CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

Inside the ErWang pagoda, a young dragon could be seen rotating in the center of the elongated pagoda in a spiral with its head downwards, giving a rumbling sound in the tall pagoda that residents had not visited after nearly collapsing a while ago.

“Young man, why don’t you call my name, should I come over to you? You are the owner of the Blood Stone, a weak and helpless child like you, but have enormous energy. It is really very interesting, if you can win this time, I will follow you” ErWang’s voice.

“Ekh”

In BaiYing’s subconscious, he was standing in the center of the room in a tall building, resembling a towering pagoda, with the white dragon head ErWang looking up at him with a pair of bright red eyes.

BaiYing swallowed his saliva, he was not afraid of the dragon, staring at the pair of red eyes sharply while clenching his fists tightly.

“Are you going to swallow me?” asked Bai Ying.

ErWang sniffed BaiYing’s face which was very close to his, he then pulled his head back.

“Hemh, you do smell so good, your whole body is a Blood Stone, if I want to become an impeccable dragon, I have to swallow you whole, and you, looks so delicious, your young flesh must be very tasty”

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“Then, what are you waiting for, just swallow me, if you can.”

ErWang’s laughter boomed and echoed throughout the towering pagoda.

“Hahahaha if I could? I am the celestial dragon ErWang, who can stand in my way if I want to. What a pity, such a brave and pretty young man, hemh, I haven’t enjoyed human flesh for a long time. Will this prevent me from ascending to heaven? This, what a dilemma, but, what does it mean of the flesh of a human child who is not so important like you are, surely, the heavens will make an exception for me this time, hahahaha”

BaiYing was still standing firmly in place as ErWang again brought its huge head towards BaiYing, opening its huge jaws in preparation to engulf him,

“Arrgghh!” His wide mouth, along with the strong wind was ready to eat him,

However, suddenly an extremely bright light covered his vision, light emerging from the body of the defenceless youth below him.

“Akkhh!” ErWang screamed an extremely bright orange light that blinded his eyes, emanating from BaiYing’s body making him moan in pain.

“Arrgggghhh! This is impossible, no one can give off light as bright as this, it is impossible for the Ruler of Nature to be reborn, argghhh!!!”

ErWang’s grievous scream resounded far beyond the pagoda, filling the dark sky of LiuYang and its surroundings.

His voice reached as far as the big city of LiuYang and the surrounding valley made everyone who heard it have to close their ears tightly.

BaiYing opened his eyes, suddenly opened his eyes wide, he returned to his bed, was it a dream? But how could it be a dream was so real, he could feel ErWang’s scream in his ear very clearly.

“Ekh” as BaiYing moved about to raise his hand, he turned his head to the side where someone was resting his head while holding his hand tightly, Crown Prince, who was sleeping with a very tired face, but, where is this? Why is this place so strange? Did they move again?

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The sound of running water from along a small long river with clear water, the laughter of children running around and playing freely, sweet foreign faces, strange clothes, and some adorable thick furry animals, including a huge rabbit.

A gentle breeze caressed BaiYing’s long shiny hair very lightly, who looked very elegant and radiant in a long dress of yellowish-white silk fabric with a slight red combination along to the bottom, some combinations on the front of the neck that hung wide which showed a hint of his innocent chest, which was knitted with gold and silver threads that gleamed in the sunlight, the strangely beautiful garment, which was hanged not far in front of the bed in BaiYing’s room, it must be for him, his clothes had been soaked from his own cold sweat last night.

BaiYing slowly stepped to his feet, feeling very curious to see all the crowds that could be seen from behind the window beside his bed, cheerful faces with very wide smiles, foreign faces pleasing to the eyes and ears with the sound of their laughter. The sound of children playing and running around him who was standing in the middle of the field, there were several small houses on the edge of the field no different from the building where he came out, all of them were probably resting because they were tired so that no one realized he was out, even he couldn’t bear to wake the Crown Prince who was sleeping so soundly on the edge of his bed.

