The years I was in the human world

The fact that the governor of Jiangzhou was seriously ill and unable to preside over the autumn harvest caused an uproar in the former dynasty and the harem was also restless. In the past few days, the Third Prince had been discussing matters with his confidants in the study after returning from school. The Fifth Prince was also busy and did not bother the Crown Prince much.

"The person beside my third brother is really not simple. If we don't make good use of him, wouldn't it be a shame for the move that my third brother has specially prepared?" The fifth prince looked at the piece of paper on the table with the three words "Lu Zhouxue" written on it. The handwriting was vigorous and full of chivalry, which was not something that an ordinary person could write.

It was written by Lu Zhouxue himself in the school a few days ago. At that time, because Xie Yang suddenly attacked, no one paid attention to it. However, the Fifth Prince was so cunning that he naturally noticed this detail. He was cautious at that time and asked his men to check Lu Zhouxue's name.

"Your Highness, I have checked the genealogies of various families over the past hundred years, and have not found any noble Lu family. There is a Lu family somewhere in Xiangshui, but their roots are shallow, and there is no such person." A few days later, the confidant returned quickly to report the results of the investigation.

"Forcing a young man from a scholarly family to enter the palace and serve, how could Third Brother's methods leave any traces?" The Fifth Prince laughed softly, tapping the table with his fingertips, "Maybe he even threatened his relatives, making them afraid to even complain about their grievances."

"Brother, how can you take on the responsibility of harvesting autumn crops when you abuse your power?" The Fifth Prince gave his subordinate a look, who understood. "In the next few days, ask the Lu family to prepare their petition. I will help them get justice."

"Your Highness, what if the eunuch suddenly turns against us?" The subordinate hesitated and spoke before retreating. Everything had been prepared to be foolproof, but Lu Zhouxue couldn't guarantee that he wasn't just pretending to surrender. "If he doesn't cooperate, won't all our efforts fail?"

"If you don't cooperate, it will only further prove that Third Brother is holding his family hostage to force him to submit." The Fifth Prince said confidently, and sneered, "Third Brother deliberately pushed the eunuch out to attract attention. He thought he was making a smart move, but he didn't think about it. If he keeps someone like that by his side, whether he is just playing around or really loves him, I can report him for indulging in sensual pleasures."

While the Fifth Prince was plotting against his Third Brother, the Third Prince did not sit still and wait for death. He was also trying to find out what the Fifth Prince was up to: "What has happened to the Fifth Prince these days?"

"Your Highness, there is no major movement, but the spies from the Dark Guard Camp reported that the Fifth Prince's men have been active in the Xiangshui area recently."

"Xiangshui? Is there anyone there?"

"I have also sent people to investigate. There is a family named Lu in the area. Three generations of their ancestors have served as schoolmasters. Apart from this, there is nothing special about them. The Lu family is not prominent, so there is no need for the Fifth Prince to win them over."

“Lu…” Although the Third Prince was mostly thinking about using Lu Zhouxuecun, he had never asked his name, but he had just mentioned his name a few days ago, so he was not completely unremembered. “Old Fifth is not trying to win him over, he is clearly planning to start from me.”

"Then Your Highness, how do you plan to deal with that eunuch?" The subordinates hesitated. They were also aware that the Third Prince had been quite fond of a eunuch recently. Now that it was known that the Fifth Prince was going to start with the people around him, Lu Zhouxue naturally became the biggest target of defense.

"I have other plans. Everything else remains the same. Keep a close eye on Old Five and report to me if there is any movement." The Third Prince knew what his subordinate meant and raised his hand to signal him to stay calm. He would make the decision himself. "Keep a close eye on the outside and don't let Old Five have a chance to take action."

The content of the discussion between the two princes, each with his own ulterior motives, fell into Lu Zhouxue's ears intact. At that time, he was sitting by the carp pond feeding the fishes bored. The third prince deliberately created the illusion that he doted on him, so he was quite indulgent to him, and basically he enjoyed the treatment of half a master.

Lu Zhouxue was sorting out all the information he had received in his mind. The two princes both planned to make trouble for him. He was accidentally involved in the struggle between others. He wondered if this counted as interfering with the cause and effect of others as Xiao Jin said?

It was almost afternoon, and the setting sun shone through the shade of the trees onto half of his face. Lu Zhouxue raised his head to look at the sky above the palace wall, thinking that this palace in the mortal world was truly another prison. He found it hard to come and go freely, let alone Chu Zhaoli who had no control over himself?

