Chapter 18 - Unbridled Fate (1/2)

{...*What the hell are you doing?!!...}

The emperor glanced at his mother at his side, she was facing forward and was unperturbed. He glanced at the other side and looked at the servants in the corner, none of them seemed to have said anything either. He knit his brows and looked perplexed for a bit and then sighed.

{...This can't b-...}

{...*What the hell are you doing?!!... She's leaving!!!!...}

{...What?...}

The emperor frowned and glanced around again, and then put a hand up and rubbed his temple, shutting his eyes.

{...*Listen! Hurry up and do something!!! Now!! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!!!...}

{...Is this-...}

{....*Hurry Up!!! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!! STOP IT!!...}

”Stop!” The emperor suddenly roared. Everyone in the room froze and turned to his direction.

”Emperor, is something wrong?” The empress dowager beside him asked. He opened his eyes and looked at her perplexed and then scanned the room and saw that all eyes were on him, and realized he had spoken out loud.

As he scanned the hall, his eyes stopped at the failed candidates who were almost at the entrance, and his eyes locked on one of them.

{...*Yes! Her! Go!... Do something!!...}

{...Seriously...?...}

{...*I said Go!!...}

The emperor sighed with a frown and got up, walked down the platform and approached the entrance, everyone watched him confused at his actions.

Lei Xing watched as the emperor got closer along with the other candidates and started to feel a bit panicked.

{...What is this about now?...}

To Lei Xing's annoyance, the emperor ended up stopping right beside her, he looked at her and then frowned, and seemed to be scrutinizing her.

Lei Xing, at first looked at him cautiously with a guarded expression and then looked away feeling an impending sense of doom.

{...He's not looking at me, he's probably cross-eyed...but he's standing right there...then he must be cross-bodied too, Okay!!...Go away, go away, Go AWAY!! Shoo, shoo, GET LOST!!!...}

Lei Xing looked down to hide her confusion and annoyance with this situation and pretended like he wasn't there, hoping that he would go away if she did.

The rest of the spectators were also deeply puzzled by what the emperor was doing. The emperor was just standing there scrutinizing Lei Xing with a frown and seemed to be in deep thought.

{...Why her?...}

{...*If you let her go, you will definitely regret it!...}

{...Regret?...}

{...*Definitely will regret it! Definitely!...}

{...I'll regret it...then in that case...I guess...}

The emperor stretched out a hand in front of her. Lei Xing, who was looking down, saw the hand appear in front of her and froze, then deeply frowned at it.

{...No way! This is not happening! I FAILED ALREADY!! GO AWAY!...}

Lei Xing was hopping mad on the inside and felt the urge to strangle someone. The two of them stood like that for a while, one looking down and the other with a hand outstretched. The people looking at them all went wide-eyed in shock, some in the hall frowned in anger or sadness at the turn of this situation.

But there was no one angrier at this moment than Lei Xing.

The emperor laughed a bit and grabbed her hand, ”I guess you must be frozen in joy.”

As soon as he grabbed her hand, Lei Xing looked up, glared at him and instinctively tried to pull her hand back, but he tightened his hold.

The emperor seeing her reaction and raised an eyebrow at her with a smirk.

{...Ah, she is really glaring...very daring...}

”I'll help you.” He said with a smile, then he pulled Lei Xing along with him against her will to the front and up the platform stairs.