LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN TIGRESS

And this woman had the guts to steal Xing"s clothes and made him believe it was her for a moment.... Unforgivable!

The coat she was wearing had the nine-tailed phoenix that should be worn only by the Empress. Xing wouldn"t have given her that coat because she would be expecting her attackers tonight and she is not a coward to make them believe someone else as her and she is not heartless to send another woman in her place to be violated. This suspicious trash woman stole it...!

Chenglie was angry at Xing to put herself at a risk like this even though he understood why she might have planned it. It might pertain to a larger political agenda.

Even though the tribals are the original inhabitants of the Eastern province and must be given back their native place back, their people who are living here cannot be displaced from there and also the tribals had different culture that would make the coexistence of them impossible.

Many in the court believed that the tribals should be let in just like that and allowed to coexist with the other citizens. But war has started already which was a wiser decision.

If the tribals, after winning the war take the East, they won"t have much jobs there. Even though they say they can do agriculture, most of the tribes had given up farming for generations and they will find it hard to start suddenly. If they fail.. Which they will as it will be ensured, they will look for other jobs and will take on anything even if it pays less or worse making their kingdom"s citizens lose jobs or they will try to loot and rob the others.

Also there are different tribes and they all follow different rules with no unified leaders.h.i.+ps which will lead to conflicts in between them which will gradually spread to the west to the wind kingdom.

Although it will be happening gradually, it will happen surely as he was told. So the tribes winning cannot happen at any cost.

He didn"t think much of it but it was planned by that Old Rong to ensure the destruction of the Wind Kingdom as explained to him by a drunken s.h.i.+hong one night. Chenglie himself thought that these are so far-fetched ideas but he still could see the little possibility of these things to happen. The protests by G.o.d of rain and the G.o.d of Quingze river making the entire East dry is to help with Old Rong"s agenda too as mentioned by s.h.i.+hong. He also mentioned that Xing is a descendant of the Tians.h.i.+ Emperor too which is believable all things considered. But what does he know?

If Xing is smart enough to see this possibility... Chenglie does not know. But she believes they will win the war and she will let some tribes inside the Wind Kingdom and some won"t be able to enter. He knows this because he knows that she will feel guilty for starting the war and she believed the Chu family"s injustice two centuries back and the negligence of the Tians.h.i.+ Emperor is what led to this situation now.

But for letting only certain people in, she will need a proper reason that will be accepted by his brother, who believes in equality for all. He will say let everyone in or no one in. But not all tribes will fit in their kingdom as not all are friendly and those who are refused to enter the kingdom will protest the decisions to let some tribes in which will result in conflicts again. Even now, the Sima Tribe is staying out of the war and they will be let in. In this "humiliation plans " s.h.i.+hong made for today, two of the tribal leaders who were women have opted out since they felt like they don"t have to humiliate a woman to win a war and if they did it, that is a cowardly act worthy of condemnation.

Right now the tribal army is factions too. Xing really is filtering people with good moral grounding to enter their kingdom as they will work hard along with their people in improving their Kingdom.

Old Rong is against this humiliation plan as told by s.h.i.+hong and so Chenglie himself manipulated s.h.i.+hong to go through with this plan even though he didn"t like it. But if Old Rong thinks is a bad plan and Xing thinks this is a good plan, then it is a good plan right?

My woman is amazing!

Chenglei saw the man approaching the bound woman and he decided to try and stop him... with words... The most ineffective way with thugs... Well, at least he can"t say he didn"t try! He didn"t have any pity for that trashy woman!

" That"s not the Empress", he said in their language he had learned in the past few days with them.

"He... He...", he grinned like a maniac licking his lips showing his blackened teeth. "It doesn"t matter for me! She looks tasty... But do you think she is a... "

"I"ll find the Empress", Chenglie interjected him and left the building before he said another word. He really didn"t like what"s going to happen but there is another part of him that was happy it was not his woman in there.

He went out to find someway to get this message to her. It"s been a while this woman is brought here but Xing is still not here.

Should he bring her here? It doesn"t matter who is being violated right? Won"t his brother consider all the same? Be it the empress or some thief... All are women right?

But what if this woman is Xing"s friend? Chenglie thought suddenly. In that case she cannot be let to suffer as it will hurt Xing.

He tore the coat he removed from that woman that belonged to Xing to shreds. It"s useless once touched by another woman anyway!

He made a trail with those shreds towards the encampment and by the time he finished he saw Xing running towards his direction with his brother trailing behind her. She was having the double sword in her hands.

Chenglie had a smile in his lips seeing her again within days and this time there is a possibility of him witnessing her double sword techniques.

Thirty two men? Too little for her!

When he got back, he saw all the thirty two men surrounding that little woman and he really didn"t like what he saw. Some men were undressing and one was trying to get to that girl. In the end it was too disturbing for him than he imagined. That woman looked younger too and there is no need for her to suffer this much!

"I"ve set a trap for the Empress.... Are you really going to deviate from the plan ? s.h.i.+hong won"t be pleased!", Chenglie spoke with his tone flat as always hiding the disgust he had in his heart for them.

"Should we wait for her to join?"

"Let"s.."

" Just start with her... We"ll continue after the other one joins... "

"We do have an entire night..."

"Which one do you think will be better?"

Each one made their comments which made Chenglie almost lose his sanity but he got back to his senses hearing the footsteps of Xing and his brother. He picked up a cross bow he had and went up a tree to watch what is going on and to admire his Xing fight those filthy men.

Xing who had no idea where to run found a small bit of her coat and it seemed like it led a trail and she followed it and The Emperor was following her too. She was saying weird things and she cannot be left alone. What if something happens to her?

Xing saw the moderately lit house with the roof tiles broken and the door was half open. Of course she noted the one silently sitting on the tree beside them.

Geez! Can"t he help her ? Isn"t she his sister-in-law? Is not falling out with s.h.i.+hong that important than a woman"s chast.i.ty?

Xing scolded him in her heart but she very well knew the answer. This guy would try to save her fingernail or tip of her hair first before saving another woman"s life or chast.i.ty. What can she say? That"s how he is! For him only she is the woman who needs to be protected and others are worthless! Will he change..? Who knows? At least he had consciousness enough to make this trail to help her get here. That could be considered a big act of compa.s.sion from this guy.

Xing told the Emperor to enter the house from the back door and help Weiye while she takes care of those men.

The Emperor nodded and went in through a window in the back and Xing just kicked the door open.

Her heart clenched seeing those men most of them half naked and a couple of them trying to undress her while tears were dropping from her eyes nonstop. Her mouth was stuffed and only m.u.f.fled sound was coming out and she looked so pitiful that made Xing angry.

"h.e.l.lo, sc.u.ms! Why not try me first?", she smirked at the men who were perplexed by the one who broke the door and now looking at them like they are a disgusting trash.

"Who is that?"

"Is that the Empress?", another asked.

Xing was engaging the men inside the house and at the same time, the Emperor had covered Weiye and untied her ropes so that she"d be freed.

"You are much better", one of the men rubbed his palms together and Xing didnt care about what he said as she didn"t understand him

Whatever! Let"s get this over with! .