In fact, if you look carefully, you can see that each of the four bed pillars has an identical gold ring.
The Chen Kingdom’s Guozhu is famous for his lustful and promiscuous behavior. In his sixties, he still enjoys playing with teenagers and would install such equipment under his own bed curtains, which is not surprising.
Jiang Yun naturally followed his gaze and frowned slightly.
Sui Heng had kneeled back down under the bed curtain with a gloomy face. Without saying a word, he leaned into Jiang Yun’s collar and began to untie his clothes.
Jiang Yun turned pale and was pressed hard by him, unable to move. He could only grit his teeth and stare at him coldly.
Sui Heng’s movement does not stop, skillfully removing the jade belt and peeling the tightly wrapped silk robe and inner garment clean without leaving a trace.
“What are you…doing?”
Although they have had intimate relationships multiple times since they met, this person still has integrity in his actions and has never been so rude and unreasonable.
It’s like he’s going crazy.
Sui Heng didn’t answer, he frowned and had a gloomy look. He tugged at the golden ring hanging on the bed pillar, propped himself up on one knee, and carefully studied the mechanism on it.
The Chen Kingdom’s Guozhu is really worthy of being an old pervert known around the world. The design of these lock rings can be described as ingenious and full of human intelligence. Not only is the lock ring exquisite, but it can be adjusted to fit the user’s wrist size as well. The gold chains connected to the bed pillars can also be adjusted in length according to needs.
Jiang Yun had already guessed what he was going to do. He curled up his fingers, turned his head, and buried his face into the pillow.
There was still no movement after waiting for a long time, this man just left him hanging in the air. Jiang Yun couldn’t help but turn his head and see that Sui Heng was still holding the golden ring, flipping back and forth.
“Inside.”
Jiang Yun couldn’t bear to watch anymore. He bites his lips and gently reminds him.
Sui Heng flicked the mechanism inward and, as expected, successfully opened the locking ring.
For a moment, the gloom on his brows grew heavier.
He thinks to himself, why does he know this mechanism so well? Has he ever done such a thing with others before?
That ambiguous scar in the secret place—could it be the mark left behind when he made love with another lover?
He said he has no other lovers, is that really true? Could it be just a placate to appease him?
His mind was in turmoil.
Jiang Yun’s eyelashes trembled again and he urged, “You…hurry up.”
“What’s the hurry?”
Sui Heng’s voice was depressing.
“You’ll get it later.”
After finishing speaking, he became even more frustrated. It was clear that he was punishing him; however, not only was the other party not afraid, but also accused him of procrastinating as well!
Sui Heng snorted, pulled Jiang Yun’s left wrist, clicked, and fastened it with a locking ring.
The unfamiliar and cold metallic touch made Jiang Yun tremble slightly.
But for now, he also has no resistance.
He simply closes his eyes and waits for this person’s next humiliation and action.
However, Sui Heng was just looking down on him from a high position. With the dim candlelight, he quietly surveyed his little lover’s overly beautiful eyebrows, eyes, and body. Then he reached out and gently covered Jiang Yun’s body with a silk quilt.
Jiang Yun opened his eyes and looked at him unexpectedly.
“What do you think Gu is going to do?”
Sui Heng seemed to appreciate this kind of reaction from him, even if this person was deliberately creating an ambiguous illusion to confuse him at the beginning.
Jiang Yun’s face remained calm, but he couldn’t help feeling a little embarrassed. A faint layer of red flushed in the root of his ears.
Sui Heng became more and more pleasant.
Bending down, he whispered, “Gu didn’t know that Ah Yan had so much lust and wicked things in his mind.”
Jiang Yun reached out and pushed him away.
As soon as he moved, the silky quilt on his body immediately slipped off, revealing a bit of the back and his thin shoulders.
Sui Heng grabbed that hand and smiled, “Throwing yourself at Gu again.”
Jiang Yun: “……”
Jiang Yun forcefully pulled out his hand, causing the silk quilt to slide down another half inch.
Sui Heng laughed heartily, pulled the quilt back up, tightly covered his little lover, frowned, and said, “Dim Mak1点穴: attack sb’s vital point (referring to martial arts.)is not good for the body. Gu is reluctant to use a rope, but Gu was afraid you wouldn’t listen and took advantage of Gu’s absence and secretly ran away, so Gu can only use this method.”
“Ah Yan is so shy, you shouldn’t go out naked just to escape, right?”
“……” Jiang Yun turned his head and completely ignored him.
Sui Heng stood up with satisfaction, rolled up the scattered robes and jade belt under the bed curtains into a ball, put them all away, and leaned down to say, “Be good and wait for Gu to come back. Don’t worry, Gu won’t let anyone else in.” Then he walked out of the hall with his long legs.
