C5 - PART 32 – THE WEDDING

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MY EVIL PRINCESS: Chapter 5: The wedding

PART 32 – THE WEDDING

The next day, Tian Liam came back to the Palace and asked the soldiers to come with him to bring dead bodies of the strange men to meet the Emperor. He talked with the Emperor in private:

-Father, I have no idea that where those men came from, I had a fight with them, they were strong.

-Do you have any wounds? – The Emperor asked.

-No, I just have some issue when they hit me.

-So you killed all of them? Why didn’t you leave someone alive? We can take information from him about his group, or there will be some others like them in our country.

-I’m sorry father, I want to do that too, but they were too strong and fought me very hard, I only had one choice to kill them. I think they don’t have any other member in the group.

-I hope so. You’re tired now, take a good rest, I will think about a reward to you!

-I don’t need that, father. I did it as my responsibility for our country. Anyway, you have given me the best reward ever for all of the things.

-Did I? – The Emperor wondered.

-It’s Hou Lei, Father. She is the best reward for me after all.

-You’ve fallen in love with her? – The Emperor laughed. – I know it, from the beginning, the Queen chose North Liam palace to let Hou Lei stay, I could see her idea to couple you and her. I don’t think it comes really fast like this. Anyway, good news for me!

-Thanks, Father! I’ll come back to my room!

Actually, after the conversation, he came to Hou Lei’s room. He knocked on the door, but no one answered. He walked around and guessed where she could be. He waited for a while and thought she had to go out of the Palace. He walked back to his room. Suddenly, he ran into her when they met at the main door leading to her room. She lost her footing, ready to fall down to the ground, he immediately caught her. The time liked to be stopped its moves at that moment. He hugged her closer to his chest, she looked at her gently.

-I’m back, Hou Lei! – He said.

-Okay, well… - She gently pushed him away. – I don’t need a warm hug to let me know you’re back.

-But I need. – He hugged her again, tighter and warmer.

-Wang Tian Liam, let me go! – She gently hit on his chest.

-Let me hug you for a while, those men made me scared that I couldn’t meet you again!

-Those men? – She surprised. – Who are those men?

-You don’t know them? – He asked and let free of her. – The Er people hit me two days ago.

-Who? What? – She widened her eyes and touched many parts on his body. – Did you get any hurt?

-You… you don’t know anything? – He looked at her suspiciously.

-Know what? Or I don’t know something that I should know?

-So the lady that night wasn’t you?

-Lady? Oh, Wang Tian Liam, you are going to marry me but you still have other women out of this palace! Your Main Land men are all the same!

-It’s not that, but I can feel that was you.

-Me? I’m always in this Palace, you can ask all the maids and the sentries, if I went out of the Palace, they had to know it.

-So strange, I saw you that night, and the herbs, the care she spent for me… Everything was like to prove that was you.

-Don’t deny it, you take this chance to meet other women in the royal city, I know that.

-Hou Lei, don’t be like that, you must hide something! I’ll find out soon.

-Find out what? Now I find out you have other women! You liar! – She hit on his chest.

-No, I don’t! – He answered. – Hou Lei, you are jealous, right?

-Who wants to get jealous of you? – She rushed him.

They rushed each other on the yard. After a while, he stopped and caught her by his hands.

-I’m very happy, Hou Lei. You’re jealous.

-No way, let out of me, get in my room, I have something for you!

They got into her room, she brought out a paper and gave him.

-Reading it carefully and write your name here, press your fingerprint here.

-What’s this? – He asked.

-This is the wedding’s conditions, if you don’t accept it, there won’t any wedding.

-Okay, well, you don’t need to do that. I’m a Prince, I will keep my words.

-I don’t believe in you, or anyone here, sign it and I will keep it.

-If I do something wrong, who will be the one punish me? My Father or My mother?

-No one will do that, but me, if you do anything false with this paper, you will never ever see me again.

-Okay, okay, I will read and sign, just don’t leave me.

“WEDDING’s CONDITIONs

Name: Wang Tian Liam and Hou Lei

These are the conditions between us to make the wedding occur. If any of these conditions are not followed, Wang Tian Liam will be punished that he will never meet Hou Lei again.

