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Arc 3.17 :Establish Prestige

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These days, the Queen’s complexion has obviously improved a lot, and the number of headaches has also decreased a lot. As expected, having a good mood was the most miraculous medicine.

The palace was preparing a grand banquet for Ye You, the Emperor and the Queen announced to everyone that Ye You was the prince and heir to the throne. The banquet will last for three days in total, and representatives from other countries were also invited as distinguished guests to attend the banquet.

However, the Emperor’s decision to declare Ye You as the heir to the throne was opposed by some nobles and officials. They asked the Emperor to temporarily postpone the announcement on the grounds that Ye You had just resumed his status as a prince and was not sure whether he would be able to assume the responsibility of the heir to the throne. It will has to be announced after confirming that Ye You has the ability to become the heir.

The Emperor had long expected that his younger brothers, who suddenly lost the chance to inherit the throne, would definitely obstruct Ye You from becoming the heir to the throne in various ways. Now they were only proposing to temporarily postpone the announcement of Ye You as an heir. Once he backs down, they will definitely propose to allow the children of other princes to have a fair chance to compete for the heir to the throne.

In recent years, the Emperor, because of Ye You’s disappearance, and the Queen’s health was also not good, and there was really no successor candidate that suits his wishes, that’s why he intends to delegate power. Now that Ye You was back, as a father, he must use the majesty of the Emperor to pave the way for Ye You to inherit the throne smoothly.

Those nobles and officials have been used to the Emperor’s concede over the years, such a sudden thunderous Emperor shocked them, and they recalled many memories of how majestic the Emperor was before, so they didn’t dare to make any further requests to postpone the announcement of Ye You as an heir to the throne.

More than a month later, the grand banquet prepared by the palace for Ye You began to be held.

The royal family has not held such a grand and magnificent banquet for hundreds of years. Since they acknowledge Ye You, many actions of the Emperor and the Queen worried not only the officials who wanted to weaken the power of the royal family, but also the princes who snooped on the throne. Because the Emperor and the Queen obviously wanted to hand over more privilege to Ye You in the future.

Jin Lan looked at Ye You who was standing between the Emperor and the Queen from a distance, and talking with representatives of other countries. Although he had tried his best to adjust his mentality, decided to showed an appearance that he would not fight(for the throne), and just did what he should do, but seeing Ye You, who was now a prince, he still couldn’t help but feel very uncomfortable.

Back then when he was adopted as the prince, no one even dared to show a particularly happy look, not to mention holding a banquet to celebrate, including himself. The Queen also fell ill for a few days because he took her son’s place, which made him more cautious. There was a huge difference between the treatment of one’s own and not one’s own.

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“Royal brother, are you alright?” Benny walked to Jin Lan and asked, he turned his head and glanced at Ye You, anger immediately arose in his heart, and then his hands began to tremble non-stop. This was the sequelae left after he was lynched. As long as he was angry, he will start to tremble, and in severe cases, he will start to convulse.

After Benny returned home, he had to recuperate for several months before he was able to go out and meet people normally. Du Yao asked people to lynch him, with no evidence left behind, so Prince Slyn could only swallow his anger temporarily.

Jin Lan looked at Benny’s trembling hand that was about to spill all the wine in the glass, sighed in his heart and said, “Control your emotions, I’m fine, but the appearance that something is wrong with you was very obvious.”

“He is actually the biological son of His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Queen!” Benny gritted his teeth and tried not to tremble too much: “Of all people, why is it him?!”

“Fate is always hard to say.” After Jin Lan finished speaking, he took a sip of wine, feeling a little melancholy and bitter.

“Then what are you going to do in the future?” Benny looked at Jin Lan worriedly and said, “His Majesty and Her Highness the Queen used to be very indifferent to you, but now that they have found their own child, they won’t care about you even more. Now that Ye You is the heir to the throne, your situation in the palace will definitely become very difficult. “

“What can I do if it becomes difficult?” Jin Lan said: “I can only choose to stay here, as long as I can keep my status as a prince, I will be more noble than other cousins and closer to the throne.”

“Then what if he tries to bully you?” Benny asked.

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“That’s even better, the more obvious he bullied me, the better.” Jin Lan smiled and said, “Did you forget why I apologized publicly before, and why you were imprisoned?”

“How could I forget!” Benny’s hands began to tremble violently again, and he turned his head to look at Ye You, glaring at Ye You very viciously. In his heart, it was because Ye You harmed him that he had become what he was now and this hatred, he must repay it.

After communicating with representatives from various countries, Ye You also communicated with some officials who took the initiative to greet him, and then led Morley, Iarin and the others to Jin Lan and Benny.

“It’s been a while since I’ve been back to the palace, and today is the first time I see you in the palace.” Ye You smiled and looked at Jin Lan and said, “Actually, you don’t need to deliberately avoid me, I won’t unable to tolerate you .”

“I didn’t mean to hide from Royal Brother. “Jin Lan quickly explained: “When royal brother just returned to the palace, I was ready to go to greet royal brother, but I never found a suitable opportunity, and I was worried that I would disturb the reunion of royal brother with his Imperial Father and Queen Mother. That’s why…the meeting with Royal Brother was delayed until now. “

“Sure enough you really have a lot of thoughts.” Ye You said with a gentle expression: “From now on in this palace, let’s get along normally. You don’t have to worry too much.”

