The Story Behind the Jade Pendant
Long Empire part 7

on the other hand, the third prince along with his bodyguards had now arrived at the port of chong.then they descended and proceeded to the Long kingdom. without a break the third prince directly went to Long kingdom to pick up Xiao Yan.

meanwhile in Long Kingdom, because they failed to get what they were looking for, now they feel sad and worried if they all can not return to their previous world. seeing those who looked lethargic, Lady Wei told them to go to the lantern festival that was to be held today.

hearing that made them interested to see it, they also prepared themselves to go to the festival. When they arrived at the festival place, they were surprised to see there were so many people there. so many stalls and beautiful places, but because the lantern festival is held at night, they are forced to wait until night to be able to see the lantern.

while waiting for the night, they went to buy various kinds of food that was in the stall there, after being satisfied with the food, he said, they continued by seeing theater performances and also saw the art of dance from the west.

since Rong Ji and Ye Jing were happy to see the dance from the west, Xiao Yan and Ling Mei left them there, Xiao Yan and Ling Mei went to see the souvernir at the stall across. it did not feel like the day had gone into the night, the lantern festival had begun.

now many stalls selling flying lanterns and water, they also buy both kinds of lanterns. Xiao Yan and Ling Mei had intended to release the water lantern first. Before releasing the water lantern of course they did not forget to make a wish.

after they had finished making their wish, they left and they would now go up the hill to fly the lanterns, but because there were too many people there, they ended up choosing another place.

now that the streets are crowded with people who want to see the festival, they do not expect that tonight, more people will go to see the festival. they were looking for a way to get out of the crowd of people when they managed to find a way suddenly there was the sound of horses running towards them at full speed.

Xiao Yan did not have time to dodge, fortunately A'jue managed to pull his hand and he finally survived the incident. Xiao Yan expressed his gratitude to A'jue. A'jue took them to safety, and the man carrying the horse came down and apologized to everyone there.

Xiao Yan did not accept what had just happened, he went up to the person and scolded him.Just spewed a few words from his mouth, he suddenly fell silent after tau, he suddenly fell silent, if the person he was angry with just now was the third prince, he panicked and eventually fled in shame.

A'jue saw Xiao Yan leave, he followed him while the prince who saw that it was Xiao Yan, he had intended to chase after him, but unfortunately the prince was detained by Rong Ji and Ye Jing. they asked the prince why he knew they were here?

the prince replied, "you don't need to know about it, we'd better catch up to Xiao Yan there's something I need to finish with"

"what do you mean? you should explain this to us first. If you still do not want to give an explanation, do not expect you to meet Xiao Yan"

"alright, I can tell you guys are here, thanks to the information from Li Shang and now you know, so let me chase after Xiao Yan"

"eh, hold him down don't let him chase after Xiao Yan"

the third prince was too strong, they fell down and failed to hold the prince back.

while A'jue caught up with Xiao Yan, he asked Xiao Yan why he ran away when he saw the third prince, Xiao Yan did not reply he just fell silent and he did not know what to say.

moments later, the third prince managed to chase them, realizing that if the third prince approached, he fled again to avoid the prince. the third prince chased after him quickly and he finally managed to catch Xiao Yan's hand. Xiao Yan rebelled and tried to let go of his hand.

the prince realized if Xiao Yan he got away from him, without a second thought the prince immediately hugged him. Initially Xiao Yan rebelled, but now became a little calm. he did not expect that the third prince would directly hug him.

shortly after that Rong Ji and the others caught up with them and they were surprised to see the prince who was hugging Xiao Yan. Finally they pretended not to see the incident, then they invited A'jue to hide behind the trees and watch them.

Xiao Yan was unable to move and now that his face was also flushed red, unable to do anything, he finally gave up and told the third prince to give an explanation, which he had promised him at that time.

the third prince let go of his embrace and he invited Xiao Yan to sit down. After that the prince began to explain to Xiao Yan the reason why he was reckless to follow the hunting event even though he knew it was dangerous. he told Xiao that he was forced to do so in order to obtain the jade pendant from the Xiao kingdom.

he explained that if the winner of this hunt, will be given a request and the winner can ask for anything they want, from there he finally decided to follow the event.

after knowing the reason for the third prince, Xiao Yan again asked him how he could know if they were in Long kingdom?

the prince replied "at first I didn't know if you were going to leave, but after I decided to visit you, I just found out that you weren't in your house. I checked your house, too, but no one was there"

"where did you go after that?"

