Chapter 72
Although everyone present wanted to eat melons, since this was a royal ball after all, it was obviously not decent to quarrel in public.
So His Majesty the Emperor mercifully opened a side hall dedicated to her and let a few people go in to deal with their affairs.
...But Elina thought her aunt just wanted to eat melon, so she gave up the side hall next to the throne.
"Your Majesty shouldn't be so..."
Ye Bai still had some prejudice against His Majesty, he said hesitantly.
Elina pointed to the open door to the side hall and whispered, "Are you sure?"
Ye Bai stopped talking.
"Besides, if my aunt hadn't opened the door to the side hall, would you and I be able to stand here and peek?"
Elina glanced at Ye Bai and said.
Ye Bai looked at the door frame of the side hall and the dance floor nearby with envy and jealousy, but the guests who had no relatives with Ye Wangxing and could only dance on the dance floor were a little dazed for a moment.
He felt as if he had reacquainted himself with the circle in which he had lived since he was a child.
"No one can resist Ye Bai from watching the fun, especially when the fun has nothing to do with them."
Martha, who was standing behind Ye Bai, patted her friend's shoulder, then she leaned on Ye Bai's shoulder and looked inside.
She said with admiration.
"But your brother is pretty impressive. Even after Warden said that, he still managed to stabilize the situation and take the person to the side hall."
Martha really admired Ye Bai's brother. He was able to keep steady even after the car overturned. There was not even a trace of guilt on his face. There was only an expression of "what was supposed to happen has finally happened".
This person also dug a hole for Warden.
"I... don't want any of you to get hurt, so I want to handle this matter more gently. Your Highness, why are you asking them?"
The young man said with a sad look in his eyes.
...Then, with a dazed look on his face, Warden became the second target of the death gaze.
Under the pressure of these four people, Warden didn't dare to say a word when he was suppressed.
But it could also be because he was stunned when he heard these familiar words - he had used this logic to deal with those friends who stood up for Ye Bai before.
In response, Alina said that she deserved it.
But... I don't know if Ye Bai can wake up.
However, Elena turned around and saw Ye Bai looking at Ye Wangxing with a worried look on his face, and felt that she didn't have to worry about Ye Bai running to find Warden before the end of the ball.
"...Elina, do you think my brother can be saved?"
Ye Bai looked at the people in a stalemate in the side hall, and his brother who was surrounded and weak and helpless, and subconsciously found his most reliable friend to ask for help.
But this time, neither Elina nor Martha could offer any reliable advice.
"Honestly, we've never played this kind of life-or-death game before. Your brother is so strong, but it should be fine. After all, this is a royal banquet, and His Majesty is watching from above. They won't dare to fight. As long as they don't fight, there's still a glimmer of hope."
Elina whispered to Ye Bai.
After hearing what Elina said, Ye Bai stretched out his hand with a numb expression and pointed at the throne.
"Are you sure His Majesty's expression is to stop them from fighting?"
Elina looked at her aunt who was very excited and her own mother who had asked the butler robot to bring a fruit plate.
Silence.
However, the people inside finally ended the stalemate at this time, and the voices became louder. Elina did not care about the two elders whose eyes widened instantly. She immediately pricked up her ears and carefully poked her head out from the edge of the side hall.
"——Ye Wangxing, you are really capable."
Admiral Otas stared at the young man in front of him with his deep green eyes. There was anger, disappointment, and a hint of barely perceptible hurt in his eyes.
It was like a scene where a large beast approached its owner but was abandoned by the owner.
"Heh, I originally thought you were talking to me about wanting to salvage the relationship, but I didn't expect you were talking to the four of us."
As he said this, the golden necklace on the man's neck now looked a little dull.
"—You are so greedy."
Admiral Otas's tone was quite calm, but everyone could hear that the emotions hidden beneath the calm tone were like a volcano before erupting.
"I...I never thought of hurting you, never." The young man said with a hint of struggle.
"But I don't know why things suddenly turned out like this. I just had a little wishful thinking, wanting to be by your side and watch over you. I didn't expect you to respond to me. After all, I'm really not that outstanding. I'm even the most insignificant one..."
"I never thought I would win the jackpot..."
The young man's bewildered and pitiful expression made Admiral Otas's expression waver a little.
He seemed to believe what Ye Wangxing said, and took a step forward unconsciously.
Ye Bai's expression at the door was extremely anxious. He was really afraid that his brother would be beaten by these people because of his scumbag remarks.
"So that's why your brother was able to talk to four people at once, but you only talked to Worden, and it ended up on your criminal record."
