After Li Chuan heard the news from Feng Ming, he simply left central Sichuan and went sightseeing nearby. He figured chances like this didn't come often, so he might as well enjoy himself to the fullest.
But every journey had to end eventually. After a few days of fun, they finally arrived in Rongcheng and met Wang Yue and Li Rong.
As his older sister, Li Rong couldn't help giving Li Chuan a scolding. She'd been worried sick these past few days. Every time she heard about an assassination attempt, she'd wanted Wang Yue to go help him, but Wang Yue always told her not to worry. How could she possibly not worry? Instead, she'd ended up resenting Wang Yue a little, thinking he didn't care about her family.
Because of this, Li Rong's opinion of Wang Yue had dropped from 99%—after he made her sour-and-spicy rice noodles and potato noodles—to 80%.
Fortunately, when she saw Li Chuan later and heard that all they'd done on the way was sightsee, without anything happening to them, she realized she'd worried too much. Her opinion of Wang Yue rose from 80% back to 99%.
Qin Zhenzhen had originally wanted to come to Rongcheng so Wang Yue could intervene and stop the engagement. But now that she liked Li Chuan, she no longer thought of bringing it up. She only said she wanted to tell her teacher in person what she thought.
At first, Li Rong welcomed Li Chuan warmly. But as soon as she realized he didn't want to return to the Capital, she immediately gave him a dressing-down.
But Li Chuan spoke with genuine feeling. He said he was willing to become emperor, but only on the condition that he became the kind of emperor Wang Yue had described—not one like