|My 'husband'
The day he started bringing concubines in is when she became more and more desperate to have children before them, she never realizes she was infertile until the first concubines got pregnant, and upon hearing this she made an evil scheme, she gave the concubines a tea full of medicine all thought it didn't sound like a threat, it most definitely was, if given large amounts of medicine it can impact a baby's development like low birth weight, a miscarriage or the baby will be still-born.
The emperor never knew that it was medicine she was poisoning his concubines with, but he was glad he faked having a mission to go out of the capital, at first he wanted a day away from his crazy wife and the death of babies but then he saw him a small petite boy in the wood drawing with his blood, singing with all his heart, then petting his tiger into submission, he couldn't help but want to be around the boy and on top of that he was beautiful, stunning even
Long will keep silver hair with bright gray eyes that looked almost heavenly, wearing a white red and maroon red hanfu that seemed to contrast with his appearance and although the amount of makeup on his face made him look ridiculous , it also looked cute at the same time with the veil covering his face along with a vermilion mark on his forehead. He remembered that night like it was only a few days ago when he met the beautiful fairy he had fallen in love with
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Zeng Yaozu was walked through the woods in his favorite white, red and maroon red hanfu with beautifully embroidered designs with a teal rope to tie it together by the waist with a cream inner robe that was loose at the collar adorning a cream veil shadowing his heavily make-up face, he wanted to try out a new talisman he made but with his reputation of demonic cultivation he decided to do it in the forest where nobody will bother him, or at least that was what he thought, he knew he wasn't alone when he felt eyes on him, and usually when that happen he knew someone was watching him from the shadow so being the town lunatic he had to act like he was lost and doing random thing, so he cut himself and began to draw on the large trees, smiling and giggling while sing a unnerving sound
He was suddenly pounced on by an animal, Zeng Yaozu looked up and saw a beautiful majestic white tiger growling down at him like it was waiting for a command to bite his neck off, he wanted to be scared but had to keep up the crazy lunatic act "oh wow, what a pretty white kitty" he giggle reaching up to pet is white fur "kitty has such a pretty white coat" Zeng Yaozu slowly sat up rubbing the side of the tiger which just slumped over wanting more "oh kitty wants more?"
Zeng Yaozu continued to do so after a bit he began to wonder if the man in the shadows was going to call over its large cat cause his hand was getting tired. Turns out he didn't have to wait long anymore, the tiger shot up and quickly walked over to the man in the shadow at the sound of a whistle "Oh kitty has to go?" Zeng Yaozu cocked his head to the side to look at where the tiger went only to see the man in the shadows he was tall maybe 6,5 he looked muscular from his body built despite it being covered up by his Hanfu, he couldn't see his face as he was wearing a straw hat that had a veil to cover his face but he did see that he had long pitch black hair that was braided underneath.
"What's the lunatic of the Dai family doing out here" he sounded cold and distant but he also sounded amused at the same time like he was lucky to see Zeng Yaozu here in the "Do you own the white kitty handsome Gēgē?" he chuckled "answer my question little lunatic" Zeng started looking around seemingly confused "I don't know, I think I was dragged here and then I got lost" he laughed at his response acting as if it was normal "are you ok" he walked closer to him "am I? I think so"
"Show me your chest?" Zeng Yaozu turned red despite the heavy amount of white rouge that was hiding his face"But handsome Gēgē I can't do that, that's shameless I don't want to show my body to anyone I not going to marry" The man took a step back "my apologize I should rephrase that better, can you allow me to see your chest so I can check if you have bruises so I can give you some ointment" Zeng Yaozu slowly opened his hanfu looking down to see some bruises on his chests "Here" the man tossed him some ointment not comfortable with getting anywhere near him now.
Zeng Yaozu grabbed the ointment from the ground and applied it on his chest before closing his hanfu again "Thank you handsome Gēgē"
The man turned the other way 'nobody told me the lunatic was that beautiful'
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Zeng Yaozu was kicked down the hill at the dead of night while he was just in his zhuyao, he rolled down before crashing into a tree "a-Zu stay there, you must be hurt, I'll go get your a-die ok?" a worried voice yelled out to the boy below but his voice was masking his hatred towards the lunatic at the bottom of the hill, but the hill was steep it felt more like being kick of a liege then a hill "Bófù, come back, a-Zu is scared, Bófù don't leave a-Zu here alone, Bófù? Bófù come back" Zeng Yaozu began to cry and laugh at the same time watching the light from his uncle's lantern slowly disappear, her tried to get up but failed as his ankle hit the tree too hard causing it to bruise quickly and making it hard to walk and stand on, he swore he even felt blood dripping down his ankle.
