His Majesty And I ✔️

Blossoming Love

Chapter 51

Dao
Hougong

A hand snuck from the back and slammed onto her mouth while the other choked the back of her neck.

"Speak a word and I will silence you." He whispered, his breath fanning her naked back.

With her mistress at the banquet, Dao was going to sleep early. She was just changing into her sleeping wear.

She shook her head, her muffled mouth producing silent noises. She was still young, not married, no children, and not enough erotic books read. How could she die this early?

"You are going to put on your casual clothes." He gave further instructions. "And silently we will leave this place. You hear me?"

She nodded with more muffled sounds, her begging words restrained.

This time he did not whisper as he said, "I'm taking you away, Dao."

Luo Meng. It was Luo Meng's voice.

"You once said our love was worth running away for. Let's go now." He kissed her neck before letting her go, his hands dropping to her shoulders and massaging her gently.

She coughed, finding her voice. "Luo Meng, you are retarded. I will go nowhere with you."

"You will." He said matter of factly as if it was not something that could be argued against.

"If what we had meant so much to you, it wouldn't have taken you this much time to realise it. I am not going."

She felt the cold steel blade slide on her neck, caressing her with the notion of death. "You are going."

Her breath latched onto her throat. She was so angry at him, angry at herself too. Because part of her wanted to forgive and run away with him. "You are a psychopath."

"It is now or never." He pushed her forward, the steel blade disappearing. "Start dressing up, we don't have much time."

Her hands shook as she opened the bottom drawer of her and Ai's wardrobe, in the darkness of the room. That was where she had her only pair of casual clothing. "My Lady will know that I left when she comes back."

"She will be distracted by His Majesty."

"His Majesty hasn't come here for weeks."

"I hit her wine cup with a needle, now His Majesty will think someone wants to kill her."

"A needle? How? Didn't he see it?"

"I shot it from behind, so he didn't. I know the emperor. He has so much pride and didn't summon for Li Lian, though he desired to all this time. However, there is another weakness he possesses above his pride. Paranoia." Luo Meng spoke with conviction. He surely knew his master.

Yet she asked, "Are you sure. What if he changes his mind?"

"He won't. He is more predictable than he thinks."

Why was His Majesty paranoid? "Is it because of the fallen dragon that he fears?"

"Yes. He will definitely come sleep here tonight or summon her to have her safe."

Dao was on her sash, the last piece of her outfit, yet she couldn't go on. She hesitated when she was about to tie the last knot. "I can't, Luo Meng. I can't."

This was the biggest crime, this time even her mistress would kill her.

"You can."

"I can't. It will hurt my mistress." Her hands trembled as she panicked. "You don't love me. I can't go with you."