CH 268

It has been a few days since he woke up in his world. His mother still looks the same, but his father and brother had gone to the Great Yao Kingdom as guests and had not yet returned.

From his mother’s words, Bai Lixin learned that he had fallen off a horse after it was frightened by a grass snake. Fortunately, General Xiahou Chun passed by and rescued him before sending me to the palace.

The Snow Kingdom was located in the extreme north of the continent, where spring is rare and most of the year is very cold. When the cold comes, the sky is covered with snow and the kingdom is covered in white, hence the name “Snow Kingdom.”

Because of its harsh environment and treacherous terrain, the Snow Kingdom is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so although it is sparsely populated, no one can shake it.

The Snow Kingdom is also extremely rich because of its rare and precious treasures, such as the ice crystals. Although very few crops survive, hunting is common and meat and wine are used for subsistence. If there was a shortage of food, these rare and expensive ice crystals would also be used in exchange for food from neighbouring countries.

This was where I started…

Bai Lixin was dressed in an indigo purple robe with an ink coloured belt tied around his waist. His long black hair hung softly around his waist. His forehead was wrapped in several loops of white bandages, and he was clad in a black fox plush cloak. He stood in the corridor looking at the heavy snow.

[S419M!] [S419M!] He tried to call out to S419M in his mind countless times but received no response.

He recalled S419M’s words when he was in the last world; goodbye?

Good bye?

In the last world, he was in a bodyless state before Dijia, so Bai Lixin thought that he would return to the vast and endless void and, as the price of the reset, the world would be reset and Dijia’s last fragment, Ye Chuan, would also come back to life.

In order not to let all his previous efforts go to waste, Bai Lixin used his last bit of strength at that time and called out to Dijia’s soul, hoping that it would feel him and thus break away from that world and enter the void with him as usual.

But after that, the system suddenly activated itself and warned him of an attack after saying he had collected all twelve soul fragments.

Before he could even react, he was sent back to reality.

Goodbye? Goodbye, your mother!

He gathered the twelve soul fragments but was sent back to the real world before he could say anything.

Did Dijia and S419M intend to make him wake up and think that everything that had happened before was a dream?

Heh! Did they think he was a fool?

If it was a dream, then where did all the vast and boundless knowledge in his mind come from?

You made me search for the soul fragments for you for so long, and yet, at the last moment, you threw me into the real world and disappeared.

Even if it was for his safety, he didn’t feel grateful at all, okay?

Did they think he’d be moved to tears like the heroine of a romance?

Those two fucking retards!

Bai Lixin’s mind was full of thoughts; his expression was sometimes grim, sometimes depressed, and the palace maids who came and went were all whispering and shaking their heads in pity.

“Your Highness, the weather has turned cold. The Empress has asked me to invite Your Highness into the hall to rest. ”

Bai Lixin pulled his consciousness back from his thoughts. He turned his head towards the humble servant who was bending down beside him, “Okay, I will go back now. Where is General Xiahou? Invite him here for me.”

“Your Highness, the Second Prince, today is the day of the return of His Majesty and His Highness the Grand Prince. General Xiahou has led the crowd out of the city to greet them. Those who left before the hour are estimated to have almost arrived in the Imperial City by now. ”

Bai Lixin hooked his lips and smiled gently, “Okay, I know. You go down first. Come and report to me immediately Father and Eldest Brother enter the Imperial City. ”

“As you command, Your Highness!” The servant shivered at the sight of Bai Lixin’s smile. For some reason, since His Highness had woken up this time, not only had his temperament changed drastically, but his aura was also very different.

Although His Highness was also a dragon among men, he was still a little immature compared to His Majesty and the Grand Prince. He could only be considered a rich and noble son who had been raised in the deep palace.

But after waking up from his injury, the eyes of His Second Highness were clear and sharp, like steel knives piercing the heart. It is as if every word could not escape his eyes. There was also a frightening aura around him, an aura that rarely appears even on His Majesty, who is above all others.

The servant hurriedly retreated, and Bai Lixin looked at the snowy sky, once again lost in contemplation.

He had woken up in reality in the twenty-fourth year of Emperor Shengyuan’s reign. That is, five months before the fall of the Snow Kingdom.

It was so long ago for him that some of his memories were not very clear, but Bai Lixin vaguely remembered that the only time he had fallen off his horse was five months before the destruction of the kingdom.

His father had prepared countless precious ice crystals, and a group of people had travelled to the Great Yao Kingdom for the celebration, while Xiahou Chun was left behind as the general guarding the snow kingdom.

For generations, Xiahou Chun had been a military general minister trusted by the imperial family. The mission to guard the Snow Kingdom had always been entrusted to Xiahou Chun.