When the sound of footsteps completely disappeared, Jiang Yun turned his head and frowned at the tightly closed palace door.
He wasn’t worried that Gongsun Yang would betray him, he was just worried about whether Gongsun Yang could survive this or not.
Sui Heng did not get any outcome from the interrogation.
Because, as Jiang Yun expected, Gongsun Yang is firm and unyielding. After waking up, he cursed loudly. First, he cursed Chen Qi for being shameless, treacherous, and defecting to external enemies, which was an insult to the Four Princes of the Southern Kingdom. He also cursed Sui Heng, who appeared later for being ambitious and killing too many people, saying, he shall not die a good death.
The entire Sui army was cursed by him, and even his ancestors of eighteen generations were all greeted by him.
Chen Qi directly ordered people to torture him severely. Gongsun Yang was in terrible pain, but he still refused to give in. Before he passed out, he was still cursing.
Even Sui Heng admired his firm and unyielding character.
It’s pointless to go on with this interrogation.
Sui Heng asked the guards to wake him up and said slowly, “If you refuse to confess, Gu will have to go and interrogate your master.”
He calmly took out a green double crane jade pendant from his pocket and said, “You should recognize this thing, right?”
Gongsun Yang’s pupils shrank, and he immediately rushed towards Sui Heng but was forcefully pressed down by the guards. Sui Heng chuckled and said, “Your master is delicate, so he is definitely not as capable of carrying the torment as you are. If he loses an arm or a leg, it will be your disloyalty as a subordinate.”
That night, Gongsun Yang was besieged by assassins and fell to the ground with serious injuries. When he woke up, he was already in the Sui army camp. Gongsun Yang was unaware of the news that Jiang Yun had “died.” When he saw the jade pendant at first glance, he really thought that Jiang Yun had fallen into Sui Heng’s hands.
His Highness is weak, how can he withstand severe torture by the Sui army?
Gongsun Yang stared fiercely at Sui Heng, roaring in anger, his eyes almost bursting out.
Sui Heng continued to stir up trouble and ignite the flames: “Gu has heard that loyalty is the most important thing to you ministers of education. Master Gongsun, your actions today are only focused on your own reputation, with not the slightest concern for the safety of the master. If Gu were that Jiang Rongyu, Gu would be frightened to death.”
This person turns black and white upside down, distorts right and wrong, and insists on presenting crooked reasoning as truth.
Gongsun Yang managed to gasp out a mouthful of blood, and his eyes darkened. He was once again infuriated, and he fainted.
Neither Chen Qi nor Xu Qiao expected that Sui Heng would come up with such a cunning move to “extort a confession,” which was like using a heart wrenching strategy to the extreme.
Sui Heng then asked the guards to wake him up.
The so-called interrogation is to destroy people’s spiritual limits, and right now Gongsun Yang is anxious and emotionally unstable, which is the most fragile time for the spirit.
He still shook the jade pendant and said, “As long as you confess honestly, not only will Gu spare your master and allow you, master and servant to reunion, but Gu will also promise you a higher rank and salary than you had in the Jiang Empire as well.”
“If not, Gu can only immediately have Jiang Rongyu interrogated.”
Sui Heng still did not succeed.
Due to Gongsun Yang’s unwillingness to betray and put his master in danger for his own sake, he chose to take poison directly.
Good thing the guards snatched the poison in time.
It was the first time Sui Heng had encountered such a tough opponent, so he couldn’t help but frown and snort, “Do you think if you die, Gu will let Jiang Rongyu go? Gu will only treat him with harsher torment.”
Gongsun Yang angrily retorted, “If I confess, will you definitely let His Highness go? A promise made by a jackal is not to be trusted. I’d rather die to protect my honor than be that treacherous villain! As for His Highness’s kindness, I can only repay him in the next life!”
After he finished speaking, he wanted to run into a wall and seek death again.
Sui Heng had to lock up the person first and asked Xu Qiao and Chen Qi in a puzzled manner, “What favors had this Jiang Rongyu given him that could make him so devoted and loyal?”
