LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN TIGRESS

"You are my everything, my Prince", she smiled her eyes dripping with love and her smile filled with gentle affection.

Chenglei chuckled seeing her addressing him as "My Prince". Not a mirth filled one but a wry one filled with the frustration he felt as he had misunderstood her so badly, mocking himself.

I"m her Prince... Me... Me..

"What?", she asked.

" Nothing... I"m your Prince?", he smiled at her and he felt like his heart was purified by the smile in her eyes as she nodded. " So tell me how we met".

Xing started their story from the beginning. The impression he made on her on that

cold winter day in the mountains with the a.s.sa.s.sins. Time pa.s.sed as Chenglei quietly listened to her words. She smiled, cried, got angry and even got shy at times when she talked about their first times.

Chenglei didn"t remember a single thing she said as it happened in their life. But he could feel what she felt as she explained her side of their love story.

A divine love story... The story of Star-crossed lovers.... Those who were going through something called "Trials of Love".

He could see and feel the love she has for him but he felt a little lump rolling inside his heart. It all felt like he was hearing someone else"s story.

"I did all that?"

"Will I ever remember my side of the story? I want to"

"You were tricked by Zhu Rong and you made a deal that made you forget me", she explained how he forgot her and how much that hurt her heart.

Chenglei listened to her explanation without interrupting her and sank into his own thoughts.

"Is this why you think so highly of me?", he asked. It felt so surreal for him to think he did as much as this for her. From what she is telling, she is putting everything she did on him.

How is this possible?

I"m just a arrogant, selfish, aloof fool. I break everything I touch. Could I have done all this?

"From what I can see, I was just being selfish. The faster you finish your duties, the quicker I get you for myself... Or... I just got lucky. That"s why I must have..."

" Lucky? Stop doubting yourself, Chenglei", Xing rolled her eyes. "Also I don"t care what your intentions were. You a Prince, refused your throne and became a lowly henchman of a despicable crime lord to help me. You, a Prince... For a poor girl you met... Who didn"t even know who her father was... ", her throat closed as she felt emotional.

"Fine... I agree. I did it for you", he hugged her close to his chest.

But why don"t I feel relieved and more disturbed knowing she fell for the me I don"t remember?

"Chenglei", she looked at him, " Don"t feel bad that you don"t remember. You haven"t changed... Much. I mean, you tried to r*pe me which the past you never would have done", she looked at him accusingly and seeing his terrible expression, she quickly continued hugging his neck.

"I understand... You got jealous, didn"t you?", she took a deep breath and took in his scent, "You didn"t know me and you thought I had someone else in my heart and out of the love you had for me and out of desperation, you did many mistakes. I can understand that. But, you are still the same... I know", she paused as she felt his hold on her tightening.

Like always he doesn"t speak much about his feelings but she could understand him. He now feels a.s.sured by her words.

"How you always hold my hands, never changed... How during the match between you, me and Ryuga, you tried your best against me without pitying me... How you always stay by my side and protect me... The way you kiss me, the way you love me... Your relaxing scent, the taste of your mouth... How you make me comfortable.... Nothing has changed"

"I know I said I wouldn"t have fell in love with you if I met you for the first time in that desert. But I would have.... You are handsome and you are gentle and not much has changed, Chenglei", she looked in his eyes and she could see him getting relaxed.

Chenglei was overwhelmed with joy by the way she could understand him without him even explaining anything.

"Yes, I love you", he wanted to say but he could not.

He got closer to her lips as that"s the only way he could express his love for her but stopped himself just half inch from her lips and kissed her forehead.

She refused it sometime before.

Xing could see him trying to say something but it looked like he couldn"t say it.

He must have wanted to tell me he loves me, didn"t he? But he couldn"t, still.

So the trial is still on?

Sigh!

His kiss in the forehead gave her more hope.

" I know Chenglei", her eyes were filled with tears. This is not the first time he is making such expression. He had donned this expression before too.

How stupid was I to not realise he couldn"t express himself? She felt bad.

"I know your love for me always trumped my love for you. You never would have even joked about not falling in love with me. And even after you forgot me, you fell for me... Again... My stupid brain doubted you... How could you love me this much? I"m just a being who is worthless to be even called a woman. Still... "

" Jiaxing.... ", Chenglei held her cheeks and looked at her with his eyebrows furrowed. Chenglei froze seeing her sobbing silently as tears streamed from her eyes.

Are you that much worried?

He hugged her and sat leaning on the headboard placing her in his lap.

" Don"t think of yourself like that... How could you? ... I"m sorry... Come on now...", he hugged the shaking figure in his arms as tight as possible and patted her back trying to soothe her.

"I know it is a big deal, Jiaxing", he could say those words with honesty as he felt sad he couldn"t have children with her too. She would have been a really good mother.

"But..."

I love you!

He tried to get those words out if his mouth but he couldn"t.

d.a.m.n! He cussed in his heart. What"s with this? Why can"t I utter some words that are so simple and extremely important, to her?

