I am really sorry everyone (◡﹏◡✿)
It has been a while, unfortunately much longer than I ever intended! I owe you all an apology for vanishing without a word again. The only excuse I have is that I got a full-time job (´▽｀ ；)
I still really want to finish this story, together with The Elegant Dancing Years (as it seems the other translation for that also has paused), so I hope the new year will allow me to be more consistent.
Here is finally a new chapter for His Majesty’s Hostage. A quick recap of where the story left off: After Hong Xu found help from the ‘Holder of Panacea’, ZiLi was finally saved from being a wandering soul, however soon after ZiLi ended up being captured.
“I don’t know what you kidnapped me for, but I can tell you, this kind of kidnapping behavior has seriously pissed this laozi off. I am very angry, and the consequences will be severe! Not only will I put you in jail, but I will also tie you to a prisoner cart and parade you through the streets, letting passersby pelt you with rotten vegetables and stinky eggs, then throw you into a pit full of rats for the night. I don’t want to eat vegetables, give me a piece of fried chicken…… Oh, it’s okay, though not as good as Ming Yue’s
It has been a while since this name was mentioned, but along with Chun Lan, Ming Yue is a palace maid who serves ZiLi.
1 cooking…… I am telling you, if you don’t let this laozi go, this laozi will not let you off!”
An Qi stood by the table, holding a jade bowl in one hand and using silver chopsticks to pick up the dishes from the table and bring them to ZiLi’s mouth.
“Can you unseal my acupuncture points? I want to eat by myself, it is so uncomfortable! I have already said I won’t ambush you again, and I won’t smash things anymore!”
“Please forgive this servant for being unable to comply! This servant sealed the Young Lord’s acupuncture points for the Young Lord’s safety. Although this place looks peaceful and elegant, there are many dangerous traps hidden around. If the Young Lord accidentally trigger one and get hurt, this servant would not be able to explain to the master!” An Qi said formally, picking up another piece of fried chicken and bringing it to ZiLi’s mouth.
“Take it away, I don't want to eat!” ZiLi glared at her angrily.
Soft words, threats, bribes, ambushes, and tantrums, he had tried almost every trick he could think of, but the gentle looking girl in front of him was as hard as iron and completely unmoved, continuing to do her job. This morning, he had only used the excuse of a walk to scout the terrain, but she had sealed him with just one finger to the chair, turning him into a stone for the whole morning. She was really ruthless!
“Since the Young Lord has finished, this servant will clear the table!”
Although ZiLi was extremely angry, he was helpless. The mastermind had not yet appeared, and he had not figured out the cause of the situation. What was the use of foolishly shouting at a mere underling? It was better to remain unchanged and wait calmly. After all, it seemed that the other person did not intend to take his life at all. Thinking of this, ZiLi took a few deep breaths to dispel his irritation and said softly, “Please unseal my acupuncture points. I feel numbness in my limbs, probably because the acupuncture points have been sealed for too long and the blood flow is blocked. You said you cannot let anything happen to me, right? If my limbs become disabled due to poor blood flow, you will not be able to explain to your master. If you are worried about me escaping, you do not have to. This place is full of sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces, I don’t know martial arts, and even if I had wings, I could not fly away!”
An Qi stared at him for a while before finally walking over to unseal ZiLi’s acupuncture points.
All afternoon, the Young Lord surprisingly did not cause any trouble! An Qi hid by the door, peeking inside secretly, seeing that he was just sitting quietly at the table, drinking tea while lost in thought.
Just as An Qi was turning around, full of doubts, she suddenly saw several figures descending from the clouds above!
“This servant An Qi greets her master!” An Qi spoke, quickly kneeling down and bowing her head.
“You may rise! How has he been these past few days?” The person asked eagerly without delay as soon as their feet touched the ground.
“Reporting to master, the Young Lord is doing well!"
Hearing this, the person’s mouth curled into a slight smile, then he waved to his subordinates behind him, saying, “All of you stay here! No one is allowed to enter without your master’s command!”
“As you wish!”
From the moment An Qi greeted her master, ZiLi knew that the mastermind who had been hiding had finally appeared! He immediately put down the cup in his hand, picked up a wooden chair nearby, and ran to hide behind the door. Holding his breath and squinting, he waited for the culprit who had angered him for so long.
