Chapter 105 The Sickly and Tyrannical Crown Prince 3
Lu Yuanju's jaw was clenched, and even though he was being held at the feet of this little prince, he still had an arrogant and unruly look in his eyes.
Why does this young prince insist on finding a strong man like himself to test whether he is well?
What to try?
Are you suggesting we try something shameless?
No wonder they insisted on letting him in to watch while he took a medicinal bath; apparently, they were waiting for him there.
He doesn't like men!
Lu Yuanju's thick eyebrows furrowed, and he said fiercely, "If you dare to do that kind of thing to me, you might as well kill me!"
"Hold him down," Xie Rong raised his hand, and Eunuch Gao quickly handed him a whip.
The long whip pierced the soft moonlight of late spring, striking Lu Yuanju's face and leaving a bright red welt diagonally across the man's nose.
"I accidentally swung it off course, does it hurt?" Xie Rong's fair cheeks flushed with excitement as she saw that she actually had the strength to swing the whip.
He leaned down and met Lu Yuanju's terrifying, bloodshot eyes, slowly curving his lips into a smile. "Why are you looking at me like that? I'm just concerned about you."
Lu Yuanju was panting heavily, the veins on his forehead bulging. He suddenly jumped up, but was held down by several quick-thinking palace guards, and his knees fell heavily to the ground again.
Xie Rong toyed with the long whip, admiring the man's trapped beast-like appearance, and laughed until he could hardly breathe.
"Once you enter my Eastern Palace, whether you are a mighty eagle from the north or a wolfhound, you are all my slaves and my playthings."
The hand warmer in Xie Rong's hand gradually lost its heat, but his hands remained icy cold.
He irritably tossed aside the hand warmer, coughed softly twice, and tucked his small hands into his sleeves. "I heard that Xiao Gaozi went to invite you this morning, but you still didn't want to come?"
Lu Yuanju scoffed coldly.
“If you’re unwilling, then you’ll have to bring me hot water for my baths from now on,” Xie Rong said, wanting to disgust the man even more as he resisted. With that, she kicked Lu Yuanju in the chest.
However, he had only been staying at the hotel for a short time, so his kick was weak and limp, more like flirting with a man.
Lu Yuanju stared at him, thinking viciously.
They're using the tricks of brothels and theaters. Are they that desperate for men?
Indeed, how could these men from the Celestial Empire compare to the strong and healthy men from the northern frontier? No wonder the Crown Prince took a liking to him.
One day he will expose the secret that the prince is gay and has been having an affair with prisoners of war from the north, and avenge the humiliation he suffered today.
“Your Highness, in principle, once you enter the Eastern Palace, your former name is no longer acceptable,” Eunuch Gao said in a high-pitched voice, his eyes darting around. “The character ‘Yuan’ in Lu Yuanju’s name is undeniably offensive to Her Majesty the Empress.”
“Well said,” Xie Rong glanced at Eunuch Gao and gave him an approving look.
Grandpa Gao's face glowed, and he unconsciously straightened his back.
Our servants are indeed the most considerate servants of the Crown Prince.
“From now on, you will no longer be called Lu Yuanju, but Achou,” a palace servant stepped forward and placed a warm hand warmer in his palm. Xie Rong squinted his eyes contentedly, “The lowest slave in this lonely palace—Achou.”
[The protagonist has been humiliated, and his pain level has increased by 5!]
[The host is still so amazing!]
Xie Rong snorted coldly, her face expressionless, showing no joy at the protagonist's suffering.
In this world, Xie Rong was the crown prince, but crown princes have short lives.
In his quest for a cure, he sought out unorthodox remedies, committing countless atrocities and killing countless living beings. He was then tricked by the protagonist, who had endured humiliation and hardship, into consuming a longevity elixir offered by the protagonist. From then on, he became mentally unstable, craving lust and spending his days lying on his bed seeking pleasure with others. His already weak body completely collapsed, and he eventually died on his bed.
The Crown Prince's death was so absurd, and the Emperor, who had long been wary of the Crown Prince's maternal clan, used this as an excuse to vent his anger on the Empress, blaming her for failing to properly educate the Crown Prince and thus causing the royal family to lose face.
