First acquaintance

The sixteenth year of the Black Gate, summer.

The two unsuspecting princes and princesses are once again together, just like those inexplicable fairy tales, the prince from Lordaeron has learned a skill since childhood, and Gianna, as the princess of Kul Tiras, is also the proudest apprentice of Antonidas. These two can be said to be a match made in heaven, talented and beautiful, not to mention that the relationship between the two of them is also what their parents want to see - this time there is no family obstacle, and the two of them naturally become close lovers.

Or we can describe the progress of the relationship between the two of them - two little guesses, childhood sweethearts, two lovers, and then everything that should have happened happened, and what shouldn't happen is just a matter of time. These are two intimate lovers, who have just confirmed their feelings for each other in the spring of this year, and now is the time when their love affair is at its hottest - not to mention that in this magical city called Dalaran, far away from the country to which they belong, each here is only an apprentice, and has let go of too many identities and messy etiquette, and there are many fewer obstacles between them, then such time cannot be wasted. After all, although Gianna stayed in Dalaran all the year round, the prince who had just joined the Silver Hand did not have so much free time, and he still needed to follow his mentor Uther to various places to study. We didn't necessarily have much time to see each other before that, but weren't Dalaran very close to Lordaeron?

"How long will you stay here this time?" After a brief moment of silence between the two of them, Gianna wrapped her arms around Arthas, soaking up the atmosphere with some enjoyment, but after a while, she took the initiative to break the atmosphere and asked.

"You're just asking how long I'm going to be here, aren't you?" Arthas said with a low chuckle, moving his hugging arm slightly, and then laughing in Gianna's coquettishness, "Why? It shouldn't be long. The Silver Hand wasn't going to be here for a while this time around, as it had been in the past, and the only people who came here this time were the Mentor and me, and one other person. ”

"And one more, if the Dawnbringer is coming privately, then it doesn't take you with you. After all, they taught you as the successor to the Knights of the Silver Hand. Gianna lowered her head and thought for a while, she pulled out one of her hands, stroked the long hair of her sideburns slightly, and then asked in a low voice, "What are you here in the name of this time?"

"Well, nominally, it's the mentor who came to visit an old friend. Arthas whispered, tilting his head to look at Gianna, "But are you sure we're going to meet again and discuss what I'm here for?"

"Hee-hee, it's kind of curious. It must be difficult for someone to come with the Dawnbringer, and to be with you. Gianna smiled brightly, she tightened her arms playfully, and then leaned out and looked up at Arthas from below, "However, it is a bit unkind to say such things at such a moment, so--recently the teacher has set me a proposition about the compatibility of arcane and holy light, would you like to accompany me to the library? ”

"Of course no problem, my lady. This is my honor. Arthas said, and he responded to Gianna with the same smile, as if it had been agreed between the two of them.

Sweet lovers always feel that time flies, and when Prince Arthas and Princess Gianna stand outside the library gate of Dalaran Academy, he is still reminiscing about the conversations he had with Gianna on the road, which is very rare for him—as fresh as when he first saw Gianna when he was thirteen years old, but she was the only person he knew who could make him feel understood, and that was what he was fond of.

This mood didn't last long, though, and he was soon pulled by Gianna's arm into the library, where the tranquility might be more suitable for lovers to spend time together, especially at a time when there were almost no human visits. But reality gave Arthas a resounding slap in the face, and the moment he stepped into the library, he felt the urge to turn away - no, maybe Gianna should have objected to it when she wanted to come to the library, and then offered to go somewhere else, he thought.

Because the moment he stepped into the library, he finally remembered why he was in Dalaran - it wasn't that Uncle Uther was coming to visit a friend, that there was something wrong with the Silver Hand that needed the help of a mage, but that one of Uther's apprentices needed some potions and special magic items. The potions that even Arthas didn't quite understand came out of the apprentice's mouth, and the items with strange magical effects attached to them, and for these reasons, Uther decided to come in person, which was a bit puzzling to Arthas. But these were not the most important things, the important thing was that after Uther had led them to make a request with the mages, the waiting time was completely free, and Arthas naturally ran out of the inn where he had settled in excitement, while the other apprentice, who said that he was going to the city's library, read a book. The most famous library in Dalaran was right in front of him, and Arthas almost had no hope that he would run into the other.

And reality didn't disappoint him - he stepped into the huge building at Gianna's tug, and while he was just getting used to the light in the room, the name was now- Or rather, the people he didn't really want to see were cross-legged in the middle of the hall for a while, the armor that would not be taken off at least was shining in the arcane light, and around him, there were already two piles of books of almost the same height as him, among which there were many biographies of people Arthas knew and boring novels.

