Chapter 743 - The Curse (18) (1/2)

After Xie Ming went to the hospital, Zhao Ming and Ji Cheng were left alone at home. Zhao Ming looked at Ji Cheng who was sitting in the living room alone and was trying to read the newspaper that Liwei was reading earlier.

She walked towards him and stood behind the sofa, she peeked at the newspaper and pursed her lips seeing that he was reading the business newspaper in English. Her lips curled up in a smile seeing him staring at the newspaper with utmost seriousness.

” So..what are you reading?” she leaned closer and asked in a low voice.

Ji Cheng who was frowning while looking at the paper that was written in the foreign language was startled when he heard her words that sounded just like a whisper to him. He instinctively turned around to look at her and was surprised to see her face that was close to him, only a few inches away.

Even Zhao Ming was startled when he turned around suddenly and seeing his face from close made her nervous for some reason. It's been days since they were arguing and before coming here, they were even sleeping in different rooms and were avoiding each other whenever they crossed paths.

She was staring into his eyes when she remembered his words, ” You have no right to call me Ji Cheng!” She woke up from her daze with a jerk and stood up immediately, which left Ji Cheng to stare at her in wonder.

She coughed lightly and said, ” If you have nothing to do then accompany me to the mall. We need to buy clothes and other things for you.” she said.

He stared at her in a daze and wondered if she said this as a sarcastic comment or what. What work can he have in this strange place? He didn't reject her and nodded, agreeing to accompany her wherever she wanted to take him.

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Ji Cheng's pupils widened in shock and bewilderment seeing the strange-looking place with the magnificent building that has multiple storeys and was crowded with people, wearing the strange clothes of this world. Zhao Ming said that they are here to buy his clothes and stuff that they might need for their stay in this world.

He was expecting them to go to a local market just like they have one in Ji Dynasty but his eyes widened in shock to see this large magnificent building which has multiple shops that has everything they need to buy. His mouth opened when he saw people going on the second floor using the escalator. People were standing in one place while the stairs were moving.

” What kind of strange world is this? How can stairs move like this?” He looked at the stairs in shock.

Zhao Ming couldn't help but chuckle when she saw him looking around the place in amus.e.m.e.nt.

'This Emperor is getting cuter day by day.' she shook her head seeing him looking at the place dreamily. He was like a happy kid who had come to the amus.e.m.e.nt park for the first time and was trying to fit the whole place in his memory.

” Ah, I can't let him act like this around me. It's not good for my poor heart.” She murmured and patted her chest, trying to tear off her gaze from him.

” Your Maj- she wanted to call him but paused in her words, remembering that calling him Your Majesty in the public might not be proper. However, she was hesitating to call him by name as well.

Ji Cheng turned to look at her and saw her hesitating while calling him by his name.” You don't need to address me with my title here. You can call me by my name. I am not the Emperor here anyway.”

She pursed her lips seeing his excited expressions suppressing. She recognized these expressions as they were the same as her when she first went to Ji Dynasty. She sighed as she knew that it's not easy to leaving everything behind and adjust to new foreign surroundings.