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Ch 78 - Ruthless Crown Prince x Foolish Prince: Proper Cure

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Lin Sui had originally thought that Yan Qin would run away, after all, based on his external temperament and the relationship between them, things would not end well for Yan Qin if he dared to be hardheaded in front of him.

But he’d still underestimated the level of Yan Qin’s pretense, his foolish exterior was the perfect excuse to expose all of his filthiness and dirtiness in front of him in an innocent form.

Yan Qin not only didn’t run, he even volunteered to scrub Lin Sui’s back.

Lin Sui looked at Yan Qin with a cold frown, soundlessly conveying his rejection, but this did nothing to extinguish the young pup’s enthusiasm. He cheerfully walked towards Lin Sui, squeezed past his side and leaned towards him, then cupped his hands and poured some hot water over Lin Sui’s shoulders.

“Big brother Crown Prince, it’s so warm in the water.”

Yan Qin mumbled to himself. He wiped away the beads of sweat dripping from his forehead, his cheeks were flushed, and he looked particularly sultry.

“A-Qin seems to feel sick… big brother Crown Prince, can you touch to see if it’s hot?”

Yan Qin spoke somewhat dizzily, then he grabbed Lin Sui’s hand and touched the back of it to his own forehead, looking like he’d been dazed by soaking in the hot water.

“This place too, it’s strange…”

Yan Qin held Lin Sui’s hand and suddenly pulled it under the water, which was so steaming hot it almost felt like his hand was touching fire.

The older brother whose hand was being pulled immediately shook free, and a chilling harshness emerged in his expressive eyes.

“Impudent!”

The honourable Crown Prince suddenly had his precious hand defiled by someone under such circumstances, and though his facial features had been dyed the colour of peach blossoms by the water, his expression was filled by hatred and disgust.

“Who allowed you to do such a thing? Are you tired of living?”

Lin Sui used the hand that had just been touched to grab Yan Qin by the neck, slowly tightening the strength of his hand.

The beauty’s eyes were like cold stars, looking at the person in front of him as if he were looking at a lowly insect.

Yan Qin sensed that his older brother really intended on killing him, that his older brother wanted to strangle him to death and drown him in this spring as payment for his offence, not caring if there were heavily armed soldiers outside, or that the Emperor and his courtiers were all present.

Yan Qin looked at Lin Sui with an innocent pair of eyes, grabbing onto Lin Sui’s wrist and struggling to plead for his life.

He looked bewildered and aggrieved, but inwardly he was infatuated with this noble flower whose anger bloomed like overflowing dew on a white rose.

“Big brother Crown Prince… cough cough cough… let go… what did A-Qin… do wrong…”

Yan Qin forcefully pulled away the hand that was clutching at his neck, his voice came out in sobs, and even his eyes were brimming with a pitiful redness.

“Big brother Crown Prince grabbed me so hard…”

Yan Qin looked accusingly at Lin Sui, as if Lin Sui had suddenly bullied him.

“When all is said an done, it was a contemptible trick from a lowly concubine’s son. The next time you dare defile my eyes with that thing, I’m going to skin you alive.”

The Crown Prince seemed fiercely angry, so much so he didn’t even care about using the usual arrogant form of addressing himself.

“What thing…?” Yan Qin’s face was full of panic, he stood up, rising up to Lin Sui’s face, and grabbed himself as he sobbed, “Big brother Crown Prince, am I going to die? This place feels uncomfortable, what should I do? Should I see the Imperial Physician?”

It could be said that Yan Qin had perfected the act of pretending to be stupid, putting all these terrible, shameless things on display and acting like he had no one to rely on except for his good older brother, and thus confiding in him wholeheartedly.

Yan Qin licked the numb roof of his mouth with his tongue, and the abnormally crazy satisfaction of being under his big brother the Crown Prince’s astonished gaze caused that place that shouldn’t be exposed to twitch for a moment.

The veins on Lin Sui’s forehead throbbed, but the palms of the hands hanging by his side moved slightly.

Unfortunately it wasn’t time yet. However, Yan Qin had dared to play this trick in front of him, which took his original goal of teasing him a bit further.

His cold expression suddenly warmed up again, and he smiled at Yan Qin, only that smile carried some slight sorrow.

