Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

9. A Punch in the Face

Translator: Flying Lines

Xiao Shengnian narrowed his eyes as surprise arose in his heart: Wen Nianxuan took all this?

Su Jie, however, smiled as stunning charm glinted in his eyes. His comely face suddenly lit up, rendering Xiao Shengxian perplexed.

However, before the smile disappeared, Su Jie darted to the front of Xiao Shengxian and aimed a punch right in his face!

Caught completely off guard, Prince Xian suffered a heavy blow which immediately caused his nose to bleed. This was the first time ever in his whole life that he was hit right in the face! And the one who did this was wearing the brightest smile a moment ago.

Su Jie stopped after the punch, standing there relaxing his wrist with extreme casualness. Under the sunlight, the color of his robe looked as bright as that of the blood dripping from Prince Xian’s nose.

Xiao Shengxian touched his nose, shocked by the blood staining his fair hand.

In disbelief, he touched his nose again. The scarlet-red blood on his fingers exasperated him.

“Damn!” he cursed, infuriated that he was beaten by this brat! He glared fiercely at Su Jie as if he would eat him alive any second.

“How dare you!”

“Why not?” Su Jie smirked, the corner of his lips slightly curved, unruliness and pride of a youth manifest on his face as he looked provokingly at Xiao Shengnian. “I’m not afraid of you, even if you’re Prince Rui’s most favored toy-boy.”

He implied that he mistook Xiao Shengxian as one of Prince Rui’s toy-boys. This matter wouldn’t be that serious as long as he didn’t admit he knew his true identity. There was a huge difference between hitting a prince and a prince’s toy-boy.

Xiao Shengxian had only himself to blame for not stating his identity first.

“Well, good,” Xiao Shengxian gnashed.

Su Jie didn’t respond this time. He was born a proud man who would never bend his heart to bow before powers. He just did what his heart guided him. Just now, he felt an urge to beat this arrogant prince, so he did, only in a controlled manner. Or the prince would long have hit the roof.

“A toy-boy? Prince Rui is my seventh brother.” As if that wasn’t strong enough to prove his noble birth, he added in a freezing tone as anger brewed in his cold eyes, “I am Prince Xian Xiao Shengxian, courtesy name Jiale.”

Su Jie was impressed by the prince’s ability to control his anger to such extent.

“Prince Xian?” Su Jie’s countenance changed drastically, and naturally, from shock to panic which then turned to unyieldingness with a cold snort.

“You shall die for your hideous crime!” Xiao Shengxian rebuked harshly. Seeing color drained from Su Jie’s face, he sneered with a sharp look in his slanted eyes, “Kneel down before me and beg for mercy.” However domineering he might sound, he now cut a somewhat sorry figure with his one sleeve covering his bleeding nose.