564 I am a troublemaker [Bonus chapter]


    “Prince Mu, do you not care about your mother? How will I survive without His Majesty?” Xiuying asked as tears rolled down her cheeks.


    “Did Mother not hear what Father did?” Qiu Mu questioned her.


    “I did. But does that matter? Yu Jun is no more. And whatever your father did was to bring the kingdom out of chaos. His elder brother…” she could not finish her sentence as Qiu Mu stopped her from speaking anything.


    “Mother has lost her conscience. I will not exin her. I should go,” Qiu Mu said and turned to leave when Xiuying asked him if he would let his father die.


    “I wish he didn’t have forced a mother to hate her child. I wish he had not used Lóng Wei which turned him against us,” Qiu Mu said as he tilted his head slightly.


    “Mother, there is a piece of good news. The Crown Prince will take over the throne. Lóng Wei proved to everyone that he was never after the throne,” he stated and walked ahead. As he stepped out of his mother’s chamber, he asked the maidservants not to let Xiuyinge inside.


    For some time, he decided to keep his mother locked inside that chamber. He had the doubt that Xiuying would go to Lóng Wei to curse him. He was already guilty of his past acts with Lóng Wei. Now, with his mother’s actions, he didn’t want to hurt Lóng Wei.


    As he was walking on the pavement, he encountered Tianjie. They both greeted each other when Qiu Mu asked him if he was going out.


    Tianjie shook his head. “I was going to see the Crown Prince and ask him on which day he would be coronated,” he replied.


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    “Tomorrow morning, Brother Tianjie,” Qiu Mu informed him.


    Tianjie smiled. “That is great,” he said and asked Qiu Mu when he would start the search for Kang Cha Ying.


    “The search is going on, but there nothing useful is found till now. I wonder if she is good,” Qiu Mu said with a worried look. Both the princes started to walk while conversing with each other.


    “Miss Kang knows self defense and has learned martial arts. I know she will be fine,” Tianjie said.


    “She ran away without any money from her house. Where she is staying, what she is eating, and how she is sleeping are my chief concerns. Brother Tianjie knows how women are traded by some evil men. What if someone more powerful than her has caught her? It all happened because I also did not give her the security. Her evil family pressured her which forced her to run away,” Qiu Mu narrated his worries about Cha Ying.


    They both stopped when they saw Lóng Weiing from the front with Qizhen and Xu Zifan. They found him smiling and it was indeed a surprising sight for the two princes.


    Qiu Mu and Tianjie greeted Qizhen. “How is Uncle Qizhen? Did he sleep wellst night?” Tianjie asked.


    “I had a good sleep,” Qizhen said. “The princes should talk with each other. I go ahead,” he said and soon disappeared from their eyes.


    “Lóng Wei, did you sleep peacefully?” Qiu Mu inquired.


    “Yes,” Lóng Wei answered and asked him if he found Cha Ying.


    “No,” a in reply came from Qiu Mu.


    “I saw her in the market the day she ran from the house,” Lóng Wei informed the second prince whose eyes grew bigger. Before Qiu Mu asked him why he did not tell about it earlier Lóng Wei said, “I had a lot of things on my mind at that time. Forgive me for not saying it earlier.”


    Lóng Wei lifted his head and looked into Qiu Mu’s eyes, who asked him where he saw Cha Ying.


    “She was in a male outfit. I think she changed the dress in a clothing shop. Prince Mu should check with the shop owners in the central market. I think she seeded in leaving the capital,” Lóng Wei exined to Qiu Mu.


    “It has been more than three days since she left the capital,” Qiu Mu said and frowned.


    “I can ask Xiwan to find Cha Ying if Prince Mu allows me to,” Lóng Wei opined. “Xiwan is good at collecting information,” he stressed the special quality that Xiwan possessed.


    “I would love to,” Qiu Mu epted Lóng Wei’s offer and asked Lóng Wei where Xiwan was. “Is he still working in the royal kitchen?” he asked.


    “No. Xiwan is at Chang Shi’s ce,” Lóng Wei said.


    “I can give this message to Xiwan,” Xu Zifan stepped up for Qiu Mu’s ce.


    “Thank you, Xu Zifan, but I would love to start the search with Xiwan. You should go home and be with Sister Jingfei. She must be surprised by all the events that recently happened in the pce,” Qiu Mu advised Xu Zifan.


    Qiu Mu did not dy anymore and left for Chang Shi’s ce after thanking Lóng Wei.


    Xu Zifan also took his leave.


    “Forgive me, Brother Lóng Wei. I treated you so badly all these years,” Tianjie said.


    “It never mattered to me how I was treated by the princes around me,” Lóng Wei rified to him.


    “Do not lie,” Tianjie said. “Forgive me for saying wrong things about your mother.” He lowered his head in shame.


    “I let people say wrong about her,” Lóng Wei stated.


    “I heard from the Crown Prince that Brother Lóng Wei is leaving the pce for a while. We will miss him,” Tianjie said.


    “I am a troublemaker, so my absence will surely bother all of you,” Lóng Wei said with a chuckle.


    “I thought Brother Lóng Wei will be the King,” Tianjie said with a bit of hesitation. He feared if his statement would anger Lóng Wei or not.


    “Never. I cannot handle such a big position. Everyone took me wrong,” Lóng Wei said. “I am tired of telling this to people. Should I carve,” he pointed his finger at his forehead, “on my forehead that Lóng Wei does not desire to be king.”


    Tianjieughed to hear Lóng Wei’s statement.


    “I am unable to believe that we are talking so calmly with each other,” Tianjie remarked after he stoppedughing.


    “Because we misunderstood each other,” Lóng Wei proimed.