Xiaoming lifted his head and the brush in his hand fell. The sheet on which he was writing got ruined as the brush hit it. "Li Hua will marry Lóng Wei?!" Xiaoming asked Eunuch Lishi to confirm.
"Yes, Your Royal Highness." Eunuch Lishi kept his head low. "Li Hua was seen in the Royal Garden. The King had a private conversation with Li Hua. After that, Eunuch Gao Bing was asked to prepare the official order. The King has put a seal on it and by the morning it will be announced officially," Eunuch Lishi explained to the Crown Prince.
Xiaoming clenched his fists. He underestimated Lóng Wei. There was no way that he could stop this marriage from happening because he would be questioned.
He stood up and slammed his hands on the table before him. Eunuch Lishi stole glances at his master, wondering why a marriage with a servant bothered the Crown Prince.
Without uttering any word, Xiaoming left the study room. Eunuch Lishi ran after him, but Xiaoming was too fast, so Eunuch Lishi lost him soon.
He stopped outside the manor of Lóng Wei and walked in. He reached outside the chamber of Lóng Wei and pushed the door. To his surprise, Lóng Wei wasn't present in the chamber, or the corridor. Even Li Hua was not present. He wondered where the two had probably gone.
His eyes fell on the tray on which teacups were put. 'Did they have tea together?' he thought and it hurt him. Li Hua was going away from him. He would do everything to stop this marriage, without letting anyone be skeptical of him. He had to send Lóng Wei back to the cold palace.
"What is the Crown Prince doing here?" Xiaoming immediately turned upon hearing Lóng Wei.
Lóng Wei walked to him and studied the Crown Prince's facial expressions well. It seemed too pale to him. "The Crown Prince looks sick," Lóng Wei stated.
"May I know why he is here?" Lóng Wei looked inside the door, "and then he was checking my chamber."
Turning his head back to Xiaoming, Lóng Wei waited for his answer.
"Brother Lóng Wei seems fine. I wanted to see if he's doing well," Xiaoming lied to the Sixth Prince, whose gaze had already bore through his soul. "Did he get it checked with the Physician Peng?" Xiaoming showed his concern.
"Li Hua applied the lotion on my back, Crown Prince," Lóng Wei answered with a cocky smile. Xiaoming's brows flinched slightly which Lóng Wei noticed. "My body can't be touched by random people. Only Li Hua can touch it," he stated and noticed every single reaction of Xiaoming. He could not tell how pleasurable this moment was! But at the same time, Lóng Wei hated seeing Xiaoming's feelings towards Li Hua.
"A servant cannot touch a Royal body," Xiaoming reasoned, "Sixth Brother."
Lóng Wei chuckled. "Li Hua is not a servant for me," he asserted. "Why is the Crown Prince so bothered by it? Why doesn't he admit that he likes the woman whom I love?" The direct questions made Xiaoming shut.
"I am only starting the rules," Xiaoming dodged answering Lóng Wei's questions.
"Rules?" A chuckle again escaped Lóng Wei's mouth. "I don't follow any rule," he said, with a firm tone.
"Then the Sixth Prince needs to follow them. He is a part of the Qiu Royal Family. He represents the entire Royal Family," Xiaoming asserted.
"Indeed, I am more popular than the Crown Prince. He must be proud of his youngest brother. My name is enough to terrorize people's souls. Such a threat they have from my name, Crown Prince." Lóng Wei's words seemed odd to Xiaoming.
"Indeed, Brother Lóng Wei is popular for his bad actions. The family's name gets tarnished with that. I hope he will not commit any such mistakes that he did yesterday," Xiaoming stated, referring to the attack on Jingfei.
"Sadly, Lóng Wei doesn't care about your lovely sister, nor does he care about this family. My acts shall not bother the Crown Prince. I am a small person in the Kingdom, whose actions don't even make much difference," Lóng Wei pronounced. "The Crown Prince told me to play when I was a child, and I am following his words," he reminded him.
Xiaoming recalled the day when he told Lóng Wei to enjoy and play as he was the youngest among them.
"Don't worry, Crown Prince. I won't snatch the Crown from your head. If I had to, then I would have done it a long time ago," Lóng Wei asserted. "I am happy in this world, and I hope I will continue to be. Else," he paused, and his facial expressions turned into a serious one, "I need to find a new way to play."
Xiaoming gulped as he found Lóng Wei's words intimidating and threatening. For an unknown reason, those eyes scared him. Lóng Wei never talked about the Crown, then why today? Xiaoming didn't want to overstretch their conversation, so he decided to retire to his manor.
"Please take care of yourself, Sixth Brother," Xiaoming caressed his arm before putting it down. "I bid my goodnight to the Sixth Brother." He walked past him when he heard Lóng Wei say,
"The Crown Prince forgot to congratulate his youngest brother on his marriage."
They both turned and beamed at each other. Their expressions were not pleasant ones.
"Isn't the Crown Prince here to see Li Hua?" Lóng Wei arched his brow and took another step toward him.
"Keep your eyes away from Li Hua. I told the Crown Prince that I would make Li Hua my official wife soon," he said with a victorious smile.
Xiaoming fisted his palms. For the first time in his life the Crown Prince wanted to punch Lóng Wei hard. However, it would make him small if he did that. He was the eldest son who had some dignity.
"One must not keep his anger inside his heart because it turns into hatred. Take it out, Crown Prince," Lóng Wei provoked Xiaoming, who smiled a little.
"I am not like the Sixth Prince, who loves violence to take out his anger," Xiaoming remarked.
"That's why the Crown Prince lost to me," Lóng Wei promptly stated. "Ahh, he should have hit me because from now on, his heart will get filled only with hatred towards me," he affirmed and scrunched his brows together.
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