Wild Crimson Rose: Beloved Handyman Prince's Courtesan Wife Chapter 121

Shen Tianyu sat at the bench set up for the participants, they couldn't stand all day . Ke Qingyan also fell back in the seated line according to his assigned number . None of his teammates bothered to lift his spirits or tell him to try harder, merely ignoring him . Well, it wasn't like all the people in the roster were friends but it was still kind of cold . Did they look down on him because he was defeated by a woman? Or because he was defeated by someone without any proper background? Either way, Shen Tianyu didn't have the energy to care so much .

On this side, no one bothered to talk to her either . Despite this being a first win and a huge boost in morale for their side, no one complimented her . Only Rong Jian threw a flirty look at her and a thumbs up, something Shen Tianyu had taught him meant "good job" . She smiled back at him but didn't open her mouth . The next round was Luo Yenmu and the number 4 player from Xi Qi . Shen Tianyu had no interest in these low-level and boring fights . At Yaodu, these kinds of fights were considered beneath them . No one fought with such lack of finesse and skill, even the newly accepted trainees . She naturally zoned out and just thought about a bunch of different things, jumping from subject to subject to while away her boredom . One moment, she was thinking about delicious food, the next some novel or show she had seen before and then how to make those food in this world . Her stomach was growling form imagining all the delicious food, not wanting her stomach to growl out loud in public, she switched her line of thinking to less delectable and edible topics . She waited until the sun reached it's highest point before a different pattern sounded form the battle drums . She jolted herself awake and back to the present, looking at the platform where the Minister of Ceremonies was headed .

"This concludes the battles fro today! Please come again tomorrow for more duels between these ten talents of the Xi Jing continent!" And the first day of battles ended like that . The commoners shuffled out of the stadium, going back to their daily lives . The nobility were talking among themselves, trying to make connections, since some of Xi Qi's nobles had come also, all the while eyeing the talents shuffling off the center of the stadium . The nobles from Xi Qi that came were either those idle young masters with no brains or talents, a disappointment to the ancestors, or those that were family to the contestants and had come to cheer them on and give them a better sense of security . The third kind were those who could afford to get away from their work, though this group was few and far between, especially since the Emperor and Empress themselves hadn't come, the more competent officials were probably tied to their homeland, dealing with political matters and so weren't able to come . The two tigers on this mountain and their wives, on the other hand, were chatting leisurely to one another as they waited, umbrella over their head and fans at their back, the very picture of luxury . Of course, the genders didn't cross, the Empress of Xi Qi moved next to the Empress of Jing Qie and talked about their own matter, imperial court stuff or make up perhaps . While the Emperors were talking with solemn expressions, looking like they were discussing court matters, yet their eyes shone with joy and familiarity . Completely unlike two tigers vying to take over a mountain, conflicting with their own people's attitudes about the two kingdoms being former enemies .

'Hm? This Xi Qi Emperor and Jing Qie Emperor know each other?' Shen Tianyu wondered as she finally filed into a side tunnel that led to the outside . A smile tugged at her mouth but she schooled her expression soon enough, the amusement disappearing so fast one might have thought it an illusion, if they had saw at all .

When she exited the stadium via the side tunnel, Rong Jian was standing there waiting for her, holding an umbrella obtained from god knows where . His face blossomed into a warm smile when he saw her and walked over to shield her under the umbrella before she could even get out of the cold and shady tunnel . Shen Tianyu looked around and saw a scattered line of people in the distance . It looked like the contestants' exits were far from where spectators exited, in order to avoid clogging of the entrances and behavior that would be similar to what fans displayed to idols in her old world when they saw them . In other words, lots of screaming, squealing, people trying to touch them and asking for autographs . There was also the, not so dangerous in this world but definitely dangerous in that world, possibility that they would be followed by some creep or stalker .

Shen Tianyu sighed . "It's all good and all that they're so considerate, but isn't this further from the city than the spectator's exit? Now we have to waste more time and energy to get back . " Nevertheless, they both started walking in the direction of the city, parallel to that scattered line of spectators . Ring Jian didn't say anything as they walked and neither did Shen Tianyu, after her initial complaint . The silence was somewhat awkward to Shen Tianyu, but when she glanced at Rong Jian, there was a peaceful smile on his face as he looked ahead, as I felt the silence wasn't awkward to him at all . So she just decided to stay quiet, she can just pretend she's walking with a subordinate .

And so, the couple really didn't utter a single word to each other until they got back to Jing City . They weren't in a rush like in the morning so they needn't waste their spiritual energy like this . In addition, one of them didn't want their alone time to end so fast and the other just followed suit . When they reached the city, an incense stick of time had already passed . One of the two finally opened their mouth .

"Where do you want to eat?" Shen Tianyu asked her companion that was not a servant .

He turned to her and answered . "I don't care, I'll go wherever Tian'er goes . "

Chapter end