Forced to Ascend the Throne after Transmigrating

“Don’t worry, we have several masters here, we won’t be discovered.”

However, Ye Shuo shook his head upon hearing this and said, “I’m not worried about that.”

What Ye Shuo was thinking about was Ye Xun.

Since he was leaving, and they were living under the same roof, he certainly couldn’t hide it from Ye Xun. Of course, Ye Shuo didn’t want to hide it either, so he asked Ye Xun for his opinion almost immediately.

Ye Shuo originally thought that Ye Xun would agree. After all, when he got outside, he could also go and see his mother.

However, what Ye Shuo did not expect was that Ye Xun refused.

For about this long, Ye Shuo had habitually protected him under his wings, treating him as the child he was back then, but forgetting that he also had his own ideas.

Ye Shuo didn’t force him, but he couldn’t help but worry about his safety. However, Ye Xun smiled at that time.

“Ninth Uncle, I’m not a child anymore. Can I be kidnapped?”

You can’t kidnap someone, but I can’t guarantee anything else.

As if seeing his worry, Ye Xun couldn’t help but comfort him, “Don’t worry, Uncle Jiu, I can protect myself. Besides, it’s time for me to live in my own mansion. I can’t stay here with you forever, right?”

Ye Xun is already eighteen years old this year, which would make him an adult even in modern times.

Thinking of this, Ye Shuo couldn’t help but sigh deeply: “Alas… the child has grown up and has his own ideas.”

At this moment, he looked like an old father full of the vicissitudes of life. Seeing this, Yao Zhi, who was standing by, couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

“How old are you and you want to be someone’s father?”

Ye Shuo thought for a moment and said, “I am not your biological father, but I am better than your biological father.”

Yao Zhi felt that if the former prince heard this, he would probably jump out of his tomb and beat him to death.

“Why don’t you keep this to yourself and tell it to Madam Zhen?” Madam Zhen was none other than the former Crown Princess.

Ye Shuo shut his mouth instantly: “Forget it.” He didn’t have the courage to do that.

With laughter and joking along the way, the group was getting farther and farther away from Shangjing.

It’s not that no one came to track them down along the way. There were even waves of people every few hours, wave after wave, almost a carpet search. After all, the missing people this time were the late emperor’s imperial concubine and the late emperor’s favorite princess, who were of extremely high status. How could the local people not be anxious? If anything went wrong, they couldn’t afford it. R̃₦ỔʙĚS

At first, the Imperial Concubine and Jianjian were very nervous, afraid of being discovered, but gradually, they found that their worries were completely unnecessary.

Huo Tianyi and his men were veterans who had been in the business for many years and were extremely good at destroying all traces. Sometimes, the imperial concubine couldn’t even see clearly what they did. In a short while, all the footprints on the ground disappeared.

Jianjian learned a lot of things in one go, and suddenly felt that this was much more interesting than staying in the study room every day.

No wonder my brother always likes to run outside!

“Luckily, we have you, otherwise we don’t know what to do.” The Royal Concubine felt that this group of people in the martial arts world were really amazing. They could even think of such a solution. In comparison, she couldn’t help at all and was simply useless.

When she was young, the Imperial Noble Concubine Dowager envied Concubine De and other concubines who were good at reading, but now she has begun to envy her daughter-in-law who is good at everything.

If only I could be that powerful…

When she was carrying the person on her back, the Imperial Concubine tried to imitate Yao Zhi’s martial arts moves in the air. However, because she had no martial arts skills at all, her movements were quite weird, which made the Imperial Concubine feel very frustrated.

She was neither good at literature nor martial arts, and had long been spoiled by his father, brother, and the late emperor.

However, this is how the Imperial Concubine sees herself, but it is not the case in the eyes of the beautiful ladies.

At first, the beautiful woman was a little worried that the Royal Concubine would be difficult to get along with. After all, her status was there, and these were inevitable. But after really getting along with her, they discovered that there really are women in the world who are born different from others. Their every move naturally reveals calmness and elegance. She is naturally more delicate than ordinary people, but even her delicacy seems so cute.

The old emperor is indeed very lucky.

Such thoughts could not help but cross the minds of the beautiful women and others.

