Beauty and Beast [boyxboy]

05 We'll go through this!

A/n: I postponed the presentation of the second encounter with Beauty for another chapter, when it will be the right moment to insert it into the story going.

Sorry for the lack of Beauty and YiZhan, but it will come, no worries.

Unexpectedly, Liu Hai Kuan pulled up the globe.
"So, smell it! What are you waiting for?
It's not like it is an immortal flower, you said this species resists only for a few months, not forever. It will wither eventually, and it will be too late for you to enjoy its perfume.
Or maybe it should be me to smell it before you, what if it's poisoned?", he mumbled, bending just a bit and sniffing into the air, from afar.

"Kuan Kuan, what a hell, you start getting on my nerves with your phantasmal conspiratorial theories.
Stay away, you already did enough, you 'killed' the protective air from inside the globe!
You're right now, I have no more reason not to smell or touch this beauty, it will wither soon.
Hopefully not until after the ball.
I planned to surprise ZiZi.
I will pack the rose and take it with us tomorrow, and I will give her the rose to wear it in her hair or at corsage during the ball. Wearing this unique flower, it will be no chance to go unnoticed, especially by Beauty!
You do know, Kuan Kuan, about how badly she wants to conquer prince Xiao Zhan's heart, I think she might be in love with him, even before meeting him in person.", King Wang Yibo smiled, but with a shadow of sadness in his smile.

The king took the rose in his hands with much care, not to break the delicate stem, and inhaled deeply into his lungs the sweet and enticing perfume.

"What about you, your highness?", Liu Hai Kuan asked , walking to the window to open it.
The rose's smell felt too strong, even from afar, for his own liking.

"What about me?", Yibo repeated in confusion, placing the rose back in its crystal pot and covering it with the other crystal bowl.