“Yes.” Jin Lan lowered his head slightly, as if obedient and not daring to refute, but in fact, anger has already ignited in his heart, because he felt that he has lived in the palace for two hundred years, and he has the status of a prince. In any case, he was also one of the masters of the palace, and Ye You has only been back for a month or two, it was still too early to be arrogant to treat him(JL) like  that as if he(YY) was a master.

Jin Lan was furious in his heart, on such an important occasion, he would naturally not let others see what happened. But he could resist not showing it, Benny however couldn’t stand it.

Benny glared at Ye You fiercely, his hands started to tremble again.

Ye You turned to look at Benny, and asked with concern: “Benny, what’s wrong with you? Are you uncomfortable?”

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“Heir of Prince Benny, you are so rude!” Morley looked at Benny with a serious face and said, “You are looking at His Royal Highness with such eyes, is that a provocation?!”

“Yes, Heir of Prince Benny, you paid great attention to etiquette before. Anyone who is disrespectful to Prince Jin Lan, you will scold and teach them a lesson. Why don’t you abide by etiquette now?” Iarin also chimed in.

“You…” Benny was about to scold ‘you are nothing and still dare to teach me a lesson’, but Jin Lan immediately stopped him.

“Apologize to Royal Brother!” Jin Lan grabbed Benny’s arm with so much strength, warned him with his eyes, and told him to pay attention to the occasion. If there was a disturbance on such an occasion, he would definitely be implicated, and the status of the prince would probably be lost.

Benny glanced at Jin Lan’s eyes, and could only clenched his fists tightly, then bowed his head and apologized: “I’m sorry, Royal Brother, I lost my composure, please forgive me.”

“I know your character, why would I bother about it?” Ye You said with a smile.

“I’m sorry, Imperial Brother. Benny is a little uncomfortable. I’ll send him away first, lest he spoil Brother’s  mood and interest.” Jin Lan bowed and saluted, “Please excuse us.”

Ye You looked at the back of Jin Lan pulling Benny and turning away, he just smiled, then turned to look for Du Yao’s figure, finally saw Du Yao who was talking to others, and walked towards him quickly .

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After the three-day banquet, apart from going to the academy to attend classes normally, Ye You also had to learn some things that he must understand as an heir to the throne.

Now that Ye You has officially become the heir to the throne, the Emperor and the Queen have restored some of the rules and etiquette that previously could be avoided within the royal family.

Those princes and nobles also knew very well that the Emperor and the Queen were waiting to catch a typical example of disobeying the rules and give Ye You prestige. No one wanted to stand out1Raw 出头鸟(Chūtóu niǎo); lit. Early bird, it’s a metaphor for the appearance of people who attract people’s attention., so they all became cautious.

Ye You’s cousins had to go to the palace to greet him once a week, unless the Emperor and the Queen or Ye You himself had someone told them not to go to the palace, otherwise as long as they were not seriously ill and bedridden, they had to go.

On this day, Ye You’s cousins had all arrived outside his residency on time to wait for his summons, but Ye You hadn’t gotten up yet.

On the large and soft bed, Ye You hugged Du Yao’s neck and kissed him.

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The crystal card next to Ye You’s pillow sounded a reminder, and while he continued to kiss Du Yao with his eyes closed, he touched the crystal card with his hand.

“Your Highness, all the princes have arrived and are waiting for your summoning outside.”

In this country, all the children born to the Prince and the Princess2Raw 亲王(qīnwáng); Imperial prince who is either brother / son to the reigning emperor. 王妃(wángfēi); wife of a prince/ princess consort. were called the heir of Prince, and the prince’s title of nobility cannot be hereditary for only one generation. Among the Prince’s sons, if there were one whom good enough, they can asked the Emperor to confer the title of earl. If there were no good enough ones, they can also ask the Emperor to confer the title of baron or viscount on the eldest son.

Ye You tilted his head and said, “Take them to the dining room and wait.”

“Yes.”

“Hurry up.” Ye You held Du Yao’s face, panting hard and said, “Although I don’t mind if they feel that I’m trying to give them the initial show of strength and let them wait, but I don’t want them to know that I wasted my time on the bed.”

Du Yao kissed Ye You, intending to have a quicky3Cough, hope I write this term right *scratch head* Raw context is 速战速决(sù zhàn sùjué); a blitzkrieg strategy (idiom), to resolve sth in the shortest time possible, to get sth done quickly. DY wanna do it quick lol, because he also had to rush to the base to deal with some matters.

The arc title, it seemed refers to YY??  _(:3」∠)_

1Raw 出头鸟(Chūtóu niǎo); lit. Early bird, it’s a metaphor for the appearance of people who attract people’s attention.2Raw 亲王(qīnwáng); Imperial prince who is either brother / son to the reigning emperor. 王妃(wángfēi); wife of a prince/ princess consort.3Cough, hope I write this term right *scratch head* Raw context is 速战速决(sù zhàn sùjué); a blitzkrieg strategy (idiom), to resolve sth in the shortest time possible, to get sth done quickly. DY wanna do it quick lol