Chapter 161: Chapter 140 Shall I call you Nanyan from now on_i
Translator: 549690339
Lu Chen had been holding back all the way since he left the North Land. He also held back when he went to the Barbarian Tribe prisoner camp, but in the end, he couldn’t hold back any longer.
It was like placing a candy in front of a child, allowing them to look but not to taste.
Who could endure that?
As soon as Lu Chen returned to the Prince’s Mansion, the first thing he did was head straight for Yelv Nanyan’s room.
When Yelv Nanyan saw Lu Chen enter her room, she was montarily stunned. She was about to say sothing when she noticed Lu Chen closing the door behind him.
Yelv Nanyan imdiately beca nervous, what was this young man going to do, running into her room and locking the door?
At this ti, Lu Chen gave a slight smile, “Queen Yelv need not be afraid, this Prince has co to askyou about so matters.”
Hearing this, Yelv Nanyan thought to herself in confusion, asking about matters, what matters?
At that mont, Lu Chen sat down at the table inside the room.
Yelv Nanyan then asked, “May I know what the Prince wishes to inquire about?”
Lu Chen glanced at the dignified and graceful Yelv Nanyan, “Please have a seat first, Queen Yelv.”
Yelv Nanyan had no choice but to sit down. Now there were only the two of them in the room, and Yelv Nanyan felt the atmosphere was a bit strange, especially with them sitting so close to each other.
However, Yelv Nanyan thought that although Lu Chen was very powerful, he was just a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy. She was more than a decade his senior — what was there to fear?
Moreover, from Lu Chen’s deanor, it appeared he genuinely had sothing to discuss with her, and besides, it was still broad daylight. After all, he was a Prince, so it was unlikely he would do sothing untoward.
This thought quickly cald Yelv Nanyan’s heart.
“May I know what the Prince seeks from ?”
Lu Chen directly asked, “I noticed that Queen Yelv’s appearance seems very similar to the won of Great Xia. Could it be that you are originally from Great Xia?”
Upon hearing this question, Yelv Nanyan was taken aback, and Lu Chen’s query brought her mother to mind.
Yelv Nanyan fell into silence, not speaking for so ti, while Lu Chen watched her eyes and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Yelv Nanyan regained her senses and hastily said, “It’s nothing, I was just caught off guard.”
“Indeed, my mother was from Great Xia. When the Barbarian Tribe ca south, they captured her and took her to their tribe, where she gave birth to . I resemble my mother, so it’s not strange that the Prince finds similarities between and the won of Great Xia.”
Lu Chen responded, “I see, I hadn’t realized there was such a story behind it. I thought Queen Yelv bore a strong resemblance to Great Xia’s won.”
Just as Lu Chen was about to say sothing further, Yelv Nanyan spoke up, “Prince, I have left the Sky Wolf King tribe and am no longer the Sky Wolf King’s wife. You don’t have to call Queen Yelv anymore, just my na will do.”
They were now in the North Prince Mansion, where there could only be one official wife. If the North Prince continued to call her Queen, it could lead to unnecessary trouble.
Yelv Nanyan was clear-headed about such matters. If she wanted to survive in the North Prince Mansion, she couldn’t afford to offend Mu Zixuan, the legitimate wife.
If Lu Chen kept addressing her as Queen, and Mu Zixuan, the legitimate wife, heard it, who knows what she might think. She would likely suspect Yelv Nanyan of trying to vie for favor.
That would not be good for her or for Xiao Wenyao.
Although Yelv Nanyan had never lived in Great Xia, influenced by her mother, she was very familiar with it.
Hearing Yelv Nanyan’s words, Lu Chen said with a smile, “Alright, from now on I’ll call you Nanyan.”
Continuing, he asked, “Nanyan, after your mother gave birth to you in the Barbarian Tribe, life must have been very hard, right?”
After all, as a woman from Great Xia, being captured by the Barbarian Tribe, life must have been difficult.
Hearing Lu Chen’s question, Yelv Nanyan again seed to drift into her mories. After a little while, she finally answered, “Yes, my mother was treated as a slave by the tribe’s Chief, made to serve him daily. She often suffered beatings from him, and ultimately, unable to bear the humiliation, she drowned herself when I was ten years old.”
Speaking of this, Yelv Nanyan’s expression turned forlorn, appearing imnsely sad.
Seeing this, Lu Chen reached out and directly grasped Yelv Nanyan’s hand, comforting her, “The dead cannot be brought back to life, mourn no more.”
Yelv Nanyan’s mature body involuntarily trembled when Lu Chen suddenly grabbed her hand, but Lu Chen made no further move, and she didn’t take it to heart, assuming it was just an instinctive gesture from him.
Lu Chen continued, “Nanyan, actually, I am very similar to you in that I also lost my mother at a young age.”
As he said this, Lu Chen’s tone turned sowhat somber, sorrowful.
Upon hearing Lu Chen’s words, Yelv Nanyan was taken aback. She gazed at him, and for so reason, she began to feel an odd urge to comfort this young man, to tell him not to be so sad.
Perhaps because Lu Chen was more than a decade younger than her, and knowing how painful life without a mother could be, stirred this sentint.
Thinking of Lu Chen as a Prince, Yelv Nanyan realized his days in the Imperial Palace after losing his mother must also have been difficult.
Yelv Nanyan then said, “Prince, don’t be too sorrowful. Your mother, knowing of the achievents you’ve made in North City, would surely be happy for you.”
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