As Xiang Ling continued to massage Li Xian's shoulders, the silence in the room allowed her thoughts to wander around. The man she had been treating so kindly was the reason she was suffering in the Mortal Realm. Yet, there was nothing she could do to exact her revenge.
However, as her thoughts wandered deeper into the matter, she realized something. The previous owner of her body married Li Xian nearly a year ago. Also, the current body of the Crown Prince carried no divine powers but only his divine energy, meaning he was born as a mortal unlike her who ended up inside a grown woman's body.
Considering that Li Xian was twenty-two years old in the Mortal Realm, he had been missing from the Heaven Realm for over a week before the night of her tribulation.
[One year in the Mortal Realm is equal to half a day in the Heaven Realm]
As soon as the realization dawned over her, Xiang Ling almost let out a gasp of surprise but caught her at the very last moment. Her hands froze and she stared at the back of Li Xian's head in pure shock. Did she get punished so severely for absolutely nothing?
If her conclusion was indeed correct, she had nothing to do with the missing incident of the Crown Prince of the Heavenly Realm.
Her fingers curled into tight fists as she felt her anger level rising. The man sitting in front of her while enjoying a bath was the reason she was suffering so badly in the Mortal Realm. She was almost about to call her powers to teach that stupid Prince a lesson, but before she could do that, her senses returned to sanity and she stopped.
No matter what, he was still the Crown Prince of the Heavenly Realm. Hurting him directly would cause her way too many problems with the entire Heaven Realm. She needed to find a better way to get her revenge on him.
"What's wrong? Are you done with the massage?" The man finally asked when she didn't resume messaging for a while, pulling Xiang Ling out of the depths of her thoughts.
Shaking her head quickly, she replied - "Just a little while more." She started massaging his shoulders again while her brain started thinking of ideas that could help her get what she wanted.
As her eyes stared at his back profile, she found herself thinking of something really stupid. The Crown Prince was her biggest weapon against the Heavenly Rulers and that entire realm. For now, she needed to make sure that she could keep him beside her to keep the wrath of his mother as far away from her as possible. The revenge could wait until she had a better plan.
After taking her sweet time to massage his shoulders, Xiang Ling finally decided to stop. It was a struggle to separate her hands from his skin, to say the least, both because his body was attractive and also because she still had that insignificant thought of strangling his mortal body to death.
"I will leave clothes for you in the room. Get dressed after finishing the bath and rest for the remaining few hours of the night." She told him as she started putting back all the items into the cottage inside her space.
The man didn't say anything and just waited patiently. Once Xiang Ling was done wrapping up her products, she moved to face the Crown Prince and unsealed his acupoints. She opened her mouth to say something further but then decided against it and just turned around and left, leaving behind a slightly surprised man.
Walking out of the bedchamber, Xiang Ling was at a loss. There were still a few hours left before sunrise and there was nothing for her to do. Besides, she just handed over her bedchamber to the Crown Prince of the Heavenly Realm, which left her without a place to sleep for the remaining hours of the night.
Thankfully, she had her space with her or she would have needed to spend the entire night in the pavilion while sleeping on the stone table. She first picked up the cloak from the table before she found a dark corner of the manor and entered her space.
Once inside, she decided to cultivate for a while instead of sleeping. She cultivated for an hour and practiced martial arts for another hour. By the time she finished, it was nearing sunrise and she was covered in sweat.
She entered her cottage and took a quick bath before getting dressed in a blue and white dress. She kept her hair and makeup simple along with minimum jewelry. Once she was ready, she decided to return to the manor and prepare breakfast. Both Li Xian and Wei Guang had weak bodies at the moment that needed nourishing food and a lot of care.
She was about to leave the space when she suddenly noticed Little Pink flying toward her.
"Where are you coming from?" She asked it while staring in the direction it had just appeared from - the sealed area of her space.
Little Pink fluttered its wings and a small bag full of spiritual fruits landed on the ground in front of Xiang Ling. It didn't take long for her to recognize the fruits she had painstakingly cultivated in her space for years.
"Master, your space is indeed marvelous. That orchard of yours is even bigger than the Divine orchard in the Heaven Realm. All the fruits are so delicious and full of spiritual energy." Little Pink couldn't hold back from showing how surprised it was after seeing its master's orchard.
"How did you get there?" Xiang Ling asked as she stared at the little creature with suspicion-filled eyes.
"Because Her Majesty allowed me to travel across the seal. Or how will I be able to travel back and forth between the two realms to provide her with all the news?" Little Pink answered simply.
Xiang Ling let out a sigh and just accepted the fact that at the moment, any random being could access her space except for her.