The Rise of Phoenixes Novel Translation #54

Furious, Zhi Wei spins around to leave but Ning Yi caught her sleeve and says innocently “I can’t see. I finally found my way to the tub but then got tripped by the clothes.”

Zhi Wei belatedly remembers that His Highness is not too adapted at dressing himself, let alone right now when he can’t see. Her heart softening, Zhi Wei could only turn around. Taken aback now that she finally had time to take a good look at Ning Yi appearance, Zhi Wei’s face instantly turns bright red. Under the candlelight, that person had taken off his mask and his outer robe, let down his hair, his inner robe is slightly gaping revealing the porcelain smooth shoulders, collar bones…followed by half-revealed chest, strong and supple chest, glistening in the candlelight…tempting and seductive. Dazzled momentarily, Zhi Wei quickly averts her eyes and recovered enough to say in a calm voice “In that case, let me help Your Highness then.” Her voice filled with respect, it was as if she really is the male official Wei Zhi. A sharp expression flashes across Ning Yi’s eyes as he raises an eyebrow. This woman…now they are out of danger, she is going to put everything behind her! His smile firmly in place, Ning Yi open his arms and commends “Undress.”

In the candlelight, Ning Yi with his arms wide open like a proud phoenix, noble and full of dignity. Zhi Wei slowly walks over to him then slowly unties his rob, letting the silk white cloth fall on both of their feet. Belt, long pants, inner robe…the layers come off one by one, falling in a heap on the floor. Searching for a safe place to look, Zhi Wei casts her gaze to down only to see that person’s long legs leisurely kicking away the pile of clothes before ambling towards her. It’s not like Zhi Wei has never taken off Ning Yi’s clothes before, like she did that one time in that abandoned room in the palace. But then, at that time, she did it under the covers…not like this time where they are face to face. No matter how much she tries to stay calm, she still can’t control her face from getting redder and redder with every passing second. Noticing that Ning Yi seems to be walking towards her, Zhi Wei quickly shuffles back. Under that alluring golden candlelight, those long legs suddenly changed direction and stepped into the tub, sending a few specks of water onto Zhi Wei’s burning face. Letting out a sigh of relief, Zhi Wei promptly turns to leave…only to hear a certain someone asks “Where is the soap?”

Zhi Wei hands over the soap.

“Wash towel.”

Zhi Wei hands over the wash towel.

Sitting in the tub with hot water steam rising out of it, the noble prince slowly orders “Scrub my back.”

Tugging her mouth into a thin smile, Zhi Wei says “Your Highness, I have given you all the things. Your eyes won’t affect your ability to take a bath so it’s time for me to go.”

*Crack* A cracking sound suddenly came from the ceiling beam. Turning around in alarm, Zhi Wei races to the side of the bathtub. Unable to see Ning Yi’s exact location through the hot steam, Zhi Wei unconsciously goes to pull out her sword. A naked hand suddenly shot out from the tub, grabs her and drags her down! Unprepared, Zhi Wei gets dragged into the bathtub and swallows a few mouthfuls of water. Belatedly remembering that this is Ning Yi’s bathwater, a furious Zhi Wei opens her eyes wide in the water…then promptly raised her head out of it. The moment she is out of the water, Zhi Wei demands angrily “Ning Yi, what the heck are you doing…” But she was cut off when a man on the ceiling beam says lazily “Master, she came in.”

Looking up, Ning Yi says with a smile “Thank you.”

Ning Cheng who is on the ceiling beam, replies with all seriousness “Your welcome.”

 

So this Master-servant duo teamed up to fool her?! An outraged Zhi Wei was about to stand up in the bathtub but froze when Ning Cheng punched a hole in the ceiling and says to some unseen person “No problems here. Do you want to come in and see?” All smiles, Ning Yi wraps his arms around Zhi Wei to help her stand up. Zhi Wei thought to herself: If Silly Gu sees me squeezed in a tub with Ning Yi then Helian finds out too, I am never going to be able to show my face. Left with no choice, Zhi Wei could only raise her voice “Master Gu, I am fine. I am just taking a bath.”

Gu Nan Yi’s voice comes from the roof “Oh.”

Full of eagerness in his voice, Helian offers “A bath, a bath? Does my aunty needs me to scrub her back…”

*BANG* Helian’s voice was cut off followed by the sound of something heavy hitting the ground.

Ning Cheng is still sitting on the ceiling beam with all seriousness. With him there, a soaking wet Zhi Wei can’t climb out of the bathtub and could only squeeze in the small space with Ning Yi. There is nowhere to hide, nowhere to avert her eyes or place her hands. She doesn’t even have any room to pull out her sword if she wanted to use it to split the tub in half.

Apparently feeling none of the Zhi Wei’s embarrassment, a certain naked someone gets comfortable with his arm around her and proceeds to discuss business with Ning Cheng.

“Where did you go?”

Without any hint of guilt, Ning Cheng explains “When I was making my way to Your Highness, I received word that Fifth Prince had disappeared.”

Ning Yi’s body stiffens upon hearing Ning Cheng’s words. Zhi Wei raises her head in surprise as well. Fifth Prince had escaped from his confinement? That’s why the Cheng clan is acting so brazenly. In other words, the Cheng clan must be preparing for a rebellion!

No wonder Ning Cheng promptly ditched his Master after receiving such news and made the Cheng clan his priority. But this particular guard of Ning Yi is certainly quite unruly to just abandons his Master like that. To make the whole thing even more puzzling, Ning Yi who is usually one that has tight control over his subordinates seems extra forgiving when it comes to this guard. Is there something special about him?

“Where is he now?” As Zhi Wei had guessed, Ning Yi didn’t seem angry at all at Ning Cheng, just solemn.

“I was finally able to track them down and followed them. They have now made it out of the border of LongXi.” Ning Cheng adds “If I didn’t get word of the situation here and had to rush back, I could’ve found a chance to kill him.”

Zhi Wei raised an eyebrow with interest. The Cheng clan would’ve sent the best fighters they had to rescue Fifth Prince. Those men would’ve taken great pains to hide their track, but Ning Cheng seems to be saying that he found them easily and almost killed them? Is Ning Cheng so good? Thinking about how tolerant Ning Yi is to this particular guard and how Master Gu didn’t attempt to kick Ning Cheng off the ceiling beam, something sudden dawns on Zhi Wei.

Ning Cheng finishes his report then grins as he looks down from the ceiling “Your Highness, the water is getting cold. You should hurry up.”

“You can scram now.”

The only thing left on the ceiling is just a hole. Ning Cheng obediently scrammed promptly on command.

Zhi Wei sighs and says “Are you done messing around?”

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