WMSG Chapter 47

Chapter 47: Chapter 47: No, Absolutely Not

Ye Yueshen flipped through all the letters on the desk, and apart from Gong Shengyin, all the names were unfamiliar to him.

So, among his nephews, Gong Xunwu only had dealings with Gong Shengyin. Ye Yueshen had no way of knowing what made Gong Shengyin favored by Gong Xunwu, but he finally discovered that the protagonist Gong Shengyin had long been chosen by the “golden finger.”

Feeling angry at being kept in the dark, Ye Yueshen sat in Gong Xunwu’s chair, briefly examining his entanglements with the named characters in the book.

In fact, everyone except Gong Xunwu was quickly skipped, like a simple and crude card selection. The left side was classified as harmless, while the right side was the opposite or held a skeptical attitude. The cards he quickly checked flowed to the bottom of the card pool.

Only Gong Xunwu was repeatedly pondered by him, and he still couldn’t figure it out.

Originally, Gong Xunwu coveted him, which undoubtedly belonged to the category of unforgivable, but Ye Yueshen’s heart had a hole carved out by someone’s meanness, like an unfillable chasm.

Once Gong Xunwu showed some signs of being good to him, he couldn’t help but feel a little grateful. Rationally, he also felt useless, so he had been resisting and restraining his own thoughts.

The door of the study was slowly pushed open. Ye Yueshen looked in the direction of the sound, and Gong Xunwu stepped into the room unhurriedly, not showing any panic about his intrusion.

“You look at it with great confidence.” Gong Xunwu strode in, leaning against the edge of the desk, silently looking at Ye Yueshen, waiting for his explanation.

Ye Yueshen didn’t feel that he was in the wrong either, and opened his mouth to ask him: “Others say that you are withdrawn and eccentric, you are really wronged, you are obviously very fond of the younger generation.”

Gong Xunwu agreed: “I am very fond of you.”

“Shameless.” Ye Yueshen frowned at him, as if looking at some peerless swindler: “I’m talking about Gong Shengyin, he didn’t even tell me that he was establishing his estate in Mid-Autumn Festival, and you knew it before it was officially announced, it’s simply too harmonious.”

“What kind of relationship does he have with you to call him by his name? And what kind of relationship do you have with him that he would tell you the date before it was officially announced? And who is discussing the royal family, telling you that I am withdrawn and eccentric, Ye Er? Do you know what crime he should be charged with?”

Gong Xunwu’s tone was not stern, but he was scaring people like a casual conversation, making Ye Yueshen feel that being threatened had become Gong Xunwu’s daily routine.

He put the letter he had finished reading face down on the table, and looked up at Gong Xunwu: “You have a very close private relationship with Gong Shengyin, and you haven’t said a word to me.”

Gong Xunwu was not angry at all, but felt a trace of pleasure because of Ye Yueshen’s questioning. Ye Yueshen felt that their relationship required him to report his social interactions, so what else could he be angry about.

So he responded even more patiently: “He is not worthy of having a close private relationship with me.”

Ye Yueshen wanted to turn his face away in disgust, and after enduring it again and again, he couldn’t help but sarcastically say: “You are really high and mighty.”

“If I were high and mighty, why would I need to reveal my private affairs to you?” Gong Xunwu stretched out his hand to caress Ye Yueshen’s cheek, but was brushed away by Ye Yueshen: “If you don’t want to say it, you don’t need to come and see me.”

Gong Xunwu felt that Ye Yueshen was the one who was really high and mighty, but he found it very interesting, and raised Ye Yueshen’s chin with his finger, and said with a smile: “This is my study, do you think I came here to see you?”

“Since it’s not to see me, then I’ll leave.” Ye Yueshen got up to leave, but was pulled into Gong Xunwu’s arms and hugged tightly. He lowered his head and said softly: “I tell you, if someone else trespassed, they would probably be dead by now.”