" You are enough for me"

Xing who was sobbing heard his words and she felt comforted.

Yes! He really is the man I fell in love with.

"Will you listen to my suggestion?", she asked looking at him. She saw that fatherly love in his face when he caressed WeiXin and she felt it would be a waste to not let him have his next generation. She also felt a little guilty of making a deal with the G.o.ds with his next lives by herself.

"Dumb woman...", he pinched her chin, "If you are going to suggest that I take another woman to bed, just close your pretty lips and stop talking", he raised her eyebrows looking at her with his deep emerald eyes,sharp.

"Umm, but.."

"Shh", he placed his index finger in her lips stopping her from speaking further.

"No buts.... Will you able to accept me and look at me with the same love in your eyes after I sleep with another woman?", he sighed seeing a tear falling from her eyes,

"See... You can"t even bear to imagine me with another woman, right? You never will have to. Silly woman, how dare you suggest something so egregious? I know how you reacted after I accidentally touched some woman that day. You didn"t even let me near you before taking a bath and treated me as a leper. I"m no fool to do the mistake of actually sleeping.. No, thinking of sleeping with another woman. You are more important to me and the only important person for me. Only you are enough for me, you get it? "

He let go of her lips only after she nodded.

" Good that you understand", he felt relieved after he spoke his heart to her.

" I traded your lives with the G.o.ds for my powers ", Xing said with a guilty expression." You will have no more lives "

" You? What about you? ", he asked surprised and not so sure of what she said actually meant. Either way, if she had other lives, he wouldn"t agree to it.

How could she get herself a life without me? What if she finds another person to love as much as she loves me? I stabbed her and she fell in love with me? Isn"t that what she said? She really is a dumb woman... What if some really good person comes for her in her next life?

"I"m a special case. I only have one life", she said after sitting straight and taking a cup of water.

"OK, fine then", Chenglei was relieved. If so, what use it is with my other lives. She did a right thing. I don"t want a life without her.

"Li Weixin... Is that the name you gave him? The boy?", he asked looking at her. He felt a tug in his heart out of fear that she might blame him.

As always Xing was surprised by Chenglei listening to her even thought she thought he didn"t. She only mentioned the name once and he talked at the same time too but he still had listened to her.
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"You don"t like it? Her mother named him Hiroyuki.", Xing looked at Chenglei with her own guilty feeling.

"No, it"s a nice name. Weixin... I thought you might name him like you give names to Lord Ming or Junjie, like... Haru... Kouki.. General Kin.. Pengpeng... Baobei... .", he chuckled.

"Those are good, meaningful names...", she hit his arm pouting. "You are not mad I brought him with me without your permission?",she asked.

"No! Why would I?", he held her hands and pulled her towards him, " So....will you tell me how the firstborn Prince of Water Kingdom, ended up with you? And the letter I hid..."

"Hmm... It"s a big story", Xing explained everything.

"Yukiko hated him... Her husband... And that made me feel that I might end up hating you too. That"s why I didn"t return immediately", she took a deep breath as she could hear his heartbeat racing,

" I don"t know how it would have turned out if I got her letter beforehand and met with her... If I could have changed anything and if the results would have been different. I highly doubt it would have changed anything though... In the end, Yukiko did get my help and she still decided for herself and left with her husband. So how is the situation there? ", she looked at him.

" Not good. But no one knows the Prince is alive and no one would guess he is with us. ", Chenglei knew she is worried for the child"s live and answered.

" So what are you planning? ", he asked. He didn"t mind keeping the child with them, adopting him as theirs and rasing him as his heir. Isn"t that what her friend asked of her too?

There was silence for sometime and he could feel her dusting her hands and he interlocked his fingers with hers fearing she might hurt herself.

"Once the Imperial Palace of the Water Kingdom is purified and is safe for Xinxin, I will send him back to his father", her voice was stiff revealing she didn"t make that decision lightly.

" Why? We can adopt him. Isn"t that what your friend wanted?", Chenglei couldn"t help but ask. He didn"t expect her to make such decision.

"Ahhh! I do want to keep him with me. He really looks like you.... But.... I"m the f*cking divine ruler. I cannot decide for myself", she sighed.

Seeing Chenglei"s curious look, she continued, "Xinxin has the dragon sign. Ah Xuan has the dragon sign too. Even though the G.o.ds won"t interfere, fates are still decided by them and the one with the dragon sign will surely vye for the throne. And if we raise Xinxin with us, he and Ah Xuan will clash in the future. So Xinxin"s place is by his father as the Crown Prince of the Water Kingdom ", she looked down and Chenglei could see the sadness in her eyes.

" Also that d.a.m.n woman changed her mind at the last moment. I know her love for her husband made her reconsider her decision but since she already made me promise to raise her son as mine, she couldn"t take back her words and asked me to "decide by myself" ", she snorted.

What a dilemma!