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Although Jiang Zi Yu was much more free at the Guo Shi residence compared to the Jiang residence, going out of it was a lot more strict. Those who came in and out of the Guo Shi residence all needed to undergo an inspection. He had also thought about entering by going over the walls, but there were many troops outside on guard. If he were to be caught, there was bound to be a session of reprimanding.

Under this helplessness, he could only bother Shen Qing Yi to bring him out of the residence.

“Let me tell you, Ying Sheng’s voice is amazing. If you were to hear it, you should like it too.” Jiang Zi Yu babbled on and on, and completely did not notice the Troupe leader look like he was hesitating to speak to Shen Qing Yi, and only cared to have the person dragged towards his own personal spot.

As the people down the stage sang, Jiang Zi Yu watched in fascination, when Shen Qing Yi by the side suddenly asked, “Do you like him that much?”

Seeing the other person look at himself in a puzzled manner, Shen Qing Yi pursed his mouth, “It’s obvious the other person had not done much for you, but you say you like him, and would even be willing to go against your father’s ideas, and plead someone you don’t like to bring you out the residence to go see him. Good people of this world number tens of thousands, why would you choose this person out of all of them?”

“What reason is needed to like a person?”

“Or perhaps, it is the other life you mentioned is all.”

Jiang Zi Yu did not know what exactly it was that Shen Qing Yi was angry about, only that, after listening to his words, although his expression did not change much, it made people feel like the other person was angry, that he could not even plead him into bringing himself out.

“Why do you not let me go out.”

“Whenever you can win against me, I will instruct those people to let you out.”

To want to win against Shen Qing Yi was practically an absurdity[1]. Even the Jiang Zi Yu who did not wish to call the other person Master could not help but admit that the other person’s martial arts were certainly excellent, and even more so with the rumour that he heard from somewhere that Shen Qing Yi was an accomplished immortal, although he felt like the other person was much more like a con artist[2].

Although this con artist was not like a real con artist.

Jiang Zi Yu thought up of various methods, but the small tricks played in the Jiang residence had absolutely no effect in the Guo Shi residence. Forlorned, he could only earnestly stay at the Guo Shi residence and study, and wait until the banquet to take advantage and sneak out.

Last time, he had not properly apologize to the other person yet.

On the day before the palace banquet, Jiang Zi Yu returned to the Jiang residence. He originally should have been earnestly staying there, but this time, he once again sneaked out to the Pear Garden Troupe to see Mu Ying Sheng, but the troupe leader instead had found an excuse to reject him. He raised his head and took a look, and while nobody noticed, quietly made his way up to window by relying on his memory.

Just as he was about to open the window, the other side of the window pushed open. Jiang Zi Yu’s foot slipped under panic, and was almost about to slip down, but thankfully, he moved quick and caught the side of the window frame. He lifted up his head to see Mu Ying Sheng look at himself, and gave the other person a smile, “Ah, Sheng Sheng, what a coincidence.”

He originally thought the other person would use a cold expression to look at him, or perhaps turn and leave, but he did not think that Mu Ying Sheng would extend a hand towards him. Seeing him stay there, his brows wrinkled, “Do you plan on hanging here for an entire night?”

Jiang Zi Yu suppressed his happiness down, and at the time he stepped through the window about to enter, he purposely sprained his foot, then immediately pushed the other person fall to the floor. Then with a slip of the hand, the clothing on Mu Ying Sheng’s front chest came loose. Seeing the other person’s eyes expressionlessly stare at himself, he swallowed his saliva, “Sheng Sheng, I didn’t do it on purpose……”

He kind of didn’t want to leave now.

The other person did not push him away either, and only raised his brows, hinting him to get up.

At a complete loss, he stood up. When he pulled Mu Ying Sheng up, he used his fingers to stroke the other person’s hand in passing. Speechless, he only looked at the other person in an idiotic manner, not knowing what he should say at all to make it better.

When both pairs of eyes aligned, Jiang Zi Yu only felt his own heart beat even faster. His hands unconsciously squeeze tight, and when he felt the sweat on his palms, he could not help but rub it towards his own clothes.

