Prince! The political conspiracy is not a play, the show is real

Chu Huanjun showed Tao Yao with his own actions that as long as Chu Huanjun has decided on something, he will never give up until he achieves his goal.

Tao Yao just watched Chu Huanjun borrow a long bench from the carpenter's shop next door, drag over two small stools, and set up a simple thatched shed at the door of the noodle shop. He then coaxed the noodle shop owner into making two bowls of plain noodles without meat or vegetables, and placed them on the long bench.

He lifted up his luxurious robe and sat upright on the small stool. He turned his head and looked at Tao Yao: "What are you standing there for? The noodles won't taste good if they get cold."

Tao Yao walked over with admiration, sat down next to Chu Huanjun, picked up the bowl of steaming hot noodles in front of her and sniffed it, wanting to know what kind of delicious noodles were that were worth all the trouble he went to.

Tao Yao picked up the chopsticks, picked up two noodles and put them into her mouth - the taste was very bland, even more ordinary than the scraps that Huai Ling usually stole from the kitchen for her.

Tao Yao turned her head to look at Chu Huanjun beside her, only to see that half of his face was almost buried in the bowl of noodles, and he was eating with gusto.

As if noticing Tao Yao had stopped eating, Chu Huanjun raised his head and asked her, "What's wrong? Not to your liking?"

Tao Yao complained with some regret: "Seeing that you put so much effort into this bowl of noodles, I naturally had high expectations for it... What a pity..."

Chu Huanjun put down his chopsticks, stood up and walked into the noodle shop. After a while, he came out with two small porcelain bottles in his hands.

He poured the sauce from the two small porcelain bottles into Taoyao's noodle bowl, stirred it, and motioned Taoyao to taste it again.

Taoyao picked up a few noodles and put them in his mouth. Unexpectedly, after his seasoning, the plain noodles suddenly became quite flavorful.

"Some of what you said is true, but some is wrong—" Chu Huanjun smiled. "I believe that people should live their lives to the fullest. Some things may seem impossible, but as long as you use your wisdom and strength, working hard day and night, you will definitely get what you want. Do you understand?"

Tao Yao shook her head like a rattle and said repeatedly, "I don't know, I don't know."

Don't know, don't want to know.

Chu Huanjun smiled and pushed a bowl of hot tea in front of her.

He was in a good mood today and everything seemed pleasing to him. So even if she pretended to be deaf and dumb in front of him, he didn't think it was a spoiler.

Just as the two were about to lower their heads to eat their noodles, a short owl cry suddenly rang out beside them. Chu Huanjun raised his head alertly, and Tao Yao, belatedly following his gaze, looked toward the sky. However, apart from the colorful lanterns hanging from the eaves, there was nothing to be seen.

Chu Huanjun immediately put down his chopsticks and stood up, telling Tao Yao, "Just wait here for me, I'll be back in a moment."

Before Tao Yao could come to her senses, Chu Huanjun had disappeared in a flash.

In the blink of an eye, a dark shadow flashed past Tao Yao's peripheral vision, and suddenly, a hand tightly clamped her wrist.

In an instant, Tao Yao was lifted into the air and was taken by the man to a hidden house somewhere.

"You...!" Tao Yao struggled to free her wrists from the tight grip in pain, leaving several bright red marks there.

The man quickly took off the mask on his face. It was Lu Che.

"It's you!" Tao Yao said in surprise.

"Hurry up, there will be no time if we don't leave now." Lu Che tried to grab Tao Yao's wrist again, but Tao Yao quickly dodged him.

"Come again! Leave again! Are you kidding me?" Tao Yao yelled at him angrily.

Tao Yao just felt that this masked man who was dressed in black and appeared mysteriously all day was inexplicable. Not only did he follow her like a pervert, but he also occasionally appeared and asked to take her away.

Unexpectedly, Lu Che also got angry after she yelled at him.

"You're kidding me. You've forgotten everything, even the promise you made before your father's spirit. I can't bear to see you sink into depravity. Go."

He was about to grab her arm again, but Tao Yao got there first and yelled, "Xiao Chu! Xiao Chu! Help! Come and save me!"

