LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN TIGRESS

"Follow us or perish.!", the person clad entirely in black stood opposite to Chenglei and his deep, smooth voice had no sense of urgency but it had the imposing aura of an authoritative person that he is.

Xing who watched everything happening from behind the curtain, recognised that haughty voice. She wondered why Chenglei didn"t recognise him.

"Hmpf!", Chenglei smirked as his grip on his sword tightened and he pointed his sword at the masked man in front of him.

Of course! This is how my Prince would react!

"Chenglei, let"s follow Prince Kang...", Xing peeked out of the window and waved at Prince Kang who seemed to freeze for a second before composing himself.

Chenglei stared at the Prince Kang for another second and only got into the carriage after he saw Prince Kang acknowledging with a nod.

They were brought to a secluded place inside the forest and they were served tea as they sat in a small room.

"You are alive...", Prince Kang"s eyes were filled with gentleness and joy as his lips were slightly curled up and he unconsciously raised his hand to pat Xing"s head but stopped himself realising Chenglei"s angry glare.

"I knew someone would be here any time soon. But never expected it would be you...", his deep voice was filled with affection. Chenglei hands that were about to pour some more tea, paused hearing what he said.

He really cares for her! This woman has a lot of place she could run away to.! She is loved by a lot of people.

"Yeah... Tough luck!", Xing curled her lips, "Is that why you decided to meddle with our kingdom? Because you thought I was dead? Even after I warned that the three kingdoms are under my protection and you...."

As she predicted, Prince Kang was aware of the drug problem their kingdoms were facing. Still he let everything happen. And that made her mad.

But he is here to protect those from the Wind Kingdom. He must have gotten the news from those guards in the pa.s.s gate of our arrival here.

So he is by our side, right?

She knew! But she wanted to taunt him. She really wanted to do that!

"It"s not me", Prince Kang said dryly. He wondered why he felt even a bit happy that this obnoxious sister of his is alive. He must have gone mad in his head!

Hmpf! He snorted silently as he gritted his teeth. It should be because my wife was really sad hearing about her death. Yes, that is the only reason I could come up with.

I"m happy because my wife will be happy knowing she is alive.

Chenglei on the other hand was surprised by her att.i.tude towards the Prince. Aren"t they here asking for a favour and why is she acting arrogant? Be it an Emperor or a Prince, she really doesn"t care, does she?

Guess I"ll have to protect you well since this att.i.tude will make more enemies.

" Then arrange a meeting with your Emperor. We will give the official request to moderate the export of...", Xing went straight to the business making Lord Kang frown.

She is not even asking about my wife! What kind of family is she?

"I don"t have that much clout in the Court", he interjected with his displeasure showing in his face.

" I"m not going to believe you have given up your plans for a coup", she snorted.

"How dare you shout this out loud?", he raised his hand when Chenglei interjected,

"What are we doing here?", he looked around to see the not well maintained little shack they were in.

"The Crown Prince arranged an ambush ahead", his tone towards Chenglei was distant but there was a little respect in his att.i.tude as he was treating someone of equal status as him.

So he is protecting us!

"My lands were about to be salted!!! They came for my lands! I"m not letting it pa.s.s. And I was drugged by it. It is really personal for me now ", she looked at Prince Kang straight in his eyes and she could see his eyes widen,

"You were drugged?", he fisted his hands, "You are not addicted, right?", he observed her for the side effects of that drug.

"Do you have the treatment drugs for the addiction of Rhapsody?", Xing asked as he seems to know a lot about this drug. If there is a treatment plan for this drug addiction they could use it for the people who have already addicted to this drug in their kingdom.

" You don"t seem to be addicted ", Prince Kang saw her clear eyes and could say for sure.

"So there is a treatment plan? We"ll need that too. Add that to the demands we want to ask. Tell the officials who support you to support our demands if you don"t want to rule a land scorched by me", Xing threw in a threat casually.

"Can"t you just talk like a normal person for once?", Prince Kang snorted as he is threatened by her. He knew she could do that if she wished.

"Here!", Xing gave him the official missive for Prince Kang to read. "I"ll add a request for the treatment medicines of Rhapsody addiction in there too".

She knew even the Emperor can be forced to sanction their demands if the officials are on their side and she always had plans to ask Prince Kang"s help and now that he is here on his own accord, she was sure their plans will succeed peacefully.

"This is the Guyu language?", he traced his fingers over the writings as he admired it.

"Isn"t this the official language? Our Emperors communicate among themselves in this language. You don"t?", Xing asked confused. Chenglei who was by her side silently watched those two who seemed to be bantering, actually on the same page and kept his silence.

"No", he sighed and Xing could see the deep sadness in his eyes, "Ever since the dynasty change, Guyu language was outlawed and it is a crime to learn this language. All the books written in that language were burnt and all those who even know even the alphabets of that language were burned along with the books."

Xing was shocked. So dynasty changes really destroy an entire civilisation and languages too.

"Can you read it?", her tone softened as she asked it.

"A little... My master taught me what he knew. But...", he paused as he could not continue.

"I"ll write it in our language then", she asked for a piece of paper and rewrote everything as the entire place sank to silence.

