GTB Chapter 260

A Little Theater Ten Years Later, for My Darlings

A Little Theater Ten Years Later, for My Darlings

Ten Years Later

In Jade City, in a mansion nestled against mountains and overlooking water, a handsome young man, as bright and clear as the stars and moon, was practicing his swordsmanship.

Wherever the sword’s energy passed, trees trembled and flowers and leaves fell.

As he spun and landed, sheathing his sword, he ran towards someone under the distantláng with a bright smile, “Father, how was it?”

However, as soon as he asked, he saw the person leaning back in the chair with his eyes closed, not reacting at all.

His face changed, and he immediately ran over, “Father, Father.”

Sounds of anxious calls reached Song Fuge’s ears, making him wearily open his eyes. “What are you shouting for? I finally fell asleep, and you, this brat, woke me up.”

“Master, are you feeling unwell anywhere?” Xiao Yi looked at Song Fuge worriedly, feeling that his adoptive father seemed to be sleeping more and more lately.

“I’m not unwell, I can eat and sleep, I’m doing great, go practice your sword.” Song Fuge said, then got up and walked towards the study.

Xiao Yi looked at Song Fuge’s back, knowing it must be the after-effects of the poison his adoptive father had suffered when saving him.

He quickly followed and said, “Father, I found out that the Dong Yue Emperor has a Seven-Star Divine Herb, which can cure all poisons, I’ll go steal it for you.”

Hearing this, Song Fuge immediately turned to look at Xiao Yi: “No, do you think the palace is a place you can easily enter? Even if you could sneak into the palace, you wouldn’t be able to freely find that Seven-Star Herb.”

After Song Fuge finished speaking, he turned and left a sentence: “Don’t forget your identity, if you die in Dong Yue, no one will avenge your mother.”

“Yes.” Xiao Yi looked at the closed door, the clear breeze and bright moon in his eyes instantly covered with darkness.

He turned and walked out of the courtyard. Revenge was a must, but he couldn’t ignore the injury his adoptive father had suffered to save him.

“Yi’er, where’s your adoptive father?” A woman’s voice came from the courtyard entrance.

Xiao Yi raised his eyes to look at Yue You walking into the courtyard and smiled, “Father is in the study, Aunt Yue, what delicious food have you made for Father again?”

Yue You hesitated for a moment, then handed over a pot of chicken soup she had brewed:

“Aunt Yue made some chicken soup for you, it’s almost noon, take it in and eat it with your father.”

Xiao Yi didn’t take the pot of chicken soup, but leaned in and whispered:

“When did Aunt Yue become so timid? Aunt Yue, why don’t you deliver it yourself, I have something to do.” As he said this, he raised his foot and walked out.

“Hey, you brat, you’re even teasing your Aunt Yue.” Yue You said, turning her head, and after hesitating for a moment while looking in the direction of the study, she raised her foot and walked over.

…

Summer insects chirped, the moon was bright and the stars were high, and a sudden burst of noise appeared in the silent palace.

“Catch the assassin, catch the assassin.”

In the Tianle Palace, in the bathing pool on the right side of the main hall, petals were layered and the pool water was cool.

The summer night was sultry, and Shi Yutian was comfortably soaking in the cool water in a light sleep. Under the candlelight, her stunningly beautiful face was indescribably beautiful.

Suddenly, a sound entered her ears, followed by a clamorous noise from far to near.

She opened her sleepy eyes, turned her head and said, “Xiang’er, what’s happening outside…”

“Ah, who are you?”

Shi Yutian looked at the black-clothed man who broke in in horror.

After a moment of stunned silence, she immediately reacted and turned to shout for help.

However, before she could open her mouth, Xiao Yi’s eyes darkened, and he immediately flashed to the edge of the pool.

He covered Shi Yutian’s mouth with one hand and pulled out a dagger, waving it in front of her eyes, “Don’t shout, be careful or the knife will enter your neck.”

Hearing this, Shi Yutian’s sobbing sound stopped abruptly, and she nodded with a pale face.

Xiao Yi squatted by the pool, and although the angle from top to bottom made it impossible to see the woman’s face clearly, the looming figure made him unable to help but avert his eyes.

He listened quietly to the movement outside, and when the footsteps grew closer and closer, he quickly said:

“If they come to ask later, you know how to answer, right?”

