Dianxia Qingcheng

a daze, and sneaked out through the side door.

 

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 Everyone in the audience focused on General Zhao and the other soldiers, so no one noticed him.

 

  While not daring to face that person, he staggered along running forward. 

 

 He broke into the forbidden area directly.

 

 When he was about to be discovered by the patrolling guards, a pair of hands behind him pulled him into his arms and hid behind the curtain of the inner room.

 

 Qi Changyi blinked his big eyes, which were full of freshness, purity and quick-witteness.
Pei Zheng's eyes darkened as he watched.

 

 He pinched Qi Changyi's chin and said fiercely, “Why, you can't control yourself as soon as that person comes back? Do you want to quickly get rid of me so that you can fly away with him to far-away places?”

 

 Qi Changyi's jaw hurt, and he opened his small mouth and sucked in a breath of air, “Pei-Gege, (7) I have never thought that way.”

 

 “No? Your Highness and General Zhao have grown up together since childhood, and everyone knows that you two have a deep friendship.
How dare Your Highness say that you have never thought about it?”

 

 Qi Changyi raised his head.
Pei Zheng wrongly accused him and he was anxious to explain, but he couldn't organize the language quickly.

 

 When he was in a hurry, he stumbled and knocked down the inkstone on the table, making a loud noise.

 

 The guard at the door who was about to leave, heard the movement and walked towards the Living Quarters with a torch.

 

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 As if Pei Zheng was unaware of it, he still refused to let go of Qi Changyi's chin.
Sensing that the little man seemed to be worrying about something, Pei Zheng tapped his lower lip with a dissatisfied finger.

 

 “Your Royal Highness, please concentrate.”

 

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Notes:

 

 

(1) 寝宫

mausoleum / imperial burial place / emperor's or king's resting place/living quarters

 

寝 – to lie down

 

宫 – palace

 

*I decided to translate as Living Quarters

 

 

 

(2)空无一人 idiom

 not a soul in sight

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(3)玄 xuan

Dark/black/mysterious

 

(4)lit.
I mistaken my way

 

(5) 大将军 da jiangjun

*General is – jiangjun

*But here there is also da – Great

 

*Great General is considered to be the highest ranking military rank in most military systems

 

(6) 镇远 Zhenyuan

*Zhenyuan can be his title

*But Zhenyuan is also a name of a place 

 

*We will see in the next chapters which of the two options is correct 

 

*If the second, I will change to the Great General of Zhenyuan

 

(7).
哥哥 gege

(older brother)

When talking to the man who you are close to, and who is older than you