Chapter 307 - Plotting Chivalry (2/2)

He could imagine his father had been livid when he read the note. But all that was fine and good, he would have gotten over it by now. But now this trouble happened, so naturally, Bao Zhun expected his father to be hopping mad again. There was also that irritating Prince Houyi in the mix, given the situation his father would undoubtedly not want to get on Prince Houyi's bad side so he would not ask to take Chun Hua, a stranger with them.

What's more, Bao Zhun actually did not trust his father not to hand over Chun Hua to the Zou king. After all, she was a wanted fugitive.

Bao Zhun heavily sighed, although he hated to admit it, Chun Hua was probably safer here with Prince Houyi than with him. It seemed he truly had no choice but to leave her here without any protection.

But he was still worried, just then he heard some sounds coming from behind him and swiftly turned to see the two guards falling to the ground.

Bao Zhun's face immediately lit up when he saw Chun Hai, he was so excited that he completely missed Monk Du's presence and hopped over the two motionless bodies and hugged Chun Hai as he went, ”Where have you been?”

Chun Hai immediately frowned, stunned by the sudden show of affection, he awkwardly grabbed Bao Zhun's shoulders and moved him back.

Bao Zhun also awkwardly blinked back at the stunned Chun Hai as he realized what he had just done, he quickly released Chun Hai and cleared his throat, ”Ah, you see, it's just been a bit cold here...is all...” He said as he put his hands behind his back and then glanced at Monk Du and asked, ”Who's this?”

”A friend here to help, we're getting out of here...” Chun Hai swiftly responded.

Bao Zhun blinked at him and then glanced at the motionless guards on the ground and then smiled, ”This is more like it, I was about to suffocated to death by that your Prince. I don't understand how you could have lived with him for years..” He said with an exaggerated sigh of relief.

Chun Hai snorted, ”Pick them up, let's move...” He said as he reached down and grabbed one of the guards while Bao Zhun grabbed the other and they went into one of the nearby storage rooms. Then Chun Hai spread the map Monk Du had made on the ground and explained things to Bao Zhun.

It was good they had run into Bao Zhun just as they arrived here as it made things much simpler now since they no longer had to worry about how to go about ”rescuing” him. Not to mention, they were gambling on where he was since Monk Du had no idea what Bao Zhun actually looked like.

Of course, Chun Hai's original plan of tricking Prince Houyi with the Monk Du teaching scheme could no longer work. With Prince Houyi's suspicious nature he would be too apprehensive of how they located his whereabouts to buy into the idea.

After all, if Chun Hai were truly to behave as one looking to make friendly relations, he would have contacted Prince Houyi's men and gotten advance approval instead of simply showing up at the door.

So the new plan was a simple divert, grab and dash. The residence was basically one big wooden structure, as complex and large as it was, it was all mostly connected together even if some of it was just by obscure walkways. Therefore a fire would be a great cause for concern.

So if they set fire on this end of the residence, it would quickly become the priority and all available on hands be sent to handle the fire to avoid the whole mansion setting ablaze.

And while everyone in the residence is going haywire, the trio would teleport in, grab Chun Hua and be gone, free and out of Prince Houyi's reach before any alarm could be raised.

Bao Zhun nodded, it sounded like a good plan but then frowned and said, ”Ah...I should tell you, ah...Huayan and Prince H-”

”I know...” Chun Hai cut in with a frown and then sighed. His sister was really being too hare-brained and naive with how she dealt with Prince Houyi. Although perhaps, Prince Houyi might not have even given her a choice on the matter.

When Monk Du had told him about the two sleeping together in the same room, Chun Hai had been enraged. Monk Du then went on to assure him that they had their clothes on as if that was the actual problem with the picture.

The actual problem was that Chun Hai did not believe Prince Houyi actually cared for his sister that way. At most he was humoring her, using her. Whatever it was, there was no way Prince Houyi would choose to go against his grandfather and marry her as his crown princess as she wanted, she knew it and he knew it.

At most, she would end up as one of his concubines, not even a side consort. Even if she wanted to marry someone to be their concubine, it should not be to someone as cold as Prince Houyi. She would end up regretting it and they had so much to regret in their lives already so Chun Hai refused to allow anymore for either of them.

With Chun Hai with him as a hostage, they could not be too careful. It seemed Prince Houyi was already expecting an attack because his courtyard was packed with guards both in and outside the building.

It was clear that he had virtually ”trapped” Chun Hua in prison with himself for extra measure. It seemed Prince Houyi was expecting him to come here, even after he had gone through the trouble of switching locations.