His eyes were not joking or flirting, but serious and awe-inspiring. Ye Yueshen knew that he was not lying, so he shrank a little.

Gong Xunwu felt that it was enough to stop there, and stroked his back: “I’ll forgive you for your ignorance, but you must remember what I said, what you can’t do is really what you can’t do.”

“I understand.” Ye Yueshen nodded: “When I get tired of living one day, I will come to your study and wait for a happy ending.”

Gong Xunwu cupped his face and carefully looked into his eyes: “You also have times when you are tired of living? I thought you were very serious about survival.”

Ye Yueshen thought about it again and again, but still couldn’t help but clarify the right and wrong with him, but instead seemed to be throwing a tantrum: “You knew everything about me being assassinated and the incense, and your private relationship with Gong Shengyin is so deep that you correspond with each other, but you didn’t say a word to me!”

Gong Xunwu didn’t take it seriously at all, cupped his face and lowered his head to kiss him, pecking at his lips, and after separating, he dropped a deeper kiss again. Ye Yueshen couldn’t struggle at all.

After separating, Gong Xunwu said very satisfied: “I like you when you are acting spoiled.”

“Who is acting spoiled with you?” Ye Yueshen took a deep breath, feeling that he had been greatly wronged, and loudly repeated the question: “Who is acting spoiled with you?”

Gong Xunwu understood very well that being shy and embarrassed would make you angry.

Ye Yueshen frowned and glared at him, asking bluntly: “Are you worthy?”

The pleasant expression on Gong Xunwu’s face disappeared without a trace. He pushed Ye Yueshen away, went around the desk and went out, and said to Shaou at the door: “Throw him back to the Ye family.”

Gong Xunwu walked along the long corridor without stopping, but he didn’t actually know where he should go.

Qi Wang Manor was his home, and there was a reason for him to go to any corner, but he just felt very cramped, and even wondered: “Will people who see me find that I am as flustered as a headless fly?”

He walked to a path overgrown with weeds, stopped in the half-person-high thorny flowers and plants, in a chaotic and savagely growing flower bush, he extremely awkwardly discovered that he could no longer tolerate Ye Yueshen’s disgust, not even a little bit.

He didn’t want to hear Ye Yueshen say anything unpleasant to him, he couldn’t tolerate a single word, he wanted to make Ye Yueshen shut his mouth and just quietly accompany him.

Because he knew very well that Ye Yueshen couldn’t smile at him, so quiet companionship was his conservative requirement.

Ye Yueshen was politely invited outside by Shaou, sent onto the sedan chair and stuffed with two boxes of pastries, and instructed the coachman to safely send him back to the Ye family.

Ye Yueshen returned to the days of going to the school during the day and visiting the Junzhu and his brothers when he had nothing to do, but he moved his bedding outside the Junzhu’s bedroom. The night-duty maidservant slept on a hard bed, and he slept on the floor next to the hard bed.

Marquis Ye rebuked him: “What kind of system is this!” There is no rule that the master sleeps under the bed of a servant.

Ye Yueshen felt that it was not very proper, even if he slept under the bed, he was still in the same room with the girl, how could the girl feel at ease.

He properly comforted the little maid, and also sent a box of pastries, and moved the bedding to Ye Lingshen’s room.

Ye Lingshen sneered: “Yo, a rare guest, why don’t you go and live with Ye the eldest?”

“I’m afraid I’ll delay my brother’s sleep. What if I can’t get up my spirits and offend His Majesty?” Ye Yueshen patted his pillow and lay down next to Ye Lingshen without being an outsider.

He was kicked off the bed by Ye Lingshen again, fell on the footstool and hurt his shoulder and waist. He exclaimed in surprise and asked Ye Lingshen in disbelief: “What are you doing?”

Ye Lingshen didn’t expect him to be so weak, and immediately felt a little regretful and guilty, but he still teased stubbornly: “Stinky boy, you’re afraid of disturbing your eldest brother’s rest, but aren’t you afraid of disturbing your second brother?”