First, during the wedding day and night, Hou Lei and Wang Tian Liam won’t do husband and wife’s work. Hou Lei needs more time to accept what happens now, and she wants to define if she really loves her husband or not.

Second, Wang Tian Liam can’t touch Hou Lei too much, although she is his wife, it’s not comfortable for her when being touched by others. The maximum of touches he can do a day is three even in public or in private. Anyway, he can act some sweet actions in front of the Queen and the Emperor.

Third, of course, no sex until everything’s clear. That means there will be two beds in the room if the husband and wife must live in one room. If they can live in two rooms, it’s not a problem.

Forth, Wang Tian Liam won’t be accepted to ask Hou Lei about her privacy information, including anything about herself, her family, her likes and dislikes.

Signature…”

-Hou Lei, we aren’t going to make a wedding like a wedding contract!

-So, do you want to sign or I will leave now!

-Okay, I’ll sign, but you can’t feel any piece of my love for you?

-It’s not about you, it’s about me, Tian Liam. I’m not ready for loving someone.

-So we can wait! Wait until you love me!

-But the Emperor and the Queen don’t want to wait, they want the wedding to occur as soon as possible, so that, the Crown Prince will accept to marry the North Land Princess.

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C4 - PART 31 – THE PLAN OF THE CROWN PRINCE_4

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MY EVIL PRINCESS: Chapter 4: The mystery in the royal city

PART 31 – THE PLAN OF THE CROWN PRINCE_4

At that night, in the Palace, Hou Lei was sitting in her room, she laid her face on her hands.

“Should I help Tian Liam to solve this problem? But those Er people might meet me at the Er village in the past, they could recognize me. They would let Er Wang know where I am now. And then, my plan will be destroyed when Er Wang comes here and discloses my true identity. Oh, no, I can’t let that happen. Another way, I think Tian Liam is smart enough to persuade them to come back to their place.”, she thought and then went to sleep.

Tian Liam prepared a speech to tell with the Er people, he hoped that this speech could let them recognize what was right and came back to their place. The night came, and he brought the wick rope and herbs beside his sword with him.

The winds slowly blew, the moonlight was weak but enough to see things on the way, Tian Liam walked and carefully watched around him. He passed through some road, no one still awoke. Then he met the Er people, they recognized him immediately:

-That’s the guy corrupting our works yesterday! – The biggest man said. – Catch him.

They ran fast to Tian Liam’s place. He ran also, but his speed could not compare to them. He took out his sword and fought with them. His sword was very sharp, however, he could not make them hurt. One of the men grabbed his sword without any wound.

-Catch you, little boy!

He tried to get his sword back and the man let over the sword, he fell down to the ground because that man was too strong. They all laughed for their winning. Tian Liam whistled to call his horse near that place. The horse ran fast to his place, as the Er people looked at the horse, he got on it fast and ran away. They ran after him:

-Don’t let him escape! – The biggest one said.

-You won’t be lucky as yesterday. Your injury had completely healed in one night, very impressive. – Another man said. – This time you will taste a stronger huh?

Tian Liam stopped at a part of the road with many big trees beside. He got down off the horse and hit it to go away. He then put down the herbs on the ground and connected it with the wick rope. He dropped the rope on the ground and walked to hide behind a big tree. The Er people came and he immediately burnt the rope with some rock. The fire got closer to the herbs and luckily, he calculated the time just right. When Er people got there, they looked at the herbs and the fire came, the pack of herbs explored and the gas got out to the air. They breathed the gas in and started to feel dizzy. Then they all fell down to the ground.

Tian Liam was happy that the herbs had their effect. He brought the Er people together and tied them with a big rope. He was waiting for them to wake up. After a while, they moved.

-Let us free! – The biggest one said.

-You are feeling not good, right? – He asked.

-Yup, I’m feeling very weak, brother! – One of them said.

-What drug did you get to us? – The biggest one said.

-Some herbs. – He answered. – Hope you like the smell!

-Of course. – The biggest one said. – We really like it!

And they started to move stronger, the rope was broken with the surprise of Tian Liam. They stood up and breathed heavily, prepared for another fight.

-What? You are not affected by the herbs.

-Little boy, it only made us sleep! Haha, who gave you those herbs?