“You really are ill, and it’s quite a serious illness, but it can’t be cured at the Imperial Physician’s study.”

Lin Sui stood up in the spring and avoided facing that beast.

He stopped bathing and walked toward the edge of the pool, the ground there was paved with white marble, making everything glimmer with the soft light of the luminescent night pearls.

However, as far as Yan Qin was concerned, his Imperial brother’s silk-white skin was much nicer than that white marble.

With his long hair half-covering his buttocks, Lin Sui walked barefoot to a folding screen by the side of the pool, leaving behind a string of wet footprints.

Large couches were arranged by the side of the folding screen for people to relax in.

Lin Sui was naturally aware of the piercing gaze behind him, he deliberately lifted up his long hair and bent down to pick up the soft brocade cloth on the couch, using it to dry the waterdrops from his hair.

Lin Sui didn’t need to turn his head to know that the pup’s eyes were about to pop out of their sockets. He straightened up and sat on the couch, then used the cloth to cover himself and waved at Yan Qin.

“Do you know where the only place that can cure your illness is?”

Yan Qin had long since been driven mad, he walked in front of Lin Sui and shook his head in a daze.

“Your illness can only be completely cured in the Purification room^[1], you’ll be cured once and for all and will never have to worry about it coming back again. This One will send you to get treatment when we get back to the palace.”

“This will even help A-Qin in accomplishing his wish of becoming a little eunuch at this One’s side, and you’ll be able to remain with this One as a eunuch for the rest of your life, does that sound good?”

Lin Sui’s voice was tender, he lifted a strand of Yan Qin’s wet hair and lightly brushed it across his cheek.

His attitude was mocking and vicious, completely disregarding that his younger brother was a prince like himself, with no qualms about looking at him kneeling in front of him, speaking of things which outsiders would be appalled to hear.

“A-Qin doesn’t want to be a little eunuch.”

A feeling of discomfort rose increasingly in Yan Qin due to Lin Sui’s voice, so he lowered his head and muttered, a hidden depth in his downcast eyes.

Those ankles, dyed light pink by the heat and still stained with waterdrops, made him want to lick them clean little by little.

That blue butterfly must also be drenched, and Yan Qin was so fascinated by wondering whether its wings would be too heavy to fly because of the moisture that the scene in front of him had already turned elsewhere.

Turned to pushing his beautiful big brother the Crown Prince into the soft couch, of grabbing that leg and cherishing that soft, delicate butterfly.

But no matter how offensive and disgraceful the thoughts in his mind were, Yan Qin still looked like he was about to cry.

“Big brother Crown Prince, help me, I don’t want to die, I still want to stay by big brother’s side all the time.”

The wretched little pup implored him, but the thing he was pleading for wasn’t something one could actually ask for out loud.

“You want to stay by this One’s side all the time?” Lin Sui sneered. He used the tip of his foot to lift the underside of Yan Qin’s jaw, and spoke in an indifferent voice, “You’re quite brave, actually daring to think that.”

“Big brother Crown Prince, don’t you like good dogs? I’ll be the best.”

Yan Qin spoke in a proud tone, then grabbed the light pink foot in front of him and kissed Lin Sui’s instep.

The abnormal obsession and deep infatuation were both revealed like a ray of light on his face, but only for a sudden glimpse like the glistening of gold, then gone in a flash.

In the chaos and confusion, Lin Sui was his unconventional refuge inside the high palace walls. He was like a beautiful literary work filled with words of ambition and desire, like a flexible blade that attracted one’s amorous feelings.

His feet were deeply stuck in the mud and he couldn’t free himself, he prayed for pity with a humble attitude, seeking a response by using lowly means.

Yan Qin didn’t hide his gaze from Lin Sui, instead he looked at him delightedly, working even harder than before.

Inside the hot spring, filled with white fog that rose in the air in delicate spirals, one sat and one knelt. This was a disgraceful scene that went against the principles of virtue and ethics, but those inside it didn’t seem to mind.

Perhaps the always haughty Crown Prince found his Imperial brother’s debasement amusing, he let out a pleased laugh and lightly pressed his toes against Yan Qin’s lips and lower jaw.

“Then this One shall kindly help you with this matter, it would truly be less fun if you were to die.”