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“Creak!” The wooden door was slowly pushed open, and a head adorned with a jade crown peeked inside.“Wataaah (imagine Bruce Lee making fighting noises during a fight) ――”
“Pa!” A direct hit.
“Crack!” The wooden chair’s frame burst into pieces!
The person who arrived slowly turned their head, their expression full of shock! “ Mo CangJing
Mo CangJing is from Chi Xiang and is the person ZiLi met at an inn early in the story, after running away from Hong Xu around chapter 43.
2 ? It is actually you?” ZiLi exclaimed in surprise, staring at the unscathed head.
***
“Hey, blockhead! When you first met me, this young lady, you were very gentle, you know? How did you suddenly become so harsh? Look, not only did you seal this young lady’s acupuncture points, but you also tied me up with such thick ropes and laid me across the horse like a dumpling! Aren’t you, as a man, afraid people will laugh at you for bullying a weak woman?” Yun Ji said, looking at Fourteen’s boots on the saddle.Even though she had said it many times along the way to provoke him, Fourteen was still bothered with her last words!
“You are not some weak woman either. Your martial arts skills are better than mine. Otherwise, I would not have been lured into the woods and knocked out by you, letting you disguise yourself as me to get close to the Lord!”
“Hey, blockhead, things aren’t as you think. My Qinggong is only slightly better than yours. Last time, I knocked you out entirely with a drug. Do you think a simple hit could make you faint for two days? So, considering I am just a weak woman, help me untie the ropes. Of course, it would be best if you also unseal my acupuncture points!”
“That’s out of the question! Unless you tell our Lord where you took the Young Lord!”
Yun Ji rolled her eyes and said, “I’ve told you many times, our tasks are divided and assigned. I am only responsible for and only know my part of the task. I don’t know anything about the others’ tasks!”
“......Then what is your task?”
“Fine, at this point, it doesn’t hurt to tell you! Our master wanted me to stay close to your Lord and report on your Young Lord’s condition. Once the poison would be cleared from his body and he completely recovered, I was to act and lead you all away. Then my task would be done! I was still worried about how to lead you all away, but unexpectedly, a group of assassins came that night. They intercepted the guards around your Lord, leaving only three people. Your Young Lord and I drifted downstream until we reached that grassland. You should know what happened next!”
Fourteen was silent, recalling how he woke up in the woods, realizing that he had been knocked out by the assassins without any resistance. He thought this person’s skills were formidable, and if they meant harm to His Majesty, it would be troublesome! So he hurriedly used his Qinggong to return to the inn. When he opened the door, he found that His Majesty and the others were gone! From the innkeeper, he learned that they had left two days earlier, meaning he had been unconscious for two days, not just one night!
At that time, Fourteen was both truly shocked and fearful, partly for failing in his duty and partly due to concern for His Majesty’s safety. So Fourteen hurriedly headed towards DaGe City to search along the way. He finally found traces of the Emperor and his party at the Lu River, but he was a day behind their boat. When Fourteen rented a boat to chase them, the boatman told him that they would not set sail with so few people. Helplessly, Fourteen used his identity as an Imperial guard to gather a dozen local officials to make up the numbers and continued downstream. Eventually, he saw His Majesty’s boat but was startled by the intense fighting. He quickly led the local officials to assist, and they eventually managed to repel the enemies. However, when the other guards exclaimed ‘Fourteen, why are you back? Weren’t you supposed to protect His Majesty?’ he was shocked. Only after talking it over did he realize that the ‘Fourteen’ by His Majesty’s side was an impostor! They anxiously searched downstream but found nothing, eventually learning that the Emperor had followed a tributary of the Lu River to a grassland inhabited by nomads, where they encountered the ‘Holder of Panacea’.
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Unfortunately, when the Young Lord finally recovered, he was kidnapped again!They stopped in front of an inn.
“Fourteen, why are you still talking to her? If this woman wasn’t somewhat useful, I’d kill her with one stroke!” Thirteen glared fiercely at Yun Ji, then said, “The Lord wants you to bring her inside!”
“Yes!” Fourteen responded. He untied her, unsealed her acupuncture points, and escorted her to Hong Xu. Fourteen closed the door and stood guard outside. After a long time, the door opened, and Yun Ji walked out boldly. Fourteen swiftly intercepted her with his sword.