He suddenly remembered that in the paper, Hou Lei only mentioned that the herbs could make them into a faint. He forgot that and now was in an extremely dangerous situation. He could not win them with only his strength. They ran to his place and started to fight him. A beautiful smell got across their place, the Er people stopped.

-You’re an idiot, Tian Liam! – One strange lady in violet dress with a face cover appeared.

-Who are you? – Tian Liam and the men both asked.

-It’s not important, I was here to help both of you! – She answered.

-You want to help him? – The biggest Er man said.

-Not only him, you people know about the extinct of the Hou Ma tribe, right?

-Yes, we know. But what’s the connection here?

-Do you want your Er tribe has the same result?

-You think Main Land people can kill us like they used to kill Hou Ma tribe? – The man laughed.

-Tian Liam can’t, one Main Land man can’t, some of them can’t, but thousands of them, dynamite, and poisons can. I assure you don’t want to taste the dynamite and the toxic water.

-So what do you want?

-Leave him alone, get out of this city and come back to your place.

-Do you know how hard we got there? And with your words, you want us to go? – He laughed.

-I give you a chance to decide, if you don’t, I assure you won’t image what will be your result.

-With a lady like you? – He laughed. – What do you think you can hurt us? Even the sword of him couldn’t do anything harmful to us. Or you want to treat us some good things?

-Okay, let’s see.

She brought out a vial, got some of the liquid inside on her hands and rubbed her hands together. The Er people ran to her place, the mysterious lady started to dance. Her dance was like a hypnotise, the men stopped and got dizzy. Tian Liam looked at them with surprise. Then the lady came closer to the men, rubbed her hand on their skin, with each touch the skin was turned into black and the man fell down on the ground. She then stopped when face to face with Tian Liam.

-My Prince, they are all dead! – She said.

-Huh? How can you? – He surprised.

-This is one of the most powerful poison, do you want to taste?

-Of course not. – He stepped backward.

-Well, I don’t want to harm you or anything, I just have a debt with someone, and I must help her on her journey. I do this not because of you or this country. Anyway, my Prince, you know that they are Er tribe people, but I hope you won’t say out this information. Your Father had a wrong decision when destroying the Hou Ma tribe, you are a kind-hearted Prince, I know you won’t want the Er tribe to have the same result. Promise me, just tell people that you kill them. I made the wounds just look like your sword stabbed on their body, so people will believe in you.

-But who you are? And who is the lady you mentioned?

-You don’t need to know much now, my Prince, at the right time, everything will be clear. You only need to live a good life and treat everyone well.

-I promise. – He nodded.

-My Prince, don’t touch their wound until it’s morning, or you will die like them! – She prepared to go.

-Wait, miss! – He called her. – Will we meet again?

-It’s up to fate, maybe we will meet in the very early day. – She went to the countryside direction.

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C4 - PART 30 – THE PLAN OF THE CROWN PRINCE_3

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MY EVIL PRINCESS: Chapter 4: The mystery in the royal city

PART 30 – THE PLAN OF THE CROWN PRINCE_3

Tian Liam got out of his bed and saw the tray of breakfast was ready for him on the table. He had his meal and came out to meet the manager of the motel. He went to the ground floor and met Miang Xiang, the owner of the motel:

-Oh, My Prince, you woke up! – She greeted him.

-Miss Miang Xiang, is that you the one helped me last night? – He wondered.

-Well, there was a lady leading you here and she left very early. She very cared about you, she asked me to prepare a basin of water and the breakfast for you. Does the food in this small motel suit for you, my Prince?

-Oh, It’s good. So you don’t even know her?

-She didn’t want you to know who she is! And I think I should respect her request, she was such a lovely lady. You should keep her besides with all the things you have, or the other man will take her away. Your men will never know what if it’s enough, you always want more ladies, and soon to be lost the only one love you most.

-I assure you I won’t be in that situation. Surely that’s you, Hou Lei. But I wonder why you could leave the palace without the approval of the Queen? She won’t let you join in such a difficult and dangerous investigation like this!

-I’m sorry, but my Prince, she hasn’t paid for your room yet. Maybe she had a hurry and forgot to bring money with her. – Miang Xiang said.

-Okay, I’ll pay for it. Here is it. – He gave her money.

