The protagonist of this crossover film and television series is disrupting the plot again.

Chapter 468 Joy of Life 24

Xie Bi'an keenly noticed the unusual way Li Chengze addressed Li Yunrui, and was secretly surprised:

The eldest princess is not only His Majesty's younger sister, but also His Highness's aunt, and the two are allies.

Logically speaking, even if His Highness doesn't call her "Aunt," he should at least address her as "Princess." How could he be so bold as to call her by her given name?

Could it be that His Highness and the Eldest Princess have had some kind of disagreement?

Although Xie Bi'an had many doubts, he dared not make any wild guesses. He quickly lowered his head and respectfully replied, "What message does Your Highness wish to convey? I will do it immediately."

Li Chengze looked meaningfully in the direction of Guangxin Palace, then suddenly laughed. He had someone bring him pen and ink, then quickly wrote a note and handed it to Xie Bi'an.

Xie Bi'an carefully opened the note, and after just one glance, his expression changed drastically, his eyes filled with shock and disbelief.

"……Yes."

Xie Bi'an accepted the order and left.

Li Chengze picked up his pen and drew another picture, which depicted a long leather suitcase.

If Fan Xian were here, he would definitely discover that Li Chengze's drawing was of the very mysterious box that Ye Qingmei had left for him.

"There's no hope. You must set off immediately, secretly search for someone, and precisely replicate an identical box according to the map," Li Chengze instructed.

Fan Wujiu accepted the painting but did not leave immediately, his face showing hesitation: "Your Highness, Xie Bi'an is not by your side at the moment. If I also leave, what will happen to your safety?"

Li Chengze gently waved his hand, interrupting his concerns: "It's alright, I'll stay in the manor for now and be fine. You two should get things done as soon as possible. These two matters are very important, and I don't trust anyone else."

Fan Wujiu hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded, thinking to himself: I need to find a reliable person immediately to begin making this box. It's just a box, it shouldn't take too long to make. Once it's finished, I'll return immediately, it certainly won't delay me too much.

"Your Highness, rest assured, I will certainly live up to your expectations," Fan Wujiu nodded and assured him, then immediately turned and left.

Li Chengze, left alone in the room, gazed quietly at the sunlight streaming in through the doorway.

Tiny dust particles danced gently in the light, seemingly telling the story of the impending changes.

"I'm sure Kyoto will soon be in chaos, hehe."

Li Chengze slowly closed his eyes, his body swaying gently with the rhythm of the swing, as if in sync with the pulse of the world.

……

On the day of the poetry gathering, Fan Xian was inevitably a little annoyed because he hadn't caught up with his sweetheart.

Then he remembered that "Chicken Leg Girl" was a maid in the home of a noble lady who came to Kyoto today, and he had a sudden idea. He asked Fan Ruoruo to help him find out where she was.

Fan Ruoruo idolizes Fan Xian to the extreme. Now that Fan Xian has asked her for help, she naturally feels obligated to do so. She spends her days running between the various noble ladies' residences in the capital, sparing no effort to gather information.

During this time, Fan Xian was also busy, helping to resolve Teng Zijing's matter and getting to know Wang Qinian of the Overwatch Council.

After Fan Ruoruo searched all the noble ladies' residences who had attended the poetry gathering but still couldn't find any news about "Chicken Leg Girl," Fan Xian finally turned his attention to the residence of Prince Jing's heir.

Since the last poetry gathering, Prince Jing's son, seeing that Li Chengze no longer had any intention of winning over Fan Xian, became much colder and stopped associating with Fan Xian.

However, Fan Xian didn't care about any of that. He took Fan Sizhe with him and went straight to the Jing Prince's Mansion without any formal invitations or prior notice. He asked to see all the female members of the Jing Prince's household.

Upon hearing this request, Li Hongcheng was stunned and almost thought he had misheard.

After confirming that Fan Xian really meant it, he immediately flew into a rage.

Even though the separation of men and women in this world is not too strict, they are still family members. How could they allow an outsider to comment on them and look at them at will?

Even a maid is not acceptable!

