Good Luck Wedding Chapter 023 Part 1 – As Expected of the Prince!

After the two of them finished drinking a pot of tea, Li Fengqi looked completely relieved.
Whoever his real parents were and whatever twists and turns there were in between, they’ve all gone up in smoke. The old Wangfei refused to tell him the truth, perhaps because it was related to his life story, and most likely to protect him. But now that Han Chan had uncovered them, these old things would one day see the light of day again.

If the old Wangfei wouldn’t anything, he would find out for himself.

Rather than being kept in the dark and being used as a bargaining chip by others, he should take the initiative himself.

After thinking about these things clearly, Li Fengqi thanked Ye Yunting sincerely, “The Young Master’s words have solved the troubles I had for many years.”

Ye Yunting shook his head. “The authorities are confused, but the onlookers see clearly. Wangye is up high in the mountains, so he can’t see clearly the whole picture.”

“The Young Master is too humble.” Li Fengqi disagreed with his words. His mother’s coldness and his brother who died young had always been a knot in his heart. If he hadn’t met Ye Yunting, he might have found himself in a tight corner, instead of thinking through it like he did today and finally letting go.
No matter what his real life story was, the old Wangfei was still the mother who raised him.
This fact wouldn’t change.

Li Fengqi joked: “Maybe Si Tiantai sabotaged himself. The Young Master really is the noble person who complements me.”

Ye Yunting thought to himself, ‘Even without me, in your last life, you were able to break free from your predicament and rise to the throne’. Whether he was or wasn’t Li Fengqi’s noble person remained to be seen, but Li Fengqi definitely was his noble person.
He was thinking this in his heart, but he still replied politely, “Si Tiantai was just looking for a reason to send me to the palace. The theory of destiny has always been one yin and one yang, emphasizing the harmony of yin and yang. Where is this for two men?”

“That’s not necessarily the case.” Li Fengqi looked at him and suddenly laughed with umclear meaning. “Does the Young Master know why I have never married so far?”

Suddenly confronted with a change of topic, Ye Yunting was stunned for a moment before saying, “Why? I thought Wangye didn’t want to…”

When it came to power, who could match Prince Yong’an? In addition to the palace consort, he should be able to choose and marry any of the girls in the capital, right?
If it hadn’t been for his delay in taking a wife, he wouldn’t have been given a man as his consort after his fall.

“Because I don’t like women.” Li Fengqi smiled at him, and the ice melted away from his handsome face in an instant, like the first bloom of spring flowers, with an astonishing beauty.
He really was born with a bewitching appearance.

Ye Yunting had heard many people praise his looks, but at this moment, looking at Li Fengqi, he thought that those people had probably never seen what Prince Yong’an looked like when he smiled.
He just stared straight at Li Fengqi until the person had already turned his wheelchair and went out. Only then did he react to what he had just said.

‘Don’t like women?’
Prince Yong’an didn’t like women?

Ye Yunting’s heart skipped a beat, shocked at first, and then immensely confused.
If he didn’t like women, then he didn’t like women, but but for him to suddenly say this… what did he mean?

However, the person had already left and the best time had passed. It would no longer be appropriate for him to ask again. With deep doubts, Ye Yunting held his breath and finished the remaining herbal tea in the cup.

Wasn’t it said that it was extremely bad to make people guess.

*

With half a day left, Li Fengqi was in an extremely good mood.
He thought of Ye Yunting’s dumbfounded look when he left, and felt that it was very cute, a bit like…like the group of dumb gray rabbits in the cage, huddled together, staring at you with wide round eyes. It could hide but not run away, and when someone grabbed its long ears, it would only struggle as an afterthought.

So after saying those words, he decisively left. He didn’t leave half a chance for him to ask.

He leaned back into his wheelchair with his body stretched out, squinting and looking at the sky overhead. He had always been very clear about what he wanted. He wanted to fight on the battlefield and drive away powerful enemies, so he joined the army; he wanted to protect Li Zong and secure his position, so he was willing to be the butcher’s knife under his hand… Now, he wanted to make their nominal relationship real, and ask Ye Yunting to be his Wangfei.

It was simply that Ye Yunting was different from other people or things. He was smart and insightful, had his own ideas, and was not easily influenced by external things.
He was more intelligent than Li Zong and more difficult to defeat than powerful enemies.

Now, to… plan this matter out slowly.

When Li Fengqi was a teenager, he realized that he didn’t like women. All his playmates of the same age had concubines and were obsessed with sex with men and women, he couldn’t show any interest in women. To say he was interested in men wasn’t quite it, either. There was no lack of good-looking young men in Shangjing, but all of them were just like gold and jade, only knowing how to eat, drink and have fun. In his opinion, they were all as stupid as pigs, so he might as well practice his sword technique a few more times rather than talk to them.
When he reached the age of getting married, his father and mother wanted to arrange a marriage for him, but he refused several times. After that didn’t work, he simply confessed his preference. Male homosexuality¹ was not uncommon throughout the ages. Although his parents were worried, they did not force him.

