"Auntie, I don’t want to get married," Song Wanrong openly told her aunt the next time she came to visit.
Lady Song was so stunned that she almost dropped the embroidery needle to the ground.
"Aiyah, Wanrong, what are you saying? Where does this foolish idea come from?" Lady Song exclaimed.
Song Wanrong looked as miserable as a prisoner close to her execution date.
"I don’t know," she lied.
She knew very well the source of her restlessness. Ever since she encountered Liu Wenyuan, she was unable to get his words out of her head.
Did Liu Wenyuan mean well or did he not?
His idea sounded plausible, but at the same time dangerous. One thing Song Wanrong knew for sure was that omegas had been punished a lot for acting coquettishly in front of alphas.
Imagine seducing them to bed!
Imagine seducing the Crown Prince.
Song Wanrong rubbed at her neck nervously. Not only her honor, but her life, her family’s life might just be at stake here!
"Okay, Aunt understands."
Song Wanrong raised her head and gaped at her fuming aunt. What exactly did her aunt understand, again? Song Wanrong barely said anything!
Seeing how her poor niece was unable to bring a word out, Lady Song decided to take words out of her mouth.
"Wanrong, you are too timid. You have not been around any boys, let alone alphas. Worry not, my dear. I have an alpha son who just happens to know one thing or two about your betrothed. Let’s just ask him, shall we?"
"B-but..."
She did not want to talk to an alpha about her omega problems!
"Come on, give haste!"
Lady Song did not catch the message at all. She proceeded to drag her niece with her to the training ground to find Zhang Fengxi.
These past few weeks, Zhang Fengxi had been very diligent in practicing spearsmanship. After the Three Realm Spear was imbued with the Thousand-Legged Centipede Spirit’s spiritual core, its power increased rapidly. Unfortunately, the owner’s power was unable to match the weapon’s.
Therefore, Zhang Fengxi needed to improve both his martial arts and his cultivation.
Otherwise, he might just lose control over his weapon. Worst scenario, when the Three Realm Spear was corrupted by any evil force, it might even turn against its own master.
The heir of the Longjing Palace performed several acrobatic jumps while shooting attacks in the air.
Blazing fiery arrows shot from the Three Realm Spear’s pointy head, aiming at the target boards with utmost precision. The target boards caught fire almost immediately. Next to them, the servants of Longjing Palace were already waiting with buckets of water to extinguish the fire.
The fire was big enough to burn a servant’s eyebrow. Laughter filled the air when said servant slapped his face with a wet rag cloth in an attempt to save his brow.
Zhang Fengxi patted his spear affectionately.
"You already consumed the spiritual core of one of the strongest spirits in the Human Realm. Wait until I get you the other ones from both the Demonic Realm as well as the Heavenly Realm."
The Three Realm Spear rubbed its body against Zhang Fengxi’s palm like a pet.
"Hahaha, it tickles..."
"Fengxi, it seems that you are resting right now. Is it a good time to talk?"
Zhang Fengxi wheeled around and found his mother and Song Wanrong crossing the training ground.
"Mother. Oh, Wanrong, when did you come?"
"Just half a shichen ago," Song Wanrong replied sheepishly.
Lady Song did not want to waste time talking about unimportant things, so she went straight to the point.
"Fengxi, aren’t you relatively close to the Crown Prince?" Lady Song shouted from a safe distance.
Relative was a dangerous word here, especially considering how Lady Song and Zhang Zhiyuan worried a lot about Zhang Fengxi’s abnormal liking for fellow alphas.
"I guess we are more or less brothers-in-arm," Zhang Fengxi replied as he swung his Three Realm Spear for show and attacked an invisible target.
Oh, "brothers-in-arm" sounded wonderful. It was a great choice of words. Lady Song heaved a sigh of relief and smiled sweetly at her son.
"Wanrong is restless these days because she does not know how to get close to the Crown Prince. Do you think that you can give her some guidance?"
Zhang Fengxi froze in his movement. He then beckoned for a servant to come over and give him a towel to wipe his sweat away with.
"What kind of guidance are you looking for, Wanrong?" he asked his younger cousin.
Song Wanrong turned pink from embarrassment.
"That... Brother Fengxi, I am also not sure..."
Lady Song rolled with her eyes.
Oh, omegas these days! So unimaginative and so boring!
She thus answered on Song Wanrong’s behalf.
"She just wants to know what kind of person the Crown Prince is. What does he like? What does he dislike?"
Uhhh... Good question.
"Well?"
Lady Song put both hands on her hips as she glowered at her son. "Don’t tell me that you don’t know."
"Well, Mother, alphas don’t exactly talk about these topics."
Lady Song smacked her thigh.
"Good grief! Alphas are truly so uninteresting. Pray tell, Fengxi, does the Crown Prince have any hobbies?"
This one was easy.
"Practicing swordsmanship and cultivating," Zhang Fengxi answered without skipping a beat.
Lady Song smacked her son’s shoulder with a fan.
"Any hobbies that are relatable to omegas?"
Zhang Fengxi furrowed his brows.
"He is not a philanderer, Mother. He has no such hobbies that remotely have anything to do with omegas."
Lady Song groaned.
"This is not good. Anyway, we need to find out soon. Fengxi, Mother and Wanrong will prepare a list of questions for the Crown Prince. Tomorrow, you shall go to Fuxi Palace and get all these answers in writing."
Zhang Fengxi’s jaw dropped to the ground.
"Mother, I don’t think that that is a good..."
Lady Song did not bother to hide her disinterest in hearing her son’s objection.
"Hohohoho~! Come, Wanrong, we have an urgent task to complete!"
Lady Song then floated away with Song Wanrong close at her heels.
"... idea..."
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