Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

158. Passing the City of Divine Traces

Translator: Flying Lines

On their way back to the capital, they had to pass the City of Divine Traces.

And because Xiao ShengXian was here, it took them some more time.

“You…you actually attacked my country!” When he saw Su Jie, Xiao ShengXian was so angry that his face reddened. No matter what, he was a member of the royal family of State YanHui, and Su Jie had attacked State YanHui!

That was simply unforgivable!

Xiao ShengXian wanted to take out his hatred for Su Jie by cutting him into ten thousand pieces. However, before Su Jie left, he had sent hundreds of soldiers to keep an eye on Xiao ShengXian, so however furious Xiao ShengXian got, he couldn’t do anything about it.

Now that he heard that Su Jie used the ten cities he had occupied as the betrothal gifts and proposed to his seventh brother, Xiao ShengXian felt even angrier.

Although Su Jie’s betrothal gifts sounded a lot, a country’s territory was the foundation. And the truth was, Su Jie took the ten cities from State YanHui and exchanged them for a prince of State YanHui. That was just outrageous!

If it wasn’t for the fact that his seventh brother Xiao Shengnian was present, Xiao ShengXian would definitely beat Su Jie fiercely. Of course, the premise was that he could beat Su Jie.

“I have returned the ten cities,” Su Jie said and smiled with an innocent expression.

Xiao ShengXian was furious. He didn’t know that his brother had been deposed. He only knew that Su Jie went too far and forced the Emperor to marry his most beloved son to him.

“How come I didn’t know that you were so shameless?” Xiao ShengXian’s words seemed to be squeezed out from his teeth. He only felt that this Sharp Sword, who had been a Man of Sacrifice, didn’t play it by the book. How could an emperor lead troops and fight a battle not long after he ascended the throne?

“It’s not too late that you know it now,” Su Jie did not refute or explain. He did not care about other people’s judgment. Moreover…usually, the way Su Jie handled this kind of thing was to kill the other person directly or cut off the other person’s tongue.

However, Prince Xian was Prince Rui’s biological brother. Su Jie couldn’t possibly harm him, so he just let him talk. He figured that with Xiao Shengnian here, Xiao ShengXian would not do anything out of line.

“ShengXuan…” Xiao Shengnian called out softly.

“Brother.” Seeing his brother’s expression, Xiao ShengXian looked bitter. How could he be so protective of Su Jie?

“The two of you have a good reunion. I’ll go out and take a walk,” Su Jie said as he opened the door.

Then, the woman who was eavesdropping outside the door almost fell in.

Su Jie helped the woman up kindly and Xiao ShengXian rushed over like a whirlwind towards the woman and asked if she was hurt or not.

The woman’s name was Shuang Lishan, and she was a No. 1 courtesan in a brothel in the City of Divine Traces. And she was famous for playing zither and attracted the attention of countless nobles. However, this woman’s background shouldn’t be underestimated. She never slept with the guests and only played a song when she was happy.

Now, Xiao ShengXian has bought her freedom for her and she was pregnant with Xiao ShengXian’s child.

Shuang Lishan was caught eavesdropping on them but she was not embarrassed at all. She looked at Su Jie with her bright eyes and thought it quite strange.

Although Su Jie had regained his original handsome appearance, he covered up the flower on his face with disguise, so she was very surprised to hear people calling him “His Majesty”.

However, to everyone’s surprise, after finding out that Su Jie was the Emperor, Shuang Lishan didn’t appear to be panic-stricken or scared like the ordinary women did. Instead, she greeted Su Jie in an appropriate way.

“Lishan, you have to be careful as you’re pregnant. Had I known you wanted to listen to our conversation, I’d have brought you into the room,” Xiao ShengXian was particularly nervous about the child that Shuang Lishan was carrying, but he didn’t ignore the reaction of hers when she saw the Emperor of State YanLing.

It was impossible for an ordinary courtesan to remain so calm when seeing an emperor.

Xiao ShengXian was suspicious and he frowned.

He really liked Shuang Lishan, so he didn’t want Shuang Lishan to have a complicated identity.

Xiao ShengXian was not like his brother who fell in love with a Man of Sacrifice who approached him with an ulterior motive by order…

Thinking of this, Xiao ShengXian subconsciously glanced at Su Jie. And Su Jie just nodded lightly towards Shuang Lishan and went out of the room.