The Dragon's Flower Vol 6 - Vol 9 (END)

Side Story- Long Lian [1] - Your beauty is worth the price

Side Story- Long Lian [1/ 5]

LL 1 - Your beauty is worth the price

For the nth time, Long Lian, the only princess of Guilin Kingdom, wondered if this was her punishment from Heaven for cross-dressing and went to visit the marketplace during the New Years.

Because after that day, she got an unwanted visitor that frequently visited her courtyard.

She was a little disappointed by the guards assigned around her courtyard that failed to detect the intrusion of the King of Munzhu that acted unfitting of a gentleman.

However, she had, ever since the beginning, not expected him to be a gentleman with his barbaric looking appearance, coarse hair with small braids, and the addition of his crass words before a lady. The King of Munzhu country, Tian Liang, was the exact symbolism of a person that gets to be the king because he was the strongest.

Today, he was here again.

"Ah Lian, let's go somewhere."

"Please mind your conduct. And you should call me by my title, Your Majesty," Long Lian replied primly and managed to keep her irritation on the lid. "I will have a knowledgeable eunuch to act as a tour guide on my behalf."

Tian Liang would call Long Lian as 'Ah Lian' to tease her for liking it when Xiao Hua called her that. Of course, she disliked it when he called her that, but till now, she had yet to succeed in stopping him.

"I only want you as my tour guide." Tian Liang cracked the shell of the peanuts with his nimble but thick fingers.

Proper teachings from her etiquette teacher helped her to maintain her composure even when she wanted to pull out her sword and chop him into pieces.

"I'm busy," Long Lian rejected coldly.

She had been stuck with archery lessons in the morning and lunch had been lonely without anyone eating with her. She wanted to have a brief nap to erase the headache, but Tian Liang appeared like a persistent fly!

"Entertaining guests is a very important matter," Tian Liang said in a meaningful tone. "Will Ah Lian risk making this important guest upset?"

Long Lian frowned at his unveiled threat. "Then you should have followed Duke Heng properly. He is the one assigned to entertain you during your stay."

"I'm not into males. His body does not have soft curves as yours does."

After a few seconds, Long Lian blushed after she caught on to what he meant. "Y-You rogue!"

"Only for you, princess." Tian Liang smirked, enjoying the blush that makes her look more lively.

"Y-You..." Long Lian was in a truly difficult situation, not knowing how to deal with this persistent and immoral man! "Could you please stop bothering me? Why do you want from me?"

"Hmm... What do I want from you?" Tian Liang rubbed his chin and absently reminded himself to shave his growing beard later. The princess never liked the sight of his beard even though the ladies back in Munzhu were crazy about it.

Long Lian squirmed uncomfortably when he eyed her like she was an expensive commodity. "What are you looking at!"

"When Long Zhu demanded your freedom in exchange for a very rare night pearl from the Xuanwu Kingdom... and adding in a few benefits for me in the treaty contract, I started to get curious about you."

"Your Majesty thinks this princess is not worth the price?" Long Lian inquired with a politeness that could not hide her hostility.

Even if she was the favoured princess in the Kingdom, that does not mean she was ignorant of how people viewed a princess should be in their eyes.