And now he was twenty-six. Others were already fathers of several children, but he didn’t even have anyone to warm his bed.
Fortunately, Ye Yunting showed up not too late. This winter was particularly cold, and two people were always warmer than one.

When Zhu Lie came to look for him, he saw Li Fengqi looking at the sky with a smile on his face. He smiled in a very scary way – in the past, when the Prince smiled like this, someone would always be suffering.
He shook the goosebumps on his arms and approached cautiously. “Wangye?”

He really wanted to ask what he was thinking about, but didn’t dare.
What the Prince was thinking about was not something mortals like them should know.
If they knew, they might suffer.

But although he didn’t ask, Li Fengqi insisted on talking. He turned the wheelchair around, facing Zhu Lie, and asked carelessly, “What do you think of me?”

“?”
A big question mark appeared on Zhu Lie’s head, as he thought, ‘You are as wise as a god in martial arts, tall and handsome as a god. You just have a bad temper, and you may still be a bit hampered in using your legs and feet, but you are still extremely good!’
“Of course Wangye is the best!”

“What about the Young Master?” Li Fengqi asked again.

Zhu Lie reacted to who the Young Master was and continued to brag, “Of course Wangfei is good, he is handsome and has a good personality, and he treats Wangye with sincerity! There is no better person than Wangfei!” After speaking, he cautiously added, “Except for you, Wangye.”
He thought that if he gave compliments this time, he would not be punished.

Li Fengqi glanced at him, hummed from his nose, and said slowly, “Then do you think Wangfei likes me?”

Zhu Lie:? ? ?
This question was a bit strange.
They were already married, so what was the point of talking about liking or not liking? It wasn’t like they always had to sleep in the same bed, right?

Zhu Lie scratched his head and said cautiously: “You should be his favorite… right?”
He was a little unsure. Did the prince want to hear what he liked, or not?

As a result, after he finishing speaking, his prince suddenly turned cold and said, “I see that your head is of no use other than as a decoration. If you don’t have any use for it, why don’t I take it off for you.”

Zhu Lie jumped far away and said aggrievedly: “How dare I speculate blindly on the matter between Wangye and Wangfei? Of course, whatever Wangye says will be what he says!”

Li Fengqi stared at him coldly, then waved his hand after a while: “Get out of here, seeing you is troublesome.”

Zhu Lie ran away like the wind. He met Wu Geng on the way and tried to persuade him earnestly, “Wangye is in a bad mood. You should be careful. If Wangye asks you some strange questions, just pretend that your voice is broken and you can’t speak. But Don’t say that this brother didn’t give you advice.”

Wu Geng:? ? ?
He went to look for Li Fengqi with a letter of greeting , and saw that Li Fengqi was indeed just as Zhu Lie said, with a stern expression that was somewhat scary.
He mulled it over in his mind and decided that saying less meant fewer mistakes. “Wangye, I have a letter of greeting from the Duke’s Mansion.”

Li Fengqi took the letter of greeting and found that it was from the Duke of Qi’s mansion. The Duke of Qi’s family would be paying a visit on August 28th.
He sneered, thinking that this Duke of Qi had arrived at just the right time. He would have the opportunity to rescue Ye Yunting from the siege and make him be more grateful to him. Since ancient times, it had been said that the kindness of a drop of water would be repaid by a spring of water. However, he did not need a spring of water as a reward; his body would suffice.

“Are all the people sent by Li Zong still settled in?” Li Fengqi asked after thinking for a while.

“Quite settled. In accordance with Wangye’s request, not a single piece of information that shouldn’t be known to them has leaked out. There are those three people who will pass information into the imperial palace at a fixed hour.”

“Well, then. On the 28th, move the three people who will be transmitting information so that they don’t see too much.”

Ye Zhili and Yin Hongye were not good people. If they restrained themselves when they came to the palace, then that was fine. But if they didn’t, then he would inevitably have take action. If word spread to the palace and Li Zong knew that he cared about Ye Yunting, he might make a big deal out of it.

Although Li Fengqi wasn’t afraid, it would be troublesome.

===Translator’s Notes===

Another chapter I’m splitting into two because this is 6.2K-characters long. *sob*

(This should be the last chapter I’ll splitting like this for this story.)

Li Fengqi be like, “Wow, Si Tiantiai really matched me up with the Best Person Ever; should I, like, give him a gift basket or something??”

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Yu Yenting on yin-yang balance: no homo, no homo–

Li Fengqi: Yes homo.

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Ye Yunting: He says that I helped him sort out this problem that’s been plaguing him all his life, and then he says that maybe I am his fated person, and then he says he doesn’t like women! What does this mean? What does this all mean?!?!?

1. 龍陽之好, literally “Lord Long Yang’s favor” who was the homosexual lover of king Kanxi of Wei during the Warring States period; see here for more info. ↩︎

 

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