Chapter 11: It’s hard to give up your natural beauty
Chapter 11: It’s hard to give up your natural beauty
Chu Cheng'an had no time to think about it, as a beautiful woman dressed as a palace maid called him softly from the side, looking very well-mannered.
It was a look that Chu Cheng'an could never learn in his entire lifetime.
The maid said, "Your Highness, you are awake. His Majesty the King wants you to visit him later."
Chu Cheng'an was dumbfounded. He couldn't help but look behind his body. There was no one else here. He was the only one lying on the bed. Was he a prince?
Chu Chengan looked at his own hands. His arms were much whiter and smoother than his own. It was obvious that he lived a life of luxury and did not do anything on a daily basis.
Although he said that he did not do anything at home, he had competitions, so he had to get up early and exercise in the dark every day, and he could not stop regardless of wind or rain.
The system chose him to be the prince? I didn't expect that the rabbit, who usually has a bad temper, has good taste.
When Chu Chengan was a child, before he entered junior high school, all his relatives and friends praised him for his good looks, and his family was quite harmonious at that time.
Chu Cheng'an sat up from the bed, and the maid brought him a coat that was elaborately made and looked difficult to wear... Oh, that was the prince's dress.
He stood up and let several maids come to dress him. He definitely couldn't wear such complicated clothes, and it would be bad if he made a mess and couldn't complete the task.
He has already got the identity card of a prince, so the main plot should be very easy to promote. It's nothing more than him meeting the mermaid princess and having a tragic love affair with her that is not meant to be.
After getting dressed neatly and doing his hair and makeup, Chu Cheng'an was led by this maid, who was of a higher rank than the others, to find his cheap father (the king).
The palace was so huge that Chu Chengan felt like he was going to get dizzy just by walking out of the prince's bedroom. He didn't have a problem with being lost for directions, but after coming to this fairy tale world, he was forcibly given a new attribute.
After leaving the bedroom, they walked past one or two palaces of unknown use. Seeing how luxuriously furnished they were, they were probably villas used to receive foreign guests. Chu Chengan thought that they were in the Western world. Fortunately, the NPCs all spoke Chinese, otherwise the language barrier would be too terrible.
Behind it was a garden that was as big as an entire city area, with small bridges, attics, rockery and fish everywhere. Beautiful flowers of various colors grew higher and higher along the trellis. Of course, there were countless flowers growing in the soil as well. Chu Cheng'an was stunned by the flower trellis.
Compared with the old witch's garden in the previous level, it's like there was mud over there and here is paradise.
A few big words popped up in his mind: a free one-day trip to an ancient Western country. If his life was not in danger, he would not hate this game.
While he was staring at his own garden, several young ladies dressed in noble dresses, of varying ages and obviously with extraordinary temperament, ran out of the garden.
The leader called out to Chu Chengan: "William, why are you in such a good mood today? Come and see the flowers?"
Chu Cheng'an had already noticed them, but he didn't say hello first. Instead, he waited for them to speak first to get information.
From the leader's words, he learned at least two pieces of information.
1. He is Prince William of this country.
He doesn't know how many brothers he has, but at least he has a lot of sisters.
Second, judging from the elder sister's tone, although she doesn't like her younger brother very much, she still has to respect him. At least she has to say hello to him when she sees him, and she can't say anything that would disgust him.
Chu Cheng'an didn't know the other person's name, and according to his generation, he couldn't call the person by his name.
Chu Chengan smiled brightly: "Eldest sister, you are in a good mood too. Are you bringing your sisters to see the flowers?"
The woman seemed to be frightened by Chu Cheng'an's affectionate address. She was the eldest princess Jenny, who had the highest status among the princesses in their country. If she were a man, the throne would have belonged to her. Unfortunately, she did not have such good luck. All the good luck was taken by her younger brother Prince William.
Their throne can only be inherited by men, and her mother, the queen, only gave birth to one prince, William, and the other ten were all princesses.
Ministers and civilians did not need to guess, William was definitely the next king's successor.
Jenny was afraid that if she talked too much with her brother, she would accidentally reveal her unhappiness, so she just said to William: "William, father is looking for you, go quickly, don't let father wait anxiously."
Chu Chengan’s first plot mission along with the main storyline is to find his cheap father. This is not difficult. Even if he finds the wrong place, he can say that he has not woken up yet. Anyway, his head maid will take him there.
Because of his naturally outgoing personality, Chu Chengan didn't worry about whether he would be recognized by his biological parents in this body.
The king and the queen were both together at this time. They appeared together in the banquet-level lobby, but this time, only the three of them were left in this empty and bustling hall to have a parent-child conversation.
The guards and maids were sent out.
