The Captivating Crown Prince

40 Awkward Situation In The Carriage.

“I know!” Huang Mo Che and Leng Yu Feng said while lowering their head. They knew from the way the Crown Prince said, that the Prince was not talking about playing, and they have never thought of deceiving the Crown Prince. And now, everything was lost…(1)

Shang Wu Xin looked at the two people opposite of him. They looked just like a child who had done a wrong thing, sitting down while lowering their heads, and she was like the strict parent scolding them. The more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she was in her heart. So she simply ignored them and closed her eyes.

While Shang Wu Xin closed her eyes, the two people opposite her raised their heads at the same time and looked at the Crown Prince who had closed his eyes. The Crown Prince with his eyes closed gave a feeling of being thin and very weak. These two people were greedily looking at the person opposite them, as if he was the most beautiful thing they’ve ever seen at this moment.

At this moment, both of them made up their minds, from today onwards, they would not lie to the prince in any way, because they were very clear that if there was a lie between them and the prince. Afraid that in the future, they will not even be able to become friends.

Even though Shang Wu Xin closed her eyes, she was still aware of her surroundings. How could she not felt the way the two people in front of her were staring at her so *intently. (T/N: Author just put * so I just put something there just to make more sense.) Shang Wu Xin opened her eyes and was about to scold the two, but at this time the carriage suddenly bumped on a stone, and the entire carriage tilted.

Shang Wu Xin could not respond quickly to stablized herself, her whole body was uncontrollable and fell towards the two people opposite her.

When the horse carriage bumped the stone, Leng Yu Feng and Huan Mo Che extended their hands and caught the fallen Crown Prince into their arms. As the two were men, so the way they sat were very stable. But both of them had reached out at the same time to save the Crown Prince. So when Leng Yu Feng reached out to save the Crown Prince, he caught the Crown Prince around his waist while Huan Mo Che caught him around his shoulders. (2)

Shang Wu Xin’s whole body was hugged by two people, so she was not harmed, but both Leng Yu Feng and Huan Mo Che’s back hit the carriage’s wall when they’re saving the prince. Although it must be very painful, but both of them still look the same as if it did not hurt at all.

Leng Yu Feng was a little embarrassed while he was holding the Crown Prince’s waist. His cheeks were slightly red. Although he had fought in the battlefiield, but he had never been this close to other people except the enemy. Moreover he could feel that the waist in his arms was very thin and boneless, which made him suspect that the Crown Prince was too thin and he’s afraid that if he put a little force he could break it.

When Huan Mo Che caught the Crown Prince’s shoulder, Shang Wu Xin’s head hit Huan Mo Che’s chest and a rich and fragant smell of green bamboo filled Shang Wu Xin’s senses. Even though Huan Mo Che looked just like a slender young master, his chest was also hard that Shang Wu Xin’s forehead felt pain when she hit it.

The shoulders beneath his arms were too thin that he could feel the bones. Huan Mo Che’s brow wrinkled but then he felt the Crown Prince’s forehead had just hit his chest and at the same time a faint fragance came from the Crown Prince. He could not feel the pain in his chest and could only feel that his heart seemed to be filled with waves, like a rock that was thrown into the calm water.

“Crown Prince?” Wu Ju’s voice came from outside the carriage. When she was driving the carriage, she didn’t find any stone on the road. But she heard some movements from the carriage and was worried if she had disturbed the Crown Prince. She was afraid to be disliked because of disturbing the Crown Prince.

Shang Wu Xin pushed herself off of Huan Mo Che and said to the one outside, “Nothing!” her voice did not change at all, as if the situation just now did not happen.

After waiting for Wu Ju to finish, Shang Wu Xin looked at Leng Yu Feng. Leng Yu Feng’s face became more and more red as he was looked. He didn’t know why the Crown Prince was looking at him so intently. Was it because just now he had just held the Crown Prince’s waist and it made him unhappy?

“General Leng when will you release your arms?” Shang Wu Xin looked curiously at Leng Yu Feng’s red face. “Or how long would General Leng still like to hold?”

Leng Yu Feng quickly took back his hand as if his whole body was being electrified. He just thought that the Crown Prince’s waist fits really well in his arm and he could not help but felt that this feeling was very comfortable that he forgot that doing so was against the rules.

Leng Yu Feng took back his hand and clenched his fist. He could even smell the Crown Prince’s fragance from his own hands. It’s not any floral fragance but it was a very natural and fresh fragance. Leng Yu Feng once thought that the Crown Prince had used some kind of fragance, but later on he knew that it was the Crown Prince’s own body fragance.

If the former Leng Yu Feng knew that a man’s body had a woman’s fragance, didn’t know how much it would repelled him. But now as this happened to the Crown Prince, Leng Yu Feng did not think that the Crown Prince’s girly fragance was bad but thought that it was really nice. This kind of fragance could only be found on the Crown Prince’s body, it seemed as if the fragrance was born for the Crown Prince.

If it wasn’t for the Crown Prince opposite of him, Leng Yu Feng would really want to smell the smell in his hand, however as this thought came, it just made Leng Yu Feng’s face a bit wrong. How could he had this kind of thought, this… Leng Yu Feng sneaked a peek at the Crown Prince to see that the Crown Prince did not even look at him. He was relieved and became more alarmed at himself. What happened to him recently…?

As the stiff face Leng Yu Feng absent-mindedly imagined things in his mind, Huan Mo Che too was no better.

Huan Mo Che looked across at the Crown Prince who was looking out of the carriage, he reached out to rubbed at his own chest. It felt as if he could still felt the Crown Prince’s body temperature. Obviously the Crown Prince’s body was very cold but it was as if it burned his heart.

It was at this moment, a black pigeon landed on Wu Ju’s arm. Wu Ju immediately took out the news from the pigeon to look, then whispered towards the one inside the carriage, “Crown Prince, it’s news from the capital!”

Wu Ju was whispering in this way because she knew there were two other people inside the carriage. Although the two men did not seem to have malicious intent towards the Crown Prince for now. But the heart of defense is indispensable! (4)

“En, just say.” Shang Wu Xin’s gaze still looked through the carriage’s window towards the lush landscape. It seemed as if she was defenseless for the two in the carriage, but Leng Yu Feng and Huan Mo Che knew that this was not because the Crown Prince did not believe them but because he did not care at all.

After Wu Ju heard the Crown Prince’s voice, she quickly answered, “General Hai said that he had received news that Crown Prince are returning to the capital, so Crown Prince should be more careful. General Hai also asked if Crown Prince would like him to send someone to pick up Crown Prince and return to the capital.”

“No need.” Shang Wu Xin casually said, “Go slower, no need to hurry back to the capital.”

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1. 丢了夫人折了兵 : Lost the wife and folded soldiers…? Anyway, it’s an idiom of when you regret doing something to someone and lost their trust. (my interpretation)

2. “Caught” in this sentence… You know when you’re trying to save someone reflexively when they fell towards you? You basically caught them as they fall but inadvertently hugged/held them in your arms. Hehehe… –smirking smugly-

3. “Boneless” can also mean slim

4. 但防人之心不可无: Idiom. English equivalent is -> Better safe than sorry.