The Rebirth Of A White Robe Man: I'll Follow You This Time

In a secret and private place in the Sacred Mountain, a person wearing black clothes and a mask on his face was respectfully kneeling down next to the tall person silently watching the distance with solemn and deep thoughts in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, here is the list of people who have come to the Sacred Mountain."

"Hm, good work."

Chang Huan, the present Emperor casually dismissed the dark guard before picking up the long scroll that had been placed on a jade table and started reading all the list of people who visited the Temple, even the common people weren't ignored.

"The Little Priestess is still young. I won't ask her as I had promised, but I can still investigate. Or did she already consider it? Hmm… our Little Priestess sure is becoming interesting."

The Emperor smiled mischievously and yet, the usual playful glint in his eyes was gone, instead, it contained an extremely grave and somber look as he continued to read the list of people in the scroll.

"... In the past, I escaped and survive the most dangerous time when my Imperial Brothers were desperately and viciously fighting over the throne…"

After finishing the scroll in his hand, the Emperor couldn't help but softly murmur what he experienced in the past after the words of the Little Priestess once more rang in his mind before once again picking up another scroll in the table and continuing to read it.

"Will I be able to escape the chaos this time? It's going to be more dangerous and terrifying if that is going to occur in this generation." 

This time, would I survive or finally end up dead?

Brothers killing each other. Father killing his sons or is it the sons killing their Father...

Even the wives killing their half-children or the other wives.

Chang Huan completely understood the cruelty of the Imperial Family, although there were still familial feelings, but most of the people born in the Imperial Family are far more ruthless and heartless than anybody else.

"Honestly, I had always wanted to be just an idle Prince in the past."

The Emperor let out a deep sigh when he thought of his current predicament, although he was only in his mid-thirties, it didn't change the fact that his children had already started eyeing the chair he was sitting on.

Even the women who had accompanied Chang Huan during the greatest dangers of his life, always protecting his life while remaining loyal and faithful, had already become different than in the past.

At least, their mindset was more focused on their future situation, particularly the future of their children instead of accompanying him until the end of his life.

"It would be great if there was a peaceful way to let someone occupy the throne."

All these years, he had been observing all his children with unbiased eyes, looking for the suited person to sit on the throne. Unfortunately, one after another each of them had a rather worrying personality or circumstances.

He wasn't even looking for a perfectly talented person, skilled or praiseworthy heir, but, the instinct that has saved him countless times already told him that they aren't the one he was looking for.

Even though his oldest son tried to hide it, he knew how extremely proud, conceited, and narrow-minded his personality was.

The second was extremely humble, timid but kind, and gentle, nonetheless, he was completely unsuited as the Emperor because those snakes and wolves around them would swiftly pounce the moment they smell the slightest weakness.

The third one was similar to the oldest and far greedier and ambitious than anyone else, completely different from the second, who was born from the same mother like him.

The fourth one, was born with an extremely weak body along with long-term illness, although he remained kind and can be decisive, but lacked ambition and preferred to paint and read books all day long.

The fifth son….

Well, a rather unruly and wild attitude. He also saw his fifth son showing a similar romantic character to his younger years. Although, he was definitely being hated by his fifth son after what happened to his mother and relatives on his mother's side.

As for the last son, not only the youngest, his mother was more focused on praying all these years, while the family behind them came from a normal family.

Of course, the Emperor had never married a normal person, so he wasn't fooled about his wife's silence and understanding that the mother of his youngest son also had her own idea.

Honestly, the Emperor loved all of his children. He had done everything to give them a comfortable life, never treating them with coldness or even neglecting someone or being unfavored, which was completely different from how the previous Emperor treated his children.

But familial love was something that he couldn't count on since such feeling is extremely uncertain in the Royal Family.

Besides, he was already prepared to be treated with ruthlessness by his children and wives along with the family behind them after knowing that he would become the Emperor.

Although he wasn't a wise and enlightened ruler, he had read the histories of the Emperors in the past and understood the situation that usually occurred in their lives as the rules, particularly on how they died.

