Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

94. The Encounter with Gongsun Yi

Translator: Flying Lines

Gongsun Yi was not alone. Zhou Zaiyue found it strange too. How did His Highness know this?

Su Jie gave a light laugh. He didn’t say anything but simply revealed the three willow leaf-shaped hidden weapons in his palm with a turn of his hand. The hidden weapons glowed with a dark aura under the sunshine. These were sharp weapons that were used to kill. As they rested silently on the youth’s pale palm, they didn’t look dangerous at all.

But it was at this moment that Gongsun Yi’s expression suddenly turned grim. His gaze sharpened, and the way he looked at Su Jie was full of wariness. “So it was you!”

“It was me. Long time no see.” Su Jie’s expression looked natural as he nodded with a smile on his face. He was acting like he was greeting a close friend he hadn’t seen in many years.

Gongsun Yi’s expression was not as pleasant. He was tight with tension. It was like a frightening energy could erupt out of him at any given moment. There was a wild look in his eyes. His perfect body proportions made him look extremely masculine, however, his eyes seemed to emit a heavy killing intent as if he saw an enemy he would kill or die trying to.

“What are you doing!” The alarm bells inside Zhou Zaiyue’s head were ringing. What was happening? Why did Gongsun Yi have such a big reaction when His Highness the Crown Prince revealed those three slender, curved hidden weapons?

“So you’re the Silver Fox! Why are you with Elder Zhou? Why are you meeting with me?!” Gongsun Yi was not in the mood to mess about now. God knows how much he suffered because of those hidden weapons. At this moment, he saw the weapons’ owner in a new light. How could he not be full of killing intent?

“The Silver Fox?” Su Jie grinned, a bright smile on his face. He calmly put away the three weapons and explained, “Hurting you last time was an accident.”

When Su Jie didn’t have any missions, he lived in City Yang. Therefore, he knew the city like the back of his hands. As for encountering Gongsun Yi, it was a coincidence.

Back then, Su Jie had just received a mission to assassinate someone, and his target was a man who was good at stealing. The man just had to steal something that belonged to Prince Qin. Su Jie followed his orders to kill the bandit. At that time, Su Jie received word that the man was in City Yang and that he was someone who liked to sleep during the day and become active at night.

Therefore, Si Jie locked onto Gongsun Yi——

Gongsun Yi drank alcohol in the courtyard during the day and went outside at night. Even Su Jie couldn’t be blamed for targeting him.

And when he discovered that Gongsun Yi was remarkably vigilant, Su Jie followed Gongsun Yi for many days patiently so that he could assassinate him whenever the chance arose.

During that time, Su Jie had already located all of Gongsun Yi’s residences. And when a suitable chance arose, Su Jie used the hidden weapons to attack Gongsun Yi.

“Who is it!” Despite Gongsun Yi giving an enraged reaction, he didn’t manage to dodge in time. Thus, his left shoulder was stabbed by the hidden weapon. However, as someone who entered battlefields full of blood, Gongsun Yi didn’t lose his fighting spirit that easily. He snorted, and a terrifying energy exploded from within his body. He wanted to kill Su Jie as quickly as possible to turn the tables against him. Yet, when Gongsun Yi struck a few blows against Su Jie, neither of them had the upper hand.

Gongsun Yi was annoyed because his left shoulder was still injured, but the fight dragged on, Gongsun Yi had gained some ground.

“Damnit!” Right at this moment, Su Jie suddenly stopped.

Su Jie’s tone was a little strange. He glanced at Gongsun Yi and then left without another word. Within a few seconds, he was nowhere to be seen.

Gongsun Yi couldn’t help but feel dumbfounded. Nevertheless, he didn’t give chase and tended to his wound instead.

From the start to the end, Gongsun Yi only remembered that the person who attacked him wore a silver fox mask. He appeared suddenly and left peculiarly, and he never showed up again.

Gongsun Yi originally thought that he was attacked because he had attracted some people’s attention. But Su Jie leaving halfway only puzzled Gongsun Yi. Who was the assassin who wore a silver fox mask? Was he only there to injure him?

Because of this, Gongsun Yi left a few of his men in City Yang just to investigate the masked assassin, but he never received any news of the assassin after that.

And now, just when Gongsun Yi was about to forget about that whole event, the hidden weapons in Su Jie’s hands tugged on his memory. Gongsun Yi was frozen at first, but then fury followed. So it turned out the person who used these weapons to attack him was this handsome, harmless-looking young man who had a bright smile.

“An accident?” When he heard that Su Jie’s attack three years ago was an accident, a vein started to throb on Gongsun Yi’s forehead.

Su Jie nodded and said, “It was an accident. I followed the wrong person since you were never my target in the first place.”

Hearing this, Gongsun Yi’s expression flickered for a while. It was certain that anyone who experienced a life-and-death accident wouldn’t feel all that good. Of course, Gongsun Yi was beyond furious. He laughed. But the angrier he got, the calmer he became.

Gongsun Yi wasn’t someone who liked to suffer. No matter how one looked at it, he was an extremely privileged person. However, just as he was ready to fight again with Su Jie, a flash of enlightenment suddenly befell onto him.

As General Ju Liandao’s son, Gongsun Yi knew a lot of secrets, such as… the secret about the missing crown prince of Yanling’s royal court.

Even though Gongsun Yi didn’t have a very deep impression of Zhou Zaiyue, he knew his father had spent many years searching for Yangling’s missing crown prince. Also, despite Zhou Zaiyue not appearing often in Yanling, Ju Liandao would frequently mention Elder Zhou when he spoke with Gongsun Yi in private…

He heard that Elder Zhou was also trying to find Yanling’s crown prince?

Gongsun Yi knew his father revered Zhou Zaiyue a lot, but he had never, even now, felt Zhou Zaiyue was that amazing. However, Gongsun Yi had good observation skills. He discovered that Zhou Zaiyue treated Su Jie with a special attitude.

Zhou Zaiyue was an elder, who was over seventy years old, but this old man treated the red-robed youth with kindness and… a glimmer of hopeful respect.