NOVEL NEXT Chapter 45
Chapter 45: A Dejected Prince With A Cold Outside And Tender Inside (1)
“By the Mandate of Heaven, this Emperor Decree hereby announce that: Prince Yan, Zhao Yin, by using witchcraft against His Majesty with malice, fail both his country and his father. By the Emperor Decree now deprive Prince Yan, Zhao Yin of his t.i.tle and fief. He is to be relegated to commoner status and be moved to Palace of Happiness. Respect it.”
The eunuch’s high-pitched voice reaches him.
Zhao Yin is down on his knees. He raises his head in disbelief, “I didn’t do it! I am wronged! Why didn’t father believe me?”
Eunuch An, who is responsible for bringing him the decree looks at the third prince, who enjoyed the most prestigious reputation, now Prince Yan, and sighs to himself but does not show a thing on the surface.
“It’s His Majesty’s will. Prince Yan, no, commoner Zhao Yin, according to the decree you have to move to Palace of Happiness in one day and shall not object the decree.”
Prince Yan’s Manor is in distress.
The cry of servants and maids, the sound of chaotic steps, the shouts of guards all make Zhao Yin confused.
He cannot believe that his father who loves him dearly could be so ruthless!
“Quiet! Stop the noise!” An energetic and sweet voice scolds in this s.p.a.ce and clams the group without a leader.
The voice comes from the most-trusted maid of Princess Yan.
Princess Yan, Qin, under this circ.u.mstance, still in gorgeous red dress and with exquisite hair, slowly walks to the main courtyard.
The hem of her long dress is dragged on the gourd. Ah Zhao walks by a group of hurried servants and straight to Zhao Yin.
Some guard that is responsible for searching and confiscating the property is about to draw his blade and keep her away, but is stopped by his colleague.
But his move is seen by Ah Zhao and her followers anyway.
Ah Zhao gives the guard a cold stare and says, “Well, Prince Yan’s Manor loses its status but not Prince Beiding’s Manor and you dare to draw your blade at me?”
Only now does it occur to the guard the origin of Princess Yan: she is the only child of Prince Beiding, Qin Zhen, Great General of Invincible Might, the only Special Prince that comes from a different family as the emperor in Great Yan Dynasty, and she was granted the t.i.tle of Princess Chaofeng on the day she was born.
Though Prince Yan is convicted of witchcraft, His Majesty does not issue any decree to punish Princess Yan.
That gives an idea of how His Majesty favors Prince Beiding’s Manor.
He breaks out in a cold sweat and without any word, he gets down on his knees to beg forgiveness.
Ah Zhao does not pay attention to him and walks straight to Zhao Yin.
This once most prestigious Prince of Great Yan Dynasty, who is praised as one whose grace as unapproachable as the shining moon and whose appearance as handsome as the burning sun, now with his keens still kneeling, sits on the ground.
“Princess, are you here to mock me?” Zhao Yin knows she’s here and, without even a raise of his head, sneers at her.
It is no secret in the capital that Prince and Princess Yan does not get along.
Both are extremely compet.i.tive. One can well imagine what happens if those two come together.
According to Ah Zhao, those two have come to the point of sleeping in separate rooms.
Princess Yan, Qin Zhao, was supposed to drink a gla.s.s of poisonous honey water and die in the morning.
That would directly lead to the dispute between Prince Beiding’s Manor and Prince Yan’s Manor. The protagonist of our story would lose his most powerful a.s.sistance to his return to power. In the end, under the suppress of his opponents, he would die in depression in the cold palace.
The task for Zhao in this world is to prevent our protagonist from the fate of loss.
“Sure, I am here to put you down.” Zhao looks at him with a sneer, her eyes sharp, like she’s looking at something that’s not presentable.
“You are just framed, betrayed by your trusted aides and end up in dire straits.”
She bends down with her lips on Zhao Yin’s ear, “You are not dead yet, are you? My Prince.”
Zhao Yin raises his head in a flash and looks directly at that dazzling face and says, “You?”