Chapter 75: Still a Girl
Shengli returned early from the East after taking a look since everything was already taken care of by Xing’s people. Even Shengli was amazed by the detailed stratagem she had put in effect for every scenarios. He didn’t have much to do except using his men to keep an eye on Lord Chu and the activities of Shihong in the East.
When he returned to the capital expecting to see the beautiful smile of his moon he was informed she was in the Zhong Manor and he went straight there to see her in the training grounds.
As expected she was happy to see him and for some reason he felt her eyes had lost that usual shine and brilliance and she looked weak. He wanted to ask her to take rest but seeing her excitedly going for a match with those men he decided to wait.
Lord Zhong was standing beside him admiring her and Shengli felt proud for some reason. It’s not like he was the one who taught her all this, right? But knowing she could achieve this much by her own efforts made him feel pleased.
As he was watching, Shengli could feel that her moves are a tad bit slower than usual and she felt a bit disoriented as he knows her every move and she would never take this much time to defeat these men.
As he suspected, he saw her suddenly fainting and Shengli’s mind didn’t think of anything but Xing and the fact that her head was going to hit the ground and his legs moved automatically to catch her before she hits the ground and he just lunged towards her, ignoring the halberds that was swinging around. He felt a sharp pain in his arm that was hit by one of the halberds but he ignored it and caught Xing before she fell on the ground.
Luckily all those men were skillful and they easily halted their moves as soon as they realised the situation.
Lord Zhong who was standing beside Shengli realised the danger only when Shengli shouted her name and lunged forward. Even he was shocked to see him moving that fast towards her without telling those men to stop first. Wouldn’t the first reaction of anyone would be to shout ’stop’ to those men first before getting to her? So in his eyes, he does not see anyone but her, even himself? Those men are trained and their weapon won’t hit her and he knows that too. In fact by intercepting them he would be the one in danger of getting hit by the weapons. So he wasn’t worried about the weapons hitting her but her falling down and he ignored his safety to hold her?
"Xing!.... Wake up... Xing..! Please....!", those were the words that were coming out of him and he was completely out of it.
Lord Zhong was worried too and he dispersed the men gathered around and called for their Manor’s physician and asked Shengli to pick her up and Xing was brought to Lady Zhong’s courtyard.
Shengli was sitting by her side worried to the bones and he was pale and had cold sweats. Lord Zhong and Lady Zhong who were worried themselves, composed themselves after seeing Shengli panicked and irrational not letting anyone near her. At least some of them should be rational!
Shengli was like a monster protecting his favoured treasure and had a cold aura around him as if he would tear anyone who gets close to her, all the while calling her name as a mantra.