Dragon's Origin

“My wife and your wife get along very well, so she always invites her over as a guest recently.” While walking through the main hall towards the rear宅, the Emperor chatted with Wang Sheng as if he were just making small talk: “My wife likes Mei’er very much and wants to adopt her as a daughter. I wonder what you think about that?”

The Emperor’s wife, wouldn’t that be the Empress? At the very least, she’d be a favored concubine, right? An imperial concubine or even the Empress wants Mei’er to be her goddaughter? Does the royal family want another princess or something?

“It depends on what Mei’er herself wants.” Wang Sheng didn’t think he was qualified to make decisions for Mei’er. This was a habit he developed on Earth, respecting women: “If she’s willing, then it’s fine. If she’s not, then there’s nothing I can do.”

The Emperor, who was leading by half a step, turned his head back to look at Wang Sheng in surprise, as if Wang Sheng’s answer had really taken him by surprise: “You really dote on her!”

Wang Sheng didn’t say much, just shrugged his shoulders, noncommittal. What else could he say? That he and Mei’er actually didn’t have any relationship? That everyone was just cooperating?

The Emperor led Wang Sheng directly to the back garden. They passed through two courtyards and corridors until they saw the scene in the back garden.

In the waterside pavilion over there, two women were sitting, leaning on the railing and watching the fish in the pond. Behind them stood two maids serving them. From a distance, it was truly a very tranquil scene.

With Wang Sheng’s eyesight, of course, he could clearly see the two women. Unsurprisingly, one of them was Mei’er, and she had a very happy smile on her face. It was the kind of joy that came from the heart, not the fake smile of feigned delight that one puts on when visiting someone.

Next to Mei’er sat another woman whose figure looked similar to Mei’er’s. That woman didn’t look very old either. At least, Wang Sheng hadn’t seen any crow’s feet on her. Her eyes held a smile, and her perfectly appropriate behavior gave people a sense of intelligence from afar.

Looking at that scene, Wang Sheng felt a surge of emotion in his heart. He had been in this world for so long, yet he had never seen a woman like the one before him, one who possessed a sense of erudition, elegance, noble cultivation, and also a modern independent awareness of an intellectual OL beauty. Even though Mei’er had always been working hard in the workplace, she didn’t have this woman’s OL temperament.

Looking at her from afar, the woman seemed to speak very little, always listening. Mei’er didn’t know what she was saying, but she seemed very happy as she spoke. However, the overall feeling that the two of them gave off wasn’t one of one person speaking and the other listening, but rather one person speaking with their mouth and the other speaking with their eyes, communicating very smoothly.

Just taking a few glances from that distance, Wang Sheng suddenly had a feeling of infatuation. It was as if that woman was the soulmate he had been looking for.

As soon as this thought arose, Wang Sheng suddenly realized that something was wrong. He silently recited the Nine Syllable Mantra a few times, and instantly calmed down. When he looked over there again, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

The old Taoist priest said that Mei’er was a woman with a natural charm, possessing a fatal attraction to men who approached her. Now it seemed that Mei’er was just a rookie in front of this woman. The other party was so far away and didn’t even glance over here. She was just sitting there talking to Mei’er, yet she almost made Wang Sheng lose control. Just how formidable was that?

No wonder the old Taoist priest said that the Emperor later found another favored concubine and promoted her to Empress. If it was this woman in front of him, then the Emperor probably even forgot what the previous favored concubine looked like, right? To be able to come out of that kind of disappointment, the only way was probably to find a woman who was even more captivating than that favored concubine, using a more ruthless method of fighting poison with poison.

Looking at the Emperor, who was now about forty or fifty years old, Wang Sheng couldn’t help but admire him for daring to find two women with natural charm one after another. Right, it was said that the Emperor’s cultivation had already reached the seventh level, so he shouldn’t be affected much anymore, which was why he was so fearless, right?

Wang Sheng even guessed that the reason why the Shadow Grand Eunuch killed the Emperor’s previous favored concubine and wasn’t continuously pursued was probably because he had already found a way out and would soon present this woman to gain the Emperor’s forgiveness, right?

While being attracted to the woman and pondering, Wang Sheng subconsciously followed the Emperor’s footsteps forward. After taking a few steps, the Emperor stopped, and Wang Sheng turned his attention to the Emperor, then saw the Emperor’s face full of astonishment.

The Emperor and Empress were traveling incognito and living in such a large courtyard outside the palace. Although they didn’t bring many guards and experts, they definitely wouldn’t lack necessary protective measures.

Take this back garden, for example. There were only five or six female guards in total, but besides these five or six female guards, there was also an extremely powerful protective formation. If one didn’t wear a unique jade pendant, it was impossible to enter the formation. Even Mei’er was personally led in by Steward Zhou when she came, and she had to use a jade pendant to enter.

Of course, the Emperor carried the jade pendant for entering and exiting the formation, so there was no problem walking in from the outside. The problem was that Wang Sheng didn’t carry that kind of jade pendant, yet he naturally followed the Emperor, walking in step by step. How was this possible?

This was a formation that protected the Emperor! A protective formation that even many grand masters of the inner court couldn’t break through. Originally, the Emperor had planned to stop here and wait for Steward Zhou to send someone over with the jade pendant. But what he didn’t expect was that they didn’t have time to do anything before Wang Sheng had already entered.

It wasn’t just the Emperor who was frightened. Steward Zhou, the controller of the formation, and the several female guards in the pavilion were all as if they had seen a ghost. Except for the Emperor and Steward Zhou, everyone else reacted as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

The commotion here immediately attracted the attention of the woman and Mei’er. They both raised their beautiful heads and looked over here.

As soon as she saw Wang Sheng, another happy smile appeared on Mei’er’s face. It felt as if she had seen her beloved lover returning to her side after a long separation, full of anticipation and happiness, completely different from when she was facing that woman, but equally joyful.

“Your Ma… Husband!” The woman was obviously not used to the form of address. She almost called him Your Majesty, but after blurting out one word, she reacted and changed her address to husband.

“Lord Marquis, you’re back!” Mei’er happily stood up, looking as if she wanted to run over from there.

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The Emperor waved his hand slightly, and the guards who had already taken a defensive stance retreated a few steps silently, removing their defenses. As for Steward Zhou, he had never been on guard against Wang Sheng from the beginning.

“Come, let me introduce you to my wife.” The Emperor, like a truly hospitable host, invited Wang Sheng to walk towards the waterside pavilion.