Chapter 280

280 FLOWING QUIETLY

Dong Lang and Wu Li were only separated by Mount Heping and the forest area near the snow mountain, and that was why the two empires were relatively close to each other. They were under the same sky, and the lands were only separated by the snow mountain as well as the forest between them.

With such a situation, it was no wonder that the two empires resembled one another, and that was the reason Bai Chen didn’t feel any strangeness when he finally arrived at the Xinyang Imperial Palace at dawn.

Even when he was still outside the palace with Wu Jinhai and Yu Ming, he also could not see any difference between the atmosphere in Dong Lang and Wu Li. Even humans looked very similar to werewolves if those werewolves were in their human forms, and that was why Bai Chen could hardly believe that they were currently in Wu Li, not Dong Lang.

Wu Jinhai was the Eldest Prince in the empire, and that was why the palace guards immediately let him into the palace when they could recognize him. It seemed that they could also recognize Yu Ming, and the only person they couldn’t recognize was Bai Chen who was sitting on the horse with Wu Jinhai.

Perhaps the name “Bai Chen” was quite famous in both Dong Lang and Wu Li, but not everyone got the chance to see the Prince’s face, and perhaps that was the reason why those guards failed to recognize the Werewolf Prince when he arrived at the palace with Prince Wu Jinhai.

It might also be a strange sight when Wu Jinhai was riding a horse with another man. There were no rumors about Wu Jinhai having a lover, but that man suddenly appeared with another man on horseback, and that kind of thing probably never happened before. Therefore, the sight was enough to raise a question mark in the heads of those men guarding the palace.

However, the three men who had just arrived at the Xinyang Imperial Palace paid no attention to that. They continued to lead the two stallions through the palace gates before leading the animals somewhere. Bai Chen didn’t know where they were going, but he didn’t say anything either as he remained silent in front of Wu Jinhai.

He looked like an obedient kid having a trip with his older brother at this time, but he could care less about that.

After Wu Jinhai briefly mentioned the connection between the tragedy in the Forbidden Forest, the deaths of Shao Meihui and Bai Renshu, and also the Black Werewolf Clan’s attack on Dong Lang today, Bai Chen immediately asked for more explanation, but the Eldest Prince of Wu Li had just told him to wait until they reached the Xinyang Imperial Palace before he could tell him details about it.

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Bai Chen was curious, and he was usually impatient when he was curious about something, but he chose to give in this time. It might not be a good idea to have a serious talk on a horse, and that was why the Werewolf Prince secretly agreed with Wu Jinhai to wait until they were at the Xinyang Imperial Palace.

Fortunately, they only needed to ride on horseback for four hours before they finally reached the Imperial Palace, and Bai Chen assumed that he would finally get his questions answered.

The two stallions had stopped running in front of a large building within the Xinyang Imperial Palace, and Bai Chen could read a plaque hanging from the roof of the building.

“Jing Jing Liutang?” Bai Chen couldn’t help asking after his blue eyes read the calligraphy written on the plaque.

“Yes,” Wu Jinhai replied as he held the reins tightly to keep the horse in place. “This is my palace. Do you think that name is good enough? My birth name means ‘river,’ and I think a river is more dangerous if it can flow quietly without attracting anyone’s attention. Do you agree with me?”

Bai Chen had previously focused his attention on the plaque hanging from the roof in front of the great pavilion, but he suddenly turned to the man sitting behind him after he heard the man’s question.

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He knew that the character “Jiang” in Wu Jiang meant “river” while the character “Hai” in Wu Jinhai meant “sea.” At first glance, the sea was bigger than the river, and even the scenery in a sea usually was more mesmerizing than the one in the river. But Bai Chen somehow assumed that Wu Jinhai valued his birth name more than his current name, and he didn’t even know the reason.

The man even used a river to represent him instead of the sea, and that was indeed quite odd for someone who already had a courtesy name that sounded better than his birth name.

In the end, Bai Chen simply nodded his head to answer Wu Jinhai’s question and the one who asked finally smiled in satisfaction despite only getting a nonverbal response from the other man.

“We will rest in my palace for the time being, and we will meet my father to discuss the current situation in Dong Lang tomorrow,” Wu Jinhai voiced his idea before getting off the horse, and as soon as he stood on the ground, he stretched out his hand towards the man wearing white clothes still sitting on horseback.

Bai Chen knew that Wu Jinhai was offering to help him, and since the man didn’t seem to have any perverted ideas in his head, the Werewolf Prince finally accepted the hand to support him so he could get off the horse’s back safely.

Wu Jinhai once again smiled at the Werewolf Prince, and the Prince’s hand was still in his grasp even if the two of them were standing on the ground now. And at that moment, they suddenly heard footsteps approaching them, and when they simultaneously turned toward the person approaching them, they could see a blue-clothed young man smiling at them.

“Oh? You’re back, gege? And you even brought a new friend with you this time. Or maybe he’s not just a new friend to you? I think I recognize him. Isn’t he Prince Bai Chen from Dong Lang?”