Somewhere in the Tian forest, a pleasant melody wafted across the vicinity of its little stream. The melody was something that was most likely to come from an ancient dizi flute. It was tranquil and calm but at the same time, could give this empty feeling to one's heart for some unknown reason. The melody was obviously that of a renowned song named "To my love from another kingdom."
This song had become infamous since a decade ago. But because of its excellent melody and the deep meaning of the song, it had never gone out-dated even after several years. This song was one of the most classical ones. And in almost every festival or celebration of the imperial palace, this song was a must as it was to the exact taste of emperor Ming.
He had never understood how this boring melody could manage to intrigue thousands of audiences. But now, he got it. No melody was as suitable as this to express exactly as to how a man would miss so bad and get this very empty feeling when his beloved was there in another realm thousands of miles away from him.
Maybe the reasons for others would be something different. Even so, it was right for him at least. Finally, the song had reached its end with a gentle finalizing melody. The man put down his magical dizi, opening his eyelids which had been closed the whole time as his mind got too engrossed in the song,
He was now sitting at the entrance of a cave around the boundary of the Tian forest. It was already midnight. And the prince, not familiar with this new surrounding, the only thing he could think of right now was to find a desolate cave in the forest and spend this boring time in the company of some melody.
It was already this late, so his princess might have already turned in by now. It would be rude of him to disturb her sleep just because he was bored to death at the moment. Leaning against the walls of the cave with his back, the man gazed up at the starry night sky for the umpteenth time once again.
Princess Jingyi might take a like to this view if she were to be here. The demon realm was full of evil aura and had such gloomy atmosphere all days and nights that stars didn't shine that bright over there.
Picking at his dizi, prince Zixin held it horizontally, tilting it at the tip of his lips, ready to play the very same old melody again when a voice transmission of his beloved came all of a sudden.
"Uncle Zixin, are you asleep?"
The voice was a bit deep and the words came to him mingled with some anger in them. Just from listening a word of that voice from the other side, one could tell easily that it was belonged to a male. But only prince Zixin knew the truth. His little princess might be gone seeking some fun in the dead of the night in her male form as usual.
So she was not asleep after all. If this lady were his younger imperial sisters, the prince might have been over worried just by learning this fact. But she was different. This demonic princess of his was no minor figure others could touch or bully easily. That's why the prince could stay all calmed and composed up until now.
"Uncle...uncle.....I'm asking you. Are you asleep already? Ah...what the fuck...it's still so early. How could he fall asleep? so fuckin annoying...."
Suppressing his laughter, prince Zixin replied in a half-serious, half-joking manner at the impatient princess of his
"Of course not. This prince is up, waiting for your voice transmission all night."
Now that he could hear her voice, it seemed his heart had become even greedier. There came another burning desire in him to see this alluring princess of his in person yet again.
"Humph.....so then, why don't you answer me immediately? Here, I thought you are dead already."
Yeah.....half the time, his princess used such vulgar language in associating with others all with the exception of her father. But this well-mannered crown prince just couldn't see it as a fault. Instead, he had become more and more infatuated with such bold version of hers.
One might think Ming Zixin and that princess must have a great age gap otherwise how would that lady call him uncle? Well, this hunch might be correct for other cases. But here, the logic was not applied when the one who addressed him was this princess Jingyi. No matter how young or handsome you were, in the presence of this princess, you might get named as some old man or even grandpa if you were happened to get on her nerves out of luck.
But if you were to be lucky and have crossed paths with her accidentally when she was in a good mood, then it wouldn't be surprising to hear such sweet words of "handsome gege" or something alike coming out from her tempting lips. Well...the latter possibility was one a life time situation you could encounter, that is, if only you were happened to belong a golden luck of the heaven.
"Uncle Zixin...I'm having trouble making a decision, so help me out with this just once."
Curious, the prince approved of her request immediately with a "Mn". The voice from another side got louder as though she was deliberately raising her voice to make sure others also heard her.
"There are some lowly demons annoying me here in a gambling house. Tell me how I should finish them....should I just strangle them to death or should I just dig out their hearts alive?"
If it were others, they might have rendered speechless at the cruelty of this lady. But this was prince Zixin who was already familiar with this lady' unique state of mind. He had already taken a guess that her query might have something to do with evil things. So as a good hubby-to-be as he was, the prince spoiled her and gave that practical suggestion.
.....None of the options would do. Just let your subordinate finish them in a slow and brutal way. Don't do it personally. It isn't worth to let my princess' fingers get strained by their foul shit like blood...