Arc 3: Chapter 20
The two of them hugged for a long time before releasing each other and then continued to accept guests.
At noon, Lin Yuan stretched lazily and stared at Jiang Qian with round, dewy eyes.
“Jiang Qian~” Lin Yuan said sweetly, as if all of the morning’s milk tea had concentrated in his voice, turning his voice into sugar: “Can I ignore the rest of the guests in the afternoon? I’ll let Lin Qiu deal with them… I’ve been busy all morning and I feel hollowed out, I really can’t do it anymore.”
Jiang Qian thought the term “hollowed out” was quite novel and amusing and couldn’t help but laugh out loud. He ran through a mental list of the families that they had already met and concluded calmly: “Yes, as the little prince wishes. In Prince Chu’s mansion, the little prince’s wishes are absolute.”
Lin Yuan immediately decided to be a salted fish.
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After their meal, Lin Yuan led Jiang Qian to the bedroom and took a nap in his arms.
Behind layers of curtains, Jiang Qian embraced his little prince and everything was quiet and peaceful. Regardless of whether or not it was raining or snowing outside, their room was always warm.
Jiang Qian’s fingers absentmindedly played with a strand of Lin Yuan’s inky hair, drawing circle after circle on the bed, with his thoughts unknown. After a while, he gently rubbed Lin Yuan’s cheek and was ready to close his eyes and rest for a bit.
But before Jiang Qian could fall asleep, Lin Qiu quietly knocked on the door and walked into the inner bedroom. Although he didn’t want to disturb his master’s rest, a special visitor had come.
Jiang Qian lifted part of the curtain and whispered: “Lin Qiu?”
Lin Qiu silently handed over the vistor’s blessing card.
Jiang Qian’s pupils shrank upon seeing the signature on the card and he said in shock: “Teacher…”
Jiang Qian looked down at the sleeping teenager in his arms and his pupils trembled as past memories amassed like rain clouds.
He took a deep breath and got up. He tidied up his appearance and put on an outer robe. When he finished, he looked back on the bed, through the layers of gauze curtains and suddenly realized that he couldn’t see his little prince clearly.
Panic swept Jiang Qian like an unexpected wave and he hurriedly opened the bed curtains.
Without the barriers, he could finally see his little prince, his Lin Yuan, his Sui Sui in front of him, within his reach.
Lin Yuan…
Lin Yuan…
Jiang Qian stroked Lin Yuan’s cheek and kissed him. He muttered a little crazily: “Sui Sui loves me. As long as I am alive and Sui Sui is alive, then we have to be together, never to be separated, okay?”
Lin Yuan slept soundly and couldn’t answer him, even so, Jiang Qian didn’t need an answer.
He walked out of the bedroom to where Lin Qiu was waiting outside.
Lin Qiu: “Sir, although Tutor Shen’s blessing card did not mention your name, Prince Chu has never had interaction with him. It’s obvious that today’s visit is because of you.” t/n i'm sorryyy, i mistranslated Tutor Shen as Teacher Fu before, i've changed past chapters to be Tutor Shen now
Jiang Qian nodded and thought the same. His cloak fluttered behind him as he walked, adding to his elegance, but his cold expression revealed hints of determination.
Lin Qiu had invited Tutor Shen to sit in the front garden’s pavilion. When Jiang Qian arrived, he saw Tutor Shen sitting in the guest seat, with a teenager standing behind him.
The moment he saw his old teacher, Jiang Qian’s pace slightly hesitated, but it was only for a moment. He walked towards Tutor Shen and saluted: “Teacher……”
His voice was a little choked, as if his throat was stuffed with cotton, but there was also some hidden bitterness.
Tutor Shen hadn’t seen Jiang Qian in a long, long time. When he saw the youth again, it was as if nothing had changed, and Jiang Qian was still the same jade-like scholar.
But in his heart, Tutor Shen knew that everything had changed. He waved his hand and let the teenager behind him retreat outside. Then he said to Jiang Qian: “Sit, first. I have something to ask you.”
Jiang Qian didn’t sit down, instead, he straightforwardly raised the front of his robe and knelt down in front of the old man. His knelt with his back straight, like bamboo against the wind or a plum branch in the snow: “Teacher, this student knows what you are going to ask. The rumors about this student and the little prince of the Lin family are all true.”
Tutor Shen was stunned by his bluntness. His finger that pointed at Jiang Qian trembled in both anger and shock: “Jiang Qian! You… you are muddleheaded ah! The Jiang family only has you left, yet you…… if you and the little prince are like this, won’t the blood of the Jiang family end with you? Ask yourself, can you face your father, face the ancestors of the Jiang family?”
Jiang Qian smiled emptily and said slowly: “Teacher, the Jiang family with just me is no longer the Jiang family. The Jiang family is gone, have you forgotten, Teacher?”
How could Tutor Shen forget the day when the Jiang family was executed and blood flowed like rivers?
