On this day, the Fourth Prince had just finished his business at the Crown Prince's palace and was on his way back when he saw the handsome eunuch who was by the Crown Prince's side, pale-faced and swaying not far away.
The Fourth Prince's eyes flashed with confusion. He remembered that his second elder brother, the Crown Prince, favored this eunuch greatly. Why was he not serving his second elder brother today, but instead wandering around outside?
The Fourth Prince didn't notice anything different about the handsome young eunuch. When Su Peisheng saw him, he immediately felt dizzy. They were almost back home, how could they have encountered this unlucky fellow?
Those who serve below the master may not know about the unpleasant things, but they have heard about them to some extent. In particular, since his master also works with His Highness the Crown Prince, he, as the personal servant, has been able to find out everything that can be found about His Highness the Crown Prince.
At some point, rumors began to circulate among the servants that His Highness the Crown Prince was fond of women. At first, Su Peisheng did not believe it at all. He had seen His Highness the Crown Prince before. He was so handsome and noble, with an extraordinary temperament. He did not seem like the kind of person who would fall for such abnormal things.
Everyone in the palace knows that His Majesty detests this: why he doesn't favor perfectly good women but instead favors those disreputable men.
When Su Peisheng first found out, he was so shocked that his heart stopped. But since his master hadn't asked about it, he pretended not to know, so as not to say it in front of his master for no reason, lest he think he was saying bad things about His Highness the Crown Prince.
In the past two years, the master's relationship with His Highness the Crown Prince has become better and better, and His Highness the Crown Prince will also give him some face.
Su Peisheng looked at the familiar, handsome eunuch in front of him. He walked awkwardly, as if he was in some kind of pain.
Su Peisheng kept his head down and followed his master out of the Crown Prince's palace.
The Fourth Prince glanced at the nervous Su Peisheng, a knowing glint in his eyes. It seemed that this servant knew something but was keeping it from him.
The Fourth Prince, however, was not in a hurry and returned to his residence as usual.
As soon as Su Peisheng entered the small study, he knelt down with a thud.
The Fourth Prince didn't rush to ask anything. Instead, he picked up the iced fruit juice that had been prepared and took a sip politely.
Sweet and sour, refreshing and clean.
The Fourth Prince felt that half of the heat in his body had dissipated, and he felt much more comfortable.
Looking at Su Peisheng kneeling below with his head down, he tapped the table with his fingers intermittently.
"Tell me, what exactly happened?"
Su Peisheng's face was conflicted, and his eyes darted around. He didn't know how to bring this up.
His master certainly hadn't encountered this before. If his master were to come into contact with it here, the Emperor would skin him alive and tear him apart if he found out.
Su Peisheng felt the gazes fixed on him growing sharper and sharper, and the temperature around him seemed to drop a degree. He closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and spoke in an unusually soft voice. If the room hadn't been so quiet, he might not have been able to hear it at all.
"His Highness the Crown Prince... is a homosexual."
Su Peisheng practically squeezed out those last few words through gritted teeth. After finishing, he quickly lowered his head even further, until it was almost touching the floor.
The Fourth Prince was initially holding the glass of juice, sipping it casually. He didn't react much after Su Peisheng finished speaking, but suddenly his mind clicked, and he realized, "Good morning!"
Thinking of the handsome young eunuch he had met at the Crown Prince's place, with his pale face and strange posture, the Fourth Prince lost his footing and dropped the entire glass of fruit juice on the ground with a thud.
The Fourth Prince, oblivious to his wet clothes, stared intently at Su Peisheng and spoke slowly and deliberately.
"Think it through, and tell me again."
Su Peisheng was covered in sweat. He knew, of course, that his master didn't believe him yet, but even if he had a hundred lives, he wouldn't dare to lie about this.
He knew that Li Quanzi was the Crown Prince's personal eunuch, and that Li Quanzi had been complaining to him about how difficult his work had been lately.
It seems that the handsome young eunuch has taken his job, making him have fewer and fewer opportunities to serve His Highness the Crown Prince.
Su Peisheng swallowed hard and repeated those three words with difficulty.
The Fourth Prince slumped in his chair, his face displaying a complex expression that made it impossible to discern his thoughts.
After a long while, the Fourth Prince muttered to himself.
"Second Brother Crown Prince...why do you like men?"
Su Peisheng secretly thought to himself, "He's not a man at all, he's clearly an androgynous guy."
Although he himself was a eunuch, he still looked down on him and thought it was pointless to waste his life like this.
The Fourth Prince was still in a daze, lost in his own thoughts.
"If Father Emperor finds out, the Crown Prince will be punished no matter how much he is favored."
The Fourth Prince became anxious. Who else knew about this?
Su Peisheng carefully raised his head and glanced at the Fourth Prince, speaking softly.
“Those who serve His Highness the Crown Prince should all know this. Also, if you pay a little more attention, you can also notice the difference.”
The Fourth Prince then remembered that most of the servants around his Second Prince were handsome young eunuchs. He assumed that his Second Prince, like him, was not interested in women and disliked those effeminate women, so he used more eunuchs because he found it troublesome.
The Fourth Prince's face turned pale and then black as he thought about what he had done in the past, and he gritted his teeth.
"I just don't understand why my second brother, the Crown Prince, would go and favor those androgynous guys."
"Did the servants below corrupt him?"
Su Peisheng, you don't know this. They only came to the Crown Prince's side in the last few years. How would they know when he contracted this disease?
Su Peisheng carefully looked up and took a good look at his master's expression.
His face was full of disgust.
I breathed a sigh of relief; that's good.
He was also worried that if his master also liked men like the Crown Prince, should he, as the personal eunuch, test his master with his own body?
Su Peisheng's wildly beating heart finally slowed down a beat. As long as his master was normal, that was fine. He was worried that since they were born of the same father, his master might also have such a fetish if he knew.
Moreover, their master is not as favored as His Highness the Crown Prince, so they cannot do things that are too risky.
If His Majesty finds out, he will at most reprimand His Highness the Crown Prince, and privately deal with those maids and replace them with a new batch.
If it were their own master, then it's hard to say.
Looking at his master's face, which was as black as a cauldron, Su Peisheng felt for the first time that his master's black face was actually quite nice.
The Fourth Prince has some issues now, but it's unclear how he will get along with his Second Prince, the Crown Prince, in the future.
Could it be that his second elder brother, the Crown Prince, has taken a liking to him? The Fourth Prince felt a pang of anxiety as he thought about how his second elder brother had become increasingly kind and gentle to him over the past few years.
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