DLWAV CH97

Lu Dang continued: “Weren’t you out fishing? How did you end up here at Third Master Liu’s place?”

Third Master Liu: “…”

If the steward could think of it, how could he not?

He immediately straightened up and turned to look at Ao Ruize in disbelief.

It was at this moment that Lu Dang reacted.

He tried to explain: “Since when did you become so close with Third Master Liu?”

But soon, he realized that the relationship between Ao Ruize and Third Master Liu was probably not as simple as just being close friends!

Because after Third Master Liu straightened up, he could now see their positions more clearly—Third Master Liu’s hand was still inside their Emperor’s clothes.

Lu Dang: “You, you two…”

Ao Ruize: “…”

Ao Ruize quickly reacted.

He calmly took Third Master Liu’s hand and pulled it out from his clothes, then casually straightened his disheveled clothing as if nothing had happened.

“Why are you here? Is there something urgent?”

Lu Dang, the steward, and Third Master Liu, their gazes simultaneously falling on Ao Ruize’s movements: “…”

Then Lu Dang whipped his head around to look at the red-faced Third Master Liu: “No wonder when we sent you so many beauties back then, you refused them all so sternly.”

They had actually thought Third Master Liu did this out of caution, and to be responsible for the lives of tens of thousands of gang members.

Because of this, they had more than once regretted failing to win him over.

“So the real reason was simply that you didn’t fancy them.”

Otherwise, why would their Emperor make a move, and his hand would go straight into their Emperor’s clothes?

Third Master Liu: “…”

He tried to refute this, but then realized he couldn’t find even a single excuse.

Lu Dang’s eyes instantly turned red.

No wonder Ao Ruize had been fishing for over a month and still hadn’t grown tired of it.

Turns out what he wanted to catch was never the fish in the small river on Ganquan Mountain—his real goal was to hook Third Master Liu, the big fish of Yangzhou City.

It was all their fault for being so useless.

That’s why they forced their Emperor to personally step in, bearing humiliation and becoming Third Master Liu’s male pet.

Their Emperor was the Emperor, for heaven’s sake—

Wait.

Then Lu Dang suddenly reacted.

Wasn’t there something wrong with this picture?

For example, according to what those surnamed Gao said, once they brought the ten thousand troops of the Jiangnan military camp under their control and built the cannons, they could easily send that waste Emperor Zhangwu to meet the founding emperor and the others.

—He hadn’t believed what they said before.

Until that Professor Liu manufactured the cannons, and he followed Ao Ruize to observe them.

If he hadn’t already known that those surnamed Gao were ordinary people from another world, he might have believed the Li family’s claim that they were immortals sent by heaven to help their Emperor.

So winning over the Cao Gang was no longer the most crucial part of their plan.

After all, it would be nice if they could win them over, but it wouldn’t matter much if they couldn’t.

Which meant that under these circumstances, their Emperor had absolutely no need to go this far to win over the Cao Gang.

Yet their Emperor had still become Third Master Liu’s male pet… cough intimate guest—

Or for another example, if their Emperor hadn’t been willing, could Third Master Liu have molested him in broad daylight?

The answer seemed obvious!

Their Emperor probably just simply took a fancy to Third Master Liu!!

Most importantly, Third Master Liu and his people still didn’t seem to know their Emperor’s true identity!!!

Which meant he had made a blunder.

Lu Dang: “…”

He never thought the first thing he would lose wouldn’t be his status as the most capable eunuch by the Emperor’s side, but his status as the Emperor’s most trusted confidant.

Lu Dang was completely stunned: “…There’s nothing particularly urgent…”

Ao Ruize nodded: “Then you should go back first.”

Lu Dang: “…Yes.”

Seeing Lu Dang leave just like that, the group of Liu manor servants: “…”

They all turned to look at the steward.

The steward: “…”

What could the steward do?

The steward could only raise his hand and lead them away.

Then, as if thinking of something, the servants’ expressions suddenly changed.

