Romancing the Son of Heaven

Stratagem 3: Know Yourself And Know Your Beloved! (1)

Qiu Ling left the room but stopped right in front of the door. Ah, what exactly was he supposed to do now? He didn't know much about his beloved yet so there wasn't much use in writing his insights down just yet. No, he had to go and find out more himself. After all, wouldn't that ... Fu Min only find what was known anyway? Something like that would probably be pretty useless for his goal. No, he had to go and get some more private information.

So, he first had to get back into the Nine Heavens. Without anyone noticing.

Qiu Ling wanted to fly over already when he luckily remembered the other things that Xiang Yong and An Bai had said just now. His beloved was a refined person who cared about manners. Breaking into the Nine Heavens or ... well, even sneaking into the Nine Heavens probably wasn't anything he'd like.

"Ugh. So I can't do that! I hope that ... those guys will hurry up with pacifying that old man!" He trudged to the study he remembered he was supposed to have and sat down at his desk.

Mn, just in case, he should devise another plan. Sneaking in sounded not that bad, actually. He just needed a good explanation on how he had gotten in. Just bending the truth a little ...

Meanwhile, the other dragons had also gone to work. Xiang Yong and An Bai were sifting through the treasury of the dragon realm in the hope of finding something that could be gifted to the Heavenly Emperor without causing another scandal.

It wasn't as easy as it sounded. The gift had to show that their king was serious about apologizing so it had to be something special. But it wasn't like the Heavenly Emperor didn't have special things in his own treasury. There weren't many things that would be able to impress him. The best impression would probably be given if it was something suitable for the crown prince but that was completely out of the question considering what their king had done!

Xiang Yong sighed. "This would be much easier if His Majesty had only waited a while. Why couldn't he tell us first that he liked the crown prince? Then we could have devised a plan how he could approach him and make him fall in love without all this trouble."

An Bai smiled lightly. "I doubt it would have made much of a difference. I'm not as knowledgeable as Fu Min in regard to the gossip regarding the three immortal realms but even I heard about how the crown prince is the pearl in the hand of the Heavenly Emperor. Regardless of how His Majesty might have approached this he still would have gotten little appreciation."

"That's true, too." Xiang Yong sighed. "Well, let's just find something that will at least let the Heavenly Emperor lift the ban on His Majesty. Heavens, the demons are probably rolling on the floor laughing since they heard that the dragon king was expelled from the Nine Heavens."

Xiang Yong wasn't wrong about that. It was even said that demon king Jin Ling hadn't stopped laughing for three days straight after hearing about the story. Well, who knew if that was the truth or not? Most likely three days weren't even enough ...

An Bai stopped in front of a shelf and looked at an unassuming casket. What was this doing in the treasury? He opened the lid and sucked in a sharp breath. "Xiang Yong! Come over here! You have to see this!"

Xiang Yong put the paintings he had found down and hurried over, taking a look at the thing inside the casket. His brows rose and he didn't know what to say either.

"This ... should be a phoenix feather, shouldn't it?"

Xiang Yong nodded. "Yes. That ..." He gulped. "If we gifted that, the Heavenly Emperor wouldn't be able to say anything. Even if His Majesty had taken more liberties with the crown prince, this should make up for it. After all, how difficult is it to get a hold of a phoenix feather?"