Edited: 10.11.2023
Their current appearances were enough to make others get the wrong idea and it just so happened that Wen Yi caught them kissing as well.
Ye Zi was so ashamed that he wanted to find a hole in the ground to burrow into.
He hurriedly tried to take off the outer robe and return it to Gu Yan but was stopped by the latter pulling his wrist.
Ye Zi said with a red face: “You……put your clothes on first to avoid misunderstandings.”
“So what if they misunderstand?” From the moment Wen Yi uttered those words, Gu Yan realized what the man was thinking. However, he never cared about other people’s opinions, not to mention that when the two of them went in to discuss the matter, the misunderstanding would naturally be resolved.
But seeing Ye Zi’s embarrassed appearance, Gu Yan couldn’t help but tease: “We’re already married, A Zi, isn’t it normal for couples to do those things?”
Ye Zi immediately retorted: “Even so, not in broad daylight……that is t-t-too wrong!”
Having said this, Gu Yan quickly followed up: “In other words, it’s okay if we’re at home?”
Ye Zi understood the meaning of his words and blushed all the way from his face to his ears as he said with difficulty: “That…….that won’t be possible either.”
Gu Yan narrowed his eyes and pressed: “Why not?”
“Because……because……” Ye Zi was so embarrassed that his brain wasn’t functioning anymore. He hesitated for a long time and finally regained some sense in his chaotic brain: “Because you are still recuperating and the doctor won’t let you!”
Gu Yan: “……”
He thought he could fool him, but he didn’t expect it to fail.
Gu Yan didn’t say anything else and pulled Ye Zi into the courtyard.
As soon as they walked in, they heard Pei Wan’er’s angry voice: “Sigh, I said to only put in three scoops, that’s five scoops…..No, no, that’ll only make the flames bigger, fan it gently…..Forget it, I’ll do it myself, you’re too clumsy.”
Wen Yi was decocting medicine for Wen Zhi.
He was the son of the Duke of Protection, when had he ever been looked down upon like this? He dodged to avoid Pei Wan’er’s hand and droned: “I’ll do it myself, it’s just decocting medicine, do you think I don’t know how?”
Pei Wan’er glared at him: “I don’t care if you know or don’t know how, but I’m afraid if you mess up, Sister Wen won’t be able to drink it.”
Wen Yi paused in his movements and then handed her the fan: “Then you do it.”
Pei Wan’er sat down in front of the fire and raised her eyebrows: “Watch and learn.”
Wen Yi had a stomach full of anger with nowhere to release it. Turning his head, he saw Gu Yan and Ye Zi walk in, still with that disheveled look.
He was about to have a fit when Gu Yan took the lead first: “Just now, I was boating on the lake with A Zi and happened upon someone who fell into the water. After we rescued him, our clothes got wet.”
He didn’t say anything about the Fifth Imperial Prince. Although Wen Yi had reconciled with them now, that person was still the Duke of Protection’s son and was not on the same boat as them.
Learning the truth, Wen Yi’s expression became even more ugly. He stammered something out and turned to escape into Wen Zhi’s room.
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“Hey, weren’t you going to watch me decoct the medicine?” Pei Wan’er called out behind him, but Wen Yi only closed the door with a bang as if he didn’t hear her.
Pei Wan’er muttered: “What kind of general is this? He’s so reckless and clumsy……”
Gu Yan pushed Ye Zi closer to the fire to dry his clothes and asked: “Miss Wan’er, did Dr. Pei leave already?”
Pei Wan’er nodded: “Brother still has something to do at the clinic so he went back first. I’ll be taking care of Sister Wen for the next few days, Your Majesty needn’t worry.”
Gu Yan said: “That’s fine, then thank you Miss Wan’er for your troubles.”
“No trouble, no trouble at all. Sister Wen is a nice and pretty person, I like staying with her. But this General Wen……” Pei Wan’er looked in the direction of the bamboo house with disgust, “He doesn’t know how to do anything and is super fierce. Just now, when I asked him to fetch water, he went out and then came right back in without a drop of water in his bucket.”
