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Chapter 32 - Bringing about an unlucky aura

When her front legs left the palace, he followed behind her. In the end, she was bullied again and again by others. Did he mean that she had some sort of bad luck? Or should I say, did she have a face of bullying?

"Are you sure you don't want to eat it?"

"En!" It was rare for Duanmu Yan to have backbone, she was not tempted by the delicacies.

A hint of a smile flashed past Gong Shengrui's eyes. She clearly wanted to eat it, but yet he had to bite off more than he could chew, giving off a comical feeling.

He took a step forward.

Duanmu Yan's heart tensed up: What are you planning to do?

"Didn't you say that he bullied you before?!" Gong Shengrui looked at her with a hint of confusion in his eyes, and then walked over to the man in quick steps: "This sweet gourd, how much are you selling it for?"

"Three coins for a string!" When he saw the way he was dressed, he could tell that he was a big customer. Grandma Wang boasted, "Our Chen family's candied fruits are famous for their delicacies. You definitely ate one and wanted to eat the second one!"

"Ten!"

"Very well! "Wait a moment!" The man smiled like a flower, and quickly wrapped Gong Shengrui with ten strings of candied fruits.

Gong Shengrui took out silver from his waist and threw it at the man: "No need to look!"

"Thank you, sir!"

Gong Shengrui did not speak, he took out a candied flakes from his bag and calmly took a bite, and in the next second, he directly spat it out.

"It tastes so bad!" The sound was not loud, and it happened to be loud enough for all the passersby to hear it clearly.

The face of the man who was smiling like a flower a moment ago changed drastically when he heard this. "What did you say?"

"I said, your sweet gourd is so bad to eat!" Gong Shengrui lightly repeated himself again. He turned a blind eye to his embarrassed expression.

He was manly and argued, "Our Old Chen's candied fruits have been for sale for dozens of years, but no one has ever said they tasted bad!"

"Now, I've said it!"

"You, you …" His chest rose up and down in a manly manner. He pulled up his sleeves and was about to make a move.

Gong Shengrui's eyelids slightly narrowed, the sense of danger was obvious: "If you're not afraid of death, then go ahead and attack!"

The man's breathing stagnated as his impulsive thoughts slowly descended. After a while, he realized that there was a huge disparity in strength between them.

"I'm not selling the candied fruits, I'll return the silver taels to you!" Although the silver taels that the man had obtained through his heartache had flown away just like that, when he thought about how his candied fruits that he painstakingly made had been rejected so much by others, he couldn't swallow his anger.

"If you pay me back the money, I have reason to refuse to return it!"

"You, you …" He jumped up and down in a manly manner, but he was helpless to do anything.

When Duanmu Yan saw the man's funny appearance, his pupils immediately lit up; Gong Shengrui's image in his heart instantly became extremely tall.

"Here!"

Duanmu Yan blinked his large eyes and did not extend her hand to receive it.

Gong Shengrui was also worried, and said indifferently: "Since you don't like to eat it, then just throw it away!"

"Don't!" Duanmu Yan snatched the candied fruits away, and hugged them in her arms like a treasure, not afraid of dirtying her clothes, "If I throw it away, it's a waste, it's better if I eat it!"

Gong Shengrui's lips curved suspiciously.

When the man not far away saw Duanmu Yan's face clearly, he finally understood why Duanmu Yan was targeting him.

For a moment, he was both angry and helpless.

Duanmu Yan bit into the sugar ball that was half gone, chewing on it carefully, completely unaware of what was wrong.

Gong Shengrui opened his mouth, but in the end, he did not say anything.

"It's sour, sweet, and sweet. Delicious!" Duanmu Yan smacked her lips and looked at the string of candied fruits in her arms: "When I go back to the palace, I want to share so many delicious candied fruits with the people I like!"

"…" Gong Shengrui.

— —

Duanmu Yan entered the palace gate and immediately saw Chen Xi, the wet nurse and the others running around in a mess.

"Emperor! How could you leave the palace? Are you trying to make this servant die of anxiety? " Chen Xi quickly stepped forward to size up her master. After seeing that she was fine, he heaved a sigh of relief: "Emperor! "This servant begs you, please don't be so reckless in the future, otherwise this servant will be afraid. If I were to be frightened by you like this a few times more, my life would be over!"

Duanmu Yan looked at her red eyes guiltily, her small face full of guilt: "We know our wrongs!"

"Emperor …"

"I will use it to apologize to you!" Duanmu Yan took out a candied fruit from his bosom and handed it over to Chen Xi.

"…" Chen Xi.

Gong Shengrui sighed silently, and instructed in a low voice: "Bring Emperor back to his quarters, and within three days, you are not allowed to take even half a step out of his quarters!"

"Yes sir!"

Duanmu Yan pursed her lips. She knew that he wouldn't let her go so easily.

Unwillingly, under the escort of the guards, they headed in the direction of the palace.

Gong Shengrui turned around and handed Yuxuan over to the wet nurse. "The little prince is hungry, carry him back to feed!"

"Yes sir!" The wet nurse fearfully took the little prince, and quickly walked towards Qianle Palace.

Before Gong Shengrui left, his eyes seemed to sweep across the sky above the city walls as his expression grew more and more calm.

— —

The night was as cold as water.

A ghost-like figure quickly avoided the eyes of the palace and landed on the city wall.

"My Lord!" Yan Xingjun's wild and crude face could be seen faintly under the moonlight.

"Do you know your wrongs?"

"This subordinate does not know what mistake I made!" Although Yan Xingjun kneeled on the ground, on his hard face, there was no sign of repentance.

The man stood with his back against the light, suddenly waving his palm, Yan Xingjun groaned, and a mouthful of blood came out.

"How many times have I told you, you are not to touch anyone in the royal family!"

"Is it forbidden to even touch a single person in the Imperial Family, or is it especially forbidden to touch Duanmu Yan?" Yan Xingjun raised his hand and ruthlessly wiped away the blood at the corner of his mouth.

The figure slowly turned around. Under the moonlight, the sharp, blade-like face appeared increasingly cold.

It was a familiar face and familiar aura. If any of the Guard saw this, they would probably kneel down and pay their respects.

"I've said it before, I'm not interested in the throne!"

"Since you're not interested, then why did you agree to let that old rogue Duanmu Yun take the position of Prince Regent?" Yan Xingjun questioned, in his opinion, all of his excuses were just excuses.

Coldness appeared in Gong Shengrui's eyes: "The reason you agreed to him, was because he had shown you kindness before!"

"Gratitude?" Yan Xingjun scoffed, his eyes filled with ridicule: "Master! "Don't forget that it was his ancestors who betrayed the Mooncloud Empire, resulting in the existence of the New Moon Dynasty. In the end, they were robbers who plundered things that should not belong to them. And now, their retribution has also come …"

"Enough!" Gong Shengrui moaned and tried to shut him up.

"Not enough!" Yan Xingjun roared towards the sky, and then got up shakily: "It's exactly because they did so much wicked things that they gave birth to princes, who died one after the other, leaving only the pitifully stupid princess behind. If we don't take action now, and take back what belongs to us, when will we?"