Romance of the DW Pairings
Meng Huo and Zhu Rong
Nan Zhong is the southern territory of Ba Shu and closes to the tropical rain forest regions in Southeast Asia. The humid is unusually to northerners, but graduately some get used to the terrain and those are Shu-han soldiers and traderfolks from that kingdom.
"Ugh…" Meng Huo is one such individual who is very skeptical of northerners, now he is having a tough solution due to the changes of Shu-Han's administration and the successor to the first emperor of Shu.
"Great King, you really want this turmoil to spread in our land? I mean, Shu has been great and supportive with us until now," King Dousi questioned.
"Continuing to depend on them by a weak ruler will embarrass our pride and representive in the near future," King Mulu argued.
"Hmm, what do you think Dailai Dongzhu?" All eyes are on the nanman advisor.
"It's not me to decision, my king," Dailai Dongzhu said.
"What worries me is how the new emperor supports us or what he thinks of us as their allies," Meng Huo said.
"You worry too much, big boy," Zhu Rong walks up to her husband.
"Yeah, such as being dependant on kid from Shu who is the new emperor," Meng Huo shook his head embarrassly.
"A child is now our superior?" Zhu Rong crosses her arms as she stand next to the great king who sits between his wife and the other nanman tribe kings on his right.
"That's what troubling us, my queen," Wu Tugu said.
"I can't think of anything to do, sit here and become that runt's servant or there has to be some other way to refrain this insult. I hear a lot about Shu's best warriors, but this Liu Chan, what is he capable of?" Meng Huo said.
Everyone remain silent until one man show up walking towards the group and bowed to Meng Huo's presence. With him are two other men who supported him.
"My liege, I wish to join your force and help conquer Shu while they're suffering turmoil beyond the imperial court," Yong Kai said.
"Ah, you are Yong Kai of Jian Nan. I'm grateful to have you join me, but why this sudden? We're still coming up a plan on how to defeat Shu, even thought we know their warriors well, but knew little how their new ruler fared," Meng Huo said.
"Liu Chan is weak and he has little confident on working council and military affairs. But, he is social, however let his personality get wasted by pleasures," Yong Kai said.
"Sounds like someone who just wasting his time…" Meng Huo sighed.
"But, isn't that what being a ruler is?" Zhu Rong chuckled.
"Aw, don't get me started on my way of killing time," Meng Huo muttered.
"I have set a large force from Jing Nan to support your independent," Yong Kai said.
"How large is it?" King Mulu asked.
"20,000" Gao Ding replied.
"Shu-Han will soon fall before the might of the Nanmans, they lost so much strength since Guan Yu had fallen and the turmoil after Yi Ling," Zhu Bao said.
"Great King, I say we shall rise this advantage by pledging our independent," King Dousi said.
"Brother, what are you waiting for? You've been talking about proving the northerners what we're made of and now this is our chance," Meng You said.
Meng Huo is still stuck with a tough decision to approve this advantage of rising to rebellion. All these opportunities sound favorable, but there is one problem; one problem that is bothering him too many times.
"I'll leave the final decision till the next day of our council. Uh, I want to think about this some more alone," Meng Huo left his throne with his head scratching in thought.
Everyone continue talking each other out in the ongoing solution. Zhu Rong went to follow her husband on talking it over.
Somewhere at the night of the tropical forest, Meng Huo thinks about the first time he saw the man who was an envoy to the late Shu Han emperor. There was no other man he feared except the presence of one individual.
"My lord, what is troubling you?" Zhu Rong asked.
"It's him…" Meng Huo turns to look at his rivaled wife.
"What about 'him'?" Zhu Rong rubbed his shoulder to make him comfortable.
"He's the only man I feared besides there is no one else that I fear than the presence of the divined one," Meng Huo said.
"Oooh, the divined one, I see. Well, he's a strategist, honey, not a warrior," Zhu Rong said.
"But, we don't have anyone like him in our force…" Meng Huo said and he hit his fist against the tree hard.
"But, do they have the strength like they had before Yi Ling?" Zhu Rong grinned.
"No…I feel sorry for Shu that way," Meng Huo sympathize.
"Well, why worry about one thing when you can deal with many other problems Shu is facing? Come on, be a dear, and lets go back inside to give our final decision," Zhu Rong dragged him back inside ignoring her husband's grumpy rants.
"I can't believe she's allowing me to go through this. Well, sorry Zhuge Liang, I can't help, but sympathize the problems going in your kingdom. However, there's no way that meddling brat could be my superior, so I'll challenge you," Meng Huo thought to himself.
At the meeting, he reveals his final decision to revolt Shu and begin expanding his force with the support of his lovely wife and the three former Shu generals and the minor kings of the south. Still, the thought troubled him on how to deal with Zhuge Liang.
"Are you still worrying about that guy?" Zhu Rong asked.
"Uh, well, I'm more worried about you, my queen. If anything happens to you, I swear I'll bring them obliteration!" Meng Huo said.
"Save it, I can take care of myself silly," Zhu Rong glared.
"Yeah yeah, don't bother crying my name for help just because you're a wo.." Meng Huo was cut by the attack of his wife's weapon.
"You dear underismate the goddess of fire?" Zhu Rong said.
"Hehehe, no babe, now lets go show those northerners what we're made of," Meng Huo said.
"That's what I want to here from a man," Zhu Rong smiled.
Love is two of a kind.
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