When Long Xiaoyuan got stiffened, Lady Shan already stood before him and kowtowed.
“Your Majesty, greetings. May you live long and prosper.”
He said lightly with a nod, “Stand up.”
She then stood up. Since she got poisoned, she had behaved well and rested in her palace for such a long time.
“Your Majesty, this is the first time I’ve seen the little prince. What an adorable baby…” acclaimed she with her bright eyes fixated on the little prince.
He said while looking at the baby in his arms, “Yeah.”
She took two steps forward and continued, “It’s a nice day and it’s a good thing that the little prince gets some sunshine. He looks lively…”
Her tone was very soft and kept talking about the little prince.
Hence, his rejection of her was reduced much.
Seeing this, Lady Shan felt happy and found more topics, enabling Long Xiaoyuan occasionally to talk to her.
As young as the little prince was, he would feel tired and dazzled if he stayed outside too long.
Now, the little prince turned drowsy.
She directly said goodbye to Long Xiaoyuan and didn’t say anything to bother him.
Subsequently, Long Xiaoyuan returned the Qiankun Palace with the little prince.
Over a dozen of days since then, Long Xiaoyuan occasionally encountered Lady Shan when going to the Imperial Garden with the little prince.
He didn’t mind talking to her if she didn’t want to develop a relationship with him.
Having roughly understood this, she always talked about the little prince.
As time went, he didn’t find her so loathing.
This day, he wanted to go out of the palace.
The good news was still sent back from the battlefront.
During the two battles lately, the Northern Barbarians didn’t get a victory and even suffered heavy causalities.
However, what Long Xiaoyuan didn’t know was that Shi Qingzhou received intelligence of him.
In his tent, Shi Qingzhou was thinking about the next strategy while looking at the sand table.
Then, the intelligence sent by Ying Qiu arrived. When Shi Qingzhou left the palace, Ying Qiu, the deputy leader of Shadow Guardians, naturally stayed at the imperial palace.
Shi Qingzhou only asked Ying Qiu to deliver the information.
Unexpectedly, problems popped up.
Shi Qingzhou originally wanted to know what Long Xiaoyuan would do upon his departure. Would Long Xiaoyuan get angry or miss him?
Thus, Shi Qingzhou asked Ying Qiu to pass messages along.
He was quite cool-headed on the battlefields over these days.
But late at night, he sometimes felt lonely.
During the months when he was together with Long Xiaoyuan, they ate and slept together. How could he not fall for Long Xiaoyuan?!! After all, he wasn’t a cold-blooded person.
In addition, on this birthday, they confessed their love to each other and already made a vow to each other that they would stay together forever until death did them apart.
He trusted and also missed Long Xiaoyuan.
Thus, upon the arrival of the intelligence, he directly asked someone to send it over and opened it.
He even didn’t believe that he got fast heartbeats.
However, he narrowed his eyes with his hot heart cooling off when learning that Long Xiaoyuan had met Lady Shan in the Imperial Garden several times.
Deep down, he was soon overwhelmed with anger.
Except for this, he was still cool.
Lady Shan was smarter than other women and knew what Long Xiaoyuan liked hearing.
She used to be self-centered due to the love the original emperor gave her.
Over the past few months, the emperor’s indifference made her understand that it wouldn’t do her any good if she opposed the emperor. She could passively receive the emperor’s love, but sometimes, she could take advantage of it.
But when she lost it, she would lose more if she still acted bossily.
She was shrewd and changed her style of actions from the bloody lessons. See, she was putting an act of tenderness. He had to admit that the timing was perfect.
Now, he wasn’t with Long Xiaoyuan.
Long Xiaoyuan might feel sad at his departure.
Then, a beautiful and considerate woman showed up…
Looking at the paper-note in his hand, he turned more indifferent.
Lady Shan? Huh? He would like to know how far she would do and whether Long Xiaoyuan could control himself or not…
To be frank, this was a good chance to test Long Xiaoyuan.
Undeniably, he felt uncomfortable, though.
Drawing a deep breath, he tore the paper-note into pieces and tried to stay focused on the sand table.
Damn it! He found himself unable to calm down!
When Shi Qingzhou couldn’t calm himself down, Long Xiaoyuan already got out of the palace.
Ying Feng, together with other Shadow Guardians, followed him.
