Chapter 906: Chapter 722: Her Family’s Evildoer Has Good Looks
A tall figure dressed in purple-gold imperial robes, with a jade belt around his waist, made the evildoer’s stature even more slender and upright. His chest attire was slightly disheveled from her tugging just now, the collar slightly open, revealing half of his strong chest…
Faintly visible, extremely alluring.
He leaned leisurely against the canopy of her bed, his gaze smiling, looking at her with ease.
Gu Changsheng suddenly felt her breath tighten.
What is meant by a handsome man like a painting? This is it! Absolutely captivating!
Gu Changsheng glared hatefully at the evildoer, causing a low chuckle from him. Annoyed, Gu Changsheng could only turn away in anger and sit at the dressing table to start removing the pearl flowers from her hair.
Zhou Mu waved his hand at Si Xi, motioning for him to put the nightgown aside and leave. Then he turned around and approached Gu Changsheng from behind, raised his hand, helping her remove the flower adornment from her hair, and placed the crown aside as well. He picked up a comb and gently began to brush her long hair.
Zhou Mu’s fingers were very long. Gu Changsheng lay on the dressing mirror, resting her chin, watching his slender fingers weave through her hair, suddenly feeling that this scene was beautiful, a delight to behold.
“You haven’t told me, why are you in such a good mood today?” pouted Gu Changsheng, speaking softly.
Clearly, before leaving after eating the hot pot, his mood wasn’t so good. Why so relaxed after coming back?
“Nothing,” Zhou Mu curved his lips.
“Do you think I’m a fool?” Gu Changsheng rolled her eyes. Although she seemed a bit carefree, she was very sensitive, okay? Especially her instincts, she instinctively felt that the current Zhou Mu was unprecedentedly relaxed, like removing a straw that weighed upon him, a sense of relief…
“Haha… if you were a fool, you’d be the cutest fool on earth!”
“Ahem!” Gu Changsheng choked on this blatant love talk, turned around, angrily looking at the man holding a comb in one hand and toying with her long hair in the other, silently accusing him.
Zhou Mu let her look as she wished, the corners of his mouth smiling, unmoved.
Gu Changsheng looked at his exquisite face like a divine residence, so close, she could faintly feel his body warmth and the subtle scent of ambergris filling her nose. Her cheeks warmed involuntarily, succumbing without resistance, and turned back to look at the dressing mirror.
Damn it, so useless! Pathetically useless!
It’s just looking at a handsome man, why blush? Why blush?
This is an illness! It needs treatment!
Gu Changsheng leaned on her chin, allowing Zhou Mu to comb through her long hair, pouting and thinking angrily that when Hongyan Jiaojiao captured some handsome young men, she’d gaze until she was satisfied!
What’s so great about handsome men? You’ll build immunity after seeing them enough, won’t you?
Damn it, every time she stared at the evildoer’s face for too long, she’d blush and her heart would race. To avoid being so useless, she had to give herself enough preventative measures! Hmph!
That’s how it’ll be done!
“Changsheng, if the old man looks for you…” still gently combing her long hair, Zhou Mu spoke softly.
“Hmm?” Gu Changsheng responded with a puzzled hum.
“Then help him, let him live for another twenty years or so,” Zhou Mu smiled, finishing the words he left unsaid.
“What?” Gu Changsheng was startled, abruptly turning, grabbing Zhou Mu’s sleeve, and looking up at the man behind her, speaking incredulously, “You met him? You talked? You want me to help him nurse his body?”
Has he really let it go? That matter ten years ago, which had haunted her evildoer all this time, never letting him find joy, and now, he wanted her to help Emperor Zhoulin nurse his body, has he truly let it go?
“Mmm,” Zhou Mu nodded, giving her a confirmed answer, then straightened her body, “Be proper, if tugging hurts your hair, you can’t blame me.”
“Mmm mmm!” Gu Changsheng responded, her brows lightly furrowed, “Evildoer, calculating it all, that matter wasn’t really the old man’s fault. From ancient times, emperors have been called lonely kings; he punished his child with intentions of cultivating a perseverant and ruthless emperor’s mindset. Because once you ascend the throne, granting life or death on a whim would mean many would lose their lives because of a word from you, that’s the real test of a person’s disposition. The power of the emperor cannot tolerate the slightest sentiment…”
Speaking of these things, Gu Changsheng empathized deeply.
In the battle with Southern Chen, although she hadn’t harmed the ordinary populace, she had slaughtered hundreds of thousands of the elite army of Southern Chen, those who believed in the Sima Clan…
This is the way of the king; when she restored the Phoenix Clan at the Southern Border and incorporated Southern Chen into the Southern Country, her path to emperorship was no different, treading on countless corpses, one bloody step at a time towards the supreme throne?
A king’s wrath, corpses were abandoned for miles, rivers of blood flowing, it’s no lie!
“I know, in the end, I didn’t cultivate the perseverance to endure hardship and cultivate a cold-blooded and ruthless emperor’s disposition! It’s me who failed his expectations…” Zhou Mu nodded, hands continuously moving, “My Father King, because the Imperial Grandmother was the old man’s beloved in this life, was born with the utmost love and care, resulting in a weak and vengeful temperament. My existence threatened his position as Crown Prince. He and Royal Mother plotted to eliminate me, resulting in…”
As a result, there was a great fire in the Eastern Palace; he survived, while his Father King was personally pushed into the fire pit by him!