The noble person lifted his foot as if he were taking pity on the other, then stepped down on that lowly place.

Then he stepped down harder and harder, a smile filled with amusement on his face.

Yan Qin was already in a bit of pain, miserably staring up at Lin Sui, but he was so engrossed in this scene that could only appear in his fantasies that he couldn’t help but move, trying to make himself feel some relief.

“Did this One allow you to move?”

Lin Sui’s expression suddenly turned cold, and he looked at Yan Qin in annoyance.

Yan Qin then knelt obediently, looking up at his big brother the Crown Prince.

Looking as if he were facing a doll he could use to vent his anger, Lin Sui propped his head up with his hand and moved his foot back and forth with waning interest, inwardly estimating what would be appropriate.

He obviously couldn’t really “kill” it, where would he go find his fun if he really stepped on it so hard that it broke? So even if this was a little strenuous, he couldn’t not do it.

The System remained as motionless as a dead dog. It seemed to be tired already, the Son of Fortune this time was much crazier than before.

“Big brother Crown Prince…”

Yan Qin couldn’t help but mutter, but inwardly he was calling out his older brother’s childhood name.

Other people could also call him big brother Crown Prince, but A-Sui was not the same.

Yan Qin let out a low groan and looked at the back of Lin Sui’s foot, then raised his head and looked up at Lin Sui with gleaming eyes.

“Thank You for helping me, big brother Crown Prince. I like big brother Crown Prince the most.”

“Damn dog.”

Lin Sui used his foot to disdainfully turn Yan Qin’s head to the other side, then stood up from the couch.

The thin quilt that was covering him fell to the ground with his movements, and he walked back into the hot spring. Different from the watery footprints he made when he walked over, he left unclear white spots on the white marble as he walked, which almost blended together under the light.

“Wipe clean your filth.”

Lin Sui spoke lazily, soaking in the hot spring.

Yan Qin wiped the floor, so happy on the inside he could barely contain himself.

People like his big brother the Crown Prince were really not ordinary. He was still thinking of what to do if he received repeated rejection from his big brother the Crown Prince, but that wasn’t the Crown Prince’s character.

After wiping the floor, Yan Qin was even more eagerly attentive and went to massage Lin Sui’s back and shoulders.

Seeing as Lin Sui didn’t reject his fawning, Yan Qin put more heart into it, looking even more like a little eunuch than an actual little eunuch.

Outside the silk curtain, the hoot of an owl sounded three times.

Lin Sui opened his eyes, saying: “Let him in.”

The person outside the curtain retreated, and soon someone came inside.

Yan Qin kept doing what he was doing, but turned his sight towards the outside.

“Your Highness, things were arranged according to Your words, and everything is as You expected.”

The voice coming from the outside was a little flattering, a little indistinct amidst the mist.

“Not bad. This One will have the Governor of State Affairs take care of the thing you mentioned last time.”

“Many thanks, Your Highness. In that case, that Xue Dingchun, do we want to…? He’s really been a bit of a hindrance, and has messed up a few plans this humble servant had arranged for You.”

There was a bit of indignation in Zhong Zhuo’s voice, as for whether those things had really been done for the Crown Prince’s sake, he obviously knew in the inside.

“Really?”

It was hard to tell if the voice coming from the hot spring was happy or angry. Zhong Zhuo looked at the figure on the inside and subconsciously felt his hair raise on end.

“Then this One will find a way to retaliate properly.”

Zhong Zhuo revealed a smile on his face, flattered him again a few more times, and left from the outside of the curtain.

He didn’t see the patient and pondering smile of the master of the Eastern Palace, but Yan Qin did.

When he saw his scheming, treachery and viciousness, he was inwardly stunned for a flash, then he became even more zealous.

It was he who had underestimated the Crown Prince’s ambition. He thought Lin Sui just wanted to play both sides to keep his position, but he was actually planning on becoming the most supreme Emperor atop the Dragon Throne.

He wasn’t trying to keep his position as heir at all, he directly wanted to become the Master of the realm!

Such was his big brother the Crown Prince that he wanted more and more to see what he would look like biting his clothes and crying. Since he was so afraid of being touched, surely he would tremble terribly.

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