Betrayed, schemes, plots, assassination, all sorts of ending, there are only a few rare normal situations when the ruler dies.

"Haa… so be it, let the last one standing sit on the throne. It doesn't matter if the person won because of luck or excellent strength."

Just as he was lucky to become the Emperor in the past, then he would just have to accept and congratulate the person who would take his throne, be it his children or other people.

"Although… I hope the next Emperor will be a wise and enlightened ruler."

Another day quietly passed by, and Shao Cheng and the disguised Ren Yuan walked around the Sacred Mountain in a rather peaceful and calm atmosphere, without a certain person behaving badly.

And even though there were other aristocratic families that were also visiting the Sacred Mountain, and the two of them had also met some people as they walked around the place, the usual cliche of meeting troublesome people didn't happen.

Everyone had been respectful so far with a warm and gentle atmosphere around them. Of course, they also met some people who only displayed proper etiquette and showed the standard expression on their faces when greeting other people.

At the same time, Shao Cheng received some curious gazes when they saw the silver mask on his face.

Nonetheless, the main reason for having such a peaceful walk was definitely because everyone understood that people who could enter the Fourth Temple would definitely have no simple identity. So, no one wanted to cause any trouble, especially when they were staying in the Sacred Mountain.

"Young Master Cheng, there is a pavilion three minutes away from here, please take a break and rest for a bit."

Shao Cheng's lip twitched after hearing the female sound of the disguised Ren Yuan acting as a maidservant while walking behind him. Nonetheless, he nodded his head after detecting the curious gaze of a young couple standing a few distances away from them.

And when they arrived in the pavilion where no one was around, Shao Cheng silently allowed Ren Yuan to carefully guide him to the chair, completely acting like he was a fragile and delicate Young Master that needed extreme care.

Shao Cheng decided to let the man have his fun on whatever play he suddenly had in mind, and slowly closed his eyes after sitting down.

"Let's stay here and I'll meditate for a bit."

Sensing the pure aura around the location of the pavilion they were resting in, Shao Cheng decided to continue his meditation, especially for his purple aura that was overdrawn and wasn't back to normal even after a day of rest.

Especially when the Sacred Mountain was the best place to meditate for the purple aura, and he didn't need to worry about getting in trouble or being figured out after he received a special jade that could better hide his specialness with the use of its power.

As for why he trusted the item the young Jiayi had secretly sent over, it was because the tired and sleeping Purple had woken up when it was given, which guaranteed its use.

So, Shao Cheng was able to calmly meditate the whole time, which led to an hour of comfortable and peaceful silence in the Pavilion. As for the usually noisy and annoying person, well, the man seemed to have been acting strange since yesterday.

The man was more understanding, well-behaved, and a bit stickier than usual, which in Shao Cheng horror is simply so adorable...

Cough!

I am completely resigned to my blindness...

After Shao Cheng circulated his internal energy and at the same time, the special purple aura, somehow, he couldn't help but turn on his special vision after the meditation, slowly and carefully spreading his senses to check the entire surrounding.

Only to freeze over when he saw a young boy, younger than his younger sister's age base from his appearance, had accidentally slipped into a cold lake before struggling in the freezing water and desperately trying to reach over the shore, showing that the young boy doesn't know how to swim.

And unfortunately for the young boy, there were no people around to help save his life.

"Whitey?"

Ren Yuan slowly stood up with doubtful eyes at the suddenly tensed young man who had just finished meditating but still had his eyes closed. Only for Ren Yuan to widen his eyes in great surprise when the young man reached over to swiftly wrap his waist in a tight hug and lean his entire face onto his stomach.

"What's wrong?"

Why are your hands shaking?

Shao Cheng's expression underneath the silver mask shook as he continued to watch the struggling young boy in the freezing lake, whom he was extremely familiar with despite the age difference in his memories.

Why is he here???

It was a young Chang Pei...

The person Shao Cheng treated as his younger brother in the previous life, and the person who betrayed him and caused his death.