Shadow Guard Mu Lanzhi has been pretty worried lately.
In the middle of the night, he poked Shadow Guard Jia Yi awake.
Mu Lanzhi: I think the young lord has designs on me.
Jia Yi: How could you come up with such a ridiculous idea?
Mu Lanzhi: Look at your name, then look at mine. How am I not supposed to read into it?
Jia Yi: ???
Mu Lanzhi left Jia Yi, who had been innocently struck by the revelation, and gazed at the moon in distress. Being a shadow guard was hard enough. If he had to serve Yu Wen as well, how much more work would that mean?
Young Lord Yu has been quite pleased lately.
Yu Wen entered the palace as a young boy to study alongside the crown prince, and was taught by Baili Jing, the crown prince’s tutor.
Fifteen years ago, Baili Jing was suddenly demoted and implicated in Prince Wen’s rebellion. His entire family was executed, and only Baili Jing’s only son disappeared without a trace.
Yu Wen was ten that year. Deeply worried about his mentor’s family, he lifted his covers one night and found his mentor’s son sprawled across his bed, fast asleep.
Yu Wen: ...
The person who had brought the child had already run off. At just ten years old, Yu Wen had suddenly found himself saddled with a little kid and had no idea what to do.
Hand the child over, and he would surely die.
Keep him, and Yu Wen’s own father would kill him to eliminate the threat.
After thinking it over, Yu Wen smuggled the child among the orphans newly recruited as shadow guards for the prince’s estate, planning to wait until things had calmed down.
Fifteen years passed in a flash. The emperor died, the crown prince took the throne, and Prince Jin became obsessed with cultivating immortality. Yu Wen took charge of the household.
Yu Wen quickly plucked the little kid out of the shadow guards, dusted him off, and gave him the name his mentor had once chosen, along with his mother’s surname: Mu Lanzhi. He only had to wait for the right moment to give him a new identity.
Everything was proceeding according to Young Lord Yu’s plan.
But... why has Mu Lanzhi been looking at him more and more strangely lately?
Theme: Live with a positive attitude in any circumstances.