Lu Che's expression suddenly turned furious. His eyes were bloodshot. He quickly covered her mouth and whispered, "If you'd rather trust your enemy than me, then fine. Let's just forget each other. I hope we won't see our father's ghost after we die."

A bloody mist gradually formed in the corners of Lu Che's eyes. He hadn't closed his eyes for several nights, yet he hadn't felt tired. Only at this moment did he feel his entire body drained of energy.

He had accidentally learned of Taoyao's upcoming marriage, and the moment he found out, he felt a piercing pain and chill in his heart—he had to learn about the recent situation of his closest relative from someone else.

Back then, his father and his family were murdered by the Chu people. During the three years of vigil, he and she knelt before his father's spirit day and night, holding hands and swearing to avenge their father and his family with their own hands.

She should not get close to the Chu people, let alone become a wife or concubine of the Chu people.

He was still tossing and turning day and night because of the blood feud that was difficult to talk about but could not be forgotten. How could she forget everything with peace of mind?

But she really had forgotten, and he couldn't make her remember everything.

Lu Che let go of his hand, and at the same time, he also let go of the little obsession in his heart.

Forget it, forgetting all that wasn't what she wanted. All he could do now was to help her sort out the current troubles, and then work hard to get revenge and take her home with him.

...will always remind her of it.

Lu Che covered his face with the black mask again, turned around and left without saying anything else.

Suddenly he felt someone pulling the back of his clothes twice. He turned around and Tao Yao stuffed a wooden sign into his hand.

He looked down and saw a wooden sign for Chunfeng Tower.

Just now, Tao Yao took the wooden sign of Chunfeng Tower from Chu Huanjun while he was not paying attention. She didn't expect that it would come in handy so soon.

"Take this for now. Tonight, if there's a chance, find a way to notify me. We'll meet at Chunfeng Tower and tell me everything you need to tell me." Tao Yao paused, then added, "After tonight, I might not be in the capital anymore."

"……don't want."

Lu Che pushed the wooden sign back into her hands, then turned and left.

Tao Yao was left alone, disheveled in the wind.

"Hey!..." Tao Yao chased after him to look for his back, but he had already disappeared.

Tao Yao looked down and saw that the roof was about twenty feet from the ground. There was no ladder to climb up, and no one without some martial arts skills could get down.

That bastard Lu Che left her here alone and ran away without even bothering to take her with him.

Just as she was squatting by the chimney, at a loss, wondering whether to slide down the chimney pipe, Chu Huanjun's voice came into her ears.

"Hey! Shi Taoyao! Didn't I tell you to stay here? Why did you run onto someone else's roof?"

Hearing that reinforcements had arrived, Tao Yao quickly leaned down and looked down: "Xiao Chu! You're back!"

Chu Huanjun waved at her from below, and in his other hand he was holding a half-dead falcon, which must be the one he had just brought back after "excusing himself for a moment".

Chu Huanjun's lips were moving in and out, and he was saying something, and he was gesturing with his hands, but Tao Yao really couldn't understand.

"Wait a minute..."

Chu Huanjun's voice rose from below, but the bustling streets were too noisy, and his words were largely drowned out by the clamor. Tao Yao could only try to straighten her back, stretch her neck, and lean forward to read his mouth, trying to discern what he was saying.

Tao Yao was almost leaning half of her body out of the eaves, and she shouted to Chu Huanjun impatiently, "Oh! Stop talking so much, save me first—"

The words have not yet fallen.

The person has already fallen down before the half sentence he has yet to say.

Before Tao Yao had time to imagine herself smashed to pieces on the ground, her body suddenly softened and she fell steadily into someone's arms.

The wind was howling and she felt weightless, but she did not feel uneasy at all because of his presence.

Chu Huanjun's voice was soft: "You're going to be a bride tomorrow, be careful not to get disfigured."

Tao Yao couldn't help but grab his collar: "You were there too, you can't escape the blame."

Chu Huanjun continued to tease her: "Oh. If Zhou Yan is unwilling to marry you because of your disfigurement, I don't mind taking over."