Chapter 133: A Familiar Voice
Xing could not find anything more about the Tianshi Emperor even his birth name or his love story that Xing most anticipated. How did a priestess tamed a blood-listing Tiger to a man who stood on his knees to propose to her.
But Xing learned why he was called ’Scarlet Tiger’ from his journals. That night when he eliminated the entire inner palace, he started with wearing a white robe and by dawn he was drenched in blood from head to toe and his disheveled black hair and his eyes that shone amber like that of a tiger made the onlookers see a scarlet coloured tiger with black stripes and golden eyes out of fear. So that’s why the name ’Scarlet Tiger’ stuck among the commoners.
That evening with only a month to her birthday, Xing was looking through her window. The snow was falling like cotton and made everything outside look like it was all painted white. Xing had a cup of blossoms tea and she was in no mood to drink it as it reminded her of Shengli. She just held the cup near her nose and let the smell of the blossoms engulf her.
Xing was worried since its been more than a month but still there was no news of Shengli and Shihong too. What is Shihong planning, she wondered. Also these days the frequency of her food getting poisoned had increased to. Her investigations was going nowhere because the one doing it was so meticulous leaving no trails. Xing had a hunch it must be that Eunuch but couldn’t understand what he might have against her.
Just as she was in deep thoughts a familiar voice broke her out of her trance,
"Sister-in-law!"
Yes! It was Lin Mubai who was there in the guard uniform of the inner palace, standing outside of her window.
This is a risky place to be, Xing thought and did he really call me ’sister-in-law’?
"I came to report, Sister-in-law ", Lin Mubai said in his usual chirpy tone, "I did everything like you asked and acted like how big brother would in the past month. Everything is going well except we cannot find brother wolf. But I came to inform sister-in-law that the forth young master of the Ran family contacted our people to arrange for a place during New year. The forth young master is said to be a.... "
"What kind of place?", Xing interrupted noticing he was going off-topic.