After the two servants left, the prince moved his lonely gaze to a certain direction of the kingdom. Staring at that direction, many memories of his childhood surfaced in his mind, his calm eyes wavered and from his already moistened eyes, a drop of tear fall down.Nobody but one person witnessed this moment.
Miren,who just came out to feel relief from that stifling environment, saw a man at the balcony gazing at the vast exterior. She don't know why but looking at his lost expression she felt his sadness and stopped, but when her gaze went to his clothes,she got angry. She was going to turn her head away when she saw his eyes wavering and the fall of that drop of tear. The tear came out of his eyes so naturally, as if telling that, it has been used to of his way. This fall of tear made her freeze in her actions and her gaze on him. One breath, two breath three breath..... full thirty breaths later. She finally moved her gaze there was a turmoil of emotions within her. She wanted to keep gazing at him for a reason unknown to her but she turned away and went back to the palace subconciously. When she entered the palace she was confused. From her childhood till today she has never ignored what she wanted to do, Right, or Wrong, as long as her heart wants it she has done everything she could. But just now she denied her want,because she knew, her absence would make some people impatient and come to her. She didnot want anyone to create noise that would disturb the beauty of, his moment. Maybe this is the so called uncertainty of life. Who knows how much surprises this night will give us.
Back in the celebration everyone is enjoying to the fullest. at this time "huli" moved towards miren, with the crown prince.
Wheny they got near, the crown prince finally saw miren, seeing her he got a bit taken back by the beauty of miren. Although he knew of the conspiracy but the aim of the conspiracy was to supress the gudong family and make" shui zhi guang" submit in front of his majesty. Miren, was just a tool to achieve the objective, but now seeing her fiery beauty, his thoughts have changed. He has made up his mind that the marriage will officially happen, and that too with him. He will eradicate anyone who will even try to compete with him. Having made up his mind he corrected his posture, maintained distance from the concubine and went forward although in a dignified but with haste steps.
The concubine felt the offness in the behaviour of crown prince, although she always act virtuous and innocent girl who is confident of her beauty but deep down she is a shrewd lady, and also aware of the difference between her and miren's beauty.
Therefore she felt crisis due to which she hastened her footsteps as well.
Seeing that the concubine is catching up. The crown prince released a bit of his aura and suppresed her through his aura. The sudden suppressive force made the hastly moving concubine staggered and fall down. The crown prince has expected this, therefore he pretended to not know and went to miren.
The other nearby people supported "huli" to stand on her feet, but after standing up she went back, rather than chasing after the prince. After being with him for so long how can she be unaware of his aura. She know, he didnot want her to follow him. Although she felt indignant but she still did not go against his wish
"Hello miss miren", said gongniu
"Oh, hello your excellency the crown prince" said miren
"Miss miren, we all belongs to the same roof why bother with formalities. You can call me gongniu",Said gongniu with a hidden meaning
"Oh,sure",said miren with some doubt
She can feel that the crown prince is acting weird, but beacause of the unordinary situation she is in she could not pinpoint where
"Mr. Gongniu whatever happened..
'Dont take stress miss miren i won't let any mishap occur to you' ", miren wanted to talk about the bet incident, but gongniu cut her in the mid of talk and said with an expression which would show his gentleness and care
"Heh ", miren faked a laugh whereas in reality she was feeling creepy by the crown prince's reaction
"Mr. Gongniu i actually wanted to", Miren said
"Miss miren, i said, that i won't let anything deterimental occur to you, believe me"gongniu again butted in before she can compelete, with his creepy behaviour of trying to be her benefactor
Feeling creepy, and angry, miren didnot tried to talk again.
"May i have a dance with you" gongniu asked
she was going to say yes, because right now the situation is not in their family's favour so she dont want to create any more trouble for her family,then the visual of the man with tears passed through her mind and she subconciously looked in the direction of balcony. The man is still there but not looking at the exterior any more. Infact he is sleeping on the sofa. Looking at him and thinking of the bit of memories she had of him. She instantly got the urge to know about him. she initially wanted to ask her father but now she don't even know whether she will return or will get confined in this huge palace. So she wanted to satisfy her urge as soon as possible.
"Do you know him 'mr. gongniu'", she asked while pointing to him in the balcony
Gongniu was intially enjoying the moment but when he looked at the person she pointed his mood get soured and he sarcastically said
"Just a toad who wanted to eat swan but the heavens did justice, and put him where he should be. Well you should not assosciate yourself with a loser", said gongniu
Miren wanted to ask more but, from gongniu's face she understood that he dont want to talk about that man so she didnot asked anything further.
With the conersation deviated to a topic which has soured the mood of the crown prince he did not talked more. After saying goodbye to miren he left.
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