Seeing her say this, the beautiful woman paused and said, “We are all family, why should we be so polite?”

The Imperial Concubine couldn’t help but laugh.

Her smile made the beautiful woman laugh uncontrollably as well.

They walked and stopped along the way, just like they were on a picnic. Even though they were in the wild, they didn’t feel worried at all. They went fishing and hunting every day, and picked wild fruits. They didn’t have to worry about getting sick, as there were two doctors in the team… Under the leadership of Huo Tianyi and others, the Imperial Concubine Dowager managed to live her life on the run as if she were on a picnic.

Of course, the conditions outside were not as good as those in the palace, so after a period of time, the Imperial Concubine was not as plump as before, and she lost a lot of weight, but her spirit was becoming more and more full.

On the other hand, Huo Tianyi and others had lived a life of luxury in the capital for too long, so they were a little uncomfortable when they suddenly returned to the past.

At the same time, in Shangjing City——

In the blink of an eye, more than half a month had passed, and the last bit of hope that Emperor Taicheng had in his heart was shattered after the secret guards returned.

“Your Majesty, the Imperial Concubine and the others have indeed…run away.”

Emperor Taicheng’s eyes went dark immediately.

Fortunately, he was used to staying calm, so he managed to maintain his facial expression.

“In that case, why don’t you go and chase him?”

However, it was easy for Emperor Taicheng to say that. In order to plan this escape, Ye Shuo specially hired a team. Not to mention Wu Yi, Huo Tianyi and his group of veterans were enough, and they were even wealthy.

Not only them, there were also many people in the martial arts world who helped secretly along the way. With people constantly disrupting the vision, even the secret guards were not very effective.

For a moment, Emperor Taicheng was very pleased that his younger brother had this ability. But at the same time, it would be even better if his intelligence could be used in the right way.

It’s really hard for him. He put so much effort into escaping.

For a moment, Emperor Taicheng was neither happy nor unhappy.

Then, the secret guard took out another thing: “Your Majesty, this is the note that the innkeeper gave us when we chased us to the city of Ling. It should be the note from His Royal Highness Prince Rui to you.”

“…Present it quickly.”

Emperor Taicheng took a deep breath and quickly opened the note. Seeing the dog-like handwriting on it, Emperor Taicheng immediately confirmed that this was undoubtedly the handwriting of that bastard brother.  

Emperor Taicheng himself was not that angry, but after reading the content clearly, his anger suddenly rose.

[I’m taking my mother out to relax. I don’t know when I’ll be back. I’m counting on you in the court, Sixth Brother. Please, please.]

In addition to these, there was also a little man with his hands clasped together at the end. For a moment, Emperor Taicheng almost crushed the note.

“Cough cough cough…”

Emperor Taicheng couldn’t control himself and coughed violently.

Wang Ziquan, who was by the late emperor’s side, had already left the palace to live out his retirement, and had been staying with Emperor Taicheng. When the newly appointed eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department was about to speak upon seeing this, he saw that Emperor Taicheng had already stood up.

Emperor Taicheng did not intend to intervene at first, thinking that he must teach him a lesson this time. However, when he went to court the next day, he found that it was not the case at all.

When a group of veteran officials, especially the censors, heard about this, they immediately jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

“The late emperor has just passed away, and His Royal Highness Prince Rui is still in mourning. He is so indulgent in pleasure. This is truly disobedient and unfilial!”

How could it be so serious? I was just going out to relax, not to play.

“Especially since he secretly brought the late emperor’s favourite concubine with him, his crime is even more serious!”

“Your Highness Prince Rui is so absurd and has brought disgrace upon the royal family. He deserves severe punishment!”

“Your Majesty…”

Emperor Taicheng finally understood that these people just wanted to see Xiaojiu suffer. This is the disadvantage of having no one in the court, not even one person to speak for him.

Seeing that more and more hats were being put on Xiaojiu’s head, Emperor Taicheng had to help him clean up the mess, otherwise the matter would get bigger and bigger and there would be no way to resolve it in the end.

In this way, Emperor Taicheng had to suppress the affairs concerning Prince Rui in the midst of his busy schedule. This lasted for several days and made him exhausted. Little did he know that while he was so busy, Ye Shuo, who was thousands of miles away, was very happy.

