The Princess And The Lord

In the garden, Lory sat on the carpet while her hands writing something with a serious face, her eyelashes fluttered every time her hands paused as if she was thinking about something then a second later her hands moved again after she made a decision. 

"What are you doing?"

  "Making the guest list," Lory said.

"Oh ..." he read a shortlist of the names of the invited guests.

"As I write this, I realize we don't have many friends, do we," Lory felt a little sad. 

"I think we have more than I thought ..." Zhao Li Xin disagreed, if it was up to him, it would be the Mong brothers, and the King's palace alone, they don't even need paper. 

"Uhmm... I don't know should I write your master name or not?" Lory tilted her head. 

"Former master…" he corrected.

"Okay, Former master" Lory emphasized the word 'former' before continuing "So, what do you think ... should I write her name or not?"

Zhao Li Xin paused for a moment then said, "No ..."

Lory pursed her lips "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure ..." he returned the paper to Lory calmly then leaned his back on the sofa.

His firm answer made Lory swallow her next words, she knew how stubborn Zhao Li Xin could be. Lory got up from the carpet and sat beside him, then snuggled into his arms, "By the way, where we will have our wedding, I thought it would be in Jing An city but then we are here, I don't think Sun City Jan is bad." 

Do you like it here? Zhao Li Xin wrapped his arms over her shoulders while Lory lazily leaned her head against her chest. 

"Sun Jan city is not as crowded as Jing An city and I like the river that surrounds the city, it reminds me of one of the favorite cities in my country" 

"If you like it here, then we can have a wedding here…." He agreed readily. 

"Very simple…." Lory always wondered how easily Zhao Li Xin complied with her request. 

"Should we have a wedding at our Manor, or ... can I choose another place?" Lory bit her lip, according to the custom around here the wedding should be held at the groom's residence because the bride would stay in the room waiting for the groom after the wedding ceremony while the groom was having fun with their friends and guests. 

"Not fair, of course!"

As someone who never played by the books, he could easily say "Wherever you like my darling". Zhao Li Xin lived his life like a stallion running freely in the fields, unruly and unrestraint, "As long as you are there, I don't care where we have the wedding."

Lory's heart became sweet like someone poured honey in her heart, she couldn't taste anything but sweetness, "I'm just kidding, let's have a wedding here, the manor is not that big but we don't have too many guests too, but we have other problems…. " 

"What?" Zhao Li Xin frowned, he didn't know there would be a problem with marrying his princess.

Lory narrowed her eyes then took a sheet of paper which contained a few lists to check "Okay, our first problem is we don't have elder from both sides, turn out we need an elder to act as a parent or guardian" 

"Oh…" Zhao Li Xin didn't notice this.

"So we need someone to act as an elder…." Lory said, "Since your former master is not 'available' maybe we can ask Elder Mu or old Zhang,  Ming Yue Yin grand tutor to act as an elder, what do you think?" 

"Should we do that?" Zhao Li Xin showing his impatience.

"Hey, this is your own wedding custom, don't blame me! I will talk to Yang Xi Ying and Ming Yue Yin about the elders then" Lory checking the list then continued, "Since we're married, so we skip matchmakers and fortune-tellers to match our births or something .... actually I don't know my own birthday using this world calendar ..."

Zhao Li Xin struck by the realization "You right, we never celebrated your birthday…."

"Humph, we never celebrate yours either!" Lory also just realized this, "Oh well, we women don't like telling people our real age anyway" Lory shrugged. 

"Really?" He had no idea.

"Really!" she replies firmly.

"Moving on ..." Lory waved her hand, "Wedding gifts! Xi Ying said you need to give me a wedding gift, there is also a contract marriage ... I don't know about this contract, so I don't know how important this is ..." Lory read the list in her hand and shook her head with a confused look. 

"In that case, I just sent out the entire Hei Shen treasury ..." he said casually. 

"Li Xin be normal, please!" she reprimands without looking at him "Just normal wedding gift, alright"

"But it will show everyone how much you mean to me," he insisted. 

"Thank you, but we don't have the time to receive a large number of gifts from you, we don't have the whole day, you know!" Lory found out from Wu San Bo who was in charge of all of Hei Shen's treasury, once he showed Lory the Hei Shen ledger that showed all of Hei Shen's money and possessions, lory was shocked how thick the book was that it took two hands to support the weight. 

"It's a waste of time, and effort, so….DENIED!" Lory rejects his plan completely.

Zhao Li Xin sighed heavily this was the first time someone had rejected his plan, Zhao Li Xin could only reluctantly follow his wife's orders. 

"Okay, next!" He checked the list then continued, "And they said I have to send a dowry to the groom since I got a gift from the Yunmo kingdom it won't be a problem" 

"Unnecessary!" he cut off.

"Just accepting it, it's just for show ..." Lory rolled her eyes, she knew the gift would spin into her hands again.

"Oh, we still need fortuned teller to decide the wedding date" Lory surprised people how much people believe in superstition.

"Unnecessary!" he argued again "No one can make a decision when and where I will marry you!"

"Ooo….kay, fortune teller crossed" she ignores Zhao Li Xin's antics while crossed the fortune teller from the list.

Lory thought everything is clear and she can return the paper to Yang Xi Ying and Bei Li Yan to process, she put down the paper on the table but then she remembers something else "Oh, yeah..until the wedding ceremony I think it's better if I stayed somewhere else so when the time came, you will pick me up!"Lory smiles widely thinking the idea quite romantic.

"NO WAY!" once again the great Lord refuted.

"Huh, why?" Lory didn't know what gets into this man, why he kept arguing with her.

"I cannot sleep without you!" said Zhao Li Xin.

"Go cultivate then, it's not like you sleep with me every night ...." Lory scoffed, the four out of five they spent the night together always ended up making love with passion, and the next morning Lory would struggle to get off the bed. Luckily Zhao Li Xin had. busy schedule with cultivation and dealing with Hei Shen's matters so that they don't spend their night together as much as an ordinary couple would, otherwise Lory doesn't know how she goes about her day. 

"Oh, I didn't know I have disappointed my wife, how about this I make sure I will always accompany you and satisfied you every night" he lifted her chin with a seductive smile. 

'Satisfied, my as*'

"NO WAY!" she pretends to be angry but her red cheeks betray her.

"Really?" he grinned.

"Shut up!" she scolded Zhao Li Xin.

"How about I sneak into your bedroom before the wedding, like a flower thief, hm..." he licked his lips with a mischievous grin.

Lory narrowed her eyes, "Then I'll say to that thief, whatever he wanted to steal was lost long ago!" 

"..."

'That's true'