In the banquet Hall, everyone were seated according to their ranks and as the Prince and the Princess Consort, Chenglei and Xing sat to the right of the Emperor with the Huang family sitting in front of them and the Zhong family beside them.The consorts and concubines of the Emperor and the various dignitaries from the other kingdoms were all seated in the next level.
Since this was the thousandth year celebrations, all the kingdoms joined hands to celebrate it in the origin Of their Kingdom.
"This is the most amazing dress I"ve ever seen", Xing whispered into Chenglei"s ears as they sat in the short table. She didn"t care about others and inky had Chenglei in her eyes.
Seeing her eyes filled with amus.e.m.e.nt, Chenglei was pleased and looked at her and without his knowledge he was spilling gentleness.
"But why aren"t there diamonds in the s.h.i.+rt?", she asked looking down at her clothes. "There are only embroidery", she mumbled as she spoke with her lips pouty and for Chenglei she looked so adorable.
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"Silly", he poked her forehead gently, "how would there be stars in the morning?",he chuckled with his eyes turned to crescents.
Seriously, his wife gets do silly at times. That"s why he wishes to protect her.
"Then where is the sun, your highness?", she puffed up her cheeks.
" Here, Lady Hur", he was resting his left hand leisurely on the table and the other hand"s forefinger pointed at her face.
"Huh?", Xing blinked and it took a couple of seconds for her to register what he said.
My face? Me? This guy has become so poetic and romantic and comparing me to the sun?
Xing looked down and the embroidery did seem like the rays are being emitted from her face in a downward motion.
"Hey, Rui w.a.n.g! Since when did you become so cheesy?", she chuckled, "You"ve got game, my dude! Is that what you were doing the past three years? Seducing women with charming words?"
" My Beloved Consort, these cheesy words are only for your enjoyment. No one had or will hear it from me. Its all for you", he held her hand under the table and his eyes filled with mirth locked with hers. Xing felt her entire face blus.h.i.+ng up and they could feel everyone"s eyes on them and Xing bit her lips to control herself.
"My beloved Consort! He said". Xing"s heart was racing.
"Unfortunately, that"s not the case for me... You are not the only one I"m Saying cheesy lines", Xing leaned to him and whispered.
She did what? Chenglei got irritated. He really didn"t like the feeling that he is not her first at all things. He thought that those feelings would go away over time but the more he was with her and the more he fell for her, he felt the need to monopolise her more.
Immediately Xing said that, she could feel a wave of darkness emitting from him, "Oh, come on, jealous ball", Xing gently nudged his shoulder with hers with a little smile biting her lips.
" I was once the number one playboy in this Kingdom. There was not a single woman who didn"t fall for me. And cheesy lines...? That"s all I said to women. Ask Seiren, he knows.", she straightened up her back and with her chin up, she looked proud.
"Don"t worry, you were and will be the only man I"d say cheesy things",she added and she could see him relaxing.
"And no seducing women either", he pouted.
"What a little jealous ball", she shook her head, "Don"t worry, I still love only you", she said looking at him and his parted lips pursed as if he was deeply contemplating.
JiaXing, can I believe you?
" A spring garden is filled with flowers of various colours and scent. Yet my heart only races for the plum blossom that blooms in the snow up high in the mountain peak unreachable for me. I tried and tried.... I got scratched and sc.r.a.ped... In the end... I got you, hubby... The elegant plum blossom on the top branch of the tree on the peak of a mountain", she traced the back of his hand with her thumb, her eyes were glistening with tears and she could see him go red.
Is he blus.h.i.+ng? How cute!
Chenglei on the other hand, saw her eyes dripping with love and her melodious voice made his scalp tingle and his heart was filled with ecstacy.
She did say she tried and got me, right? Did she mean it? She did mean it when she said she stalked me? Could her Prince be me?
His heart wandered and he felt like a feather floating . But then he suddenly felt a pang of pain in the crown of his head.
No way! If that was the case she"d have told me about her first love and that it was me! Oh, Chenglei! Don"t mind those words fling out of her tongue. She mostly jests!
Chenglei who forgot her and could not listen to her plain confessions in the end chose to not believe her when her words rarely could get through. The few times her words get through, he thought of it as if she was jesting.
Xing who did not realise the emotional turmoil Chenglei was in, could see Huang Mingxue still looking at her with aversion. Xing was sure the daughter she had was courtesy of the medicines she gave her but she wasn"t that bothered with her hate towards her. She didn"t even attend her wedding feigning sickness.
The Emperor clad in gold from head arrived to the hall as everyone greeted him. He sat in his imposing throne with Ah Xuan sitting beside the Pure Consort Jiang who is now the holder of the phoenix throne.
Ah Xuan ran straight towards his brother but the Emperor held him back seeing how intimate those two who were recently married were behaving and he went to his next choice, the pure Consort.
The Emperor"s eyes fixed on the woman, gracious as a swan as she used her chopsticks. She had a subtle beauty to her and a gentle disposition and she was always calm yet curious and smart too. She hailed from a line of n.o.bles from the Earth Kingdom and she was sent by the Earth Emperor as a means of peace between the both kingdoms. She never got involved in the power struggles in the palace and stayed away from it all and that"s how she caught his eyes. But he never graced her and he has no plans to grace her either since all of that might be an act.
I should not open my heart to anyone lest they will trample on me!
Ah Xuan"s bright eyes were filled with tears as he coughed and the Pure Consort patted his back and gave him water to calm him down.
Xing who was whispering to Chenglei and teasing him for blus.h.i.+ng at her saw the way the Pure Consort was treating Ah Xuan and all she could see was motherly love. She thought she should talk to the Emperor about giving her the t.i.tle of Empress. She had seen this one always calm and gentle and with a pleasant smile in her face. These kind of things aren"t that easy to fake all the time.
But then Xing changed her mind about talking to the Emperor. If she is as good as she believes her to be, the Emperor would have noticed about it too. And she decided not to involve herself in his love life anymore. The previous time she meddled, Chu Weiye happened she shattered his heart.
It is better if these feelings develop naturally! She decided.
The banquet ended peacefully contrary to what Xing believed. And they"d were all asked to gather near a lake for fireworks.
"This is the first time I"m watching fireworks display and I"m glad I"m doing it with you", Xing held his hands and said.
Chenglei became ecstatic as he heard that.
Her first time seeing fireworks display?
"JiaXing! You would be definitely eased with this display. You will be mind-blown! ", he said with a smile that was too gleeful and in his handsome face, it almost looked sinful.
She saw some women glancing at him with their mouths wife open and pouted.
Can"t he tone down his handsomeness?
As if Chenglei could read her thoughts, he grabbed her hands and walked with his chest puffed up.
She thought that he was telling those women that he already has a woman but he was actually telling the men who were looking at her to look away and to their own women. But he knew of their plight.
Their women are not beautiful and naturally they"d be looking at her and they"d be looking at me with jealousy in their eyes.
Huh! Like anyone have a wife like me! I have the best one! Get jealous all you want. That"s all you could do!
As they got out of the nicely heated Hall, Xing could feel the cold wind on her face making her s.h.i.+ver.
Chenglei looked at Xiao Mei and she brought two cloaks, one for her and another for him.
As they were brought, the entire crowd who were walking paused and pointed at the cloak.