Forget it, Lu Zhouxue sighed in his heart and threw all the fish food in his hand into the pond. After all, he came. The years from now will be long, and Chu Zhaoli will not have a tragic ending as described in history books. Whether he rules the world or makes the world his home, he will accompany him at the cost of his life.

When the third prince returned, he saw the graceful exiled immortal standing in the courtyard. Lu Zhouxue was not wearing a top hat, and her black hair was loosely tied into a bun at the back of her head with a green hairpin. The hem of her black dress was blown to the edge of the pond, and when the wind blew, her black hair curled up, outlining her eyebrows and eyes.

At this moment, the Third Prince felt that he really did like him, not because of that face that everyone admired, but because of that body of a banished immortal. But for some reason, as soon as he called him, all that otherworldly demeanor disappeared, leaving only a beautiful shell with a hollow appearance.

"Your Highness, you called me?" Lu Zhouxue looked at him doubtfully, as if she was wearing a vulgar mask, making the Third Prince unable to find any of the excitement they had when they first met. So his surging heart calmed down again, and he could continue to plot against Lu Zhouxue with peace of mind.

"Come here." The third prince waved at him, as if calling a pet. Lu Zhouxue did not move. He did not like the third prince's contemptuous attitude. He raised his hand and threw a substitute talisman to deal with the third prince, while he continued to stare at the fallen leaves in the pond in a daze.

"What are you thinking about?" The Third Prince pinched the stand-in's face. Just as he thought, it was as cool as jade. He reached out his hand and embraced the beauty's slender waist. The stand-in looked at him with rolling eyes and suddenly sobbed softly, "Your Highness, I have failed to live up to your trust."

Lu Zhouxue, who was watching the falling flowers and flowing water, listened to the words of the substitute. His body froze and he turned his head away with an indescribable look, trying his best to resist the urge to tear up the substitute talisman.

The beauty's tears are undoubtedly pleasing to the eyes. The Third Prince has some gentlemanly character, but he also loves beauty, otherwise he would not covet his eldest brother. Seeing the stand-in crying like that, although he has the intention of using her, he is also moved by her true feelings. He wiped the beauty's tears with pity: "What's wrong?"

So the substitute handed the Third Prince a jade pendant engraved with the Lu family's regalia, and choked up as she told him everything about how the maid had given the jade pendant to Lu Zhouxue yesterday and told him to identify the Third Prince at the court meeting and forced him to purify himself and enter the palace. After that, she added with tears in her eyes: "I have had the heart of two masters, and I feel guilty towards Your Highness. Please punish me."

"Silly boy, how can I bear to punish you?" The Third Prince was moved and took the substitute into his arms. Lu Zhouxue couldn't bear to watch what happened next, so he simply turned around and sneaked out of the palace to find Chu Zhaoli, allowing the Third Prince to continue to fight with the substitute.

He had taken care of Chu Zhaoli's back injury a few days ago, but he still had to pretend to be seriously injured and recuperating. When Lu Zhouxue left, the latter was lying on the bed reading a book.

"Xiao Li'er, are you so hardworking?" Lu Zhouxue called the person on the bed, turned around and gently closed the door, then sat down on the bed and looked at the book in Chu Zhaoli's hand, "Illustrated Records of Mountains and Seas, you are still reading this, you are better at studying than your third brother."

"I just read some random books that are not presentable. If I read the serious books well, my father would think I am restless." Chu Zhaoli closed the book and put it on the bedside, then asked Lu Zhouxue, "My third brother should be back to the palace after school at this time, why is Mianmian here?"

"I'm too lazy to talk to him, so I threw a talisman and told him to go and have fun. There are some important matters concerning the court, so I came to discuss it with you." Lu Zhouxue explained the purpose of his visit in a few words, then turned to look at Chu Zhaoli and said seriously, "What are your plans for Jiangzhou?"

"What else can I do? The governor is seriously ill, and autumn harvest is undoubtedly a lucrative job. My father won't ask me to interfere. Let the third and fifth brothers fight for it themselves. As long as they don't involve me, whoever they want can go." Chu Zhaoli yawned and said lazily, as if he had no intention of competing at all.

"So do you want to go?" Lu Zhouxue asked him.

"Mianmian, what are you talking about? Is this something I want to do or not?" Chu Zhaoli was lying on the bed, looking at Lu Zhouxue with his sidelong eyes and smiling. He turned over and faced away from the latter. "Even if I want to do it, what can I do? Not to mention Jiangzhou, even my own Changle Palace is out of reach."

"If you want, you don't have to fight. I will make sure that neither of them can go to Jiangzhou." Lu Zhouxue turned the boy who had his back to him. He lowered his eyes to look at Chu Zhaoli's handsome eyebrows and thought to himself that this was really a disaster caused by an enemy. The other party didn't even need to flirt, he just came up to him on his own.