He then came back to his room, he should wait until it was a night to find the strange men again. He saw a paper on his table, it might be left by Hou Lei. He picked it up and read the content:

“My Prince, you have no idea what you are fighting with, I now give you some information about them. Hope you can find a way to capture them. It’s not all times I can save you at the right time like last night. Please read this carefully and define a plan:

1.You are fighting with Er people. They are gifted people, with the powerful physical strength, meaning they are very strong compared with a normal human like you. So that means, you can physically fight with them, you will be hit like that night. And you know, their hits are very seriously injured. Your body was very weak last night, I had some medicine to treat your wounds.

2.I left here with you some herbs. These herbs can help you to make the Er people got into a faint, but remember, when you burn them, you can’t breathe their gas in.

3.They have powerful physical strength, so you can’t capture them with normal ropes, and I think you can’t put them into prison, too. So the best way is making them know they are doing wrong and let them leave. I know your mission is investigating the mysterious stolen things, but how can you capture and let people know about them in this situation?

Hope you can win them. Sincerely!”

-It must be you, Hou Lei! You’re more mysterious to me now. But you always keep a distance with me, I don’t have chances to know more about you, thanks to this case, I know you yes care about me. – He held the paper to his heart.

As the information and herbs Hou Lei gave, he made up a plan to fight against the Er people. He thought for a while but could not define how he could use the herbs she gave. Actually, this was hard work for him, he did not know anything about the medicine and herbs. He walked around his room and still not found any ideas. There was a knock of the door.

-My Prince, it’s Miang Xiang, can I get in?
-Sure. Just get in! – He answered.

-I bring your lunch here! – She put the tray of food on the table. – You look serious. What're things going? Do you have problems?

-Yup, you know, I’m in an investigation with… - Then he paused.

-If it’s not good to share, I won’t ask more to make hard for you.

-Well, Miss Miang Xiang, you are very smart as people said. Do you know how to burn something without touching them, I mean, from a far place?

-Let me think. – She paused for some seconds. – Oh, people use the lamp wick to make the light on the oil, right? But I think it will take a long time from a far way to your destination.

-Oh, it’s better than I have thought about that for more than an hour without any solution!

-Why don’t you use the dynamite? It is a kind of powder, you can spread it on the way and burn from your place to your destination fast.

-But the dynamite has a bad smell, my enemies can recognize it.

-Oh, that’s right, I don’t know who you are fighting with, but they seem to be strong and smart people. Okay, this is really hard to find a way.

-Yup, it’s been taking me for more than an hour.

-I know that, my Prince. – She was excited. – The wick in the firecracker! It can hold the fire and lead it to another place faster!

-Wow, thank you so much, Miss Miang Xiang! – He stood up and planned to find those wick.

-Wait, my Prince, I know somewhere selling a lot of firecrackers.

She led him to a wedding decoration store.

-Mr. Liu, do you have a lot of firecrackers? – She asked the seller.

-Miang Xiang, it’s you! – He smiled and greeted. – And who is this young man?

-He’s Tian Liam, a friend of mine. He wants to buy some firecrackers.

-Oh, this young man is going to marry a beautiful lady, right? – The seller said.

-Oh, no, I use it for… - Tian Liam denied.

-Yes, that’s right, Mr. Liu. – Miang Xiang corrupted his sentence and gave him a signal. – Bring to us the best kind of them, the longest one too.

They chose many of the firecrackers and left. On the way back, Miang Xiang said to Tian Liam:

-My Prince, honest is good, but sometimes, if you’re too honest, it will affect on your works. If you said what you wanted to do with these firecrackers, Mr. Liu wouldn’t sell them to you with any price. He is a traditional man, he wants to connect the couples together, he has been selling wedding decoration things for almost forty years. If you use his decoration without wedding purpose, he won’t sell them to you. Sorry for corrupting you, I only want to help you.

-I know that, thank you so much, Miss Miang Xiang! – Tian Liam said.

They came back to the motel, Tian Liam prepared for his plan in his room. He cut all the crackers out of the wick ropes of the firecrackers. Then he connected the wick ropes together to be a long rope. He wrapped the herbs in a black paper. Everything was okay, excepting how to make the Er people know they were doing wrong and pushed them away from the royal city. About this, he had to think himself, he could not let Miang Xiang know about the appearance of those guy in the royal city and what they had done. She might be scared and the secret might be revealed to everyone, the Emperor had to be angry when it happened. He had to find a way to make them leave the royal city without any concern or capture them and bring them to the prison. However, could the prison keep them from escaping and destroying the other things in the palace?

