Chapter 76 - Believe In Fate

Jiang Ying Yue stared at the Third Prince who seemed to be enjoying the comfort of her mattress, not like it was anywhere near the top-quality one that he normally used.

"Cut the crap! Tell me, why are you here? What do you want?" She asked again as she took a seat beside him on the bed. Folding her legs in the lotus position, she draped the duvet on her lap before relaxing.

"I just told you that I came here to chat with you. Why are you so doubtful?" Wu Xie questioned with his eyebrows arched high as he gave her a curious look.

"Whatever! I'm too tired to deal with you right now." Jiang Ying Yue mumbled as she moved to once again lay down on the bed before covering herself with the duvet.

"Wait! Are you planning to sleep with me?" Wu Xie asked as he raised his body a little with the help of his elbow to look at her face.

"You should be happy to know that you are the first-ever person to get this privilege. Now no more nonsense, just sleep.." Ying Yue replied in an indifferent tone before she pushed him down on the bed with her hand.

"Seeing you behave like this, I'm really curious to know what kind of world you used to live in before coming here. You seem too open-minded about the intimacy between men and women." Wu Xie commented as he resumed his previous position and just laid there beside her. 

Since he was not facing towards her, he failed to see the smirk that his words brought on Ying Yue's lips. "Trust me, Your Highness, no one from your world will be able to stand my world. If my allowing you to share my bed is considered too open-minded, then you will probably get a heart attack after seeing exactly how open-minded the people of my world are."

Her words, or more like the mocking warning, only made Wu Xie more curious as he tried to imagine what kind of world Miss Jiang used to live in.

"Is it a big world?" He asked after a few minutes.

"Yes and no. It depends. It's pretty big but sometimes it can feel like a really small world." Jiang Ying Yue answered but she could tell that her words had confused the Prince.

"Then..., how many empires it has? How many emperors?" He asked again, seeming to have become more curious to learn about her world. 

Jiang Ying Yue suddenly let out a chuckle as she tried to find a perfect way to answer his questions. The more she would tell him about her world, the more curious he was destined to become.

"We don't call them Empires anymore because they are no longer ruled by Emperors or Empresses. Instead, we call them countries and every country has its government that helps their countries and their people to achieve a prosperous and happy future. There are nearly two hundred countries in my world." 

For the next few minutes, all that she heard was silence. The Third Prince was taking his time to digest the information that she had so carelessly thrown at him. It was his first time hearing that there were almost two hundred empires, or countries, present in a world. That just sounded impossible.

"Are you too shocked to speak?" Jiang Ying Yue asked when she heard no response from him after several minutes of silence.

"I know that you are just trying to fool me. I'm not going to believe you just like that." Wu Xie suddenly spoke as he turned his body to face her before draping one of his arms over her waist.

"What are you doing? When did I allow you to touch me like this? Aren't you bring too brave?" Jiang Ying Yue questioned in a reprimanding tone as she tried to get his arm off her. But to her dismay, not only he tightened his hold on her but he was also bold enough to pull her closer to his body.

"Wu Xie...!" Jiang Ying Yue tried to warn the man but it seemed like he was in no mood of listening.

"Sssh! Just calm down. I just want to visit your world." The Prince told her as he placed his fingers against her temple while resting his face against the top of her head.

"W... W-what? What are you talking about?" Jiang Ying Yue asked but she did stop struggling and let her body relax against him.

"You will find out in a minute or two." He told her in a whispered tone and before Jiang Ying Yue could open her mouth to ask anything more, she felt her eyes suddenly becoming too heavy to stay open. Her mind became hazy, being unable to think properly and just like that, it took her barely a minute to fall asleep.

The door of her bed-chamber flew open exactly the moment when she gave in under the heavy control of the spell that Wu Xie had cast over her.

"What are you doing to her? Why are you even here?" Silver questioned as he closed the door before once again placing the ward around the room that he had taken down just a couple of seconds ago. 

"So it's really true. You are always there with her no matter what place or time it is. You really love her, don't you?" Wu Xie asked as he watched the man coming closer to the bed.

"Why? Are you suddenly being jealous? It's not my fault that you were born in a completely different world from ours. Maybe if you were born in our world, you would have met her a long time ago. But as far as I can tell, time never matters to us immortals. Unlike humans, we have too much time in our hands." Silver responded with a little shrug as he crouched down beside the bed and stared at the sleeping form of his mate.

"You look too calm for a person who should be worrying for the safety of the love of his life." Wu Xie could not help but point out as he noticed that there was no tense energy surrounding the man.

A small smile appeared on Silver's lips as he slightly shook his head as if he found Wu Xie's words quite hilarious. "Why should I worry? She's your mate too. Unless you are someone without a heart, it's almost impossible for you to do anything to hurt her. You will receive twice the pain and suffering if you even dared to hurt her on purpose. I think you already learned this lesson on the day when you tried to push her down the cliff."

From the shocked look on Wu Xie's face, it was pretty clear that Silver had guessed right. Since it was an intentional incident, Wu Xie got hurt even double of what Jiang Ying Yue went through that day. 

A deep sigh escaped the Third Prince's lips as he just shook his head to get rid of the memories. It was his first time to feel so much pain and it was not until he found her and held her in his arms, did his pain started fading away. 

"This mate thing is too weird for me to understand. The more I'm trying to understand how this all works, the more confused I'm becoming." He finally let out the words that had been sitting inside his heart for quite a while.

"It will take time but time is exactly what you have in abundance. As long as you will let fate play its cards, everything will be alright in the end." Silver replied as he took hold of one of Jiang Ying Yue's hands. He let his powers out to mingle with the energy of the spell cast over her. 

"Do you really think that fate has written a happy ending for all of us?" Wu Xie suddenly asked as he turned to look at Silver with serious eyes.

What he didn't expect was for the nan to just shrug his shoulders in response. "Why are you being like that? Since you dare to bring up fate, shouldn't you have some faith in it?" 

Silver once again shrugged but this time he did took a few seconds to think about the question. "The fate allowed me to meet her and even when I was not allowed to accompany her as her lover, it still gave me a way out. Even after death, fate allowed the two of us to start a new life together. Since it has been giving me chances that I probably never deserved, I think I will be a fool to not trust it."

Wu Xie observed the man for a while, seeing that he clearly meant every single word that he just spoke. "Fine! I'll listen to you this once." 

Silver nodded his head in acknowledgment as another soft smile appeared on his lips. "Don't you want to see our world? Let me take you on a tour."