Rebirth As a Fatuous and Self-indulgent Ruler

Chapter 207: Counterattack

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

They resumed their journey by carriage.

Liu was staying with Long.

Liu said, “If you can’t fall asleep, let me help you.”

“Oh? How can you help me?” Long didn’t understand.

Liu laughed. “Of course I’ll hit your acupoint to make you sleep.”

Long stared at him.

Liu said with a smile, “This medicine can’t relieve the symptoms of a cold if you don’t sleep. That means that you have taken the medicine for nothing.”

The corners of Long’s mouth twitched, but he still said, “I’ll close my eyes and try to rest for a while.”

Liu said indifferently, “You can just give it a try.”

Long closed his eyes, but it was not so easy to fall asleep.

After a long time, Long felt some pain in his chest and then he lost consciousness…

Liu curled his lips. “I knew you couldn’t fall asleep. You did need my help, didn’t you?”

Long couldn’t answer him anymore.

As the carriage was moving, Liu also closed his eyes to have a rest.

Long didn’t open his eyes until evening.

When he woke up, he saw there were stars in the sky.

Long didn’t expect that. “It’s already evening?”

“Yes, it’s already evening.” Liu grinned.

Long glared at him. “You hit my acupoint, right?”

“Yes.” Liu didn’t think he was wrong, so he nodded directly. “I did it. Otherwise, when would you fall asleep?”

Long snorted. “How dare you offend the emperor?”

Liu blinked. “Your Majesty, how will you punish me?”

Long sneered. When he was just about to say something, his stomach began to rumble.

Liu burst into laughter.

Long rolled his eyes. “I haven’t eaten in a day. Isn’t it normal that I feel hungry?”

“Yes, it’s normal. It’s quite normal,” Liu said.

Long glared at him. “It’s very normal. Alright, go get me some food.”

Hearing Long’s order, Liu said with a smile, “Your Majesty, I am not your servant.”

Long smiled, “I guess you prefer my Shadow Guardians to practice martial arts with you?”

Liu’s face darkened when he heard it. He really admired Long for being so shameless.

Long smiled at him.

Liu curled his lips. “Wait here. I’ll go get it.”

Long didn’t get off the coach and they stopped in the wild. He wished that his empress would arrive in the evening.

Although Liu seemed unwilling to leave, he still did it very fast.

He came back in a few minutes.

There were tonics and they smelt good.

It could be seen that the tonics had been prepared a long time ago.

Long knew that Liu’s bark was worse than his bite. Otherwise, Liu would not come to perform this difficult task with him.

Having such a friend really felt great…

Long smiled. “It must’ve cost you a long time.”

Liu waved his hand. “I don’t know. You should ask your Shadow Guardians.”

Long said smilingly in the same way as Liu, “I thought it was you who cooked it.”

Liu said coldly, “You think too much. It wasn’t cooked by me.”

“Oh…” Long drawled. He looked so annoying that anyone who saw him would want to beat him!

Liu became a little impatient. “What does that mean? I said it wasn’t cooked by me.”

“Oh, I know.” Long said calmly.

Liu felt angry.

Long still didn’t see his empress after he finished dinner leisurely, so he asked, “When will they arrive?

“I don’t know.” Liu also looked outside.

Long summoned his own Shadow Guardian to ask about it.

Ying Feng said, “They’re on the way and will arrive in two hours.”

“It still needs such a long time?” Long raised his eyebrows.

“Yes.”

Long sighed. “Okay, you can leave.”

Ying Feng left.

Long looked at Liu and suddenly said, “You haven’t seen him for a few days. Do you miss him?”

Liu was slightly stunned. “Hmm?”

Long curled his lips. “So you don’t miss him.”

Liu smiled. “How do you know I don’t miss him?”

Long nodded. “You miss him.”

After a short silence, Liu said, “Yes, I miss him.”

Long laughed. “I also miss Qingzhou…. Sometimes I feel that humans are really amazing.”

“What do you mean?”

“We are called humans because we have feelings. Those that don’t have feelings are just animals.”

“Animals also have feelings,” Liu said.

Long smiled. “Well, the domesticated ones have feelings, but the other ones don’t.”

“Why did you suddenly mention this?” Liu thought that Long was a little strange this evening.

Long smiled. “Nothing. I just had an urge.”

Liu narrowed his eyes. “Oh, it’s like this…”

The two of them were having a chat. After a long time, the faint sound of horses came from afar and Long was excited to hear that. “Qingzhou is arriving!”

Just then, the horse that pulled Long’s carriage suddenly raised its hooves and screamed as if it was mad.

Long didn’t hold on to his seat and his head hit the board of the carriage.

“Ah!” Long exclaimed.

Liu didn’t expect this, either. Although he steadied himself, he didn’t have time to pull Long earlier.

After Long was hit, Liu grabbed his wrist.

The carriage was running very fast.

Liu took Long’s arm and the two of them jumped out of the carriage.

The carriage went on running like crazy.

When they got outside, Long found that many assassins suddenly appeared.

There were a lot of assassins and Long saw that the Shadow Guardians had begun to fight with them.

However, there were only half as many Shadow Guardians as assassins!

“Fire the flare.” Liu said that while protecting Long.

At this moment, Liu was glad that he was chatting with Long in the carriage earlier. If Long was alone, the consequences would be unimaginable.

“Yes.” At the critical moment, Long was still very calm and he didn’t panic at all, although he couldn’t do great martial arts.

Long took out the signal flare and set it off.

At this time, the assassins came to attack him.

Ying Feng appeared and stopped the assassins, so Liu was the only person by Long’s side.

However, there were four assassins fighting against Ying Feng.

Liu gritted his teeth and said, “We can’t stay here for long. The signal flare has been set off. Let’s go.”

Long said calmly, “Where should we go?”

Liu had a certain direction in mind. “Let’s go to the city. There are guards over there.”

It cost most of the day for them to get here from the city.

They didn’t have enough time to get back to the city, but they could only go in that direction. Otherwise, they would be easily besieged.

Long nodded. “Let’s go.”

Liu took Long’s hand and mounted a horse with him. Then, the horse galloped away…

Long sat behind Liu. The horse ran so fast that he had to hold Liu’s waist tightly.

Liu suddenly said, “You sit in front of me.”

While saying that, Liu pulled Long and Long immediately came to the front.

Long didn’t understand. “Why?”

Liu said coldly, “If they shoot arrows, you will be in danger behind.”

Long didn’t think of this problem earlier.

“You can dodge in front.” After he said that, Liu whipped the horse hard and it ran even faster.

After about a quarter of an hour, the sound of horses came from behind.

Long’s expression changed slightly. “They’re pursuing us.”

Liu heard that and looked around. The horse was running on a major road. It wasn’t easy for their enemy to ambush them, but they were also conspicuous.

Along the major road, there were paths full of weeds.

Liu said, “Long Xiaoyuan, you choose. The major road or the path.”

After a short silence, Long said, “Can you tell how many people are behind us?”

“There are about twenty horses.”

Long was shocked. “There are so many. More than 200 people appeared this time!”

“Yes, they are all very powerful.”

Apart from half of the Shadow Guardians taken by Shi, there were still about 80 around them.

But the number of assassins who just appeared was more than twice that of Shadow Guardians.

All the Shadow Guardians joined the fight. Instead of waiting for them to stop fighting, Liu took Long away first.

They believed that the Shadow Guardians would stop all the people there. They wouldn’t let those people chase Long.

However, so many assassins arrived in such a short time. The only explanation was that these assassins were not among those who fought against the Shadow Guardians earlier!

The assassins knew their whereabouts, so they had arranged a big counterattack a long time ago!