Crossing the Palace Fighting Fox Harem

Chapter 267: One Night of Passion

Princess Tianning's wet body had long lost all warmth, and hugging her was like hugging a pile of ice.

"Princess..." Kang Xiaorong's voice kept shaking, as if the person who fell into the river and was soaked was himself. After this low call, it was gratifying that Princess Tianning finally gave a weak response.

"Xiaorong...Brother..." It took a long time to finish these three short words. Princess Tianning still couldn't open her eyes, only her blue lips moved slightly, uttering those three long and weak syllables.

Seeing Princess Tianning's miserable appearance, Kang Xiaorong was so sad that his throat choked.

"Brother Xiaorong... is that you? Brother Xiaorong..." Princess Tianning subconsciously reached out to Kang Xiaorong, wanting to feel if the person next to her was the Kang Xiaorong she loved so much. When she was in danger, it happened to be the person she loved the most who came to protect her, just like the plot in the story. For a moment, Princess Tianning was so happy that she couldn't believe it was real.

"Princess, Princess..." Kang Xiaorong held Princess Tianning's hand that was slowly moving towards him, and wrapped her slender five fingers tightly in his palm. Those thin five fingers were like bamboo strips, as if they would break in two if bent lightly.

"Brother Xiaorong... I'm so cold..." While saying this, Princess Tianning's body was shaking slightly.

Kang Xiaorong didn't care about the difference between superiors and subordinates, or between men and women. He folded his arms and hugged Princess Tianning tightly. He wanted to pick up Princess Tianning and carry her back to the palace. But after he hugged her, he found that his injured shoulder was completely unable to exert any strength. Not to mention carrying Princess Tianning back to the palace, he couldn't even walk two steps.

Princess Tianning seemed to notice the muffled groan from Kang Xiaorong's shoulder injury, and worriedly dissuaded him, "Brother Xiaorong, put me down, don't hold me..."

Princess Tianning almost fainted again as she began to gasp for air halfway through her words.

Kang Xiaorong touched the soaked clothes on Princess Tianning's body, knowing that if he didn't change his clothes quickly, the princess's condition would get worse. He turned his head and looked around. There was no decent road at all. There were only dark branches above his head, and he couldn't even see the starry sky that could help him identify the direction. Standing in the desperate darkness deep in the woods, Kang Xiaorong couldn't take a step forward.

He knew he was lost...

Both he and Princess Tianning were seriously injured, and without being able to tell the direction, their hope of successfully getting out of the woods was almost zero.

If I collapse halfway through the journey due to exhaustion, who will continue to protect Princess Tianning?

After thinking it over, I decided that the most effective way was to sit there and wait for rescue. But besides the whimpering sound of the wind and the creepy howling of animals, I could not hear any sound of reinforcements approaching.

How long would it take for reinforcements to arrive? Kang Xiaorong had no idea.

"Princess, wait here for a moment. I'll find a way to make a fire." Kang Xiaorong slowly put Princess Tianning back on the ground.

Princess Tianning grabbed him tightly and begged hurriedly, "No, no... Brother Xiaorong, don't leave me..."

Princess Tianning was terrified and started crying as she spoke. Her face was already covered with river sand, and now her tears washed away the sand, making it even dirtier and more horrible to look at.

Kang Xiaorong was held back by her and no longer dared to walk. He squatted down, wiped the tears from her face, and comforted her, "Okay, Princess, I won't leave. Don't cry."

"Brother Xiaorong, can you hold me?" Princess Tianning's nose wrinkled from crying. Her face and neck were as white as a wax figure, except for the bloodshot eyes. The bloodshot even climbed up her eyeballs, like a layer of blood net covering them. She looked so pitiful.

Being stared at closely by such a pair of eyes, Kang Xiaorong couldn't say a word of refusal. He sat down beside Princess Tianning's head, picked her up from the ground again, and held her in his arms.

He didn't dare to tighten his arms too much, because Princess Tianning's soft and seductive body made him afraid to touch.

He could tell everyone that he only treated Princess Tianning as a sister, but under the current circumstances, he finally realized that the sister thing was just a lie, because he simply could not hold Princess Tianning as tightly as he would a sister.

It was also at this moment that he treated Princess Tianning as a woman for the first time.

Princess Tianning's body was cold and stiff, but Kang Xiaorong's body was hot as fire. Especially when Princess Tianning leaned her head on his chest and exhaled hot air rhythmically, his body was so hot that it seemed to be burning.

"Princess..." Kang Xiaorong grabbed Princess Tianning's shoulders, trying to keep some distance from her.

At this time, Princess Tianning's hands had already gone around Kang Xiaorong's waist and climbed up to his back, sticking tightly to Kang Xiaorong like a piece of underwear.