"What do you mean by that, Mianmian?" Upon hearing that, Chu Zhaoli sat up from the bed, put away his casual demeanor, and asked seriously.

Lu Zhouxue told Chu Zhaoli everything about the Third and Fifth Princes' plans, and finally explained, "They both want to make trouble for me, so why don't we use their strength to defeat them and make them both lose. Then the Emperor will have no one to use, and naturally the job will be yours."

"Mianmian, you are too naive. Even though the third and fifth brothers are gone, there are still the fourth and sixth brothers. How can it be my turn?" Chu Zhaoli said with a wry smile.

"So what, Xiao Li'er, you always have to fight for it. Do you have to wait for others to give you a way to live?" Lu Zhouxue reached out and gently stroked Chu Zhaoli's hair, sighing helplessly, "I know you don't care about these, but others may not be kind to you."

Chu Zhaoli also sighed helplessly in his heart. He understood what Lu Zhouxue said. Many times it was not that he did not want to fight, but that he had no choice. If he kept a low profile, he could still live in peace. If he fought, his king and father would scold him for his wolfish ambitions and punish him with sticks.

Many years ago, when his mother died, he fought once, not for himself, but for a status for that woman who had been crazy for half her life. He had a big quarrel with the emperor, and the king and father scolded him for being ambitious and busy coveting wealth and glory before his mother's body was even cold.

Yes, he was fighting for his mother's title of empress, but the emperor only thought that he was delusionally wanting to become the legitimate son in order to compete for the position of crown prince, and scolded him for coveting the royal family's glory and wealth. Even if he should have been the legitimate son, he could also enjoy the wealth and honor enjoyed by other princes.

Later, his father did make him the crown prince, but it was only a temporary position for the third prince. In order to prevent him from coveting the position of crown prince, the emperor even spread rumors, making him infamous throughout the capital.

"I'll fight for it, Mianmian." Chu Zhaoli looked at Lu Zhouxue and said, if he wanted to.

"Little Li, you're so good." Lu Zhouxue smiled. It was truly a happy experience to personally raise her beloved when he was a child.

Lu Zhouxue came back from Chu Zhaoli, hid his body and planned to switch with his substitute first. He followed the traces of spiritual power to the third prince's bedroom and gradually realized something was wrong.

All the palace maids of the Third Prince in the past were now waiting outside the door, all of them looking at each other with a secretive look on their faces. From time to time, a few ambiguous hums were heard in the hall, and Lu Zhouxue suddenly had a bad feeling.

He sneaked into the hall and saw clothes scattered everywhere. It looked like there were no clothes left as the clothes were torn into pieces. The scattered fragments extended all the way from the door of the bedroom to the side of the bed. Two figures entangled could be vaguely seen in the hanging curtains. The air in the hall exuded a strong musky scent.

"...um...ah...Your Highness, please spare me...please spare me..." A soft and tender moan accompanied by sobs sounded. Lu Zhouxue's face had turned very ugly at this time. He walked forward slowly, raised his hand to lift the curtain, and the scene in front of him made his pupils shrink instantly.

It was difficult for Lu Zhouxue to describe what it was like to watch his own live sex scene. He could only say it was hard to put into words. He lifted the curtain and saw two people on the bed being honest with each other. Both were in a mess, and some of the skin on the stand-in had revealed the texture of paper, making it hard to imagine what they had experienced.

"..." Lu Zhouxue couldn't figure it out. How could he end up in bed with the Third Prince when he just asked a paper doll to take his place for a while? Now that everyone in the palace knew about it, he had finally established his reputation of using his beauty to serve others.

Lu Zhouxue didn't believe that the Third Prince had sex on a whim. After the sex, his substitute had fallen into a deep sleep. When he asked someone to send him back, the Third Prince did not deliberately block the news. From the bedroom to his residence, countless pairs of eyes saw his tortured appearance thoroughly.

It would take less than tomorrow for the entire harem to know that the Third Prince favored a eunuch. The Western Dynasty believed that men falling in love was against the rules of yin and yang, but when it came to having sex, men and women did not have to worry about it. The royal family had never married, and using eunuchs to satisfy their sexual desires was even highly praised.

However, at this critical juncture, knowing that the Fifth Prince intended to harm him, he still dared to have a one-night stand with him, risking being reported by the Fifth Prince for indulging in sensual pleasures. I guess in order to make him play the greatest role in luring the enemy, the Third Prince also spent a lot of money.