Ye Yueshen snorted coldly in anger, supported his knees and stood up, and walked out barefoot: “I’m going to tell mother that you kicked me off the bed!”

“Hey, hey, come back.” Ye Lingshen fell down and slammed the door shut, smiling cunningly and able to bend and stretch: “Brothers quarrel, how can you go to complain? Okay, I won’t care about you being partial to the eldest brother, and you don’t care about me accidentally ‘bumping’ you off the bed. Don’t be angry, go to sleep.”

Ye Yueshen really had nowhere to go, so he snorted coldly again, which was regarded as not caring about it.

Ye Lingshen diligently moved his pillow to the inside, and said flatteringly: “You sleep inside, and I won’t accidentally ‘bump’ you off the ground. Good boy, don’t talk nonsense to mother.”

If he dared to let the Junzhu know that he kicked the Ye family’s treasure to the ground, even the Heavenly King would have to be slapped.

Ye Yueshen stayed in Ye Lingshen’s room for a few days, and occasionally went to the street with Ye Lingshen. Once, he ran into the Third Prince Gong Ruixin, who was traveling in casual clothes, outside a tea house.

Gong Ruixin was only followed by a servant. Judging from the servant’s always involuntary hunching posture, he should be a servant from the palace.

They saw it from a distance. Ye Lingshen was about to avoid it, but Ye Yueshen’s eyes straightened. He left him behind and walked straight over. When he was about to get close, he found a pillar to hide behind, and his eyes were rolling around, peeking.

The casual clothes of the little eunuch still had the palace style, but the hair crown was not from the palace.

Ye Yueshen was patted on the shoulder. He thought it was Ye Lingshen, so he ignored it.

After a while, he was patted twice impatiently. Ye Yueshen turned his head to look over, and lowered his head to see a little guy who was much shorter than him. At first glance, he was a boy in his teens, but on closer inspection, he turned out to be the little princess in the palace.

Ye Yueshen was surprised, lowered his head and asked softly: “Little Highness, why are you outside the palace?”

“I ran into Third Brother when he was about to leave the palace, and I pestered him to come out and play.” The little princess poked her head out from behind the pillar and glanced in the direction he had just been looking, and took back her little head and said to him: “Are you looking at Third Brother or Yuanbao?”

Ye Yueshen asked: “Who is Yuanbao?”

“It’s the eunuch next to Third Brother? I thought you knew him.” The little princess’s eyes were very bright. Seeing that he looked puzzled, she kindly reminded him: “That day you were in the Imperial Garden, Yuanbao asked you to go and see the Forsythia flowers.”

Ye Yueshen’s head buzzed. The little princess thought he had forgotten, so she added details: “It was the day you had a conflict with the people around Fourth Brother, do you remember?”

He had already remembered it. He transmigrated into the book after that conflict. He had not seen Yuanbao in person, and he didn’t know that this was his name.

The little princess took his hand: “Let’s go play together.”

Ye Yueshen let himself be led by the little princess to the Third Prince. He saluted neither humble nor arrogant, and his eyes swept over Yuanbao with a strong sense of presence.

Yuanbao originally glanced at him indifferently and lowered his head, but suddenly seemed to realize something, and looked up to confirm. After seeing that he was looking at Ye Yueshen, he subconsciously dodged away.

With just these small actions, Ye Yueshen had already determined that there was something wrong with this person.

In his heart, he was more inclined to believe that the Third Prince was the one who wanted to kill him, the incense and the Yuanbao who dodged his eyes.

Gong Ruixin greeted Ye Yueshen with a seemingly normal expression. Ye Yueshen was completely immersed in his own speculation and felt that the Third Prince’s expression was terribly calm.

After a few words, they both intentionally said goodbye. Ye Yueshen politely declined the little princess’s invitation to play together, and only after watching them leave did Ye Lingshen come over.