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C4 - PART 29 – THE PLAN OF THE CROWN PRINCE_2

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PART 29 – THE PLAN OF THE CROWN PRINCE_2

-Wait for me a moment, I’ll be right there. – She answered.

She finished her work and fixed her clothes a little bit. Then she came into her room to meet him.

-What’s that? – She pointed at the tray on the table.

-It’s a gift for you. Just open it.

-This is… this is… - She opened the box on the tray and surprised.

-Do you like it? – He smiled.

-Is this a couple with your suit the day we went to the medicine store?

-You still remember it? Yup, you’re right, they are a couple. I think it’s nice and suitable for you too, so I ordered one for you and one for me.

-But how did you know my size?

-I just need to ask Ah Jiang and she gave me your info.

-You two… I know that she is a faithful maid of you. I shouldn’t believe her much.

-Well, don’t be suspicious like that, I just want to know some basic information about you, not asking her to tell me your secret.

-But I think you don’t like black clothes, I’ve seen the first of yours on that day.

-Hou Lei, yup, I don’t like black clothes, but if you like black dresses, I’ll wear black clothes with you. In this palace, people like colorful clothes, if you’re different from them, I’ll be your side, I’ll the same with you. – He gently told her.

-Even that, you and I can’t just wear black clothes.

-That’s right, but I will wear them when I am with you. – He held her hands.

-Okay, so you are trying to win my heat? If you win, you’ll soon be bored!

-No, I said to you, I’m not one of the men your father talked about, you’ll see.

-I’ll wait to see. Would you like some tea?

-Of course, I’m waiting for it from the beginning. – He laughed.

The next day, the Emperor called Tian Liam to meet him in private.

-Tian Liam, did you hear anything about the missings of things and the mysteriously lost of some people in the royal city recently?

-I heard some. But the information was not much to know clearly.

-Do you have any idea about that? – The Emperor continued.

-I think we should carry out an investigation but in private, it will make the citizen worried if we make a big investigative team.

-You’re right! – The Emperor nodded. – Although we had our sentries to deal with many people to keep this news in secret, I don’t think we can keep it hidden for a long time. I think that those guys who stole things are very strong and dangerous. They also kidnapped people.

-I know. That will be a big issue in the royal city if we don’t take action soon.

-So Tian Liam, as we would like to keep the secret, I want you to go to investigate this issue, without any soldiers. – The Emperor requested. – You are my best choice now, you are the best of martial arts in the ones I can believe. And you’re also smart enough to have a good plan, the experience in many cases you defined before can be necessary for this case.

-I know how important it is, Father, I’ll do my best!

-So I feel more secure. – He nodded. – You must start as soon as possible.

-I will prepare and go out of the palace right this night!

At night, the Prince went out of the Palace on a horse. He rode the horse to the countryside of the royal city where the strange things happened. He got down of the horse and hid behind a big tree to watch around. After a while, he saw four men walking across the small street, they were holding something like the tools to open the door without a key. They tried to open a wealthy house in the village. Tian Liam got out of his hiding place and shouted:

-How dare you to steal things in the royal city?

-Who are you? – One of them asked. – How dare you to corrupt our business?

They run forward his place and fought with him. He was good at martial arts, but those guys were too strong, stronger than normal people. He could not stab the sword at them. They fought for a while, Tian Liam could handle them but he could not make them hurt.

-You’re good, my boy! – One of them said. – But not strong enough!

-I won’t let you go! – He yelled.

But he hit on Tian Liam’s chest and made him fall down. They wanted to hit him more, but there was a voice shouting from far away:

-They are there, the soldiers, please catch them!

-There are many soldiers, leave now! – The biggest guy said.

They left Tian Liam on the ground and ran for another direction opposite with the voice. Tian Liam tried to look up to see who helped him, and he realized that was Hou Lei. She ran to his place and helped him up.

-Hou Lei, how can you find me at here?

-It’s not the problem now, go with me! – She helped him to get up.

They went to a motel near that place, rented a room, Hou Lei led him into the room. She let him laid on the bed and got a chair next to the bed. She brought out a tablet of medicine.

