Chapter 306 - False Allure (2/2)

{...*Is she resisting?...}

{...No, I haven't arrived there yet...The Dong descendants are in trouble so I came to them, I will be sure to resolve the situation quickly and return to the mission by tomorrow...}

{...*Alright then, do not waste time...}

{...I won't, thank you Grandmaster...}

Monk Du's body suddenly began to radiate a bright blue fiery glow as he concentrated in regulating the energy flowing into him. He then channeled the energy outward, with invisible bright blue strings soaring through the sky, searching for Chun Hua.

After a long while, the blue strings retracted and flowed back into his body and the light faded until they disappeared, Monk Du opened his eyes and blankly stared at the ground for a bit.

He then got up and walked over to the window and looked up at the full moon and a wry smile tugged at his lips, ”I thought I would be ready for the end when it came. But now that it is near, this world suddenly seems all the more alluring...I worry.” Monk Du said with a sigh as he glanced at the bed where Chun Hai was fast asleep.

***

Chun Hua sat on the bed, across the room watching Prince Houyi looking through some doc.u.ments. She inwardly sighed, this was not at all going as she expected.

She had thought that Prince Houyi had finally recognized her efforts and seen that she was just as driven as he was for greatness; that he had finally acknowledged that she was worthy to be at his side, but then what was the meaning of this?

Since their reunion a few days, they had been sharing the same room. She had initially been very excited that night when he had said she would be staying with him, but then did not even share so much as a kiss much less anything else happening between them.

For days now they had been sharing the same room, a grown man and a grown woman and nothing has happened.

So she was frustrated, highly irritated, and incredibly confused.

He has concubines so he has obviously been with other women before...Although since he had no children yet, she could not prove that he had actually been intimate with said women, but no, there was no way her Prince could not be impotent. That would be highly problematic for their future and highly unacceptable.

Therefore, the only other conclusion was that he did not find appealing as a woman - which was another acceptable notion. She knew she was beautiful and could not understand how a man could possibly find her unappealing.

He spent all day with her which was great but then at night, he kept his distance within the room, burying himself in doc.u.ments or books and only coming to bed when she was asleep. What's worse was that if she even so much as ”accidentally” touched him when she was ”asleep”, he would jump up and out of the bed, back to his reading.

She could not imagine that prince Houyi was the sort to care about the minor details of wanting their relationship to be official before he touched her. Even if that were the case, they did not at all seem like a couple, nothing had changed, nothing was different, actually, it was even worse than before - Prince Houyi barely looked her way these days.

To make things worse, images of Lei Xing with her Emperor kept poppping into her mind. Chun Hua knew she should not be comparing them, after all, Prince Houyi and the Long Emperor were different people.

But then even if Prince Houyi was naturally a cold man, the Long Emperor was also a cold man, if not colder. Prince Houyi at least spared an occasional glance or two at his concubines, the Long Emperor bluntly ignored their existence, not to mention how indifferent he was during the torture.

Yet when Lei Xing was around he was completely different, his features softened and even he doted on her as if she were the only thing that mattered - that was what a real relationship looked like and that was what she wanted. And even though she told herself she did not need that sort of idiot level of affection, she still hoped she and Prince Houyi could have some affection between them.

So she had spent the last few days wallowing in disappointment rather than the glee she had envisioned. He had shut down her ideas and barely spoke to her now and if she did not know better she would think he was angry with her. He was right here with her, all the time too, but oddly enough, she felt incredibly lonely right now and she was not one to feel lonely.

Chun Hai sighed and then got up, ”I'm going for a walk...” She said grabbing her cloak.

Prince Houyi promptly stood up and said, ”I'll come with y-”

”No need, I'm fine alone -”

”I insist.” Prince Houyi said and then proceeded to walk over to the door, he opened it and then turned back to her and said, ”Come along...”

Chun Hua knit her brows and begrudgingly followed. This was what she was talking about. He was clearly doting on her, following her every whim but it was different, it was odd.

This was not how it supposed to be.