In a short time, the earth will return to spring and there will be a brief period of warmth. Two months later, the Snow Kingdom will once again be covered in snow. Under the cover of this snow, Xiahou Chun, with the soldiers of the Kalou Kingdom, secretly attacked the Snow Kingdom.

Xiahou Chun joined forces with the generals of the Kalou. He opened the gates and stormed the always peaceful Snow Kingdom. Overnight, the ground was dyed a deep red with blood.

Father and mother were left without their heads intact, while my brother was captured by Xiahou Chun and became his possession. I intended to kill myself on the day father and mother died, but accidentally bound to the system, which enabled me to come back!

Since he was lucky enough to be back, he would never let the schemes of Xiahou Chun and the Kalou Kingdom succeed again!

Bai Lixin looked towards the West, stepped on his cloud boots, and returned to the palace.

Bai Lixin’s soul had suffered some turmoil during the crossing, and he always found it easy to fall asleep. He fell asleep soon after he returned to his chambers. When he woke up again, the sun was setting and it was already evening. A servant was kneeling outside his bedchamber. When Bai Lixin got up and looked at him, he realised that it was the same servant from the morning.

He glanced at the little servant and asked, “Why are you kneeling?”

“Your Highness, His Majesty, and His Majesty the Grand Prince returned to the Imperial City shortly after noon. When this servant came to report to Your Majesty, he found that you had fallen asleep. I could not wake you nor leave, so I had to wait. As I waited, I heard from the maids that His Majesty was hosting a banquet tonight. ”

Bai Lixin was amused and said with a raised eyebrow, “If you were waiting, why are you kneeling?”

“I thought that if His Majesty woke up and saw me kneeling, he would remember my hard work and would not scold me.”

“Hard work and merit? Is that how it works? It’s kind of interesting. Get up. What is your name? ”

“Your Highness, this servant’s name is Si’er, and my surname is Al. But because my surname is not very auspicious, the head eunuch told me to take his surname, so my surname is now Xi. ”

Is this a matter of sorrow? A matter of joy?

When he fell off his horse, the Empress severely punished the eunuch who had been serving him while he was unconscious and put him in prison. She then found a eunuch to take his place, and it was this Si’er.

Previously, he was too compassionate, and he begged his mother to bring back the eunuch because of the years he had taken care of him. He never thought that the traitor would be a wolf with sheep skin.

Bai Lixin’s eyes darkened when he remembered that he had sent the poison to his brother himself.

It seemed that the eunuch was still in prison. It was time to visit him.

With the help of several palace maids, Bai Lixin put on his clothes and a cloak and hurried to Taihe hall, where the banquet was held.

When Bai Lixin arrived, the banquet room was already full of merriment. The ministers were sitting on their knees in front of their respective seats, drinking wine without pause, and all were a bit drunk.

At the top of the hall sat a man. Although he was already in his forties, he had a strong, hard body. His eyes were like a falcon’s and he looked very majestic. It was his father.

Seeing his arrival, his father’s eyes lit up, and he drank his wine before saying in a loud voice, “Isn’t Xin’er recuperating in the bedroom? It’s freezing. Why did you get out? ”

Bai Lixin walked up the hall and knelt to salute, “This son welcomes father back to the palace. It is only a small injury, nothing serious I have caused you to worry about me.” As he rose, he swept his eyes around the room and took in the expressions of most of the people present.

Xiahou Chun’s cheeks were red from drinking, and his eyes were blurred. He kept looking at his brother sitting opposite him across the hall from time to time.

His brother was sitting at the front of the table without a drop of wine, steadily taking food to his mouth.

Either because of nervousness or because he was just pretending not to know, he ignored Xiahou Chun’s naked gaze and ate his meal with aplomb.

Bai Lixin’s brother was called Bai Liwu, the son of the former empress of the current Emperor Shengyuan of the Snow kingdom. The king had a thin harem, with no other women except the former empress, who had died of a serious illness and his mother and therefore had few children.

Bai Liwu saw Bai Lixin arrive, and he elegantly put down his bamboo chopsticks and beckoned, “Xin’er, come to my brother. Let me take a look at your wound. ”

Bai Lixin walked over and greeted him. Bai Liwu then looked at Bai Lixin’s wound carefully several times, and his face suddenly became blue. “It’s so close! If General Xiahou hadn’t rescued him in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable! ”

Bai Wu gently stroked the bandage with his long fingers before looking across at Xiahou Chun and saying gratefully, “Thank you, General Xiahou, for saving my brother.”

Xiahou Chun was tall and imposing. His face was like a sword, and his aura was no less than that of his father. But this guy was now scratching his head like a dumb kid in front of Bai Liwu, “It is an honour for me to help Your Highness. Why should you thank me?”

Heh! Hypocrisy!

Bai Lixin sneered. It was just a deliberate injury to me. That way, he could make his brother remember his kindness.