The Story of Dusk 154 CONSPIRACY

Seeing how anxious the eunuch who delivered the message, Qianru became aware there was something bad was going on.

She tiptoed to whisper at Xiao Jun. "Is everything alright?" When she asked this, her mind reminded about the three tokens of Azura's military General that Xiao Jun had ordered Ju Long to give it to Mo Qian Yuan's spy.

It must be something related to that.

"It will be alright." Xiao Jun brushed a strand of Qianru's hair away from her face as he talked. "Wait for me in our room, I will be there soon and we can have dinner together."

This promise again.

Qianru didn't want to take his promise seriously, the word 'soon' from him could be extended to a day or two, but she couldn't help to look forward to it.

She nodded and walked away while Xiao Jun let the eunuch to lead the way.

Inside the study room, it was only Mo Qian Yuan, fuming mad.

In front of him, right atop of the table there were three token that Xiao Jun had known, he smirked inwardly.

He had received it.

"You must have known what are these." Mo Qian Yuan waved his hand frantically at the three tokens as if those inanimate objects were his mortal enemies.

"General Yuwen Lui, General Chu Xifeng and General Yu Aotian." Xiao Jun enunciated every name on the token calmly.

Those things were the same tokens that he had given to Ju Long weeks ago.

BRAKKK!!!

Mo Qian Yuan slammed his hand hard against the table. He was enraged. Because of the strong impact, two of the tokens fell to the ground, adding noises inside the room.

"How dare your country orchestrated this kind of attack!!?" Mo Qian Yuan's face turned ashen. "Your Emperor has stepped out of the line! He abused his power!"

Xiao Jun stepped forward and bent down to pick up the tokens that was fallen from the table, he put it back in front of the fuming Emperor of the Rockstone Kingdom.

"That will be always his method." Xiao Jun looked at Mo Qian Yuan, seemed unruffled with his words for blaming Xiao Zi, who even didn't know about all of this.

Xiao Jun had come up with this plan ever since Xiao Zi told him to go to Rockstone Kingdom.

The crucial part was, he needed to get Mo Qian Yuan's trust and for that Xiao Jun needed to prove himself about something, however, there was nothing major going on in the Rockstone Kingdom, thus he would create one.

At first, it was conflict at the border, and then he wanted to enrage the two kingdoms before he revealed it was all Xiao Zi's evil deed to bring them into a conflict.

Xiao Jun was playing dangerous game for this situation. Not only it would put his head at stake, but if this plan foiled, all those people he knew and their family would be killed for treason! He would have nowhere to go as he had riled up those three Kingdoms!

But, if his plan was smooth sailing, it would be worth it.

Since the first attempt of assassination upon him the moment he lost the protection as a crown prince, he knew his life would be constantly in danger and he often gambled his way with it.

The fact he was still breathing until this very second, proved his intuition was in excellent level in term of surviving.

"How do you know all of this?" Mo Qian Yuan was squinted his eyes, assessing the young prince in front of him.

Xiao Jun was from Azura, no matter what the information that he had relayed to him, although it benefited him in this situation, but it was still his own country, his own Emperor that he had betrayed.

"My imperial uncle has been itching to get rid of me since he ascended the throne." Xiao Jun sat on the chair opposite of Mo Qian Yuan. "Have you forgotten how my existence is a mere threat for him? Of course I know what he will do. It has always been the same trick."

"Prince Xiao Jun, do you realize your position now?" Mo Qian Yuan folded his arms in front of his chest while leaning against the back of his seat. "I can kill you right this instant, give your head to the Emperor of Azura and end this unnecessary war."

"How do you think my head could end the war?"

"The Emperor of Azura put so much effort to kill you by scheming the two Kingdoms, if I kill you right now, it will make thing easier for him, am I right?" Mo Qian Yuan tried to test the water, actually he wanted to know what else Xiao Jun could inform him about Xiao Zi's plan by threatening him.

"You are a very simple person Emperor Mo Qian Yuan if you think Emperor Xiao Zi only wanted my life." There was a trace of mocking tone in his voice. "The Kingdom of Xinghe had destroyed and now its territory is under Azura because of the death of my parents. Doesn't The Emperor think, there is a high chance he will do the same thing for the reason of my death in Rockstone?"Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

The fact in Xiao Jun's statement turned Mo Qian Yuan's face darkened.

