Chapter 112: The Precious Jade Necklace

Xiaoming re-read the words on the scroll, but to his dismay, he could not understand a word. His entire concentration had gone to Li Hua. Her face was appearing before his eyes and it was bothering him.

"Your Royal Highness, is everything good? These days the Crown Prince seems lost," Eunuch Lishi worriedly said.

Xiaoming didn't answer him and tossed the scroll on the table. "I want to be alone," Xiaoming said. Eunuch Lishi bowed and walked out of the study chamber. He was suffocating inside and there was no one with whom he could share all these thoughts. 

Soon, this one month would pass and he would be forced to marry or select the concubines.

He didn't want to sleep with any random woman and then produce heirs only to forward the lineage. He didn't want to be like his father, who did not even look at his concubines except for three of them. But he was the Crown Prince, who was supposed to do it.