CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

The sound of a huge gong echoed throughout the dragon field where the Crown Prince’s entourage had finally arrived. The emperor and high ranking officials were already waiting in front of the dragon hall to welcome the entourage which was escorted by many gold-armoured troops.

The golden carriage stopped in front of the courtyard of the Golden Dragon hall, the Emperor and Empress could not wait to welcome the Crown Prince who got off the carriage with BaiYing in tow.

“Hehehehe this kid is coming home finally”

“Sincerely Your Majesty the Emperor, may Your Majesty always be blessed and long live” exclaimed the Crown Prince, which was followed by all his followers who lowered their knees to the ground, including XuYi who did not expect the entourage he was following would enter the huge courtyard of YueYang imperial palace’s Golden Dragon, was it just a dream?

“Long live His Majesty the Emperor and the Queen!” voices of exclamations resounded simultaneously.

Emperor rubbed his chin while laughing made his cheeks rounded.

“Heheheh please arise, stand up everyone, Crown Prince you must be tired, right?”

Emperor approached the Crown Prince and helped his son up, but the man was more interested in helping BaiYing who was kneeling beside the Crown Prince, Emperor’s face couldn’t stop smiling seeing BaiYing’s smiling face who’s shone in the dim oil lamps surrounding the field.

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“Greetings Your Majesty”

“Hehehehe sweet child, look at your face, ouch the Emperor really misses this sweet face of my Son-in-law, how are you?”

LuoXiang pursed his lips, that rotten Emperor took BaiYing to walk with him and ignored him.

“Hehehe Your highness, sorry that Ying’er has made Your Majesty the Emperor and Queen anxious”

The Queen approached, she pulled BaiYing’s hand from the Emperor’s grip.

“Come on sweet child, let’s rest inside, quickly tell me what you guys did during the trip”

Emperor stuttered, he’s too late held the kid’s hand tightly make the Queen easily take him away, Crown Prince stopped in front of him, covering his mouth holding back laughter at the sight of his Father wry face.

“Ahem, Father, Son will have a rest inside.”

Firmly the Crown Prince walked past the Emperor and followed the Empress who pulled BaiYing in, all the Queen’s servants and the Crown Prince slowly followed behind.

Meanwhile, Elder Yi who was walking with ShinYa stopped in front of the Emperor and saluted.

“Greetings Your Majesty the Emperor, may Your Majesty always be blessed and long live” greeted the two bowing their heads deeply in front of the Emperor, the Emperor didn’t want to look at the two and still focused on seeing the Crown Prince and others who had entered the Dragon hall, but, at a glance the person who bowed his head in front of him attracting his attention.

“Em, you are”

Elder Yi smiled, the silver-haired young man tossed his long shiny hair behind his neck, smiling at the Emperor’s eyes looking at him with narrowed eyes.

Elder Yi smiled.

“Hehe, Your Majesty, you’re quite old, but, of course, Your Majesty still look as handsome as ever, really, this is to be expected.”

Emperor looked at Elder Yi’s face for a moment, observing the young man, from the look in his eyes and smile he seemed to know him, but, is it possible? and the young man is very brave to look directly into his eyes, of course, the Emperor also can’t scold him because those eyes are quite familiar, he never forgets those eyes.

“Eh, this young man, is it possible that the descendant of the great Master BaoYi?”

Elder Yi clenched his fists back in front of his bowed head.

“Hehe, it can be said like that Your Majesty, if Your Majesty is pleased,” said Elder Yi half-bowed pointing towards the Dragon hall.

While ChenMing was still standing near BeiYau, arranging his men who were busy unloading the Crown Prince and BaiYing’s luggage from the carriage, XuYi was standing not far from them, the young man was visibly breaking out in cold sweat, his knees buckled, he almost fell down if he didn’t hold on to the rock nearby.

“Look at him, that young man seems to be about to faint” ChenMing whispered.

BeiYau looked at XuYi, he smiled at ChenMing who looked exhausted.