They couldn’t help tugging at the steward’s sleeve: “Steward, now that we know Mr. Ao’s true identity, won’t we be silenced?”

Hearing this, the steward’s heart also panicked.

But he quickly reacted: “Would you leak this matter?”

The servants immediately shook their heads: “Of course not.”

After all, they were either orphans adopted by Third Master Liu, or people rescued from the river by Third Master Liu himself during the flood in Huzhou years ago—so how could they possibly betray him?

The steward: “Then what are you worried about.”

Right!

Then what did they have to worry about.

Third Master Liu wasn’t that kind of cruel master.

The servants immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

“But what attitude should we use toward the Em… Mr. Ao from now on?”

The steward fell silent.

“The same attitude as before.”

Ao Ruize used to be the Emperor, yes, but he wasn’t anymore, was he?

So their Third Master’s status wasn’t actually much lower than Ao Ruize’s, was it?

Moreover, Ao Ruize was now being kept by their Third Master.

So naturally, they couldn’t embarrass the Liu family too much.

The servants immediately said: “Yes.”

But the steward’s heart could never calm down.

So their Third Master had really slept with an Emperor!!!

Thinking about it this way, that seven hundred thousand taels of silver didn’t seem like such a waste after all.

The steward: “…”

Wait.

It should be said that spending over seven hundred thousand taels was a huge loss—

If their Third Master had taken a fancy to someone else, if he got tired of them later, he could just give them some silver and send them away.

But Ao Ruize was Emperor Jianxing—could he be sent away with just some silver?

And now the court was hunting for him everywhere.

Moreover, who could guarantee that Ao Ruize’s feelings for their Third Master were genuine.

Even if, taking a step back, Ao Ruize’s feelings for their Third Master were genuine.

If he succeeded in the future, would those pedantic scholars in court agree to him being involved with a man?

If he failed, would Emperor Zhangwu spare his bed companion?

Thinking this far, the steward was completely paralyzed.

On the other side.

In the pavilion, Third Master Liu had also fully reacted.

“You’re Emperor Jianxing?”

Ao Ruize nodded.

Third Master Liu glared at him angrily: “Then why did you say you were Ao Ruize?”

Ao Ruize: “…”

What should he say?

That this was his real name?

So Third Master Liu really had never thought to investigate his identity?

His wife’s lust for his body was truly straightforward—his intelligence had completely gone offline.

But now obviously wasn’t the time to ponder these things. The point was, his wife was clearly convinced that he had been deceiving him.

But that wasn’t important. What mattered was, was his wife angry?

This was the first time his wife had lost his temper with him!

Ao Ruize actually wasn’t flustered anymore.

After all, not everyone had a wife.

And not everyone had the chance to experience the crematorium.

Ao Ruize immediately reached out and hugged Third Master Liu: “It’s my fault for not directly stating my identity…”

Who knew that the next second, he heard Third Master Liu say: “Is that the point?”

Ao Ruize: “…”

The point wasn’t this?

Third Master Liu said word by word: “The point is, you said before that you only had a dozen or so concubines in your harem—”

Ao Ruize: “…”

Third Master Liu couldn’t help tilting his head back.

From anger.

“You call three thousand beauties in the imperial harem ‘only a dozen or so concubines’?”

A dozen or so would have been fine—given Ao Ruize’s good looks, he could have tolerated it.

But three thousand—who could tolerate that?

Ao Ruize: “…”

What could he say?

Although now there were indeed only a dozen or so concubines in “his” harem.

But the previous body’s harem had at most thirty-something consorts at its peak.

However, the several thousand palace maids in the harem were technically all his women in name.

So he couldn’t exactly say that the previous body’s harem actually had more than three thousand beauties, could he?

Ao Ruize: “…”

And the point wasn’t this, but rather—as expected of his wife, his focus was always different from ordinary people, and this ability to vinegar himself up anytime, anywhere was something ordinary people didn’t have.

What could Ao Ruize do.

Ao Ruize could only hold him, while mourning the crematorium that would never burn, and say: “It’s fine, from now on I’m all yours.”

