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Young Master had been away from the Prime Minister's Residence for many days, and the moment he stepped through the door, he saw them bullying the woman he was involved with... Done, completely finished! Young Master was going to hate her to death!

"Y-Young Master! You're back from Dongxu Mansion? Everyone has missed you so much!"

"...What are you doing?"

"Before Lord Wei left the capital, he instructed his subordinates to carefully guard the gates of the Prime Minister's Residence and be ready at any time for Young Master's return! We were..." Several guards exchanged glances, smiling ingratiatingly as they replied, "We were just cleaning house, clearing away some vases, female attractions, obstacles, and the like that are harmful to your future and your health, all to ensure your physical and mental well-being!"

"...Lord Wei ordered this?"

A piercingly cold gaze shot over, carrying a heavy, invisible pressure. Unable to bear the look of disgust and revulsion in their own Young Master's eyes, the guards gasped in shock and broke down, blurting out the truth.

"Y-Young Master, please don't hate us. We aren't bad people. Before Lord Wei left the capital, he told us to obey the Master's orders. But this Mother, er... this young lady caused you to lose all hope of promotion once again, so the Master, er—"

"Your Father ordered them to drag me here and told me to leave you. But I refuse." Liu Rongrong took over the conversation, not softening her words to sound pleasant at all. Her crystalline eyes shifted slightly, glancing at the Prime Minister's Son before her who could save her. "Your Father doesn't seem to plan on letting me go, Chenjing."

With a movement of his body, Li Chenjing stared unblinkingly at the woman before him, his thin lips pressed tightly together as he strode toward the study. Several guards seemed to sense his intent and immediately crowded forward in an attempt to block him.

"Young Master! The Prime Minister is doing this entirely for your official career. You must not argue with him over her!"

"Young Master! Lord Wei instructed us before leaving the capital that protecting Young Master's safety must come first in all things. But this woman is truly a siren, and she must never be kept by your side!"

"Young Master, she approached you purely to exact revenge on the Prime Minister for memorializing against her Father, and to drive a wedge between you and the Prime Minister. Don't be fooled by her again!"

"Young Master, the Emperor not allowing you to rise in the court is already issuing a final ultimatum to you. You must never ruin your entire life for this vase!"

"Step aside."

"Young Master..."

"Who is arguing with him? I am simply bringing someone here to meet him."

Li Chenjing lightly and languidly raised his sleeve, extending a hand behind him. A short, diminutive figure flashed out from his wake. Following the moonlight, one could see it was a young master with flushed cheeks and pouty lips, who was blinking her bewildered eyes at the slender, jade-like hand extended toward her, completely torn over whether she should take it...

"Come. Pay your respects to Father." His fingertips twitched slightly, reminding her to play her part to the fullest, urging that hesitating little trotter to fall right into his palm.

"Young Master, do we really have to hold hands and link hearts?" Did he have to be this ruthless? To save the woman he loved, he was going to toss her little life into the fire?

"Come." He urged in a low voice once more, his deep tone laced with a hint of impatience.

The moment her hand landed in his warm palm, she was gripped tightly and pulled forward. He strode past Liu Rongrong without casting a glance, as though she were already a thing of the past, nonexistent before his eyes.

Seeing that Young Master was cold and indifferent toward this courtesan flower-vessel, neither looking nor asking after her, the guards were instantly ecstatic and jubilant. Their Young Master should be the one to achieve great things with the Emperor, scout and recruit talent for the court, and accomplish mighty deeds! Women and all that crap about feelings were nothing but stumbling blocks! In the future, he could just casually find some obedient woman to bear a child and continue the family line. That was what a real man did!

Young Master is mighty, you have finally attained enlightenment!

"Father, you captured the wrong person. The person you need to catch is right here; this is my new lover."

"This humble scholar, Zhu Bafu, pays respects to the Prime Minister. This humble scholar perhaps, more or less, probably, seems to be Young Master's... new lover. Nice to meet you, please treat me well."

Ignoring the crying tone, trembling voice, helplessness, and indignation of a certain someone, Li Chenjing continued, "Since Father detests courtesans, then... is a cut-sleeve acceptable?"

Crash, bang, boom!

A bolt from the blue exploded above the head of every single guard—Young Master had just come out of the closet!

That hyper-feminine male with zero reproductive capability and zero capacity to carry on the family line was the new lover he had brought back?

Young Master, they only said that "women and things like that weren't very important," but you didn't have to evolve it into "women are completely unnecessary," did you?

Young Master,

You have "attained enlightenment" a bit too thoroughly...

The cool night wind swept across, plunging the courtyard into an eerie silence.

Zhu Bafu stood outside the study door with a bowed waist and folded hands. Beside her stood Li Chenjing, the Prime Minister's Son who had just declared his resolute plunge into the Longyang Realm, while a few resentful, tangled gazes bored into her back. Before her was the flickering candlelight leaking from inside the Prime Minister's study, the wooden doors half-closed, casting only a vague shadow through the crack.

Upon hearing the news of his rebellious son coming out of the closet, the study fell silent for a long while. The oppressive quiet made Zhu Bafu swallow her saliva repeatedly; the longer a big shot remained silent, the more terrifying it was, and there was no telling how many horrifying methods were already flashing through his mind to deal with his son's newly appointed bedmate.

Bratting, waist-chopping, tearing apart by chariots, skinning, caning, slow slicing, boiling, live burial, castration... He had probably run through all of them in his head already.

"Young Master, I'm sacrificing myself for the greater good for your sake. If your Father does that to me, you cannot just sit by and watch me die." The more she thought about it, the weaker her legs became, and she leaned over to whisper secretly to Li Chenjing beside her.

His gaze narrowed. Remaining silent, he reached out and patted her back with brotherly reassurance, as if soothing her. Don't worry, if we die, we die together.

"I don't want to die together! He's your Father so he won't do you in, but... what if he decides to do something to my little mushroom."

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