Throne Steps

"Is this person..."

The folded paper with some fragrance was flipped at Saenz's fingertips, and the light gold-edged pattern swayed between his slender fingers, like a dexterous butterfly with wings lightly flapping.

"Yes." Li Chen looked at his face, "You...know him?"

Saenz smiled.

His expression was so meaningful that Li Chen once felt as if he had asked a question that shouldn't be asked.But Lichen couldn't just resign, so he could only bite the bullet and continue to stand in front of Saenz.

"A... nobleman." Saenz finally replied, "You can find out who he is by following this surname."

Li Chen didn't know what kind of mystery Saenz was pretending to be, but from his tone, it shouldn't be difficult to find out the origin of this person.So Li Chen changed the question: "Then... do you really want to 'deal with' him? What does His Royal Highness Lailier mean by 'deal with'...?"

Saenz looked at him with a half-smile, and asked back, "Are you asking me?"

Li Chen didn't answer, but that's what he meant.

Saenz said leisurely: "You are a black swan who 'does not obey His Highness Saenz'."

This is about the setting of the black swan, but when Li Chen heard it, he always felt that it was full of irony.After all, he was dragged here by a contract student after he tried his best to hide from Saenz for several months.

"Okay, I can handle this matter for you." Saenz threw the paper back to Li Chen's table, and raised his eyelids to look at him, "correspondingly, you have to promise me another thing."

At 10:30 in the morning, Saenz, Cervantes and his sister appeared in the street market of the city of temples.

Although the three of them were only wearing casual clothes and did not bring any attendants on the surface, their appearance did not change.The color of pure white with blonde hair and blue eyes, and the color of silver and vermilion as bright as fire, even in the city of temples where people of all colors are welcome during the New Year, such an outstanding combination is not common.

Li Chen hangs five steps away from this combination, and is the only "guard" on the bright side.

He was wearing ordinary clothes, and he didn't have to perform security tasks. He didn't look like Saenz and his party at all. He looked leisurely like a real passerby.If it wasn't for the fact that Saenz would glance sideways at him from time to time when the three people in front stopped to look at things, he might have fallen out of the line without anyone noticing.

It was Cervantes who first questioned this situation.

Taking advantage of his sister stopping in front of the exotic goods stall to talk to Saenz, he quietly took two steps back and stood beside Li Chen: "Whose bed did you sleep in last night?"

These words must be alluding to the matter that Li Chen was molested by the noble lady last night, Li Chen felt yesterday that this silver and vermilion color was really rude when he spoke.But he was not polite, but Li Chen couldn't pretend to be familiar with him, so he could only bow his head and reply: "On my own bed."

"The hypocritical blackbird." Cervantes asked again, "Are you going to be close or not? What are you planning to do?"

...good question.

In fact, Li Chen asked this question when Saenz proposed to exchange "Li Chen followed to the street" for "handling Lairelle's entrustment", and Saenz's answer was quite intriguing.

His original words were "Go and watch me well, I told you to come here, just to make you look at me."

Because these words sounded too scary, Li Chen immediately changed the subject.

Of course Saenz's words could not be passed on to Cervantes, Li Chen replied in a different way: "At any time to be sent by His Highness."

"What order does he want?" Cervantes glanced at the young man and girl in front of him, raised his eyebrows and said, "He has money; things, space." He also patted Lichen's shoulder with the back of his hand, "Just Your attack power can't play any security role."

It was all facts, Li Chen had nothing to say, he could only laugh twice.He could tell that the eldest young master wanted to leave space for his own sister and Saenz to be alone, so he took advantage of the situation and quit their communication circle.Then anyway, idle is idle, so let's take a look at myself, the "unusual number in the Raetia League".

Saenz turned his head and glanced over.

"Ah, look at this!" The girl next to the blond youth suddenly turned to look for him, "I've been looking for this for a long time, and I just want one like this!"

Saenz turned back with a smile.

Cervantes didn't seem to care much about the pure white glance, nor did he care much about Li Chen's answer.There was a small bookstall two steps away from where he was standing, so he picked up a book at random.Just opened it and glanced twice, and the silver and vermilion color became happy.

"My God, there is such a thing as Coke?" He spread the page and handed it to Li Chen, "I said, you have to sign this page for me."

Li Chen raised his eyes and saw that it was an illustration in a deduction novel.There is a man standing in the picture. He is dressed in black, has cold eyes, and slightly raised mouth. He doesn't look like a good person.What's more, he was holding a one-foot-square box in his hand, and the front cover had been pulled away—a human head still dripping with blood was exposed!

Li Chen twitched the corner of his mouth.

Cervantes raised his eyebrows: "Why, I still can't get your name?"

"You're joking." Li Chen made a gesture and took out a badge from his pocket, and lightly tore it apart, revealing a small seal.With this seal, he left a clear mark on the picture.

