There weren't many guards on the city wall at this time; it was almost midnight. The latter half of the night is when people are most active, and it's also their best opportunity to act.
Seeing that it was almost time, he reminded the crown prince to go back first.
If they don't take their duties and just stay here, it will raise suspicions over time.
The Crown Prince understood this principle, and after exchanging a few more words with Lu Xiaonan, he went back first.
After the Crown Prince left, the men who had been on duty with Lu Xiaonan all looked at him with envy.
"Xiao Nan, you're quite lucky! You actually managed to get on the Crown Prince's good side?"
Last time, when Lu Xiaonan tried to go down and open the gate for the Crown Prince, he was beaten up by the general. Everyone laughed at him then, saying he was too arrogant, just a lowly soldier. They wondered where he got the nerve to act on his own.
But who could have imagined that in just a few days, Lu Xiaonan would be lively and energetic again? The Crown Prince also entered, and the general's attitude was unclear, but he did not make things difficult for the Crown Prince.
Everyone guessed they were waiting for news from the Emperor, since even the Crown Prince couldn't rashly go to the border without the Emperor's order. Moreover, the child had come from an enemy country.
But this is just a formality. After all, the Crown Prince is the Crown Prince, the Emperor's favorite son, whom he has personally taught for so many years. Or perhaps, as the Crown Prince himself said, he was ordered by the Emperor to go there to investigate something.
These things were too far removed from the lives of ordinary soldiers like them; all that everyone saw was Lu Xiaonan currying favor with the Crown Prince.
What is the Crown Prince's status? Putting everything else aside, once the Crown Prince takes power, he can easily slip some information out of his fingers and rise to prominence alongside Lu Xiaonan.
"Hehe, I'm just lucky, I knew the Crown Prince before!"
"Wow, Lu Xiaonan, how did you meet the Crown Prince?"
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