Xing walked towards Seiren"s room following Bai Li when they were blocked by Zhong Huojin. He was quick to block their way but he was hesitant to act further. His mouth opened and closed a couple of times with no words uttered and Xing knew he was here to apologise.But what good is an apology after you"ve done hurting a person, right? Also this is not the first time for him to do that and Xing knew it won"t be the last either.
"General Zhong!", Xing smiled mechanically, " Have you informed Lady Zhong that Seiren is fine? And when is Seiren returning home?", she asked walking past him.
"Your Highness! Mother"s been informed through a bird and Seiren is not willing to leave until the war is over. Also... He... He brought a woman", Huojin answered and his voice was slightly trembling with the nervousness he felt.
Xing who was about to open the door of the room Seiren was staying, paused her steps.
Brought a woman? That playboy who only knew to tease women, actually found a woman? And wait! What"s with everyone "bringing" a woman. My brother and now him...? Are women in our kingdom that scarce or that repulsive?
Xing sighed thinking what trouble Seiren brought and opened the door. The sight she saw took her by surprise.
Seiren was holding a girl by her waist and their lips were only an inch apart and with the light from the sun entering the room though the window, that scene looked divine and alluring at the same time.
"Tsk! Can"t you knock before entering, Milord?", Seiren said after loosening his grip on the waist of the woman he was holding and she got away from him like an arrow shot out from a bow. His robes were open which he fixed and his pretty face even though had lost most of its l.u.s.tre and tanned extraordinarily, still looked divine.
He really is fine! Xing was thankful.
So Xing went to the next order of business... Observing the woman that stole the heart of this self proclaimed playboy.
She looked almost sixteen and her skin was dark as bronze and her beautiful curly dark brown hair reached upto her waist and her eyes were filled with many emotions and she looked at Xing with scrutiny as if she was observing her too.
She must be from the Sky Kingdom!
"I"m Huang Mingxia. You can address me as Mingxia...", Xing smiled at the girl as she spoke in their language. She only knows how to speak their language and not to read or write that language.
"I"m Maya", she stared at Xing a bit surprised that she spoke their language. For some reason Xing felt the dark brown eyes staring at her, hid many secrets and pain. But she couldn"t feel any malice from her. And she is hiding her family name which intrigued Xing.
" There is hot water in my room. Do you need help was.h.i.+ng up?", Xing asked. That girl seemed to have good features and... She was extremely dirty.
Well! Being smuggled by traffickers through a desert would do that. But why didn"t she get cleaned up an entire night?
Xing looked at Seiren looking dapper and shook her head... This guy! He kept her with him the whole night! And remembering the position they were in when she came in, it looked like he doesn"t mind her being dirty at all! That could be considered true love as far as Xing knew about Seiren. This guy never let a woman this close to him before and also he is extremely germophobic.
Hmm! Interesting!
"Bai Li! Send a couple of maids to help her wash up and get her some new clothes from the town to wear",Xing told Bai Li and he nodded and left.
"I can wash up by myself!", she answered her sticking her chest out like a proud peac.o.c.k even though she was confused at what she was telling Bai Li and Xing found her expression cute.
She is not jealous of me,right?
"Okay, then", Xing didn"t stress any further and the girl left the room hesitantly and she even looked at Seiren longingly before leaving. Her gait and the calluses in her hands that were noted by Xing proved that Maya is not a simple girl and she could be really good with... Archery judging by the calluses in her hand .
The moment she closed the door, Xing let go of her elegant demeanour and sat beside Sieren, "Tell me everything!", she gripped his sleeves. He really looked weird with that exposed skin in his chest being too fair and his face too tanned.
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But Xing could not believe him falling for a girl,
"Well, while I pa.s.sed halfway through the map
..."
"You met her that soon? Tell me more... Tell me.. ", Xing was too excited and interjected him.
"No!", Seiren pushed her aside and got up. "Who is talking about her?",he purse his lips and showed her his back hiding his expressions.
"What?", Xing"s expression froze. What else is he talking about? Oh right...! The Kidnapping.! She felt stupid for a moment. That obviously is more important.
"So was it really him who kidnapped you?", she asked. She wanted to be the one kidnapped by him!
"Yes, and as you have probably guessed the map is fake", he said rubbing his forehead, "I don"t know... I don"t know why he lured me out with that map... Even that short-haired, scar-faced, loose in the head guy... Or was that a woman...?", he scratched the back of his head, "Even that nutcase didn"t know that map was fake. Your man was the only person knew", Seiren spoke in a lower tone so that only she would hear.
"You met s.h.i.+hong too?", Xing was surprised.
"THAT was s.h.i.+hong?", Seiren was dumbfounded. That person who couldn"t even form a cohesive sentence without trembling is s.h.i.+hong? That one who was clinging on to Shengli like a scared little child was s.h.i.+hong, the greatest criminal overlord of their kingdom?
" Why? ", Xing asked confused by his reaction.
"He seemed off... Like he missed part of his brain or something... He was totally under your man"s control. I could say that just at a glance but that fool thought he was the boss. At the same time, it seemed like your man is pandering to him because he wants something from him. Just because he was there, he made incisions on me ", Seiren smiled.
" Pandering, huh? By the way did he have a halberd with him... That s.h.i.+hong? ", she asked. Pandering? For old Rong? Xing didn"t like Chenglei reducing himself to pander to the likes of s.h.i.+hong.
I"m sorry, My Prince! I should have ended it that day!She asked for his forgiveness in her heart.