LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN TIGRESS

"What?", she raised her eyebrows with a playful smile as she removed his outer robe. That"s when she felt something in his pocket and she found the pouch that she made for him.

"Chenglei!", her eyes widened and she smiled ear to ear.

"Where were did you find it?", she turned the pouch around and took a good look at it.

"This is the kerchief I embroidered for your birthday... I mentioned it before, right? I thought you threw it away. I didn"t know you made this abomination into a pouch... You st.i.tched it yourself...? Well, what am I saying? You don"t remember, right?"

She kept on talking, looking at the pouch and opened it to look inside.

Chenglei didn"t say anything and just watched her. He just wanted to do that. She was always this way with him and he loved her for it.

He saw her expression getting sullen for a moment when she saw the lock of her golden hair.

"You placed our hair together? How sweet of you! I didn"t know about it. So you could be sentimental too, huh?", she smiled slightly, "My hair... It"s pretty, isn"t it? "

A pang of pain struck his heart. When she told him about their past, she didn"t tell him about why she cut her hair. But now he knew how much pain she must have been in to cut her hair.

Those days, she was not even tr.i.m.m.i.n.g her hair just because she believed that would enable their life together without anymore hitches.

"She loved her hair and took care of it really well and just in a moment of deep frustration and heart break, she cut it off. All because I forgot her. I was cruel to her that day... I looked at her coldly, stomped on her feet, tried to stab her with my dagger... Oh, my moon! How will I ever forgive myself for how I treated you?"

Without knowing he was caressing her hair.

"Xing, do you miss your golden hair?", he asked as he took a bunch of her hair and it slid through his long defined fingers, like soft silk threads.

Xing looked at him and she could sense him getting heavy hearted. His eyes seemed to be filled with guilt for some reason she couldn"t figure out. He"s been behaving odd ever since he returned and she wanted to change his mood.

In these situations, she knew it is better for her to be honest to avoid future misunderstandings than just telling a white lie to protect him. Hiding things never worked for her.

She"d blurt it out to him some other day anyways!

"Miss it?", her lips lifted gently accentuating her beauty making her look mature.

Chenglei saw her face and knew that smile is the smile that belongs to the one who has went through all kinds of things that honed her. Utter disappointments to absolute happiness - she has seen it all.

Just twenty three years old and she has seen it all and has the eyes of an elder!

"A little", she moved towards the vanity and picked up the scissors making Chenglei wonder what she is planning to do and he naturally followed her.

"No one in this realm has golden hair and I was special just for that hair", she puckered her lips and cut a lock of her jet black hair from the bottom and started to tie it with a silk thread.

"But I don"t miss it anymore", she said placing that bunch of hair inside the pouch.

"You know why my hair turned golden? Fei Lian, proclaimed me as his pet... To protect me and this golden hair is proof of that. That I belong to a G.o.d. It is the same reason priestesses have golden hair too. But, I don"t want to belong to a G.o.d. I belong to you, with you. So I love my black hair I was born and grew up with, more than my golden hair"

Xing held the pouch in his palm and held it for him to take it.

"Oh, why are you sad? Do you not like that hair? I can destroy it", she tried to pick it out of the pouch.

"No, don"t!", he shouted and got the pouch from her hand.

"You are not really sad for cutting it out of grief? Didn"t the colour change because you cut it?", he asked wrapping his arm around her waist.

"No", she shook her head and replied immediately. "Of course not. And even if I didn"t cut it, it would have turned black, since Fei Lian had revealed the truth about me in the Heavenly council. And because it turned black, no one can think of me as Empress Huang anymore. So this has many practical benefits for me... ", she hugged him placing her ears over his heart listening to his heartbeat.

Soothing, as usual!

Chenglei actually felt relieved hearing her true thoughts about this issue. This silly girl could blame him for everything but she never does.

Aren"t I a lucky one?

Chenglei hugged her close and kissed her temple as she was leaning on him. Just then he felt someone entering their room. Xing got out of his hold to see who it was and a frown formed in his face and he wanted to scream.

"Can"t I have some alone time with my wife?"

It was the nanny who took care of baby Xinxin and she informed that he is crying non-stop. Baobei was asking about her a lot too, apparently.

At the same time another maid with dinner entered and Xing asked Chenglei to eat his dinner until she returns after taking a look at the kids and Chenglei nodded and sat in the chair with a sigh.

She refused him to join her and asked him to eat first before the bath. She even had a naughty smirk as she winked at him before leaving.

"Huh!", he sighed, " Why is she letting me get excited? Baobei won"t let her go, anyway...."

"I knew it would be like this... Two kids is like this... If we have more, she won"t have the time to even look at me....

But.....

It would be nice to have a daughter or two like her..."

Chenglei just ate a little just to tell his wife he ate without lying and leaned on the chair after sending everyone out. In case Xing returned, he didn"t want anyone else to disturb them. Contrary to his expectations, Xing returned a lot earlier.

Baobei did seem dejected but Xing felt like Chenglei is acting weird and wanted to return to him as soon as possible so she hurriedly put Baobei to bed and ran back to her courtyard. Little Xinxin was already asleep by the time she went to his room.

In the bath, Xing helped wash his back while he couldn"t keep his hands off her. They soaked in the fragrant water with her leaning on him.

Chenglei noticed the scar in her chest still there. In the past few months, he had tried his best to remove that scar.

Even after she told him that was a scar made by him, he still couldn"t remember a out that and felt like that scar was unnecessary on her. He himself wondered why he didn"t mind that scar on her in the past.

But now he could understand why. It"s not just a reminder that he hurt her. It"s what followed.

"This scar... You are keeping it because of the promise we made afterwards in the pond, right? I left because I hurt you and because we couldn"t stay away from each other, we met again and made that promise... For you this is the proof of that and that"s why you refuse to erase it, am I right? ", he asked her gently tracing his finger over her scar.

He thought she would accept it but she looked at him like he was talking in some unknown language.

" I just keep it because you gave this scar to me",she blinked her eyes innocently. What other complicated reasoning could there be?

Chenglei chuckled....

" You asked me once why I love you once, Xing. This is why.... Your pure love... That"s why, I Iove you more and more each day, my moon", he bent and kissed her.

There is nothing complicated with her. She is pure, innocent and devoid of any conspiracies or cunningness when it comes to her love for him. Simple....

She could have used many methods to get to him but right from the beginning, even at her young age, she just tried to improve herself for her to be a match to him. It was not necessary.

All she had to do was, use the "I saved your life, you owe me yours forever" line, or, "You scarred me, you should marry me".

But she never did! She worked hard. And even though he didn"t want her to work herself to her bones, she did it out of her own volition.

All she had was love for him and she didn"t expect anything in return or thought she was ent.i.tled... Never once....

Just his smile... Just his love....

It was the one thing she wanted for her...

Gradually his kiss deepened as she was sitting in his lap inside the water and her arms were around his neck.

"Wait... Wait...", she pushed him away.

"Just now... What did you say...?"

Chenglei was in no mood to play with her and tried to kiss her once more.

"You did it...Chenglei.... You said it... Didn"t you?", she held his cheeks, stopping him from moving forward.

Chenglei thought by bringing up the past, she had figured out that he remembered their past. She did ask him why he loved her back when she was in the inner palace. She should have figured it out, he thought.

"I do reme....", he said but her loud cheering voice interjected him.

"You said, "I love you"... To me, You said it.... You said it.... Chenglei... Do you know what it means..? Our trials are over! It"s over!"

She screamed waving her hands, splas.h.i.+ng the water in the bathtub.
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