Marked by a Tyrant After Transmigrated

Chapter 48

If one wished to find a place that was of vital importance to the original owner and held deep seated memories, it couldn't be the prime minister's mansion, but the......cold palace.

A full decade spanned between the time the original owner met Jin Wang to the time Jin Wang ascended to the throne.

In Jin Wang's early childhood, his concubine mother was once in favor amongst others. However, the emperor was heartless, and his mother, falling prey to insidious schemes, soon fell out of favor and was banished to the cold palace, where she died of a serious illness.

The original owner and Jin Wang were thus left alone to depend upon each other to survive.

They lived in the cold palace for five years, and waited another five years before finally finding the opportunity to regain Jin Wang's status as a prince and leave that palace.

"You've been distracted for some time now, what are you thinking about?" Jin Wang asked in a warm voice as he led Ye Shu slowly down the path in the backyard of the Ye Mansion.

Ye Shu snapped out of his thoughts. He looked up only to meet Jin Wang's pair of handsome eyes.

He opened his mouth to speak, but suddenly came to a pause.

In that split second, he felt somewhat reluctant to tell Jin Wang his conclusion.

There was a kind of apprehension that emerged when it came to returning to a place he might once have called home. It was him who proposed to come here to search for answers, and it was also him who was afraid of finding out the truth.

Jin Wang stopped in his tracks as well. He raised his hand to brush the strands of hair scattered around Ye Shu's temples behind his ears. "Is it because of the lack of clues that you are dispirited?"

Ye Shu looked down. "I......"

"Take things easy. You needn't rush," Jin Wang said. "Didn't I mention that you don't need to give me an answer so soon?"

He led Ye Shu onward.

Jin Wang said, "I intend, in due course of time, to make it possible to have this place refurbished."

"Why?"

"A home for you outside the palace is necessary," Jin Wang smiled. "Just in case I upset you again one day, coming here would be better than fleeing elsewhere."

Ye Shu's heart skipped a beat. He turned his head and said, "That's not certain. I can still go look for Xiao Chang Yuan. I heard that his shop has already opened up and that business is going smoothly."

Jin Wang frowned slightly.

Ye Shu was about to continue walking forward, when Jin Wang caught his wrist and drew him agilely into his embrace.

"Have I been too nice to you recently?" Jin Wang half pushed and half embraced Ye Shu against a tree on the roadside. His narrowed eyes appeared menacing. "Daring to mention another Qianjun in front of me, you sure have the guts."

Having been spoiled by Jin Wang in recent days, Ye Shu became all the more emboldened, with not much fear of him. "Of course, I can even go to Huainan to see Xiao Huan, to the Great Yan to see Yu Yan, to uhmp—"

Jin Wang kissed that lawless mouth.

After a long time, he backed off a little, biting at Ye Shu's lower lip. "Where else would you go?"

Ye Shu's lips had become dark red. Savouring Bearing the pain, he remarked, "Are you a dog?"

"So many times you've called me names, can't I live up to them for once?" Jin Wang licked at Ye Shu's lips as if in anger. "You can't go anywhere."