Xu Qiao said, “Your Highness may not know his experience. This person comes from a knight errant background. When he was in the Jiang Kingdom2So this Jiang Kingdom is different from Jiang Yun’s., he was arrested by the local government as a thief because of his accidental murder. He was convicted of murder and two serious crimes, and he was directly sentenced to tattooing and exile, with a bad reputation. His mother and sister were implicated by him, and they were driven out of the village by the villagers, begging to live somewhere else. His sister was harassed and raped in the street by a local nobleman because of her beauty. Upon learning of this, Gongsun Yang was furious and broke free from the prison, infiltrated the mansion, and beat the nobleman to half death. The nobleman colluded with the government, which gave him a death sentence by decapitation for several crimes. Gongsun Yang shouted for justice in the court and requested that the government punish the perpetrator of raping his sister. The government, however, pretended to be deaf and dumb, claiming that it was his sister who had been indiscreet in the first place, trying to climb up the ranks of the powerful and the rich. Gongsun Yang cried bitterly in prison, screaming for heaven and earth, biting his fingers and writing 10,000 words of blood, screaming that the heavens have no eyes.
“On the day of the execution, it happened that the Jiang Empire’s Crown Prince was inspecting the country. Gongsun Yang, with the intention of treating a dead horse as a living horse3死马当活马医: make every possible effort., looked at the Crown Prince’s carriage from afar, hit his head on the ground, looking like a madman, and screamed that he was wrongly accused. The guards thought this person was crazy, but to their surprise, Jiang Yun really ordered people to stop the carriage and take Gongsun Yang’s blood letter. He personally sat in the courtroom, reopened the case, cleared Gongsun Yang’s injustice, and severely dealt with the nobleman who had raped the young girl in the street according to the law.”
“After Gongsun Yang formally entered the Jiang Empire as a Minister of Education, Jiang Yun also sent someone to bring his mother and sister to the royal capital, taking out money from his own salary to help their mother and daughter to live as well.”
“Oh, that’s right, this subordinate also heard that Gongsun Yang’s sister was unable to marry because she lost her virginity. Jiang Yun directly took over this difficult problem and brought her into his own residence as a concubine. It was once rumored that…”
Sui Heng: “……”
Sui Heng sighed and said, “Jiang Rongyu, this hypocrite, in order to create his own reputation, really can do anything.”
“Offering a salary as well as accepting the person. In this world, he is the only Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva who saves people from suffering, others are evils that refuse to help people even if they see someone dying.”
“Heh, hypocrisy at its finest.”
Although he said that, Sui Heng still had some admiration for this person’s means of winning people’s hearts.
If the man hadn’t fallen off the cliff and died, he would have loved to see what this hypocrite looked like.
Xu Qiao is not surprised that Sui Heng had this reaction.
Because Jiang Yun has a reputation for virtue and fame all over the world, there are many touching stories circulating in the streets and alleys of various countries in the south and north of the Yangtze River, including their Sui capital’s own teahouse, about how this Crown Prince condescended to honor and courtesy to the people.
Some of the plot is so bizarre that even he finds it hard to believe.
Let along, Sui Heng, who can’t tolerate sand in his eyes4眼里揉不得沙子: is an idiom lits. one cannot tolerate sand in one’s eyes. Meaning one cannot tolerate certain things and people., and had always been at odds with those so-called scholars that were full of benevolence, righteousness, and morality.
Moreover, some people even intentionally compare Jiang Rongyu’s “moral reputation” with His Highness’s “bad reputation.” Using Jiang Rongyu’s truthfulness and beauty to set off His Highness’s ferocity and evil, saying that His Highness is tyrannical and has killed too many people, and sooner or later he will eventually be punished.
If he were His Highness, he also wouldn’t be able to stand hearing the three words “Jiang Rongyu” as well.
Chen Qi sneered and said, “Fishing for fame and reputation is this person’s usual trick, Your Highness need not take it seriously. The truth or falsehood between them may be as well-known as the song ‘Feng Qiu Huang’.”
Xu Qiao’s complexion shifted. “Brother Ji Cai seems to hate Jiang Rongyu very much.”
Chen Qi knew he was losing his composure and quickly said, “I’ve made the General laugh. It’s not that I hate him, it’s just that I’ve had the pleasure to see this man’s hypocrisy and find it distasteful.”
Xu Qiao nodded. “If all these deeds are really deliberate or fabricated by this person to gain a good reputation, it is truly despicable.”
“There seems to be some personal grudges between Military Advisor Chen and that Jiang Rongyu.”
Afterwards, Xu Qiao weighed his words with Sui Heng.
Sui Heng naturally understood this matter the moment Chen Qi asked him for Jiang Yun. He casually smiled and said, “What has it got to do with Gu if he does or doesn’t? As long as he can be used for Gu, that’s all that matters.”
Xu Qiao thought about it and stopped talking. He asked the guards to call the military doctor over to treat Gongsun Yang’s injuries.
Because he was concerned about his lover, who was still “obediently” waiting for him in the palace, Sui Heng did not stay long and left the interrogation room. In passing, he asked the Chen Kingdom’s Guozhu, who was trembling in the wind outside for midnight snacks and then walked towards the main hall.
