LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN TIGRESS 399 She Turned the Table

Xing with her wide grinning face looked at the gigantic black dragon with its scales silvery like thick steel plates. His five clawed feet looked dangerous as it pointed at her and the long white whiskers floated in the air.

"Bleached peacock?", she rubbed her chin with her slender fingers painting a beautiful picture,

"Or should I call you Blackened dragon? You look really good in white, you know.... You were really cute as a white peacock. Is that why you seem angry because of your dark colour? In this dark dragon form you look like a...."

Xing paused as she realised dark clouds forming above the roof of the Audience Hall as if she'd be stuck by lightning anytime now and she could sense Fei Lian mentally face-palming.

This insolent dyed radish! Speaking to me in this way in front of mortals! The Emperor was mad.

'Whoa! He is going to crack some thunders', Xing was in no mood to hear thunders now, that would make her head ache some more and the building might collapse.

" He... He... He...! Your supremeness!", she gave a half-a*sed bow that would convince nobody of her "sincerity".

"What I meant to say was that in this form, you really look like the Emperor of Heavenly realm! All powerful and magnificently handsome! "

Xing put out some more words, now in guyu language, not realising that only she is making the situation more awkward by insinuating that he does not look like an Emperor in his white peacock form.

Xing could see the white whiskers of the dragon twitching as his lips were trembling out of anger.

"What are you doing?", the Heavenly Emperor asked Xing looking at her hand holding Zhu Rong's and she looked like she was about to leave the Audience Hall. He had not much patience in dealing with this quirky child. She'd only anger him more, the more she speaks.

"Ah, this...."

"Are you trying to force the antidote out of her?", his thunderous voice resounded in the almost destroyed Hall that was currently standing in just four pillars.

"No!", Xing said with all seriousness and even her brows furrowed in surprise as if what the Heavenly Emperor said was absolutely something that had never crossed her mind, even once.

"I'm bringing her with me, to be my maid, To take care of my husband! I don't need any antidote. I know I won't be able to pay the price. So I will stay with my husband until he wakes up by himself and even if he doesn't, I will stay by his side as long as his heart beats and the moment I can't hear his heartbeat, mine will cease to exist too! ", her words exuded honesty and politeness and she blinked her pretty big eyes, innocently, at the Heavenly Emperor.

"Maid?", Zhu Rong who had now gained a little of her strength back screamed.

What an Impudence! To reduce a great god to serve a mortal...

"You b*tch! How.. "

"Zhu Rong!", the Heavenly Emperor grumbled shaking the entire place, "You are addressing Your Prince... Mind that!"

Even if she has not accepted that yet, she still has the power of the Prince she displays ever so often and she is also announced as their Prince in the Heavenly Council which seals it. So, no matter what, she is the Prince of Heavens and she should be treated as such.

"I...", Zhu Rong was too flabbergasted to even say a word.

"Now tell me why you chose Zhu Rong to be your maid? And about the massacre"
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The Heavenly Emperor really didn't know what happened. Suddenly he got a visit from Fei Lian and there were some drinking and some games and suddenly he was informed of their Prince attacking the god of fire and that too in front of humans.

Don't tell me he actually stopped me from knowing about this radish attacking Zhu Rong....? Everyone hates Zhu Rong! She needs to know her place.

All he did was leaving the trial in Zhu Rong's hands as she was pestering him non-stop for a long time. He had given up and had to give in to Zhu Rong.

He knew of the bad blood between her and this dyed radish but he was informed with proof that Fei Lian and Mazu are helping her which is not allowed.

Also some of the disgrunted gods who hates Fei Lian and Mazu also complained that he, the Heavenly Emperor is being partial and supporting that adorable little child by letting those two gods helping her.

These kind of rumours would sow discord among the gods especially after the truth about this child came out.

The Heavenly realm got rid of Old Rong who was a big threat with the help of their Prince but the Heavenly realm is still not at peace. Because their Prince is going through the "trials for love" of the humans, which never happened before as no Prince ever was a human, they are already unable to set proper rules and there are some misgivings among the various factions of the heavenly realm. Some want to force her to their realm and some want to cut all ties with her and some are even suggesting to close their realm altogether so that no one from the other realms will have access to their realm.

The Heavenly Realm is fractured in ideas.

The first trial for her was left with god of death and he failed as his grey empire collapsed and a nasty criminal escaped as a result. That dark one from the fox clan is causing serious ripples in the Three realms but he was being overseen by the King of the Demons and he refused to involve the dyed radish even though she is powerful enough to hand him. So that situation might be under control as he is not hearing much about it for now.

All in all, the situation in the Heavenly Realm was not all peaceful as he had many problems that needs his dire attention. At this crucial time, he cannot be seen to be partial.

So in order to curb such rumours and to prove the others that he is being impartial, he put a restraint on Fei Lian and Mazu and even left the task of the trial to Zhu Rong who is known to have hate towards their Prince. Now no one can blame the Heavenly Emperor to be partial.

But what happened here? How come a trial that should have been over with a simple yes or no question caused this much damage?

And she killed all the descendants of Zhu Rong? That is extremely forbidden! Even though gods cannot help their own descendants, that doesn't mean they are not protected. They are protected by the entire heavenly realm. And she eliminated an entire clan. She needs to answer for it all,even though she is the Prince.

