Chapter 176: The Young General and the Handsome Emperor (29)

He even forgot that he had ridden a horse here.

He took A-Si by the hand, wanting to walk straight out and cruelly abandon his horse waiting outside the shop entrance.

It was A-Si who pulled back on his sleeve to stop him.

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Yan Ancheng actually harbored a little secret scheme of his own.

If he and A-Si walked back, then everyone on the main street would see them together.

By then, the news about the eldest young lady of the Wei family and the Fourth Imperial Prince would surely spread throughout the entire capital.

Left with no other choice, A-Si would have to marry him.

What business would that other man have left?

Therefore, Yan Ancheng only rode the horse for half the distance, and then, in broad daylight and right in front of a whole street of people, he grandly lifted A-Si down from the horse.

"There are too many people here; riding a horse might easily hurt someone. Let's walk back, it's not far."

A-Si looked around, and sure enough, there were crowds of people everywhere.

So she followed Yan Ancheng on foot toward the Fourth Imperial Prince's mansion.

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There were almost no women in Yan Ancheng's estate; the only females were a few cleaning maidservants in the outer courtyard.

As they drew closer to Yan Ancheng's bedchamber, not a single woman was to be found.

In fact, the entire estate looked barren, not at all like a place where human beings lived.

Although luxurious, it gave people an intensely gloomy feeling.

"A-Si, wait outside for a moment. I'll be done very quickly."

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Yan Ancheng led A-Si directly into his bedchamber, though he asked the young girl to sit in the adjacent sitting room.

A-Si nodded obediently, "Mhm."

With a heart thumping with excitement, Yan Ancheng hastily tore off his black outer garment.

Then—

He sensed something was not quite right.

When he turned his head, he met the gaze of A-Si, who was standing right outside the doorway, looking at him with her dark, limpid eyes.

The young girl's eyes blinked and blinked, glistening with moisture.

She showed not a shred of self-awareness about being caught red-handed while peeping.

Seeing that Yan Ancheng had stopped moving, she even asked, "Why did you stop pulling?"

She had wanted to keep watching.

He was almost done taking it off; she would have been able to see everything very soon.

"A-Si... you..."

Yan Ancheng's cheeks flushed slightly.

Even though A-Si was the girl he loved, being watched by her while changing clothes still made him feel somewhat shy.

A-Si blinked her eyes and asked, "Um... did I do something wrong?"

She was simply very eager to find out whether he was her little white cat.

Yet, upon second thought, peeping at someone else changing clothes seemed rather impolite.

So A-Si immediately straightened up, put on a serious face, and said, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have peeked at you changing clothes, but Your Highness... can A-Si just stand right here and watch you change?"

The young girl's expression was utterly sincere.

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How could Yan Ancheng possibly bear to refuse A-Si's request? Back when A-Si had rescued him, he had even taken the initiative to change his clothes to attract her attention.

Yet now, for some reason, he felt overwhelmingly shy.

With a blushing face, Yan Ancheng stood facing A-Si and changed his garments piece by piece.

Even though there was no need to strip down completely, for reasons unknown, Yan Ancheng took off almost all of his clothes.

The man's skin was fair, but crisscrossed across his back were one gruesome scar after another.

These were all wounds inflicted upon him by people in the Nunu Kingdom over the years.

As the dignified Fourth Imperial Prince of the Yan Kingdom, he had been treated no better than a beast of burden while in the Nunu Kingdom.

A-Si stared fixedly at Yan Ancheng's back for quite a while.

"Um... Your Highness, please turn around..."

Biting his lip with flushed cheeks, Yan Ancheng struck what he believed to be his most alluring pose, showcasing his back to A-Si.

Yet A-Si still could not see clearly.

That was because the man's hair was too long.

His jet-black hair hung down, completely veering the view.

A-Si walked closer.

Pushed the long hair aside, and immediately laid eyes upon that prominent red scar on his back.