The following morning
“Goodness! I never knew such a place exist in this chamber!” Cai Ruolan exclaimed as she ran and inhaled the sweet scent of the beautiful flowers.
That key was the key to this angelic garden.
It was the most magical place she had ever saw, there were beautiful and different colored flowers like blue, white and peach orchid, big yellow chrysanthemum, red and pink colored lotus, hibiscus and more.
A large colorful rainbow also added more beauty to the place. Cai Ruolan loved rainbows ever since she was young and also wished to have a garden of her own so that miniature rainbows could appear there.
Her purple and white hanfu flew with the soft breeze as she ran, her pink lips curved in a sweet and cute smile.
She only found out about the garden the previous day after she tried to insert the key on the keyholes of each doors of room in the chambers, and one of them turned out to be this paradise.
It was early morning and was supposed to bathe and go down for breakfast, but she couldn’t.
‘After scenting the pink flower I’ll have my bathe’
‘After scenting the blue flower, no the white, the yellow, the red’
She was just overexcited that she finally found a place where she could play around.
It got everything she needed, beautiful blue shiny lake and pretty shrubs. She would come back to the garden with Wang Eumeh’s diary so that she could read it while lying on the soft green grasses.
Cai Ruolan caught lot’s of colorful butterflies and birds, they were the type that she had never seen before.
She never knew that Xie Yuxuan was looking at her from the garden entrance, he was glad to see the smile on her face.
Her actions made him realize that she was still a young girl that needed to be taken care of with patience and love.
He soon returned to the room where the servants were already carrying out their regular routine by heating water for his bathe.
They were to keep going to and from the well until the bathtub becomes filled with water.
His personal servant Yu Longwei had wanted to help him take off his robes, but he objected. Yu Longwei knew and understood what the crown prince meant just by the wave of his hands. He said he should go!
“Your m….”
“You may leave” he waved, pretty as much as the same way one would swat away a fly.
He waited patiently for Cai Ruolan to come in. He never bothered if the water was turning cold.
And she walked inside the room, carrying the little white fox in her hands. Though she was quite surprised to see him inside the room because she thought he might have went out like how he did the previous day.
Cai Ruolan lowered her head as she walked pass him towards her dresser. Even if she wanted to say something to him, what would she say?
Luckily, as if he could read her thoughts, he spoke first.
“How do you like the garden?” he asked her grinning.
Cai Ruolan turned to look at him, “It’s very beautiful your majesty, thank you”
Xie Yuxuan could admit that it was the first time he was smiling at her. “It’s all yours”
Cai Ruolan felt very overjoyed, she was now the owner of the beautiful garden. “Thank you your majesty” she smiled as she curtsied.
“You’re my wife for goodness sake, call me by my name”
Cai Ruolan felt it was very wrong to be calling him without respect. Nevertheless, she nodded “Okay”
Her heart skipped a beat as he stood up from his chair and walked closer to her.
‘What’s he about to do now?’ she wondered.
She felt very strange when he held her waist, his face was so close to hers that it was just an inch away from hers. Was he bringing his lips nearer?
Cai Ruolan turned her face away. “Your majesty, w… what are you doing?”
Wait! she didn’t call him by his name what’s wrong with this girl?
Xie Yuxuan let go of her waist, and turned his face away as well. He had never been so close to a female before, not even his sister
“I said stop calling me majesty, my parents didn’t name me that when I was born. Call me by my name” he repeated.
Cai Ruolan looked away not minding his corrections, she hated the way they were too close to each other, her cheeks also flushed red, as she felt her heart pounding inside her chest.
“I want you to take off my robe” he told her, waiting to see her reaction.
“But your majesty…” she was saying,when suddenly he pressed her lips with his index finger.
“Will you Cai Ruolan?”
Should she?
Her hands were shaking as she touched his golden colored belt, her heart was beating fastly, that she herself thought that it jump out of her chest.
She gently loosen his belt, and carried her hands away.
“It’s not done. You have to take it all off, except if you want me to kiss you” he told her in a smirk, glad he could find something to threaten her with.
Cai Ruolan felt very uneasy, what kind of life is this?
How would a man kiss her?
She didn’t say or do anything, Xie Yuxuan waited for her reaction.
She tried touching the cross-collar of his robe, so that she could take off the first layer, but her hands were shaking and he was also more taller than she was.
He walked over to her dresser and brought her footstool.
“Now climb it!” he ordered.
She hesitated.
“If you waste any more second, I promise I’ll kiss you” he threatened in a mischievous smile.
Cai Ruolan climbed the footstool, she could now touch even his head.
She gently took off his robe for him, leaving only his undergarment.
Cai Ruolan was relieved when she was done.
“My water must have become so cold now” he complained. “Anyways, you tried. I think by evening you’ll have more things to do for me” he added.
Cai Ruolan didn’t like the sound of that. She asked him sharply. “Why?”
Xie Yuxuan looked at her. “So your voice is this bold?. I don’t need my servants any longer, at least not every time. Since you’re here with me as my wife, your job now is to choose which robe is best for me to wear everyday, then perhaps my servants would help me wear them and also help with my hair, then you’ll take off my robe whenever I’m about to bathe” he explained. “If you don’t, then I’ll kiss you” he added.
The job was too much for Cai Ruolan.
“I won’t!” she retorted.
“I’ll kiss you then”
“You won’t!”
He grabbed both of her wrist feigning anger, he moved very close to her with a smirk.
“Cai Ruolan, if you’re stubborn, I’ll kiss you!” he breathed, his lips an inch away from her’s.
“Your majesty! Let me go!” she screamed, she intentionally called him majesty to make him more annoyed and leave her.
This girl was just too stubborn, Xie Yuxuan thought. He needed to knock some senses into her head.
“Will you do it?” he asked further.
“My wrist hurt!” she cried.
He never cared about her tears.
“Will you promise to do that?”
“Yes! I will. I promise your majesty. Please let go of my hands” she screamed.
Yet she cursed him in her mind. ‘Pervert!’
Even when it was afternoon, Cai Ruolan never understood the reason why her heart kept on pacing and why she kept on recalling the incident that took place between both of them.
‘He’s very bad, otherwise why would he kiss a female?
Little did she know that more awaited her tonight.