Zha Zha: [According to the data, Little Chuchu, you can picture it as the kind of little chili pepper that is severely malnourished.]
Ye Chuchu: [Uh, okay, I get it. It’s a deformity!!]
“Cough, cough, cough…” Ye Jinmo coughed a few times.
Little sister, I beg of you, stop talking. If you keep going, Brother is truly terrified that you’ll never be able to get married.
Zhang Ting had already assisted the Second Prince back to his feet. He was shaken—utterly shaken to the core of his heart!
Ye Chuchu looked back at the exact spot where she had just tripped, only to see a tiny bean quietly rolling on the floor.
She glared at Zhang Ting.
How on earth did they clean the hall here at the Court of Judicial Review?
How could a random bean just appear?
And why did it happen to be right under her foot?
Ye Chuchu gnashed her teeth in frustration.
Suddenly, her old man pulled her right in front of the Second Prince, “Chuchu, if it weren’t for the Second Prince just now, your face would have crashed straight into the ground. Hurry and thank the Second Prince.”
Ye Chuchu blinked her large eyes: …
[Zha Zha, has my old man completely forgotten that I was poisoned mute by Chen?]
[I’m a mute right now!]
[He’s actually telling me to thank the Second Prince out loud?]
At this moment, Ye Chuchu beamed with a smile as she stared at the Second Prince in front of her, looking him up and down.
[Zha Zha, this handsome face is truly something I could never tire of looking at.]
[It’s just a bit too pale and a little too cold!]
Zha Zha: [Chuchu, this Second Prince is indeed exceptionally good-looking.]
[A vast number of businesses in the Capital are secretly his private properties.]
[For instance, Wangyue Restaurant, the largest tavern in the city; Yingchun Courtyard, the most lucrative brothel; Xiongfeng House, the gathering place for male courtesans who look more feminine than actual women; a long-established gold smithing shop; the number-one pawnshop under heaven, and so on. They all belong to him. He is extraordinarily, immensely wealthy!]
[Unfortunately, the Second Prince was afflicted with a poison since childhood, rendering this celestial, god-like man completely impotent.]
[The Empress has introduced countless beautiful maidens to him, but they were all shut out of his doors by the Second Prince. Truly pitiable!]
Ye Chuchu: [Mhm, mhm, mhm. It really is pitiable. For such a person to be unable to perform… do those rejected young maidens know about his impotence?]
Zha Zha: [They don’t know, it’s a secret!]
[In order to reject those women, the Second Prince completely investigated the families and backgrounds of those girls down to the absolute bone, using that to turn them away and breaking the hearts of so many fair maidens…]
Ye Chuchu: [Hehe, the Second Prince can unearth gossip all on his own! Not bad, not bad at all. He certainly knows how to enjoy life.]
Zha Zha suddenly added, [Little Chuchu, according to the records, the Second Prince will die in an assassination three months from now. He’s rather pitiable.]
Everyone was profoundly shocked: …
Yun Songming, whose chest was heaving violently with emotion, froze completely on the spot.
Poisoned, unable to perform, unable to perform…
How did Ye Chuchu know about this?
Aside from the imperial physician treating his illness, as well as his imperial father and mother, absolutely no one knew of this intimate secret!
And then there were those private properties of his…
Furthermore, he was going to die in an assassination three months from now?
Utterly shocking!
Ye Chuchu must be spouting nonsense.
He reflexively wanted to interrogate her, but that sensation of an evil ghost squeezing his throat manifested instantly.
The Second Prince: …No, no, no, I don’t want to ask!
The feeling of suffocation vanished in a split second!
Ye Changlin only felt as though a blade was already suspended over his neck, chillingly cold. At this moment, he was thinking that the Second Prince would undoubtedly execute him, right?
After he died, where would be a good place to be buried?
Ye Jinmo also took a deep, heavy breath, wondering if he would even live to see tomorrow’s sun.
Yet, Ye Chuchu’s inner voice was practically jumping for joy: [Wow! He’s wealthy, good-looking, powerful, and he dies young. He is exactly this young lady’s type!]
The short-lived Second Prince: …There is absolutely no need to be that happy!
Ye Changlin coughed violently all of a sudden, pulling his lips into a trembling, strained smile, “Second Prince, my daughter was poisoned mute by Chen a few days ago, so she is currently unable to speak.”
