441 A day will come...

Lóng Wei told the servant to bring water for them. He turned to look at Li Hua and asked her to take the seat. Li Hua shook her head and looked around the office. She saw the table which had many scrolls, documents, and registers on them. “Will His Highness finish all of them today?” Li Hua concernedly asked.

“No. I will have to merely put approval stamps on them. Zhai Liang, my assistant, has already gone through all these,” Lóng Wei asserted.

“Oh. That is good then,” Li Hua said.

The servant brought two glasses of water on a tray. Lóng Wei picked up the one and handed it to Li Hua. “Here, drink it first,” Lóng Wei told her. Li Hua almost drank that when he stopped her and tasted the water to make sure there was no poison. Once he was sure, he let her drink that water.

Lóng Wei wiped her lips using his thumb and asked Li Hua to sit comfortably on the chair. Once he took his seat, Lóng Wei sat at the main chair around the desk.

“Your Highness, will you show me the Governor’s seal? I want to see it.” Li Hua expressed her wish. Lóng Wei nodded his head and opened the drawer on the desk using the key. He brought out the seal and showed it to Li Hua.

“Is there any special reason to see it?” Lóng Wei asked.

“Yes.” Li Hua nodded her head. “This seal has a special meaning. Not everyone can possess it. The Prince has it and this in itself is a proud feeling. With this seal, the entire Qinping’s work happens,” Li Hua asserted with a wide smile on her lips. She lowered her eyelids to look at the seal. “If His Highness’s mother were here, then she would have been proud of him,” she stated.

Lóng Wei did not agree with her. “She would have still hated me,” he stated.

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Li Hua peered at him. “His Highness does not understand a mother’s heart. She pretended to hate you. She loved you till her last breath. The reason she always showed her hatred all the time toward her only son had a bigger reason behind it,” Li Hua stated with a confident tone.

Lóng Wei did not know why Li Hua said such words to him. “I would love to know that bigger reason then,” he asserted and shifted his gaze toward the door as he heard the footsteps.

Li Hua put the seal back into the box and found Lóng Wei’s facial expressions changed. She turned to look and found a man in his late forties bowed before Lóng Wei.

The man raised his head and looked into Lóng Wei’s eyes.

“Why are you here, Yu Wenyan?” Lóng Wei asked him.

“Mother wants to see her grandson before dying. It is her dying wish,” Yu Wenyan stated.

Li Hua’s eyes grew slightly bigger as she realized that the man was Lóng Wei’s uncle.

“Why? Did she not curse me to die? Now, she is on her deathbed, she wants to see me,” Lóng Wei said. His facial expressions darkened as he recalled the day when his maternal grandmother had come to the palace ground to ask for justice for her daughter.

“Your Highness, your maternal grandmother will pass away soon. Please fulfill my mother’s dying wish,” Yu Wenyan requested Lóng Wei.

“I do not want to,” Lóng Wei replied and called in Zhai Liang. He quickly rushed in when Lóng Wei scolded him.

“Why did you let him enter? Do you have a death wish?” Lóng Wei suddenly turned furious. Zhai Liang apologized for his mistake. “Take him away,” he commanded and looked in the other direction when Li Hu decided to intervene.

Yu Wenyan was expecting this only from Lóng Wei. He had not changed a bit. He had heard from the people that Lóng Wei had become slightly warm towards the other people. It seemed all those were a mere illusion. He turned to leave when Li Hua stopped him.

Lóng Wei gazed at Li Hua in bewilderment. She rose to her feet and went to Yu Wenyan.

“We will come to see the grandmother, Uncle Yu,” Li Hua assured him. “Ahh, I am Li Hua, the wife of Prince Lóng Wei. I apologize to uncle Yu on Prince Lóng Wei’s behalf.”

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“Li Hua!” Lóng Wei slammed his hand on the table. She turned to look at him and found him infuriated. “Do not intervene in this matter,” he said while controlling his anger. Zhai Liang was nervous thinking that Lóng Wei might pick up his sword.

“Take him away!” Lóng Wei instructed Zhai Liang again, who told Yu Wenyan to follow him. They both left while Li Hua scowled at Lóng Wei. She lifted her high-waist skirt and dashed out of the room. Lóng Wei pressed his fingers on the temple of his forehead.

“Uncle Yu!” Li Hua loudly said this time. He stopped and turned to look. Zhai Liang also gazed in her direction when she stopped in front of them.

“I will bring Prince Lóng Wei to see his maternal grandmother. Tell her to wait for us,” Li Hua said with assurance.

“Her Highness is not aware of the Prince. If he has refused it, then he will not come. I know my nephew well. I did not want to come to him after what he did to my sister, but my mother expressed her desire to see Prince Lóng Wei before dying. I will advise Her Highness not to go against the Prince. He may take away her life too,” Yu Wenyan did not hesitate to utter those bitter words at the end. He turned and walked ahead.

“Prince Lóng Wei has a warm heart, Uncle Yu,” Li Hua said with a smile on her lips. Zhai Liang glanced at Li Hua in astonishment.

Yu Wenyan tilted his head to gaze at Li Hua.

“Her Highness is a foolish woman, then,” Yu Wenyan stated.

“I am not, Uncle Yu. Prince Lóng Wei will come to see his maternal grandmother. A day will come when you will apologize to your nephew. I know my husband more than anyone,” Li Hua stated.

Yu Wenyan did not say anything in response. He looked ahead and walked away from the corridor. Li Hua was hurt to hear the words of Yu Wenyan.

Lóng Wei, who had leaned against the door with his arms crossed, chuckled, and then, he smiled. Li Hua stood for him and he felt blessed once again. He went back to the desk and waited for Li Hua to come inside.