Chapter 37: Blind Dog Eyes
“Creak—”
Pushing open the door, Bai Su stepped over the threshold first, looking up at Li Qingchi who was leaning against a pillar outside with his arms crossed.
The man’s handsome and cool face wore an unruly expression. His eyebrows slanted into his temples, his nose bridge was high, his thin lips were tightly pursed, and his pitch-black eyes clearly reflected the lush bushes nearby without a trace of anyone else, exuding an arrogant temperament of a hermit hiding in the city.
Bai Su lowered her brows, turned back to bow with clasped hands towards the doorway, bending respectfully: “Your Highness.”
Her honorific address came from heartfelt worship.
Leaving everything else aside, for Huangfu Changan to go from a hopeless dead fatty, persisting all the way to now with her own resourcefulness and perseverance amidst ridicule and attacks from all sides, transforming from an ugly silkworm chrysalis into a radiant butterfly… Just this point alone was enough to be impressive and sincerely admired.
Asking herself honestly, she, Bai Su, couldn’t do it. She didn’t have such courage, such broad-mindedness, nor such ability to withstand blows.
In Huangfu Changan, she seemed to see a uniquely spectacular brilliance. She had a premonition that this child, endowed with new life by the heavens, would one day definitely lead the Yelang Dynasty, a weak nation eyed covetously by powerful enemies, to an unprecedented peak, creating a glory that would go down in history…
Calling out once and seeing no movement from Huangfu Changan, Bai Su couldn’t help but lower her brows to look inside the room.
She saw Huangfu Changan holding a bronze hand mirror in one hand and a folding fan in the other, carefully arranging her hair. Finally, she looked left, right, up, and down, before nodding with satisfaction, spitting out a word from her red lips and white teeth: “Handsome!”
Bai Su’s knees trembled slightly, having the urge to kneel…
The thoughts just now were all hallucinations. This guy in front of her, narcissistic enough to make one want to kick her onto the wall so hard she couldn’t be pried off, was the real one!
“Your Highness! Can we go?”
“What’s the rush? You haven’t been fat, you can’t understand This Palace’s agitated mood. This Palace has been mocked for so many years, and now finally can exhale proudly! Of course, I have to display my most handsome and perfect posture to blind those bastards’ titanium alloy dog eyes! Let those self-righteous guys be so inferior in front of This Palace that they can’t lift their heads!… By the way, is that kid Li Qingchi here?”
Bai Su turned her head sideways, glanced at the unruly figure with his back to the door, silently stepped back two paces, and put on an expression of watching a good show.
“He is right outside the door.”
“Ha! I’ll go scare him…”
Huangfu Changan slapped her folding fan, strode out with large steps, walking with the wind, lifting the hem embroidered with the totem of nine dragons soaring in the sky with gold threads. It refracted a patch of brilliant golden flowing light under the sunlight, extremely magnificent, dazzling, and blinding.
A set of brocade robes with white background and gold borders complemented that exquisite and handsome face carved like jade. The eyes, seemingly smiling yet not, were full of charm, making one… fall in love at first sight, and topple a city at second sight.
Li Qingchi had heard Huangfu Changan’s voice long ago, but he resisted as usual, not wanting to have any involvement with her. So he leaned against the pillar with his back to the door, looking up at the towering locust tree in the courtyard, privately thinking that tree was much more pleasing to the eye than that dead fatty!
Ever since the day he was played by Huangfu Changan and nearly demolished the courtyard in rage, and was later ambushed by that jerk while fighting Bai Su, wrapped like a cocoon and hung on the tree for three days and three nights, he had never stepped half a foot into this courtyard again! If not for the old Daoist priest earnestly keeping him in the Daoist temple to research improvements for crossbows and chariots, even if he defied the imperial decree, he would definitely leave this infuriating Imperial City and return to his border fortress to be a carefree general!
To have him serve that waste, he might as well die directly on the battlefield!
