LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN TIGRESS

"Brother Yuanjun, do you believe in past lives?" she asked and he slowed down, as his heart skipped a beat.

Gao Weiye who was panting smirked seeing him slowing down and holding her breath, she ran behind him.

"You were an Emperor in your past life, a pretty successful one. My sister was your fated one, the Prime Minister"s daughter but she fell in love with your brother. Then she married you for the sake of her family, when your brother disappeared and made you fall in love with her and you treated her the best. But she left you when she learnt that your brother was back, leaving you heartbroken and sick. And then you married me after much troubles. You loved me deeply and made me Empress and I returned your love and our love soothed the pain of your past. We had three kids together, lived happily and we died the same day and got buried together, " she said holding her breath fearing he might not listen.

Seeing him standing still with his back facing her, she smirked and continued, " My sister... She might seem harmless, but... "

Yuanjun who was listening to everything out of curiosity found her words all fake. Was he confused by her words, a little...? Maybe...If he didn"t have memories of his own. He was sure, there were three women in his dreams. And surely he never loved the one who was his Empress. So every word out of her mouth is a lie.

But... Is Manman really the reincarnation of Mingxia? She clearly didn"t love me and only loved my brother and she was with me till the later part of my life as a family.

Why can"t I remember who the third woman is? Clearly she was the one I loved.

On the other hand... Is past life that important..? Should I really pursue it?

All I have to do is to figure out the love I have for Manman.

"Gao Weiye! Till now I thought you were just stupid. But you are really crazy, aren"t you?" he sneered and got to his car and started it.

He saw her waving her hand and shouting something with an ugly expression and he didn"t even want to engage with her and left.

Out on habit, he searched for his cigarettes but then he remembered the lecture Manman gave sometime ago and then the kiss...

He placed his finger in his lips and he smiled.

She loves me!

He reached home and he knew all his brothers and their wives will be waiting by the door to gather information from him and so he left the car far away and decided to sneak inside his room, climbing through the window.

As he sneaked in, he saw his eldest brother by the door with his wife, making out.

"Eww! Why can"t they get a room?"

He thought and slowly walked to the rose garden to go up through the window to see... His second brother, with his wife...

Hugging!

"Yep! They are just hugging! Let"s rewrite our memory like that, Yuanjun! Your brother had no home to get back to and there are no rooms in this house for him to go and lock the door before doing...and he is hugging his wife underneath your window. Yep! That is exactly what is going on here"

He was saying something in her ears and she was giggling while they were.... Hugging.

"Why???" he wanted to scream. "Are they both some sort of perverts? To do these sorts of things out here in public?"

He slowly backed off and tried to get into the house through the back door and there he was... His third brother.

*Fweeet*

The moment Lu Weiyuan saw Lu Yuanjun, he blew the silver whistle waving a torch at his face.

Yep! Exactly the same whistle cops use to holler their peers when they see a suspect or like the whistle they blow when a prisoner escapes from the prison.

The lights were there, the deafening whistle sound was there and only the siren sound was missing to make him feel like an escaping prisoner.

I never should have returned here!

But even before he took three steps away, he was caught by the collar and as he tried to escape he was grabbed by the wrists by his eldest brother whose lips were red because of making out.

"Where"s second?" his third brother asked and the first shook his head while both of them lifted him off the ground easily, like a sack of potatoes.

Yuanjun rolled his eyes, " Second brother? He might probably be deep in.. Hugging!"

"Huh! I should have stayed in a hotel for tonight!" he grumbled and tried to shake them off but he couldn"t and in the end, he gave up... Like a million times before.

"I hate you all!"

He shouted and they shushed him, "Come on! Dad, mum and the kids are asleep. Don"t be a brat!"

With a whisky in his hand, he was sitting with his lips pouted and eyebrows furrowed together Yuanjun glared at his brothers. If only their wives aren"t with them now, he"d have stabbed them to death.

And what"s with the look they are giving me.? Is there something on my face?

" Little brother is back! " his second brother made his entry holding his wife"s hand.
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"Don"t touch me!" Yuanjun leaned back on his chair and Lu WeiZhe realising he has been caught, pouted, "I washed my hands! "

The women all sat together whispering and giggling among themselves and Yuanjun wanted to leave.

"Ugh! These old perverts! Even university campuses are more cleaner than this... Teenagers have more restraints than these old fools! One is blocking the entrance eating each other"s face and the other.... Hmpf! And the third.. Thank G.o.d his wife is full term pregnant, or else who knows what I had to witness tonight" Yuanjun mumbled.

"Ah, brother! Don"t worry! You"ll understand it all once you get a woman for yourself too. And... I bet it won"t be long?" Lu Weisheng wriggled his eyebrows playfully.

"I won"t be like you all! I will be decent with my wife," Yuanjun said and when he said "wife", Li Xueman"s face came to his mind and he felt his heart thump.