"Your handwriting is perfect and your official format is impeccable too", Prince Kang read what she wrote and his appreciation was clearly visible in his eyes. "This would do. But our Emperor... Be Careful with him.... He...", he tried to speak more but paused with a sigh,

"Stay here for the night. There is a well furnished underground bunker. I"ll find a way to greet you both as my official guests.", Prince Kang turned to leave.

"Where is Yunxi?", Xing asked and he paused his steps, "I want to stay with her for the night"

Chenglei who was standing beside her almost choked on his saliva and he cleared his throat to prevent himself from coughing.

Stay the night? With a woman? Who is that?

Xing who felt nothing wrong with her words was stunned to hear Prince Kang gritting his teeth.
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"My wife will stay with ME, her husband, for the night", he rumbled in a low voice glaring at her and left without expecting her reply.

I must have been a fool to have wanted this perverted woman to ask about my wife!

"What was that about? I just wanted to chat with her...", Xing mumbled with a pout to Chenglei but she was more surprised to see him looking at her weirdly too.

"Go wash up", he pointed at the bathroom and the maids who were arranged for them helped her. Xing went to see the bunker and it was really an exquisite room built with good taste and there was only one bed and Xing just shrugged and ate the dinner arranged for them.

She thought Chenglei will oppose sleeping in the same bed but he didn"t and they laid on the big canopy bed side by side.

" You know, it is not proper to ask for someone else"s wife to stay with you for the night", Chenglei who could not get over her weird suggestion advised her.

"Why not? You don"t know how he treats his wife... She"d be better off with me... She"d be more happy. Husband...? More like a demon.... ", she snorted and Chenglei laid on his side to see her with a cute pout.

This woman! What if she runs away too?

"Still... You cannot try to separate a married couple. You asked the same thing with the Water Empress and..."

"Huh?", his gentle voice was interrupted by her loud voice, " Yukiko does not deserve to be treated that way by that fool and so does Yunxi! What married couple? If they want their wife with them, shouldn"t they treat them gently and protect them properly? If they cannot, they deserve it if their wife runs away", she turned to her side furrowing her brows and glared at him.

"What is your logic? Should a woman suffer her entire life just because she is married to a cruel man?", she poked his chest.

"No... That"s not...", Chenglei could not even reply her before she continued.

"Men who does not treat their wife properly, deserve to be paraded in the streets with their snipped p*n*s shoved in their mouth", she exhaled in anger.

"I... You are right... Don"t get angry now.... It"s not good for your health ", Chenglei hugged her close to his chest and patted her back to conceal his face now pale out of fear.

This woman... She is so scary! And I bet she won"t think twice before actually doing it too. I have to be careful.

He unconsciously touched his crotch to check if his twigs and berries were still there intact and sighed in relief.

Xing who was enveloped in her man"s embrace calmed down soon by his scent and closed her eyes.

"Chenglei...", she checked if he was still awake tugging his robes.

"Mmm", his voice was a bit hoa.r.s.e as he had already slept . "You want something?"

"You were talking something about approval and announcement with my father, right? What was that about?", she wanted to ask him for a long time and she gathered her courage to ask him.

Was he talking about marriage?

There was silence for sometime making Xing wonder if he does not want to talk about it to her. And it only raised her curiosity.

Is he going to marry someone else? Is that why he is not telling me since he feels responsible for sleeping with me previously?

" I"m going to take the t.i.tle of Honorary Prince and I was talking to the Prime Minister"s approval and his support in making the court"s approval.",he said as his hands caressed the back of her head.

"Oh", Xing didn"t know what made him reach this sudden decision but she was greatly relieved since it was not as what she had feared. She also thought him having the t.i.tle of the prince will be beneficial for him. He deserves the respect.

"Why not the t.i.tle of Rui w.a.n.g but a Honorary Prince?", she asked.

"My father.... He was not a good man....", Chenglei spoke after a deep pause. He then explained to her the events that happened that prompted his departure from the palace when he was twelve and that he didn"t want to be known as the Prince whose paternity was challenged even though he was the son of the previous Emperor.

Xing even though knew all about it previously, listened to him as if she was hearing for the first time.

"It"s good that now you have a lot of people who love you!", she mumbled and she fell asleep in his embrace .

"Yes... You love me too, right?", he kissed her head with a smile in his face.

Of course his main reason for not taking the t.i.tle of Rui w.a.n.g was because of her and he didn"t want to tell her that now. He didn"t want people to speak bad of her of sleeping with brothers in case the truth about her comes out.

Also he need not talk about his t.i.tle to the Prime Minister. The Emperor can solely decide on that. He was asking his father permission to marry her and announce their engagement after New Year.

Surprisingly Huang AoTian did not put up any resistance. But it is good.

He was planning to propose to her properly soon but now they had to suddenly travel to the Fire Kingdom. He is now planning to propose to her after they get back and he wanted everything to be a surprise to her.

He could see her heart is really swayed for him and he wanted to ask her properly and get married to her. He had hopes that she"d change her heart soon.

He really cannot wait to get back and propose to her. He had even prepared a hairpin for her but she gave him a hairpin first!

This woman! I really don"t want to let her go.

Wait for me JiaXing! I"m going to marry you.