Chapter 15 - Frank
A monarch’s order could not be disobeyed. Song Xiao looked at the ‘as a matter of course’ expression on the emperor’s face, rubbed his hair dry in a few rubs, then slowly laid down beside him.
The dormitory rooms had central air conditioning, so even if you raised the temperature, it was still a little cold. The bed sheet still had the warmth from when Yu Tang was lying there, which made Song Xiao, who had just taken a bath, shiver slightly, suddenly feeling a sense of happiness.
A thin quilt made of natural silk covered across the bed, wrapping Song Xiao up.
Song Xiao comfortably sighed, both hands clutching the edge of the blanket and curving his eyes.
After Yu Tang had properly covered him up with the quilt, he saw this appearance, and couldn’t help smiling too.
To Song Xiao, he hadn’t seen the emperor for only a month, and didn’t feel unfamiliar, merely that towards this sixteen year old emperor, he felt like it was especially novel, and looked sideways at him.
But for Yu Tang, it has already been many, many years since he had last shared a bed with Song Xiao. While tucking Song Xiao in, he surrept.i.tiously wiped the sweat in his palms onto the quilt, a peaceful expression on his face.
The both of them didn’t speak for a while, and stared at each other just like this.
“Your Majesty, when did you restore your memory?” Song Xiao thought of the emperor’s behavior for the past few days, and it was evident that he was very familiar with this place.
“About five years ago.” Yu Tang supported his head with one hand, the other on the quilt, after wiping away his sweat, he didn’t shift away from pressing against Song Xiao’s body. When Song Xiao asked a sentence he replied with a sentence, when he didn’t then Yu Tang would close his mouth and not say anything.
Five years… Song Xiao blinked, and felt like it was a little profound. Before, Yu Tang was older than him by five years, now he had arrived five years earlier than him, but was the same age as him. He always felt like there was something mysteriously and inexorably causing this.
“Zhen is still older than you.” The emperor seemed to be able to see his thoughts, and huffed while saying, “Your birthday is in October, so you’re definitely not sixteen yet.” As the cla.s.s monitor, he could inspect every cla.s.smate’s birthday!
“Oh.” Song Xiao flattened his mouth. This guy, even in age he still wanted to gain the upper hand.
While talking, the dormitory killed the lights. The curtains were closed, so the room instantly fell into darkness.
Both of them were quiet for a moment. Song Xiao opened his mouth and wanted to speak again, but unexpectedly felt a warm breath edging closer.
“Your, Your Majesty…” The faint scent of peppermint was the fragrance of Yu Tang’s body wash.
“En?” The low, melodious voice was by his ear. Song Xiao swallowed, after waiting for half a day, he didn’t see Yu Tang continue to the next step, as if he was only borrowing the darkness to approach him.
After Song Xiao saw that he was reticent, he started to ask what he had wanted to ask. “Who is Dugu An? What is your family doing now? My parents look exactly the same as our last life, then is your parents still the previous emperor and empress dowager-”
Yu Tang didn’t reply to a single question, letting Song Xiao chatter on for quite a while, then suddenly hoa.r.s.ely asked, “How did you die?”
The clear and sonorous sound of interrogation abruptly stopped, and Song Xiao buried half his face into the quilt. “Just, just died like that ba.”
“Jinlin didn’t let you see the imperial edict, did he?” Yu Tang’s eyes narrowed in the darkness.
Song Xiao didn’t know how to answer. If he said he saw it, then he had to admit the embarra.s.sing matter of dying together with Yu Jintang in the name of love, but if he said he didn’t see it, then an injustice would fall on the emperor’s younger brother.
Yu Jinlin is the brother with the same mother as Yu Jintang, they had an age difference of over ten years, and Yu Jintang had always raised his little brother as a son. If Song Xiao let him a.s.sume that his little brother had purposely caused the death of the empress, he would definitely be sad.
“Seen it.” Song Xiao held his breath for a long time, then mumbled it out.
When Yu Tang heard this, his heart suddenly lightened and subsequently an earth-shattering joy followed, then took Song Xiao into his arms. “Then you…”
“Wasn’t it you who told me to be buried alive? Why are you blaming other people?” Song Xiao immediately blocked him with a sentence.
A basin of cold water poured over his head, and Yu Tang, embarra.s.sed, took back his claws, glad that it was dark, or else his expression would be noticeably dumb.
