OFFERING CONCUBINES
EPISODE 88 IS YOUR PROTECTOR
Xiao Yi felt his head so dizzy, he painstakingly tried to open his eyes.
The atmosphere was so dim that it was just an illumination from a small campfire that was not far from where it was leaning. On a damp stone wall, the illumination from a torch-like lantern made Xiao Yi realize he was in a foreign place.
His seat was filled with dry leaves and twigs. The light green dress she wore became crumpled and somewhat dirty.
Xiao Yi held his head holding a pulse there, squinting his eyes trying to make himself fully aware.
A person in warm brown clothes turned his back, sitting cross-legged facing the fire in front of him. His burly body seemed to rise from behind like a sturdy tower. His long hair was draped, partially tied to the top of his head.
Slowly, Xiao Yi realized, he vaguely knew the figure that was now behind him. The body is almost like that of His Majesty, only owned by one person in Yanzhi.
"What did you do to me?" Xiao Yi sighed, with such a cautious voice.
He and this man were inside a cave, which was not too big. Stalactite rocks are scattered in it, indicating the place is still in Youwu territory. Because the caves in Youwu are identical to many large stalactite rocks hanging overhead and glacial perennials on its cold floors.
Inside the cave that was wide enough it should feel cold with quite extreme temperatures, but strangely the cold air that entered into it turned warmer.
The person who turned his back turned around, facing Xiao Yi, his handsome face so gloomy between the light from the small bonfire before him and a torch stuck on the rock wall.
The darkest jade-like black eye glint looked towards Xiao Yi with a strange glare.
"Xiao Yi. I have long wanted to call you by the name you first mentioned to me." she said slowly, as if to herself.
"Mr Zhao..."Xiao Yi sat up straight, not the least he showed any fear, even though his heart trembled a little. One place with this man. His head still felt a little hovering after being unconscious for some time.
"You can call me Juren." He said then slowly thrusting out a small wine jar.
Xiao Yi did not welcome him, but his eyes shone sharply, watching over to Zhao Juren.
"Why did you kidnap me?" xiao Yi asked, in an accusatory tone.
"You know, I am the wife of His Highness Yan Yue, committing a crime by kidnapping the king's wife can put you in a severe punishment." Xiao Yi lashed out with a resolute voice.
Zhao Juren placed the wine jar in front of Xiao Yi. Then looked at Xiao Yi's face.
"Nobody does not know you, concubine Yi. The whole town of Yanzhi knows that you are His Majesty's favorite concubine."
Xiao Yi waited with a watchful look.
"Where did your courage come from, committing a crime like this?" the Xiao Yi.
"I didn't kidnap you, but I just saved you from an assassination attempt" Zhao Juren said in a heavy voice.
Xiao Yi blinked his eyes, unsure of what he heard.
"Murder attempt? Who wants to kill me?" Xiao Yi smirked, his eyes splashed out in such a manner.
"Many want to harm you, because you become quite dangerous for a few who feel threatened by the attitude and the lunge of a new concubine who is so brave, so brave, and at least I know of one plan tonight and it has derailed it." Zhao Juren said.
"The ones who kidnapped you were the Suri's men, I've been following them for the past few days. And when they took you tonight, I took care of them before they hurt you." Zhao Juren.
"How can I believe what you're saying? How do you know the plot to kill me tonight?" Xiao Yi investigated suspiciously.
Suddenly Zhao Juren had been here and claimed she had saved him from an assassination attempt on him, something that Xiao Yi could not easily believe.
"You've been kidnapped by people sent by the queen mother, and I know because I was one of the people sent by the queen mother to do it!" Zhao Juren's reply made Xiao Yi momentarily dumbfounded, he inched slowly.
"You want to kill me too?" Xiao Yi clenched his hands and asked in a sharp voice.
"I won't save you if I intend to harm you" Zhao Juren replied, lightly. Then turned to the small, dimming bonfire, put some dry twigs in there, making it burn again.
"Xiao Yi, I don't like to call you concubine Yi, so I'll call you as soon as I meet you like this." Zhao Juren turned again to Xiao Yi.
Xiao Yi stared back at Zhao Juren, he had met this person several times already, never feeling that Zhao Juren could harm him.
But Zhao Juren's confession now made her heart wry and intimidated.
"I will tell you one thing, Xiao Yi...
Since you have moved the heart of His Majesty Yan Yue, you have awakened the injured lion for so long. A lot of people don't like that, including the queen mother.
Yanzhi Kingdom had been half of it under my aunt's control. And making His Majesty come back to life with full awareness would make him lose a lot of things." Zhao Juren sighed for a moment.
"I've even been ordered many times to make you wretch, but I can't do it" Zhao Juren said again.
"Why didn't you do it?" xiao Yi asked with a trembling voice.
"Because I want you to stay alive." The answer was so short, but it did not satisfy Xiao Yi, who knew it right, Zhao Juren was the nephew of the queen mother who was so eager to see her vanish.
"Make me live, make you oppose your own aunt. Betraying him, only gets you in trouble!"
"I will oppose it a thousand times if it concerns your life, Xiao Yi." Zhao Juren said sharply.
"Why?"
"Because I like you, Xiao Yi. I like you so much."Zhao Juren answered his eyes looking at Xiao Yi who was stunned at the spot leaning. The answer was so certain with no hesitation at all.
"I'm not asking you to repay me with anything. I know myself enough, I can't expect anything from someone else's wife. I just want to protect you as much as I can, because that's enough for me." Zhao Juren stood up, looking towards Xiao Yi with a gentle gaze that gave Xiao Yi goosebumps.
"I'll drive you back before they realize you've been missing for so long. Keep it a secret tonight, that I saved you. Only then can I continue to protect you. For anything else, I'll take care of it." Zhao Juren took the torch from the cave wall.
"My horse is outside." Zhao Juren trampled the small bonfire on the stone floor, to death. His hands stretched out to Xiao Yi, but Xiao Yi once again rejected him, he stood on his own feet by holding on to the cold cave wall, walking ahead by stumbling out towards the cave door.
"I don't want to make a misunderstanding between us, I reiterate one thing, I love Your Majesty."
That straightforward speech was like a needle that had hit Zhao Juren's heart.
"The sky is so evil to me, it takes you away from the one person who loves you and puts you in the arms of another man. I once wished that the person who now has you did not love you, so that I could be among you and you would look at me a little.
But either time is too late or I'm too unlucky, making myself unable to control my own heart.
My love may be a wrong achievement, letting you carry everything I have is probably the best.
Protecting you for the sake of making my heart calm despite being burned with jealousy all my life is the most beautiful choice, rather than losing you out of my sight."
Zhao Juren walked behind Xiao Yi, looking at the girl's back with a warm thumping chest. He had set his heart, becoming a protector to this girl he could never have.
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