His Majesty And I ✔️

More Than Just a Game

I almost uploaded chapter 29 instead of 28. Aaah!

Chapter 28

Bai Shen Hong
Emperor Huizhong
The Dragon Palace

'Does Li Lian know being in this secluded room with her is one of the most difficult things I have to bear? Does she know when she giggles because of me, my heart dances with happiness? Does she know what hurts is to see her unsure about her feelings, when in a heartbeat if someone asked me what I feel toward her I would write pages upon pages?'

"Are you angry at me?" Li Lian searched his eyes.

Silly girl. Did she think he could stay angry at her?

Li Lian said she did not know what love was. So he was going to teach and show her. She was the only woman who could do it for him. The only one his heart wanted. As long as she confessed all she hid from him, he was willing to give his everything to her. He would take her as his and ensure she was the happiest woman existing.

"Do you want to play a game?"

She frowned, surprised he was asking her this after their previous subject. Her amber orbs lit with excitement. "I would love to. What game?"

He beamed. His face couldn't be still around her. "Pot-hole."

"Pot-hole?" She laughed. "You are so bad. I always beat you and you sulked in the corner, throwing tantrums like a toddler."

He laughed along with her. "That was then." If only she knew how he has been practising in her absence. In front of her was no longer an amateur player standing.

"Will see. But what are we betting?"

"Do we have to?" He almost took her hand into his but thought better of it. "Can't we just enjoy the game as it is? You and me. One-on-one."

She blushed and bit her thumb then dropped her hand quickly. He wondered if this was her nervous gesture―biting her thumb―she avoided doing it in order to execute lady-like traits.

"Yes, Your Majesty, we have to. How can I miss this opportunity to attain gifts for myself while having fun? I love gifts but you have not given me any. Rather, you stole from me." That pendant he embezzled was stored in his treasure chamber. One of his most treasured possessions because of the woman behind it.

She posed as a toddler by pouting and crossing her arms. The sight was too adorable even though it usually annoyed him when other harem women did that, which always managed to make him shudder. But when the woman who resided in his heart executed the same petty act, she was the most adorable and cutest thing. If he was a teenager he would gush but he restrained himself and masked his bizarre thoughts. A man has his pride after all.

"You want my wealth, you gold digger?" he teased.

"Ha-ha. Says the gold thief."

He glowered. "What is yours is mine."

"Heard that before. Your Majesty, if I win you give me Qi Qi."

Not his Qi Qi.

"Why would I give Qi Qi to you? If dreams were horses, yours would be the first."

"Heh? What does that mean?" Li Lian held her chin, pretending to think.

"Simply, no."

"Why?" she whined.

He noticed something about Li Lian. Whenever she was around him, she was her childish self. You would not think she was cunning. She acted like she had lived a care-free life in the countryside without any worries and schemes, which prevented her from being a calculative wench. He wished that to be true but unfortunately, it was not. You wouldn't need to be cunning, mistress of deception and have the ability to outwit others if you were brought up in such circumstances.