“Don’t worry, I’m not here to kill, cooperate obediently, and I won’t hurt you in the slightest.”

Hearing this, the sound of Shi Yutian saying goodbye to her father, mother and little friends in her heart stopped abruptly, and a bright light immediately dyed her eyes.

Just as she nodded, the footsteps of the Imperial Guards had already reached the outside of the house, followed by Ji Zhu’s worried greetings from outside: “Is the princess alright?”

Shi Yutian’s eyes lit up when she heard Ji Zhu’s voice. It turned out that Brother Zhu was on duty today.

Xiao Yi didn’t expect this girl to be a princess. The current emperor had an empty harem and doted only on the empress, with only two sons and one daughter, of which the princess was the most favored.

He held the dagger against Shi Yutian’s neck, then took away the hand covering her mouth.

A flash of fierceness flashed in Shi Yutian’s eyes. Even if this person didn’t kill her, she couldn’t let him run away.

As a princess of a country, how could she let this villain see her?

Thinking of this, she didn’t immediately reply to the words outside, but slowly turned around, pressing against the cold dagger.

With her beautiful big eyes, she looked pitifully at the man wearing a black scarf, and begged tremblingly:

“Can you let me put on my clothes first?”

A flash of amazement flashed quickly across Xiao Yi’s eyes. After a pause, he stretched out his long arm and grabbed the skirt beside her, draping it over her fair and tender shoulders.

Shi Yutian’s eyes turned, then she stood up from the water while opening the skirt.

Xiao Yi’s eyes widened in shock, and before he could think too much, he immediately turned his head away.

In that instant, Shi Yutian immediately tilted her neck, and the hidden weapon ring on her finger quickly slashed towards Xiao Yi’s wrist. At the same time, she quickly retreated, the whole process was completed in one go, only in an instant.

Xiao Yi’s wrist hurt, and he looked in shock at the woman who had retreated. He immediately reached out to drag her over, but his body suddenly softened and he fell to the ground.

“You…, I really underestimated you.”

He never expected that a princess would have such means, this skill was obviously practiced.

Shi Yutian looked at Xiao Yi, a sneer hooked on her lips, and then quickly put on her clothes and left the bathing pool.

Ji Zhu outside the house didn’t hear a response, so he asked worriedly again.

Shi Yutian still didn’t reply, but pulled up Xiao Yi’s arm and dragged him out. When she was outside the bathing pool screen, she immediately ran to open the door.

“Brother Zhu, come in quickly, the villain is here.”

Ji Zhu’s eyes widened in shock, he didn’t expect the thief to really be with the princess.

And the princess asked him to go in and told him the thief was inside…

He ran forward quickly, both worried and puzzled, and asked, “Is the princess alright, are you injured?”

“No.” Shi Yutian said, looking at Xiao Yi, who was lying on the ground behind her.

“This person is really a nymphomaniac, he was fascinated by my beauty as soon as he entered the house. I took him by surprise and injured him with a hidden weapon. He can’t run away now because he’s been poisoned with soft muscle powder. Brother Zhu, take him down for interrogation.”

“Oh!” Ji Zhu felt a little incredible, this person’s martial arts could be seen to be extremely high just by looking at his qinggong (light body skill), but he didn’t expect to be taken down by the princess.

However, the princess sister was so beautiful that it wasn’t difficult to understand that she could charm the villain into making a mistake.

Listening to Shi Yutian’s words, Xiao Yi’s mouth twitched. Could this woman be any more self-aware?

However, he wasn’t a nymphomaniac.

He closed his eyes, secretly hating himself for being too much of a gentleman.

Was he going to die here today? No, he wasn’t willing.

He hadn’t avenged his mother, nor had he delivered the Seven-Star Herb to his adoptive father, he didn’t want to die.

The next day

In Fengqi Palace, Shi Yutian was having lunch with Shi Yan and Jiang Jiuchu when Mu Feng came in to report:

“Master, the lord of Hidden Trace Pavilion is asking to see you outside the palace.”

Hearing this, Shi Yan and Jiang Jiuchu were both shocked. They never thought that Song Fuge, whom they hadn’t seen for more than ten years, would suddenly ask to see them.

Shi Yan paused, then asked, “Did he say what it was about?”

