Chapter 178: Chapter 178: A Handsome Young Wolf (II)


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    Rock sat at the study desk, waiting for Long Xiurong to give him the quill and paper to write a letter.


    "Do you need me to write it for you? I heard from others that some beastmen cannot read or write," Long Xiurong thoughtfully asked.


    "No, it''s okay. I have been taught how to read and write since I was His Majesty''s beta," Rock replied as he picked up the quill. "It won''t take long. I just want to write a short letter for her."


    "Mhm," Long Xiurong sat on the bed, staring at the broad shoulder of the handsome man who should be around her age range in human age. He was smaller than the Beast King, but he was still hugepared to regr humans.


    The man named Rock seemed to write effortlessly, meaning that he was well- educated.


    ''If he is as strong as what the rumors say, then he should be the second strongest after the Beast King, right? He is well-educated, strong, and seems to have manners. Howe a good man like him lost control over himself and attacked Princess Swan?''


    "I have a question for you, Sir Rock."


    "Just call me Rock," Rock replied while he was still writing in full focus. "And what is it? I''m all ears."


    "You told me there are many rumors around the castle. Would you mind telling me the real reason for you getting kicked out?" Long Xiurong asked, and Rock stopped writing instantly.


    He paused for a long time before taking a deep breath and continued writing the letter, "I don''t know if Princess Swan has told you about this yet, but I was poisoned by Lady Jade."


    "Lady Jade?!" Long Xiurong knew that Jade was cunning and cruel, but she didn''t expect she would even harm Rock Silverfang, the Beast King''s beta.


    Long Xiurong thought that Jade''s loyalty was to the Beast King.


    Now she wasn''t so sure.


    "Yes, that woman used something to force me into my rut, and I lost my mind at that time. Princess Swan was the only woman that had ever caught my attention, so my instinct forced me to do unspeakable things to her," Rock replied. He was a bit nervous as he never told the whole story to someone before, but it was nice to get this off his chest. "I don''t think I am in love with her, but Princess Swan is objectively beautiful and alluring. So I cannot help myself."


    Long Xiurong was a little hurt listening to thatst sentence.


    What he said was not wrong, even Long Xiurong had to admit that Princess Swan was objectively gorgeous.


    But she was still a woman, and she wanted to be the most beautiful one to the man that she was interested in.


    ''I guess we are still strangers, after all. I''m getting way too ahead of myself,'' Long Xiurong thought. She wanted tough at herself for being so pathetically excited for this man.


    She had been rejecting marriage proposals left and right in the Eastern Long Dynasty, but now she had been reduced to being the one excited over this wolf


    man.


    "Alright, I''m done with the letter," Rock said as he got up, and handed the letter to Long Xiurong. "Lady Long, please hand this to Princess Swan''d be so grateful if I could get a letter from her once I''m back. I want to know if she ever ns to leave this castle."


    "Why would she want to leave this castle?" Long Xiurong frowned as she


    epted the letter. "She''s in a good rtionship with His Majesty. They are truly a rare loving couple."


    "I know, but for some reason, I have


    a feeling that they won''tst forever," Rock muttered. "His Majesty is. powerful, but he is also a jealous and oppressive man. Princess Swan is a human, unlike His Majesty and I. We spend the rest of our lives with only one mate, but female humans can get bored and fall in love with someone else as time goes on."


    "I don''t think Princess Swan will ever get bored of her husband," Long Xiurong defended Swan, as she felt that Rock had a skewed view of human love.


    "You said that because you''re also a human, Lady Long. Unfortunately, I cannot believe the love that humans have," Rock said. "They are not bound by fate, unlike us-werewolves."


    "Then, what about those wolves who are mated with humans? I mean I only know one sample, and that is Princess Swan and His Majesty. But they are inseparable!"


    Rock''s lips thinned as he had to say a terrible thing, "His Majesty cannot sense his fated mate. That is part of his curse. He is in love with Princess Swan but what would happen when his real fated matees? What would happen to Princess Swan?" Rock said. "That''s why I have to prepare in case Princess Swan wants to leave, whether it''s because she''s bored, or because His Majesty has finally found his fated mate. I have to be there when she needs me the most."


    Long Xiurong understood Rock''s point of view but still refused to believe it. She didn''t know much about this fated mate-thing that werewolves had. But whenever she saw Princess Swan and the Beast King together, Long Xiurong got this sense of dependency between them.


    It seemed that both of them refused to let go of each other. She even thought that His Majesty and the Princess would probablymit suicide if one of them died first.


    Thus, she refused to believe that the Beast King couldn''t identify his fated mate when it was obviously Princess Swan!


    Long Xiurong knew there was no point in arguing over this, so she decided to challenge his perspective instead, "But what about you, Rock?"


    "About me?"


    "What if your fated mate is also a human? What would you do?" Long Xiurong asked. "Will you give all of your love for her, or will you distrust her just because she is a human?"