Chapter 1.5 Shen Qi
"Third brother, hey! Mu Xuan!!"
The Second Prince shouted after Mu Xuan, who only walked faster, hearing his voice, but who knew that the Third Prince could be so fast and quickly caught up to him.
The Third Prince put his shoulder over Mu Xuan's shoulders and pulled him closer, he gripped his shoulders tightly, not letting Mu Xuan escape.
"What do you want?"
Mu Xuan's eye twitched, and he grit his teeth, seeing his idiotic brother looking at him with a knowing smile.
"Hehehe... What are you talking about? Can't I see you because I miss you, it's not that I only see you when I need you."
The Second Prince smiled shamelessly, then puckered his lips.
Mu Xuan pushed the Second Prince's face away from his face. If only he were not his brother, then he would have long ago slain this person into two!
"Ow! You're no fun at all!"
The Second Prince pouted and then playfully smiled.
"Don't you want to know what I came here for? You know about hehe... lil princess."
He paused. When he heard that it was about Shen Qi, it caught Mu Xuan's attention immediately.
"What about her? Did something happen to her, or is someone trying to assassinate her again? Tell me!"
"Wowowwow... Easy brother, it's not like I'm the bringer of bad news to you, well technically sometimes I do, but that's not the point and that's not what I'm here for."
"Then what is it? Can't you just directly get to the point!"
Seeing Mu Xuan turn serious, the Second Prince did not dare joke around with him anymore and told him the juicy piece of news and the deal he had with his lil princess.
Mu Xuan listened intently to this idiotic brother of his, and what he heard made him raise his brow; his eyes flashed with different kinds of complicated emotions.
"..... so that's it. Say, Third brother, what did you do to make my lil princess so angry at you that she could not even bear the sight of you? Did you....."
The Third Prince looked at Mu Xuan up and down, and, as if understanding the situation, shook his head.
He looked at him pitifully.
"What are you looking at? Do you want me to make you unable to see?"
Mu Xuan threatened.
He knew what that look in his idiotic and overly imaginative brother's eyes was about, and he could not help but shiver in disgust at the thought.
"What? I'm just looking, you know. Besides, I know you don't have the guts to do it because you are afraid of angering my lil princess more!"
The Second Prince was smug.
"Do you think that I won't dare? Get in my nerves one more time, and I'll feed you to the wolves."
Mu Xuan did not stay long and left immediately after he said those words to warn his brother.
The Second Prince shivered in fear; he knew that Mu Xuan was serious. He will really feed him to the wolves the next time he angers him!
'Oh well, I have my lil princess to protect me if that time ever does come!'
The Second Prince smiled widely and shrugged off what Mu Xuan told him. He knew that Mu Xuan would never dare!
'Yup! Mu Xuan would never dare!'
Mu Xuan: I don't dare! I don't want my cute little 'sister' to get angry with me the second time if I were to hurt that idiotic Prince brother of mine! I don't dare!
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Shen Qi did not know what kind of trouble she had caused someone and was only leisurely sitting on her garden drinking tea.
The weather was fine that day with clear blue skies and fresh breeze, Shen Qi decided to have a peaceful day just leisurely passing her day but the Second Prince just had to arrive ruining the beautiful morning.
"Hello, lil princess!" The Second Prince appeared out of nowhere.
"Second brother, do you need something from me?" Shen Qi smiled politely but her actions differed from her attitude, she did not let him sit and even glared at him telling him that he is not welcome.
"Hehe... lil princess, how did you know that this handsome brother of yours indeed need your help? Can it be the Legendary telepathy between siblings?!"
Shen Qi rolled her eyes as she listened to her Second brothers bullshitting again, she thought that he was a normal person at first but a book could really not be judged by it's cover.
"Second brother, stop your nonsense. This princess does not need that "Legendary" telepathy between siblings, all this princess needed is to look at your face and I could immediately guess what you are planning. So tell me, what do you want?" Shen Qi raised an eyebrow as she look at her brother patiently.
"Hehe... lil princess really knows me best, well... you see lil princess, I promised Mu Xuan to go with him this afternoon outside the palace to "sightsee" but I did not expect to receive an urgent mission from the Emperor and could now only turn to you to asked for a favour. Can you go with Mu Xuan in my place?"
Shen Qi was about to say something but the Second Prince did not give her a chance to reject and quickly cut her off.
"I know that you are still mad t him but you promised to make peace with him, I know that I am asking for too much but I can't really cancel this plan! Mu Xuan, Mu Xuan was really looking forward to this. You knew that he was always at the border protecting us from the invaders, he spent almost half of his life there and did not even had the chance to huhuhu.... Can't you please help brother just this once? Don't your heart ache just thinking about it, you know breaking his heart? He was really looking forward to this trip you know, please go with him in my place won't you?" The Second Prince whined while shedding crocodile tears, he did invite Mu Xuan to go outside the palace with him but not the other way around and also the Emperor never did give him an important mission! All of this were just his plan to let the two siblings make up, what a brilliant plan if only the target was not Shen Qi!!
Shen Qi rolled her eyes as she watch her Second brother shed crocodile tears, he is really bad in his acting.
Shen Qi did not plan on rejecting his offer even if he do not resort to such tricks, his plan is perfect for her, now that she had a reason to be with her target why would she reject an invitation from heaven?
She was already getting bored of this peaceful life already so why not start the game already and mess this story up!
"That's sad..." Shen Qi bit her lip "Can't brother really go?"
"Brother is really sorry but the Emperor gave your brother a very important task sigh.... It would really make me guilty if I break my promise with Mu Xuan, he, he was so looking forward with this trip..." The Second Prince covered his face to let Shen Qi see how miserable he really is, not hearing a response he peak at her on the crack between his fingers.
Seeing her hesitating, the Second Prince could not help but let out a feint smile but then quickly replaced it by a frown when Shen Qi look at him.
"Sigh... I don't have any choice on this matter, right? I did promise you to make up with him so maybe this is a perfect chance for us to clear up the matters between us and start anew. Don't worry brother, I'll go with him in your place."
"Really? Thank you, very much my lil princess! Hehe... Then I'll go tell Mu Xuan about this then, bye!" Hearing her answer the Second Prince's gloomy sad look quickly change into a big bright smile and then he quickly ran away, afraid that Shen Qi would change her mind if he stayed any longer.
When the Second Prince disappeared from Shen Qi's line of sight, she could not help but crack a laugh and then a full loud laugh.
"Let the game begin..."