A meow was heard from behind Zeng. He turned around to see the familiar white tiger eyeing him "O-oh, it's the pretty kitty, did you come to help a-Zu?" reached up to pet the tiger which accepted the pet before lowering itself closer to let Zeng Yaozu get on top of it, Zeng Yaozu realized what the tiger was doing and crawled on top of the tiger before it quickly ran to its owner
"Meow!" the tiger called out to the man in front of him who was sitting b a fire, realizing the tiger was back he was about to let the tiger eat when he saw the person on its back "what did you bring" he got up walking to the tiger only to see the lunatic on its back crying but laughing at the same time
"H-handsome Gēgē, please help a-Zu, a-Zu is scared please help me handsome Gēgē" he fell off of the tigers back crawling to him crying his eyes out but still keeping his smile on "my Bófù said he would come back but it a liar he hates a-Zu, he tried to kill a-Zu once, please keep me safe handsome Gēgē" he clung on to his clothes crying rubbing the rouge on his clothes, Zhong bingwen didn't care about the make up on his clothes he just felt bad for the pitiful lunatic "come here, I'll keep you safe as long as you want little lunatic" he reached down putting his outer robes on Zeng Yaozu to keep him warm from the cold as his thin zhuyao was not going to keep him warm for long, he then picking Zeng Yaozu up and held him in his arms while Zeng Yaozu began to cry again into his chest.
Not long after a group of men were down at the spot Zeng Yaozu was said to be at and they weren't his family just a small group of large men who looked drunk and were ready to have some 'fun'
They seemed to have noticed the fire and walked in that direction thinking a specific someone was there. "Hey, you!" Zhang Bingwen stopped at the call, he was just on his way back from getting firewood to keep him and his guest warm. "What?" he glared at the group of drunk people "Whoa! No need to get upset, we were told a certain lunatic was down here, have you seen him?" Bingwen immediately understood why he was thrown down here.
He was going to become a victim of assault. "So what if I did" the men all laughed "Then hand him over" the largest of the group called out standing inform of the other man like he was supposed to be intimidating
They didn't last long, only a few minutes, the forest was covered in blood where he stood with dismembered body parts.
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"Handsome Gēgē! Handsome Gēgē are you here?" he called out into the tree lines but nobody came "Oh I guess handsome Gēgē isn't here" he was' He just got tired of waiting for him to come out, Zeng Yaozu put the basket of food hanging from a tree branch, before running off out of the woods again.
A bit after that the man came out from the shadows again he had just killed a man that harassed the lunatic not too long ago and didn't want the lunatic to see him covered in blood think it would scare him off, he walked over to the basket in the tree before cutting it down a note was attached
{handsome Gēgē I wanted to thank you for getting rid of that mean man that was trying to hurt me so I made you some dumpling, steamed crab and rice with a few mooncakes I hope you'll like it}
Well that one way to tell him he knows
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"Handsome Gēgē there you are, oh no your dirty" he grabbed a napkin from his basket and began to wipe off the blood from his face, they had got very close that he finally took of the straw-hat when he was around him "what did you bring this time" he always seemed eager to know what Zeng Yaozu brought "oh it's just shrimp sushi, dumpling and chicken soup with rice cakes" he smiled up at him "you know you can can me a-wen if you want" Zeng gasped "I can!" he laughed before repeating his name over and over blushing "t-then a-wen has to call me a–Zu as well!"
A-wen chuckled before unknowingly leaning down and kissing him on his cheek, they both froze on the spot trying to figure out what happened, Zeng Yaozu dropped the basket of food none of the containers opened except for some of the broth from the soup spilled out from its container.
"huh?" Zeng Yaozu put his hand on his cheek turning a deep shade of red, he looked up at A-wen who was still frozen on what he did "Oh, I'm sorry I did that subconsciously I'm so sorry-" he was cut off by the pressure of lips clashing onto him, the kiss was quick but sweet, it felt warm something a-wen never felt before, the was immediately shoved away as Zeng Yaozu ran off away from him.
Zhang Bingwen sighed "You've just become my biggest weakness a-Zu" he was red and flustered but smiled nonetheless
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"A-wen, you'll protect me right "
'Of course'
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"A-wen I love you"
'I love you too'
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"A-wen what would you do for me"
'I would burn his town for you and run away with you to keep you safe'
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"A-wen please be gentle with me"
'I'll try baobei'
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"A-wen I missed you!"