Kang Xiaorong subconsciously dodged backwards. There happened to be a tree trunk behind him, so he leaned against it diagonally.

Princess Tianning still clung to him tightly, and no matter how he moved, she did not let go of him at all.

"Princess……"

"Brother Xiaorong." Kang Xiaorong had just started to speak when Princess Tianning suddenly interrupted him, "Brother Xiaorong... just let me hold you like this... okay... I feel dizzy and my vision is blacking out. Am I... about to die..."

"Don't talk nonsense, how could you die?" Kang Xiaorong tried to disguise his tone as relaxed, but he failed. Even he could hear the bitterness in his words. How could he deceive Princess Tianning?

"Brother Xiaorong... I asked Fangting to call you here today just to tell you something... I didn't expect that we would meet under such circumstances..." Princess Tianning laughed softly in self-deprecating manner, but she started coughing because of laughing.

"Princess? Princess?" Kang Xiaorong grabbed her tightly, worriedly.

"I'm fine, Brother Xiaorong..." Princess Tianning's hoarse cough finally stopped, and was replaced by a low cry with a hint of tears, "Brother Xiaorong, I know you don't like me... but why... do I like you so much?"

This is a question that Princess Tianning will never understand.

Even though I knew the other person would not fall in love with me, I still rushed towards him/her without hesitation like a moth to a flame.

No matter what I paid with, be it life or time, I never flinched and was never afraid.

"Brother Xiaorong, I'll tell you a secret..." Princess Tianning closed her eyes quietly and leaned on Kang Xiaorong's chest. This position allowed her to hear Kang Xiaorong's heartbeat very clearly. To her, the heartbeat was like the most beautiful music, and she was intoxicated by it, with a peaceful and happy expression on her face.

Although Princess Tianning spoke slowly, Kang Xiaorong couldn't find any opportunity to interrupt her.

Whenever Kang Xiaorong wanted to call "Princess", Princess Tianning would speak first, snatching away his chance to speak.

Perhaps Princess Tianning was afraid that Kang Xiaorong would say something that would hurt her, so she deliberately prevented him from saying anything.

Only in the other person's silence and her own soliloquy could Princess Tianning draw a happy fantasy for herself.

She spoke softly and intermittently, "Brother Xiaorong, everyone thinks that I am bold and fearless... Even mother said that I am not afraid of anything... I used to think so confidently... But, it was not until today that I knew... It was not until today when I saw you and Huarong together that I knew... I am not afraid of nothing... I also have things that I am very afraid of... I am afraid that you don't like me at all, I am afraid that you like someone else, I am afraid to see you with her, I am afraid to see you kiss her... I am even more afraid, even more afraid to know that you and her should be together, and my existence is just superfluous..."

"Princess, Princess..." Kang Xiaorong tightened his grip on Princess Tianning's shoulders.

In fact, when Princess Tianning said the above words just now, he wanted to interrupt Princess Tianning's somewhat excited voice several times, but Princess Tianning spoke faster and faster, until she stubbornly finished saying everything she wanted to say, and then she stopped to give Kang Xiaorong a chance to speak.

"Princess, you are not redundant, and you don't have to be afraid... You will definitely meet someone you love more in the future."

"No more!" Princess Tianning almost screamed, her ten fingers tightly grasping Kang Xiaorong's clothes, screaming one after another, "No more... I know I won't..."

"Princess." Kang Xiaorong gently shook Princess Tianning's shoulder, trying to keep her calm.

Princess Tianning angrily shook off Kang Xiaorong's hand on her shoulder and pressed her upper body tightly against Kang Xiaorong, as if she was holding the most precious thing in her life and never wanted to let go.

"Hyoyoung, you can dislike me, but you can't doubt that I will like someone else... No matter who I meet in the future, I will never like him as much as I like you, Hyoyoung... Apart from you, I don't want to like anyone else..."

"Princess..." Kang Xiaorong didn't know what to say and frowned apologetically.

"Brother Xiaorong..." Princess Tianning took a deep breath, and her previously excited voice finally calmed down. She said slowly, "I had already decided to give up and let Fangting find you, just to tell you that I will never like you again... I will never cry for you again, and I will never be unhappy because of you... But... But now, I finally know that I can't say it at all..."

I can't even say the words "giving up" or "quitting".

Just thinking about those cruel words was so painful that it almost tore her heart apart.

At this moment, Kang Xiaorong's heart suddenly felt warm and wet...

Those were Princess Tianning's tears. The tears had soaked through Kang Xiaorong's clothes and into his heart.

It was very hot, very burning, just like Princess Tianning’s equally passionate love.