Unintended Cultivator : Volume Four by Eric Dontigney

Author:Eric Dontigney [Dontigney, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shadow Alley Press
Published: 2024-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

SPECULATION

Prince Jing was usually a reserved man. He had taken to heart the admonition from both of his parents that you could learn more by listening than by speaking. Yet, on the way back to his home, the prince was all but silent. He kept thinking over his odd meeting with the cultivator Lu Sen. His visit had multiple purposes. On one level, he had simply been curious about the man who had so firmly declined his invitation. It was such an infrequent event in his life that he’d taken for granted that the man would come to him. When Tiu Li-Mei had informed him that the cultivator had declined in very firm terms, it had come as a legitimate shock. On further questioning, the woman who had served him for nearly ten years in increasingly important positions had become reticent. Beyond saying that the man was unorthodox but ultimately polite, she hadn’t wanted to speculate. When he pressed for her opinion, what she had to say had also surprised him.

“My prince, I don’t have an opinion about him that I trust.”

“Really? I don’t believe I’ve ever heard you say something like that before.”

“He’s strange. One minute, he comes across like a young man. The next, he’s like one of those old generals who seem like they can tell everything about you with a glance. And, there is something else there, something almost unnatural.”

“He is a cultivator. They can be that way sometimes.”

“I thought that, at first, but I don’t think that was it. At least, not entirely. I can’t think of a better way to explain it.”

That uncertainty on the usually unflappable Tiu Li-Mei’s part had intrigued him. Of course, there had also been the Diviner’s predictions that Lu Sen could be the making of him. That had been a powerful motivation all on its own. The revelation that the cultivator had arrived at the city in the company of his younger sister had been a surprise. He’d been aware that his parents had agreed to an ill-conceived marriage between her and Choi Zhi Peng, and that signaled her imminent and likely unhappy return to the city. To have her arrive in the company of the man the Diviner had singled out felt like a sign to him. In the end, he’d decided that, if Lu Sen wouldn’t come to him, he would go to Lu Sen.

Yet, for all that he’d tried to imagine what their first meeting might be like, none of it had gone according to Jing’s expectations. The young cultivator was deeply wary of him, as was to be expected, but Jing had underestimated just how deeply the young man loathed the nobility. The prince had expected dislike and been prepared to counter it. Despite the cultivator’s impressive self-control, he hadn’t been able to hide that loathing. It was so intense that it bordered on hatred. That the man had been willing to speak to Jing at all had been shocking in the wake of that discovery.

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