The Great Wolf

The wolf insists on fidelity from its mate, even after its partner has sworn its devotion.

Is it love or a deep animalistic lust that is the wolf's secret hunger? The answer proves elusive even to the wolf, whose appetites for the hunt bedevil its romantic stability.

When a relationship is in trouble, the wolf leaves no stone unturned in its quest to restore harmony.

Unfortunately, this obsessive behaviour can give the impression that its partner is simply another challenge for the wolf to conquer.

The moment Li Juan resisted Tang Wei Sheng, the alpha wolf inside him overpowered his humanly instincts and tried to dominate his "Luna".

He couldn't stand the fact his mate refused him and choose another person.

Tang Wei Sheng was about to undress when he realized that Li Juan has stopped struggling.

Did she submit to his authority?

He looked at Li Juan's face. Her eyes remained closed while her head slightly bent towards the side.

The sight of Li Juan's debilitated body made him startled. A cold chill went down his spine and woke him up from hysteria.

"Sweetheart." Tang Wei Sheng called her.

But there was no response.

"Li Juan." He patted her cheeks to wake her up. However, a thick canal of blood oozed from her nose.

"Juan." Tang Wei Sheng shook her shoulders. But still no response.

He took some water from the bedside table and sprinkled on her face. There was no sign of her waking up.

"What did you do, monster?" Tang Wei Sheng cursed under his breath and checked Li Juan's breath. Fortunately she was still breathing.

"Li Juan, open your eyes." Tang Wei Sheng once again called her and quickly put on Li Juan's clothes.

There is no point in calling her, Tang Wei Sheng immediately wore his shirt and carried her towards the car.

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"Li Juan."

Hearing someone calling her name, Li Juan opened her eyes to a field filled with white light. She looked around and found that she was all alone.

Where is she?

"Li Juan."

"Yes." Li Juan looked at the direction where she heard the voice.

A familiar silhouette of a woman slowly became visible to her.

In a gust of wind, her long black hair was fluttering all around, making a perfect contrast with her pure white Hanfu. On her hair, she wore a jade hair ornament with five coloured gemstones and a phoenix.

It was the Queen.

"Your Majesty!!!" Li Juan rushed towards her.

The queen welcomed her with a warm and gentle smile.

You are here!!!! Li Juan stood in front of the queen, maintaining a pace distance.

"It's been a while." The queen said in an affectionate and melodious voice.

Am I dreaming? Li Juan was curious, The queen is talking to her! Whenever she met the Queen in her dreams Li Juan never got an opportunity to talk to her.

"What do you think, Lili?"

Lili! Li Juan glanced at the queen with amusement.

"Lili!!!" Only her mother used to call her like that.

"Mom," Li Juan's involuntarily mumbled that word, " Mom, are you my mother?" She confusingly asked the Queen.

"Only if you want me to."

"Hmm, I am sorry, I mumbled something unknowingly." Li Juan apologised to her for spurting nonsense. The Queen appears to be same age with her and how dumb is she to ask her that question?

"Why are you here? I thought I will never get a chance to meet you again."

"I came because you called me."

"Did I call you?" Li Juan's eyes enlarged in surprise. "When?"

"Just now." The queen smiled at her and continued,

"So from whom should I save you now?"

"Did you save me?" Li Juan looked at the ravishing beauty stood in front of her. Isn't she is the same person who appeared bleeding to death in her dreams and asked to save her? "Aren't you the one who asked me to save you?"

"Can't we both save each other?" The Queen suggested. "I will save you and you will save me?"

"Huh?" Li Juan appeared clueless when she heard that.

"Is it a man?" Queen asked with a serious face. "Whom you are running away?"

"I am not running away from him." Li Juan tried to hide the truth.

"Then?"

Well, she didn't had an answer to that question.

"Li Juan, be bold to say "No" to the ones who hurt you." She advised the girl who remained clueless. "Stand up for yourself, speak for yourself."

"He will not listen to me." Li Juan replied in a low voice. " He won't allow me to leave."