“Who is Dugu An?” Song Xiao hurriedly changed the topic.
“Chief of the hidden guards.” Yu Tang answered, well-behaved, and also relaxed his body to lie on his side.
“He also has his memories?”
“En.”
“Then how did you find him?”
“Met by chance.”
……
The two of them chatted like this the whole night. Yu Tang also told him a lot of modern common knowledge, letting him pay attention to some things in the future, if he doesn’t comprehend anything then he must come and ask him. Conversing until it was day break, the broadcast rang out the sound of ‘gegeda’.
“Ha—” Song Xiao let out a long yawn, originally he didn’t feel tired, but when he heard the alarm to get out of bed, he was suddenly tired to the point he couldn’t open his eyes.
Yu Tang looked at the shadows under his eyes, then frowned, “You sleep ba, I’ll go request a leave of absence from the form teacher.”
“Oh, that won’t do,” Song Xiao sat up. “I can’t delay attending cla.s.s.” The information of this time was too complex, delaying a single day of cla.s.s, making up for it would be extremely strenuous.
For the matter of the entertainment newspaper, Song Zicheng dealt with it very quickly, directly asking the lawyer to write a letter, accusing the newspaper of infringing on the rights of a minor by publishing the photo. Song Xiao was still a minor, without the minor and the guardian’s consent, publishing his photo recklessly on the entertainment newspaper, and even matching it with misleading words, was a major infringement.
But the discussions on the internet could not be controlled, as if there was someone behind the scenes pushing the situation, the discussion on the internet, from criticizing the feudal mindset, became criticizing second generations’ lack of good upbringing, then continued to become a large-scale hate the rich discussion.
“Report what infringement! Your family operates an entertainment company, so of course it’s meant to give everyone entertainment, what’s wrong with publishing a photo of your son?”
“What era is this, Song Zicheng doesn’t have a wife, Qiu Mingyan is unmarried, love is free, why say that my G.o.ddess is a concubine!”
“Rich second generations mah, they rely on daddy to support them, if his stepmother births a little brother, then the family property will have to be distributed, of course he isn’t willing.”
“So what if he’s rich, they still have such a fight within the household. It would be better to donate the money to me, I’ve been laid off for a good few years already, in my family I have to take care of elderly parents, my child has a congenital heart disease, now I really can’t pay the medical bills, my card number is 62122…”
Sheng Meng High School’s students had also watched the situation develop on the internet last night, the more they saw the more they felt that something was wrong, especially the students of special cla.s.ses, as the majority of them were rich second generations.
“The modern people really are scary, since you’re rich then you should go die?” Liu Lu pinched Qian Jiahui, indignantly speaking.
“Great aunt, it wasn’t even me who said those kinds of things, so can you please stop pinching?” Qian Jiahui looked at his arm that had one more of the many red marks, and wanted to cry without tears.
“Mob.” Yu Tang suddenly said.
“Uh?” The sleepy Song Xiao turned to look at him, bewildered.
Yu Tang looked at him, wanting to probe him about the citizen’s words and political situation, but noticing his eyes squinted into narrow slits, and his head having two strands of hair sticking out, and couldn’t say anything.
His wife’s family was in an industry where it was easy to get into trouble. Yu Tang deeply felt that he must grasp a greater rights and power, only then could he protect him. As a result, an application for the position of the president of the student union was immediately submitted to the academic affairs office.
Because it was the first student union, Sheng Meng creatively wanted the student union to form a presidential cabinet system, so they must first select the president. To save time, the school stipulated that only cla.s.s monitors were qualified to partic.i.p.ate in the selection. Because it was already Friday, the election was set at next Monday.
The both of them had just recognized each other and had to part already, and this was the first time Yu Tang had disliked the weekend so strongly. “Come to my house and do homework this weekend ba?”
Song Xiao was startled, firmly shaking his head, then leapt into the car picking him up and left. What a joke, they had just met not long ago, and he immediately went to the inner chambers from the main room, empress dowager would absolutely think that he was frivolous.
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Little theater
Fish Tang: Let’s go, follow me home
Xiaoxiao: No way, I haven’t married in yet, how could I just meet my mother in law?
Fish Tang: Then I’ll go to your house
Xiaoxiao: What for?
Fish Tang: Propose marriage.
Qian Jiahui: It’s just copying a.s.signments, is it that complicated?