Gu Yan and Ye Zi glanced at each other and didn’t say anything else.
There was no change of clothes in the bamboo house so Ye Zi dried his clothes by the fire before leaving with Gu Yan. Originally, Wen Yi was also supposed to go back with them, but he refused to go with the two, saying he wanted to stay with Wen Zhi for a while longer and sent the two away in a hurry.
Commandery Princess Changning’s “corpse” stayed in the mourning hall for three days before Emperor Jinghe granted permission for her to be buried with the rites of a Princess. Since then, Commandery Princess Changning had completely disappeared from this world.
With Wen Zhi’s matter properly resolved and Wen Yi’s misunderstanding about Ye Zi also resolved—with the promise to help keep his identity a secret—the two finally had a few days of peace.
The news that the Fifth Imperial Prince had fallen into the water soon spread from the palace.
It was said that the Able Consort and the Virtuous Consort were going for an outing outside the city that day. The Pure Consort had a good relationship with the Able Consort in the past, but on the day of the outing, the Pure Consort happened to have something to do and could not leave the palace. The Fifth Imperial Prince desperately wanted to go outside, so the Pure Consort had no choice but to ask the Able Consort to take care of the Fifth Imperial Prince.
The Fifth Imperial Prince took a young eunuch with him to go fishing in the middle of the lake. Unexpectedly, the boat they were in suddenly leaked and burst. The young eunuch, who took the Fifth Imperial Prince and jumped into the lake, drowned on the spot. The Fifth Imperial Prince was very lucky and happened to meet Prince Rui and Princess Consort Rui while they were boating on the lake and was saved by Princess Consort Rui.
When the Pure Consort learned the news, she fainted on the spot. Fortunately, the Fifth Imperial Prince only caught a slight cold and was bedridden for half a month without any major injuries.
This morning, Ye Zi was helping Gu Yan with his court clothes.
Gu Yan had been sick for a month and pretended to be sick for a few more months, claiming to be bedridden to the outside world. But once word came out that he had rescued the Fifth Imperial Prince while on a lake trip outside the city, Gu Yan couldn’t continue to pretend to be sick and a few days later, he went to court as usual.
After Ye Zi sent Gu Yan out of the manor, he headed back to the room alone.
He had something on his mind recently.
Speaking of which, it was true that he hadn’t been close to Gu Yan for a long time.
The closest they had been to each other should have been that day in the Summer palace when Gu Yan thought that he had been drugged with an aphrodisiac and wanted to help him.
Recalling what happened that day, Ye Zi seemed to still be able to feel that person pressing against him, so eager and fierce. He was so frightened by Gu Yan at that time that he couldn’t care about anything else, but now that he thought about it carefully, he realized that although he was a little scared, he was not that disgusted.
Therefore, after Gu Yan mentioned it to him in a roundabout way that day, the thought had always been in Ye Zi’s heart.
Ye Zi had heard people say before that if a couple doesn’t get close to each other for a long time after marriage, their relationship would slowly fade away. And because the room was always empty, both parties might also go out in search of other people.
Ye Zi wasn’t too worried about the latter, but the former…..
Gu Yan had been treating him very well, but if things continued to stay this way, would Gu Yan start to become critical of him?
And as time went on, would he no longer understand the appeal and start liking him less and less?
Qiu Tang and Qiu Luo came in to serve tea. When they saw Ye Zi staring at the table with his chin propped up, Qiu Tang laughed: “What’s wrong, Your Highness? Are you missing His Majesty already even though he just left?”
Qiu Luo refilled the teapot for Ye Zi and also added: “His Highness is definitely not used to it. In the past few months, His Majesty stayed at home every day and didn’t leave much. However, now he has to go to the morning court and also the government post to deal with certain affairs, and can only return in the afternoon.”
Ye Zi shook his head: “That doesn’t bother me. I’m just a little worried……”
Qiu Tang asked: “Worried about what?”