“It should be for the thief who stole the Seven-Star Herb yesterday.”

Shi Yan looked at Jiang Jiuchu, thought for a while, and then said, “Invite him to the Imperial Study.”

As he said this, he got up and looked at Jiang Jiuchu: “Let’s go, Chuchu, accompany your husband.”

Jiang Jiuchu looked at Shi Yan speechlessly, “You can go, if it’s for that thief, then let him go, and also, how old are we, can you change the way you call me?”

Shi Yan smiled: “Chuchu doesn’t look much older than Yutian, so why can’t I call you that?”

As he said this, he asked his daughter: “Is it inappropriate for Father to call her that?”

Shi Yutian was thinking about the thief, and when she heard this, she immediately came back to her senses and nodded:

“It’s appropriate, it’s appropriate, Father and Mother are still young, it’s appropriate to call them whatever you want, mainly because your daughter has heard it since she was a child, and is used to it, ha.”

Shi Yan smiled, then took Jiang Jiuchu’s hand: “Let’s go, after all, he saved you and me, it’s only right to go together after not seeing each other for more than ten years.”

Jiang Jiuchu looked at Shi Yan’s eyes and saw that he was serious, so she didn’t refuse any more, otherwise she was afraid that he would think she was afraid to see him.

Hearing this, Shi Yutian was a little stunned, she didn’t expect the person who came to be for the thief, and also had a life-saving grace to her father and mother, so wouldn’t this person be let go?

Thinking of this, she unwillingly put down her chopsticks and then left Fengqi Palace.

But she didn’t follow the direction of Shi Yan and Jiang Jiuchu, but went directly to the Heavenly Prison.

In the Heavenly Prison, Shi Yutian, led by the warden, came to the outermost cell.

She looked at Xiao Yi, who was sitting upright on the straw pile, handsome and extraordinary, and confirmed to the warden: “Is he the thief from last night?”

The warden nodded respectfully: “Yes, Princess, it’s him.”

Hearing the sound, Xiao Yi raised his eyes and looked at Shi Yutian, somewhat puzzled about her intention.

Shi Yutian looked at Xiao Yi hatefully. Although he was extremely handsome, it still couldn’t reduce her anger at being seen by him.

She couldn’t tell her father and mother about this, but she couldn’t let him out of the Heavenly Prison so easily.

She ordered the warden beside her: “Open the prison door and tie him to the torture rack for me.”

The warden was stunned, as if he didn’t expect that a thief could provoke the princess to take action personally.

Without thinking too much, he quickly ordered someone to open the prison door and tie the person to the torture rack.

Xiao Yi smiled and looked at Shi Yutian, probably understanding why Shi Yutian came here to make trouble for him.

If he had known, he would have looked at everything thoroughly. Now… he seemed to have lost out a bit.

Shi Yutian looked at Xiao Yi’s smiling face, and her anger rose even more. She directly ordered: “Bring the whip over.”

She held the whip, gritted her teeth, and whipped it on Xiao Yi’s body.

It’s just that Shi Yutian, who had never hit anyone before, couldn’t help but close her eyes the moment the whip was raised.

Xiao Yi smiled and said, “Is this all the strength the princess has? It’s not enough to scratch an itch.”

Hearing this, Shi Yutian whipped two more times in anger, but still didn’t see Xiao Yi show any sign of pain.

On the contrary, there was a posture that the more she hit, the happier he became.

She disgustedly threw away the whip in her hand, looked at the other torture instruments beside her, and couldn’t help but swallow.

In the end, because she was timid, and also afraid that her father and mother would find out if she used these torture instruments, she dismissed the idea.

She glared at Xiao Yi hatefully, then walked out of the torture chamber, and ordered the warden: “Take him back, you can’t tell anyone that this princess has been here.”

“Heh.” The corners of Xiao Yi’s mouth hooked up in a sneer. The posture was quite big, but the result was just this little courage. The result of showing off one’s power was just a rabbit.

The more Shi Yutian thought about it, the angrier she became, especially when she thought of Xiao Yi’s smiling face, she felt that he was insulting and mocking her.

Outside the Imperial Study, Song Fuge led Xiao Yi and thanked Shi Yan and Jiang Jiuchu: “Thank you, Emperor and Empress, for releasing my adoptive son.”

“It’s just a small matter, he hasn’t committed any heinous crimes.”

