Chapter 243: Broken Heart
As Xing approached the room, she heard moaning noises but they weren’t the kind of moaning she’d have preferred.
Xing saw the Emperor pushing Weiye despite her protests to stay inside a bathtub in the room that was filled with... Dirty rainwater..?
"Kouki..?", Xing pushed him aside and pulled the trembling Weiye out of the tub. There were some scratch markings in her pale skin that was not covered by the Emperor’s coat that was protecting her modesty.
"What?", he snorted, "Didnt you ask me to release the heat in her body? Cold water would do just fine, right?"
Xing clicked her tongue by his attitude but she could see his worries, "What if she catches a cold?", "So stupid!" she mumbled at the one standing with his hands tied to his back in front of her. But seems like his tactic worked. She seems fine now but is shivering uncontrollably and have fainted.
Just then their soldiers got inside after securing the perimeter and arresting the men.
Xing covered the bruises on Weiye and asked for a blanket from the soldiers when one got it from somewhere and she immediately covered her. For a noble lady like her, if what happened to her tonight is outed, it will be the death sentence for her. The society is cruel.. As if what she went through struggling with those men is not enough, the words of the others will be worse than that. It is better to keep this as a secret.
"I apologise for curiously following a doe at this time of night with Weiye and causing trouble to your majesty", Xing bowed to the Emperor, "We would have been in trouble if Your Majesty didn’t come here in the right time as those infiltrators might have... ", she paused and wiped the corners of her eyes as if she was really scared by whatever happened here.
The Emperor understood her intention and he got mad..... Really mad. Is she implying to those soldiers that I was the one who saved the women by disabling those thirty odd men? Why would I take credit for what she did?
Xing didn’t mind his anger and the Emperor picked the double sword at the entrance of the house and Xing asked the soldiers to carry Weiye as the Emperor shot her a glare when she was about to ask him to carry her.