"If the Emperor kills me, you will give an easy chance for Xiao Zi to declare war upon your Kingdom. Like what everyone has come to an understanding, Azura's military power is hard to beat in the battlefield." Xiao Jun smiled harmlessly toward Mo Qian Yuan, he had threatened him back with the same logic. "Or, the emperor can join force with Zodasian Kingdom and having me as your advisor to fight Azura, you have better chance to defeat Xiao Zi."

Xiao Jun looked at the fleeting of greediness the moment he mentioned there was a chance for him to defeat Azura.

It was indeed a tempting offer in his ears.

Mo Qian Yuan raised his eyebrows as he answered simply. "Before, I would have thought it was you who had orchestrated the war between me and Zodasian kingdom if you were not coming right in time to leak information about these three General."

Of course Xiao Jun came right in time! He had calculated all of this.

After Mo Jingchen was murdered, Xiao Jun made someone whisper a word to question he himself credibility, with that Mo Qian Yuan would naturally be suspicious on him. However later, Xiao Jun proved himself that he was on his side by divulged something bigger than that… the irrefutable evidence of Xiao Zi's involvement.

"It was all thank to the Emperor for trusting my word." Xiao Jun said humbly.

"Since we have come to this situation, I will put your word into account." Mo Qian Yuan nodded, satisfied with Xiao Jun's word and act. "Then, what do you think he will do?"

*** 

Qianru was on her way back to her courtyard with Liu Wei when she caught a glimpse of Mo Xuan Fei, walking toward the Emperor's harem direction.

She was very certain that he was walking toward the harem because it was only the harem existed in that direction.

But the problem was, the Emperor's harem was a restricted area that no man could enter except the Emperor himself or the appointed eunuch.

Qianru subconsciously stopped walking and fixed her gazed eyes Mo Xuan Fei, that man moved very fast and furtively.

One second he was there, but the next second he was gone.

"Princess Qianru, there is something wrong?" Liu Wei asked curiously, trying to see his mistress' line of sight, but he could find nothing peculiar.

Qianru was slightly startled by Liu Wei's voice. "No, nothing." She shook her head convincingly, but when she tried to look at the same direction, Mo Xian Fei's figure had disappeared.

Probably she had seen a wrong person.

"Liu Wei, why don't you go to Jun instead?" Qianru asked while resuming her pace.

Behind her, Liu Wei tilted his head in daze. "Master said to go with Princess." He said plainly. That was what his master told him, to stay close to his wife. In this critical situation, Xiao Jun didn't want something bad happened on her again.

Qianru's kidnap attempt in black market was a good reminder for Xiao Jun to be more aware about her safety.

"Hmm…" Qianru just hummed in understanding. "What is Xiao Jun's plan?" She asked Liu Wei in low voice. She couldn't help but be curious about her husband way of thought, as she couldn't read it clearly.

"For that…" Liu Wei shrunk back, averting his eyes from Qianru's. "Princess Qianru needs to ask Master… this lowly servant is not a suitable person to explain it." In another word, without Xiao Jun's consent, he couldn't divulge anything to Qianru.

In spite of their harmonious relationship recently, Liu Wei still couldn't judge how far his Master wanted Qianru to know his plan.

Sighing deeply, Qianru did understand what Liu Wei implied with his words, thus she didn't ask further and put Xiao Jun's trusted person in difficult position.

When they would leave suddenly Qianru felt someone grabbed her elbow and then she spun to face her attacker.

This abrupt movement of course caught Liu Wei attention as he drew his sword, ready to attack. But, his movement stopped midway due to realization of the identity of the attacker.

It was the crown prince of Rockstone Kingdom, Mo Qin Yi.

Both Qianru and Liu Wei were frowning. Awkwardly, Liu Wei kept his sword hung mid air, pointed at Mo Qin Yi's chest.

"You will not put down your sword?!" Mo Qin Yi glared at the sword, which tip near his heart, and then Liu Wei.

Mo Qin Yi looked terrifying when he was angry like this, but most of the time, this crown prince would show this kind of expression and attitude, thus over time people would get used to it.

However, his master was different.

Although, it was a rare occasion to see Xiao Jun lost control, but once it happened you wouldn't be able to forget it easily, something dreadful would definitely happen!

The angry Mo Qin Yi was no longer looked scary, however, if something happened to his Mistress, especially after his Master had emphasized to protect her well from anyone, Liu Wei didn't dare to slack.

Based on the first encounter between Mo Qin Yi and Xiao Jun on the first day they came to Rockstone Kingdom, Liu Wei concluded 'anyone' that his Master mentioned was including this crown prince.

Therefore, calmly he said. "Forgive this lowly one crown prince, but kindly release my mistress' hand." He was looking directly into his eyes.

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