-Let take this, it will make you feel better and make your hurt decrease.

-Thank you! – He took the medicine and rapidly fell into sleep.

She got the blanket to cover his body and then slept beside him on the chair. Before finding him, in the afternoon, Hou Lei wanted to greet the Emperor, but she heard the conversation between Tian Liam and the Emperor instead. As she followed the news these days, she guessed that the strange men stole the things and kidnapped the people might be Er people. Only them had the strength to break down the doors and took people with them without any effort. She had followed Tian Liam in the evening, she wanted to join with him because she thought the Er people would recognize her and made her plan corrupted. She wanted to help Tian Liam captured them to prevent them from getting the information about her to Er Wang. Tian Liam rode the horse to pass through the main door of the Palace, from a place near there, she prepared to fly over the wall to get out of the Palace too. She had watched him fighting with the men, but she did not want to join, she thought he could handle with them. Until he got hit, she shouted about the soldiers to help him.

The next morning, Hou Lei got up early. She went down the motel and asked for some food. She also prepared a basin with a towel for Tian Liam to wash his face. She got closer to the bed and looked at him, he was still sleeping. His injury was healed now by her medicine, she gently touched his face and got the blanket to cover his body. He woke up and saw the food was ready for him, she had left for not making him have doubts about her more. She left a paper on the table with some herbs.

-Was that Hou Lei with me last night? – He asked himself. – I can feel her hand touch my face.

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C4 - PART 28 – THE PLAN OF THE CROWN PRINCE

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MY EVIL PRINCESS: Chapter 4: The mystery in the royal city

PART 28 – THE PLAN OF THE CROWN PRINCE

Hou Lei had her meal and waited for Tian Liam to come back. He brought the pot with him and walked inside the room, put it on the table. She stopped eating to check the medicine. Opening the cover of the pot, she smiled and pointed inside the pot:

-Here’s the medicine, it will help your mother wake up.

-Hou Lei. – He sat down next to her. – It’s not I have doubt about you, but can you tell me what disease my mother got?

-It’s not a disease. – She continued eating. – It’s a curse!

-A curse? – He surprised. – From who? Who wants to make my mother suffer that?

-I have no idea, but this curse belongs to Er tribe. They want to aim at the Emperor, maybe!

-So how do you know about this curse?

-Someone in the West Land had the same situation, I and my medical teacher helped him to pass through the curse. Maybe it’s the fate when I’m here at the right time the Queen got it.

-Fate is too good for me and my mother, meeting you at the right time.

-Stop that! – She laughed. – I don’t need you to put honey into my meal.

-It’s the words from my heart, not a joke.

-Okay, I’m done, now we bring the medicine to your mother.

They got to the Queen’s room, but the sentries prevented them to get in.

-I’m the Third Prince, how dare you not let me go into my mother’s room?

-I’m sorry, my Prince. The Emperor doesn’t accept for anyone to get in. – The sentry answered.

-I know that we just want to look at the Queen for a while, we’re really worried about her. – Hou Lei said and used some Hou magic on the sentries.

-Okay, you can go in, but make it fast, I don’t want to take the punishment. – The sentry said.

Hou Lei and Tian Liam got into the room. The Queen was sleeping peacefully without any sign that she could awake. Tian Liam sat next to her bed, held her hand and touched her face. Hou Lei put her hands on his shoulder to comfort him. She then brought out the medicine with care, she used her hand to make the Queen’s mouth open and put the medicine inside.

-The medicine will have its effect soon. It will take some time. – She explained.

-So do we need to wait? – Tian Liam asked.

-No need, we should come back to our rooms first, I don’t want anyone to know about this.

After watching his mother one more time, Tian Liam got out of the room with Hou Lei. They walked back to her room.

-Is that you did something to the medicine? – He asked. – I saw you fell down this noon.

-I just got too tired after a long night of caring about the pot.

-Do you feel good now? Or you need to rest more?

-I’m okay, I just need to take a rest and everything will be normal.

-Hou Lei. – He held her hands. – Thank you, for all the things!

-Don’t be like that. You will make me cry. – She gently touched his face. – I know you are a strong man, but in this situation, no one can be strong enough, especially, all the doctors can’t help you. It’s the fate that I was here to help you.

