Chapter 48: She Saved for Dowry?
Shengli who was happy deep in his heart knew this was the time he had to ask her about her secrets.
"So since we are laying everything out in the open, why not tell us about your connection with Lord Chu?", Shengli asked knowing her father would pursue it too.
"Chu Yixin? What’s with that bastard and you?", AoTian shouted.
Father has bad blood with that Lord Chu too? Xing smiled, "I hate him", she said.
"Who doesn’t? Now tell us", Shengli had a grin that he had trapped her.
Xing understood his intentions and smiled back, " Then tell me what happened in that library fire. I bet it was you who saved me and not Haru"
With that the grin in Shengli’s face was wiped off and Xing’s smile widened.
So my guess was right! He knows what happened there.. I’m not going to tell you my secrets without you opening up even a little.
"The Caijing Library fire? You mentioned it before and said your hair colour changed after that? So Shengli was there too?", Rijun asked curiously. That fired was an unsolved mystery till now. As per the onlookers report, the fire was so big that nobody could enter inside but it suddenly disappeared leaving only the inside of the library burnt to ashes.
Seeing he had no escape and he really did want to know about her connections with the Eastern province, Shengli decide to tell her the truth.. Well .. Most of the truth,
" That night, I didn’t know you were there and I found Shihong there and we were fighting when the library caught fire. As I was escaping I found you but then we were trapped in the fire and that’s when the Tiger God you are acquainted with.. He helped us escape by putting out the fire. For some reason you don’t remember those incidents and your hair colour changed and it helped you with escaping Shihong too since Shihong knew you as my lover with dark hair and was trying to find you "
" Wait.. So Shihong was looking for the one who was supposed to be the Golden Tiger and later he wanted to find Shengli’s lover and now he wanted to find Lord Táng not knowing all the three persons are one and she is the Prime Minister’s daughter? ", Rijun asked confused.