Ye Zi said thoughtlessly: “Worried that he doesn’t like me anymore.”
“How could that be!” Qiu Tang exclaimed, “His Majesty likes you so much, how could you think that?”
Qiu Luo also added: “Indeed! Your Highness and His Majesty are so in love with each other that you guys practically share the same heart, becoming the envy of so many people.”
Ye Zi raised his eyes to look at them and whispered: “But don’t they say that the relationship between husband and wife will always fade? And……”
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He pursed his lips, it wasn’t a good idea to bring up such things with two little girls so he didn’t say any more.
Qiu Tang said: “I read in storybooks that the relationship between husband and wife will fade away which is why they need some surprises and excitement to make the days more interesting. Your Highness, do you want to give it a try?”
For a moment, Ye Zi didn’t understand the deeper meaning of her words and asked: “What should I do?”
Qiu Tang looked at Ye Zi somewhat embarrassedly and lowered her voice: “Since the Prince had been sick, it must have been some time since Your Highness last slept with His Majesty, right?”
Ye Zi was silent for a moment; it wasn’t “some time,” it was “never.”
Seeing that Ye Zi didn’t answer, Qiu Tang added: “These things must be done so that His Majesty will like you more and more and become more and more inseparable from you.”
No one knew what Ye Zi suddenly thought of, but his cheeks turned slightly red: “But……but he is still recuperating right now and the doctor doesn’t allow him…..”
Qiu Luo, who hadn’t interrupted until now, finally couldn’t help but ask: “Your Highness, sometimes when couples get intimate, it doesn’t always have to be the other partner doing everything. Why don’t you try……to take the initiative?”
Qiu Tang nodded and immediately added: “That’s right, you should try and take the initiative.”
Ye Zi was dumbfounded: “H-How should I take the initiative?”
These two girls were only in their teens and could give him ideas from what they had read, but they had little experience, let alone make suggestions to Ye Zi.
Qiu Tang thought for a while and said regretfully: “Wasn’t there the ‘Diary of a Prince’s Manor?’ It’s a pity that that book hasn’t been available since the second volume or else it might have been a helpful reference.”
Qiu Luo’s hand shook as she pretended to be calm: “You also know that it is just a storybook, how can something in a storybook be taken seriously?”
Qiu Tang hesitantly said: “But I think it’s written quite well, can’t it be taken seriously?”
“……Of course not!”
Ye Zi held his chin and was lost in thought, not paying attention to their conversation.
Since the second volume, Gu Yan would send someone to buy all of them back every time they were sold. So now on the market, the book had long been in short supply and was extremely difficult to find.
In the eyes of outsiders, this book had become a unique item that was hard to find.
But only Ye Zi knew that after Gu Yan bought those storybooks, he would destroy them, leaving only a few books that were now placed in the study.
Ye Zi sent away the two maidservants. He struggled internally for a long time, finally made up his mind, and quietly entered the study.
Gu Yan liked to tease Ye Zi with the storybook and never hid the location of where he placed them. Ye Zi stood on his tiptoe and searched for a while on the bookshelf, and soon pulled out several thin booklets from the depths of the bookshelf.
Ye Zi took a deep breath, and in the spirit of learning, flipped open one of the books and got serious.
As he read, he strained his ears to pay attention to the movements outside the door.
The descriptions in the storybook were bold and unbridled and Ye Zi quickly turned red after reading it. He didn’t know how much time had passed, but he suddenly heard slight footsteps and voices coming from outside the door.
“What is he doing in the study?”
“This servant doesn’t know, His Highness has been in the study all afternoon today……”
Hearing the familiar voice, Ye Zi stood up and hurriedly tried to stuff the storybook back into the bookshelf. But when he got up, he accidentally tripped over the corner of the table, lost his balance, and hit his shoulder hard on the bookshelf.
Gu Yan pushed open the door just in time to hear the thud.
With a cry of surprise, the books on the bookshelf came crashing down, burying the man under in a small mountain of books.
