Gifted Bride of the Sinned Prince

“That is not important for you to know,” Lóng Wei replied and sipped the wine.

“Did Xiwan find out something and inform Prince Lóng Wei? Why would someone want to harm me? Is it the enemy? It is a good chance for us then because I can bait him to come after me. His Highness can catch him then and we will get revenge on the person, who destroyed the Shui and the Xu families,” Feng Lao explained to Lóng Wei.

Lóng Wei shook his head and finished the wine from the cup before placing it on the table. “Feng Lao, I cannot tell you anything at the moment. Just do what I have told you. You have promised me that you would listen to my commands.” Lóng Wei did not tell him the details of why he wanted Feng Lao to be in the safer place that Lóng Wei had chosen for him.

“Your Highness, I am not afraid of death,” Feng Lao said. “Prince Lóng Wei is forgetting that I promised him that even if I have to lose my life, I would find the person who created plunder in my life and the people dear to me.”

Feng Lao life’s motto was to protect Li Hua and Xu Zifan. He wanted to give them the justice that his father failed to do. Even if he had to lose his life, he badly wanted to catch the culprit so.

“Feng Lao, I do not want Li Hua to recall you every day if you die. I will hate if she thinks of you more than me,” Lóng Wei stated.

Feng Lao smiled to hear the Sixth Prince’s statement. “I am happy that I finally made Prince Lóng Wei jealous,” he asserted.

“That is why you cannot die,” Lóng Wei picked up the wine jar and filled their cups. He lifted the cup and drank the wine.

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“Your Highness, I did not know you care for me this much,” Feng Lao said with an amusing smile.

Lóng Wei beamed at him and told Feng Lao not to get the wrong idea of his intention.

“Li Hua does not have feelings for me. His Highness knows this well. She sees me as a good friend nothing more. It is Prince Lóng Wei, who is worried that he may lose me,” Feng Lao affirmed.

Lóng Wei chuckled. “You are wrong. I have lost lots of things in my life, so I do not get worried,” he affirmed.

“Don’t lie, Prince Lóng Wei. You are human like us. I bet that you have regretted many choices that you made in the past,” Feng Lao stated and raised the cup. Lóng Wei squinted his eyes at him.

“My Father has found out that Li Hua and I did not go on a vacation in Dongqing.” Feng Lao was bewildered and anxious to hear him. “I am preventing a brutal battle to happen. So, do what I tell you to. You will not want Li Hua to cry for you all the time. So, stay alive,” Lóng Wei asserted.

Feng Lao was stunned to hear Lóng Wei. He wanted to prevent a battle to happen, but why? Also, why was Feng Lao’s life in danger if the King had found out that Li Hua and Lóng Wei did not go to Dongqing? He wanted to know the answers, but it was not easy to get those answers from Lóng Wei.

Lóng Wei gulped the remaining wine from the cup and frowned. He sent Feng Lao with Chang Shi to a safer place for a few days. Lóng Wei stayed in the private room to drink for a while.

Eunuch Gao Bing slid the door and entered the room.

“Prince Lóng Wei and I never had a conversation,” Gao Bing said and sat in front of him. He picked up the wine jar when Lóng Wei glared at him.

“You also treated me badly,” Lóng Wei snatched the wine jar from him and poured wine for him. “You also wanted me to be dead,” he reminded Gao Bing.

“That was for your betterment, Prince Lóng Wei. I could not let anyone get suspicious of me. From the bottom of my heart, I have always cared for you,” Gao Bing stated and gripped the cup.

“I do not understand your care,” Lóng Wei stated.

“Why did Father never find out that you were one of his elder brother’s loyal? To my knowledge, you have always served Father. Did Qizhen ask you to spy on his younger brother?” Lóng Wei asked.

“Prince Lóng Wei should not take his father’s name. I always served His Majesty, but the one who saved my life was your father. The one who saved my sister and gave her a life of comfort was your father. So, I could not help, but be loyal to him,” Gao Bing pronounced.

“Qizhen helped and saved everyone except,” Lóng Wei took a brief pause, “his own wife and son. Can you see the irony?” He sipped the wine and told Gao Bing not to think that Qizhen would ever return to the capital.

“How is Prince Lóng Wei’s father doing?” Gao Bing questioned.

“He is not my father,” Lóng Wei affirmed.

Gao Bing smiled and realized that it was a new way of rebellion that Lóng Wei had discovered. “Prince Lóng Wei, your mother’s last message for you is with His Majesty,” Gao Bing informed him.

Lóng Wei stopped drinking the wine and blinked.

“Before His Majesty uses it against Prince Lóng Wei, he must put an end to it. He should not let Monk Yuze’s prophecy to go waste. He should show what he is to the King and give justice to his deceased mother at least. I am not talking about the families which suffered after your father’s downfall, but I want you to realize what your mother went through for fifteen years. You also suffered a lot. Should you not get the desired justice?” Gao Bing’s words left a deep impression in Lóng Wei’s heart.