'I missed you too baobei'
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"Hubby! I missed you" he let out a small chuckle at his expression "You miss me every day my love what's so different about today?" His silver eyes looked at him lovingly "I have news hubby, I am baring your baby hubby, I'm so happy" The man was shocked by his words it took him days just to get one concubine pregnant but his beautiful Fairy got pregnant in one night "My love, are the words you say true?" He smiled wider "Yes hubby I'm bare my hubby's baby aren't you happy my husband" Husband, that is what he started calling him after their first night together, he had managed to get the lunatic of the Dai sect to somehow think they were married, not that he minded being called that he was planning to dethrone the empress to have his new love to have the throne "yes, I am happy my 'wife' but I have terrible new my wife" his fairy closed his eyes and leaned into his chest before muttering a few words "I know hubby you must leave soon right?"
"I'm sorry my love but I'll send money so you can take care of our baby, ok?" He let out a weak smile before responding "ok hubby"
He gave him one final kiss before they cuddled under the willow tree throughout the night, they parted ways the next morning
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Four days passed and Zhong Bingwen hadn't been anywhere near his concubines he was busy think and sending things to his 'new' wife, the one that will become empress soon, meanwhile the current empress was more relieved that the emperor was not touching his concubines anymore think soon he would only think about her, oh how wrong she was to assume that. Over those four days, he had told one of his loyal guards Cai Qin that he was sending things to his 'new wife and that his new position is to spy on his wife to make sure of his safety.
After a week of saving things to send to his wife, money, clothes, and meat to get his health back up everything was sent out by Cai qin who delivered the stuff late at night to not be spotted.
The next morning three crates and a smaller crate next to it, it was placed in front of the Dai mansion, at first the family confused it for trash but when they looked in to see what it was they were shocked to see silver coins, taels, and gold in the smaller crate and the bigger crates were lavish clothes that were made from the finish silks and fabric with white fluffy coats of arctic foxes, there was also beautifully designed umbrella with baby clothes made from fine cotton and blankets made of animal pelts, and it was all for Zeng Yaozu at first they didn't know who would send such gifts but then they found the note that said who it was from
'This is my gift from me to my beautiful wife Zeng Yaozu, the crates you see here are specially for him so don't bother trying to take it he knows when it will arrive and knows what is inside and if I get word that anything is missing, I will be sending my servants to raid your mansion until they find it and give it back to my wife.
To my Beautiful a-Zu I have sent you only the highest quantity of clothing, to keep you comfortable, coats to keep you warm from the harsh winters that are approaching blankets to keep you and our baby warm at night, with umbrellas so you don't burn in the sunlight and to protect you from the rain, with sandals that are fitted to your size along with baby clothes to keep our baby warm and comfortable, I also sent you a few pounds of meat and rice to help you get healthy. lastly, to my in-laws, I will be sending a few crates of betrothals gifts and a list will be sent too so you can know what is sent
— from the husband of Zeng Yaozu'
The family was in shock that everything in those crates now belongs to zhao hu and Zeng Yaozu alone, what was even more shock was the crazy amount of thing he had sent and on top of that he was planning on sending more thing for his in-laws as well, almost immediately the rest of the family became greedy trying to get Zeng Yaozu and his family to give some of their new found wealth to them as well, say it was rude to keep it all to themselves, and just like that everyone was trying to get on their good side just to meet Zeng Yaozu's husband and get money from him, just like a dog they did everything he asks they cleaned him bathed him fed him food even his cold and distance grandmother started coddling him with hugs, kisses and praising him for having three babies and giving him so much food it was a surprise how skinny he still was. Dai Zhilan on the other hand got tired of the coddling, it used to be all on her, but now it was on him, it made her jealous that she was no longer being treated like royalty, now everything was focused on her cousin who now has everything she wants.
A rich and devoted husband that sent him the finest thing in the country, three healthy babies, being treated like the prince of the house, it annoyed her how fast her family forgot about her, now everything was "oh a-lian, a-Zu is hungry go get some eggs for him" "a-lian your biǎo dî needs sleep, go and bother someone else" "a-Zu need this" "a-Zu needs that" "a-lian don't do that a-Zu doesn't like it" it made he want to scream but a lady doesn't scream her father always told her 'your better then everyone in this family and if someone is taking your light, put them in their place' "... put them in their place" she repeated those word out loud
'I'm going to put you in your place you damn lunatic'