However, after that, Li Qingchi hadn’t seen Huangfu Changan again. Staying for more than two months without the harassment of a certain idiot, it felt a bit like a paradise. The old Daoist priest was also a man of profound knowledge. With his accumulated theoretical knowledge combined with his own practical experience, he slowly figured out several powerful and easy-to-control weapons, making his heart itch unbearably, eager to take them to the army for field exercises.
That was why when Huangfu Changan said she wanted to return to the palace, he forcibly suppressed a basket full of resentment in his heart and rarely took the initiative to cooperate with her once.
Thinking that Huangfu Changan would come over to harass him, Li Qingchi arrogantly held his head high, determined that no matter how she ordered him, he would firmly, resolutely, ignore her!
However, after waiting for a while, there was no sound from Huangfu Changan.
Lowering his eyes, he only saw a flash of gold-rimmed white clothes, magnificent and coquettish, with a refreshing fragrance, surpassing him back in the day.
Li Qingchi focused his gaze, his eyes subconsciously following upward, landing on the gold-embroidered hem flying in the breeze. The domineering and wild nine-dragon totem was vivid, soaring as if in that white cloud layer as the hem moved, golden light dancing, bright as a deity.
As his gaze moved up, that person just happened to turn around, dashingly opening the folding fan with a flick of the hand, eyebrows and eyes shining, bright as stars.
“Tsk… what kind of look is that? Were you captivated by This Palace? Or could it be… you are jealous that This Palace is handsomer than you?”
Boom—!
A thunderbolt from the clear sky—!
Li Qingchi was, at, that, moment, shocked!
Damn it, this guy is the Crown Prince?! Impossible! He didn’t believe it! He would rather believe that a sow could climb a tree than admit that the graceful and magnificent beauty before him was the formerly unsightly, shameful, flower-wilting, unlucky waste of a Crown Prince!
Li Qingchi expressed that his body and mind suffered huge trauma!
So much so that for a full half cup of tea’s time, he couldn’t close his open mouth, couldn’t retract his widened eyes to their normal shape, couldn’t retract the fingers embedded in the pillar…
“Hey hey hey,” Huangfu Changan closed her folding fan and poked his stiff body, “Stupid?!”
Li Qingchi incredulously reached out to pinch Huangfu Changan’s face skin. It was warm, soft, real, couldn’t be torn off…
“Hiss, it hurts!”
Huangfu Changan slapped his paw away, rubbed her cheek which was pulled painfully, and worried about red marks, so she took out the hand mirror and looked left and right.
Li Qingchi’s eyes stared dead round, still unable to accept the fact that the handsome young man before him was the former fat ball Crown Prince… But that beatable voice, he could recognize it even if she just sneezed!
His hands slowly moved down. Li Qingchi could vaguely remember Huangfu Changan’s bucket-like thick waist, but now when he retracted his hands, he measured only a small waist that was not even a full grip, thin and soft like a woman’s.
Huangfu Changan was a head shorter than Li Qingchi. Being encircled by his arm around the waist like that, she fell into his arms.
Looking up, Li Qingchi’s handsome face was magnified in front of her eyes. The unruly eyebrows and eyes were close at hand, and she could feel even the subtle breathing clearly…
Huangfu Changan closed her eyes, grabbed Li Qingchi’s waist, then stood on tiptoe—and jumped fiercely!
“Crack!”
Li Qingchi’s chin was heavily hit by Huangfu Changan. His jaw was forced to close, almost biting his own tongue. His whole chin went numb from the pain.
“Fuck! What are you doing?!”
“Hmph! This Palace knows This Palace has become handsome, loved by all and blooming like a flower, but that doesn’t mean you can take advantage of This Palace, nor does it mean you can molest This Palace! What are you staring blankly for? Don’t understand human language? Get your claws away from This Palace quickly!”
So cute!
This little thing glaring and staring, even her angry expression was so full of spiritual energy…
Holy crap, truly damn blinded his dog eyes!
Li Qingchi flung his hand, covered his eyes, and knelt painfully on the ground: “Damn it, this isn’t real… It must be that Laozi is blind… It must be that Laozi is blind…!”
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