If this gets out, will he still have any face left in the Jingjun Prince's Mansion?

In the original storyline, although Fan Xian had made this request to Li Hongcheng, Li Hongcheng had to swallow his pride because Li Chengze wanted to win Fan Xian over.

But now?

snort!

Li Hongcheng unceremoniously chased the man away, then turned to look at the poem "Ascending the Heights" that he had just copied on the table, and sighed deeply.

"Fan Xian is utterly rude! How could such a frivolous person produce a masterpiece like 'Ascending the Heights'? What a waste of this poem!"

This was the first time Fan Xian had been rejected. Feeling frustrated, he became even more convinced that the "chicken leg girl" was in the Prince Jing's mansion.

As night fell, Fan Xian changed into a night outfit and quietly scaled the wall to enter the Prince Jing's residence.

Using the familiar terrain from the last poetry gathering, he headed straight for the inner quarters to begin his search for his beloved.

Fan Xian has just entered the eighth rank. Although his martial arts skills are already quite high, in this capital city full of experts, even though Prince Jing is a carefree and unrestrained man, he is still a prince. His mansion has many guards, most of whom are not as good as Fan Xian, but they are by no means ordinary people.

Therefore, Fan Xian was discovered to be making noise after wandering around the mansion for only a short while.

At this time, Prince Jing went to his villa in the suburbs of the capital for a visit, leaving only Li Hongcheng to guard the mansion.

When he first heard the guards report that an assassin had entered the manor, he was a little nervous. However, after hearing that the assassin had been lingering in the inner courtyard, his face instantly darkened.

Could it be a notorious womanizer?

Considering that his younger sister, Princess Roujia, is still unmarried, could this person be after his sister?

In his anxiety, Li Hongcheng ignored the obstruction of his guards and went straight to Princess Roujia's residence.

Seeing that his sister was safe and sound, he breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ordered the guards in the mansion to capture the assassin who had broken into the mansion.

Thanks to Wu Zhu's training, Fan Xian's lightness skill was quite good. In the end, he managed to escape from the Prince's mansion before a large number of guards arrived.

Even though he escaped quickly, he was eventually recognized by someone in the mansion who had seen him before.

When the head of the guards hesitated before saying that the assassin's figure resembled Fan Xian, Li Hongcheng was immediately enraged: "Good! This Fan Xian is indeed a shameless scoundrel. Because I did not grant him his request to see the women of my palace during the day, he actually did this despicable thing in the middle of the night. He is utterly shameless!"

As Li Hongcheng spoke, he slammed his fist on the table with a deafening roar: "Tomorrow I will go to the palace to see His Majesty and beg His Majesty to uphold justice for my Prince Jing's Mansion and severely punish Fan Xian. I will also impeach Fan Jian for failing to properly educate his son."

As he spoke, he was about to get up to prepare his memorial to the palace the next morning, but was stopped by the chief secretary of the Prince's residence: "Your Highness, please calm down. This matter must not be made public."

As the saying goes, "to catch a thief red-handed," we didn't apprehend Fan Xian on the spot. If you rashly enter the palace tomorrow to impeach Fan Jian and his son without any evidence, you'll not only be easily counter-accused by the Fan family, but you'll also expose today's events to the public.

At that time, what will become of Princess Roujia's and the other women of the Prince's mansion's reputation? How will the Jingjun Prince's mansion then conduct itself in the capital?

(The protagonist's mindset at this moment is indeed somewhat extreme. However, his desire to go home has almost reached the point of madness, so he cannot understand why a transmigrator would not want to return to his original world, just as he cannot empathize with the suffering of a myasthenia gravis patient.)

There is no such thing as true empathy.

In his view, Fan Xian was like a "traitor" to the modern world, so he felt strong dissatisfaction and aversion towards Fan Xian. But to some extent, this dissatisfaction was also a kind of anger born out of helplessness at his inability to control his own destiny and return to the familiar world.

The protagonist's intervention to punish Fan Xian is actually a way for him to vent his inner pain, and it also helps to cause trouble for Li Yunrui.