The sound of footsteps in the silent library not only attracted the attention of the administrator, but the man sitting cross-legged on the ground looked at it for the first time - Zhao Mian closed the heavy book in his hand and put it on the pile on the right side of his body, a silver coin of Lordaeron peeked out from the side of the book, and the arcane lamps around it made it slightly dazzling, Zhao Mian reached out and stuffed it in a little. He stood up, nodded to Arthas in the distance, and picked up the pile of books on his left—many of which Gianna noticed were biographies and miscellaneous novels, and mostly about travel and local customs. He walked in the direction of the gate, where Arthas and Gianna stood.

"Excuse me, old man. I've finished reading these books, can I just put them here?" Zhao Mian said to the old mage who was working on the counter in front of the door, and as he spoke, he put the books in his hand one by one in front of the old mage. Then he turned his head and looked at Arthas, he first glanced at Gianna, then nodded kindly, and then said to Arthas, "Good afternoon, Your Highness the Prince." Didn't I remember you saying you went out to the countryside to walk your horses?"

"I'm done walking. Arthas said dryly, his body was a little stiff, Gianna was obviously aware of this, he seemed to be very nervous in the face of this man, not only mentally nervous, but even affected his body, he stood there tensely, as if he was not facing a man, but a dragon.

Gianna carefully looked at the man in front of her - probably a few years older than her and Arthas, but his complexion was darker, and his whole body was hidden in the armor, but it didn't seem so inconvenient to move in such heavy armor, and his body must be very strong, and his cheeks outside the armor were not very memorable, compared to Arthas beside him, this person could only be regarded as tough at best. However, Gianna still remembered the other person's appearance deeply, because in her memory, there was no one else who could make Arthas look like this, except for the prince who was now living in Lordaeron. This made her very curious, but she didn't show too much unnecessary curiosity, because she knew that this was not a good opportunity to get acquainted.

"Yes? I didn't expect time to pass so quickly while I was reading. Zhao Mian shrugged his shoulders, then twisted his head a little awkwardly, and then stretched his waist - the armor on his body sonorously under this series of movements, and the voice came far away in this quiet library, he said, "Then, I will go and take a rest first, the intake of knowledge is a necessity of life, but the intake of nutrition is a necessity of the human body, and the two naturally need to complement each other." Have a pleasant afternoon, then, Your Royal Highness. ”

"I wish you a good appetite too. Still in that dry tone, Arthas said, he watched Zhao Mian leave the library, and then the whole person seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and his body relaxed from the tense state.

"Who is that?" Gianna said with some curiosity as she watched Zhao Mian disappear outside the door of the library, "Judging from your performance just now, if nothing happened between the two of you, I wouldn't believe it at all!"

"That's Zhao Mian. Arthas said in a low voice, he sighed, and walked forward with Gianna, who had finished saying hello and was heading towards the depths of the library, "Aren't you interested in the reason for my visit? If Uther is the official reason, then he is the actual reason. Arthas began to explain that Zhao Mian needed some objects, and Gianna listened quietly as she took some books from the nearby bookshelves and held them in her arms.

"That is, this man needs some strange props and potions, so you have arrived in Laran. Gianna shrugged her shoulders and said, "Okay, I get that. But the way you just look is not something that can be perfunctory for this reason, right?

"It's not what happened, my lady. Arthas sighed again, he also took a book from the bookshelf next to him, and then looked at the cover, "The Green Mountains of the Valley of Thorns", he reluctantly put it back, "You know, I have been expected by each of them since I was a child, and my father wanted to train me to inherit the throne of Lordaeron. It was a real success, and I grew up quickly under their careful tutelage and quickly completed the required studies. The training I received from a young age gave me a significant gap from my peers, who were already on the path to the next level while they were still receiving basic education – but there were two people who did it better than me. ”

"Varian Wrynn, the other one is Zhao Mian, right?" said Gianna in a low voice, and she sat down in a secluded corner with her book in hand, where there was a very soft sofa with the fresh scent of flowers, which could not help but make people's hearts shake.

"In terms of martial arts, there is a big gap between me and Urian. Even after being trained by Mr. Muradin, I was able to withstand a few more attacks from him—maybe you would say it was because Wryon was a few years older than me, but I knew he actually had some strength left. Arthas said, and he sat down beside Gianna, then put his hand around her shoulders and buried his head in the other's hair, "And in the path of the Light, Zhao Mian is even the latecomer. He didn't do much of a prayer, and he couldn't even comprehend the meaning of the Light alone like my father and Uther's Guru. But it's like being favored by the Holy Light, and after just two years of training, he was able to exert a more powerful Holy Light power than me, and even many veteran paladins couldn't do it better than him. ”

Gianna touched Arthas's blonde hair on his shawl, then looked up at the ceiling, Arthas's whispers continued to tell his emotions, and Gianna's mind was completely separated from his words, and she compared Arthas beside her to the two people in his words - and then stroked Arthas's cheek again, and then left a slight kiss mark on it.

Arthas paused his broken thoughts, then breathed a sigh of relief between Gianna's neck.