“Let her go!” came His Majesty’s command from inside.
“As you command.” Fourteen promptly sheathed his sword.
Yun Ji gave him a smug glance and walked away with a tinkling laugh.
“Set off immediately for WuXia Mountain!” Hong Xu commanded as he stepped out of the room.
***
“Why did you bring me here?” ZiLi clenched his fists and angrily questioned the mastermind of his kidnapping.“I am doing this for you! I know you have been a hostage in Chu Jing for many years and have always wanted to escape. You even planned a new name and future life. Remember the first time we met? You told me you wanted to hide away in a place where no one knew you, to live the life you wanted. Now, I have found such a place for you. It is secluded, and absolutely no one will disturb you, not even Hong Xu, the Emperor of Chu Jing. You will be very safe here!”
“All for me...... but I don’t want to hide away anymore! I don’t want to stay in this cage like place!”
“Are you feeling bored? Don’t worry, I will send more people to take care of you, and I will come by often too......”
“It is not about being bored. Rather, this place is simply unreasonable. I am not your falcon, I don’t need to live in a nest built on cliffs! Moreover, did you ask for my consent before doing this? You had me brought here without my permission and confined me to this place. This is captivity! Mo CangJing, for the sake of our past acquaintance, please let me go. I want to go back!”
Mo CangJing looked at ZiLi with an inscrutable expression. “Go back? Where to? Bei Ling
The place from which ZiLi was sent as a Hostage Prince.
3 or
Chu Jing
The empire of Hong Xu.
4 ?”
“That is none of your business. You just need to let me go!”
“Why should I let you go, hmm?” Mo CangJing suddenly stepped closer, lifting ZiLi’s face with a dark expression.
“You are being unreasonable! I thought you were a gentleman! You better let me go. I don’t want to be anywhere near you!”
Mo CangJing’s face twisted slightly as he caught sight of ZiLi’s expression of pure disgust. “So, you don’t want to stay with me? You want to be with Hong Xu, the Emperor of Chu Jing? Hmm? Don’t tell me you have fallen in love with him?”
“That is right, I love Hong Xu, but what does that have to do with you?”
“Good, very good! You go so far as to say you have fallen in love with the Emperor of Chu Jing? Do you know how worried I was about your safety when you suddenly escaped and I searched the entire city but found nothing? When I learned that the Emperor of Chu Jing had sent people to take you back to the Imperial palace, do you know how scared I was that he might torture you? You say you have fallen in love with the Emperor of Chu Jing? When you were whispering sweet nothings with him, did you know that I was losing sleep and my appetite, afraid you would never forgive me for deceiving you?”
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“Again, what does that have to do with me?”What a coldhearted response! An JingYu
The name of the body ZiLi has transmigrated into.
5 , you are truly heartless! Do you think your love for the Emperor of Chu Jing means he loves you? Haha, you are so naive! His kindness towards you is just a facade to hide his true intentions! He deliberately gave you wealth and luxury, surrounded you with attendants and flatterers, and raised you to be a prince with no ambition, concerned only with comfort and pleasure. Then he would plan to help you become the King of Bei Ling, turning you into his puppet to control the Bei Ling government and gradually seize its territory and resources to expand his own.”
“You shut up! Do you think I will believe your instigations?”
Mo CangJing’s grip on ZiLi’s face tightened suddenly, and he gritted his teeth, saying, “You can choose not to believe it, but I am above making such pointless instigations! You are slandering my sincere feelings for you!”
“Ah!” Suddenly, there was a sharp pain on his lips!
“This little mouth of yours better not say anything to anger me again, or next time, I will bite your tongue off!” Mo CangJing licked the blood from his lips and spoke slowly.
“Let go of me, you’re disgusting!” ZiLi raised his hand and furiously wiped his lips.
Mo CangJing suddenly grabbed ZiLi’s hands and fiercely kissed his lips, frantically devouring and invading the other’s soft mouth.
“Nghh……” ZiLi struggled, shaking his head. The hot, sticky kiss smeared all over his lips and face, filling him with an inexplicable wave of disgust.
“Mo CangJing, you better let go, don’t make me hate you!”
