King's Regrets
The Eps 35

Xia Lian An's cake shop was getting crowded, even he had to increase the number of workers in the store. Min'er also sometimes intervened to help Xia Lian An in the store by bringing cakes from the kitchen that was ripe.

Every single time Xia Lian An would definitely make a new cake menu, and in addition she also made a drink menu to accompany the cake she sold.

Not only the seats are full, the long queue looks like a snake from inside the cake shop until out on the road.

From a restaurant someone saw Xia Lian An's very crowded cake shop, his smile was seen expanding behind the fan he was carrying.

"He must have been very tired after serving so many buyers." Mumbled the man.

After almost two hours they raced to serve the buyers, finally the queue of buyers was reduced and the cake shop was like getting fresh air from outside.

"Miss Xia, in the kitchen there are no more cake ingredients left. And this is the last cake that's ripe." Said Xiao Fen who came carrying one final tray of cookies.

"Then I'll buy that cake."

Everyone turned their heads as a man spoke from the shop door.

Xia Lian An was surprised to see the person who spoke that.

"Crown prince Zhang?" Said Xia Lian An involuntarily.

Crown Prince Zhang smiled at Xia Lian An who still remembered him, even though she was no longer an empress.

Xia Lian An immediately walked up to crown prince Zhang who was standing in front of the door of his cake shop.

"Greet crown prince Zhang, may your majesty live a long life." Xia Lian An saluted.

"Stop that, I really don't like you doing this to me." Crown prince Zhang.

Xia Lian An re-enacted her body and looked at crown prince Zhang.

"I'm not a powerful person, so I should have paid your respects."

Crown Prince Zhang shook his head, he then looked the other way.

"I want to enjoy the cake, please bring the cake and the drink to my table." Crown Prince Zhang said to Xiao Fen, who was still holding a tray of cookies.

"Baa.. Good your honor." Xiao Fen.

Crown Prince Zhang looked at Xia Lian An with a smile.

"Please, your honor." Xia Lian An.

"You don't want to come with me to enjoy the cake you made?"

Xia Lian An was stunned by the question from crown prince Zhang.

"I'll change my clothes first. I beg you to wait while you enjoy the cake, your majesty."

"All right then."

Xia Lian An lowered her head before she left to change clothes.

Crown Prince Zhang took a look at Xia Lian An's pastry shop. He saw that the decoration of the store was really very elegant and could also make the person inside feel comfortable.

In addition there is the aroma of the smell of cake when a freshly cooked cake comes out of the grill, it adds to the atmosphere of increasingly wanting to enjoy the cakes in the store.

Xiao Fen came while carrying two cups of tea and one plate with some cookies.

"Please, your honor." Xiao Fen said to crown prince Zhang.

"Yes." Yeah."

Crown Prince Zhang sat down on the chair and took out a glass of tea in front of him, he raised the glass and was about to drink it. But the movement came to a halt as she watched Xia Lian An walk out of one room in white clothes and beautiful hairpins over her head.

"I already know, she must look prettier wearing such clothes, than wearing royal clothes."

Crown Prince Zhang was completely fascinated by the beauty of Xia Lian An, until he put back the tea he was about to drink.

Xia Lian An stood right in front of crown prince Zhang then smiled.

"Does your majesty wait too long?" Xia Lian An asked.

"Can Miss Xia call me by my name only? Calling me noble, very uncomfortable. We're like the first people we met."

Xia Lian An sat in front of crown prince Zhang.

"You are one of the royal members, the crown prince of the Ming state who is greatly respected and admired. How can I call you by your name?"

"I don't care, you're not from Ming country anyway. Which means you can't call me noble."

Xia Lian An nodded, she then clamped one cake with chopsticks and placed the cake on a small plate in front of crown prince Zhang.

"Try, it was the cake I made myself."

Crown Prince Zhang could not say anything more to make Xia Lian An call his name directly.

Xia Lian An simply smiled in response to crown prince Zhang's remark.

"How can your majesty know if I'm in this town?"

Crown Prince Zhang put a glass of tea on the table.

"If I say, I send someone to look for you. Are you gonna be mad at me?"

Xia Lian An was silent, she then poured the tea into Zhang's empty crown prince's glass.

"The noble is not a free man, why do it?"

Crown Prince Zhang looked fixedly at Xia Lian An.

"If I say, because I like you. Are you gonna believe me?"

Xia Lian An fell silent, she placed the small ceramic teapot back on the table.

"Are there no women in Ming country who are beautiful and attract the attention of the noble crown prince Zhang?"

"I've never seen another woman after seeing you inside the Qin state palace before."

Xia Lian An smiled "Didn't I still be the noble wife of the emperor?"

Crown Prince Zhang nodded "If I knew you were the empress of the Qin state, but I can't just forget my feelings."

Xia Lian An was silent. He recalled what Min'er had told him about crown prince Zhang liking himself secretly.

"Miss Xia, I know you've just been freed from life in the palace. And I also know that you really like your life right now. But I'm..."

"Sorry, I promised myself. I will not open my heart before I can repay all the pain I have felt in the people who have hurt me. So.."

Crown Prince Zhang nodded, he understood what Xia Lian An had said.

"Then I will wait. I'll wait until Miss Xia finishes replying to everything."

Xia Lian An was stunned to hear crown prince Zhang's words that sounded so sincere to her.

Crown Prince Zhang touched Xia Lian An's hand and grasped it slowly.

"But you have to promise me, you can't get hurt in the least. And if you need help, I'll be happy to help you in secret."

Suddenly there was a warm feeling flowing within Xia Lian An's body as crown prince Zhang tried to protect her, it was because in her life in the modern era as well as now in the ancient times. He never met anyone who sincerely loved him and always wanted to protect himself.

"Miss Xia, can you promise me that?" Crown prince Zhang.

Xia Lian An who was awakened from her daydream looked at crown prince Zhang and nodded her head slowly.

"Yes, I promise."

Hearing that, crown prince Zhang felt extremely pleased and also relieved. Because that way he would be one of the people that Xia Lian An would rely on.

"Thank you, your majesty." Xia Lian An.

"I will accept your thanks if you no longer call me noble."

Xia Lian An laughed softly at crown prince Zhang's request which he thought was like a child.

"Why, can't I. I'll feel closer to you if you call me by my name. Like you called your sister."

"What a child."

"I don't care, I just asked you to call me by my name. That's it."

"Alright, alright. Mr. Jiang." Eventually Xia Lian An relented to summon crown prince Zhang as lord Jiang.

Hearing Xia Lian An calling him by name, crown prince Zhang smiled happily.

"Are you happy? If so eat the cake, because today the store will close faster."

"Miss Xia, can I go to your house? I want to celebrate this happy day with you and your servant."

"If you want to treat us, why don't you eat together here. So all the workers here can enjoy it too."

"That's fine, then let's go buy the ingredients to cook it."

Xia Lian An fell silent "Do you mean it?" Xia Lian An asked in disbelief.

"Of course, in Ming country I often went to the market and bought all the groceries I wanted to eat myself."

"Didn't you have a lot of servants?"

"I don't allow them to buy my groceries. Therefore, I very memorized some names of vegetables and. I can also choose fish that are still fresh."

Xia Lian An was made to not believe what she heard.

A crown prince from a large kingdom, went to the market and bought all the food ingredients he wanted to eat by himself. It's breathtaking.