People of 'choke-inciting' descent

"Ge1 is so cruel!" (1: elder brother, both related and unrelated) inciting

"You just have no patience." He refuted.

Zhao Xing turned to look at the new comer clearly. He looked young, at least younger than the Crown Prince, and though his looks weren't on par with the 'Bailian', he looked good, just like a member of an idol group or something.

Zhao Xing snickered. They all look good but elements of the brain were lacking.

Feeling a hostile aura coming from a particular corner of the room, the young man turned his head towards the young girl that looked around his age and smiled brightly, Zhao Xing almost squinted from the light radiating his smile.

"Ge is this the fraud you were talking about?"

Cough cough. Zhao Xing choked and coughed hard. Did this people have a special talent of making people want to choke? For her safety she had to stay far away from them in the future.

Her coughing startled both men in the scene, who didn't know what to do in this situation. Since they were confused they could only awkwardly stay put.

"Zhang! Zheng! Yang! What did you go about telling people behind my back?" Zhao Xing was fuming, as she stood up to point at the man across the table.

On the other hand, the young man was surprised this girl called his brother by his taboo name, even raising her finger to point!

"His name is Zhang ZheHan, the ninth prince." The Crown Prince said calmly as he pointed to his brother. "He's working with me so you'll be seeing him often."

"Ha?" both the ninth prince and Zhao Xing exclaimed in surprise. One never imagined there would be another person his brother would mindlessly talk to and even introduce him by giving away his name just like that. While the other couldn't imagine that the unknown ninth prince who was said to 'stay in the side lines' was actually secretly with his brother.

But the explanation for this was quite simple. The ninth prince's mother died at childbirth, and the empress raised him. So they practically grew up as brothers of the same mother, which was a normal primary reason. As for the true reason. Zhao Xing couldn't tell.

Wait that wasn't the point. This guy called her a fraud behind her back! How could he!

Zhao Xing sat back down, with her arms folded in annoyance, she has never had to go through so much grievances in her life!

Her eyes turned to the ninth prince, and she scoffed. "Indeed birds of a feather flock together."She mumbled under her breath. Though he heard it clearly, his brother didn't say anything so he wouldn't do anything. Instead he joined them at the round table. He threw a book in his brother's way, which the later caught.

"Task completed." He said with a triumphant smile.

Zhang ZhengYang nodded, and scrolled through the book, "Good boy" he praised.

"Tch how can you send me of with just that, how can Yang ge (brother Yang) be so stingy."

Zhang ZhengYang shot a glare towards him, making him shut up.

Watching their interaction, Zhao Xing felt a sudden sense of familiarity. Where did she see this before? The Crown Prince didn't speak for so long, turned out he was waiting for this guy. Also today she had seen Zhang ZhengYang with other expressions on his face apart from his usual different degrees of smiles.

Her eyes then focused on the titleless book cover.

"It's a record of bad people involved in embezzlement, along with evidence." Zhang ZhengYang answered her unasked question.

But in return she only glared at him and turned her head away.

Zhang ZheHan continued his brother's explanation proudly, "Yes, very bad people, they deserve it. How could they think they could get away with such crimes? Right now that Imperial father is most suspicious, once the news gets out, they wouldn't be able to escape punishment. This time I especially asked a friend of mine to do some investigations for me."

He then turned to his brother. "Ge, you wouldn't believe what I found."

Zhang ZhengYan turned to him with a bit of interest.

Seeing he had caught his brother's attention, he smiled and continued, "I was planning to use this piece of information to get some benefits...cough..but, I'll tell you anyway." He didn't dare delay anymore with his brother's expression that grew more and more displeased.

"We found mines."

"Mines?" Zhao Xing, who couldn't exclude herself from eating melons (gossip), exclaimed puzzledly after hearing the news.

Even Zhang ZhengYang's eyes showed a bit of surprise.

"Umh" he nodded in affirmation, then his voice grew a few degrees lower, as he leaned closer, "Minister of revenue had been hiding this piece of information since the last time he was sent on an expedition at Northern Jinsha."

Some other place in the same world, In a brothel, a man, who's appearance only the word 'beauty' could describe, sat at a table, surrounded by women, in a private room. At the other side of the table sat another man wearing a mask that covered three fourth of his face, only his right cheek bone and part of his lips were visible. He sat alone, as none of the beauties dared to come close, because of his frightening aura.

"I told you not to worry." The beautiful man said, then turning toward the beauties curled in his arms, he continued, "See, your anger would only frighten the ladies"

The masked man said nothing as he stared straight at the man across him.

Feeling his words of persuasion didn't work, the beautiful man could only sigh. "Fine, I'll send men to check it once again, Happy now?"

The man with the mask remained silent, but one could tell he was more relaxed than before, he stood up and left, without a word.

"Da Gongzi.1, he was so scary..." A lady said coquettishly. (Mr./way of addressing their client.)

The beautiful man stared at the door, in contemplation as he responded absentmindedly, "He sure is isn't he."

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Zhao Xing: forget the master who summoned me, I'll go find the person who wrote my life this way!

Author: *sneeze* Who's thinking about me?