Edited: 10.11.2023
Their current appearances were enough to make others get the wrong idea and it just so happened that Wen Yi caught them kissing as well.
Ye Zi was so ashamed that he wanted to find a hole in the ground to burrow into.
He hurriedly tried to take off the outer robe and return it to Gu Yan but was stopped by the latter pulling his wrist.
Ye Zi said with a red face: “You……put your clothes on first to avoid misunderstandings.”
“So what if they misunderstand?” From the moment Wen Yi uttered those words, Gu Yan realized what the man was thinking. However, he never cared about other people’s opinions, not to mention that when the two of them went in to discuss the matter, the misunderstanding would naturally be resolved.
But seeing Ye Zi’s embarrassed appearance, Gu Yan couldn’t help but tease: “We’re already married, A Zi, isn’t it normal for couples to do those things?”
Ye Zi immediately retorted: “Even so, not in broad daylight……that is t-t-too wrong!”
Having said this, Gu Yan quickly followed up: “In other words, it’s okay if we’re at home?”
Ye Zi understood the meaning of his words and blushed all the way from his face to his ears as he said with difficulty: “That…….that won’t be possible either.”
Gu Yan narrowed his eyes and pressed: “Why not?”
“Because……because……” Ye Zi was so embarrassed that his brain wasn’t functioning anymore. He hesitated for a long time and finally regained some sense in his chaotic brain: “Because you are still recuperating and the doctor won’t let you!”
Gu Yan: “……”
He thought he could fool him, but he didn’t expect it to fail.
Gu Yan didn’t say anything else and pulled Ye Zi into the courtyard.
As soon as they walked in, they heard Pei Wan’er’s angry voice: “Sigh, I said to only put in three scoops, that’s five scoops…..No, no, that’ll only make the flames bigger, fan it gently…..Forget it, I’ll do it myself, you’re too clumsy.”
Wen Yi was decocting medicine for Wen Zhi.
He was the son of the Duke of Protection, when had he ever been looked down upon like this? He dodged to avoid Pei Wan’er’s hand and droned: “I’ll do it myself, it’s just decocting medicine, do you think I don’t know how?”
Pei Wan’er glared at him: “I don’t care if you know or don’t know how, but I’m afraid if you mess up, Sister Wen won’t be able to drink it.”
Wen Yi paused in his movements and then handed her the fan: “Then you do it.”
Pei Wan’er sat down in front of the fire and raised her eyebrows: “Watch and learn.”
Wen Yi had a stomach full of anger with nowhere to release it. Turning his head, he saw Gu Yan and Ye Zi walk in, still with that disheveled look.
He was about to have a fit when Gu Yan took the lead first: “Just now, I was boating on the lake with A Zi and happened upon someone who fell into the water. After we rescued him, our clothes got wet.”
He didn’t say anything about the Fifth Imperial Prince. Although Wen Yi had reconciled with them now, that person was still the Duke of Protection’s son and was not on the same boat as them.
Learning the truth, Wen Yi’s expression became even more ugly. He stammered something out and turned to escape into Wen Zhi’s room.
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“Hey, weren’t you going to watch me decoct the medicine?” Pei Wan’er called out behind him, but Wen Yi only closed the door with a bang as if he didn’t hear her.
Pei Wan’er muttered: “What kind of general is this? He’s so reckless and clumsy……”
Gu Yan pushed Ye Zi closer to the fire to dry his clothes and asked: “Miss Wan’er, did Dr. Pei leave already?”
Pei Wan’er nodded: “Brother still has something to do at the clinic so he went back first. I’ll be taking care of Sister Wen for the next few days, Your Majesty needn’t worry.”
Gu Yan said: “That’s fine, then thank you Miss Wan’er for your troubles.”
“No trouble, no trouble at all. Sister Wen is a nice and pretty person, I like staying with her. But this General Wen……” Pei Wan’er looked in the direction of the bamboo house with disgust, “He doesn’t know how to do anything and is super fierce. Just now, when I asked him to fetch water, he went out and then came right back in without a drop of water in his bucket.”
