The Cruel Prince

"I am hungry," Amelia informed loudly.

Murong Jinzhi frowned. What was wrong with this woman? If she was hungry, then leave the carriage and go out to eat. Was she asking him for food? Does he look like a cook to her? or has he opened a restaurant inside the carriage for her? And, the most important thing, why was he thinking about getting her food? Why should it matter to him? She was just a stranger to him anyways. Her being hungry had nothing to do with him!

Rubbing her growling belly, Amelia looked at him with tear-filled sad eyes. It was the perfect look for a pet asking his Master to feed him. For some reason, when she looked at him like that, Murong Jinzhi felt his heart-melting. With a sigh, he decided to give her that box filled with sweet cakes. Anyways, he didn't like to eat sweet foods like that. Rather than throwing it out, it was better for him to give those sweet foods to this woman.

"I AM HUNGRY!" Amelia wailed impatiently. This time, she looked at him with accusing eyes.

Murong Jinzhi frowned. Being looked at by those accusing pairs of beautiful eyes, he felt as if he was committing a heavy crime by not giving her something to eat. He pursed his lips and rubbed his forehead slightly. What was wrong with him? Why was this woman giving him such strange feelings?

It was so strange!

Before meeting her, he never cared about any other woman. They were just simply a nuisance to her. But, she was so different. No matter what she did, how she acted, he didn't feel bad. He didn't feel dirty. He didn't feel like he was doing anything wrong. Infact, there was a slight petting in his behavior. It was like he was used to this feeling and this behavior. It felt so familiar as if he had done this before.

But when?

How come he didn't remember it?

Murong Jinzhi thought for a while but when he noticed that she was getting more and more impatient, he sighed. "You, wait!" he said to her.

Amelia smiled and nodded her head obediently. Her eyes immediately shined brightly when she realized that he was going to give her something to eat. She didn't feel that there was anything wrong. She was asking for food and this man was giving her the food. But behind her, Shen Li was shocked to the core.

He looked at that cold man sitting in front of him and then he looked at Miss Jiang sitting beside him. W-what? What did he just see? The Crown Prince, the devil himself, the man who doesn't blink his eyes while killing and the man who hates female beings to the core was going to food to his Miss?

Was the Crown Prince trying to kill his Miss by using poison in the food? Was this his new method of killing people?

But, why would he do that?

If he wants to kill them, then a single stroke from him was enough to send them throwing out from this carriage. Shen Li frowned as he couldn't understand what the Crown Prince was trying to do. According to all the rumors he had heard about this prince, Shen Li couldn't help but look at him twice.

Wasn't it said that the Crown Prince loves cleanliness and hates women? This was the reason why no woman was waiting on him, not even a maid. His palace called the Dark Moon Palace was the place where the Crown Prince resided and it was fully filled with male servants leaving no chance for any woman to appear. No matter how many women the Emperor tried to send to him, for some reason, the next morning they would be found dead, and their bodies would hanging on the rood top of the palace. It was quite a disgusting sight.

Since then the Emperor had stopped sending any women or maids to him. Many ministers were dissatisfied with his actions and they filed a complaint against the prince and tried hard to remove him from the Crown Prince's position but the Emperor didn't listen to any one of them. After all, who made the Crown Prince be the apple of the emperor's heart. The Emperor, himself was the Crown Prince's backing.

All the ministers and the people who had filed a complaint against the prince somehow found out that they had contracted an incurable disease. No matter which doctor they went to, no cure could be found. It was only after a month that the antidote was sent to their homes mysteriously. That time, they realized that it was their little punishment for speaking against the Crown Prince. So, although the ministers were dissatisfied, they had to live with it. Also, nobody wanted to become the enemy of the Crown Prince. After all, everyone loved their life. So, nobody tried to retaliate against him upfront. Since that incident, his reputation of being a cold-hearted, cruel prince started to spread throughout the capital.

Along with this incident, two more incidents happened last year, which made the Crown Prince's reputation as 'the cruel price" spread like a fire out of the capital. Last year, there was this princess of some faraway kingdom who dared to force her way inside the Crown Prince's palace. As she was a princess, the guard couldn't stop her. When the Crown Prince got to know about this incident, he immediately sent his guards to break that princess's legs and send her back to her kingdom.

After that, there was another woman who tried to seduce the Crown Prince. However, she failed and was killed by the Crown Prince on the spot. Since then, many women have dared to dream about the Crown Prince but no one dared to act on it. Looking at his miss who was putting her foot into the lion's mouth, not knowing that she could be dead at any given moment, Shen Li wanted to cry but no tears came out.