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Spring Once More chapter 15
(Traditional Chinese cover scanned by Dairytea)
Chapter Fifteen
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What Xiao-Shun said is keeping me up all night.
It’s a clear
sign for me to implement drastic changes. Otherwise everyone will see Ma
Xiaodong as that perverted, cut-sleeve prince, Chai Rong.
First thing
in the morning, as soon as my feet touch the ground, I command Xiao-Shun, “Summon all nineteen masters
from their courtyards!”
Goddammit, if
I’m going to make changes, I’m going all in!
Seeing my
determined expression, he hesitates for a moment before gingerly suggesting, “My
Prince, your health has not fully recovered…nineteen at once is too… How about
we summon four or five for the moment…”
Fuck! I
almost pass out from choking on my own spit. My face darkens. “I have important
announcements today! Get them all here! Assemble in the main hall after
breakfast!”
Probably
reassured by my stern expression, he races off to arrange things.
Sure enough,
the manor’s staff is very efficient. Just as I push away my empty bowl of
congee, Xiao-Shun returns to report
that the nineteen men have been assembled.
Although I knew
the stories behind them, this is the first time seeing the Mona Lisa. Oh dear
lord! Oh praises to heaven! I pass my gaze over the nineteen of them, and every
single one is a beauty. Dark, luscious brows as elegant as willow leaves,
flowing hair like the trickling creek in autumn, rosy cheeks supple like ripe
peaches and slender frames that looked as if they might topple over with the
gentlest breeze – they could all go to Thailand and back without a single
operation done. My Yan Ni would look like a pile of dirt next to them. Holy
Christ! The sixteenth one is just a head taller than a chair. He must be twelve
or thirteen. OMG, that son of a bitch prince!!! I wave the little fella over with
a smile. “Come here.”
The boy
shuffles over nervously with his head lowered. I pat his head. “How old are
you?” He steals a glance trying to squeeze a smile. “My Prince, you’ve
forgotten that Lianwo is thirteen this year.”
That !@#$...
He basically targeted anyone with a beating pulse, didn’t he!!! Even this good
son of the motherland! Even giving a name like Lianwo![1]
Lianwo, a name clearly meant for a sissy!
I feel the
flames of righteousness burning from head to toe. “What was your name before?”
Lianwo looks
up again and starts shuttering, “Yo-Your Highness, my name was once Tianbao.”[2]
I rub my
forehead. “What was your family name?” He shakes even more violently. “Hua.”
Thank
goodness, at least his family name is not half bad. Hm, Hua… Oh, yes. The Hua house was seized by the court, and Chai Rong
asked the emperor for him because he found the kid cute. That bastard literally
looted a burning house!
Lianwo is
still shaking with his head hanging. I think back to my days as a thirteen year
old, to my little brother, Xiao-Shi,
when he was thirteen… The youth and the passion! How did this good, healthy
bloke become this androgynous thing?! But it’s okay! Your big brother has come
to guide you and turn you into a virtuous hero!
I rub his
head again and then slap a hand on the table. “From today on, you shall be
called Hua Yingxiong!”[3]
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Dairytea:
"Yo-Your Highness, my name was once Tian Bao"
"........." =A= |||
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