“This old official thanks the Second Prince on her behalf.”
Ye Jinmo also bowed in courtesy, “This subject thanks the Second Prince on behalf of my little sister.”
Ye Jinmo grabbed Ye Chuchu’s arm, dragging her out of the room as if fleeing for his life.
[Aiya, Brother, slow down, slow down! Be careful with the hemorrhoids on your butt…]
…
In the Imperial Study, Emperor Shangde was currently sitting at his desk, his brows furrowed as he reviewed the memorials in his hands.
Standing below him with a bowed head was Chief Eunuch Lin.
With a loud clack, Emperor Shangde closed the memorial in his hand and slammed it heavily onto the desk.
“Old Lin, is everything you just said completely true?”
Clutching the hem of his robe, Eunuch Lin dropped to his knees immediately and said with trembling fear, “Your Majesty, it is absolutely verified. At this very moment, Lord Ye, Young General Ye, and the Third Young Mistress of the Ye Residence are all still at the Court of Judicial Review.”
Emperor Shangde slammed the desk once more.
“How dare Chen be so audacious!”
“The Son of Heaven commits a crime alongside the commoners. This Chen ought to be sentenced to death.”
Bowing his head lower, Eunuch Lin added, “Your Majesty, it is rumored that Grand Preceptor Chen has also gone to the Court of Judicial Review.”
Emperor Shangde let out a cold sneer, “Could it be that Grand Preceptor Chen actually intends to shield Chen?”
“In my view, this Chen Yuan has truly grown muddle-headed with age!”
At this moment, a young eunuch rushed inside in a flurry. Seeing Eunuch Lin kneeling on the floor, his eyelids twitched with terror, and he hurriedly dropped to his knees as well.
Emperor Shangde lifted the teacup from the table and took a sip, “Speak. What is the matter?”
The young eunuch reported, “Reporting to Your Majesty, the Second Prince accidentally stepped on Grand Preceptor Chen’s pant cuff, causing Grand Preceptor Chen’s pants to fall down. He actually wasn’t wearing any undergarments, and as a result, everyone saw…”
“Pfft…”
The mouthful of tea Emperor Shangde had just swallowed sprayed right out.
“Cough, cough, cough…”
Eunuch Lin hastily stepped forward to pat the Emperor’s back.
Emperor Shangde coughed for a long while before revealing a thoroughly bizarre expression, “This Grand Preceptor Chen truly is something. Why on earth wouldn’t he wear them?”
The young eunuch kept his head down and said, “Your Majesty, there is a reason for it. Currently, everyone on the outside is spreading rumors…”
At this point, the young eunuch looked up at the Emperor.
Having just heard his words, the Emperor had nearly choked. If he kept speaking and caused the Emperor to choke again, his own buttocks would certainly be beaten to a pulp.
However, Emperor Shangde was itching to know and asked impatiently, “Hurry up and speak.”
Eunuch Lin also cleared his throat and urged, “Speak quickly.”
The young eunuch poured out everything he knew in one continuous breath.
“Everyone on the outside is saying that right before Grand Preceptor Chen went to the Court of Judicial Review, he was in the middle of painting oil paintings on a maidservant’s body. Because Chen had committed a massive crime, Grand Preceptor Chen put on his pants and sprinted off, completely missing the chance to put on his undergarments.”
“Because the Second Prince inadvertently stepped on Grand Preceptor Chen’s pant cuff, the people surrounding the outside of the Court of Judicial Review all saw it. Everyone says, everyone says that Grand Preceptor Chen’s thing down there is just about the size of a little chili pepper.”
Emperor Shangde began to cough once again!
The size of a little chili pepper?
That was highly unlikely, wasn’t it?
Then how on earth did Grand Preceptor Chen manage to sire the Imperial Noble Consort and Chen?
Eunuch Lin froze for a moment. The size of a little chili pepper?
Isn’t that barely any better than someone like me who has nothing down there at all?
Heh, look at how Grand Preceptor Chen usually struts around with such arrogance, putting on such a grand, righteous facade!
Coming back to his senses, Eunuch Lin anxiously continued to pat the Emperor’s back.
But the more he patted, the more he felt something wasn’t right. The Emperor was actually laughing!
Laughing so hard he couldn’t even contain himself!