Transmigration: Save My Chastity

[58] Miserable Fate

"Ming Ge, I'm going to get married."

That sentence was like a sudden loud thunder in Zhang Changming's ears.

Those unexpected words caused such a sharp pain to his heart that made him stop his hands movement from doing the ger's hair.

"...Ming ge?"

He didn't answer the young ger as usual and kept quiet as he resumed braiding the ger's hair for him. But, only he knew how much he tried to hold back the trembles in his hands. How he tried to hold the sharp pain in his heart.

Only after he finished, he stood from behind the ger and rounded the table to sit on the cushion opposite of Zhan Chen.

He stared at the younger male in front of him and asked in an eerily calm voice.

"What did you say just now, Xiao Tang?"

Maybe, he heard wrong. Oh, it should be it. There was no way such a sentence came out of his sweet ger's mouth.

His heart was beating hard in waiting as he stared silently at the pretty ger in front of him.

Then he saw the blush forming on Zhan Chen's cheeks and it spread to his ears and neck.

"I'm getting married soon, Ming Ge."

Zhang Changming almost couldn't hold back the desperate scream that threatened to come out of his parched throat.

Almost two minutes of silence passed before he forced himself to ask, "...w-who are you going to get married to?"

Why didn't I know?

Who am I to you, Xiao Tang ah?

Am I not important to you?

"I'm going to marry Emperor Xian."

Emperor Xian?

Their Emperor...

That arrogant Emperor! His eyes darkened in anger. There was no way, Zhan Chen willingly marry the man. He just arrived here and... and...

Xiao Tang was his.

His soulmate who followed him from his previous life.

He should be his.

"Ming Ge?"

"Did the Emperor force you?" Zhang Changming's tone of voice was very sharp.

Surprised at the sudden change of mood, Zhan Chen shook his head. "No! Wei dage wouldn't force me. I myself have fallen in love with Wei dage."

Love?

How could his sweetheart fall in love with another man?

This was different from the image that he had conjured so many times in his mind. Fu Zhan Chen should marry him, Xu Ming, not someone else.

They should be together.

Zhan Chen, "...Ming ge?"

"..."

"Um... Ming ge?"

"I'm sorry. I think I have some business to do," Zhang Changming stood up from his seat and smiled bitterly at the ger. "Ming ge is sorry, Xiao Tang ah. I can't send you out."

Zhan Chen hurriedly stood up. He shook his head, "no, it's okay. I can go back by my own self. There's a carriage waiting for me..." he paused and looked hesitantly at the older male. "About being my teacher... Should I tell father to find someone else?"

Zhang Changming felt like laughing bitterly. How oblivious was this young get? How could he do not see his heart? He was upset because of the marriage not because of being appointed as the teacher. He bitterly shook his head and looked at the door, "it's such a good opportunity for me to work under General Bai."