Gu Yan and Ye Zi glanced at each other and didn’t say anything else.
There was no change of clothes in the bamboo house so Ye Zi dried his clothes by the fire before leaving with Gu Yan. Originally, Wen Yi was also supposed to go back with them, but he refused to go with the two, saying he wanted to stay with Wen Zhi for a while longer and sent the two away in a hurry.
Commandery Princess Changning’s “corpse” stayed in the mourning hall for three days before Emperor Jinghe granted permission for her to be buried with the rites of a Princess. Since then, Commandery Princess Changning had completely disappeared from this world.
With Wen Zhi’s matter properly resolved and Wen Yi’s misunderstanding about Ye Zi also resolved—with the promise to help keep his identity a secret—the two finally had a few days of peace.
The news that the Fifth Imperial Prince had fallen into the water soon spread from the palace.
It was said that the Able Consort and the Virtuous Consort were going for an outing outside the city that day. The Pure Consort had a good relationship with the Able Consort in the past, but on the day of the outing, the Pure Consort happened to have something to do and could not leave the palace. The Fifth Imperial Prince desperately wanted to go outside, so the Pure Consort had no choice but to ask the Able Consort to take care of the Fifth Imperial Prince.
The Fifth Imperial Prince took a young eunuch with him to go fishing in the middle of the lake. Unexpectedly, the boat they were in suddenly leaked and burst. The young eunuch, who took the Fifth Imperial Prince and jumped into the lake, drowned on the spot. The Fifth Imperial Prince was very lucky and happened to meet Prince Rui and Princess Consort Rui while they were boating on the lake and was saved by Princess Consort Rui.
When the Pure Consort learned the news, she fainted on the spot. Fortunately, the Fifth Imperial Prince only caught a slight cold and was bedridden for half a month without any major injuries.
This morning, Ye Zi was helping Gu Yan with his court clothes.
Gu Yan had been sick for a month and pretended to be sick for a few more months, claiming to be bedridden to the outside world. But once word came out that he had rescued the Fifth Imperial Prince while on a lake trip outside the city, Gu Yan couldn’t continue to pretend to be sick and a few days later, he went to court as usual.
After Ye Zi sent Gu Yan out of the manor, he headed back to the room alone.
He had something on his mind recently.
Speaking of which, it was true that he hadn’t been close to Gu Yan for a long time.
The closest they had been to each other should have been that day in the Summer palace when Gu Yan thought that he had been drugged with an aphrodisiac and wanted to help him.
Recalling what happened that day, Ye Zi seemed to still be able to feel that person pressing against him, so eager and fierce. He was so frightened by Gu Yan at that time that he couldn’t care about anything else, but now that he thought about it carefully, he realized that although he was a little scared, he was not that disgusted.
Therefore, after Gu Yan mentioned it to him in a roundabout way that day, the thought had always been in Ye Zi’s heart.
Ye Zi had heard people say before that if a couple doesn’t get close to each other for a long time after marriage, their relationship would slowly fade away. And because the room was always empty, both parties might also go out in search of other people.
Ye Zi wasn’t too worried about the latter, but the former…..
Gu Yan had been treating him very well, but if things continued to stay this way, would Gu Yan start to become critical of him?
And as time went on, would he no longer understand the appeal and start liking him less and less?
Qiu Tang and Qiu Luo came in to serve tea. When they saw Ye Zi staring at the table with his chin propped up, Qiu Tang laughed: “What’s wrong, Your Highness? Are you missing His Majesty already even though he just left?”
Qiu Luo refilled the teapot for Ye Zi and also added: “His Highness is definitely not used to it. In the past few months, His Majesty stayed at home every day and didn’t leave much. However, now he has to go to the morning court and also the government post to deal with certain affairs, and can only return in the afternoon.”
Ye Zi shook his head: “That doesn’t bother me. I’m just a little worried……”
Qiu Tang asked: “Worried about what?”
