Chapter 52:
Year 300 of the Great Le Dynasty, in the capital city.
A thin man in pristine white clothing was thrown outside the city gate.
“Prince Consort Yuyang, Her Majesty has allowed you to leave the Imperial City with your life, but you cannot come back!”
The two men said these words as they turned back into the city.
However, upon hitting his head against the wall after being thrown, the man who had been struggling and begging for mercy earlier was now silent.
Sensing a change in the mood, the two men looked at each other and noticed the fear in their eyes.
Prince Consort Yuyang had committed a heinous crime that is punishable by death. However, since he was Her Majesty’s favorite, his sentence was lightened such that he was to be banished from the palace. Yet, coupled with his fascination for Her Majesty the Empress and his years spent in richness, the two thought this punishment would be worse than death.
Who knows if the royal family did it on purpose? Regardless, if they get him killed while banishing him, they will not be able to escape death themselves.
As they looked at him to confirm that he was still alive, Yuyang opened his eyes and glanced at the two and with unnerving solemnity, causing goosebumps to creep up their whole body.
They both thought, ‘Why does Young Master Yuyang look so scary as if he was a completely different person?’
Forget it, how could anyone who gets thrown out of the palace for attempting to murder the Grand Princess be good anyway? Maybe, even from just throwing him out like this, this man would be harboring grievances already. It would be no good to stay like this, so they thought it would be better to hurry up and leave quickly.
Su Yuyang then stared at the two people until they left before relaxing. He was finally able to start reorienting himself after waking up in disarray.
Originally, he was bargaining with the system to redeem a 40% discount for a feature to predict the plot in advance.
However, this stinky system did not agree to the death and forced him to be thrown into the mission system first. Furthermore, it said the world would compensate him well. It said it will compensate him by being promoted to an Empress’ husband and feel what it feels like to be cared for like a little boy.
“This is not a big problem,” it said. “If you can be part of the Empress’ harem, just eat and drink, raise a baby, and try to prevent your own baby from becoming a villain.”
Lo and behold, when he opened his eyes, he was being directly thrown out of the harem by the empress herself after being framed by his own daughter. The so-called compensation does not exist at all!
“System, come out, I promise not to hit you!”
Unfortunately, this time, the system was silent, as if pretending to be dead. Even after being called out several times, the system did not respond, leaving Su Yuyang wondering whether it was doing so on purpose or not.
In the end, he didn’t bother to pay attention to this guy. Anyway, he completed each task independently. The presence or absence of the system was the difference between being able to redeem system goods.
Speaking of which, after completing these tasks, the mission system is still considered a useful basic skill. The credit and the exchange that had been paid by him were all caught in his own hands.
There is no way. Those intermediate levels require too high points. The basic ones, although the effect is not good, at least it is permanent, also can make him a little stronger than the average ordinary person, a little better-looking, a little more charming, a little smarter.
Almost every aspect has been strengthened.
Don’t underestimate such a little bit. In this case, Su Yuyang’s original foundation is very good, this little bit is very powerful, after all, it is calculated by percentage.
Standing up, Su Yuyang dusted himself off, lamenting on the unlucky life of the original owner.
When he was much younger, he met the empress who was in trouble at the time and by chance helped her out. Then, he was taken into the palace by the empress for a lifetime. He originally thought they would be a couple who loved each other for a lifetime, but as it turns out, he would only start living as a member of the empress’ harem. In the end, he was just the lucky one who happened to get the empress pregnant with an heir.
The Empress succeeded the throne when she was young, and being so focused on the affairs of the court, she was not interested in the favor of the harem, but she did not expect that she would be pregnant with Su Yuyang’s twin daughters.
After the Empress succeeded to the throne, she worked conscientiously, made the country strong and the people rich, and was impeccable. The only shortcoming was that she was twenty-five years old, and she had no descendants to inherit the throne. Fortunately, when the eldest princess and the second princess were born, the doubts about the empress disappeared.
In truth, the Empress was tired of intrigue in the harem and was disgusted with the hypocritical courtesy of the men in the harem. Thus, she was determined to never let herself become a pawn for them to take advantage of.
On the other hand, there was the original owner, a boy from a fishing village who doesn’t know anything about palace conspiracies. She loved his simple and naive and honest nature, and with him fathering her twin daughters and securing her position on the throne, the empress really favored him, giving him almost everything he asked. Then, when their eldest daughter was taken by a nobleman to be brought up and taught of the ways of the ruler, the empress became more guilty of him, and she spoiled him even more.
The first princess jumped into the river at the behest of the sovereign but said her real father was not used to seeing her and the sovereign get along. He felt jealous and wanted to raise the second princess to inherit the throne, which was poisoned.
Everyone knows that what the empress is most tired of is this kind of rivalry.
The sole favor of Young Master Yuyang is only because of his difference. Now this difference has been assimilated and coupled with the murder of his own daughter, which is simply inferior to a beast.
