LEGEND OF THE CROWN PRINCESS

Epsiode 26 - Back to the store

Hu Yazhu's journey in pursuit of intruders secretly was arguably so stressful, after being investigated apparently at the Western end of the Royal Forest the intruders had already made a private headquarters. Regardless of whose help Hu Yazhu had yet to find any clues, the gate to the outside of the Forest that General Ping had been guarding was still standing firmly. If it wasn't for the insiders who sucked them in, it would be impossible to just enter.

The most gripping time when people there perform ritual offerings at the expense of a small child who was almost slaughtered in front of a group of people. Hu Yazhu and the soldiers quickly surrounded them, although Hu Yazhu's army was few and few, but he remained optimistic about slaughtering all the followers of the cult.

When on the verge of worry Hu Yazhu immediately prioritized himself to save the child who was being held captive, he said, the agile movements of Hu Yazhu and the sword moves he played to slash the heads of those people were so charming.

After the dinner, Ryu packed his things with the servants he had to take home. "Miss Ryu, I've prepared all the clothes!"

"Servant Hu, there is no need to bring all the items from the Pavilion home. After all, my grandfather's shop was so narrow, it definitely wouldn't fit this much stuff.

Not to mention, this hand that was forced to carry. Prince Long's carriage might be instantly dilapidated!"

"Miss Ryu take it easy, Long Kingdom's horse carriage will not be as broken as that of Commander Hu." Long Chen appeared suddenly standing beside Ryu, like the lead in the comics he did not even hear the rumors as he approached towards Ryu Ito.

"Prince Long, don't insult someone when he's not here. However I am his future wife, I can beat you up to represent him!" Ryu raised his eyebrows giving a light warning to Long Chen, although he did not mean it but he also did not mess around. Seeing Hu Yazhu still not coming home until now made him worry about the man's safety. Ryu thought he should not have asked Commander Hu to examine the bastards he had tied up in the forest.

After everything was done and Ryu was finally ready to leave with Prince Long, he sat down next to the young man. The clumsy feeling of strangling Ryu's neck made him uncomfortable especially Long Chen who had not let go of his eyes from him made him even more wrong.

"Remove your eyes from me!" Ryu glared at Long Chen sinisterly, his hands folded in front of his chest while leaning against the shoulder of the horse carriage.

Long Chen could only grin but not take his eyes off, he deliberately approached Ryu then turned Ryu's face to look at him. "You look more beautiful when you are angry, even though you are already known as the future wife of Commander Hu, I will still not give up!"

"Do you have any trauma or anything? Are you a maniac?" Ryu shook his head slowly then distanced his gaze from Long Chen.

"I lost my future wife when I was eight. If he was there now I wouldn't be a half-crazy man like this."

Ryu stunned. "Prospective Wife?" most likely the thoughts of the two of them were the same, the one that Long Chen meant was Ryu or Yijin himself.

"He was the best candidate of the best, he even cried three days and three nights when our matchmaking plan was announced."

Ryu glared but directly avoided Long Chen's gaze. "So happy was she to cry three days and three nights? Cih, what is he proud of?"

"If she doesn't want to, do you still want to force her to be your wife?"

"I want to have her, but in the end she's getting married too so rather than letting her be with someone else I'd rather stick to our matchmaking plan!"

Ryu knew what Long Chen meant, the sadness he felt from every look on Long Chen's face was ethereal. Seeing the weakness of this man who had always been tough made his heart ache a little, there must be a lot of things that Long Chen went through when he disappeared. Remembering, whenever there was a problem this man before him always ran and told him everything. He is not a man who is easily open to others but on Yijin he became a different figure.

"Sometimes I feel like you're so familiar with her!" Long Chen grabbed the soft face of Ryu Ito and brought his face closer to Ryu, he rubbed the soft lips of Ryu. His cheeks were already so blushing, not least to Ryu he felt the same way as Long Chen.

But he realized, when Hu Yazhu's shadow came to his mind he immediately pushed Long Chen away from him. "Prince, we'll be here soon. Don't waste time here it's better that you go home as soon as I drop off my luggage!"

Long Chen smiled subtly, he tidied up his clothes then sat back down firmly. He cleared his throat slowly and nodded and without saying anything more. Arriving in front of Grandpa Asahi's tavern, Long Chen helped Ryu get off the horse carriage. The three servants of Ryu also came down and took out all the luggage from the other horse carriage.

Ryu is warmly welcomed by Grandpa Asahi, Huo Sijue and Akira. At the sight of Ryu, Huo Sijue was so excited that even his eyes sparkled out stars. Ryu cheerfully hugs his Grandfather and Akira asks them news after the last time he left them in a bad state. But considering that it was part of her grandfather's plan, Ryu would not stop asking the old man questions tonight.

"You didn't hug me?"

"Silvia!" Ryu walked over and clasped the man tightly, it was fortunate that the man was still alive. Ryu guessed after he was suspected by Hu Yazhu of being related to the Aera Tribe rebellion, Huo Sijue would become a victim of Hu Yazhu's cruelty but thankfully it didn't happen.

"Miss Ryu," said Prince Long Chen who was preparing to leave from there.

"Be careful on the Prince's way!"

Grandfather Asahi approached and shook Prince Long's hand. "It's nice to see the Prince again" he said.

Prince Long was seen trying to remember Grandpa Asahi's face, after he clearly remembered he only realized that Grandpa Asahi was the person who had once treated his pox with a simple medicinal herb. Long Chen immediately shook Grandpa Asahi's hand and saluted him.

"The Prophet lives here, is Miss Ryu your granddaughter?"

Grandpa Asahi nodded slowly. "True, he's my first grandchild." But as Long Chen recalled, the only grandchild he had brought when treating him ill was the three-year-old little girl and obviously it was not Ryu Ito.