How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

But if he said nothing, Xie Chengze would feel even more aggrieved. He has never been a tolerant and open-minded person. Instead, he is extremely narrow-minded and holds grudges even faster than Hu Lai.

He tightened his lips and tried to open his eyes wide, trying to hold back the tears in his eyes. He said to Shen Yuan behind him in a sarcastic tone, "His Royal Highness is so kind, then why don't you go find your Royal Highness? Go and tell him, he will love to hear it!"

Hearing the sour tone of the young man, Shen Yuan knew that he was angry again.

But he didn't understand why Xie Chengze would always bring up the prince every time he got angry.

What does this have to do with the prince?

"This matter has nothing to do with the prince. What's the point of me telling him?" Shen Yuan stretched out his hand to turn his face back, but unexpectedly touched a face full of water stains.

"Crying?" Shen Yuan said in surprise, looking at the tears that turned cold to the touch on his fingers.

Except for the time when Xie Chengze muttered in his sleep that his dog broke into pieces, Shen Yuan had never seen Xie Chengze cry. Even the second prince in his previous life would not cry, at least, not in front of outsiders.

Both of them have extremely strong self-esteem.

Shen Yuan panicked, got up from the bed, and turned the young man's body over, "I was just teasing you, not because I don't trust you, I just..."

It’s just… “I want to know whether you are the second prince or not, and what is your relationship with him…”

Half a year ago, Shen Yuan would never have asked this question.

He was afraid of revealing the last layer of paper between the two of them. Questioning each other when they did not trust each other enough would push them to become strangers or even enemies.

It was not until he saw with his own eyes Xie Chengze building the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, presenting gunpowder and heated kangs to Emperor Jian, and even rushing to Liaozhou immediately after learning of his disappearance, that Shen Yuan finally let down his guard and decided to trust Xie Chengze.

He knew that if the second prince was a reborn person, even if he decided to do good in this life, he would at most be like himself, eliminating corrupt officials and finding corrupt silver in Yizhou, predicting and preventing snow disasters in Liaozhou, instead of being like a god who would turn the dead land of Yizhou into something magical, leading the people to defy fate and overcome nature with human power. He would also not turn the cold land of Liaozhou into a warm place so that the people would no longer suffer from the cold.

In this life, Xie Chengze is truly the "lucky star sent from heaven" of the Jian'an Dynasty, just as the divine decree of the Astronomical Bureau said.

He was willing to believe it once. Perhaps, the reason for his rebirth was also related to this "Xie Chengze".

Wiping away the remaining tears from the young man's eyes with his fingertips, Shen Yuan lowered his head and coaxed, "I was wrong, Your Highness, please don't cry."

He just wanted to trick him, test his feelings, and make him tell the truth.

Xie Chengze turned his face away and said coldly, "If I am not the Second Prince, who else could I be?"

"The Second Prince will never say the word 'I' to me." Shen Yuan lowered his eyes and smiled, "He will never allow me to call myself 'I' in front of His Highness."

As if opening a box of conversation, he enumerated the differences between the two, his eyes full of tenderness that he himself had not noticed, "Your Highness is cunning and resourceful. Although he likes to play with his temper, he never gets angry and kills people. The Second Prince, on the other hand, is moody and wants to kill people as soon as he is not satisfied. Many capable ministers and generals have lost their lives at his hands."

"Your Highness clearly distinguishes between loyalty and treachery. He only cares about the people and uses all the money he seeks for the people. However, the Second Prince only has power and gold in his eyes, and for this he does not hesitate to turn the world into a mess and pile up bones."

"If the Second Prince knew that I was missing, I'm afraid he would only applaud. Of course, he would send people to look for me, but they would definitely stab me twice more and then throw my body to the wild dogs in the mass grave..."

"Pfft." Xie Chengze couldn't help but laugh, then he straightened his face, pursed his lips and pretended to be serious.

"Only His Highness would worry about my safety after knowing I was missing, and even be willing to take risks to find me." Shen Yuan's voice became lower and lower. Under the night light, his eyes were like the moon, hiding countless stars, staring at the young man lying on the kang, "Shen Yuan is a reborn person, then what about His Highness?"

