Masquerade in Bridal Attire and Marry the Prince

Chapter 158: Sharpen the Knife

Translator: derekliang

Dongxiang looked a bit awkward. Had it been his first day working for his lord, he could never understand the implied meaning of the Crown Princess. But he had been working for Du Chuxuan for a long time. It would be quite humiliating to him if he couldn’t get the point in Du Chuxuan’s talk.

Dongxiang had a quick response, “I’m sorry to have kept you waiting here in the courtyard. In fact, the Crown Princess is sleeping inside the palace. You will have to continue waiting even if I allow you to come in. I would get in trouble when the Crown Princess finds your presence in the palace as soon as she wakes up later.”

The maids were extremely angry. But when they remembered the recent gossips, they started to believe that Du Chuxuan could no longer be favored by Yuxing Tianrui. And Du Chuxuan was obviously challenging them when she knew that they were followers of the Empress. That was why they started to have more hatred towards Du Chuxuan.

Fortunately, Du Chuxuan had a short nap today and got up earlier than usual. So he didn’t keep those maids waiting for a long time.

“Dongxiang, ask them to come in.” Du Chuxuan’s voice could be heard from the hall. Everyone became refreshed at the moment and hurriedly followed Dongxiang into the hall.

“Wish you a perfect health, Your Highness.” Everyone politely greeted Du Chuxuan. At this moment, Du Chuxuan had just got up and a screen was standing between him and the crowd of maids. So no one could see what Du Chuxuan was doing behind the screen.

“I’ve been sick recently and I’m sorry to have bothered you traveling between the East Palace and the Empress’ Palace several times.” Du Chuxuan said with a weak voice as if he was about to die powerlessly if he spoke louder. So the maids became a bit uneasy, “In fact, I don’t have any important command. I heard that you have been serving the Empress for a long time.”

“Cough, cough, cough,” Before he could finish his talk, a strong cough was heard, “I’m sorry. I heard that you have been serving the Empress for a long time and have been quite helpful. So I’m asking you to come and teach me how to properly serve the Crown Prince. But given my poor health, I do not have any spare energy to do anything else.”

His talk was totally beyond everyone’s imagination. So all the maids started to look at each other with confusion. Finally, someone couldn’t help but ask, “Your Highness, that’s not fair. We are here to serve the Crown Prince. So we should get ready to properly handle everything in compilance with the Crown Prince’s command.”

Du Chuxuan, who was pretending to be sick while siting on the bed, couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows. As expected, some vicious tricks could be found in the talk of these maids. He had told them that he asked them here to help. But they said that they were ready to properly handle everything as long as the Crown Prince needed. That meant that the Crown Prince didn’t really need the Crown Princess.

Dongxiang had already understood. But his identity didn’t allow him to interrupt the conversation. So he could only stand by the side and keep waiting anxiously. Just as he became more and more anxious, Luo Yun who had been ‘serving’ Du Chuxuan shouted, “Your Highness, what’s wrong? Guards, quickly go to the Imperial Hospital to send for an imperial doctor!”

The guard had already been used to such commands during this period of time. So he quickly turned around and went to the Imperial Hospital without any delay upon hearing the command.

People standing in the room became nervous immediately. None of them had ever imagined that the Princess could no longer bear such a simple conversation. Even though the Crown Princess was known to have a poor health condition, they would certainly be held accountable once the incident was known by the Empress.

“What are you doing? The Imperial Doctor has repeatedly instructed the Crown Princess to have peaceful rest over this period of time. She was very fine just now.” Dongxiang stomped his feet anxiously. He could only rush out to check when the Imperial Doctor would arrive.

The more anxious Dongxiang was, the more uneasy those maids were. All of them had a nervous look and couldn’t help but look to the door, hoping the Imperial Doctor would come over as soon as possible.

“Why hasn’t the Imperial Doctor come after such a long time today?” The Crown Princess would often feel sick at this moment and the Imperial Hospital should have already arranged a doctor in advance to properly cater to the needs of the Crown Princess. Luo Yun kept pacing in the room with anxiety, “Your Highness, don’t scare me. Are you feeling any better?”

“Luo Yun, my heart hurts.” Du Chuxuan kept groaning on bed while holding his arms. His sick look at the moment was enough to make one burst into anger. With a screen blocking people’s gaze, Luo Yun who had been pacing in the room was standing beside Du Chuxuan now and peeling off an orange for Du Chuxuan as usual with a calm look!

“Dongxiang! Where are you? Why isn’t Manager Dong here at this critical moment?” Luo Yun handed over an orange to Du Chuxuan and then hurriedly rushed out from behind the screen. When she didn’t find Dongxiang in the room, she started to have a more panicked gaze, “We have just finished the medicine given by the Imperial Hospital last time. What else could we do?”

The crowd of panic maids became completely confused at the moment. They didn’t know what kind of incurable disease the Crown Princess was suffering. So they became more panicked and a few of them were even planning to leave this eventful palace at the first time.

“Miss Luo, I think the Crown Princess should have a peaceful rest at the moment. So we should not stay here to disturb her rest anymore.” The rest of the crowd showed their agreement one after another and they were about to walk out of the palace.

“No way!” Luo Yun shouted angrily and pulled out Yuxing Tianrui’s sword from the side, blocking the crowd to leave the palace, “You are experienced maids working in the palace and you must know that the sword in my hand represents the presence of my lord. Are you going to bully my lord even in this situation?”

Although Yuxing Tianrui’s martial skill was not as advanced as that of Du Chuxuan, this sword was still refined by a lot of black iron. No ordinary people had the strength to pick it up, but Luo Yun did. The crowd didn’t bother thinking about those details but turned to have a fearful look when finding that Luo Yun was holding Yuxing Tianrui’s sword in her hand.

“Miss Luo, you are bold enough to have used the Crown Prince’s sword! Aren’t you afraid that I might tell the Empress about what happened here and might ask the Empress to punish you?”

“If the Empress knew that the Crown Princess became angry with you, she would certainly sentence you to death!”

Luo Yun didn’t care about these people at all. She was orginally a member of the Sect Luo and was only listening to Du Chuxuan’s commands. Even when Yuxing Tianrui asked her to point the sword at Du Chuxuan, she would only frown slightly and would never accept the command.

“You are indeed a maid as tricky as your lord! No wonder the Crown Princess couldn’t be favored by the Crown Prince at all!”

A fat maid could no longer bear it and said something she shouldn’t have said.