Then his tone shifted: “Weren’t you wanting to measure how big my chest muscles are? Since they’ve all left, shall we continue?”

Third Master Liu’s gaze immediately followed back and landed on Ao Ruize’s chest.

Third Master Liu: “…”

What could he say?

Like, Ao Ruize’s true identity, and pursuing the matter of how many consorts Ao Ruize had taken—how could any of that be more important than studying Ao Ruize’s muscles?

Thinking this, Third Master Liu’s hand couldn’t help but move toward his lapel again.

Upon learning the news that Ao Ruize and Third Master Liu had gotten together, the middle-aged man and the others: “…”

They looked at each other. Wasn’t Mr. Xia mutually in love with Young Master Qin of Wanhe?

Back then, because Old Master Qin didn’t approve of them being together, Mr. Xia had smiled obsequiously countless times before Old Master Qin.

Later, when Mr. Xia left, Young Master Qin followed him.

So at the time, countless people were moved to tears by their beautiful love.

But how much time had passed—not even half a year, and Mr. Xia had transferred his affections?

The middle-aged man and the others looked at each other, all showing surprised expressions.

It was under these circumstances that they ran into Ao Ruize and Third Master Liu at the manor.

To be precise, they ran into the scene of Ao Ruize bringing Third Master Liu to the manor to pick winter dates.

At that time, Third Master Liu couldn’t help asking: “Aren’t you supposed to be taking revenge? How do you have time to accompany me sightseeing every day?”

Then Ao Ruize replied: “It’s fine, isn’t this what Lu Dang and Gao Sheng and them are for?”

The middle-aged man and the others, who had been working overtime for two consecutive months: “…”

And what made their expressions completely change was still to come.

That was when they discovered that the dishes Ao Ruize had prepared were all things Young Master Qin used to love eating.

Most importantly, Third Master Liu actually had the habit of picking out all the side dishes he didn’t like and giving them to Ao Ruize, then peeling a pile of shrimp to comfort him.

Connecting this with what Ao Ruize had said before, a guess suddenly surged into their minds.

“You guys, how could someone as smart as Mr. Xia be forced into this situation by that waste Emperor Zhangwu.”

“So he probably transmigrated over when Emperor Zhangwu rebelled.”

“As a result, a month later, the National Academy of Sciences, which had been searching other worlds for over a dozen years with no results, suddenly detected this world’s coordinates.”

“Now it seems, these coordinates were most likely sent to us by Mr. Xia.”

As for Ao Ruize’s purpose—

Hadn’t he already made that very clear just now?

It was to pull them over to be laborers.

“Also, could Third Master Liu be Young Master Qin?”

“No wonder when Mr. Xia died, Young Master Qin followed him.”

The quick transmigrators in novels, controlled by systems, getting electrocuted for saying one wrong word.

The Ao Ruize they saw, jumping casually between worlds, able to bring his lover along to transmigrate with him, like he was on vacation…

So this Mr. Xia Ruize seemed much more mysterious than they had imagined.

Thinking this, the middle-aged man couldn’t help saying: “Fortunately, back then we held our ground and didn’t insist on sending Mr. Xia to a laboratory for research, and later didn’t help Xia Lewen persecute Mr. Xia.”

Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

“Yes.”

The middle-aged man: “So from now on, we must constrain our behavior even more, and not betray Mr. Xia’s trust in us.”

Most importantly, he now had ample reason to suspect that if they dared to do anything heinous, Xia Lewen would be their cautionary tale.

That night, Ao Ruize discovered that the middle-aged man and the others’ attitude toward him had become even more respectful.

Ao Ruize couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment.

Then he simply smiled.

He had originally been a bit worried that after he left this world, people from the modern world might, driven by profit, use their high technology to wantonly plunder this world’s resources.

So he had been thinking about whether to find an opportunity to warn them.

He didn’t expect that he hadn’t done anything yet, and they had already warned themselves.

Not bad.

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