Xing looked at the Heavenly Emperor and his brows were furrowed and his eyes were looking at her with scrutiny observing her every expression.

" I did not choose Zhu Rong", Xing looked straight at the Heavenly Emperor and lied through her teeth. This is her only option for now if she wants to save Chenglei. If she even wavers at this, she will fail miserably and her one life she wants to spend with Chenglei will not go as she has planned.

"She came to me herself!"

Xing's every word was loud and clear, like a nail hitting a hammer, sinking her idea into the minds of everyone listening.

"You,S*ut!",Zhu Rong could not keep her silence hearing this blatant lie. From the beginning she knew she was teasing her waiting for her arrival. She tried to put off but when she killed her descendants she could not hold back anymore and came here. Their rules clearly stated that when their descendants suffer cruelties, they should only take it to the Heavenly Council and let them retribute.

But now, she knew, Even if she gets into trouble, she could get away by saying she was here for the trial and not to avenge her descendants.

"Silence!", the Heavenly Emperor silenced Zhu Rong. " You lose the privilege to speak from now on!"

How dare she cusses that dyed radish even though I already told her not to!

"But, She is lying!", Zhu Rong added which led to the Heavenly Emperor taking away her voice.

"Continue!", the Heavenly Emperor looked at Xing.

Xing started with what happened at the banquet last night when the Emperor killed his daughter-in-law and son and their unborn child.

"As a divine ruler, I tried to teach him but then the chandelier fell down and I saw Zhu Rong in the flames. If you doubt me, you could send anyone to investigate the fire last night. It was not natural. I knew gods cannot interfere or directly protect their descendants but she only distracted me and so I thought it cannot be considered protecting her descendant and since no one from the heavens minded it, I let it pass "

Xing paused seeing the Heavenly Emperor's dark face going all to all shades of black by this revelation.

So Zhu Rong protected her Descendant from the Divine ruler when he was obviously in the wrong?

Noticing the Emperor's reaction turning to her favour, Xing continued,

"And then... Last night... That incident happened and.... I was informed of the Crown Prince's involvement and what surprised me more was this arrowhead", Xing got the arrowhead from her pocket and showed it to the Heavenly Emperor and she could see his face twitching in anger.

Her hands were trembling as she knew, if only she didn't pause the time, the arrow would have passed through his heart and left through his back and she couldn't even be sure if the white powder would have been effective then.

Seeing the stress she was in, the Heavenly Emperor felt his emotions shift in favour of her. He did watch her grow up!

How is the Heavenly weapon here? I didn't give any permission for the dispatch of Heavenly weapon. So it was stolen? Don't tell me, even after I specially advised Zhu Rong not to put that mortal's life in real danger, she put his life at actual risk with a heavenly weapon.

Didn't I stress that I only want that radish to believe her lover's life is at risk? Why was he at actual risk?

Zhu Rong disobeyed my orders?

"I thought you were involved in hurting my Prince and so I guessed it should be a trial and accepted everything as it is and decided to stay with him no matter what", Xing's eyes filled with tears as she bowed her head and wiped the corners of her eyes in her sleeves.

Well, half of her tears were fake. It she really needed to stay in the narrative.

I have nothing to do with it, dyed radish!...

The Emperor wanted to say but he held back. Why is she misunderstanding me?

" I lost my temper and killed those assassins who attacked us and then I decided to let it go and meet the Emperor for the reason I came here for.... For my people... For making our request about the drug and the medicinal plant"

"Mmmmm", Zhu Rong tried to interrupt but Xing glared at her with burning gaze.

"Your Majesty!", she looked at the Heavenly Emperor, "See this", she pointed at her token, hairpin and ring and the missive she brought.

"I really came here as an envoy. But....".

Xing paused and swallowed as of her words were stuck in her throat.

"What happened?", the Heavenly Emperor was now entirely gotten mellow seeing this little radish all pitiful.

"The Fire Emperor asked me to.... He... Tried to take me in front of the entire court...", she looked at the Heavenly Emperor and her eyes filled with tears were enraged thinking of the words that Emperor said.

"If I was an ordinary woman, I would be dead rolling down those stairs", she sniffled and wiped her nose in her silk kerchief.

Xing exaggerated a bit. With only eight stairs, the possibility of anyone dying is really low. But her words have greatly impacted the Heavenly Emperor and she could sense him extremely angry for her and he glared at Zhu Rong.

No matter how powerful one is, the possibility of being forced in front of others, will only be traumatic!

"You are safe now, child!", the Heavenly Emperor spoke in a soothing tone and Xing nodded burying her face in the Kerchief.

She was the one who dressed provocatively, knowing what kind of man she met, to make the Emperor act that way and give a reason for her to punish him to bring Zhu Rong to her. But now she turned everything for her advantage.

He shouldn't have done it no matter what and he deserved everything for what he did to other women!

In the end, Xing knew she is really loved by those gods to some extent.

"So, Why did you kill all the descendants of Zhu Rong?", the Emperor asked.

Why again? What am I supposed to say to this?

Xing racked her brain.

A little more, Xing! Only a little more!

Then you can get out of this bind!

Chapter end

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