Chapter 20: A Century-Old Herb

Translator: Henyee Translations

Editor: Henyee Translations

Ye Wuchen’s clear eyes looked at Mu Ruyue unblinking or moving a muscle as if contemplating the truth of her claim. Those eyes looked absolutely innocent and harmless.

“Also, you’re not some kind of fool,” Mu Ruyue said solemnly as she squeezed Ye Wuchen’s shoulder. “You just have the mind of a child and haven’t grown up yet. On the contrary, the purity of your mind is something that none of your uncles or cousins have.”

Although Mu Ruyue accepted the Imperial Decree with a hidden agenda, this man would be her husband. No matter how inferior he was, no one was allowed to slander him.

“Sister, are you a fairy?” Ye Wuchen blinked his bright big eyes, a brilliant smile plastered on his handsome face. “You must be the fairy Sister that Father and Mother sent down to me.”

“Stop calling me Sister!” Mu Ruyue glared at him fiercely.

“I seem to recall that the Ghost King is around nineteen. I’m only fourteen now, so you’re a whole 5 years older than me. You can’t call me Sister.”

“Then how about calling you Wife? Those people just now said you were my wife.”

“Not that either!”

Ye Wuchen’s eyes misted with protest as he looked at Mu Ruyue glumly.

For some reason, Mu Ruyue’s heart softened a bit. “Suit yourself.”

“Really?” Ye Wuchen laughed happily, a faint mist still present in his innocent and charming eyes, “Then I’ll call you Wife from now on.”

After that, he leaned forward and kissed the corner of Mu Ruyue’s lips.

Thump!

Mu Ruyue’s brain crashed on the spot. Gaping at the enlarged, dazzling face in front of her, her face instantly burst red and even the skin behind her ears reddened.

Did a child just steal her first kiss?

Yes, although Ye Wuchen was 19 years old, his mind was still stuck on the night Prince Nan’an and his consort were killed more than a decade ago.

So to her, he was a child who hadn’t grown up.

And in the face of someone that immature, she had no defense at all.

“Ye Wuchen, what are you doing?” Mu Ruyue pushed away the handsome teenager in front of her, anger simmering in her heart. “Do you know what you’ve done?”

Ye Wuchen was flooded with grievances once more. “My father also called my mother Wife and I saw the two of them do this one day. Wife, have I done something wrong? Don’t be mad at me. I won’t do it again if you don’t like it.”

The teenager’s voice was clean and clear and miraculously calmed the anger in Mu Ruyue’s heart.

“I’m not angry; I was just caught off guard.” Mu Ruyue took a deep breath. “Ye Wuchen, do you know how to leave the palace? Let’s get out of here.”

She originally wanted to go and ask Ji Ruya why she helped her. However, given the current state of affairs, that wasn’t going to happen, so she would just save it for another time.

After leaving the palace, Mu Ruyue went to Qingyun School’s herbal medicine shop in Feng City. It was probably because it was midday that there weren’t many people in the herbal shop at this time. Only one of the shopkeepers was there, bored senseless and dozing off.

“I want to sell something.”

The shopkeeper lifted his head and stretched when an indifferent voice rang out overhead. He looked lazily at the girl standing in front of him and asked, “I wonder what the girl wants to sell?”

“Since I came here, naturally I want to sell medicinal herbs.”

Mu Ruyue fished out a handkerchief and threw it in front of the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper unwrapped the handkerchief carelessly, but upon seeing the herb wrapped in the handkerchief, his body visibly shuddered and his drowsiness instantly dissolved in his shock.

“T-This is a century-old herb?”