Martha said sharply.
"With your brother's situation, believe it or not, if he had shown even a little bit of his own thinking, he would have been taken away on the spot by those people—whether he lived or died is uncertain."
Ye Bai immediately shuddered.
Martha added, "Besides, your brother has dated them before, they're all ex-boyfriends. They have some understanding of your brother's character and naturally know that he wasn't lying. In this situation, if only one of them doesn't make trouble for him, he'll have a better chance of survival."
"So... my brother knew about this situation and acted like that on purpose?"
Ye Bai said in disbelief. After all, his brother didn't seem like this kind of person in his daily life.
"No," Martha shook her head, her tone tinged with shock. "That's exactly what's wrong with this. Your brother has the same indecisiveness that you do. That's why everything he did to these four men was entirely in his heart."
"He really didn't want these four men to get hurt," Martha said with a sigh, "but it's understandable. After all, who could refuse these four?"
As she said this, Martha sighed inwardly. It was a pity that she really couldn't learn this trick.
"Martha is right, otherwise he wouldn't have been discovered until now. He was having relationships with four men at the same time." Elina continued, her expression still a little shocked.
If she wasn't eavesdropping, she would probably make a few "ah" sounds to show respect.
"I think his sincerity towards these four men is comparable to yours. Before being caught on the spot, I don't think they would believe that Ye Wangxing was still entangled with other people - he loves me so much, how could he have a relationship with other men?"
Martha nodded in agreement to Elena, but when she turned to look at Ye Bai, her expression suddenly showed disgust.
"I'm not asking you to imitate your brother and catch four at once, but why is it that your brother's indecision is reflected in you as a love-brained person entangled with Woden?"
Ye Bai: ...
Is it my fault?
Elina's expression also showed some disgust. When she thought about how much trouble Ye Bai's previous love-brained behavior had caused them, she wanted to hit someone.
While they were chatting, their friends behind them and guests farther away heard the noise inside the door through various means and were already discussing it heatedly.
However, they excited the Chancellor of Finance and his wife, but they were somewhat socially dead.
——Why does something seem a little strange about these two children in their family?
While the discussion outside the door was in full swing, some changes were also happening inside.
Admiral Otas still seemed unable to bear the young man's pitiful expression. He took a step forward and was about to speak when the cat-eyed man beside him blocked Admiral Otas's sight.
He glanced at the man standing there, as if he despised the other person for being useless. He was so fooled by Ye Wangxing with just one sentence that he forgot to question him.
However, when he looked at Ye Wangxing, his expression was not much better than Otas's.
Many complex emotions instantly appeared in his beautiful cat eyes, but he closed his eyes and quickly suppressed these emotions.
When he opened his eyes again, there was only indifference in his beautiful eyes. He lowered his voice as if he was talking to an outsider and spoke to Ye Wangxing.
"Ye Wangxing, I really didn't expect you to treat me like this."
"I treated you as my only exception, and I also felt your sincerity, but... I didn't expect that you actually had four hearts, each given to four people."
As he spoke, his emotions gradually became agitated, and the cold expression on his face could no longer be maintained. He looked like a volcano about to erupt, or like a big cat with its fur standing on end, and he growled angrily at Ye Wangxing.
The guilty look on the face of the young man in front of him seemed to overwhelm him, and tears were about to fall in his eyes.
——Until the man growled.
"...You even used the locator I gave you to date another man!"
"Is this what you mean by not wanting to hurt any of us? Ye Wangxing!"
However, as soon as these words came out, the guilty expression on the young man's face froze.
The tears that had been welling up in his eyes disappeared immediately. He looked up at the cat-eyed man in front of him with a confused look on his face. Then, as if he remembered something, the confusion on his face turned into shock.
"—I thought you turned off that locator!"
The crowd at the door, led by Elina:... Oh wow, I didn’t expect there would be an unexpected gain.
"...Ahem, actually, that thing can be turned on and off remotely."
Samos's voice immediately dropped an octave, and his original anger was interrupted. He was like a big cat that finally realized its mistake. It was obviously a beast that could roar, but now it pinched its throat and meowed at people.
"No wonder you said you went to the planet I went to after we broke up but couldn't find me. I clearly didn't tell anyone..."
Ye Wangxing murmured blankly.
"Wow, I didn't expect Lord Semos to be so creative."
Elena, who was standing at the door, sighed and said, Martha nodded. Only Ye Bai was worried about his brother.
