Chapter 5: Her Unique Scent

"Ah, I finally know what the smell is," he said with a look of enrichment. "It's the smell of roses and medicine combined."

Accurate just like when he guessed she wanted to face-shift, he surprised her. Her original face that was looking down, looked up at him in surprise.

The smell of roses came from the fact that she liked to surround herself in roses. The smell of medicine came from the scent that her doctors created in order to cure her insomnia. When Xiao Qiqiang knew that she loved the scent of roses though, he created a concoction of the insomnia cure with roses.

Her entire room smelled like roses, she bathed in roses, and drank tea in a rose garden. It was hard for her not to absorb the smell. However, since she had a sensitive nose, the smell of the roses was not overwhelming, nor was the smell of the medicine.

Both were well balanced and this allowed her body to emit a soft fragrance of rose and medicine. If anyone came close enough, they would be able to smell this relaxing scent on her body. If they were not close enough, they would only feel comfortable though not enough to fall asleep.

"So, this comforting feeling is coming from you…" Wei Kangnuan remarked with a light in his eyes.

Averting her eyes away from his strong stare, she said, "My childhood friend created a scent that would cure my insomnia by using roses. After using it for so many years, it's natural that I'd smell like the concoction."

"Heh… Is that so?" he hummed out with a glint.

When he saw her facing downward instead of looking at him, he grabbed her chin to force her to look directly at him.

"You're strong when you need to be, but yet when it comes to others, you become shy," Wei Kangnuan pointed out in seriousness. "Be careful of the faces you make in front of me. I might kill that person when I meet them."

"You don't even know the gender of my friend," Peng Mingzhu retorted with a scoff.

"I don't need to know the gender of your friend," he immediately snapped back. "Just looking at you, I can already tell that all your closest friends are males."

"You-Are you commenting on my body?!" she shouted with a glare.

"No," Wei Kangnuan immediately answered before looking her up and down. "Though your body looks quite delicious, your aura is even better. The aura reeking from your bones tell me that your life is surrounded by men more so than women. I'm quite interested in knowing why, but it seems that you won't be telling me today."

Scoffing at his words, she stated, "Naturally not. Something so personal, I'd never tell someone I just met."

"No worries," he grandly smiled. "Three months, is it? That's more than enough time to make you fall for me."

For some reason, hearing his final sentence brought a shudder to her.

When Peng Mingzhu was standing in front of the portal, she already predicted her life to change. However, she did not look at it from a personal standpoint. Her dream was not to look for love in the ancient times, or something even similar to that.

Her dream was much broader, much more...worldwide.

After their conversation on her unique scent, she happened to be stuck between the walls of his tent and broad chest. When she wanted to escape this alpha male that was attacking her, he did not allow her to go. Instead, he entertained himself by teasing her.

From the moment they met til the sunset, Wei Kangnuan teased her and played with her, not allowing her to go. Only at sunset did he allow her to go when Mo Yuanjun announced that he had something to report. Naturally, she took a breath of relief when he released her.

There is not a single human on earth that could stand people teasing them from morning til sundown. Only a masochist could handle something like that. She was not a masochist.

Of course, she was not a sadist either...to whoever that was interested in knowing that.

Once she exited his tent, a soldier walked up to her and said, "Miss Peng, Lord Mo has ordered us to set up a tent next to His Highness's tent. Please follow me."

Guiding her for a short minute, they reached the door of her tent. It was so short that Peng Mingzhu wanted to cry for the first time in her life. The two tents were so close that they could not be called neighbors. Instead, they should be called roommates who decided to set up a curtain in order to divide the room between two people.

"Is there anything Miss Peng finds unsatisfactory?" the soldier asked upon seeing her unhappy face.

"No… I just wished my tent was farther from the prince's," Peng Mingzhu weakly answered.

"Apologies. This was His Highness's direct order," the soldier bowed after saying this.

"No need to apologize to me. I know it was his orders," Peng Mingzhu said with a cordial smile. "Ah, right. Where should I go for mealtimes, for bathing, and for the lavatory?"

Hearing her question, the soldier bowed his head down once again, "This one apologizes...but His Highness ordered us to tell Miss Peng...everything should be handled in His Highness's tent or Miss Peng's tent. Miss Peng has no need to exit the campsite…"

To his words, she could only stoically laugh, "Haha… It's okay. Please thank the prince for me."

Though she was clearly displaying her thanks, the soldier could tell that she was not happy in the least. At first, the soldier was confused like the others in the camp. None of them knew why the prince allowed her to rest so close to him.

Now, the soldier understood why. Peng Mingzhu was different from other females. She did not care about the prince's power, wealth, nor was she greedy for anything.

Peng Mingzhu was merely here for her own purposes which Mo Yuanjun told them, 'Miss Peng does not know anything about the continent, empire, and even the prince. She is not an immigrant, but she is not a native either. Her only purpose here is to educate herself on the world.'

The way of communication between Mo Yuanjun and Wei Kangnuan was unknown, but people privy to the relationship between the two knew that it was fast and secret. Everything that Peng Mingzhu had told him, Mo Yuanjun knew and vice versa.

Once the soldier left, Peng Mingzhu released a sigh she was holding in since leaving the tent of Wei Kangnuan, 'Truly… He is such an ingratiating man, but...whatever. I owe him a favor for allowing me to live here temporarily.'

Even though no one was nearby and she knew that there was not a single person that would spy on her other than Wei Kangnuan, she still wanted to be cautious. Unless she could find a place where it was truly just her by herself, she would not use the voice function again.

Speedily typing her command into the system, she made more data entries. After that, she browsed through the closet inside the bracelet storage.

"Browse closet."

WOULD YOU LIKE TO FILTER CLOTHINGS? YES OR NO

"Yes."

PLEASE CHOOSE: TYPE, STYLE, OR SEARCH

"Style."

PLEASE TYPE THE STYLE YOU WOULD LIKE TO VIEW.

"Chinese Oriental."

THESE ARE THE OPTIONS AVAILABLE.

Looking through the many different options of clothes, accessories, and shoes for the traditional Chinese clothes, Peng Mingzhu finally set another filter.

"Find sets."

100 SETS FOR CHINESE ORIENTAL FOUND.

"Filter: Pink."

50 SETS FOR PINK CHINESE ORIENTAL FOUND.

After finding a dress that she liked, Peng Mingzhu pressed on the button to pin the pink clothing set on the home screen so that she could immediately change after a bath.

Thankfully she brought products for bathing or else she would have to embarrass herself even further for more help. She also decided that she would bathe in the Jiang River. Since it was 100% pure with the system not detecting any leeches or other creatures, she did not mind bathing in a river.

Before bathing though, she needed to eat though. Her scheduled routine for nighttime was to eat, bathe, brush her teeth, and then do her skincare routine before finally lighting up the incense Xiao Qiqiang made in order for her to sleep peacefully.

Now, the question was...should she cook food or should she eat what is in the bracelet storage?

However, after thinking about it carefully, she decided that she would not eat the MREs.

'Unless I'm in an emergency, I won't eat the food in the bracelet storage,' Peng Mingzhu decisively thought.

Exiting her tent, she looked around for a soldier. Wei Kangnuan is either a good leader or a bad person, she thought. He did not even tell the soldiers to give her a tour of the place.

If she got lost and disappeared from his sight, she would be the happy one while he would be the pissed person. Thinking about it, she was quite excited about such thoughts.

"What are you thinking about so joyfully?" Peng Mingzhu heard a familiar voice ask her.