“Is something the matter, for you to be outside the window this late?”

“I……” He opened his mouth, closed it, then opened it again, “I haven’t seen you for a very long time, and wanted to come see you. Since I returned to the residence today, I had the opportunity to see whether you were well, and while I was at it, ask you- since you haven’t seen me for so long, did you ever think of me, even one bit would be nice too.”

After a moment of silence, the light in Jiang Zi Yu’s eyes darkened. He lowered his head, so he could not see what expression the other person had exactly.

“Yes.”

“I know, you have never liked me. I have always bothered you, you would feel annoyed too……”

Jiang Zi Yu suddenly realized and abruptly raised his head. The other person’s expression was still neither cold, nor weak, and the light in his eyes once again lit up. He boldly took up the other person’s hand, and when he saw that the other person did not push him away, he very carefully tightened his hold, “Is it true? Sheng Sheng, can you say it once more?”

“The sky is already dark, Young Master should go back quickly.”

“Sheng Sheng, say it once more. Once I hear it, I’ll leave.”

He did not know if it was to satisfy him or it was out of sincerity, but after the other person said it, even if it was false, Jiang Zi Yu was extremely happy with it.

Having satisfactorily heard the other person repeat it once more, when Jiang Zi Yu returned to the Jiang residence, he had a night of good dreams.

On the second day, he followed his father to attend the palace banquet, and watched the performance with a lack of interest. He propped his chin up and slightly smiled towards the woman in front of him, and held up his cup and drank his wine, and inattentively wondered what Mu Ying Sheng was doing at this time.

As he was in thought, a familiar tone resounded, and the absentminded Jiang Zi Yu suddenly raised his head. The person he was thinking about, at this moment, stood in front of himself. That person’s pupils were like water, not only was he performing, but he was really looking at him that way.

But after having thought about it again, all the people within the palace knew of how his imperial grandma[3] liked to listen to opera, and perhaps to make her happy, they then called the people of the Pear Garden Troupe over. Thinking to how he could go find the other person in the next moment, Jiang Zi Yu felt going to the palace banquet this time was not a wrong move.

Just as he was thinking, his eyes took a glimpse of a sharp edge within the other person’s sleeve. At the moment there was silence, a crisp sound resounded, agitating everyone who was still immersed in the atmosphere just now, only to see the reddened corner of Jiang Zi Yu’s eyes, with a shrouded hint of drunkenness in them, and the fragments by his leg that broke just now, “What are you guys looking at me for, I just accidentally broke a cup is all.”

The old Buddhist on the stage chattered about how he was a small drunkard, and how it hadn’t even been long since the banquet started, yet he was already drunk. Jiang Zi Yu took up a newly poured cup of wine, raised the cup towards Mu Ying Sheng, and swallowed it all in one gulp.

After the other person went down the stage, his father was still blabbering on and on by his ears. He waved his hands towards the playboys that wanted to follow and get close to him, and used the excuse of drunkenness to go sober up alone. The winds at night were a bit chilly, blowing about to the point he did not know if he was sober, or if he was dizzy. Within the haziness, he did not know what exactly he was doing, or what he wanted to do.

He shuttled through a small path, and when he passed by a fake mountain, he was suddenly pulled aside by a wave of strength. Within the darkness, he vaguely made out the other person’s outline, and could not help but smile, “Sheng Sheng?”

After a good while, the other person only dully replied with an “En”.

Jiang Zi Yu hid the desire to tear up in his eyes, and with a half-joking and half-serious manner, “Sheng Sheng, can you move that knife over? I’m a bit afraid.”

The point of the knife that was closely pushing towards him then slightly loosened up. When the wind came in, he felt his neck was a little bit damp, with a slightly painful hint of coldness.

[1] 天方夜谭- or, the Arabian Nights, also known as One Thousand and One Nights. The expression originates from the mystique of its stories.

[2] 神棍, or, a person that pretends to be a god.

[3] 奶奶- paternal grandmother.

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