“Hate me? Hate is fine, hate is better than you ignoring me!” Mo CangJing said as he swept away the items on the long narrow table, firmly pressing ZiLi down on it. He used his knee to part ZiLi’s flailing legs and pressed forward.
“Ah, let go―― let go, Mo CangJing! If you do this, don’t think you can bully this laozi easily, Hong Xu won’t let you off!”
“Heh, what can he do to me?” Mo CangJing’s originally handsome face twisted into a frightening expression due to his anger. His eyes, full of evil intentions, reflected ZiLi’s pale and uneasy face. “Today, I will do this no matter what!”
“Ah――”
***
“Your Majesty, there is no way forward here! Could that woman have lied?” Hong Xu and his men climbed the cliffs of WuXia Mountain, looking around. Apart from the clouds and mist covered abyss ahead, there was no other path.Hong Xu focused on the clouds and mist before him, resembling a white barrier. Suddenly, he walked straight towards it. His guards were alarmed and quickly blocked his path, “Your Majesty, what are you doing?”
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“Move aside, We need to go down from here!”“Absolutely not! This is a bottomless abyss, Your Majesty……”
“That woman said he is hidden in this mountain, but we have searched almost the entire mountain and found no place to hide a person, except this clouds and mist covered area!”
“Your Majesty, you bear the weight of the nation, you cannot risk yourself like this. Moreover, this subordinate believes that the words of that woman are not to be trusted.”
“She would not dare lie to Us! You all get out of the way!”
“Your Majesty!”
Hong Xu channeled his internal energy to push aside the guards in front of him, then leapt into the air, plunging straight into the clouds. Seeing this, the guards hurriedly drew on their own qi and leapt after him.
Hong Xu spread his arms like a great eagle, passing through the white barrier. As his vision gradually cleared, a protruding stone platform appeared, and on it, there was a wooden house!
Hong Xu’s heart was filled with joy. He gathered his energy again and descended along the slanted cliff toward the stone platform.
The people on the stone platform saw to their surprise several figures descending from above and their hearts rang with alarm, shouting, “Anyone who trespasses shall die!”
They swiftly drew their swords, attacking the intruders before their feet even touched the ground. Hong Xu stepped on the blade, using it to propel himself forward and kicking the attacker several meters away. Then he leapt again, vaulting over the wall of tense and sword wielding men, heading towards the wooden house.
“Not good, quickly protect the master!” Mo CangJing’s guards shouted in alarm.
But the guards following Hong Xu had landed steadily, drawing their swords and engaging Mo CangJing’s guards. *Clang clang* The two sides collided in a fierce struggle!
Hong Xu kicked open the door of the wooden house, and the scene that met his eyes filled him with rage. Mo CangJing could be seen holding ZiLi, barely clothed, beneath him, the normally smooth, pale body now marred with purple marks. Hong Xu’s face darkened with fury as he leapt forward, hooking his hand to strike at the back of Mo CangJing’s neck. Coming to his senses from the shock, Mo CangJing, quickly dodged and somersaulted to the door. His face contorted as he looked at Hong Xu, saying. “Who could have thought you would actually find this place?”
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“Mo CangJing, Prince of Qian from Chi Xiang, We, Hong Xu, will remember this!” Hong Xu glared at him fiercely, enunciating each word.“......Hong Xu!” ZiLi held his injured stomach and gradually pushed himself into a sitting position.
“Baby!” Hong Xu’s furious expression softened instantly, wrapping ZiLi tightly in his arms and kissing his forehead. “Baby, I am sorry, I came late!”
“Cough, cough, I don’t want...... to stay here, Hong Xu...... quickly take me away!” ZiLi buried his face in Hong Xu’s chest.
“Okay, baby, I will take you away right now!”
“You cannot leave!” Mo CangJing, his eyes bloodshot, blocked the way, staring fixedly at ZiLi, who would not even spare him a glance.
Hong Xu used his internal energy to kick Mo CangJing into the wall. “You will pay for what you have done today!”
With that, Hong Xu tightened his hold on ZiLi’s waist and strode forward, leaving behind Mo CangJing, who was laughing maniacally, almost like a madman……
It feels quite strange, after such a long time, to read about how strong the feelings between ZiLi and Hong Xu are, after everything that happened. But fortunately the rescue did not take too long!
Wishing everyone a smooth start to the New Year!
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