With the Empress out of favor and the Crown Prince fallen from grace, the other princes of the Celestial Empire engaged in a power struggle, leading to constant internal strife and bloodshed.
The protagonist takes this opportunity to take revenge, annihilating the Crown Prince's maternal clan, which is the same clan of the Great General who captured the leader of the northern tribes. He also takes advantage of the internal strife in the Celestial Empire to coordinate with the northern tribes who have fled to the northern deserts, catching the Celestial Empire off guard.
Not only did it reclaim the lost northern lands, but it also forced the Celestial Empire to cede territory and beg for mercy. In the end, it was torn apart by internal strife over the succession and became a mere shell of its former self.
Xie Rong is a villain who tempers the protagonist's character in the early stages, allowing the protagonist to grow rapidly in the imperial palace of the Celestial Empire.
The villain thought he was torturing the protagonist, but little did he know that the protagonist, taking advantage of being tortured by his side, not only figured out the secrets of his study, but also treasured those ancient Chinese books that Xie Rong couldn't learn, since these precious books wouldn't exist in the barbaric northern frontier.
The villain, relying on his status as the crown prince and the support of his maternal clan, was ignorant and incompetent, and was extremely hated by both the court and the harem. After his death, the happiest people were actually the group of servants in the Eastern Palace who had suffered at the hands of the crown prince.
Xie Rong, recalling the plot of the future, grew increasingly disgusted with the group of sycophantic lackeys around him. He grabbed the hand warmer in his hand and smashed it against the palace servant from before, coldly saying, "You made the hand warmer so hot, are you trying to burn me to death?"
But his voice, tinged with illness, was soft and hoarse, as light and limp as the hand warmer that had been thrown at him. It didn't sound like a scolding, but rather like he was being petulant, complaining pitifully that he had been burned.
The palace servant hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, his face flushed red, stammering, "This servant...this servant deserves to die, this servant will go and change right away!"
Eunuch Gao glared at the palace servant and kicked him away from Xie Rong's legs. "Hurry up and go! If His Highness catches a cold, I will definitely not let you off!"
Xie Rong turned to look at him, "Little Gao, I'm disciplining the palace servants, why are you interrupting?"
Xie Rong remembered it well; when he died, this eunuch Gao was the happiest!
The eunuch Gao knelt down in a panic, "This servant is worried about Your Highness."
Xie Rong said coldly, "Slap yourself."
The eunuch threw down his whisk and slapped himself repeatedly across the face, yelling, "This servant deserves to die! This servant deserves to die!"
Lu Yuanju watched coldly from the sidelines.
If this young prince were to ascend the throne in the future, he would surely be a tyrant.
Amidst the sound of slapping, the head maid of the Eastern Palace hurried to the porch and whispered, "Your Highness, His Majesty's new favorite has been sent to the Inner Palace."
Even if the emperor had a deep and loving relationship with the empress, he could not possibly refrain from visiting the harem for her sake.
That new favorite was recently promoted to the rank of Jieyu and was enjoying the height of her fame. Why would she suddenly go to the Yeting Palace?
"Did Father Emperor issue the order himself?" Xie Rong asked lazily.
“No,” the head maid said, “Tonight, Consort Lan selfishly offered sacrifices to the deceased in the palace, performing rituals and burning paper money. Just then, the Imperial Concubine had a headache and said that someone in the palace was using witchcraft to harm people, and she was caught red-handed.”
"The Imperial Concubine said it was too late tonight and she was afraid of disturbing His Majesty and the Empress's rest. She would deal with it first and then come out of the Inner Palace if she had truly wronged someone."
"Oh," Xie Rong said, feeling a little bored, "So what?"
The head maid couldn't help but shake her head and sigh, "Consort Lan is insisting on seeing His Majesty, saying she's been wronged and refusing to go to the Yeting Palace."
The reason the head maid came to report this was because Consort Lan had previously been a maid in the Empress's palace, having grown up alongside the Crown Prince and served him since childhood. She simply didn't come with him after he moved to the Eastern Palace. Although there was a difference between mistress and servant, there was still some respect between them.
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