Translated by Eve

　　Edited by Wuxian

　　After Zhao Xihe had personally come to show off his loving affection while also giving Situ Yu a clear warning, Situ Yu temporarily became quiet. He no longer moved over to Sui Yuan's side without reason and instead, focused his attention onto Lin Xiao.

　　Upon s.h.i.+fting his attention, Situ Yu immediately perceived that someone plotted against him and wanted to destroy the marriage between himself and Lin Xiao. Xu Tu was in sight but unattainable, and Lin Xiao also had people scheming against her. This made Situ Yu, who was greatly offended, immediately burst into a sudden rage. He stopped Lin Xiao's self-defamation and taught a certain Di mother, who 'had been unjustly implicated and was innocent' a lesson, naturally performing on schedule.

　　Situ Yu's and Lin Xiao's every move was known by Zhao Xihe. At this moment, Zhan Xihe sat on the Dragon Throne and held onto his secret agent's report, expression unfathomable.

　　"What's wrong?" Sui Yuan, who was licking the small crumbs of cake stuck to his fingers, narrowed his eyes after eating his fill. His fingers were then cleaned by the palace's attendants. Only then did he turn to look with a questioning gaze at His Majesty the Emperor's expression which was clearly not right.

　　In order to make it up to his lover that had been a vampire in the last world and thus could not eat as he desired, in this world, Zhao Xihe scoured the entire country just to feed Sui Yuan. All his meals were prepared with the greatest attention, and all of the ingredients were carefully selected for quality which inevitably caused the replacement of the Head Chef of the Imperial Kitchen several times. It was rather like how Emperor Ming of Tang stopped at no expense to please his Guifei for just one smile, as if he didn't fear the death of numerous horses from exhaustion as long as some lychee fruit were delivered to one's lover.

　　Fortunately, Zhao Xihe had a firm control over the palace. The women in the palace were like startled rabbits as they dared not say too much. Otherwise, His Majesty the Emperor's Imperial desk would long have been packed with a mountain of notebooks full of rebukes. Or, the palace would have even welcomed a heap of officials that dared speak frankly before the Emperor as they came to pay their respects, quoting chapter and verse to try and persuade their Emperor from being too muddle-headed and tyrannical.

　　The people outside of the palace did not yet know that their wise and awe-inspiring Emperor had already lost all reason because of the ostentatiously domineering little Young Master Xu. However, the Imperial bodyguards and palace maids knew every little detail. The Emperor had always been magnanimous. If one happened to provoke His Majesty and evoke his displeasure, nothing much would happen. However, if a slave with no eyes even so much as made little Young Master Xu furrow his brows, then what awaited them was a Heaven-collapsing disaster!

　　——So long as little Young Master Xu was waited on properly, even if they gave the Emperor the cold shoulder and didn't show him even the least bit of concern, it was fine. Right now, all the palace hands had this kind of eccentric mental state of mind.

　　When His Majesty the Emperor saw Sui Yuan look like a lazy cat, nestling on the couch after eating and drinking his full, he smiled and waved at him.

　　Sui Yuan hesitated but still obediently stood up and walked to the Imperial throne. He was then placed on the other's knee.

　　The current Sui Yuan was already very familiar with this action. It had to be said that Zhao Xihe's method of slowly making progress was quite good. Sui Yuan didn't pay heed to Zhao Xihe's action and accepted the secret agent's report, casually skimming over it. The drowsiness that shrouded him vanished into smoke and his expression immediately turned extremely colourful.

　　He suddenly twisted his head and stared at Zhao Xihe with an incredulous expression, hoping to see a hint that the other must be joking with him.

　　Zhao Xihe stroked Sui Yuan's cowlick and showed him a pitying expression, "This news can't be faked. Restrain your grief and accept your fate."

　　Sui Yuan："………………QAQ"

　　Sui Yuan, who was unwilling to give up, lowered his head and once again carefully read the contents of the report. He had no choice but to dispel his doubts and deceive himself. However, he really didn't understand— how did the plot that had already gotten back on track, inexplicably derail once again?

　　Just as it happened in the plot, the Fourth Prince Situ Yu had 'saved the damsel in distress' and promptly prevented Lin Xiao from throwing away his reputation. He had also seized the opportunity to transfer the dirty water that was supposed to have splashed onto Lin Xiao onto his Di mother instead, thereby ruthlessly teaching that ignorant and ferocious madam a lesson.

　　Lin Xiao both hated and appreciated Situ Yu for destroying his plans. He was dissatisfied that he had obstructed him once more but was moved that he treated him with sincere feelings.