"This is considered an infringement of personal rights. My brother has been fitted with a tracking device, and it hasn't been detected yet. What the hell is the capital's security for?"
Ye Bai said this in a rare fierce tone.
"The location created by Lord Semos himself would probably be difficult to detect with existing security checks—but this does involve invading other people's privacy. I wonder what the Marshal actually thinks."
Elina whispered.
But before they could turn to look at the marshal, they heard Samos explaining quietly.
"I was just worried about your safety. At the time, you were on a remote planet where the security wasn't as good as on the capital planet. In the capital, I turned on the location just to find out where you were. After all, I thought we were in a relationship..."
Samos lowered his voice and explained, as if he had forgotten that he was seeking an answer.
However, Ye Bai felt that Samos's reason was pure nonsense and his brother would definitely not believe it, but Elena and Martha had the opposite opinion.
"Don't Alina and I know this about your personality? You're extremely indecisive. You believe everything Warden says. Your brother's personality is so similar to yours, he will definitely believe it."
Martha glanced at Ye Bai and said, and it came true the next second.
"...Indeed, the security situation on remote planets is not very good, and it is normal for lovers to want to control each other's whereabouts."
Listening to his brother's words, which were different in details but essentially the same as his own, Ye Bai felt for the first time how others felt about him at that time.
——I was so angry that I felt dizzy and my breath was stuck in my chest.
Ye Bai felt that if Elena and Martha had not held him back, he would have rushed in immediately and started beating up Samos, then scolding him for being a liar.
While Ye Bai was so angry outside that his fever turned red, the atmosphere between Semos and Ye Wangxing in the side hall became more stable - there was even a hint of warmth?
"Actually, Ye Wangxing, I don't care about your past, and I won't dwell on what happened before. Do you want to choose... me?"
Just as Semos asked cautiously, Prince Janus on the side finally couldn't help it. He pulled Semos, who was still blushing, away, glanced at him, and spoke to Ye Wangxing sarcastically.
"Heh, Brother Ye—Ye Wangxing, it seems your vision wasn't that good before."
However, although Prince Janus spoke sarcastic words and even changed his address, no one thought that he was sincerely mocking Ye Wangxing.
——Tears are still welling up in his eyes.
He even lost his composure when he saw Ye Wangxing.
He almost cried, but he gritted his teeth and stubbornly forced the tears back into his eyes, only squeezing out a few words from between his teeth.
"...Ye Wangxing, have you been lying to me all along? You said you liked me, but that was all a lie!"
"What do you think of me, anyway? A spare tire that can be summoned and dismissed at will?"
It was obvious that Prince Janus was trying very hard to question Ye Wangxing fiercely, but his voice was full of cowardice and it was obvious that he was forcing himself to ask this question.
After seeing the young man's guilty look, he could no longer hold back his expression and asked directly with tears in his eyes.
"I obviously like you so much, you're my first love, I... I've even given up my royal dignity to try to steal your girl, why, why do you treat me like this..."
The boy was obviously tall and strong, but he became very aggrieved as he spoke. His hands kept wiping the tears from his cheeks, and he looked pitiful, like an abandoned dog.
Even the conscience of those who were watching the show outside was condemned.
"Prince Janus, this is really a bit unfair. Your brother is soft-hearted and doesn't take any hardship. Look, he went over to comfort people."
But Martha was an exception. She looked at the young man who walked away with an expression of reluctance and said with a sigh of relief.
"But Prince Janus does look quite pitiful, and he's the only one without any sense among these four."
Ye Bai on the side said this with some sympathy, and then he saw Elena and Martha turned around to look at him and shook their heads at the same time with a look of pity on their faces.
Ye Bai suddenly had a bad feeling.
"...Prince Janus is pretending?"
"It's not like he's pretending to be 70% real and 30% fake. He's genuinely sad, but it's also true that he's using this opportunity to gain your brother's sympathy."
Elina said, stroking her chin.
Ye Bai turned his gaze back to the door in shock, and saw his brother standing in front of Prince Janus who was half-squatting on the ground. He patted his shoulder gently, as if he wanted to say something.
But Prince Janus took the opportunity to hold the hand extended by his brother, then stretched out his arms and hugged his brother's waist.
The tall boy buried his face in the young man's waist and spoke in a muffled voice with a hint of tears.
"Brother Ye...please don't abandon me, okay?"
Ye Bai watched his brother hesitate fiercely.
"Janus is quite good at this. Almost no one can refuse this voice."
The emperor spoke on his throne. Although he still had a smile on his face and his face was facing the dance party below, his eyes were actually about to fly to the side hall.
