Li Yun was sipping the fragrant peach wine at his seat. He arrived here at the banquet with the protagonist earlier. He was calming his nerves because the crowned prince didn't eradicate the culprit who will poison his royal self later.
' He was really an idiot! He didn't believed me! I even presented the letter but he still ignored it! Ah!!!! I will fudge him to death when I died here later! '
The banquet composed of many powerful figures. It included themselves and their children. Currently, they were talking about how the crowned prince sucessfully won against the nearby nation's general with his strength and wise mind along with his soldiers and warriors.
Ling Xiao humbly smiled. He turned his gaze to Li Yun and their eyes met. Li Yun was the one who broke the eye contact first.
---[ Host, the poison was now poured on the crowned prince's drink! Save him! ]
Li Yan helplessly sighed. He sat beside the crowned prince and taked his poisoned drink from him with a pretext as a toast for him. The prince complied and seductively smiled.
Li Yun knew that Li Yan was the one who put it based on the story. Li Yan was very near to Ling Xiao's seat because he was his fiancé. He also had more chances to poison the prince's drink.
Who was the mastermind behind this?
Well, obviously, it was Ling Zhen. He had motives. The throne, Li Yan and envy to his older brother's achievements.
He even used Li Yan to achieved his dreams.
Li Yun drank the wine. He knew it was a slow acting poison and if it was combined with the wild game served at the table, it will caused death instantly.
' What a fatal combination. I will not eat this game even if it was very delicious. I don't want to die instantly. This way, I may prolonged my cheap life for four weeks. It was enough time for my mission to succeed. '
Li Yun returned to his seat and noticed the meaningful glances between Ling Zhen and Li Yan.
' Ling Xiao x Li Yan... Is this ship worthy to be mend?
Or I should made a new ship by myself.
Nah!!! It will just sink! '
Li Yan went outside the venue and Ling Xiao followed him.
Li Yun drank his peach wine leisurely while his eyes narrowed towards the door where the two people disappeared. Ling Zhen also stared at the door but he shifted his attention to the ladies attending him.
' What a fudging playboy! You two were really meant to each other!!! '
Li Yun excused himself from the disgusting banquet and strided toward the garden. A live show was occuring there right now. A live adaptation of "Love and Loyalty".
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" Xiao Ge, I'm glad that you're alive and well! "
" En. "
Ling Xiao squinted his phoenix eyes. He sensed that someone was peeping at them.
" Xiao Ge, I can't wait to marry you! I really love you but Ling Zhen...he was eager to snatch me from you, Xiao Ge.]
Ling Xiao lazily nodded. He can't believed Li Yan confirmed his suspicions towards his own self.
" Don't worry, I'll protect you. "
Ling Xiao continued to be a leaf following the river's current as he gave Li Yan a gentle and loving gaze that was only reserved for a lover.
" Don't think about that , Your Highness. The heir to the throne was already you. Why bother Li Yan too? "
Li Yun who was hiding in the bushes saw the confrontations and the arriving Ling Zhen. He was very excited and thrilled while witnessing it.
" I'll give Li Yan a choice. I'll marry him or he'll be compensated by this prince but Li Yan will lost a heavy amount of face if he accepted the money and he will be labeled as a gifted man who climbed at his future brother-in-law's bed. "
Ling Xiao haughtily stated the truth to the two cheaters. His eyes were filled with coldness but his lips were curled up with a smile as he stared towards them.
Ling Zhen: " You!!! "
" Xiao...Ge! "
Li Yan's outburst made the nearby peeking Li Yun's heart jump.
" Fine. This prince will marry him because of the imperial decree. I will forget this incident. Be thankful to this prince! "
Ling Xiao waved his sleeves as he left after his sarcastic declaration.
" I can't accept this! I should marry Li Yan because he was my woman! "
Ling Zhen grabbed Ling Xiao's shoulders. He tried to pushed him to the ground but he was like a boulder -unmovable.
