LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN TIGRESS

But to his disbelief, the scene he saw made his entire face twitch. His brother and her brother were interestingly reading a book aloud and his girl he was worried for was sitting shoulder to shoulder with Zhong Seiren and was happily laughing. Not only that he saw two jars of wine in front of them.

Does this girl has clay for brains? Only days and she had already started drinking like a fis.h.!.+ Shengli was infuriated. And these two who dared to took her here... Shengli glared at those two who shuddered involuntarily and stopped their reading.

Actually Xing whose plan to make those two who had trapped her to get embarra.s.sed had failed, was sulking and accepted her defeat. She knew most men don"t like to read that kind of books as she had seen the odd look on Shengli"s face that had turned green as if he"d throw up any moment after she read him the book previously. But these two are too pure to even understand what this book is about and the terms used there.

So Seiren who saw her sulking, took it upon himself to alleviate her sadness, spoke about the latest gossip in the city. Apparently her father"s tantrum breaking Lord Zhong"s priced teacups was spread but the reason behind her father"s supposed "behaviour" was said to be because Lord Zhong refused AoTian"s marriage alliance of his ugly, ill daughter with Zhong Huojin who is said to be the one who"ll be the next Lord of the Zhong family.

Xing shrugged it off as rumours about her are very prevailent in the city and each time with some n.o.ble son or official. But what made Xing laugh was the reason those people with vivid imagination came up with... It being, Huang AoTian is supposedly Lord Zhong"s son and Lord Zhong didn"t want his granddaughter to marry his other son!

Xing could not help but laugh at the foolishness of those people who"d come up with such scenarios and wondered how twisted their minds must be!

But Shengli didn"t knew what they were talking about and the Emperor and Rijun looked at the lofty figure in angry paces throwing out the wine jars through the window which made clinking noises as they scattered on the ground that made the atmosphere frightening.

"You gave her this much wine?", Shengli shouted at Seiren and Xing was about to say something but got silenced by his angry look.

Shengli then went around and picked the chair Xing was sitting along with her by grabbing the armrest. Xing was startled by suddenly losing the ground beneath her feet. She felt Shengli"s loose hair on her ears and it gave her an unusual sensation. She could also feel herself tightly enclosed in his arms and his even breath fell on the crown of her head made a tingling sensation which spread to her entire body and she could feel her heartbeat getting faster. Huh! This guy! Xing patted her heart to calm down.

Shengli placed the chair at a distance gently and Xing could hear the small grunt from him and a gust of his warm breath on her ear and she got b.u.t.terflies in her stomach and her cheeks blushed .

The Emperor was looking at this and could not help but chuckle, knowing she had shown different expressions only to her man and his brother is totally pampering her!

But Shengli was oblivious to her changes, walked around when Seiren spoke in a low voice so that only Shengli would hear,

"Why don"t you pee around her to mark your territory too, huh wolf?"

Only he met the deathly stare of Shengli and he immediately excused himself and ran out of the room .

Xing didn"t hear what they spoke, but realised Shengli was clearly angry. Xing knew Shengli"s going to give her a lecture but she didn"t want to, so she decided to act cute like those women in the books she read.

"Shengli", she spoke in a sweet tone with her eyes big and she blinked it thrice for effects too, "Those guys..", she pointed at her brother and the Emperor, "They bullied me! When I tried to bully them back, I failed", she whispered and puffed her cheeks and her lips formed a cute pout.

Shengli who had been believing this long that this kind of behaviour in a woman irks him, felt his anger dissipating and this cute Xing in front of him made him want to protect her.

"Don"t worry! No one bullies my woman!", Shengli said in a gentle tone, smiled and patted her head and only then Xing was relieved and let out a smile and even her eyes curled making Shengli happy.

Whatever it is, they deserve it.

Rijun and the Emperor who were watching this scene unfolding in front of their eyes wondered what was going on. They did bring her here without her consent but she came back on her own volition after letting her out, right? She was fine when she left and even flirted with a woman too! Where was she bullied?

But judging by the expression Shengli had when he turned to look at them made them wonder if the one who spoke such gentle words a moment ago was him but they had hallucinated.

Shengli looked at them both and wondered what he can do to them. One was his brother and the another one was her brother. So killing them is out of option as his little kitten does not like him killing family. So how can he punish them so they"ll remember not to bully her ever again?

Shengli"s eyes darted to the book they had in their hands and he immediately recognised it and his face twitched a bit in displeasure remembering the cringy feeling he had when she read him that story previously. That was h.e.l.l on earth!

It looking at those two who had been reading that book like poetry, they didn"t understand it right?.... Right? Shengli"s lips curved into an evil grin. As a responsible big brother, he took it upon himself to teach his naive little brothers the way of the world.

Shengli went and stood in front of them and patiently explained them what they had read in a gentle voice. Both of them could not take all those explanations and tried to stop him but Shengli explained it very well to them.

Xing, didn"t get to hear what Shengli was saying but she could see the Emperor and her brother, squirming restlessly like worms with tears in their eyes and that consoled her hurt heart and she happily ate the beautiful and hot dishes sent by Seiren for them, by herself.

After Shengli "explained" everything to them, he saw both of them pale as if their soul left their body and he took a deep breath. Now is the time to give them the final blow!

He took the page with a detailed "drawing" of two men in act in an office like setting and made them look at it and he said in a calm, composed manner with his voice rolling smooth like a flute note,

"You see this picture? This is what people are imagining you two are doing everytime you both lock yourself up together in the Imperial Study", he said with his eyes unwaveringly staring at them two.

"Whaaaa....", Rijun retched hard as he felt his stomach turning upside down and he immediately pulled his chair away from the Emperor"s chair.

The Emperor swallowed his saliva through the wrong hole as Shengli said it and ended up in a coughing fit unable to stop himself and turned his chair to face in another direction to avoid looking at Rijun.

"You are mean, brother", the Emperor complained and resumed his coughing fit.

"Mean? No...", Shengli smiled in content, " This big brother just wished to teach you a little! ", he said with his eyes flas.h.i.+ng ruthlessness.

If you dare to scare my woman, I"ll make sure you get scarred for life!

Shengli didn"t realise by now, how easily he had learned Xing"s way of retaliation. If it was his usual self he"d have gotten a part of their body like nail or skin to let them suffer for kidnapping her!

The two scarred people were too scarred, that they didn"t even look eye to eye for days and there were always servants beside them even though they were working together too.

Shengli stood beside Xing and asked his brother,

"So why did you bring her here for...."