“You know the little princess?” Ye Lingshen also looked at the place where they disappeared: “You still shouldn’t talk to the little princess too much. Little children don’t understand anything. If you frequently mention you in front of the Emperor, it will make the Emperor think you have ulterior motives.”

Ye Yueshen looked around vigilantly, lowered his voice and said, “Second brother, quickly send me to Qi Wang Manor.”

Ye Lingshen didn’t know what was going on, but seeing his expression, he felt that it was very important, so he didn’t refute and rode his horse to take Ye Yueshen to Qi Wang Manor.

It was really surprising when he arrived at Qi Wang Manor. As soon as Ye Yueshen approached, before he could knock on the door, someone opened the door first and saluted him respectfully: “Young Master Yue is here. Our Highness is here. Please come in.”

Ye Yueshen kept walking, pulling Ye Lingshen and quickly shuttling through the corridor. The huge Qi Wang Manor had intricate paths, but Ye Yueshen seemed to be walking in his own garden, knowing the way well.

Arriving at a courtyard with a significant increase in the number of servants, Ye Yueshen opened a door faster than the servants. He seemed to have something urgent and said to Ye Lingshen, “Second brother, you go in and wait for me first. Sit anywhere. If you have anything, ask the servants in the house.”

Then he immediately turned around and went out, heading straight for the study.

The last time Gong Xunwu showed him a bad face was in the study, but Ye Yueshen would not be scared away.

He pushed open the door of the study and saw Gong Xunwu, who was writing something behind the desk, looking up at him.

Ye Yueshen turned around and closed the door, and started to say while standing at the door: “I remember that it was Yuanbao, who was next to the Third Prince, who asked me to go and see the Forsythia flowers. I think he deliberately guided me to run into the Fourth Prince’s servants bullying the Fifth Prince. Although I don’t know…” What was the reason, but I think he obviously has ulterior motives.

Ye Yueshen’s voice became smaller and smaller, and finally stopped. He found that Gong Xunwu’s eyes glanced at those bookshelves, and then narrowed his eyes.

There was someone behind the bookshelf.

At this time, it was too late to regret it. Ye Yueshen pursed his lips tightly, his eyes fixed on the exit of the bookshelf. After a while, unhurried footsteps sounded, and the face of the Crown Prince slowly appeared from behind the bookshelf.

Ye Yueshen opened his mouth, completely not knowing how to face this situation. Perhaps the Crown Prince doesn’t understand my disjointed words, Ye Yueshen bit the bullet and saluted: “Greetings, Your Highness the Crown Prince.”

The Crown Prince’s expression was as usual, as if he was a flower that grew in Qi Wang Manor, and it was only natural for him to appear here.

Of course, this was just on the surface. Everyone present knew how shocked the Crown Prince must be feeling at this time. But he would definitely not, and could not, show it.

Ye Yueshen rolled his eyes. He thought: Perhaps the trouble I am encountering now is just that I can’t explain why I broke into Qi Wang’s study.

Ye Yueshen lowered his head. His feigned shyness was very deliberate, and he said softly: “Your Highness the Crown Prince, Yueshen is not familiar with Qi Wang… Qi Wang is not in love with Yueshen, and Yueshen is not in love with His Highness. No, absolutely not.”

Gong Xunwu did not stop himself from being dragged into the water, and quietly sat there watching Ye Yueshen acting, neither admitting nor denying it.

The Crown Prince felt that he was sweating all over. He didn’t dare to turn his head to look at Gong Xunwu’s face at all. What ability did he have to watch Qi Wang’s excitement?

“Oh…” Ye Yueshen covered his face and turned around to face the wall.

Seeing that his lines were running out, Gong Xunwu finally took pity on him and opened his mouth to rescue him: “You go out first.”

Ye Yueshen immediately opened the door and fled out. As soon as the door closed, the shyness on his face completely disappeared. His chest heaved violently, and he turned his head vigilantly to look at the closed door of the study, and turned to the side hall.