CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

King MeYa briefly glanced at the Crown Prince who only looked at him for a moment and turned his gaze back, the man stood up after the emperor invited him.

“King MeYa, how is your son?” The Emperor asked, LuoXiang’s eyes immediately fell on him, the Emperor being sweet-mouthed.

King MeYa clenched his two hands forward in salute.

“My majesty, LoYi is in good condition, heh, servant, feel very ashamed of what had my son did, he probably deserves all this punishment”

LuoXiang glared at King MeYa sharply.

“I haven’t even cut off his hand yet, I hadn’t done yet!” he cried, getting LuoXiang’s fury and the King lowered his head again.

“Please forgive him, Your Majesty, I will punish him with my own hand, after this, I and my entourage will immediately return to NuMen and punish them with the hardest way of it should be, I am really ashamed on how could Prince LoYi think so lowly, this, what a disgrace embarrassing”

The new emperor was about to say something but the Crown Prince preceded him.

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“You can go home, but LoYi and his subordinates stay in the palace prison, I haven’t decided what punishment I will give them yet, sorry King MeYa but that’s the rules”

King MeYa stuttered, LuoXiang’s eyes when he said it looked very serious, a pair of sharp eyes that could tear down any faith.

“Your Highness the Crown Prince, please be merciful, Prince LoYi is still young, he is reckless and misguided, he is basically not a rebellious child, please be mercy, Your Majesty, I am willing to do anything”

The Emperor glanced at the Crown Prince until LuoXiang noticed his gaze.

“Ahem, Crown Prince”

Indirectly He might say he still has his decision as Emperor, no matter how the Crown Prince had no part at this time, even though he was the victim. Realizing that the Crown Prince threw his hands away, his face still filled with high-level anger when he briefly saluted his father and rushed out of the Emperor’s study with BeiYau.

“This is so ridiculous!”

He was still cursing on the way out.

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Byusssh.

The sound of water in the basin.

Very calm, almost no sound left in Concubine Hua’s room inside the Plum Pavilion. The air that afternoon was quite warm, but BaiYing still hadn’t woken up from his slumber since he was exhausted.

ShinYa sat not far from the bed where Lan’er was busy washing BaiYing’s face with a warm towel.

“Heh poor boy, why did he go through so many bad things at once, when will this end?” Lan’er looked at BaiYing’s gentle face who was still fast asleep.

BaiYing’s palms were washed with a warm towel.

“This gentle hand, he is only a child. Why do so many people want to hurt him?”

ShinYa stood closer.

“His Majesty the King has a very big destiny, the next one might be more difficult than this, but, with the help of everyone including His Highness the Crown Prince he will definitely get through it well.”

Lan’er nodded, caressing BaiYing’s hair which fell on his forehead, smilingly holding the young man’s cheek with her palm.

“Yes, he will definitely get through it, Ying’er is very lucky because he knows His Highness the Crown Prince, and of course all of us who’s ready to protect him”

“HIs Majesty The Crown Prince has arrived!” shouted the guard, hearing that Lan’er and ShinYa, as well as the maids in the room, get ready to greet him, all lowered their bodies to see the Crown Prince had entered quickly into the room, and went straight to BaiYing’s bed.

“Greetings Your Highness the Crown Prince”

LuoXiang waved his hand, allowing everyone to stand up, ShinYa glanced at BeiYau who later came in, from the look in his eyes ShinYa could tell that His Highness the Crown Prince was still in big anger.

Everyone excused themselves orderly, leaving the Crown Prince and BaiYing alone.

For a moment, LuoXiang just sat still, saw BaiYing’s pale face, took the boy’s hand, and caressed his cheek.

“Heh YingYing”

Slowly, BaiYing opened his eyes, a pair of wistful eyes looking at him.

“Your Highness”

“Are you alright? How do you feel?” LuoXiang whispered.

BaiYing nodded, of course, his whole body ached down to the tiniest veins, as if every part of his body was on fire and had to wait for all the heat to go out along with pain in every bone and flesh, but, slowly BaiYing raised his hand to caress LuoXiang’s cheek which was very close to him.

“I’m sorry for making Your Majesty worried.”

LuoXiang smiled, he lifted BaiYing’s hand and kissed it.

“Hehe, for YingYing this is nothing, um, are your legs sore? Want me to massage you? How about your hand? Which part is uncomfortable?”

