Rebirth As a Fatuous and Self-indulgent Ruler

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

Liu Fengfeng’s arrival let them become more positive about the plan of using poison.

Besides, after talking with Liu Suifeng, Long went to Wang Qi and his brothers, affirming the plan with them again.

Because what they needed to do was mainly to lure the enemy away successfully, they didn’t have to get in there.

They just needed to cause confusion outside and pretended that they were going to poison and had successfully made it, then finally ran away.

And the real person who truly did that job was Fang Shuoyang.

But, it was just a rough plan.

As for the rest, it all depended on the specific circumstance.

Almost one hour later after Long and Shi stayed in the yard, they left and got back to the hostel.

They made a change in the hostel and dressed as the guardians in the fourth prince’s Palace, coming to the Palace arrogantly and proudly.

Once if someone asked where they had gone, he would be told that they had been somewhere to restock. And they would come back at the time when they suddenly showed up again.

In this case, nobody would connect them with the guardians of the fourth prince.

As soon as they came back to the Palace, Long and Shi immediately met Xu You.

“You! Come with me.” Xu You said.

At once, Long and Shi followed behind him obediently.

They soon arrived at Xu You’s residence. In the living room, Xu You then let out a sigh of relief, “Bro. Brother Shi.”

Long looked at Xu You smilingly, ” What’s up? Why do you look so angry?”

Xu You rolled his eyes and said, “I do am angry now!”

“Em?” Long blinked his eyes, “What’s going on? You already kicked Fang Shuoyang out yesterday night. Why are you still so angry?”

Xu You opened his eyes widely as he heard Fang Shuoyang’s name, “I won’t let go of him so simply.”

“Well. What should we do to let you cool down? You can tell us. How about we go to catch him with a sack and beat him severely?”

Long now looked completely like that he would do anything as long as Xu You ordered.

“Oh?” Xu You blinked, “You mean…”

“Yeah. It’s a good idea, right? Catching him with a sack and beating him severely to release your anger.”

Xu You touched his chin with a smile, ” Yes, it’s a good idea.”

Long smiled, with his hand rubbed on the chin, “Oh? Since you said that, we will go and find him now.”

Then, Long and Shi went out of the living room.

Xu You sat in the living room and… suddenly was full of expectation of the thing they were going to do.

On the night, Fang Shuoyang was really beaten up… in his own study as someone expected.

It was Long who knocked him down. But Fang Shouyang dared not to hit back at all because of Long’s identity and the fact that Long knew nothing about the Martial Arts.

Therefore, when this ‘savage’ punishment finally came to the end, Fang Shuoyang got a lot of bruises on his body and only his face was still unharmed.

Long clapped his hands slightly, “Okay. Now you can go back and I believe that Xu You will allow you to sleep on the bed.”

“…” Fang Shuoyang was speechless, wondering why should he have to bear this.

Looking at piteous Fang Shuoyang, Long shrugged his shoulders and said irresponsibly, “We all know that it’s unavoidable to engage in social activities, but you can choose to place, right? I don’t think it’s a big deal if someone else knows that the fourth prince has fallen in love with a man.”

Fang immediately became silent and began to think about it carefully after he heard what Long had said.

Long didn’t bother Fang anymore and directly said to Shi, “Let’s go.”

Then they left together.

Now, they were sitting on a big tree and keeping watch.

It was the best choice for them to conceal here as the guardians so that they now could easily find a place to have almost half of the whole Palace in their eyes.

Shi asked Long in a low voice, “Why did you say that to Fang Shuoyang?”

Long shrugged his shoulders, “Nothing.”

Shi’s eyes narrowed, “Nothing? That’s not like you.”

Long smiled gently and then explained, “You know. Sometimes men are used to finding themselves excuses like ‘it’s just a flirtation’ or ‘I have to do that’. And I just want Fang Shuoyang to know that actually, there are not so many have-to-do things. Besides, no matter what the reason is, it’s a personal failure to make beloved feel wronged because of someone else.”

Long’s word made Shi stunned for a while.

With a gentle smile, Long continued, “I’m so glad that he has got my point.”

Shi gave a glance at Long, “Are you sure he has got your point?”

“Sure. He is a good guy.” Long smiled, “Just he didn’t take it to heart and thought it didn’t matter at all before. But he already knew that he was wrong. He will definitely take some actions.”

Shi didn’t know what he should say at this moment.

But Long continued to say, still with his gentle smile, “He needn’t do anything as the meaning of anyone else due to his special identity. And that exactly what I want him to remember.”

Shi’s eyes lighted up slightly…

Long smiled, “Qingzhou, our country needs a friendly neighbor. Thus, the more powerful Fang Shuoyang grows, the more benefits we will get. As long as we make it, all our country needs to do is just to keep our country complete.”