Ye Zi said thoughtlessly: “Worried that he doesn’t like me anymore.”
“How could that be!” Qiu Tang exclaimed, “His Majesty likes you so much, how could you think that?”
Qiu Luo also added: “Indeed! Your Highness and His Majesty are so in love with each other that you guys practically share the same heart, becoming the envy of so many people.”
Ye Zi raised his eyes to look at them and whispered: “But don’t they say that the relationship between husband and wife will always fade? And……”
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He pursed his lips, it wasn’t a good idea to bring up such things with two little girls so he didn’t say any more.
Qiu Tang said: “I read in storybooks that the relationship between husband and wife will fade away which is why they need some surprises and excitement to make the days more interesting. Your Highness, do you want to give it a try?”
For a moment, Ye Zi didn’t understand the deeper meaning of her words and asked: “What should I do?”
Qiu Tang looked at Ye Zi somewhat embarrassedly and lowered her voice: “Since the Prince had been sick, it must have been some time since Your Highness last slept with His Majesty, right?”
Ye Zi was silent for a moment; it wasn’t “some time,” it was “never.”
Seeing that Ye Zi didn’t answer, Qiu Tang added: “These things must be done so that His Majesty will like you more and more and become more and more inseparable from you.”
No one knew what Ye Zi suddenly thought of, but his cheeks turned slightly red: “But……but he is still recuperating right now and the doctor doesn’t allow him…..”
Qiu Luo, who hadn’t interrupted until now, finally couldn’t help but ask: “Your Highness, sometimes when couples get intimate, it doesn’t always have to be the other partner doing everything. Why don’t you try……to take the initiative?”
Qiu Tang nodded and immediately added: “That’s right, you should try and take the initiative.”
Ye Zi was dumbfounded: “H-How should I take the initiative?”
These two girls were only in their teens and could give him ideas from what they had read, but they had little experience, let alone make suggestions to Ye Zi.
Qiu Tang thought for a while and said regretfully: “Wasn’t there the ‘Diary of a Prince’s Manor?’ It’s a pity that that book hasn’t been available since the second volume or else it might have been a helpful reference.”
Qiu Luo’s hand shook as she pretended to be calm: “You also know that it is just a storybook, how can something in a storybook be taken seriously?”
Qiu Tang hesitantly said: “But I think it’s written quite well, can’t it be taken seriously?”
“……Of course not!”
Ye Zi held his chin and was lost in thought, not paying attention to their conversation.
Since the second volume, Gu Yan would send someone to buy all of them back every time they were sold. So now on the market, the book had long been in short supply and was extremely difficult to find.
In the eyes of outsiders, this book had become a unique item that was hard to find.
But only Ye Zi knew that after Gu Yan bought those storybooks, he would destroy them, leaving only a few books that were now placed in the study.
Ye Zi sent away the two maidservants. He struggled internally for a long time, finally made up his mind, and quietly entered the study.
Gu Yan liked to tease Ye Zi with the storybook and never hid the location of where he placed them. Ye Zi stood on his tiptoe and searched for a while on the bookshelf, and soon pulled out several thin booklets from the depths of the bookshelf.
Ye Zi took a deep breath, and in the spirit of learning, flipped open one of the books and got serious.
As he read, he strained his ears to pay attention to the movements outside the door.
The descriptions in the storybook were bold and unbridled and Ye Zi quickly turned red after reading it. He didn’t know how much time had passed, but he suddenly heard slight footsteps and voices coming from outside the door.
“What is he doing in the study?”
“This servant doesn’t know, His Highness has been in the study all afternoon today……”
Hearing the familiar voice, Ye Zi stood up and hurriedly tried to stuff the storybook back into the bookshelf. But when he got up, he accidentally tripped over the corner of the table, lost his balance, and hit his shoulder hard on the bookshelf.
Gu Yan pushed open the door just in time to hear the thud.
With a cry of surprise, the books on the bookshelf came crashing down, burying the man under in a small mountain of books.