"i went to Ling Mei's place, I thought she would know where you were, but when I got to her house she wasn't there either, I asked the waiter and they answered if he went with you"

"then how do you know if we're in this place? didn't you find the answer?"

"you're not wrong, I know where you are from Li Shang"

"why can you ask him?"

"well, I'll tell you the beginning, but you have to promise me that you won't get angry after you know that, how?"

"it's up to you"

"what? why can't you be suspicious of him isn't he helping you?"

"just because he helped me and it made me suspicious of him, I didn't expect that you'd tell him to come and help me on the hunt"

"shit, it means he leaked it all to you huh"

"yes, right, where have you been all this time? why did you appear so long ago?"

"sorry Xiao Yan, I think I can catch up with you early if I know, if you leave at that time.but for the sake of executing our plan, I am forced to do that?"

"do what? say quickly?"

the third prince explained to Xiao that if he was initially framed by the second prince and the second prince intended to kill him, then he had to face the assassins alone, but out of nowhere Li Shang suddenly appeared before him and he helped him.

they finally managed to defeat the assassins and make one of them be on their side to keep the second prince unsuspecting, he was forced to injure himself and he told Li Shang to help him.

after that the first prince and the others came to them.The first prince immediately told the emperor and after the emperor knew, if it was the second prince's act, then the first prince would tell the emperor, now the second prince was arrested in royal prison.

"*from there I began to suspect Li Shang why he could tell if I was in danger, I finally decided to go see him. At first he did not want to tell the truth, he said, but since I kept forcing her, she finally told me everything"

"and I can finally know where you are. I'm also grateful to you, it turns out you care so much about me"

"Hem.who cares about you, I just..."

"just what? I know what I mean, so I'm really sorry to you for the incident and sorry for my delay, I'm really sorry I couldn't catch up with you because of the hurt I made"

"you're too reckless, what if the emperor finds out that you tricked him?"

"i don't mean to trick him, I just want the emperor to know if the second prince is planning on killing his place"

"yes well, then what about your wounds?"

"there's no need for me to heal, my wounds have healed"

"good then"

...Suddenly those hiding behind the trees came out ...

"oh so it's like that"

"you should have explained that to her earlier, you know that after Xiao Yan came home from your house he became indistinctly angry"

"what are you talking about, shut the fuck up, Rong Ji, motherfucker"

"then I really apologize to you Xiao Yan and I promise I won't make you angry again"

"don't say that again, we should go to the hill to fly this lantern" Xiao Yan said shyly

"Hem well, then let's go there*"

finally they went to the hill to fly the lantern. there is a beautiful sky full of flying lanterns and the atmosphere feels very romantic. seeing it made the prince remember that he and Xiao Yan had also done that in Xiao kingdom and the prince asked him if he still remembered that.

Xiao Yan also told her that at that time they did not celebrate quietly because of the actions of the second prince, but now that they were in Long kingdom then no one else would bother them and they were also not afraid of being punished by Madam Wei.

now they enjoy the lantern festival there until late at night and the next day they decide to return to the Xiao kingdom.Mrs Wei is confused as to why they suddenly want to return to the Xiao kingdom, though a few days ago they asked him to stay for a few days in Long kingdom.

but because they wanted to quickly return, Lady Wei and they said goodbye to the emperor or his grandfather. the third prince who was waiting for them in front of the palace gate was confused, how could they enter and enter the Long kingdom so freely.

Xiao said that he would explain everything to the prince when they were on board. they set out to go to the port of chong immediately and after they were on board Xiao Yan explained the details to the third prince. the third prince was surprised to find out that the daughter of Madam Wei was the young prince and princess in Long kingdom.

he did not expect that if they had other identities while in Long kingdom then no wonder if they were free to go in and out there.