Compressing his lips, Shi finally nodded slowly, “You’re right.”

“Of course. I always say the right thing.”Long kissed on Shi’s forehead smilingly.

His unexpected move made Shi ducked subconsciously so that Long almost fell from the tree. Fortunately, he timely grabbed Shi’s sleeve. Meanwhile, Shi felt both funny and speechless to Long’s current situation. He pulled Long’s hand and said, “Be careful. It will be a shame on you if you fell from a tree.”

“It’s nothing to me.” Long said disapprovingly, “as long as I’m still alive.”

Shi Qingzhou, “…”

After sitting back on the tree, Long said to Shi with his head tilted to one side, “Qingzhou, I won’t go with you guys on the day of taking action. I hope you guys win instant success.”

With a light flashed across in his eyes, Shi asked, “Em? You won’t come with us?”

“Yeah. Considering my bad cultivation on Martial arts, I’d better stay at home in case of slowing the things down.” Long was painfully conscious of his own self.

Shi nodded, “Alright. It’s okay.”

Two days later, the birthday of the imperial concubine of the second prince came.

Naturally, the second prince decided to hold the birthday party for her on the night. After all, he got a lot of things to deal with in the daytime.

During the two days before the birthday of the imperial concubine, Wang Qi had met Zhou Suye,

and duly expressed his yearning for the Palace of the second prince. He told Zhou Suye that he really wanted to have a look if it was possible.

Long had no idea what Zhou Suye was thinking when he heard Wang Qi’s words.

Yet, after Wang Qi ‘intensively’ expressed his admiration to the second prince and deeply showed his loyalty, the Childe Suye soon appeared at the birthday party.

Shi secretly raised the corner of his mouth as soon as he saw the Childe Suye.

Zhou Suye was quite clear about his true identity. Of course, he knew more clearer about the other princes.

Even though he grew up in folk, he had learned a lot of the imperial policies, which naturally increased his desire for the throne. For this reason, he had been working for his secret ambition for all these years.

And he even planted many finger men in the court.

Moreover, Zhou Suye also paid a lot of attention to developing his power on the Jianghu and kept collecting the people who had great cultivation of Martial arts.

He believed that it would be useless if he just got officials’ support.

Only when he also gained the help of many masters of Martial arts, he then would do anything successfully.

Of course, the army forces were also very important for him.

However, it was not that easy to keep the army forces under his control. Therefore, he just tried his best to get all the resources and powers as possible as he could at the present stage.

“The second prince, why could he be praised so highly by the people? Because of his identity is the second prince?

Alright, he would go and have a look.

Anyway, they would meet each other sooner and later…” Thinking of this, Childe Suye came to the birthday party.

The second prince was extremely happy today. He even wore red clothes as if he was getting married today.

The people, who didn’t know it was a birthday party would think that he was attending a wedding as soon as he saw the second prince in red.

No one knew why the second prince dressed like this.

But luckily, the other princes were all presented at the party,

including the Crown Prince, to giving the second prince face.

Standing in the party, the second prince now was very busy with meeting and sending off visitors.

So many officials came with the presents they had elaborately prepared and the second prince thanked them all the time as he received gifts.

Long didn’t come today, so only Shi followed Fang Shuoyang at this time with the other two guardians.

One of the other two guardians went to send the present while another stood behind Fang Shuoyang with Shi Qingzhou.

“Brother, I got so many guests today. Please forgive me if I treat poorly.”

“Don’t say that. Brother. You can go and treat the other guests. I can take care of myself.” Fang Shuoyang said immediately.

“Haha! Good!” The second prince let out a huge laugh.

At this time, the concubine of the second prince finally came out.

All the people walked to her and extended their greetings to her.

After all, holding a birthday party for her was enough to tell everyone her importance to the second prince.

Thus, once the second prince was enthroned, this concubine was very likely to be the queen. In this case, everyone would willing to get relate to her on the premise of not hurting their interests.

Although the other princes were all here right now, it wouldn’t get them in trouble saying hello to a concubine.

After all, they also came to attend the party.

It was kind of an unspoken tradition for the officials in the imperial court to not offend anyone of the princes and keep a good relationship with them at the same time,

until one of them was certainly enthroned.

At this time, the Crown Prince walked to Fang Shuoyang.

“Oops, my dear brother is hiding here.” The Crown Prince looked at Fang Shuoyang smilingly.

Fang Shuoyang looked at him back and greeted, ” Crown Prince.”

“There is no need for ceremony between brothers. You can just call me brother.” The Crown Prince responded.