My Years in the Jianghu with the Prince: A Time of Unethical Conduct

Chapter 222 Arrival

"You're overthinking it. Last night was just an accident."

Xie Yan coldly pushed Chu Ling's hand away, acting like a heartless scumbag. "We agreed to settle this once and for all. Don't try to get away with this."

"is it?"

Chu Ling raised an eyebrow, neither confirming nor denying.

He gently pinched Xie Yan's earlobe with his fingertips, a half-smile playing on his lips: "But why do I feel like you seemed to like it a lot last night?"

Xie Yan said coldly, "Don't you know that men are all creatures who think with their lower bodies?"

"So?" Chu Ling kneaded the skin with even more force.

Just as she was watching with satisfaction the blush slowly spreading from her earlobe, Xie Yan brushed it away.

The latter stood up, quickly put on his clothes, covered up the marks on his body, and then took out a piece of silver from his pocket. "This is your service fee, keep the change."

Looking at the money bag bearing his mark, Chu Ling calmly took the silver, then shifted his gaze to Xie Yan's thigh and asked meaningfully, "Doesn't it hurt?"

Xie Yan: "..."

He stood up straight, and in a place unseen by others, his legs, hidden by the wide hem of his coat, were spread apart a little wider than usual.

Chu Ling smiled meaningfully, leaned in again, and tugged at Xie Yan's belt. "That area is too tender. It's all my fault for being too unrestrained last night and hurting you. You need some medicine."

Xie Yan: "..."

You look like a respectable person, how can you utter such lewd words?

"I suddenly remembered that the laundry hadn't been taken in—"

Without thinking, Xie Yan was about to walk out the door when a familiar force suddenly came from her waist.

Chu Ling reached out and wrapped his arms around Xie Yan's waist. With a little effort, he easily pulled Xie Yan back and hugged him. The two sat back down on the couch.

"We're about to disembark, and if we don't take the medicine, riding a horse will be very uncomfortable."

Chu Ling's voice was tinged with laughter, but his expression was serious; it was as if the words "a gentleman" were written all over his face.

But his hands were quite restless, resting on Xie Yan's legs and, with a slight force, separating her legs a little.

When the two came out of the room again, half an hour had passed, and it was almost Shen Shi (3-5 PM).

On the deck, He Shan, who had just turned around to see his bruised and battered face after hearing the commotion, saw Xie Yan standing behind him like a gust of wind, smiling slightly, and saying, "You, come with me for a moment."

Heshan: "..."

Just as Chu Ling said, after sailing at sea for several days, the ship finally docked today.

Jinlin's dock was in the suburbs. After docking, the group still had to ride horses for a while, going around several mountains, before they could enter the city.

Xie Yan, who had given up riding a horse, walked around Chuling without looking to the side and got into the same carriage as Wuya.

"It really is on the way. Xiaobai also said that Wuli is right here."

Uya poked her head out of the carriage and looked around curiously.

The mountain road was long and winding. Apart from the mountain path and lush grass, there was only the clatter of horses' hooves. There was not a single person in sight on the empty mountain road except for them.

"Speaking of which, the name of this place is quite unique. Why is it called Jinlin? Is there some kind of meaning behind it?"

After looking around for a while and finding nothing interesting, Wuya looked away and asked Xie Yan.

"This place was not originally called Jinlin."

Xie Yan also lifted the carriage curtain, looking out at the lush green mountains and a certain flamboyant fellow who, instead of taking the proper road, insisted on riding a horse and following him closely by the window.

After choking for a moment, he continued, "As for what it's called, it doesn't matter anymore, because the reason for the name change is entirely due to a big shot."

Upon hearing this, Wuya immediately perked up her ears curiously, sat up obediently, and looked like she wanted to listen to Xie Yan tell a story.

"Wow, who is it? What kind of important person could get this whole place renamed?"

"A golden carp is no ordinary fish; it will transform into a dragon once it encounters wind and clouds."

Xie Yan coldly curled the corners of her lips, "This important figure is none other than the founding emperor of the previous dynasty, the Taizu, of the Fu family."

Wuya exclaimed "Ah!" with her mouth wide open. After a moment of surprise, she turned her gaze to Chu Ling outside the window.

She leaned closer to Xie Yan, covered her mouth, and said in what she thought was a very quiet voice, "They've even changed their names, so even if the people here don't love the Taizu clan, they should still be proud of it, right?"

"And who knows, there might even be some distant relative of the founding emperor here. Isn't Your Highness afraid of being recognized by someone, and then..."

As she spoke, Uya made a knife gesture with her hand across her neck with a ferocious expression.

Upon hearing this, Xie Yan immediately adopted a serious expression and affirmed in a deep voice, "You're right! You're really smart! Just in case, I'd better disguise him too."

He immediately made up his mind to take advantage of Wuya's words to teach Chu Ling a lesson.

Chu Ling, who had overheard everything, was speechless.

He opened his mouth, about to say something, when suddenly a loud "boom" rang out!

Before anyone could react, the horses began to stir and try to run away, but they were held firmly by the reins and could only pace uneasily in place.

"what's the situation?"

"The horse is out of control! What's going on?!"

The next moment, flocks of birds took flight from the forest, and the pebbles on the ground began to bounce.

"Could this be... an earthquake?!"

Chu Ling was the first to react, and immediately turned around and shouted loudly to the people in the carriage, "Get out of the carriage quickly!"

Everyone immediately reacted upon hearing the sound.

Xie Yan swiftly and decisively leaped into the air and landed beside Chu Ling.

"It really was an earthquake!"

At the same time, with a cry of alarm, the ground beneath everyone's feet began to shake violently, and rubble tumbled down from the hilltop, raining down on them.

The earthquake came so suddenly that everyone was caught off guard.

Some people fell to the ground, some horses broke free of their reins and ran away in the chaos, and the carriage crashed to the ground and shattered into pieces.

The scene instantly descended into chaos.

Fortunately, the sudden earthquake came and went quickly, and soon it gradually subsided.

The crowd quickly regrouped. Apart from the two broken carriages and a few escaped horses, there were no casualties and the damage was not too great.

While calming his horse, Xuanfeng wiped away his sweat with lingering fear. "What bad timing! We just arrived, how could it suddenly move?"

"It's normal for the ground to shake when Jinlin is there, right?"

Among the group, He Shan, who was the most seriously injured, had a pig-like face and picked up where Xuan Feng left off.

"I remember that this place is prone to earthquakes. More than ten years ago, there was an earthquake that could be described as earth-shattering."

"It is said that the earthquake almost caused the entire city to collapse."