Chu Chengan was suspicious. Where was this plot from? Because all the previous Little Mermaid movies he had seen were told from the perspective of the Little Mermaid, and the introduction to the prince's side of the story always started with the Little Mermaid saving the shipwrecked prince...
But this did not hinder Chu Chengan's familiarity. After all, he would stop the enemy with his generals and block the water with earth. If he was afraid, he would have already lost.
After the queen's affectionate care, the king began his chanting.
He said to William, you are 18 years old, you are an adult, and you don’t have a younger brother. The future of the country can only be entrusted to you, but you do nothing every day except admiring flowers and boating on the lake. How can your father be at ease to hand over the throne to you?
Chu Chengan was listening attentively. To him, this was no different from listening to an NPC giving instructions. The difference from RPG computer games was that the instructions here could only be heard once, and there was no plot review afterwards. So he had to listen more carefully and it would be best if he could take notes in a small notebook.
In short, the king asked Chu Cheng'an to go out to the sea alone to gain experience. In ancient times, people have always worshipped the power of the sea. They believed in the existence of the sea god and believed that there were countless treasures hidden deep in the sea. Of course, Prince William in the fairy tale was not good at swimming, so the king did not expect him to find the sea god or the treasure. He only hoped that the prince could train up strong resilience and survive a month on the sea.
He secretly sent a group of sailors who were good at swimming to wait for the prince at the port. They would only pretend to travel with the prince and did not know him. In case of any terrible accident, the king would not lose an heir to the throne.
Of course Chu Chengan didn’t know all this. He only knew that his stepfather wanted him to go out for training and survive on the sea for a month.
Chu Cheng'an spent more than half a month riding a horse-drawn carriage and enjoying the scenery as he rushed to the port. This world without diamond and cement looked so beautiful.
There was another reason why he ran so slowly, which was that he hadn't found any of his teammates, Lu Zhenqiu or Yan Qingzhong, yet. The map was so big, how could they find him? Fearing that they would miss the mission, Chu Chengan also slowed down his schedule a little, but it was still useless.
Forget it, let’s not wait any longer. They might have already been waiting for him at the dock.
Chu Cheng'an looked at the boundless sea. He had rented a big ship and was now recruiting sailors. Because his cheap father had given him too much gold and he could not spend it all, he only selected the most senior sailors and asked them to gather at the port in a week.
At this time, he would go to the tavern and ask around to see if there were any adventurers with similar personalities to "Lu Zhenqiu" and "Yan Qing".
In order to make money, the tavern owner called everyone who had any connection to the business to come to Chu Cheng'an.
Chu Chengan asked them one by one, such as "What are the strange changes and the unchanging things?", "Have you seen The Legend of Zhen Huan?", and "What is the name of the university?" He asked everything he could think of. The passers-by stared blankly, thinking that this "noble" had a serious brain disease, and might be terminally ill, so he wanted to go to the sea to explore while he could still move, so as not to waste his life.
Several days of hard work have been in vain.
Chu Chengan was going to use the last few days to practice swimming. He actually practiced swimming for several years when he was a child, from the first to the sixth grade in elementary school. Later, it seemed that because there were too many quarrels at home, his mother suffered from some depression, so she stopped taking him out.
Chu Cheng'an had grown up by then, so he chose a sports-related junior high school and has been studying land racing until now.
Chu Chengan enjoyed the beach and sunbathing with the crowd that day, but his blond hair and aristocratic demeanor were too eye-catching, and in the evening, he was targeted by several thugs.
He had only seen such highway robberies on television.
The gangster was so muscular that his swimsuit could barely cover his body. He also had a tattoo that looked very ugly to Chu Chengan. He was now commanding his minions to surround Chu Chengan.
Under such circumstances, how could the local steward of this area dare to show up? Seeing that there were so many people on the other side and only one noble, he immediately ran away, not wanting to be implicated. These hooligans are here every year, and they can't be driven away or controlled. Moreover, they are all for money and don't care about their lives. The local lords and several stewards are very careful about their lives. What if they meddle in other people's business and get retaliated?
Chu Cheng'an stared in a daze as a group of people like extras rushed towards him. The leader himself did not go up, but he commanded his minions first.
Chu Cheng'an was also very excited. This kind of spectacular scene that could only be seen in movies and TV dramas was now in front of him.
He knocked down a little boy with one punch.
He has specialized in learning Taekwondo, a martial art. Although those hooligans look scary, they are actually just a bunch of idiots who rely on their leader's power to bully the honest people here.
The gangster leader was stunned, then angrily took out his big machete.
Chu Cheng'an has no weapon, so fighting him with bare hands is definitely not feasible.
He stepped back a few steps, jumped into the pool, and swam away.
The hatred value drawn from the leader behind him obviously did not subside, so he jumped into the water and chased after him.
It was getting dark, the wind was blowing hard, the sky was getting darker, and the waves were about to hit us.