Therefore, no matter how much Young Master Yuyang begged or argued, the Empress threw him out of the palace directly.
In the end, he was still thinking about the old feelings, did not listen to the lord’s request, and he was put to death directly.
But in Su Yuyang’s view, this empress is really scum.
When she was in trouble, the original owner rescued her. Because the original owner was beautiful and straightforward, she put the person to sleep. At that time, the original owner was only fourteen years old!
Later, when she returned to the harem, she was not particularly good to the original owner. It was not until she found out that she was pregnant that she started giving the original owner more attention and titled him as Young Master.
Before the title was given, the original owner was often pushed out and ridiculed, and things like stepping on low and high are the same whether for male or female harems.
Despite that, the original owner can be regarded as a good-tempered person. He was so framed and didn’t want to sue. He just wanted to be with the empress and his daughters. But even this kind of companionship had to be taken away by the Empress on the grounds that he was not of high birth and that it would be better to send the elder princess to live with a noble to be more conducive for her princess training.
The lord, Hu Meizi, had long seen him who was taken back from the outside and occupied the only favor of the empress and was not happy with how things were. If it wasn’t for gaining the favor of this empress, he wouldn’t want to raise this bastard’s daughter to stabilize his position.
Originally, he wanted to raise both children, but the empress did not agree, saying that she wanted to leave him a memory. Then, this lord thought that it would be good to let the first princess, who was raised by him, kill the second princess, who was raised by the bastard, in the future. A mountain can’t tolerate two tigers, this is the truth from ancient times.
The elder princess has been receiving the upbringing of power and strategy, while the second princess was raised by Master Yuyang to be naive and romantic, frank and lovely, which the empress is quite fond of.
When the original owner was expelled from the palace, the second princess no longer had protection from his father, and it was very difficult to live in the palace, and because of the guilt of the lord and his sister, she did not complain to the empress with any kind of atonement.
However, one day, when the second princess sent a handmade pastry to the first princess, she soiled her dress and wanted to find a sister’s clothes to change, but accidentally heard the truth about her father being framed. She also heard about how they kept sending people to chase and kill him, and finally split him into five horses. The first princess, who has always been very kind to the second princess to her face, cursed her and told the palace people to continue torturing her.
At that moment, the second princess’ heart turned black.
In the end, the second princess became the victor, killing her own sister, framing her father’s lord, imprisoning the empress, and making her atone for her dead father’s sins night after night. However, the second princess who lost all her relatives had no pursuit in her life and soon died, and the whole country was destroyed.
The mission this time is the wish of the second princess, that her father lives and the two of them getting to live together happily. Also, she wants to expose the conspiracy of the elder princess and father, and let their empress mother see the truth.
Su Yuyang sighed. This empress may not know the truth, but he knew the truth is not important to her. One is the insignificant harem face head, and the other is the elder princess who was trained as the heir. It is obvious which is lighter and heavier. It’s just that this incident left a bad impression of the elder princess in the empress’s heart, so she also secretly supported the second princess. Otherwise, according to the second princesses who have no foundation, and was raised simply, how could she go to that point all the way?
An heir who even murdered his biological father did not meet the standards of the heir in the heart of the empress.
No matter what, Su Yuyang came to all of them, and it is more difficult to not have a task, so it is reasonable not to do it. Now, what he needs most is to live.
He had not a single penny to his name right now. Also, since this isn’t the modern era, he couldn’t profitably pick up garbage. Thus, all he can do now is to figure out how to feed himself first. At the very least, he could do something with the valuable clothes he was wearing.
Now that he has decided, instead of leaving the capital, he turned around and walked into a clothes store in the capital and exchanged his clothes for clean and lightweight coarse clothing along with twenty taels of silver.
Weighing the silver in his hand, Su Yuyang felt good. As expected, anything from the palace is special. Even a piece of clothing could be exchanged for an amount enough to feed a regular family for a year.
Next, he left for the housing agency and quickly rented a cheap inn for short term rentals. For only ten cents a day, he could live there for three months with a couple of silver, so he directly paid a tael of silver and a deposit of 100 yuan and went out. He didn’t worry about buying a house as he wasn’t planning on living there too long.
Finally, Su Yuyang left for the vegetable market to look for the fish seller and applied for the job of killing fish. He tried it on the spot and just stayed and started working. Actually, this is the original owner’s old profession, and even after many years, once he tried it again two to three times, his motions were very smooth, and he quickly killed the guests’ fish and wrapped them.
By now, he had already found a means of living, but the few secret people sent by the lord and the great princess to assassinate him were depressed. They just couldn’t wrap their heads around what was happening.
What is this Young Master Yuyang doing?
Wasn’t he just dying and crying and absolutely not leaving the empress?
Why did he start killing fish here a short while, smiling and welcoming people at the fish stand?
He’s not stupid, Is he? Stimulated?
They were waiting for him to leave the city and go to a deserted place so that they can strike. Now that he did not leave the city, how can they strike?