The Emperor of the Three Realms

chapter 123

Jiang Chen was stunned. He only teased Princess Gouyu and joked with her, intending to slightly intimidate her. Who would have thought that with Princess Gouyu's personality, she would take it so seriously?    

This made it difficult for Jiang Chen to retreat, like he was riding a tiger.    

While chuckling, Jiang Chen walked forward, stretched out his finger and lightly fiddled with Gouyu's straight nose and. “Alright, then I'll take this part and call it even.”    

The moment Jiang Chen reached out his hand, Gouyu's heart almost jumped down his throat. Although she has a strong personality and walks and talks like a man, in the end, she is still a woman.    

She always hid the shame of a girl behind her strong and domineering outer appearance.    

When things really crossed, the jade-like skin of the shy girl, whom no one had touched before, still stiffened involuntarily.    

At one point, he actually thought that Jiang Chen would actually take action.    

Who would have thought that Jiang Chen would take a serious stance towards this simple matter and just tinker with his nose superficially. This situation was very similar to that of an older brother who doted on his younger sister next door warmly and innocently.    

Gouyu's heart was pounding. Although he felt a little disappointed, he also seemed to feel a little relieved. Her girl's heart is in a mess.    

“Come go and meet Ruoer.” Jiang Chen smiled, turned around and took a few steps.    

When Princess Gouyu saw that Jiang Chen really had no ulterior motive, she exhaled a long, relaxed breath and tried to calm her emotions. He gathered his courage again and walked in front of Jiang Chen.    

Her clear eyes and white teeth grew even more beautiful in the morning sun. His eyelashes fluttered lightly, as if he had gathered all the strength in his body to say, “Jiang Chen, no matter how you look at me, you are the first and only man to touch me. From today, I will not let a second person touch me.”    

Princess Gouyu felt almost exhausted after saying this. He never thought that saying a word would be more difficult than facing millions of powerful soldiers.    

“Don't let your mind drift. If Ruo’er sees you like this later, he will think I have done something to you.” Jiang Chen chuckled.    

A trace of a warm smile appeared on Princess Gouyu's lips. “Ruo'er is so innocent that his mind does not lead there.”    

“Indeed, he didn't even understand spitting blood out of his mouth, haha.”    

Jiang Chen laughed out loud because suddenly, Princess Gouyu's face turned crimson again. He bit his lips lightly and stomped his feet, "Jiang Chen, you are so mischievous."    

The allusion of spitting blood from the mouth came from the banquet at the Soaring Dragon palace, when Jiang Chen returned against the White Tiger heir, Bai Zhanyun.    

He intended to offend the scene of a woman giving birth, but Eastern Zhiruo did not understand his intention back then and even asked Jiang Chen what he meant.    

Even Princess Gouyu had thought for quite a while before understanding it.    

Princess Gouyu retreated and kept her distance from Jiang Chen. His emotions became complicated as he stared at the teenager's back.    

When Jiang Chen had just fiddled with Princess Gouyu's nose, his attitude was warm, innocent, and aroused endless emotions from her.    

His elder brothers, Eastern Jun and Eastern Lu, because they were born into the royal family, were like machines that had power and had never committed such intimate acts against him.    

Jiang Chen's actions had made Princess Gouyu vaguely feel the affection of an elder brother, an emotion that a little girl had towards her neighbor's older brother.    

Except, this Jiang Chen was five or six years younger than him.    

As soon as Eastern Zhiruo woke up, her first thought was to find brother Jiang Chen. He was overjoyed when he saw Jiang Chen and Gouyu arrive and pulled Jiang Chen's hand, saying in his charming and innocent voice, “Brother Jiang Chen, do you know? Currently, I do not like to take the train when traveling in the capital.”    

"Why is that?" Jiang Chen was confused.    

“I love riding Goldwing Swordbirds.” Eastern Zhiruo wrapped her hands around Jiang Chen's arm and shook him lightly, pleading, “Brother Jiang Chen, how about you give me one of the Golden Winged Sword Birds?”    

It's not uncommon to see little girls interested in pets and all sorts of cool-looking things. Riding the Goldwing Swordbird was much cooler than riding a horse carriage.    

“Goldwing Sword Birds are intelligent and civilized spirit birds. I'm afraid you won't be able to control it if I give it to you. How about this, I'll give you the baby Greenwing Swordbird. You can raise her since young. I'll also give you some pills so you can take them slowly. It will definitely evolve into the Goldwing Swordbird in a few years, and it would be wiser towards you if you were to establish a solid relationship with it.”    

For some reason, although Jiang Chen was sometimes rude and impatient towards Princess Gouyu, he had always been very patient towards Eastern Zhiruo.    

In her heart, she actually looked at Eastern Zhiruo as a little sister. Perhaps this was because Eastern Zhiruo had a yin constitution, the same condition he had suffered in his previous life.    

He played and accompanied Eastern Zhiruo with great patience throughout the day.    

During this day, Jiang Chen completely ignored all thoughts about the invasion of the Darkmoon Kingdom and the situation of the Eastern Kingdom. He had only accompanied Eastern Zhiruo on her random trip the entire day.    

Princess Gouyu did the same.    

Eastern Zhiruo still had no fun at sunset, but she was an obedient girl and knew that her aunt must have had an urgent matter that made her travel all the way to Jiang Han territory.    

“Brother Jiang Chen, Auntie, let's go back. Ruo'er was also tired after playing all day.”    

Upon his return to River Wave city and after dinner, Jiang Chen smiled faintly at Princess Gouyu. He was about to speak, but he bit his lip in doubt. “Sleep, the Jiang Han territory is the place where my Jiang family was born and raised. Except for me, Jiang Chen, no longer here, the dirty iron nails of the Dark Moon Kingdom will never set foot there.”    

