Beauty and Beast [boyxboy]

21 Heart-beating rose

A/n: I'd be curious to know your guess about who could be the saved baby from the letter (from the previous chapter), the witch's baby?

The last thing that King Wang Yibo would have expected was to change into the human form as soon as he took goodbye from his beloved prince. It has happened before, but very rarely, to take the human form in the night time. Thank heavens that it didn't happen right before Beauty's eyes and torment him even more than he already was!

After the conversion was completely finalized, he got dressed into the clothes that his smart KuanKuan carefully hid into a hollow tree, just in case. 

While walking back home, he ascertained not only that the moon and the forest were no more red ( an understandable thing, though, as the beast was no more there to damage the normal course of nature and life), but he also noticed in a big surprise that he was not feeling like he usually felt lately, that acute heart and lungs pain.
Hmm, weird...Not as he was not happy about, but just surprised and confused.

He got worried when arriving at the mountain palace and seeing a man pacing in front of the main gate, but when he got closer, he understood that it was Liu HaiKuan, probably waiting for him.

" You're finally back, Your Highness! Thank God, I was so worried!
And you're a human!
Oh, it's such a joy to be able to hold my dearest Yibao in my arms, again!", Liu HaiKuan pulled his king into a tight hug, with tears streaming down his cheeks.
"I hoped to find Snowflake home when getting back, I was so worried. I was afraid that those Rosean guards could hurt him. But then, after the sunset, I heard Beast's howls, and at least I knew that you're alive!
Oh, I'm so happy! Let's get inside where the light is better, I want to enjoy watching your so-missed beautiful face, before you'd convert again! "

"I should convert in around ten minutes or so. I know that it takes a half an hour to walk from the cottage to the palace. But I assume that it took more than half an hour, as I was deeply drowned into my thoughts.
But, let's go inside first and I will tell you more.", Wang Yibo smiled, wrapping an arm around his faithful friend and walking together to the palace's library room.

"Lie here on the couch and get some rest for the remaining ten minutes as a human.
Meanwhile let me bring you something to eat, before you take the medicine for the lungs and heart pain.", Liu HaiKuan puffed the pillows and helped the king to lie down.
"By the way, I noticed that you didn't cough at all since you'd arrived.", he said when coming back with the food plate, the medicines and a glass of the king's favorite fresh fruit juice.

"It's exactly what I wanted to tell you about! I don't know why or how it happened, but the heart and lungs pain had simply vanished. First, I thought that it's just an impression, I thought that maybe that pain was just overshadowed by the conversion pain. But, no, after the whole conversion was finished, I felt not a slight pain, of any kind. On top of that, as you yourself had noticed, I never coughed, not even once, since...", the king explained.