Embroidered Uniform Guard: I Can Plunder Talents-Chapter 241 - 55: Princess Jingyue’s Jealousy! Arrival at the Border (Part 2)

Chapter 241: Chapter 55: Princess Jingyue’s Jealousy! Arrival at the Border (Part 2)

Yan Huilan is not content with just being an ordinary princess; she wants to become empress and gain more power—isn’t that only natural?

"There’s nothing wrong with that kind of thinking, of course!"

Seeing that no one found it odd,

Ye Liuyun suddenly started laughing.

Ye Liuyun didn’t find Yan Huilan’s ambition strange, or think there was anything wrong with it.

What really struck Ye Liuyun as odd was something else entirely.

Meeting Si Nan and the others’ faintly confused glances, Ye Liuyun couldn’t help but chuckle again.

"Why does Yan Huilan think she’s definitely going to become Empress of the Xihe Dynasty?"

"???"

The group was taken aback by that.

Yeah! Why, exactly?

Obviously, none of them had really thought about it before; they’d just assumed Yan Huilan wanting more power was a sign of growth.

But who said, just by marrying into the Xihe Dynasty, she would automatically become Empress?

The Xihe Dynasty simply hasn’t appointed an empress yet.

When did anyone ever promise that, as soon as Yan Huilan married in, she’d be made empress of the Xihe Dynasty?

"Ah, well!"

Si Nan blinked in confusion.

And then he couldn’t help it anymore and burst out laughing.

This was honestly a bit ridiculous.

Probably even Yan Huilan herself never really thought this through; she must’ve just taken it for granted that as soon as she married into the Xihe Dynasty, she’d naturally become empress.

But actually, as a princess marrying for alliance,

getting the courtesy title of consort would already be pretty generous. You really don’t hear about foreign-marriage princesses becoming empresses directly—even if it happened, it’d be so rare it’s barely worth mentioning.

And that’s provided the princess in question is truly capable and scheming enough.

But as for Yan Huilan—doesn’t seem like she has any of those skills, does she?

"My lord, so what should we...?"

Si Nan looked inquiringly at Ye Liuyun.

Getting ready to ask what they ought to do next.

"No need to do anything!" 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Meeting Si Nan’s gaze, Ye Liuyun waved him off with total indifference.

As long as they knew what Yan Huilan was after, that was enough.

He’d just been curious why Yan Huilan kept shooting those jealous, hateful looks at Yan Shuzhu—he thought there might be some hidden secret behind it.

But now it seemed—

It was purely because Yan Huilan was jealous that Yan Shuzhu had landed on the throne.

"No point in warning her, either. She’ll wake up from her dream soon enough when we reach the Xihe Dynasty. For now, let’s just let her keep dreaming."

"Understood!"

Si Nan and the others, of course, had nothing to add.

To begin with, they didn’t really take this Princess Jingyue—Yan Huilan—seriously at all.

Whatever Ye Liuyun said, they’d just follow the instructions.

,,,

Soon enough,

after trekking for more than half a month,

they were finally approaching the borderlands.

The surroundings had already become barren and desolate. The closer they got to Xihe, even the forests thinned out—just endless grasslands in every direction.

And after all this time,

the bunch who’d been carrying Ji You’s sedan chair finally ran away!

No helping it—if they kept carrying him like this, they really would’ve collapsed and died along the way.

Even a rabbit can bite when cornered, not to mention people.

So the lot of them whispered together and decided to take off under cover of night, while everyone was asleep.

Ye Liuyun had naturally noticed this, but didn’t bother to intervene.

At last,

the next morning, seeing the lonely sedan chair standing there by itself, Ji You lost it.

All these days on the road, Ji You’s pent-up frustration had already reached its limit—if they were still inside the Imperial City, wouldn’t he be surrounded by servants, waited on hand and foot!

Could do whatever he liked.

Why would he have to suffer like this out here?

At least being in the sedan, even if it was a bit jolty, he didn’t have to walk on his own two feet.

Now, with the sedan abandoned—

thinking of the journey ahead, and the very real possibility that he’d have to travel the rest of the way on foot, Ji You lost it even harder.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

Bellowing curses beside the sedan chair.

When he noticed Ye Liuyun approaching, he immediately turned on him and started accusing.

"Ye Liuyun, those damned commoners ran off! Didn’t you notice?"

"I did notice."

Faced with Ji You’s resentful tone, Ye Liuyun looked utterly unbothered.

He shrugged, face completely indifferent, and answered casually.

"???"

Ji You froze at that reply.

He’d assumed Ye Liuyun must not have seen anything, and was just gearing up to give him a piece of his mind.

But turns out you did see?

"Then why didn’t you stop them?"

"And why would I stop them?"

Facing this kind of look, Ye Liuyun suddenly grinned.

"Lord Ji, did you forget? Back at the very start, you said yourself those sedan bearers were your people, and told us not to interfere!"

,,,

Ji You was speechless.

He really had said something like that.

Only, back then, Ji You figured the others just couldn’t stand seeing him ride in the sedan chair, so he’d said it to stake his claim.

And now Ye Liuyun was throwing those words right back at him.

"You—!"

Raising his hand and pointing at Ye Liuyun, for a moment he couldn’t find any words.

"I don’t care! Now that there’s no one left to carry the sedan, you’d better find someone from your men to carry it for me!"

There were still plenty of Embroidered Uniform Guards around, after all.

Ye Liuyun, as Southern Governor, mobilizing a few guards to carry his sedan—that should be easy enough, right?

Ye Liuyun gazed at Ji You in silence for a moment. That look made Ji You fall quiet as well, despite himself.

"Heh."

The next moment, Ye Liuyun, who’d been staring at Ji You, suddenly grinned coldly.