BaiYing smiled, holding LuoXiang’s hand in his leg.

“Hehe that would be so nice, but, Your Majesty looks tired, how about just lying here with me.”

LuoXiang nodded, he shifted his body and lay down beside BaiYing. Although it was still quite noon he was also tired, maybe he would take a short nap.

“Okay, we’ll just sleep, I’ll hug you so tight to scare all your pain away”

BaiYing lowered his head on LuoXiang’s neck, the warmth of the big man’s body that often protected him, LuoXiang patted BaiYing’s arm gently until the boy slowly closed his eyes again.

“Tomorrow, when you get better, we will go for a walk in the valley again, well, lately, because it’s too busy so we don’t really have time to enjoy, it feels like it’s been quite a while”

“Emh, Your Majesty is just busy, I have a lot of friends in the palace, everyone is so nice, Ying’er never feels alone here, it’s nice..” BaiYing mumbled while struggling to keep awake.

LuoXiang kissed his forehead, caressed the young man’s hair until he fell asleep, the sound of his breathing so calm, feeling the child so safe and warm in his arms, he couldn’t imagine anyone else hurting him to such an extent, touching him with their dirty hands, this, he should never let it happen.

“My YingYing, chup” BaiYing lifted his chin, gently kissing his lips.

“Chup”

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“His Highness the Crown Prince has arrived!” cried the doorman of the Emperor’s study in the Dragon pavilion.

The Emperor was sitting in his office chair accompanied by his advisor YaoLie, when LuoXiang came into the room and saluted the Emperor.

“Sincerely Your Majesty”

The Emperor glanced at his son, then waved his hand to disperse YaoLie and the other palace administrative workers to leave the two of them.

It wasn’t long after YaoLie and the others left the room.

The Emperor looked carefully at the drawing on the sheet of paper that the Crown Prince had given him, stroking his chin while frowning.

“Hmh, I haven’t seen this symbol in a long time, this clan should have been extinct long ago. Due to practicing dark magic and martial art, the previous Emperor decided to step in and send his best fighter to join the eradication of the clan, heh, sometimes Father was really reckless, his decision to dispatch the fighters made high court officials doubt his decision. In the past, your Father was among people who objected to the decision he made. At that time, Father was about your age, young, and thought logically, but, the late Emperor thought, the clan had disturbed the peaceful and caused the chaos anywhere, often taking youth and virgin girls to be sacrificed for their artificial creatures.”

The Crown Prince raised his head.

“Take youth and virgins?”

The emperor nodded.

“Yeah, that’s right, they are targeting a youth, a teenager, an ordinary person who has reached puberty, around eighteen years of age, has pure Yin energy, and most importantly, virgin.”

LuoXiang thought deeply, this is the same as that. that happened in MaYang, all of their predictions were correct, that this attack might have something to do with the events that took place in that city.

“What made them come out now?”

The Emperor thought.

“Heh, Xiang’er, you may not know this, but, since a long time ago there were palace investigators who frequently reported about the discovery of this tattoo, do you remember the attacker who attacked your palace? Some of them have similar tattoos, according to palace investigators their original tattoos have been disguised, father had suspected this Clan before, but thought it was just a coincidence”

“What does Father mean? The attacker from YueWang? The Dark Water Clan?”

The emperor nodded.

“Yes”

“But Father said it’s just an ordinary tattoo, everyone can have it anywhere, and it’s like a tattoo of the state coat of arms of WahYe”

The Emperor nodded.

“That’s, it’s indeed a tattoo belonging to the Black Water Clan troops that resemble the WahYe state emblem, but there’s something strange when the investigators tried to re-paint it, they found something like an image that was deliberately overlapped each other, and when they tried to remove it, the investigators found another tattoo on the under another tattoo”

“So Father means that this group is related to the Black Water Clan?”

The emperor stroked his chin, he put down the paper with a picture of a tattoo shaped like a jagged animal tooth made into a circle, the size of a small teacup.

“They’ve been working together all this time, why don’t we think about it? But, why didn’t that group help the Black Water Clan at the last fight?” the Crown Prince’s think.

“You think? Are they strong enough against your beloved Concubine, The Great King WahYe and his dragon? Whoever they are, they will retreat before advancing” continued the Emperor.

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