"How can you let someone else control your life?" The Queen's beautiful lips curled into a haughty smile. "You are a woman and didn't your mother taught you that you are no lesser than a man?"

Li Juan's face lost its brightness upon mentioning her mother. Why everyone is blaming her mom whenever she does something.

The Queen noticed the colour change in Li Juan's face and realized that her words hurt Li Juan.

"Since you called me Mother, I will help you once again." Queen declared.

"Will you?" Li Juan's face regained its colour when she heard the offer.

"Yes, but you should promise me that whenever you will come across with a problem, you will stand up for yourself and speak yourself." Queen looked at with soft and affectionate eyes.

"you will not have someone to save you always, did you understand?"

"Yes, majesty, I promise you that I will not back off and I will always fight for myself." Li Juan assured her with a determined voice.

"And Do not hesitate to take decisions- have some faith in yourself, there is only one of "You" in this world."

The Queen opened her palm and showed it to Li Juan.

"Promise me."

Li Juan reached out for Queen's palm. The moment Li Juan's palm almost touched Queen's palm, her palm went through a hollow space.

The Queen's image started to get blurry.

"Majesty, are you leaving you?" Li Juan asked with a heavy heart.

"We will meet soon, Lili!" The Queen reassured her.

"But," Li Juan had few more questions to ask her.

"Stay true to your promise."

"Majesty, Majesty what is your name?"

"I am You." Queen said with a placid smile and vanished from Li Juan's vicinity.

"I am You, does that mean she is Me?" Li Juan was left in confusion.

Majesty!!!! Li Juan called her once again with her top of lungs.

When Li Juan opened her eyes, she saw the white-coloured walls of the hospital. She turned her gaze from the ceiling and found Tang Wei Sheng sitting near to her bed. His eyes were gentle as she remembered.

"Sweetheart." Tang Wei Sheng was glad to see her and immediately pressed the bell to inform the medical staff.

"Sweetheart." He grabbed her palm with utmost tenderness."I am sorry sweetheart. I, I didn't mean to hurt you.I am really sorry..." He was genuine with his apologies. But Li Juan moved her eyes from him as she didn't want to face him.

"Sweetheart!!!" Tang Wei Sheng called her once again.

"Excuse me, CEO Tang..." Suddenly the medical staff came rushing to the room. Tang Wei Sheng got up from Li Juan's side so the doctor can take a look at her.

"Oh you are awake. How are you, Miss Li Juan? Can you talk?" The doctor asked Li Juan to which she gently agreed to.

"Good, let me check your vitals." He took her hand and noticed the red ribbon like mark on her wrist.

"You don't have to worry about this, it'll get better everything is fine." The doctor consoled her and returned his gaze to the medical charts.

"As for now,try to have some liquid food, okay? Also, if you feel uncomfortable please let us know, especially if you have any a headaches or fatigue."

"Yes." Li Juan replied nonchalantly as if she was familiar with the procedure. However, Tang Wei Sheng on the other hand, appeared too worried. When doctor saw his concerned face, he gently led Tang Wei Sheng outside.

"How is her condition?" Tang Wei Sheng asked as soon as he walked out of the room.

"I don't want to hide anything. Patient's condition is not great." The doctor looked genuinely concerned as he spoke. " With the information you provided us, it is a miracle that she survived this time."

Since Li Juan had already shared her medical conditions to him, Tang Wei Sheng had an idea how bad her health is. So he wasn't shocked.

"Is there anything we can do to get her cured?"

"There is no permanent solution for her condition. All we can try to stabilize her condition with medicines." Doctor notified Tang Wei Sheng who silently listened to him.

"But please try to avoid everything that might stress the patient."

"Yes, doctor."

"Even though her injuries are not very serious, we cannot overlook the fact that it was an attempt of molestation. Are you sure that you don't want to report the case?" The doctor couldn't help but to ask.

