LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN TIGRESS

Mazu is at it again! Xing knew.

Xing sensed the familiar light footsteps getting closer to the bath area and she called for Xiao Mei to stop him. She cannot let Chenglei take liberties with her lest he thinks of her as a loose woman.

There was no answer from Xiao Mei but the familiar deep voice that would entice her everytime she hears it, rang in front of her, "You are going to wear purple?", and his ethereal for appeared inside the room.

"You.... Why are you here?", Xing got fl.u.s.tered seeing him nearing her.

Wait... He already saw what I"m going to wear...? This guy!

Xing knew purple can only he worn by Royal family members in these kind of banquets. But she decided to wear purple purposely.

" Why can"t I?", Chenglei smirked and sat in front of her in the small couch in the bath area picking up the robe lying there for her to wear after she gets out of the bath and placed it over his mouth as if kissing it.

"Mmm... Smells good!", he mumbled making Xing go red.

This guy! Was he always this shameless?

"Xiao Mei", Xing bellowed for her. There is no way she"d have let Chenglei in after she asked her to guard the room.

"Why are you shouting... She"s fine.... She"s with Mubai!", Chenglei spile calmly. He had to ask his sidekick to take care of her loyal maid who"d dare to oppose him... She"d stop him everytime he tried to sneak in. How insolent!

For some reason Lin Mubai found that maid attractive. So he got him to have a talk with her while he sneaked in to have a peek at his woman.

Live and let live!

"What are you saying? Call him off of her...", Xing got stressed and tried to get out of the tub as she grabbed the corners of the tub to get up but she still felt shy letting him see her naked.

"Come on! Mubai won"t hurt your maid... And why aren"t you getting out? ", Chenglei licked his lower lips seductively as he placed her robe around his neck and his eyes were focused on her exposed shoulders and the petal filled water perfectly hid everything under her neck.

Just a little bit more!

" Call him off, Chenglei! ", Xing purred as she glared at him. She could see him looking at her with his eyes wide in surprise.

When has anyone call me by my given name? Never! And why doesn"t it seem weird coming out of her mouth? And why is she so concerned with her maid?

"Why?", Chenglei still acted leisurely when her shout made him flinch.

"Xiao Mei!"

Xing with no second thoughts got out from the tub hearing no reply from Xiao Mei and with water dripping everywhere and her pale skin looking translucent with the gentle lighting in the bathroom, she walked towards Chenglei who had her robe.

Chenglei seeing that beautiful sculpture of a woman walking towards him like a breeze and had a nosebleed.
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She Really is divine as it is told, right? Divine ruler? More like divine seductress!

"Why did you get out...", he asked fl.u.s.tered unable to look her in the eyes and threw the robe at her while closing his eyes while his nose bled incessantly.

Xing caught the robe, wrapped it around her with the robe sticking to her skin as she was dripping wet and she walked towards the next room where her maid was, without even tying her hair.

"Mubai!", Chenglei shouted noticing Xing not worrying about her not in proper attire and still walking out, "Leave without turning back!", he commanded as he followed Xing. He didn"t want anyone else to see her in such state.

His trusted sidekick did what he asked as Xing emerged from the bathroom he was nowhere in the room and Xiao Mei was cowering in the corner with her face red.

"Get out!", Xing screamed at Chenglei and Chenglie saw the fierceness in her eyes that glimmered like a tiger"s and left the room confused.

How come a prank made her this mad!

"Xiao Mei, are you fine?", Xing asked her trembling in fear.

"I"m fine....Milady.... I was surprised.... But I"m fine...", said the girl slapping her cheeks and composing herself.

Xing hugged her, "I"m sorry for not protecting you well... Tell me what that b.a.s.t.a.r.d did to you?", she asked gritting her teeth. Xing knew of Mubai"s character. As loyal as he is to Chenglei, He thinks all women could be easily convinced by money and he never understands the feelings of women.

Xiao Mei is someone Xing rescued from a trafficking ring and she is scared of men in general. As she was with her the past months, she is confident enough to talk with men but before she was a mess. Xing didn"t want Xiao Mei to revert back to her previous ways not able to withstand the teasings of Lin Mubai.

