The Candy-Hearted Maid of the Gentlemanly Knight.

TL’s observe: The princess’s identify has been modified from Mei Sewei to Hathaway (longer clarification right here).

“Who may you be?”

A questioning voice sounded. As he mentally froze, Bai Zhi immediately remembered a sure tacky pick-up line:

“I’m– I’m yours?”

The system who was busy having fun with the drama: “…”

What lastly snapped Bai Zhi out of it was a pointy blade. With a flick of his fingers, Gesius stood on the shore, pulled out a sword, and prolonged an extended arm to press the blade in opposition to Bai Zhi’s neck.

“Gesius of the primary order of knights. Intruder, report your identify.”

Bai Zhi lowered his head and seemed on the sword edge that was radiating silver gentle, swallowed, and in a present of full spinelessness defined every part:

“My identify is Locke, I’m an evil dragon, my deal with is the third cave entrance within the Black Forest west of the royal palace, I’m single, I’ve a home and don’t have a automobile however I can fly.”

Bai Zhi stated all this in a single breath, and the tense environment immediately dissipated.

Gesius furrowed his forehead and probed a bit uncertainly: “Evil…dragon?”

Bai Zhi blinked.

Gesius was silent for some time. Bai Zhi was beginning to marvel if this particular person believed his phrases when he immediately heard the sound of lake water being sliced open. Then his personal tail was attacked with an ice-cold contact.

Gesius held his sword along with his proper hand and used the sword tip to raise Bai Zhi’s dragon tail. When this unsmiling knight noticed the quick fats tail along with his personal eyes, a uncommon trace of shock emerged inside them: 

“You’re an actual dragon?”

“In fact I’m actual!” Bai Zhi was so chilly he shivered and withdrew his tail with a smack: “The truth that I’m single can be actual!”

But Gesius was fully missed Bai Zhi’s level. With a cold face, he stated with out emotion: “What are you right here for?”

“The princess…invited me.” Bai Zhi lowered his head and made up an exceedingly lame excuse.

The system was considering of the methods by which they’d be invited out of the palace. Nonetheless, Gesius as soon as once more shattered his expectations:

“The princess…? I perceive, I’ll take you to her.”

Bai Zhi: “Thanks!”

Gesius: “No drawback.”

System: “You two positive are harmonious ah.”

Issues had taken a wierd flip amidst the system’s confusion. Bai Zhi was led unimpeded by Gesius to the princess’s royal bedchambers and as he stood exterior its entrance, he seemed again reluctantly on the departing knight’s determine for an extended whereas earlier than the fed-up system kicked him into the princess’s room.

“The princess has been ready for you for ages, you white-eyed wolf!” 

Bai Zhi, who had been kicked to the ground, rolled over, dusted off his fingers, and stood up. He stated a bit angrily: “It’s not like I stated I wouldn’t go in.”

“Had been you planning on ready till you turned a husband-watching rock [1] ?” The only-dog system was fully unable to grasp the thought processes of lovers: “The sooner you begin the sooner you’ll end. When you kidnap the princess, you may actually look forward to the knight to seek out you.”

With simply these phrases, the system was capable of snap awake the daydreamer: “Proper!”

Listening to this, a sure demon immediately forgot his butt that had been in ache from the system’s kick. With nice enthusiasm he bumped into the royal bedchambers.

“Princess, I’m right here!”

Princess Hathaway was mendacity on that enormous mattress lined absolutely in rose petals. The picture of golden hair paired with the purple roses was significantly shifting, and but it was unable to draw Bai Zhi who was abnormally straight in different respects.

With a lot power, he immediately pulled Hathaway up and doing, reworked into his authentic type, opened the princess’s cupboard, and pulled out a small cushion to placed on his personal again.

“There ought to be a distance between women and men.” Bai Zhi defined: “The cushion is to guard myself.”

Hathaway: “…??? Defend you?”

