C2 - PART 9 – JOURNEY TO THE WEST LAND

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MY EVIL PRINCESS: Chapter 2: Hou Lei’s plan starting

PART 9 – JOURNEY TO THE WEST LAND

-Why you take it so seriously? – The man asked, still holding her hand.

-Let me go! Why I must answer your question? – Hou Lei planned to go.

-Just hold on! Maybe the soldiers still get around.

-I don’t care about them! Just let me go, okay!

-Nah, I will call the soldiers back, you’re so suspicious. – He took her hand to go with him.

-Okay… Okay… You win! What do you want?

-Who are you? – He looked closer to her.

-Actually, I think you don’t need to know about me, or better, you shouldn’t know.

-I’ll call the soldiers…

-Okay… Okay… Your bastard!

-Please, don’t call me like that! I’ve just helped you hide from the soldiers.

-I’m Hou Lei. That’s all!

-Hou Lei? A strange name! But I think it fits you well, a strange lady.

-Yup, so what’s the point when someone handsome as you get interested in a strange lady?

-Handsome? – He laughed. – I don’t deny that. The point is not me, it’s you. You know, in the midnight, you meet such as a stranger holding many things and running fast. Then, she asked you to hug her after slapping you. After that, she said she got to run away without an explanation. Is that you are hiding some mysterious things? Did you steal some precious things from the wealthy family? Or you broke down something and wanted to hide to run away from the soldiers?

-No. It’s not what you think. I… I… - Hou Lei paused.

-So what’s your problem? Maybe I can help you!

-No one can help me, I need to go to the West Land, I have a hurry work to do.

-Oh, escape from Main Land to West Land, are you one of the wanted criminals?

-You think too far! How a girl like me can steal or break something?

-A girl. – He touched his face still having a pink sign of fingers. – A powerful girl. But I concern that why you don’t wait for tomorrow’s morning to go instead of going at midnight?

-I need to hurry up, it’s a very important work for me. I can’t be late.

-West Land from here just needs a half day to reach there. I think you should stay here for this night. The soldiers may still be in this town. And you look tired also, take a rest, I will lend you a horse tomorrow, so you can get there faster.

-Why you treat me well after I slapped you and took advance of you? Or you think you could take advance of me?

-Nah, don’t be like that, don’t refuse the good offers from good people like me.

-Wait, good people! – She laughed. – How Main Land people can be good people?

-I see you must suffer such a hard pain, so you don’t believe there are still good people in this world, right? Hou Lei, I know, for the first time we meet, I can’t explain how much you can believe in me, but you should give it a try. It’s at midnight now, and the soldiers are still around. I will protect you, I promise.

-Is that your Main Land men just treat well with beautiful girls, if I’m an ugly girl, maybe you won’t get a sight of me, don’t talk about talking and offering like this!

-Oh, such a girl. – He was losing his patience. – I’ll call the soldiers back and you just do what you want to do with them.

-However, I think your offer is also good, with a condition you must stay in a different motel, not the same with me.

-Okay, whatever, such a strange girl! – He prepared to go.

-Wait, I still don’t know your name.

-I’m Xiao Liam, that’s all! – He turned back his way to the motel.

They came back to the motel previously she had stayed, he rented another motel. That night, Hou Lei couldn’t sleep, she thought about Xiao Liam. Was he a good man in million of bad men as her Father said? Did he really mean to help her or he wanted to do something with her like Ziam Jun? Could she believe in his words “I will protect you, I promise.”? The questions appeared in her mind and didn’t let her fall asleep.

On the other side, Xiao Liam was also thinking about her. He’d never met a strange girl like Hou Lei, she had something that attracted him much. He touched his cheek again, he had not felt pain when receiving that slap. Did he fall in love with her for the first time they met? Why she had to hide from the soldiers? Why she had to go to the West Land in a hurry like that? What were the things she brought with, they seemed to be very important to her?

The night passed. Hou Lei woke up very early and she came to the motel Xiao Liam staying. She left a paper for him, and walked out, took his horse to go to the West Land. The housekeeper of the motel knocked on the door, Xiao Liam awoke, he saw the paper.

“Thank you, Xiao Liam, for treating me very well in the first time we met. Maybe we will meet again in the future. I hope that you will be happy in your life. Ahhh, sorry that I took your horse, hope you don’t mind about it much, you said you will lend me one, but I need to go early. Thanks for all, Hou Lei”.

Some soldiers came to his room. They knocked on the door, got in and kneed down.

-My Prince, why you didn’t stay at the bureaucrat's house last night? They didn’t treat you well?

-No, I just want to go around and have a check on the life of people in this town.

-We were worried about you could get hurt, If that, we can’t explain to the Emperor!

-I’m okay like you see, and I’ve martial arts, it’s not easy to make me hurt.

-So My Third Prince, should we come back to the royal city? We’re already done our works here.

-Okay, we will return to the royal city this evening, prepare well.

All the morning, Xiao Liam still thought about Hou Lei, he wanted to meet her again so much. She had something very special that talked him to explore more about her, he wanted to know who she really was and why she left so early. Was their first met arranged by the fate? Or he was attracted to her beauty? Especially, the warmness he had felt when he hugged her last night. He never felt like that although there were many beautiful ladies around him.

After a half day, Hou Lei reached the West Land. She still had no idea what she should do at there, she just went as the strange lady said. When she reached the big door of the main city of West Land, there was a mess with many sounds.

-Close the door! Don’t let they run out! – Many people ran after a couple.

The door was closing, but the couple passed through it. They seemed to be a happy couple, running out of the rush of their families, she guessed. The lady was very beautiful and the man was handsome. They rode a white horse and ran to the way to the forest. She admired their love, could run away their families for having their own little family. On the other side, she thought “Is it worth?”, she now even did not have any member of her family, her father and her brother died, she lost her mother I the battle too. She was just alone in this big world. She looked at the horse and remembered the man she had met last night, was he really a good man?

To be continued...