Princess Gouyu's charming eyes moved faintly, as if water would trickle from her. He asked again, “What else?”    

"Not enough." Princess Gouyu seemed to feel guilty.    

“Then I will add Zhiruo as well, is this reason enough?”    

Princess Gouyu's gaze slightly dimmed, as if she had already expected Jiang Chen to say that, but she couldn't help but ask.    

He also felt a little sad after asking.    

“Ruo'er is innocent and kind. No one wants to see him hurt in this world. Jiang Chen, you.. will you take Ruo’er as your wife in the future?”    

Princess Gouyu raised her face as she looked at Jiang Chen unblinkingly, as if she would never let it go until she received an answer.    

“What do you think about every day? I took Ruoer as my wife?” Jiang Chen started laughing uncontrollably. “Ruo'er is innocent and naive, seeing it is like seeing my own sister. How could I have such strange thoughts?”    

Jiang Chen did not air because he really did not have any other thoughts towards Ruo'er. Everything he did was due to Eastern Zhiruo's honest personality, as well as her innocent and naive character.    

Moreover, there was Eastern Zhiruo's innate yin constitution. Two people suffering from similar illnesses can empathize with each other because of their similar emotional resonances.    

Every time he saw Ruo'er, Jiang Chen could not help but recall his past life. Protecting Ruo'er was Jiang Chen's function of protecting the complicated knot of resignation he felt in his past life.    

Regarding marriage, Jiang Chen actually did not have the heart to talk about it.    

Whether male or female, once one had a yin constitution, they would only give birth to a generation of children with a yin constitution.    

What a tragic fate.    

That is, if Ruo'er gave birth in the future, her children would also have a yin constitution. That can't be avoided.    

Although sooner or later they would have to face this cruel reality, Jiang Chen could not bear to voice it this quickly. He couldn't bear it if an optimistic young girl like Zhiruo shouldered the shackles in his heart that didn't belong to him.    

…    

Darkmoon Kingdom, within the palace.    

The Dark Moon Kingdom King sat on his dragon throne while observing his surroundings, filled with an arrogant and haughty aura.    

Qi Can had returned to the Dark Moon Kingdom. This mediocre character was actually one of the lobbyists that the Darkmoon Kingdom king relied on the most. He looked a bit drenched at the moment.    

He crouched on the ground, telling thoroughly to the king of the Dark Moon Kingdom everything that happened to him in the Jiang Han territory.    

The Darkmoon King was around forty years old, and had a thin beard on his chin. His appearance was dignified and solemn, his aura was unusual. In particular, his eyes were as fierce as tiger eyes and his eyes glanced around brilliantly, looking quite domineering.    

His large hand grasped the dragon throne with strength and strength, giving a ferocious feeling to others for being able to tear apart the cruel tiger and split a boulder.    

“Your Highness, Jiang Chen could not distinguish good from bad. Your subject brought all sorts of skills but Jiang Chen was unwilling to hear them. He instead humiliates your subject and says that your subject is a frog at the bottom of a well. He further insulted my Dark Moon Kingdom and was very disrespectful.”    

Qi Can also knew that it was impossible to recruit the Jiang family. He decided to add fuel to the fire and fan the flames of trouble, slightly exaggerating.    

Traces of killing intent shot out from the eyes of the tiger king Darkmoon. “This child of the Jiang family is very disrespectful. It's an honor for him that we want to recruit him. This brat was stupid in his youth and disrespected anyone after getting some tricks. My Dark Moon Kingdom combined forces will use this Jiang family to spill the first blood onto the floor!”    

“May our king live ten thousand years, may Darkmoon live ten thousand years!” The gathered nobles knelt down and exclaimed.    

King Darkmoon was very happy and excited. “My Dark Moon Kingdom will begin its conquest of the sixteen kingdoms with the Eastern Kingdom!”    

“Your Majesty, according to intelligence, the Jiang family is adept at forcing the Swordbird army. This type of air force has a great destructive force against ground forces. The large army of our Dark Moon Kingdom should prepare to face them seriously.”    

“Huh. Although the Sword Bird Army is strong, it does not mean that my Dark Moon Kingdom does not have a suitable strategy. First, my Dark Moon Kingdom also has a Black Rider, who is proficient in aerial tactics. Although the fighting ability of the black crows was ordinary, but when combined with the Black Crow Rider, their fighting ability was quite astonishing. Three thousand Black Riders was enough to fight an army of one hundred thousand Sword Birds. There will be various elite archer armies on the ground, combined with various formations, why should we be afraid of the Swordbird army? Not to mention, does this Jiang family intend to fight against the entire combined forces of my Dark Moon Kingdom with just the strength of a single family?”    

It was shocking to think of the power of a single family fighting against the elite forces of an entire kingdom.    

The officials and members of the Dark Moon Kingdom's palace were very optimistic as they engaged in heated discussions and debates with anyone who gave an opinion voluntarily.    

King Darkmoon smiled, “We have also considered this, so we have obtained the services of the kingdom's first general, General Ren Feilong, to personally lead the army.”    

Ren Feilong was hailed as the first general of the Dark Moon Kingdom. He had only become famous in these past ten years, yet had achieved countless achievements for the Darkmoon Kingdom.    

What need should they fear from the Jiang family who was with him leading the army?    

This was arguably like a tiger-hunting sheep, with no doubts at all about its conclusion.    

Although the Jiang family was strong, and the rumors about them ending the Long family were quite miraculous, only people from the Eastern Kingdom were willing to believe and accept such a legend.    

For an enemy kingdom like the Dark Moon Kingdom, they subconsciously felt that the rumors had been exaggerated. From the bottom of their hearts, they did not believe that the Jiang family was as great and powerful as the legends said.