comic book several days ago. It was so popular that I could only get one copy of that book. I’d like to offer the book to you if you are really interested.” As he spoke, Dongxiang unwillingly took out a book from his pocket and was unwillingly to move his gaze away from its script.

Du Chuxuan found its comic paitning had nothing special. So he didn’t find out anything strange, “What is it talking about? It’s merely another version of those repeated stories. Does it have anything uncommon?”

“Give it back to me if you are not interested in it. It took me a lot of effort to get this copy. Nowadays, the comic book is rather difficult to get and is quite valuable in the market.” Dongxiang showed his disagreement instantly because the adventure story shown in this comic book was indeed quite interesting and different from the others. Dongxiang was even regretting for showing this book to Du Chuxuan.

“Does it have anything special?” Yuxing Tianrui just came in and found the comic book in Du Chuxuan’s hands. Yuxing Tianrui suddenly remembered the gift that Du Chuxuan had given him as soon as he saw the comic book. So Yuxing Tianrui’s face turned cold immediately when he said, “Dongxiang, you are the follower serving the Crown Princess. If you don’t obey the rules, you have to receive a re-training program.”

“Your Highness, calm down.” Dongxiang didn’t know why Yuxing Tianrui was angry. Dongxiang was kneeling on the ground, trembling, “I will do my best to serve the Crown Princess and I dare not have any selfish motives.”

Yuxing Tianrui snorted and asked the maid to take off his coat, “Come over and have dinner.” This was the last part of his talk. He was obviously speaking to Du Chuxuan. However, his eyes didn’t move away from the comic book.

“Have you ever read it before?” Du Chuxuan asked while sitting beside Yuxing Tianrui. ‘This book should be totally strange to him because we’ve been closely staying with each other over a long time. He should have no time to listen to any storytelling.’ Du Chuxuan thought.

“Stop talking about it!” Yuxing Tianrui’s face flushed and he immediately remembered the previous pornographic book. He became awkward instantly. In particular, he suddenly remembered his intimate experience with Du Chuxuan and the image of that sexual experience immediately appeared in his mind.

Du Chuxuan didn’t say anything but kept staring at Yuxing Tianrui. Du Chuxuan believed that Yuxing Tianrui acted weirdly because Yuxing Tianrui came in with a cold face. And Yuxing Tianrui’s face blushed even until his neck turned red, upon hearing his question. That was strange enough.

However, Du Chuxuan knew that Yuxing Tianrui was very shy. So he decided not to question Yuxing Tianrui in front of everyone else in the room, “I went to the Empress’ palace this morning and found the date of concubine selection event is approaching.”

Along the way, Du Chuxuan could often find young daughters from respective official families. As the saying went, ‘There are all kinds of fish in the sea.’ A diversity of concubine candidates could be found, as if a group of blooming flowers in the spring garden.

Du Chuxuan believed that it would take a few days at most for the palace to properly arrange all of the candidates and to officially start the concubine selection event.

Yuxing Tianrui had learnt the message through another way. So he was not really surprised when he said, “You ought to handle the event anyway. So I’m totally leaving it for you to decide.”

“Don’t you worry if I would take advantage of the event?” Du Chuxuan stopped Yuxing Tianrui’s chopstick when those maids were lowering their heads, “After all, we have made love with each other. Whom else do you believe could live up to your sexual needs besides me, Your Highness?”

“Shut up!” Yuxing Tianrui’s chopsticks were about to fall down as a result of the loud shouting. Everyone else in the room was startled. They turned their heads and found the Crown Prince was staring at the Crown Princess with an ‘extremely’ angry look.

At this moment, they believed the popular rumor was right because the Crown Prince didn’t seem to like his Crown Princess. Over the larger half of a month, no one found that the Crown Prince had any intimate touch with the Crown Princess. So they believed that the concubine selection event must further worsen the situation.

All kinds of rumors started to get popular in the palace during the lunch break. In short, almost all people had learnt what had happened in the East Palace during this lunch break. However, Du Chuxuan didn’t really care about those rumors at all.

“Your Highness, why can you stay calm upon hearing those rumors?” Dongxiang was really anxious because he could see that the Crown Prince treated his lord very well. Furthermore, no servants was allowed to talk about the private life of the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess.

“What they said is true.” Du Chuxuan didn’t know what Dongxiang was worrying about and glanced at Dongxiang with amusement. Du Chuxuan stretched out his hand to ask Dongxiang to give him the booklet beside him.

Du Chuxuan couldn’t help but frown. To put it bluntly, the Du Family was in fact a family of businessmen, which was humble enough in the eyes of royal family members. However, Du Chuxuan was already the Crown Princess and had the obligation to properly govern the affairs of the East Palace, so that Yuxing Tianrui didn’t have to worry about his back-of-house affairs.

“Ask all the maids listed in the booklet to come here in this afternoon. Without my permission to come in, ask them to keep waiting outdoor.”

Dongxiang had no idea what Du Chuxuan was going to do. But he would try his best to properly accomplish his task in compliance with Du Chuxuan’s command. So all the maids were already waiting in the courtyard as soon as those maids took away all the lunch dishes on the table.

“Your Highness, those people are already here. Are you going to meet them now?”

“I don’t have to meet them even when they are here.” Du Chuxuan rolled his eyes and didn’t even look at the young maid beside him, “Go out and tell Dongxiang that I’m having an afternoon break. Let these people keep waiting outdoor.”

The young maid was a bit surprised. She was merely a second-class maid. She was lucky enough to be working in the East Palace. More luckily, she was appointed to serve the easy-going Crown Princess.

Even though she didn’t have much working experience in the palace, she knew that many senior maids waiting in the courtyard were working in the palace of the Empress and were very helpful maids serving the Empress. Even the Crown Prince would have to remain humble in front of them.

But this time, the Crown Princess was even asking them to keep waiting under the fierce sunshine, which was likely to cause dispute. However, when she was about to persuade the Crown Princess, she found that Du Chuxuan had already fallen asleep with his pillow in his arms.