He sighed deeply and said: “Jiang Qian, as long as you live, the Jiang family lives.”
Jiang Qian’s eyes deepened and his gloominess was like a whirlpool at the bottom of the ocean: “Teacher, you’re wrong, this student is only a lonely soul and can’t count as the Jiang family.”
Tutor Shen could hear the resentment in Jiang Qian’s voice and sighed again. He said: “Jiang Qian, I pleaded to the emperor for your life not only because I thought it would be a pity with your talent, but also at your father’s request. Your father hoped that you could live and continue the Jiang family’s lineage, but you…”
He shook his head helplessly: “I never expected that you… how could you… be with a man……”
Jiang Qian chuckled at his words at first, but then his laughter grew more and more maniac. He tore off his gentleman-like camouflage and sneered darkly: “Isn’t it good to be with a man? Aside from my consent, doesn’t the teacher feel that only through this way can I make others believe that I am no longer a threat? They all believe that I have degenerated, that I have changed, so they no longer have me in their eyes.”
Jiang Qian slowly stood up. Tutor Shen finally realized that in Jiang Qian’s eyes, there was no more light, instead, they were like mirrors, reflecting all of the sin in this world.
“Teacher, saving my life from the emperor's hands was your noble intention and a great act of kindness. But there are too many dangers in the world that you can’t help with.”
“You could do the first step, but couldn’t do the second. In Prince Yanping’s mansion, this student was tortured and went crazy and lived worse than a dog. It was the little prince who saved me the second time, saved me a third and fourth time. It’s only thanks to the little prince that the teacher can see this student today.”
“This student will forever remember the teacher's life-saving grace, but the teacher should not care about the rest.”
Tutor Shen looked at Jiang Qian and asked: “Do you blame me? Blame that I was unable to save you completely?”
Jiang Qian didn’t shake or nod his head. He said: “This student doesn’t blame the teacher anymore. This student said all of this to let the teacher know that this student is different now. Your favorite student has been gone for a long time. He died with the rest of the Jiang family.”
Tutor Shen was silent for a long time. He looked outside at the cloudy sky and repeated softly: “I see, Jiang Qian died years ago.”
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Jiang Qian sent Tutor Shen off but they didn’t exchange any more words.
As he walked back, he looked at the grass, trees, rocks, and ponds in Prince Chu’s mansion and his mood gradually calmed down.
Jiang Qian sat by the bed and stared at Lin Yuan with deep eyes. After a while, he opened the cabinet at the head of the bed and took out two books. t/n the naughty kinds
Jiang Qian had read it through already, but in order to not hurt the delicate teenager, he read it page by page again. He carefully read and remembered every drawing and word.
When he finished, it was already time for dinner. Jiang Qian rubbed Lin Yuan’s lips with his fingers and said: “Sui Sui, wake up. It’s dinner time.”
Lin Yuan woke up in a daze and happily went to eat, completely ignorant to what Jiang Qian was planning.
In the evening, Lin Yuan lay in bed after showering and still felt a little sleepy. When Jiang Qian joined him on the bed, he skillfully drilled into the other’s arms and was about to say good night when Jiang Qian took out a little box. Jiang Qian scooped something out with his fingers and Lin Yuan blushed.
“Little prince, this thing has been here for a while, it’s about time we use it……”
Jiang Qian kissed Lin Yuan intensely and his fingers that were stained with the balm traveled downwards.
Lin Yuan felt that his tongue was faintly painful, but the rest of his body felt comfortable. His body soon collapsed into a puddle of water and was controlled by Jiang Qian.
Jiang Qian lived up to his scholarly title and executed what he learned with no mistakes.
Lin Yuan knew that his husband was fiercer in this world, but he didn’t expect him to be this fierce. Lin Yuan cried so much that he couldn’t breathe, but Jiang Qian became more and more ruthless. Moreover, he didn’t know how Jiang Qian learned it, but he was forced into saying many embarrassing things.
From the start to the end, Jiang Qian held Lin Yuan tightly such that the warm teenager was always wrapped around him. The two of them entangled with each other to the point that no one could separate who was who.
【Di! Please note that the villain’s blackening value has decreased to 77%.】
【Di! Please note that the villain’s blackening value has decreased to 74%.】
【Di! Please note that the villain’s blackening value has decreased to 71%.】
Lin Yuan heard the constant system prompts in his ear and tried to open his eyes. His tears blurred everything so that he couldn’t see clearly, but he still leaned over and accurately kissed Jiang Qian’s eyes gently.
“Jiang Qian……”
Jiang Qian hummed and kissed off the salty tears at the corners of Lin Yuan’s eyes. The soft tip of his tongue licked Lin Yuan’s face, and it gave an inexplicable feeling of a beast swallowing its prey.
“Jiang Qian……”
Lin Yuan’s voice seemed even softer.
“Don’t be afraid…… I’m yours……. I’ll always be yours…”