Dance Of The Dragons
Chapter 183 : Competing Over The Dragon Throne (3)

Chapter 183: Chapter 183 : Competing Over The Dragon Throne (3)

At first glance, it looked like a piece of jewelry.

Once Xie Jianyu took it from Zhang Fengxi’s hand, he saw that it was a choker. To be very exact, it was the kind of item that omegas wore in order to prevent unwanted markings by alphas.

Xie Jianyu stared at Zhang Fengxi.

"What is the meaning of this?"

"Don’t mind the shape," Zhang Fengxi said in a hurry. "It was supposed to be a bracelet, but the craftsman mistook my request. The raw material was crystallized from the Grand Tutor’s antidote, stabilized with Dragon Tendon Powder, and fostered with my Hellfire Hurricane.

I tested it with my Three Realm Spear’s centipede poison and other poisons that I encountered before. It can dispel any kind of poison. Well, most of it I believe."

Xie Jianyu stared at him.

"I didn’t know that you like to craft this kind of item."

It was rather an unalpha-like interest, if one put it that way.

"Ah, hahaha..."

Truth to be told, he didn’t just craft it out of boredom.

When he received the special antidote from the Grand Tutor back then, he couldn’t stop thinking about how great it would be if he had the antidote in his previous life.

If he did, then his baby son would be saved.

Although Zhang Fengxi did not know what might happen in the near future, he could not help but harbor the wish to prevent the same incident from repeating.

The little baby was not here yet to wear it, so Zhang Fengxi wanted to give it to his mother first. If everything went smoothly, then Xie Jianyu would pass the choker to their son. At that time, it would not be too late to modify it into a proper baby bracelet.

Warmth spread in Zhang Fengxi’s heart when he thought about it that way.

The warmth was driven away by the cold, harsh winter wind when Xie Jianyu pressed the choker back into Zhang Fengxi’s hands.

"I cannot accept it, I am sorry."

"Why not?" Zhang Fengxi demanded to know.

Xie Jianyu glared at him.

"I understand and appreciate your good intentions, but we do not have that kind of relationship."

The choker’s nature suggested that Zhang Fengxi and Xie Jianyu were intimately related to each other. It was not true, and it was never going to be true. Gifting the choker was improper, and wearing it only underlined the impropriety.

"What if I want to have that kind of relationship with you?"

"..."

Xie Jianyu’s chest felt stuffy.

"Don’t say that," he murmured, his voice trembling from suppressed emotions. "Stop saying irresponsible things like that."

"How is it irresponsible?" Zhang Fengxi wanted to know. "Xie Jianyu, what if I intend to pursue you?"

"Why do you want to pursue me?"

"..."

Zhang Fengxi swallowed hard. The Crown Prince started with a very good question. Without waiting for Zhang Fengxi to piece together an answer, he followed up with another difficult question.

"Do you love me, Zhang Fengxi?"

Love.

It was that blasted question again.

Zhang Fengxi asked himself the same question a thousand times, but the answer was still no.

He couldn’t tell Xie Jianyu, because then it would be over between them before anything began to bloom. At the same time, he was also unable to lie. He did not want to lie about something so important to Xie Jianyu.

"No, right?" Although he expected it, Xie Jianyu was still devastated. "You love Liu Wenyuan. You will always love him. You will keep coming back to him no matter what."

"No!"

Zhang Fengxi grabbed Xie Jianyu’s wrist.

"It is true that I don’t know what kind of feelings I have for you, but I am willing to explore them! There is nothing else between me and Liu Wenyuan. Not after all that he did to you."

Xie Jianyu shook his head in denial.

"I don’t believe you."

"Xie Jianyu..."

"You never took my side.

He let his wolf cub hurt me, and you said that the Golden Dragon Palace was unreasonable.

He sabotaged my dance performance, and you had not the slightest doubt about his involvement. You even tried to pin the blame on my maids!

He cooperated with the First Demon King to kidnap me, but you said nothing about it."

"I broke up with him!" Zhang Fengxi exclaimed.

"And why? Not because you take my side."

Xie Jianyu’s eyes turned glassy.

"It’s because you found out that he was not the white lotus you imagined him to be. It has nothing to do with me."

Zhang Fengxi wanted to argue further, but he did not know what to say.

Xie Jianyu swallowed all the grievances of the past and never spoke about them. At the same time, he never forgets about them either. He just wrapped himself in a thick cocoon and licked his wounds in solitude. All the while wallowing in sadness and crying himself to sleep.

"Zhang Fengxi, I do not blame you for not loving me. Just stop being so nice to me. Stop giving me mixed signals," Xie Jianyu wiped the ends of his eyes to get rid of tears.

"I am not just the Crown Prince. I am not just a Golden Lotus. I am my own person. I deserve to be loved," the omega choked out.

It was probably the first time he spoke so openly about his feelings, and he hated himself for exposing his weak heart in front of the person he loved one-sidedly.

"Thank you for helping Muchen," he said. "Do not mention pursuing me ever again."

Zhang Fengxi tightened his grip around Xie Jianyu’s wrist. He was unable to let this matter go. Xie Jianyu was extremely unfair toward him.

"Xie Jianyu, why won’t you give me a chance? You gave Wu Shenxia, even Zhou Guiying a chance to pursue you!"

"Fine!"

Xie Jianyu glared at Zhang Fengxi.

"Remove yourself from this competition and I shall give you the chance you want!"

"I can’t," Zhang Fengxi said.

"Then do not speak of pursuing me. Let go of my hand, Prince Zhang Fengxi."