Chapter 46: He Is Actually the King
Su Miantang: “By the way, I still don’t know your name?”
Hua Rong picked up a dried bamboo branch nearby and slowly wrote two characters on the ground.
The handwriting was unpracticed, youthful yet carrying a hint of handsomeness, much like him.
“Hua Rong?”
“Hua Hua?”
He actually shared the same name as her favorite giant panda on Earth, the “big star”, “top female celebrity”, and “Tourism Bureau Director” of the panda world! Except that one was female, and he was male.
“Can I call you Rongrong?”
Fluffy (rongrong), it sounded like it needed to be rubbed.
Rongrong?
It sounded like a childhood nickname.
But he didn’t have a childhood nickname.
Nor had anyone ever called him so affectionately.
Hua Rong was a bit shy, tilting his head slightly, as if to say she could call him whatever she liked.
—What about you?
“My name is Su Miantang. Mian for sleep, Tang for crabapple.”
Crabapple flowers do not sleep.
What a beautiful name.
Hua Rong silently committed it to heart.
Then… if she called him Rongrong, could he call her Tangtang?
Unfortunately, he couldn’t call it out loud.
“Rongrong, what is your role in the palace?”
Su Miantang was curious. Since entering the palace, she had only seen the Princess and her male concubines. But he was so innocent, and looked very young in age—not the type Catherine would like.
The rest were just guards and servants.
His combat power wasn’t high; he didn’t even manage to dodge her sneak attack from behind.
But surely the Royal Palace wouldn’t go as far as to enslave and bully a disabled person? Moreover, an incredibly rare giant panda!
I am…
Hua Rong hesitated, as if finding it difficult to speak about.
Seeing this, Su Miantang understood something.
Really? A servant?
He was a little mute, with such a soft temperament. She didn’t dare to imagine how much bullying and oppression he must suffer in this cold, unfeeling Royal Palace.
To keep him from feeling sad, she quickly changed the subject.
“Do you know why I entered the palace?”
Hua Rong shook his head.
Fairy, are you here to pray for blessings for the people of the Central Star?
“I-I…” As Su Miantang spoke, her voice suddenly trembled, and she raised her sleeve to wipe away tears. “I accidentally angered the Eldest Princess, so she dragged me into the palace to torture me. She beats me every month, beats me every day, beats me three times a day, and beats me whenever she has free time wu wu wu…”
H-how could she do that?
Treating a fairy like this!
Hearing this, Hua Rong instantly grew anxious.
He walked up to her, tugged her clothes, and rapidly signed.
—Don’t be afraid, I will help you.
—D-don’t cry…
Seeing the fairy cry made his heart ache terribly.
Su Miantang heard his humming noises again, different from before; they sounded extremely anxious and sad. Realizing she had taken the joke too far, she immediately lowered her hands and made a funny face at him. “Hahaha~ I was lying to you!”
She just wanted to make her own situation sound miserable so that, by comparison, he would feel better about himself.
Unexpectedly, he froze for a moment, then his face instantly flushed red. He was angry.
“Are you angry?”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it…”
She did mean it.
She was always teasing him.
“Actually, I came into the palace to give the Princess a beauty treatment.”
—Beauty treatment, what is that?
“Hahaha!”
Su Miantang was once again struck by his cuteness.
He was better already?
His anger didn’t even last three seconds?
He didn’t even need coaxing.
“Want to know? Come sit over here, I’ll tell you.”
She sat down next to a patch of sunflowers and waved him over.
Before the blush on Hua Rong’s face had even faded, he obediently sat down beside her. While earnestly listening to her speak, he also watched their touching clothes lightly rub against each other in the wind.
Su Miantang went from beauty treatments to the Academy of Sciences, her own background, hobbies, and interesting anecdotes about the Central Star… The more they chatted, the more she felt he had a simple, kind nature and easily trusted others. It felt like if she asked him right now to turn into a giant panda for her to play with…
He would immediately agree.
National treasures really were cute, even when turned into people!
While they were chatting about everything under the sun, enjoying the peaceful passing of time, disaster struck Fengyang Pavilion. A group of male concubines was kicked to the ground, kneeling together in a dark mass.
“Get out! Get out! Get out!”
“Every single one of you is clumsy and stupid! You can’t even handle this little thing properly and made me hurt so much!”
Catherine’s face was patchy—dry in some spots, wet in others, thick in some, thin in others. Under the uneven stimulation, her skin began to turn red, and her temper skyrocketed.
After scolding all her male concubines, she started smearing the mask in front of the mirror herself. Unexpectedly, it hurt even more, hurting so much her eyes turned slightly red.
How could this be?!
When Su Miantang applied it earlier, she hadn’t felt a thing.
Could it be that only her technique was special?
“Go!”
“Go and call Su Miantang here for me!”
“Hurry up!”
“Yes, Your Highness!”
After receiving their orders, the guards immediately went searching for Su Miantang. But five minutes, fifteen minutes, half an hour passed… and they still hadn’t found her.
Catherine couldn’t wait any longer.
“You bunch of trash! You can’t even find a female without pheromones. What use are you?!”
She activated her pheromones and discovered that there were two figures in the bamboo peak of the back mountain. What was she doing there?
“Do you prefer eating fresh bamboo leaves, or newly sprouted bamboo shoots?”
Su Miantang held bamboo leaves in one hand and a bamboo shoot in the other, asking Hua Rong.
Hua Rong took a look.
—I like both, but I prefer the bamboo shoot.
Because she had just dug it up with her own hands.
“Then the bamboo shoot for you!”
Su Miantang handed it over excitedly.
Mom, I’m actually feeding a giant panda!
It was just… it would be even better if he could turn into his true form to eat it. Perhaps the expectant light in her eyes was too obvious, and Hua Rong sensed it.
—Do you want me to turn into my beast form?
“Can you?”
Su Miantang was pleasantly surprised.
Hua Rong avoided her eyes and nodded somewhat shyly.
He was just about to transform when Su Miantang’s arm was suddenly grabbed from behind. “Let’s go!”
She turned around in confusion, only to see a woman with a face patched in black, brown, and red charging over menacingly, looking exactly like a zombie crawling out of a mud pit. She grabbed her, giving her a fright. “Ah—”
Catherine: “What are you screaming for? Did you see a ghost?!”
Su Miantang: “…” Yes.
Hua Rong was also startled by her appearance, only recognizing her after hearing her voice.
Eldest Sister?
Catherine gave him a perfunctory glance. “Your Majesty.”
Huh?
Su Miantang froze.
This time she wasn’t frightened by Catherine’s face, but by her words.
Y-Your Majesty?
Hua Rong was actually her younger brother, the King of the Central Star?!
She had thought he was just a little mute servant sold into the palace, bullied at every turn, and had imagined a whole bunch of tragic scenarios, but as it turned out…
Why didn’t he tell her?
“What are you standing around blankly for? Hurry up and go!”
“Can’t you see my face is about to turn into a painted cat?!”
Catherine was incredibly impatient. Hua Rong wanted to follow, but she glared at him. “What are you tagging along for? Stay here and cultivate your useless combat power properly. See if you can reach S-grade in your lifetime!”
Hua Rong stopped in his tracks.
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