Chapter 322: Hidden Memories
Chenglei was impressed and at the same time a bit displeased by the tepid reaction he got from the one in front of him when he mentioned the Emperor.
Won’t the usual reaction be shock, surprise and happiness? Isn’t this her end goal in doing all these charity, to be recognised by the Emperor? Or...
He looked at the pride and arrogance shining in those golden orbs that are said to be owned only by the greatest Emperor of their Kingdom as she handed him his cup of tea and the sweet scent that filled the tent mercilessly taunted him with her doing nothing.
How mesmerising!
The more he looked at her, the more he got sucked in to her. He never had taken a glance that lasted more than a couple of seconds at any woman in his entire life with only his mother as the exception.
It’s not like he had shortage of women around him... Even now there are a bunch of women trying to vye for his attention back in the capital city but he never felt any need to respond to them. He is being told he is engaged to one of them too but he had taken a look at that woman and felt nothing... So why am I this intrigued by this one..? It is not just her beauty right? Why does my heart skip a beat each time she looks at me? Why do I feel the urge to hug her? She looks like she’d be at least twenty... Won’t she already have a man.? Uh! I refuse to believe she has another man!
"Miss Táng! The Emperor wants you in the court immediately", he repeated to get a proper response from her who was now sitting with her back straight and knees together as a proper lady. Her plumpy red lips glistened with the tea she was drinking in the soft and warm lamp lights that stirred his carnal desires. He wanted to keep himself from doing something which he will regret later. If he let his thoughts fulfilled, he’d be pressing her under him, on his bed only few feet away, with both of them feeling the warmth of their bare skin by now.
Oooh! That would be wonderful!
But it is highly inappropriate to think such things about the woman who trusted him enough to join him in his tent for dinner. She looks pure!
He crossed his legs to hide the reaction from his lower body and took deep breaths to control the hotness in his body.
"The Emperor?", Xing curved her lips to a smile and snorted slightly, " Lord Li, do you have an edict?", she asked with her eyes fixed on him and boy did his face twitch!
Does this woman not trust me? Me? Lord Li ChengNuo, whom even the Prime Minister trusts explicitly? She might not know I am the brother of the Emperor but shouldn’t she know my power in the capital city? She thinks I’m just luring her with the Emperor’s name?