Speaking of this, Shi Yan took out the Seven-Star Herb from his sleeve and handed it to Xiao Yi, “You took such a risk to come to the palace to steal it, it must be of great use, I’ll give you this Seven-Star Herb.”

Song Fuge was stunned, and before Xiao Yi could reach out to take it, he immediately refused: “Thank you, Emperor, for your kindness, we can’t accept this Seven-Star Herb.”

Hearing this, Xiao Yi’s face was anxious, and after a slight turn of his eyes, he immediately said to Song Fuge: “Father, without it, you won’t be able to live.”

He knew that if he said this, then his father couldn’t refuse this Seven-Star Herb.

He only learned today that his father was familiar with the Emperor and Empress of Dong Yue, and he also knew that the woman in the portrait in his father’s room was the current Empress.

Such a beautiful woman, no wonder she could make the Emperor leave the harem empty and make his father never forget her.

Hearing this, Song Fuge quickly stopped him: “Don’t talk nonsense, aren’t I doing well?”

Listening to Xiao Yi’s words, Shi Yan and Jiang Jiuchu immediately understood why Xiao Yi had risked entering the palace to steal.

“Take it.” Shi Yan directly stuffed the Seven-Star Herb into Xiao Yi’s hand, and said to Song Fuge: “Just consider it me thanking you for saving my life in Jade City.”

“That’s right, Brother Fu, don’t refuse, this thing is useless to us, maybe after a long time, it will lose its medicinal effect.”

Song Fuge hesitated for a moment, knowing that it was useless to refuse, so he had to bow his hands and thank him: “Thank you, Emperor and Empress, then we’ll take our leave.”

As Song Fuge turned around, his eyes swept over Jiang Jiuchu’s unchangingly beautiful face. It could be seen that she was doing well.

Looking at the disappearing back, Jiang Jiuchu praised Shi Yan: “I didn’t expect my husband to be quite generous?”

“That’s right, as long as you’re not angry with me, I can be as generous as you want.”

Led by the young eunuch, Song Fuge and Xiao Yi were stopped by Shi Yutian, who was waiting here, when they passed a small garden beside the palace road.

Shi Yutian glanced at Song Fuge beside him, then pointed at Xiao Yi and said, “You, you dropped something, come over and get it from this princess.”

After she finished speaking, she bowed slightly to Song Fuge, “Sorry to bother you, please wait here for a while.”

Looking at Shi Yutian’s face, which was seven-tenths similar to Jiang Jiuchu’s, Song Fuge nodded slightly.

Xiao Yi smiled lightly and followed. He wanted to see what tricks this princess was going to play.

Shi Yutian led people to a nearby side hall, ordered people to close the door, and sat aside to look at Xiao Yi: “Take it off.”

Xiao Yi’s face shook, somewhat doubting his ears, “What did the princess say, I didn’t hear clearly.”

Shi Yutian sneered: “If you looked at this princess, there is only one way, and that is to die, but you have a big life and a good adoptive father, so this princess gives you two paths, one is to take off your clothes and let this princess see you back, and the other is to accept this princess’s assassination from the ends of the earth.”

Shi Yutian really couldn’t swallow this breath, and felt that only in this way could she feel comfortable in her heart.

After all, her father said that men also have innocence, not only innocence, but also dignity, she couldn’t let him have a good life today no matter what.

“Assassination? Sounds a little scary, so it seems I only have the path of taking off my clothes.”

As he said this, his handsome eyes stared straight at Shi Yutian, and his hands quickly untied his belt, and without hesitation took off his clothes, not even planning to let go of that pair of underwear.

“Enough.” Shi Yutian turned her eyes away with a slightly red face. She didn’t expect this person to be a shameless and undignified guy, and he didn’t have a trace of humiliation.

Xiao Yi smiled coldly, picked up the clothes on the ground and put them on, and then walked step by step to Shi Yutian.

“You…what are you going to do? I tell you, if this princess doesn’t go out with you, you will be arrested immediately.”

Looking at the panicked Shi Yutian, Xiao Yi leaned his head and whispered:

“My name is Xiao Yi, Princess, we…will meet again.”

(The author has been waiting here for the darlings for a long time, please move your cute little fingers to the last page and help the author light up a five-star rating! Mua~)