Just Because I'm Not An Ordinary Girl

Chapter 18 - The Calmness Before The Storm

As the morning sun shines through the cracks of the purple and pink fine silk curtains, Fengjiu slowly stirs. She finds herself leaning on his broad chest with his arms wrapped around her waist. Muyun wasn't in her sight and she was worried that she was lost or someone took her. She quickly tries to stand up from the bed but Donghua's grips were very strong. She wiggled a few times but she failed to escape. "Muyun! Muyun!" she whispers but she didn't show up. She tries to turn to face him but she can't either. "Xiaobai, why are you not sleeping?" he softly asks still with his eyes closed. "Dijun, Muyun is missing!" I tried calling for her and she's not responding. His eyes flashed widely open slowly scanning the surrounding but he can't feel anyone else's present, not even the butterfly. "Xiaobai is right, Muyun is missing, but how can that be?" he thought to himself.

"Xiaobai, she probably flew somewhere else playing or feasting on the nectars of the flowers around the area. She will come back when she is tired." he casually says. He knows he shouldn't be lying to his Xiaobai, but telling her the truth that her new pet/friend is missing will just make her feel guilty for not taking good care of Muyun. He sends a message to Zhonglin telling him to search for the butterfly in secret, not to let Fengjiu know. "Xiaobai do you want to go have breakfast?" he asks quickly to change the topic so she can stop worrying. "But Dijun, I want to go look for Muyun..." she whines and pouts. "I can reassure you that she is fine. This is TaiChen Palace, who dares to come in and kidnap a butterfly under my nose." he asks her. "But..." she tries to say but gets interrupted by him. "Let's go get you, freshen up and have breakfast, if Muyun doesn't return by then we will go look for her together... okay?" he asks her while softly stroking the back of her head.

Under Donghua's sweet nifty talking, she couldn't do anything but just give in and do as he says. He is right, who dares come into TaiChen Palace to kidnap a butterfly right under Dijun's nose. As they slowly walk back to Donghua's private bed chamber they must walk past the main hall first. Zhihe was standing at the entrance of the hall waiting for Donghua to arrive. Donghua has one arm over her shoulders and the other hand holding onto her arm against his rib cage, carefully and slowly walking with her. Upon arriving close to the main hall, Fengjiu's super eyesights spotted someone she didn't know standing at the hall's entrance. She quickly makes Donghua let go of her and makes him walk in front of her as she pretends to be a maid.

"Xiaobai what are you doing." he whisperingly asks. "I see someone standing at the main hall entrance and I don't know her. I don't want our relationship to spread like wildfire right now." she whispers back as they continue walking. Fengjiu continues walking behind Donghua with her head down and when they reach the main hall Zhihe runs right out. "Good morning foster brother." she happily loudly speaks out while Donghua just nods. "Greeting to Princess Zhihe." Fengjiu greets and bows at her. Zhihe was staring at Fengjiu, pondering who she is. Since the last few days, she already interrogated all the maids in this palace ground and she has never seen her before. She didn't even dress like a maid of TaiChen Palace either.

"Foster brother, who is she? I had never seen her before." she asks him with a hint of jealousy. "Princess, I am a new maid of Xiwu Palace. I was instructed by the crown prince to come here to learn from Dijun's tea lecture since our soon to be crown princess loves drinking tea." Fengjiu politely answers. "Oh is that so, then what is your name?" Zhihe asks. "Princess, my name is Xiaojiu. I am a newly ascended fairy from the lower land realm." Fengjiu quickly answers.

"THAT'S ENOUGH! Now, when did you start questioning what I do and who I interact with?" Donghua angrily roars out. "Sorry foster brother! I'm just worried about you since you had to lock down the palace recently. I won't dare to question you, on what you do or who you interact with." Zhihe frighteningly replies back. "Let's go!" Donghua says to Fengjiu, leading her away from the main hall, leaving behind the frightened and angered Zhihe standing there, all alone.