Bai Zhi nodded: “In any other case?”

“I…” Hathaway took a deep breath, noticed that Bai Zhi nonetheless had a demise want, and needed to take a number of extra deep breaths to calm herself earlier than lastly deciding to vary the topic.

“Didn’t I say you ought to be extra terrifying?” Hathaway stared at Bai Zhi for some time, puzzled: “What are you doing, making your self seem so weak and weak?”

“You’re the weak one, I even specifically put nail polish on.” Bai Zhi prolonged his nails: “Proper now it’s too late, if I used to be as noisy as you needed, it might actually disturb folks’s relaxation.”

Hathaway: “…then you definately (formal you) actually are dragon.”

Bai Zhi solely needed to rush up in order that Gesius might come and discover him. Thus he didn’t argue additional with the princess and immediately lifted her and positioned her on his again, wedging her between his two wings. Then, he broke by way of the window with a crash and soared into the evening.

Within the blink of a watch, the knights that have been at the moment patrolling noticed Bai Zhi and the princess who have been flying near the bottom. Startled, they reported again to Gesius as quick as doable, but Gesius’ response was to sip his water with a really calm angle. He stated in a voice betraying nothing: “Wait.”

Knights: “Ha?”

“After just a few days, I ought to be on the market saving the princess.” Gesius stated calmly.

Gesius’s phrases weren’t flawed in any respect.

It was solely after inexplicably receiving a letter from evil dragon-xiansheng that the king realized that that light and melancholic daughter of his had been kidnapped by the evil dragon. That day, the king had flown right into a rage and gathered the knights, ordering Gesius to positively carry again the princess in any respect prices.

But on the opposite aspect, as soon as Bai Zhi, who had been competing with the princess for meals for a number of days, heard the information that Gesius was on his approach there, he immediately turned so excited that he threw away the spirit fruit in his hand.

“Uncle, how lengthy will Gesius take to get right here?”

“Not lengthy.” They system counted with its fingers: “In line with the unique textual content, it ought to take from just a few months to half a yr.”

Bai Zhi, who was promptly shoved again to all-time low: “How– how lengthy?”

“5 months and twenty days.” The system lastly completed calculating a precise quantity.

Bai Zhi was instantly disheartened and sat on the ground. He didn’t even wish to eat the spirit fruit: “That lengthy, how am I going to move these months?”

“That’s certainly troublesome.” The system stated: “It’s gradual for him to seek out you, however quick so that you can discover him.”

“What?”

“You’ll be able to go and intercept him.” The system stated: “Keep in mind to placed on a disguise, in any other case you’ll get acknowledged. Simply going by how unfamiliar Gesius is with you, with one strike, you as an evil dragon can kiss this world goodbye.”

Bai Zhi: “Disguise? What disguise?”

With a face stuffed with calmness, the system materialized a small pink apron, pulled a colourful guide from its abdomen, and put them in entrance of Bai Zhi’s eyes.

Bai Zhi leaned over and paused earlier than he learn out: “The Candy-Hearted Maid of the Gentlemanly Knight?”

TL’s observe: I modified the princess’s identify Mei Sewei / Mathaway (梅瑟薇) because it appears to be a play on the identify Hathaway (海瑟薇). In the event you have a look at the primary Chinese language character of each, don’t they give the impression of being fairly related? Solely the novel on the left is completely different. I’m leaving the identify as Hathaway since Mathaway doesn’t sound anyplace nearly as good in English because it does in Chinese language. (ie. Going from 海 (ocean) to 梅 (plum) within the Chinese language identify sounds so much higher than going from Hathaway to Mathaway.) Sorry for any confusion.

[1] “husband-watching rock” – It is a rock in Hong Kong that appears like a lady carrying a toddler. In line with folklore the rock was a lady ready for her husband not understanding he drowned at sea, and he or she was changed into a rock by the Goddess of the Sea for her loyalty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amah_Rock