CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

715 Fuss

Far on the east side out of Sui Lian town.

The city is always crowded with immigrants, be they traders or just travelers who spend their time seeing the beautiful and clean city. With sturdy and beautiful buildings, the citizens are well-dressed and clean. There are no beggars or anything like that littering the scenery because basically, the city is a fairly prosperous city.

“Genuine Sui Lian silk, good quality silk, please have a look, today there is a discount for buy two get extra. Please come and buy!” shouted the street vendors who were so excited about spreading their colorful and shiny fabrics that they could really attract the attention of anyone who passed by.

“Wow, this is a new color huh? Very good, how much does it cost?” said a middle-aged woman who came with her daughter. The merchant smiled broadly.

“Oh madam’s choice is very good, this just came from the maker himself, the price is not even, only ten taels for six chi. If you buy up to twelve chi, you will get three chi for free”

The middle-aged woman pulled her lips. Looking at the seller with big eyes.

“What’s only ten taels, that’s really expensive, I saw in the shop next door it’s only about seven to eight taels, can’t this be less?” she exclaimed.

The cloth seller immediately screeched.

“Wow, maybe it’s because the quality of the cloth is different ma’am, this just came from the cloud forest, the silk is smoother and the workmanship is more detailed. Look at this, hold it, it’s very smooth isn’t it? It’s not cheap, it can’t be compared to the cloth from the shop next door...”

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The voices filled the market crowd, as usual.

Inside a fairly crowded shop in a row of shops on the side of the road.

someone in a sparkling white robe, with silver embroidery running down the length of the robe from his wide head covering down to his feet, sat quietly by the window sipping his tea. His face was only visible from the eyes up wearing a white veil that covered it from the nose down. From the look in his eyes, of course, it is Bai Ying. He sat down to enjoy his lunch after having been busy walking non-stop from Xin Hua Palace since early this morning.

Bai Ying covered his face with a white veil with Wah Ye’s motive to stay out of trouble. According to his older brother, Chen Ming, his face could attract anyone to pay attention to him even to the point of making a fuss over it. His brother was just exaggerating, how could he make a fuss because of his face, that really didn’t make any sense.

But since Bai Ying hoped that his journey would be smooth and peaceful, there was no harm in following his older brother’s advice.

Bai Ying woke up very early, after lulling the entire palace to sleep as he passed by and made it out of the palace without anyone knowing, including the Crown Prince.

He had to go, even though it was hard but he couldn’t wait for his future to be ill-fated like what happened to his grandfather and Emperor Luo Wang.

Last night. After the drunken Crown Prince had fallen into a deep sleep, Bai Ying went to the edge of the cliff to sit stargazing, inviting someone with him, the gigantic dragon Er Wang in his spirit form only.

“Your Highness, all destiny is inevitable, I have predicted from the first meeting, that His Majesty the King of the Realms and the King of Heaven will not be able to unite. Even if you can, all of that will be paid at a high price. But, that was back then, Your Highness, before all that happened, many things have changed, even destiny could change. Did Your Highness wouldn’t think of just going through with it?” said the great white dragon shining like a wisp of smoke.

Bai Ying sat down with his hands behind his back supporting his body. Looking far ahead. Lately, he’s been thinking too much, all the fear that makes his chest hurt as if he has no power but to wait, can he still keep waiting?

“Old man, what, back when grandfather Yen Hui and Emperor Luo Wang lived, they had tried to go against their destiny? If it was true that finding the White Fox and the Pink Deer could change their destiny, why didn’t they do it from the start?”

Dragon Er Wang breathed out, circling its coiled body above Bai Ying, floating lightly in the air with its radiance which at least made the place not too dark. Only for Bai Ying to see it as no one but he could.

“Your Majesty, all destiny will happen eventually, but it is not necessarily unavoidable. I also believe that humans who know the destiny that will happen to them try their best to avoid it, even try to run away from it. His Majesty, King Yen Hui and Emperor Luo Wang probably knew of their destiny, and they too must have tried, just like what His Majesty King Yen Hui knew from his memories, if he also tried hard to prevent it from happening. However, there was nothing they could do. The two of them must have been trying to find the two beings, but both of them are sacred beings, only people of affinity can meet both of them at the same time,”

Bai Ying turned to the big dragon, looking at it for a long time.

“Then, do you think I could have a chance of finding these two? According to grandpa, just by meeting these two, we can ask them to change our destiny, is that possible? No creature in this world, even the holiest one can change destiny right? Is, that just going to be a waste?” Bai Ying asked.

Dragon Er Wang turned his body back the other way.

“I believe, Your Majesty, with Your Majesty’s position as the King of the Realm, Your Majesty can do anything and meet whoever Your Majesty wants, you are the King of the Realm”

Bai Ying raised his teacup. Opened his veil and drank it. The atmosphere of the fairly large diner was very busy that afternoon. The visitors did not stop coming. Not far in front of Bai Ying’s table, right across from him, was seen a young man with an attractive appearance, wearing sparkling clothes in the predominant colors of sky blue and white, enjoying his own lunch. It was the same with Bai Ying now.

The young man smiled when he saw Bai Ying’s eyes looking back at him. He even raised his teacup to toast Bai Ying before drinking it.

Bai Ying widened his eyes. Quickly he put his veil back on, though it was too late, for the young man had already seen his face under his wide hood.

Bai Ying looked the other way. He was going to continue his journey after eating, but, why was the food taking so long? He had just turned to the waiter to call out to him when the young man stood up from his seat, picked up his plate of food and brought it to Bai Ying’s table.

“Can I join?” he asked.

Bai Ying stuttered. He only turned around for a moment and the man was already sitting in front of him. Even though he hasn’t allowed him.

“Eh, Young Master”

The young man smiled.

“Hey, you look alone, and so do I, how about we eat together? Eating alone is no fun”

Bai Ying looked at the young man for a long time. His face is handsome, clean skin with shiny black hair, a beautiful smile with clean white teeth neatly lined up behind his red lips. Physically he looks like a young master, a rich kid in general. The clothes he wore were made of Sui Lian’s signature high-quality silk. He wouldn’t recognize it wrongly, because it was also the same material as some of the beautiful clothes he had.

Bai Ying would not mind it. Better to just get up and go.

“Uh, pardon me, but I’m done”

Bai Ying was about to stand up when several people came towards him, several large men dressed in ordinary and even dirty clothes who immediately blocked his way.

“We have to get back to the house” one of the rude men called out.

Bai Ying didn’t look at the three men until he bumped into them and was pushed backward.

“Ah!” Bai Ying’s eyes widened, he would not fall easily, but his position was too close to the young man sitting in front of him that he was pushed towards him.

“Hey be careful!”

Instantly the man stood up and held Bai Ying’s body that was falling towards him, facing upwards. Bai Ying’s headdress and veil finally came off after being accidentally pulled by his hands.

“Ah!” and the man managed to hold Bai Ying’s body from falling. However, the young man was stunned in place, that face, that pair of beautiful eyes, that aquiline nose with rosy lips, that white and glistening skin, not to mention his body’s scent. He couldn’t take his eyes off Bai Ying’s beautiful face which instantly stunned everyone in the room.

“Prang!”

Even the waiter who was serving other guests accidentally dropped the tray from his hand.

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