novelThe Curse (15)
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When Zhao Ming came downstairs, wearing a casual flower print pastel blue dress that reached by her knees, and walked to the dining table where Xie Ming was placing dishes on the table while Yu Mei was helping her.
Liwei was also sitting there and was sipping on his coffee while reading the newspaper. She glanced at Ji Cheng who was silently sitting at the table, looking like a lonely kid. She pursed her lips and watched Xie Ming who took a seat beside Liwei. She looked at Ji Cheng to see his reaction, but he didn't look at Xie Ming and just stared at the rice bowl in front of him.
She sighed and was wondering where to sit when Ji Cheng looked up at her and said, " Why are you standing there? Sit."
"...."
She stared at him in surprise and hesitantly took a seat beside him, wondering why he asked her to sit beside him. Didn't he want her to keep distance between them and act like strangers? Well, since they're in her world now, they can't possibly act like strangers. She doubts other than her, someone else will help him.
But there is no need for them to be overly friendly either. ?She couldn't help but steal glances at him while eating, he looked extremely handsome in the white shirt which hung to his muscular body perfectly.
" So, will you tell us now how you guys came here? I mean, I am sure you won't come here from a magical door or airplane right?" Liwei asked while placing his newspaper to the side and looked at Zhao Ming, who was caught off guard with his question.
She was busy looking at Ji Cheng from the side that she didn't catch on to what Liwei just said.
"What.. you said something?" She asked while wiping the corner of her lips using the tissue.
Xie Ming looked at Zhao Ming and asked calmly, " Did something happen before you came here?"
Zhao Ming pursed her lips and glanced at Ji Cheng who was looking at her curiously as well. He also doesn't know what happened before he reached the lakeside where Lu shi was lying injured and Zhao Ming was drowning in the water.
Zhao Ming let out a breath before speaking, " Well, I went out of the palace without any guards with Lu shi and went quite far from the palace. I don't know what place it was that but there was a lake where Lu shi and I went to rest and wash our feet after walking all day long."
Xie Ming raised her brows and glanced at Ji Cheng in surprise. She never went out of the palace with maids and guards, let alone going alone. But she was quite surprised that Zhao Ming was daring enough to leave the palace without any guards.
" We were about to leave when two men whose faces were covered with black cloth appeared out of nowhere. They also had knives with them, " she said while remembering how they appeared out of nowhere, scaring her.
" What did they say? Did they attack you guys for money?" Ji Cheng asked with his brows knitted in worry.
Zhao Ming looked at him in surprise and shook her head, " No. I told them I have no money and let us go but they were not there for the money."
" Then why did they attack you?" Xie Ming while looking at her worriedly.
Zhao Ming pursed her lips and hesitated before speaking, " Actually, they said that... they want to take me with them."
" What? They said that they want to take you with them? How dare them! How dare they try to kidnap the Empress of the Ji Dynasty in the broad daylight?" Ji Cheng's expressions darkened as he placed a hand on the table with force, due to which his chopsticks fell on the floor.
Liwei also got startled seeing his extreme reaction. Since he was quite all along and wasn't reacting much, he forgot that he is the Emperor of the Ji Dynasty and was far away from his league.
He glanced at Xie Ming who was calmly looking at Zhao Ming and didn't even react when Ji Cheng acted angrily.
Zhao Ming pursed her lips and replied casually, " Well, it was an evening, not day time so..." she stopped talking sensing Ji Cheng's dark glare on her. Ji Cheng was speechless seeing her making jokes on such a serious matter.
She almost got kidnapped by the men she doesn't know anything about and almost died by drowning, but she was talking about some stranger's story.
" Then what happened? Did they say something about why and where they want to take you with them?" Xie Ming ended the cold atmosphere and asked Zhao Ming to continue.
" They didn't say much but they even knew that I am the Empress and were watching me and Lu shi since we left the palace. Not only that, they didn't hurt me much even after I almost made one of the men impotent. They kept saying that it is their task to take me with them without hurting her and their boss has taken a liking to me. At first, I thought that they were human traffickers and that's why I jumped into the lake to not be captured by them." she said while looking at her hands, remembering how scared she was at that moment.
" Because of me Lu shi got hurt badly. I wonder how she was doing now." she pursed her lips and fidgeted with her fingers while thinking about Lu shi how she would be doing.
Ji Cheng looked at her and saw her dull expressions and gritted his teeth. In his territory, how dared to mess with the Empress of Ji Dynasty? He clenched his fists but seeing her fidgeting with?her fingers, he sighed and said, " Don't worry. She must be fine. Feng Ju was in the vicinity so he must have found her in time. Also, those men ran away when I reached the lake area, so she must be safe."
Xie Ming smiled mildly, seeing him consoling Zhao Ming. She could see that he doesn't hate Zhao Ming, he just needs some time to accept his feelings and reality.
Liwei looked at Zhao Ming and said, " But you didn't tell us how you came here."
Zhao Ming raised her head and looked at him disappointingly, " Do you really have to break the mood like this?" she said annoyedly.
She took a deep breath before continuing, " I don't know how I came here. The only thing I remember was that I fell in the lake and since I don't know how to swim, it was getting hard for me to get to the surface and was feeling breathless and suffocated with every passing second."
" The feeling... it was very similar to what I felt when I almost died when I fell into the swimming pool. It was suffocating and as if someone was clenching my heart tightly." she shuddered thinking about what she felt at that moment.
" The water was freezing cold and my whole body felt like it was paralyzed and couldn't even move. Argh... so cold." she rubbed her arms remembering the water that was freezing cold and she was drowning deeper into its darkness.
Xie Ming nodded upon hearing her words and said in a low voice, " So... does it mean that you survived from dying again? I mean... last time it was Aunt Shen Jia who saved me, do you think that this time as well she..."
Zhao Ming raised her head and looked at Xie Ming with eyes wide. Did she really save her this time as well?
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