The three brothers and their wives looked at each other controlling their laughter seeing their cute little brother blus.h.i.+ng like a teenager in love.

How pure!

They all thought.

But we"ll see how "decent" he will be with his wife!

The brothers drank some more, chatting happily. Yuanjun was surprised his brothers are not asking about what happened with Manman. He knew that"s why they all laid traps for him and waited. But why aren"t they asking anything?

"So Yuanjun, come with me to our company tomorrow. I"ll give you a...."

"No! I"m not going to," Yuanjun interrupted his second brother who was so excited that he"d have someone to share his burdens.

There was some silence among the brothers for sometime. No one knew why their brother quit his job suddenly. He is just twenty seven and it is too early to have mid-life crisis.

"You want to tell us why you quit your job?" Weisheng asked but seeing his brother just downing the alcohol, he didn"t press him. As far as he investigated, there was no problem in his workplace and there were no complaints about his brother. And his little brother is not a reckless or frivolous person either. It is mysterious that he quit his job suddenly.

"It"s okay. Take rest and think it through. Tell us what you need. If you want to work in our company or politics or a new business venture or the same job you quit or a job in the University in our city... Whatever you want, your brothers can arrange it for you. Just say the word, " Weisheng continued and the other brothers nodded in agreement.

There is nothing they won"t do for their little brother. Even burying bodies for him! He is their cute little brother.

When he was born, he was a preemie and he was so little and the doctors all said it would be highly impossible for him to survive. The eldest twins were eleven then and they had good memory of that incident. The third brother was six and he has some memory of that day too. That day they all surrounded the little him who was kept in the incubator and talked to him. He was pink and so frail and they all decided to protect him. Thankfully, their brother survived and grew up well. They are the one who taught him everything from walking to his first word to riding a bike and sports and everything.

"Okay, " Yuanjun nodded. He wasn"t sure of what he might do in the future but he knew he can count on his brothers. His brothers were the ones who almost sent a gang leader to the mortuary because he bullied him. They personally went there and brought the entire gang down and even the cops were surprised how some teenagers pulled something they with all resources couldn"t figure out for years.

They are this type of bothers who are d.i.c.k in the head and they think that only they can bully him and they won"t allow compet.i.tion in that regard. He might not admit it ever, but he loves them all, despite that.

"Do you believe in past lives?" Yuanjun asked and the entire room went silent. Even the women who were whispering among themselves looked at him unblinkikgly.

"Did you have some memory from the past, little fourth?" Su Yuemeng asked and Yuanjun who was slightly tipsy, shook his head.

"You did, didn"t you?" she repeated as her eyes shone and her hands were fisted and Yuanjun became a bit doubtful of the way she asked.

" You are a neurologist and you are asking me this? You want to make fun of me, don"t you?" he snorted. "I just asked"

"Yeah, right! Like anyone could get memories from their past," WeiZhe said casually, signalling his elder Sister-in-law to calm down.

" But did you, Yuanjun?" Weisheng smiled playfully, " I bet you were a guard... Or a farmer in your previous life!"

"Or if we went further to ancient times, he"d be the eunuch who witnessed the affair of the Empress and got killed in the first scene of the Palace drama, mother used to watch," Weiyuan chuckled.

"What are you saying? My little brother must have been an Emperor," WeiZhe smiled and Yuanjun looked at him, shocked.

Do my brothers really know something?

" The Emperor whose wife ran away with another man," he laughed heartily making Yuanjun grit his teeth.

" Oh, please! Little fourth would have been the overbearing Emperor who forced another man"s wife to be his Empress!" his second Sister-in-law said with a smile and Yuanjun"s face changed colour.

Why is that they all seem to know my past?

Just as he was about to retort, his phone rang and he picked it from his pocket. Before he could see who it was, WeiYuan grabbed it from his hand.

"You know we should keep our phones off during brothers" time," he pointed his forefinger at him.

"Look who"s it! The black sheep of the Zhong family," he chuckled.

"Who? Zhong Yanchen?" Weisheng looked deeply.

"Who are you all to call Zhong Yanchen a black sheep? You are all black sheeps....Only me who followed father and took after the family business is the golden child.... Me.. Golden child! You all... Baa baaa Black sheeps..." WeiZhe got drunk already and his wife helped him up and excused themselves to go take rest.

" Come on, give my phone back. He must be in trouble. Look, he is calling again already, " Yuanjun got the phone from WeiYuan and he didn"t fight anymore. Zhong Yanchen might be in trouble. He wouldn"t bother this late at night otherwise.

"h.e.l.lo?" Yuanjun answered.

"Bro! Help me... ! A wild hog is chasing me... ! Bring a rifle... !" his voice was heard slightly getting cut off and it really seemed like he was running away.

"What wild hog? Where are you?" Yuanjun could hear a truck horn and wondered how a wild hog got in the city.

" Huang Shen Museum of History.... Come here... Immediately...."

" Okay, fine! I"ll ask your family for back...."