" Your woman? Ha! Ling Zhen, I don't love Li Yan but I'm willing to learn how to 'love' him but I changed my mind... "
Ling Xiao continued with a cold tone said:
" Because he was a sl*t. Someone's more pure than him but I can't hold him because of this mess! "
' This was not in the script!!! Ling Xiao should said.."because love was like practicing weapons, you can learn it the hard way or the easy way so... give up, Ling Zhen" '
*ping*
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---[ Host, your gradually changing their predetermined destinies. The progress was currently 75 percent!~~]
---[ Host, continue to guide them toward their happiness!~~ ]
Li Yun: OAO
' What will happen to the ending scene where Ling Xiao realized his love for Li Yan but he was killed and betrayed? Will it still happen?'
Li Yun thought to himself. He felt a warm sensation flowing toward his mouth and spit a mouthful of blood.
Li Yun: =.= Fudge! But one thing was sure, I will die. Haha.
Li Yun quietly left and retreated to his carriage while covering his mouth with a clean white cloth.
" Why this prince know this? "
Ling Xiao mockingly asked the two, then he continued:
" This prince read a letter and it said that you two savored each other's company inside the carriage and planned to conspire against this prince! "
'Li Yun was really my lucky charm.'
Ling Xiao...because of his curiousity read the letter that Li Yun pushed to him the day he fell asleep at his tent. He sneakily slipped his hand at the other man's robe and sucessfully retrieved the letter.
It was about a soldier's regrets but when he read it until the end, the truth was revealed in front of him.
If Li Yun know about this event, he will throw pillows at the walls while exclaiming:
" This event!!! This didn't happened at the book, ah! From me sleeping at the tent to me treating the prince's wounds! No wonder, the prince changed his attitude toward Li Yan and Ling Zhen! "
Originally, the letter in the story was only revealed after the former Li Yun's death. This made Ling Xiao enraged and he killed his brother afterwards.
Presently, Li Yun didn't know that Ling Xiao changed his attitude towards him first before the two people.
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Two weeks had passed, a rush grand wedding commenced but the groom was not Ling Xiao but Ling Zhen. The bride was still Li Yan.
It went smoothly without any objections because out of nowhere, an edict written by the old emperor for the two marriage appeared which was presented by Ling Xiao.
In the celebration banquet of the marriage, Ling Xiao gave his position to Ling Zhen with a condition to protect the country and his wife. The emperor rejected it first but he eventually accepted it because of the empress' persuasive action.
Ling Xiao was not the crowned prince anymore but he was still a general. He also cutted his ties toward the imperial family.
He was not an idiot who just passed his position to others because of boredom. He had plans. He was now a free man with a good position. He can now marry who he wants. He was not tied anymore to strict imperial rules and ethics.
Li Yun heard about the wedding of Li Yan to Ling Zhen. The system was happy...so do him. He made the protagonist happy indirectly but what about the crowned prince?
He was munching melon seeds when a servant rushed towards him with a flush face saying:
" The crowned prince *cough* the general wanted your hand in marriage, Young Master. "
" But I'm a man! "
" Young Master, I know you had the lotus mark at your wrist since the day you were born and when you turned sixteen yesterday, it turned into a fiery red color. In term's of changing it's color from none to red was a little late than crowned princess Li Yan but still... "
Li Yun coughed and his mouth spurted with blood. He wryly smiled and ordered the servant to grabbed some tea.
" Yun Er, Did the time I gave you was enough for you to think about my proposal? "
A manly voice coupled with his footsteps approached toward Li Yun who was currently gazing at his window and munching some seeds.
---[ Oh?~~A suprise visit from the man you kept thinking about, host.~~]
' Shut up! '
" Li Yun, I realized this lately but I'm not too late, right? I...love you, Li Yun. I really do. The day you saved me from the wooden post, your care towards me when I was sick, needed food, clothes and someone to talk to and to the day you treated my wounds and smiled at me. The day you became my true friend... I realized that I can't let you be my friend anymore. I wanted you to be my wife. My one and only wife. This was not a love between friends but a love between lovers. Can you be with me till the very end? "
---[ Awww.~~~How sweet of this man. Host, why are you still quiet? Are you preparing for BE? That's not fair, you know?~~]
Li Yun propped himself. He wiped the blood off from the edge of his mouth with his sleeves and turned his face to Ling Xiao.
" Your Highness, do you prefer the sweet love between two people with limited time or two people who loved each other a long time but often quarreled? "
" If I answered it fluently, will you marry me? "
Li Yun smiled. He forced the blood in his mouth not to come out. It really tasted like metal but he still endured it.
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