Rebirth As a Fatuous and Self-indulgent Ruler

Chapter 53: Meeting Someone from the Modern WorldTranslator: Peggyan

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!