Hidden Agenda IV

Click- Yin Tian put down his cup of wine, adding, "That's what I need."

'… Brother Tian is being so talkative today. I wonder if something happened or is the penned up frustration of not being able to decipher the whole scenario of the Illusory Premonition he had months ago even after doing Destiny Calculation many times. Well…' Rui Zheng took a sip of wine himself, 'if it is so, it means he is human, after all. Either way,' he raised his dark eyes and saw a Yin Tian wordlessly staring at the yellowish wine left in his jade cup, "So, to say… according to Brother Tian, the Fourth Prince wasn't shaken by your unworldly charm. But, I seem to have seen…"

"He didn't, not even a bit," Yin Tian cut Rui Zheng's following words with certainty before emptying his cup of wine.

"Hmm..." Rui Zheng remembered he had caught sight of the Fourth Prince staring at his brother Tian a couple of times; nevertheless, he hadn't paid much attention so, they might have been other kind of stares, "If you say so." He took another sip of wine and then, remembering another thing, he laughed,"Pffth, that old lecher must have been taken aback by the Imperial Command once he got it.

"I saw him containing his enthusiasm for the Fourth Prince around you. When you left amid the banquet, he didn't stop asking about him until you came back later, kekeke."

"Speaking about him," Yin Tian served Rui Zheng and himself more of the yellowish wine, "anything suspicious?"

"No. Aside from his usual interest in beauties, nothing. In fact, the only strange thing is that he is being well behaved and keeping his hands off any beautiful lady around you, Brother Tian." They knew Venerable Alchemist Gu was a really lascivious man that he had even more concubines and bed maids than the Jade Flower Empire's Emperor who was said to have the biggest harem among the Six Top Empires of the Holy Mystic Continent.

"Hmm... I see." Yin Tian stared at the little movement of his wine with deep-in-thought eyes before sipping his wine and changing the conversation to the procedures to be taken the next days.

*****

The morning sun came out and its golden light distilled into many windows, showering its rays on the sleeping faces of many people and waking them up. One of those people was no other but a sleeping beauty of scarlet long hair; the Fourth Prince of the Snow Flower Empire, Shen Lian.

His reddish long eyelashes trembled, "Umh…" and he slowly opened his dark eyes, 'I fall asleep right after getting on the bed.' He rubbed his eyes, 'I guess… taking possession over a body was more tiring than what I had thought. Moreover,' he blinked a few times, 'I did attend that banquet, though I was able to slip away early.'

"His Highness?" the petite Wei Ge's wondering voice rose when she heard a little noise coming from her fourth prince's bedchamber.

However, the Fourth Prince didn't reply, closing his eyes again and feigning being still asleep.

"…" Not hearing anything, Wei Ge went to his bedside to check upon her fourth prince; she nodded when she saw all good and went back to her post.

'… the receiving banquet will last three days but because of yesterday night events… I think I won't be bothered. I already lost night's time, I better hurry and inspect their bodies' conditions…' Shen Rou thought as she heard Wei Ge's steps going back.