"No.. No.. No.. Do not tell my family! I will be skinned alive.... You come here...."

Beeep... Beep.... Beep

The phone was cut off.

Sensing it really was trouble, Weisheng stood up and asked Yuanjun to take a driver with him since he was drunk but Yuanjun drove himself as he didn"t feel drunk.

The 45 minutes journey was cut to 25 minutes by Yuanjun"s driving and seeing the empty road, he called Zhong Yanchen.

"Shhh! Shhh! Why did you call me? I was hiding perfectly and Now this phone"s noise alerted that swine!"

"Ahhh! Get away!"

"I really cannot run anymore..."

"Pant... Pant..."

Yuanjun could hear the noises from other side.

"Dude! You were hiding and didn"t bother to put your phone on silent? Did you learn nothing from watching horror movies?" Yuanjun rolled his eyes, "Tell me where you are. I"m here already"

"East Road," Zhong Yanchen said.

"Uh... I... I see you.." Yuanjun said and made a sharp U-turn and drove in the wrong side of the road and as soon as he stopped beside Yanchen, he hopped in on the pa.s.senger seat.

Yuanjun looked out side and there was no wild hog but a slender woman in a cop uniform.

"Drive! Drive! " Zhong Yanchen said as he put on his seat belt and opened the window as the car sped off,

"Ha, ha.. You failed!" he flicked off at that girl who stomped her feet on the road and seeing his gesture, she pulled out her government issued gun out, cussing him.

"That crazy woman! Go! Go! She"ll shoot!" Zhong Yanchen urged Yuanjun and he was relieved only when they went to a safe distance.

"Seriously, man? You called me this urgently because you fought with your wife?" Yuanjun was not happy.

"She is not my wife! Don"t curse me," Zhong Yanchen frowned.

Lu Yuanjun just shook his head, " Her name is in your household registry and your wedding was conducted...."

" Don"t remind me... Go to the Milton Hotel. I"m staying there," Zhong Yanchen said and Lu Yuanjun sighed.

Looks like he is not even staying in his home. Too bad.

The Zhong family is the most prominent military family in their city where all of the men were somehow involved with the military. But only Yanchen was not interested in military services and wanted to be an archaeologist. And he is good at it too and he is working under the renowned archeologist Huang Zeming who is his uncle-in-law.

And the Huang family is an aristocratic family who produced many scholars and literary geniuses. Huang Qian is the only odd one in the family who became a cop much to the disapproval of her family.

She studied in the same Private school as them and is a year younger than them. Zhong Yanchen and Huang Qian were always like Tom and Jerry fighting with each other. And for some odd reason, both families found them compatible and got them married and they still don"t get along.

In the Presidential Suite of Milton Hotel,

"You went to the Huang Shen History Museum to get these? Why did you have to even sneak in? " Yuanjun asked scrolling Don the pictures Yanchen had snapped of some ancient texts from some paper scrolls that seemed to be really old and well maintained.

" Well, I"m seriously onto something. I really can make a name for myself. I"m on the verge of success.... Bro! The infamous "Treasure of the Li family"... It is real! And I"m going to find it! I didn"t want her uncle to take credit for it, so I sneaked in to get more details. I found some scrolls in their archives that had the same writing as thr one I got and I snapped pictures of it! " Yanchen said beaming with joy and Yuanjun glared back.

"If it is real, why is the Li family never used it? Why would..." "Manman live the way she is living now?"

"You are right! But I think the Li family mentioned here is some other Li family that belonged in an ancient empire that is at least three thousand years old... Wait... Yuanjun," his expression turned more excited, "What were you doing when I called you? Were you... You know..."

"What do you..." Yuanjun, knitted his brows as he saw his friend looking at his lips and remembering something, he went and took a look in the mirror.

Lipstick stains!

There were some red lipstick mark left in his lips and he immediately covered his lips with his hands and immediately darted into the bathroom to wipe it off.

"No wonder my brothers didn"t force me tell them what happened between me and Manman, they already guessed! And can"t they tell me to wipe it off at least when they knew I am leaving home? I hate them! "

When he got out of the bathroom, he saw his friend seriously trying to decipher the texts and sat by his side.

Yuanjun has a doctorate in ancient history especially he had published papers in ancient languages and he is well aware of everything Yanchen is working on. This guy is a big fan of Indiana Jones and he wanted to become a popular archeologist even when he was a little boy. No wonder he tried to hide everything even from his family even to discover the treasure himself.

"This language... It is so old, no one can read it. I need your help," Yanchen paused seeing his friend frowning, "Come on. Just try one more time!" he knelt in front of him and transfered the pictures to his laptop and turned the monitor to face Yuanjun.

"Well, I"m not going to suddenly read some old language just because I...," Yuanjun"s face paled as he looked at the texts clearly visible on that big screen of the laptop.

"Yanchen,"he gripped his arms tight. " I can read it!"