Gifted Bride of the Sinned Prince Chapter 158

158 I like His Highness

Li Hua asked Lóng Wei if he ever traveled in a boat. Lóng Wei refused and asked her if she wanted to travel in the boat.

“Yes. It is fun to ride in a boat. Touching the water and feeling the freshness of the air, makes one’s mind calm down. This was what I heard from my Second Elder Brother once. He had traveled to the adjacent town of Xinshui by boat. I asked him to take as well, but Father didn’t allow .” Li Hua recalled an old mory of Xu Zuwen.

“I will take you in the boat to the other town. We can go tomorrow if you want,” Lóng Wei opined.

“I want to find the truth first,” Li Hua asserted.

“We have a week here to spend ti. We can find the truth later,” Lóng Wei said. He didn’t want her to see Feng Lao. He would not be able to see her heartbroken.

“Your Highness, you promised that you will tell about the culprit today,” Li Hua reminded him of what he said the previous night.

“I lied,” Lóng Wei firmly answered. “I need ti to find the person.”

“Oh,” Li Hua sounded hurt.

“You confessed yesterday that you have started to like ,” Lóng Wei said with inquisitiveness. He wanted her to say that she had feelings for him. But because he didn’t fulfill his promise, she might not accept her feelings again. She might again lie to him.

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“I won’t deny it anymore, Your Highness. I like His Highness,” Li Hua admitted truthfully what was in her heart. She tightly pressed her fingers and pursed her lips together. “I won’t deny that I started to see him differently from the other people when he helped and stood for . I truly felt overwheld because of his actions. However, I feel attracted to him not because he married or saved my brother.”

Lóng Wei didn’t blink for a while and asked her the reason behind her attraction toward him.

“Can I tell this in the cold palace?” Li Hua requested him and looked around.

“What difference will it make? You can tell here,” Lóng Wei seed desperate to her. She bit her lower lip and moved a bit close to him.

“So people are still looking at us. I feel a little awkward,” she whispered and then stepped back.

“Then, shall we head back? You are hungry too.” Lóng Wei waited for her reply. Li Hua humd and agreed with him. She turned to her right to walk ahead when Lóng Wei pulled her back by grabbing her wrist.

“Li Hua,” Lóng Wei softly called out her na.

“Yes?” She responded and curled her fingers.

“Can we kiss?” He asked her.

“No,” Li Hua imdiately answered.

Lóng Wei smiled and let go of her hand, and she went ahead of him.

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Tang Zhaodang searched for Li Hua near the river. However, among the crowd, it was impossible to see her.

Tang Zhaodang rembered that none of the dead bodies were found in the residence that day. It was kind of mysterious to everyone in the town. Though the residence had burned down, so many thought the people in Xu Residence burned into ashes.

“Tao Jingren might have seen sothing wrong. Why did I even get in his words?” Tang Zhaodong mumbled in his mouth and looked at the dragon boat which was floating in the river water. A year ago, when everything was good in the town when his friends Xu Zifan and Xu Zuwen were alive, they had co to this sa spot to see the dragon boat.

“You both have promised that we will et at this dock every year to mark our friendship,” he murmured and sighed.

He got a push and turned to find that the crowd on the dock had increased. He decided to leave as his head was aching because of the wine he had earlier.

Coming down the dock, his eyes fell on the people standing across the river, watching the floating dragon boat. The children were screaming in happiness while so were playing with each other.

Tang Zhaodang had turned hopeful when Tao Jingren told him that he saw soone similar to Li Hua. But he was wrong.

A dead person could never be brought back to life.

His eyes saw Lóng Wei, who had a broad smile on his lips. He looked in the direction where Lóng Wei had his focus. Tang Zhaodang was shocked to see Li Hua. He brought his hand near his mouth. “She looks like Li Hua. No! She is Li Hua,” he murmured and stepped forward when got hit by a heavy man, coming from his right.

They both apologized to each other. Tang Zhaodang quickly ran towards Li Hua. It was unbelievable for him for a few seconds.

“Li Hua!” Tang Zhaodang pronounced her na.

Lóng Wei and Li Hua looked around as they heard her na. They saw a nobleman had approached them.

“Li Hua, you are alive and safe!” Tang Zhaodang said with imnse happiness on his grimace. He stepped forward, stretching out his arms when Lóng Wei stood in front of Li Hua and pushed him away.

“Do you wish to die?” Lóng Wei questioned him. Li Hua got worried as one person had recognized her already. But she didn’t know him. It was her first ti seeing Tang Zhaodang.

“Get away. I want to see Li Hua,” Tang Zhaodang, unable to recognize Lóng Wei, talked rudely with him.

Lóng Wei clicked his tongue with the top of his mouth and then chuckled. “Get your eyes away from my wife if you don’t want to take them out!”

Tang Zhaodang was surprised to find that Li Hua was married. Why did she marry another man when she loved Feng Lao?!

“We shall head back,” Li Hua told Lóng Wei, who agreed to her.

“Stop!” Tang Zhaodang placed his hand on Lóng Wei’s shoulder, who narrowly gazed at him. “Who are you?” He finally asked.

Li Hua glanced at Lóng Wei, wondering if he would tell the truth or not.

“I am Qiu Lóng Wei, the Sixth Prince of the Qiu Kingdom, the youngest child of the great King of this Kingdom.” Lóng Wei gladly introduced himself.

Tang Zhaodang imdiately pulled his hand back from his shoulder. Lóng Wei turned to look at him.

“Don’t call the na of my wife. Be respectful towards her,” he stated and caught Li Hua’s hand. He took her away while Tang Zhaodang stood dumbfounded at his place.