Chapter 77 - He Lost It (1/2)

Seeing the children leave for the preparation room, Qiu Ling blinked. They were out of his sight. He should —

He had gotten up halfway when a slender hand grabbed his shoulder. ”Daoist master, didn't you promise something just now?”

Qiu Ling coughed. ”I did. But I should still take a look!” He had to make sure that nothing bad happened to his beloved!

”Over there is only a room for preparing the tea. There is nobody inside besides the children and our tea master.”

”I haven't seen your tea master. Maybe he's a bad person.”

Madam Zhong shook her head. ”She's a lovely girl.”

”She might want you to think that. Who knows who she really is?”

”My husband's cousin hired her himself.”

Qiu Ling looked up at her solemnly. ”Madam Zhong, are you sure, your husband and his cousin only share their looks?”

”Er …” She suddenly remembered how Zhong Gang always scratched his head when he was at a loss. It was just like her husband. Maybe she should worry after all? Her husband wasn't that good at judging people … Somehow she had began to worry herself, though she had originally wanted to get Qiu Ling to stop worrying.

”You see! I'd better go and take a look. Not that something happens to your son.”

He finally got up and wanted to go over, but Madam Zhong grabbed his sleeve this time. ”Where do you think you're going? You're a guest and that is a room for the servants working here. If any one goes there that should be me.”

Qiu Ling grit his teeth. This was the first time in his life, someone had denied him en— No, wait. This wasn't the first time. His other mother-in-law had once done the same when she felt like he had gone too far.

What was it with these mothers? Shouldn't they be a bit more worried when their sons were in such dangerous situations?! What if that despicable child did something to Jing Yi?

Qiu Ling slumped back onto his chair. He remembered that damn day his other mother-in-law had denied him entry. It had been in the nine heavens so he couldn't just force his way inside. The heavenly emperor was still above him there. And more than that he was afraid of pissing off his mother-in-law. However deep Jing He's love to him was, it would crumble if he didn't have her blessing. Maybe not instantly but with a bit of time. So pleasing his mother-in-law stood nearly as high on his list of priorities as pleasing Jing He himself.

But on that day, he had nearly lost all reasoning. He had thought his beloved was with another man and his imagination had supplied him with all kinds of things the two of them could have been doing. Just imagining how some other man gazed heatedly at his beloved and even dared to touch him! Such impudence! At that point in time he hadn't even held Jing He's hand yet!

Well, at least not with Jing He's consent. He had grabbed his hands once when he was too excited to control his emotions.

Anyway, on that day, his mother-in-law had also claimed that he was imagining things and that nothing was happening, but Qiu Ling didn't want to hear that. He wanted to see his beloved. He wanted to make sure nothing was going on. He just wanted to make sure.

In the end, he had made such a commotion that the guards and the heavenly emperor himself came over. And finally that door opened to reveal two men. Qiu Ling hadn't cared for any of the other people one bit. He had leapt in front of Jing He, conveniently pushing that other man to the side.

Not caring about Jing He's parents behind him or the guards, that were eying him suspiciously, he clasped his hands and smiled. ”Jing He, my dear, I was yearning to see you.” His voice had turned gentler all on its own.

The anger he felt before, the fear of losing the one whose heart he was just obtaining … Oh? Had there been something like that?