After everything was finally dealt with and things finally quieted down, Emperor Taicheng couldn’t help feeling lonely.

In this world, sincerity is exchanged for sincerity. How can a person without sincerity be treated with sincerity by others? The price of being used everywhere is that no one will get close to you.

As the saying goes, it’s lonely at the top. As time went by on the throne, Emperor Taicheng finally realised the loneliness that his father had felt before. He also vaguely understood why his father was never willing to punish Xiaojiu severely even though he was so noisy.

This supreme power is good, but it also comes with a high price.

Throughout the palace, except for the empress who could say a few more words to Emperor Taicheng, the other concubines could not even arouse Emperor Taicheng’s attention.

If the concubines do their job well, they will be rewarded; if they do not, they will be punished. Occasionally, new people will enter the palace, and when the novelty wears off, they will start to repeat the behaviours of the above.

But in fact, Emperor Taicheng and the Queen were not completely devoted to each other.

Now that his only son Ye Jin has become the crown prince, the queen is no longer just his wife. There are too many interests involved. There are also many concubines in the palace, which makes the two of them unable to help but want to test each other.

Everything is full of exploitation and calculation. Even if you sleep in the same bed, you cannot understand each other’s minds.

There are some things that no one can say.

Emperor Taicheng, who had passed by Qiuwu Palace for countless times and had gradually become like other emperors, could not help but think that when he was not emperor before, he had planned that if such a day really came in the future, he would summon Xiaojiu to the palace to talk and relieve his depression.

But I didn’t expect Xiaojiu to run so fast that I couldn’t even catch his shadow.

There were not many people who could talk to Emperor Taicheng, and there were even fewer after this.

As the saying goes, you reap what you sow. In this world, it is impossible to have the best of both worlds.

On the other side, in Liangzhou City——

After informing Mrs. Zhen that Ye Xun did not come, she was first disappointed, and then a little worried.

My son is in good health but he refuses to leave Beijing. He doesn’t even bother to see his biological mother. What other reason could there be?

Xun’er seems to value power more and more now. That’s right. From being the legitimate son of the crown prince, he has fallen to his current state. Although he has successfully inherited the title, he still has to stand at the end of the line when attending every court ceremony. He has to watch people who were far inferior to him in the past now standing over him and yelling at him. No matter who it is, I’m afraid they would not be able to tolerate it.

Ye Shuo at the side paused and said, “It’s a good thing that the child is ambitious.”

It turns out that Ye Shuo was not unaware, he was just pretending not to know.

Ye Shuo had tried to persuade him, but Ye Xun had grown up after all, and he knew clearly what he was doing.

Mrs. Zhen had nothing to say about this.

Each of them had their own ideas in mind, how could she persuade them?

But Madam Zhen didn’t want to implicate the person in front of her, and she was relieved when she learned that her son had moved out of the Ruiwang Mansion.

After all, the Imperial Concubine Dowager was not very young. Although she had the will, she did not have the physical strength to keep up. So after arriving in Liangzhou, she decided to rest here temporarily, planning to wait for two or three months to see all the beautiful scenery in Liangzhou City before doing anything else.

Looking at Jianjian again, she has been eager to try and go out on her own.

Jianjian is very good at kung fu, but what she lacks is some experience. It would be nice to take this opportunity to let her suffer a little loss and see the world.

As soon as Jianjian left, Ye Shuo asked Wu Yi to follow him and told him not to take any action unless his life was in danger or there were other serious situations.

Wu Yi couldn’t help but wonder if this was really his biological sister, but in the end, he agreed.

Huo Tianyi and his friends were too lazy to get involved with the young couple. They were too jealous and their old arms and legs couldn’t stand it.

Ye Shuo and Yao Zhi were left, staring at each other. Finally, Yao Zhi smiled and took the initiative to extend her hand.

“Come on, follow me.”

“Let’s travel the world together. You won’t be prince, and I won’t be princess. From now on, we will be a knight-errant and a heroine.”

Ye Shuo took a deep breath and then put his hand on hers.

“good!”

“I will go with you to see all this beautiful country and never go back!”

What prince, what princess, let all these things say goodbye!

At this moment, Ye Shuo really thought that everything was over.