“Hehe Prince, Prince better go back and rest, Prince’s face already looks so tired”

ChenMing pulled his sore waist, of course, sat for days on the horse and only stopped to eat and drink and go to the restroom, who wouldn’t be tired?

“Heh alright, I’ll go inside first, don’t take too long Guard Bei”

Several small maids followed ChenMing towards the Dragon hall, leaving BeiYau who slowly approached XuYi who was standing frozen in place.

“Young master Xu”

Hearing his name being called XuYi immediately straightened up tensely.

“Yess I!”

BeiYau suppressed his smile, the young man looked pale.

“Eh Ma-Master Bei, uh, did I call you right?”

Bei Yau nodded.

“It can be said like that, but in this palace, you can call me Guard Bei, em, His Highness the Crown Prince ordered, tomorrow morning Young Master Xu can meet with CiaoTi, head of the administrative officer in his office, and he will assign you a position in his office, or else, Your Majesty has also been thinking, if Young Master Xu wants, Young Master can also join as an administrative officer in investigator BaoYe’s office, I heard they are also in need of a new official”

XuYi stuttered, he opened his eyes wide, what, he did you hear wrong?

“What do you mean sir? Become an administrative officer? B-but, I haven’t taken the exam yet, can this happen?”

BeiYau smiled.

“Hehe, with His Highness the Crown Prince anything is possible, he has seen Young Master Xu’s sincerity, and administrative officials are the lowest level of palace officials, as His Majesty said, it doesn’t need to pass the exam to get in the position, but if you don’t want to, you can try to take the entrance exam and if you among the highest score, you can occupy your own office as a new official, and for a level five official whose workplace is not necessarily located near the palace, every young official will get an official assignment in an area that has been determined by a high-ranking palace official and...” BeiYau didn’t finish speaking XuYi had already clenched his fists in front of him. his head.

“I’m very grateful for the administrative officer position, I don’t have the slightest experience, being a level five official isn’t what I’m looking for, and a small administrative officer is already very good for me, this is the opportunity that everyone has been waiting for”

BeiYau chuckled, seeing a young man who had just turned nineteen in front of him for a moment, an innocent young man who was not afraid to take every opportunity that lay before his eyes, an arrogant young master who turned into a sincere young man.

“Hehehe, an administrative officer may be the smallest post, but you are still very young, there will be plenty of time to develop, at least that’s what His Highness the Crown Prince can give me right now”

“If it possible, I really want to thank His Highness the Crown Prince, I didn’t think about it before, I was so stupid not to recognize His Majesty, servant, deserves punishment, I really am so stupid.”

BeiYau chuckled once again.

“Hehehe it’s not Young Master Xu’s fault, and I’m sure His Majesty the Viceroy will also definitely invite Young Master Xu to his pavilion for a feast tomorrow afternoon, so you have the opportunity to express your thanks in person”

XuYi who lowered his head in almost tears, wiped his tears with his sleeves, not expecting what had just happened to him, after what had happened all this time, the young man finally couldn’t hold himself back and burst into tears.

“Ems, sister Yan, Brother managed to enter the palace, ems, this, this is good news isn’t it?”

BeiYau patted XuYi’s shoulder who was moved to tears until his back shook.

“Hehe Young Master Xu, be strong, this is just the beginning of all the difficulties you will face in the future, you realized that being an officer is not as easy as you think it will be, and a low-rank officer as the administrative officer will face more job than others, you have to understand that.”

XuYi nodded, he wiped his tears and smiled.

“Hehe, yes, of course, Mas– uh Guard Bei, I realized that, after all that happened, it’s so lucky Servant still can have the position at the Main Palace, that’s, what I dream of all this time studying so hard.”

BeiYau raised his hand to ask a few palace maids to approach.

“Yes Guard Bei”

“Please take young master Xu to rest in the guest pavilion in the Crown Prince’s palace, he will stay there for the time being waiting for the official mess to be available, give all the best, this is the Crown Prince’s order”

The two young male servants nodded his head.

“Yes Guard Bei”

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