He didn’t know that how many of those Shadow Guardians had sworn allegiance to Shi Qingzhou, for this wasn’t described in detail in that novel. He only knew that Ying Feng wasn’t, for Shi Qingzhou let Ying Feng die hero.
Of course, the above-mentioned things didn’t happen for now.
As long as he was with Shi Qingzhou with his heart, those terrible things would never take place…
As time went on, he more missed Shi Qingzhou.
However, tut…
The history had witnessed how time-consuming a war was…
Therefore, he had no idea about when Shi Qingzhou would come back.
It was only a month since Shi Qingzhou left. Alas! Time flew so slowly!
As Long Xiaoyuan was lost in his thoughts, something happened in front of him.
Long Xiaoyuan looked up and saw a small and thin teenager coming toward him.
When the teenager brushed past Long Xiaoyuan, he said, “Shit (it’s English).”
Long Xiaoyuan got stunned first. Did he hear it wrong? Or…
He heard his quick heartbeats at the moment.
As the old saying went, “To meet an old friend in a distant land is like refreshing rain after a long drought,” which was the most exciting thing.
He originally had no feeling about this, but in the unfamiliar world…
If… if he could meet someone from the modern world…
That teenager cursed and then ran away, which showed that his lightness skill was very good. Seeing this, Long Xiaoyuan said, “Ying Feng, follow him and don’t lose him.”
“Yes!” It was Shadow Guardians’ sole responsibility to obey their master.
Thus, Ying Feng instantly chased that man, leaving a residual shadow, which Long Xiaoyuan was unable to see because of his bad martial arts.
Even so, Long Xiaoyuan then became calmer.
He got nothing to do outside, so he just wandered about in the street.
After one hour, he said to another Shadow Guardian, “Let’s go find Ying Feng.”
“Yes”. Following the leads left by Ying Feng, they came to an inn 15 minutes later.
The inn was near that street. That teenager took a walk and came back in the end, which was a surprise.
With his lips puckered, Long Xiaoyuan went into the inn with interest.
Ying Feng silently showed up and told him about the whereabouts of that teenager.
That teenager was in a room…Long Xiaoyuan nodded on the sly.
Since that teenager stayed in his room, Long Xiaoyuan would be found suspicious if directly knocking on the door.
However, Long Xiaoyuan wanted to test that teenager to see if they came from the same “hometown”.
In that case, getting suspicious didn’t matter at all.
After some thoughts, Long Xiaoyuan directly knocked on the door.
“Who is it?” asked that teenager vigilantly.
Long Xiaoyuan said with a smile, “Your friend.”
The teenager inside the room directly rolled his eyes and said, “You’re barking up the wrong tree. I’m a newcomer here, so I have no friend here.”
“Oh, well… Based on your accent, I originally thought I met someone from my hometown.” Long Xiaoyuan continued with a smile, “But…I might make a mistake. I’m sorry for disturbing you. Shit (it’s English)!”
The boy originally had no interest and wanted Long Xiaoyuan gone quickly. But, he was stunned when hearing the last word.
Afterward, he opened the door out of his instincts.
Of course, Long Xiaoyuan didn’t leave. When the door was opened, Long Xiaoyuan stared at the teenager up and down with his eyes narrowed, so did the teenager. The teenager looked wicked, especially when he narrowed his eyes as if he was thinking of some bad ideas.
“You…” The teenager looked at Long Xiaoyuan and asked, “It’s you who talked just now?”
“Yeah, it’s me.” Long Xiaoyuan nodded with his eyes fixed on the teenager.
“I heard you say a dirty word,” said the teenager slowly.
Long Xiaoyuan winked and asked, “Did I? Oh… It was you, not me who said ‘shit’. I heard you say so.”
The teenager took a deep breath and said, “Did I? Do you know its meaning?”
Long Xiaoyuan slowly nodded. “Yes, I do. But, do you know?”
The teenager said after a pause, “Earth.”
Long Xiaoyuan smiled and stretched out his hand. “Hello, China.”
As the smile on the teenager’s face was widened, he grasped Long Xiaoyuan’s hand and said, “I’m from Tianjin (one of the municipal cities in China).”
Long Xiaoyuan said with a smile, “S City, but it doesn’t matter anymore. Let’s get inside and talk?”
“Sure.” The teenager warmly welcomed Long Xiaoyuan inside.