- small, simple, black swan graphics.

"Oh, that's really good, I accept it." Cervantes looked at the pattern seriously, closed the book, and took out an envelope from his inner pocket.

Li Chen's eyelids twitched.

"This is a return gift." Cervantes approached Li Chen, pulled Li Chen's robe a little without authorization, and stuffed the envelope into his lapel, "Shh... this is a secret between us, don't let others know ,Um?"

He seemed to have asked a question, but his courage did not intend to give Li Chen a chance to refuse.Li Chen glanced in the direction of Saenz calmly, but the attention of the pure white color seemed to be all on the high-spirited girl, so Li Chen could only temporarily let the soldier in front of him manipulate him.

Cervantes was probably quite satisfied with his "honesty", smiled, stood up straight and took two steps back, heading in the direction of Saenz and his sister.

Li Chen silently went to pay the owner of the bookstall—he finally had work to do.

The boss looked at him in shock.

Li Chen knew that he had seen the pattern he had stamped. It seemed that the black swan was just as vicious in the interpretation of these people's impressions.

Well, "notoriety" is better than criminal fetishism or Stockholm syndrome.Li Chen thought to himself, put his index finger in front of his lips, and said with a light smile, "Shh... this is a secret between us, don't let others know, huh?"

Up to now, combined with all the speeches made by Saenz in the past few days, Li Chen can no longer deceive himself and others.

Saenz asked himself to take this New Year's trip, it must be because of Cervantes' younger sister, this girl who seems likely to be the "Fiancee of Saenz".Saenz probably wanted to tell Li Chen that such an important role had made his grand debut.

Of course, Li Chen felt that there was nothing wrong with this—he even felt that the sooner this matter was settled, the better—but Saenz didn’t think so.

The more Lichen escaped, the more Saenz wanted to tell him "you can't escape".In order to achieve this goal, Saenz made a decision: the two should "confess" each other about such emotions and relationships.

Well, for Li Chen, it was forced.There are too many obvious and hidden stubbles around him, and Saenz can always know which noble lady smashed his incense fan, how many love letters he received, and which wandering warbler he had a "happy talk" with last night.

Well, recently Li Chen is so "likable" that even Yang Xiaoxiao mentioned it in the letter he wrote to Saenz.When Saenz thought of the New Year, the black swan he personally bred would fly for many new year banquets and provoke many people who wanted to be "captive", so he couldn't help but send a summoning letter to the swan tower of the temple .

Another important reason for calling Li Chen here is indeed because Cervantes' younger sister officially entered the social circle.The girl's full name is Ruby Johe, and "Rupee" means "ruby", which shows that Silver Vermilion loves and values ​​her.And her recent performance is also worthy of her status.The outside world generally believes that if the color of sea blue can't find a woman who can compete with it, then in the "Saenz's wife" round, the advantage of the color of silver and vermilion is hard to shake.

Unfortunately, this "outside" includes Li Chen.

Saenth can be sure that Li Chen doesn't even need to see this girl with his own eyes, as long as he hears about her background, he will automatically place this "chess piece" as the "wife" of His Highness the Third Highness.However, this is not what Saenz wants, he is unwilling to keep Li Chen out of this matter.Pulling Li Chen in, even if the possibility of making him jealous is slim, at least he can't stay away from this relationship circle, let alone take the opportunity to draw a clear "emotional boundary" with Saenz.As long as you are still around, there is still a chance.

So this mess in Li Chen's eyes, he must be deeply immersed in it; this muddy water must make him have to swim.

That's what Saenz planned, and Li Chen quickly saw through it.But seeing through is seeing through, and the loyalty contract compelled Lichen to surrender physically.The more so, the more resistant Li Chen felt; the more he wanted to resist, the more unwilling Saenz was to let him leave.So repeated, vicious circle.

However, the more they fight wits and courage in secret, the calmer they appear on the surface.Both know that until they "fight" to any kind of outcome, this relationship that has begun to twist can at least not be rumored.

Therefore, even though he was very tired, Li Chen honestly attended the dinner that day.

This time can be regarded as a private banquet of the same generation of Saenz, in simple terms, only Saenz's friends participated.The most central part of that night, of course, were a few eternal colors.

The color of pure white is Saenz, the color of silver and vermilion is Cervantes and Ruby, and the color of sea blue is Belem.

Last night when the five pure whites were all there, I didn’t feel it. Tonight, I saw that the “Flower of the High Mountain” Beren Meloyer of the sea blue color really stood out from the crowd.It can be said that only his appearance is worthy of Saenz's grade.

Even the bright silver and vermilion ruby ​​is slightly inferior.

Li Chen looked at "Flower of Gaoling" and looked at "Ruby" coldly, and always felt that he had a mood of "watching the excitement and not being afraid of big troubles".