The eldest princess on the side was much more relaxed than His Majesty. She turned her face directly towards the side hall, with a smile on her face and spoke.
"Janus is actually a natural at being likable, it's just a matter of whether he wants to or not."
Her Royal Highness the Princess said.
"But in this case, Janus should be sure to win."
But the emperor didn't think so.
"He's still young. Don't forget that none of the four people in there are easy to mess with. Even that seemingly unworldly kid, Samos, coaxed Ye Wangxing so much that he forgot he was going to press the locator on him, didn't he?"
"Besides..."
The emperor narrowed his eyes and looked into the side hall again, just in time to meet a pair of golden eyes.
"There's another one here that's the most difficult to deal with, and he hasn't spoken yet."
As soon as the Emperor finished speaking, a figure came behind the young prince, patted the prince's shoulder gently and said.
"Your Highness, there's a dance going on outside. Don't let the drone film it."
The man with golden eyes spoke softly, but his eyes were always fixed on Ye Wangxing.
Although Ye Wangxing did not look at the man, after hearing what the man said, he hurriedly helped Prince Janus up from the ground in a panic.
"Janus, there are still people filming outside. You have to get up first. Your image cannot be damaged."
Ye Wangxing was really concerned about Prince Janus's situation, which led to Prince Janus standing up straight with gritted teeth.
"——Thank you, Count Uno."
Prince Janus spoke through gritted teeth.
This scene reminded Alina of the palace drama she had watched the latest episode of last night.
——The merchant queen in the story called the imperial physician with just a few words, making it impossible for the palace concubine to pretend.
And when the merchant queen faced the palace concubine's gnashing teeth thanks, she said lightly.
"It doesn't matter."
Count Uno said this with a smile and met the young man's gaze.
He didn't seem to be angry, but it was obvious that he was in a bad mood. He looked at Ye Wangxing, and there seemed to be a myriad of emotions mixed in his eyes. Finally, he closed his eyes and sighed.
"I know you're young and don't know how to handle these emotional issues. I don't blame you, but..."
Count Uno pointed to the brooch he was wearing today - the brooch was right on his heart.
His expression was somewhat bitter, and he said, "Wang Xing, my heart is very sad."
Ye Bai watched as Ye Wangxing's expression wavered again.
When the young man turned around, he saw Prince Janus, whose tears had not yet dried.
The remaining two turned their heads away and didn't look at the young man.
The young man stood there with a pale face, his eyes full of entanglement and pain. His gentle face was filled with guilt and struggle, and his lips trembled slightly, as if he wanted to speak, but when he opened his mouth, he didn't seem to know where to start.
His eyes kept wandering between the four people, and finally he forced a word out of his throat.
"I...I really don't want to hurt any of you, or we can just—"
The young man closed his eyes halfway through his speech, as if he had made a decision. However, just as he was about to say it, he was interrupted by the golden-eyed man with quick eyes and hands.
"Wangxing, your mind is still confused. Don't make a decision rashly. Are you really sure that the decision you have in mind will not cause harm to us?"
Count Uno said in a rare stern voice.
The other three seemed to have realized what decision the young man wanted to make, and rarely did they glare at Count Uno.
The young man opened his eyes and looked at Count Uno, but finally closed his mouth and lowered his head.
The man with golden eyes breathed a sigh of relief from a perspective that the young man could not see. Then he stepped forward, reached out and grasped the young man's wrist, and placed the young man's hand on the side of his face.
The young man loosened his hand in surprise, revealing the palm of his hand that had been pinched and had bloody marks on it.
Count Uno shook the young man's hand and spoke in a steady voice.
"I don't want to force you. I'll give you time to think carefully, but..."
As he said this, he turned his head and gently kissed the young man's palm, looking gently into the young man's somewhat surprised eyes and said.
"I hope I can wait for the answer I want."
After saying this, Count Uno turned and walked out of the side hall, as if keeping his promise, leaving the young man room to think.
Only the young man was left standing there, blushing and staring blankly at his leaving figure.
—And the murderous gazes of the remaining three.
"Tsk tsk tsk, ginger is still spicy with age."
Martha said with a sigh, and Elina nodded.
It was at this moment that Ye Bai regained his mind and reacted very quickly to raise the most critical question at the moment, which could most affect his quality of life.
"...You said that tomorrow the royal family will have two more crown princes on the hot search list. Can that overshadow my brother's situation?"
That's obviously not possible.
the next day.
One title topped the list.
#The ex-boyfriends of those four are the same person! #
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