BaiYing raised his hand, caressing the face of the sleeping Crown Prince closing his eyes with his hands folded on the bedside, he should have never lost his guard under any circumstances. The Crown Prince he knew was very observant and could hear the slightest sound, however, perhaps due to his weak body condition, Luo Xiang had to relent, and kept his eyes closed even though BaiYing’s soft hand stroked his hair, even lowering his head to kiss his cheek.

“Chup”

“Your Majesty, you must be very tired.”

It was also possible, since this place, was safe enough according to the Crown Prince, that he could unburden himself a bit and rest.

BaiYing smiled broadly as several children ran up to him handing him the flower arrangements they had just picked.

“Brother, this is for big brother!” exclaimed one of the children in the front, children who ranged in age from around five to ten years looked at BaiYing’s face with a shy smile, slowly, BaiYing accepted the colourful wildflower arrangement.

“This is for brother? It’s very good, beautiful” BaiYing said slightly lowering his body in front of the children, couldn’t help to smile.

“Yeah, big brother is also very beautiful” with a shy face the slightly fat boy in the front dared to praise BaiYing, so the whole group of children ran away in shame.

“Hahahahaha”

BaiYing straightened his body, innocent and cute children, ran around laughing very cheerfully after teasing him, really like a second Luo Xiang, several adults, men, and women around their front door smiled in amusement at their cute children’s behaviour.

BaiYing’s face shone in the bright sun that morning, smelling the wildflowers that were given to him, the pretty little flowers, he didn’t see a single mansion or blocky road there, but the residents around the place that might be the village didn’t look poor, from their look on their faces, looked so happy, living in the fertile and green land, full of fruit and vegetable plants in front of the house, also some livestock and other cute animals, different from the villages he was used to seeing, especially the faces and clothes they wore, as well as what he wore now, beautiful, although not excessive, but pleasing to the eye, also, for several people who were already standing not far in front of him, where an old woman who was looking straight at him with teary eyes, the woman closed her mouth saw BaiYing’s bright face not far in front of her.

“Oh, this can’t be, it’s, so look-alike”

The old lady who was already having a bit of trouble walking, helped by the little lady beside her, maybe it was her maid, limped toward BaiYing who was stuttering and didn’t move in place, suddenly, a few of the people who had appeared out of from nowhere was already in front of him.

“Eh”

A little nervous, did he do something wrong by walking around without permission? The old lady was about to approach BaiYing and touch him when a voice came from the guest house.

“YingYing!” Luo Xiang, who was with a worried face ran over to BaiYing.

LuoXiang had already run to BaiYing and hugged him when the old woman who was also about to approach BaiYing pulled her hand and covered her mouth in tears.

“Oh this is destiny”

BaiYing almost fell down when LuoXiang’s wide arms grabbed his body and hugged him tightly.

“This kid, thank goodness you’re awake, oh YingYing.”

BaiYing’s eyes widened, swallowing his saliva when suddenly everyone looked at him, especially the eyes of the old woman with a familiar face who looked at him with eyes full of emotion.

“Eh, Your Majesty, who is she?” BaiYing asked in a small voice,

LuoXiang let go of his embrace, and turned his body to look at the old woman who was standing not far in front of the two, the Crown Prince slowly tidy up BaiYing’s long silky hair that was left loose so beautifully.

“Em, YingYing, she, is your great-grandmother, Her Highness Princess WuLan”

Hearing that, BaiYing froze for a moment, maybe he just heard it wrong, suddenly his body went limp, the flower he was holding in his hand fell off and fell to the ground, his eyes wide seeing the face of the old woman who was holding back sobs in front of him, for some reason the old woman’s face did look very familiar, but, what should he do? Does he really have a family? After all that he knew had left him, including his mother, what wasn’t this a dream?

BaiYing staggered, suddenly his head hurt unbelievably, LuoXiang quickly held him.

“YingYing”

His chest hurts, all the facts about his family, what he thinks are just guesses, are they all true? He still couldn’t accept all these facts quickly, BaiYing gripped the Crown Prince’s sleeve tightly, lowering his head trying to draw the air that seemed to be sucked from him.

“Y-Your Majesty, Servant, want to rest, please, heh take me to the room”

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