Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

109. He Is My Husband

Translator: Flying Lines

“Oh?” Su Jie laughed uncaringly as his eyebrow rose.

“Don’t assume that just because you’ve saved me once that we’re even.” Yue Wanzhi stood up and patted his bum. He was about to take a step, but then he retracted his foot. He showed an expression of indignation as he glared at the men approaching.

The head of the group was a man who wore a long brown robe. His long and thin eyes revealed a cold glint, and his lips raised in a scornful sneer. He laughed, “Yue Wanzhi, you truly are capable. You even found a helper?”

“You Shui lad! Have people beat me to death if you really dare!” It was probably because Su Jie was by his side that Yue Wanzhi was so full of confidence. That arrogant expression and tone made it seem like he had countless people backing him up.

“That person next to you is the helper you found?” Shui Yan asked. He glanced at Su Jie with a smile and then rested his gaze on Yue Wanzhi again.

“Exactly!” Yue Wanzhi tilted his head upwards minutely, looking extremely arrogant. He reached out his hand to hug Su Jie, yet Su Jie simply swatted the hand away. However, Yue Wanzhi wasn’t bothered by this and let out a peal of laughter. Once again, he looked at Shui Yan with arrogance and said, “You see, this person by my side is my friend. Never mind bringing twenty or thirty men to pick a bone with me, even if you brought a hundred men, my friend would simply deal with them all.”

After he finished talking, Yue Wanzhi hurriedly tugged on Su Jie’s sleeve because he was probably scared of Su Jie leaving. He lowered his voice, “Help me one more time. After this, I won’t bother you again. Also, I am willing to recognize you as my brother in all but blood. After that, your problems will also be my problems. How does that sound?”

“I am not interested in whatever’s happening between you guys.” Su Jie said when he lowered his head to glance at his sleeve that was being tugged at.

“If you go, they will beat me to death.” Even though Yue Wanzhi was begging him, there was not a hint of submission in his expression at all. Instead, his expression revealed an innate sense of superiority, which made Su Jie… extremely unhappy.

“What does it have to do with me if you’ll be beaten to death?” Su Jie spat out these words coldly.

When Yue Wanzhi saw that Su Jie wasn’t a tiny bit moved, he raised his head once again and saw Shui Yan’s amused expression. He panicked, and simply tugged on Su Jie’s sleeve again and shouted, “Oh, husband. don’t be angry at me. Look at me! I’m being bullied so badly in City Yang, and you don’t even care. If there are any problems, we can sort it out at home…”

Yue Wanzhi’s voice was desperately dismal and caused quite a few civilians to pause and gather round to watch what was going on.

Su Jie’s smile froze. Yue Wanzhi’s ‘husband’ had struck him quite badly. Momentarily, he didn’t object and let Yue Wanzhi keep tugging on his sleeve and fake the gesture of wiping away tears.

“Husband, I won’t run away anymore. I’ll definitely go home with you quietly…” Yue Wanzhi was handsome. At this moment, there was none of that arrogant and bullying expression on his face. And with the words he wailed out, the surrounding crowd started to gossip about and point fingers at Su Jie. The gist of what they said was that Su Jie looked so plain, and he was probably not very wealthy, by the looks of his clothes. And now he was able to have such a good-looking man like Yue Wanzhi marry into his family after who-knew-how-many-lifetimes of good luck he cultivated…

Hearing this, Su Jie’s expression was dyed with a hint of helplessness. He breathed out an exasperated sigh and decided he might as well play along with Yue Wanzhi. “Wife, you always think about running away all day long, and you’ve even taken away the money at home. Dad and I have both come out to find you…”

As he said this, Su Jie stretched out his hand to point at Zhou Zaiyue, who was stood at one side.

“What? So he’s married?” Shui Yan looked a little green. Truthfully speaking, he had taken a fancy to Yue Wanzhi’s beautiful appearance. Although Yue Wanzhi’s personality was arrogant and domineering, it only made Shui Yan feel even more challenged. But he would never have guessed that Yue Wanzhi was a pretty lad who was already married?

And the most unforgivable thing was that the person who married such an attractive young man was actually an ordinary youth who wore simple civilian’s clothing, had ordinary looks, and didn’t seem to be special at all.

Shui Yan glared at Su Jie with fury, hating him to the point where he wanted to cut Su Jie up into ten thousand pieces.

“Go, beat them both up. Take the handsome one back. We can decide on what to do with the ordinary-looking one after a round of beating first.” Shui Yan ordered.

“Yes, young master,” a few fit, healthy and buff men answered as they stalked towards Su Jie and Yue Wanzhi, eager for a fight.

Yue Wanzhi released Su Jie’s sleeve and said with pursed lips, “It’s your turn now. Go fight.”

Hearing his words, Zhou Zaiyue, who was standing at one side, watched Yue Wanzhi with unkind expressions. ‘This lad is using His Highness as a fighter?’

But Su Jie didn’t say much. Although Yue Wanzhi’s personality was a little too proud, Su Jie had to help him since he encountered Yue Wanzhi in trouble in City Yang by chance. Nothing big happened between him and Yue Wanzhi, and he could treat this as helping someone he was familiar with. To Su Jie, this was no bother at all.