Quick Wear: I'm Really Not a Scumbag

Xie Baiyu is also old. Since Chen Xuyan passed away, he feels that time has passed very quickly.

When they first heard of Chen Xuyan's death, he and Cui Lingxue were both in disbelief. How could such a guy die in just two years after leaving Beijing? Even after Chen Xuyan's body was transported back to the capital, he was unwilling to admit it after seeing it with his own eyes.

The soldiers transporting Chen Xuyan's body watched in fear as the emperor and the prime minister personally drove the carriage and brought Master Chen's body into the palace. They didn't even return to the Chen residence.

Chen Xuyan, how could he, he die?

Xie Baiyu, who was always calm and self-possessed, waved away Cui Lingxue's hand in a rebellious manner and refused to let anyone bury Chen Xuyan.

He asked the imperial physician to examine the cause of Chen Xuyan's death, and found that it was due to overwork and long-term illness that could not be cured.

He must have known long ago that his time was running out, which was why he had made up his mind to leave Kyoto. He had said that if he ever developed a terminal illness that affected his life or made him uncomfortable during treatment, he would definitely go somewhere lonely to spend his final years. What had he said then? If he continued to make such absurd statements, he would surely suffer misfortune.

Now Xie Baiyu just wants to take back what he said. Could it be that his words have come true?

In order to prevent Cui Lingxue from having to bear the huge infamy after ascending the throne, the crime of regicide fell on Chen Xuyan. However, the royal secret guards were not to be trifled with. After the fight was over, Chen Xuyan was also subjected to endless assassinations.

It didn't stop until recent years.

How can the ashes of death be rekindled? Even if it is rekindled, he will put it out.

He also didn't want others to know about his hidden injury, and he always declined the imperial physician's requests to examine him. Although he and Cui Lingxue were extremely opposed to it, he always got away with it, saying that he wanted to travel around the world to see the beautiful scenery.

In order to appear to be on the right track, he even took away Cui Lingxue's sword and his own jade pendant, intending to show weakness and act intimidatingly when encountering corrupt officials, and then kill them forcefully in the end, which could be considered as getting rid of harm to the people.

In fact, he was always surrounded by people like himself and Cui Lingxue to protect him.

Xie Baiyu was lying on the rattan chair made for him by Chen Xuyan, reading a book, but his thoughts had already drifted away, because he didn't turn a single page.

"Brother Chen, you are so selfish." As soon as he stopped, all his thoughts revolved around Chen Xuyan and his past.

Xie Baiyu's innocence was protected by Chen Xuyan, but he still grew up very quickly. He wanted to fight for Chen Xuyan from the beginning, and only Chen Xuyan could make him submit. He didn't understand why Chen Xuyan gave up the opportunity to become the emperor to Cui Lingxue, while he himself bore such a great infamy.

But later, when he saw that the country was at peace, the people were living and working in peace, and that, despite the turmoil in the court, the children of farmers had more opportunities, he finally understood what Chen Xuyan really wanted. Status and position were probably nothing to him, just as no one could have imagined that the young man sitting on the ground in the village chatting with the old man would actually be the son of a prominent family.

He not only has secrets, but also many things that I didn't understand at first, but am only now slowly beginning to understand.

How can there be such strange people in this world?

Xie Baiyu didn't know, but Chen Xuyan didn't have time to tell him.

However, many of his insights were due to Chen Xuyan's guidance, which enabled him to come up with radical yet gentle solutions. In fact, it would have been possible to follow his approach, but Chen Xuyan was always more thoughtful than him.

When he was living in Chen's house preparing for the imperial examination, he and Chen Xuyan worked on a lot of policy essays together. I remember one evening, he suddenly came up with an interesting policy essay question. He said, "Now we are not talking about the exam, but about following the heart. Please write down: What do you think is the most important thing in your life?"

Top scorer in high school? Powerful and influential? Change your destiny? Save the people of the world from danger?

He wrote all of this down, but when it came time to exchange answers with Chen Xuyan, he was dumbfounded.

He wrote down some wishes.

The whole story is about enjoyment, and ideals are just means, which can pave the way for him to go wherever he wants.

Yes, everything is for the purpose of achieving one’s own goals. If you don’t stand high enough, how can you talk about your ambitions and ideals?

Cui Lingxue had many children, including many sons, and many people wanted to pull him on board. Their methods were too obvious. Cui Lingxue consciously watched his sons fight, intending to choose the best one to inherit the throne.

He was in a very high position and understood Chen Xuyan's daily teasing about how lonely it was at the top.

Unlike Xie Baiyu, he knew Chen Xuyan's secret and that he came from another world, so he never thought that Chen Xuyan would really die. On the contrary, he also wanted to seek divine advice from the immortals, but was severely scolded by Xie Baiyu, so he gave up.

Yes, how could he treat their joint efforts as a joke.

Nothing in the court could be hidden from him, just like Jiang Shaomin had secretly imprisoned Jiang Yihuan in a manor, but she no longer had any magical powers, and he had also sent someone to test her. Jiang Shaomin's concealment was understandable, and he was not angry, but he was very clear-headed and realized that there was probably no one in the world he could trust anymore.

It seems that Chen Xuyan was sent to deal with these monsters, but he still has feelings for the Chen family.

Although they had become a second-rate family, they had not lost anything and the family still lived in a large house. Chen Xingjian and Chen Xingchuan became teachers at the Imperial College and went into business, respectively, which was their own wish. Chen Xusheng, arranged by Wang Chufen, married a well-matched young lady from an aristocratic family.

His two cousins did a pretty good job.

Chen Xusheng's two sisters also married well with the help of Old Madam Chen. The men they married were also in Beijing, so they could go home and visit Old Madam Chen often.

Cui Lingxue turned a blind eye to all these and did not eliminate the Chen family like she did to her own family and other families. Fortunately, they themselves were not stupid and were quite content.

He didn't feel disappointed or proud. For him, this was just an experience, with good and bad moments, just like everyone else. It was a good experience to experience what it was like to be an emperor. It was also an interesting one.

He has been a son, a father, and now he is an emperor, but they are just different experiences.

Where did Chen Xuyan come from? This question lingered in Cui Lingxue's mind until his death. He hadn't had the chance to ask Chen Xuyan, and he didn't know if they would ever meet again after death. Do people really have past lives and present lives?

Xie Baiyu was afraid that he would never meet Chen Xuyan again in the next life.

It was not until his coffin was dug out by people in later generations that people discovered that the burial objects of this famous prime minister in history were actually a small jar of unknown ashes hanging around his neck and a scroll written by an unknown person in his hand.