This is the ending. His Father King calculated against his life, and the old man used his Father’s life to plot his growth…
This is the Imperial Family…
Gu Changsheng stretched a hand behind her, grabbing the garment of the person behind her, silently comforting them.
A disease of the heart can only be cured by heart medicine. She was not involved in this matter and could not provide comfort.
“So, Changsheng, he calculated everything, his heart was bent on having me inherit this Imperial Throne, but I won’t let him have his way. You should worry a bit, let him live a bit longer!” Zhou Mu withdrew his thoughts and gently rubbed her head with a smile.
“Alright!” Gu Changsheng nodded without hesitation, “When we entered the Capital City, during that brief encounter, the old man’s complexion didn’t look too good. Who knows what hidden ailment he has…”
“No matter what it is, make sure he lives another ten or twenty years, at least fifteen!” Zhou Mu said.
Gu Changsheng blinked at these words, and nodded ambiguously, “As you wish!”
The two of them discussed it seemingly mindlessly, and before going to sleep, Gu Changsheng thought about giving a heads-up to the guards of the Traveling palace; if Emperor Zhoulin comes again, they shouldn’t stop him at the Palace Gate!
That wouldn’t be good, after all, hasn’t his grandson spoken by the pillow already?
Zhou Mu felt that this life was not living like life, thus, the next morning, a certain evildoer, dissatisfied with desire, got up early before Mr. Ban Shan woke up, and gave orders to the female officials in the Traveling palace, “Send someone to welcome, make sure the Lord comes to the Capital City as soon as possible!”
“Uh… Imperial Husband, sir has already sent three groups to welcome…” The female official had cold sweat on her face, how anxious could he be?
“Then send a fourth wave, a fifth wave! Do I need to teach you?” Zhou Mu glared.
“…” Three black lines were hanging down from the female official’s forehead, she stammered, “This lowly servant will do it now!”
Only then did Zhou Mu turn around angrily, uh, and climbed over the wall…
He was going to check the wedding preparations, though he didn’t need to worry about it, he insisted on inspecting it personally!
The proposals, the gifts, the bridal send-off, none of them could be taken lightly; he vowed to make Changsheng’s wedding glorious, unmatched by anyone!
Among the etiquettes of giving gifts and sending off the bride, it often required clan ladies to show up. Although his Changsheng brought many female officials, they were not family members. Zhou Mu was quite worried about this, as he hadn’t been around the Capital City for over ten years, and he disdained the intrigues of those Imperial Uncles and brothers within the Imperial Clan. Now, he truly didn’t know how to find one or two genuine clan ladies to make things perfect for his Changsheng.
Although many wanted to curry favor and woo him, none of it was sincere, and he scorned that!
Therefore, because of this, not only was Zhou Mu troubled, but even Yuan Bao and others were stressed!
His own lord’s requirements were too stringent, wanting genuine feelings and true intentions. Godfather, maybe in a common family that’s okay, but this is the Imperial Family?
The marriages within the Imperial Family, which one isn’t for the sake of interests and alliances? To choose a few who are not blinded by desire or adept at flattery from the Zhou Family’s Imperial Clan, it’s really a bit difficult, a bit difficult!
However, while the Crown Prince’s Palace was worried about finding a clan lady, a certain gluttonous Commandery Prince came with his own Princess Consort to seek the Crown Prince through the back door!
And at this time, Gu Changsheng, who had just finished breakfast, received an invitation sent from the palace.
It was a personal invitation from Emperor Zhoulin, under the guise of Zhou Mu’s grandfather and not His Majesty of Great Zhou, inviting Gu Changsheng to the palace for a chat.
Mr. Ban Shan saw the invitation and was so angry that his beard trembled, “No manners! No manners! This is simply too devoid of manners!”
Mr. Ban Shan pointed at the invitation, angrily, “If Emperor Zhoulin invited you as His Majesty of Great Zhou, it would be one thing, it could be considered a state affair, but he actually invited you as Zhou Mu’s grandfather! What kind of behavior is this? Have you ever seen a bride who hasn’t entered the door go to see her father-in-law?”
“Ahem… Foster Father, calm down.” Gu Changsheng, who had already changed into her Imperial Robes, saw her Foster Father in a fit of rage and quickly spoke to appease him.
Well, now she felt balanced because even Emperor Zhoulin was lacking manners in her Foster Father’s words! Tsk tsk…
Actually, Emperor Zhoulin was quite unjustly accused; he wanted to enter her Traveling palace but was refused at the gate, wasn’t he? There weren’t just one or two messages sent under the guise of His Majesty of Zhou Country, weren’t they all thrown aside by her?
If he was not forced into a corner, he would never send a message inviting her under the guise of Zhou Mu’s grandfather, nor do something so lacking in manners!
Thinking about the matter Zhou Mu entrusted to her last night, Gu Changsheng pondered for a moment, then accepted the invitation, planning to meet Emperor Zhoulin in the palace.
Mr. Ban Shan was originally unwilling, but since Gu Changsheng insisted, he could only give in and let her have her way!
Thus, Gu Changsheng got ready, and for the first time, the entourage of the Southern Emperor stepped out of the Heavenly Palace Traveling Palace’s gates, but as they reached the Palace Gate, Gu Changsheng frowned and called to halt the Imperial Carriage…