Since Tang corporation was one of the shareholders of the hospital, the hospital authorities attended Li Juan's case without any questions. They knew that the patient was brought by Tang Wei Sheng and asked no questions. But when they found out signs of molestation, the doctor wishes to seek more clarity in Li Juan's case.

"Is she alright?" Though Tang Wei Sheng's question was simple, the doctor understood what he was implying.

"We checked for the signs of any physical intercourse." Doctor stopped for a moment and said in a low voice."Nothing happened to her, she is still a virgin."

"Hm…" Tang Wei Sheng gently nodded as if he got the answer he was looking for.

"These kinds of cases, you needed to report." The doctor reminded him." It is a criminal offense."

"I will handle this. Doctor, thanks for the hard work."

Tang Wei Sheng thanked him and went back to Li Juan's room.

When he entered the room, he saw Li Juan trying to eat the soup on her own. He immediately grabbed the spoon from her and tried to feed her. However, Li Juan refused to look at him let alone eat anything.

"Sweetheart. I know you are mad at me. But

If you don't eat, how are you going for the expedition?" Tang Wei Sheng knew that bringing the topic of the expedition will make her eat the food, so he used it against her.

Li Juan glared at him when she heard him speaking. She snatched the spoon from his hand and started to drink the soup, leaving Tang Wei Sheng with a triumphant smile.

"I'm really sorry, sweetheart. I didn't mean to hurt you. I was not in right mind at that time. When you said that you don't want to marry me, it just made me go crazy."

Tang Wei Sheng came clean before Li Juan as she remained silent.

"My family circumstances are not as simple as you think. Yes, I'm an heir of Tang Corporation, but not the only one. There is a whole bunch of people who got an eye for my position. In order to secure my position, I have to gain support from a lot of people and Ning Jing is one of them." Tang Wei Sheng tried to explain.

"For her, I'm a benefactor. I have told you a thousand times that the relationship between Ning Jing and I are strictly professional and there are no romantic feelings attached to it.

There is only one person in my life that I consider as mine and that's you, sweetheart. Living without you will be torture for me."Even after hearing Tang Wei Sheng's confession, Li Juan didn't respond to him. She just immersed herself in drinking the soup.

"Say something..."He compelled as he reached out to touch her hand. But Li Juan dodged before his hand touched her.

"Juan, look at me???" Tang Wei Sheng turned desperate when Li Juan continued to avoid him.

"I know you are disappointed with me. But can't you forgive me once? I couldn't control myself at that time. I love you and I want you."

"Do you think that we can live without ourselves?" He tried to negotiate.

"Says something?"

"I have already said about my decision." Li Juan said with an aloof face." We are not meant to be together."

"Why do you think so?"

"There is something called morality." Li Juan didn't sugar coat her words as she spoke.

"Do you think that what I am doing right now is immoral?"

Li Juan didn't say anything.

"Why don't you just understand the situation, Juan? It is for both of us. I love you and you love me, why don't you adjust a little bit?" Tang Wei Sheng was deseperate and equally annoyed with Li Juan's attitude.

"I don't want to argue with you."

"Don't argue then..."

" Will you, please leave me alone." Li Juan said in an annoyed tone.

"Okay...I will go now, but I will come back later." Tang Wei Sheng agreed to that Li Juan need some rest to think properly. " When I return, you have to be prepared with an answer."

Li Juan glared at him in disbelief.

"Why don't you try to understand that I don't want to marry you? Li Juan asked him suddenly.

That question shocked Tang Wei Sheng, but he hid it very well and refuted back with the same tone.

"Why don't you tell me the reason for rejecting me?"

"I don't love you anymore."

The moment Li Juan shut her mouth, the look in Tang Wei Sheng's bright eyes changed grim,

"You don't love me anymore, why? Did you find someone else?"

The change in Tang Wei Sheng's face startled Li Juan.

Is he back?

The one who scares her,

The one who is obsessed with her,

The one who claims that he owns her,

Tang Wei Sheng's alter ego, Tang Wei Lang!!!