Shen Yuan's sudden and frank response stunned Xie Chengze for a moment. He met Shen Yuan's deep and dark gaze and found some subtle tension and uneasiness in it.

Would a person who once served as a powerful official in the court also feel uneasy?

What is he worried about?

Are you afraid that he won't confess the truth? Are you afraid that his trust will lead to mistakes?

I'm still afraid that he is still the evil Second Prince.

The person in front of him was nervous, but Xie Chengze wanted to laugh. The uneasiness in the man's eyes undoubtedly boosted his morale and made him happy.

He arched his eyebrows and pretended to provoke, "I'm afraid that if I tell him, Lord Shen will be scared."

"Shen Yuan is not afraid." Shen Yuan lowered his head, wiped the last bit of water stains from the corners of the young man's eyes, and said calmly, "I have died once, and I am ready to die again. I am not afraid of death, so what else can I be afraid of?"

"Okay." Xie Chengze coughed lightly, then said seriously, "I am the person who borrowed the body. My name is also Xie Chengze, but I am not the second prince. I just accidentally possessed the body of this person with the same name and surname."

Possession?

Shen Yuan never expected this answer.

There is indeed a saying about ghost possession in the countryside, but Shen Yuan never believed in ghosts and gods, so even though he thought Xie Chengze was a substitute who looked exactly like the second prince, he never expected that he was "possessed by a ghost."

"You don't believe it?" Seeing Shen Yuan silent, Xie Chengze jumped up from the kang again and said anxiously, "I didn't believe it at first. How can people have souls? But it is true, and I came here. Think about it, can your second prince build Dujiangyan? Can he make gunpowder? Can he also build a kang? Will he be here, calmly and honestly with you?"

The young man pointed to his heart and said, "Don't forget, you stabbed him to death in your previous life with your Jian'an sword."

Shen Yuan's pupils shrank, and his eyes fell on the young man's chest, "Since you are possessed by a lonely ghost, how do you know about your past life?"

"Uh..." Xie Chengze was silent for a moment. He couldn't say that this was the world in the book. This was even more outrageous and unbelievable than being possessed by a ghost.

He cleared his throat and decided to say the words he had already thought of, "Have you forgotten? I am a lucky star sent from heaven, a deity who has descended to earth. Isn't it normal for me to know something about my past?"

Shen Yuan raised his eyebrows, "If you are really a deity descending from the earth, then you should know why I am here and why I am staying here."

Xie Chengze: “…”

"Gods and immortals come to the mortal world to experience disasters, so their memories will definitely be blocked." Xie Chengze muttered, "I am a mortal now. Mortals tend to be forgetful when they get old. Isn't it normal to forget some things? Just like do you remember what you ate and what color shit you pooped on this day last year?"

Shen Yuan: “…”

He is smooth-talking and has no real tone.

Shen Yuan didn't care why Xie Chengze knew so much. All he cared about was that Xie Chengze was not the second prince.

He joked, also to test, "Then why did the Immortal Lord come to this mortal world?"

"Of course I want to eat well, drink well and sleep well!" Xie Chengze answered immediately, patting the warm kang under him and proudly said, "Look at this kang! It's so warm! My wish to sleep well has been fulfilled in an instant!"

His wish was extremely simple, but the means to fulfill it were too grand. In order to eat and drink well, he wanted to build a land of abundance. In order to sleep well at night, he made this heated kang. It seemed that he was enjoying himself, but in fact he was enjoying the benefit of all the people in the world.

It's clear that he is hard on the outside but soft on the inside.

Shen Yuan's heart was slightly beating. He put the quilt on the young man's thin body to prevent him from catching a cold. Then he said, "If Your Highness wants to sleep well, a warm kang is not enough."

"Hmm?" Xie Chengze wondered why he said that. Then he thought of something and suddenly blushed again. He stammered, "Well, well! That's true... I still need someone warm to hold me in bed."

Shen Yuan:?

Is this what he said!