"N-Nothing, Milady! He... He just.. Never mind!", Xiao Mei smiled as beautiful as ever, "Look at you, Milady! You look like this....", she pulled Xing to the vanity to sit down and dried her hair and started to get her ready for the banquet.

Xing saw Xiao Mei in the mirror as she was having a slight smile in her lips and was surprised.

Don"t tell me, she likes that Lin Mubai!

Well! I"m fine with whatever!

Xing was happy for Xiao Mei as she had changed enough to fall for someone but she was still skeptical about Lin Mubai.

He need to be taught well!

As she finished dressed up in her formal palace attire in purple, Xiao Mei did some hairstyle that was in the trend in the capital city that time and fastened it with exquisite jade hairpins her father recently sent her. Xing refused announcing her as a Huang daughter as everyone else had forgotten her and would meet him often and drink tea with him.

Xing chose purple purposefully as she wanted to create a commotion. If she has to become the wife of the greatest support of the Emperor, Lord Li Cheng Nuo, she has to be of equal standing to him and she needs to swat off the other flies flying around Chenglei to have a taste of him. In this place, nothing speaks louder as power and she needs to show her power.

Thankfully the Emperor still remembers her and he still considered her as his equal! And there is her father who"s promised her to support her! And there are the G.o.ds who"s destroy anyone opposing her with no second thoughts!

After finis.h.i.+ng her hairdo, Xing stood up to leave when the magnetic voice of her man was heard,

"That"s all? Aren"t you going to paint your forehead?"

Xing turned to see Chenglei standing there with a divine smile that would make anyone"s heart flutter.

He has changed his clothes now as he was wearing white silk robes with purple embroidery around the edges of the sleeves and collars making his and her robes match as if they were couple outfits.

"Lord Li! You cannot enter a maiden"s room as you please! And only a maid or husband can paint on a Lady"s forehead... ", Xiao Mei spoke with her hand on her hips.

Chenglei grunted in dissatisfaction but still walked closer to Xing and picked the brush, "Look at me!", he told Xing and Xing could not help but listen to him making Xiao Mei sigh.

Chenglei painted a flower on her forehead and Xing was in a daze with his face so close to hers and his blossom scented breath tingled her senses.

"Táng JiaXing, You are perfect! There won"t be anyone close to your beauty out there", Chenglei didn"t hold back his compliments making Xing blush.

"That"s a nice colour on you!", he traced the back of his forefinger on her cheek that was blushed red like a tomato.

"Why are you here, Lord Li?", Xing turned to look at herself in the mirror to compose herself as she herself felt her face burning. He had drawn a lotus on her face that looked so perfect and well drawn, it really suited her.

"I"m going to the palace too so I wanted a lift in your carriage", he smiled.

Xing glanced at Chenglei for a while and he looked too perfect and she did want to spend some more time with him and she agreed.

So in an extravagant carriage belonging to her, both Xing and Chenglei set out for the palace banquet. Xing left back Xiao Mei as she didn"t want her to be involved in the struggles of the Palace power structure.

Xing and Chenglei"s Manor were in the edge of the city near the mountains and farther from the palace which is in the centre of the city.

As they entered the main streets of the city, another carriage came from the side street and in that street wide enough only for a single carriage both Xing"s carriage and the other carriage couldn"t move further and stopped.

The driver from the other carriage asked Xing"s carriage driver to back off so that their carriage would pa.s.s and Xing told her driver not to back off and to ask the other carriage to back of.

"How dare you stop the carriage of the Empress" sister?", a maid from the other carriage got down and started screaming.

"We are not moving!", Xing told her driver calmly and there was a smirk in her face. I got the right person! Lucky, aren"t I?

"I"m not moving even for the Empress!", she mumbled and Chenglei who was sitting beside Xing saw her calm and fanning herself leisurely as if she had planned for this and a smile crept up in his lips.

This woman! Let"s see how is she playing this game!

Chenglei knew all he had to do is acknowledge his presence in the carriage and they could pa.s.s through with no one stopping them but he wanted to know how the woman he had decided to marry handles these kind of situations.