She got into her room, he still stood there, looking at her room. He did not know if he should believe in this lady or not. She was more mysterious to him day by day. Another thing, he did not want to make her uncomfortable, he would not investigate more about her, he thought that if she wanted him to know, she would naturally tell him. He would wait and that day would come, the day he knew all about her and also, she accepted his love.

The next day morning, the Queen woke up in the surprise of the doctors and the Emperor.

-How do you feel, Mei Lan? – The Emperor asked.

-I’m okay, I just had a good sleep with some dreams that I’ve never thought I would dream. – She answered. – What happened?

-You’ve slept for almost four days. – He said. – I’m very happy to see you’re good now.

-Four days? – She surprised. – I have no idea about that. I just think I have normal sleep.

-You awake, it’s good, it’s good, don’t need to care about other things! – He hugged her tightly.

-Okay. Well, I’m here with you. – She hugged him too.

-Mother, you wake up! – Tian Liam was very happy when seeing his mother.

-My boy! – She touched his face. – You look not good!

-He must care much about you these days. – The Emperor said. – I was busy with my work, he had to spend almost his time finding the doctors to treat your disease.

-Oh, my son! – She hugged Tian Liam. – I’m so proud of you and happy to have a son like you.

Hou Lei got into the room, she brought some food for the Queen.

-My Emperor, My Queen. – She greeted them. – Mother, I have some dishes I made for you, you’ve slept for four days, you must feel hungry now.

-Oh, you’re right! – She nodded. – You’re the most understanding person of all.

-Let have your meal, the food is still warm. – She put the tray on the table.

Tian Liam helped the Queen to stand up and walk to the table. He looked at Hou Lei and smiled brightly. His mouth had a signal with her as “Thank you”.

That afternoon, after discussing some works with the Emperor and the Crown Prince, Tian Liam left and came back to his room. Tian Leong stayed with the Emperor, he said:

-Father, did you hear anything about the missings of things and the mysteriously lost of some people in the royal city recently?

-I’ve heard! – The Emperor answered. – Do you have any idea about that?

-I have no idea, we need to carry out the investigation soon if not, the citizen will be worried and it will affect much on our city.

-I know that, although we had our sentries to deal with many people to keep this news in secret, I don’t think we can keep it hidden for a long time.

-So I have an idea. – He whispered. – Why don’t we let Tian Liam investigate this issue?

-Why Tian Liam? We have many good investigators! I think that those guys who stole things are very strong and dangerous. They also kidnapped people.

-But we need to keep this in secret, father. And Tian Liam is the best choice, he is good at martial arts, he can protect himself, and he is our family’s member, he won’t let the information leak out. Even more, he had many times investigating such cases like this.

-Okay, I think that’s a good idea now. I will ask Tian Liam to do that.

At that time, Tian Liam got to Hou Lei’s room. She was watering the plants and flowers in her garden.

-Hou Lei. – He waved her. – I got something for you.

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C4 - PART 27 – THE QUEEN’s ILLNESS_3

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MY EVIL PRINCESS: Chapter 4: The mystery in the royal city

PART 27 – THE QUEEN’s ILLNESS_3

-So believe me, I assure that she will be okay! – Hou Lei looked directly in his eyes.

-Okay, I believe in you! – He answered.

-Now I need room to make the medicine. Remember, without any disturbance, even you.

-I can’t meet you at that time? – He wondered.

-Yes, no one. And you must sure that no one has the attention of my work. You can’t meet me in the whole day, no knock on the door, no more question, okay?

He nodded and led her to a private room near his room.

-This is my reading room. No one gets here normally. Do you need anything else?

-Give me a teapot, an oven, some water and five of your hair!

-My hair? – He surprised. – What does it mean in this medicine?

-Just give me, or your mother will be in the dream world forever!

He took his hairs and gave her. She walked into the room and closed the door. He came nearly to the door and stood there. She said from the inside.

-Leave now, Tian Liam, and come back at tomorrow noon. I don’t need to eat this time, so don’t bring food to me. Remember, no disturb!

Tian Liam left, Hou Lei opened the door and looked around to make sure no one was there. She closed the door again and put some powder at the bottom of the door. “This power will keep anyone from open the door and make a shield that protects me from any eyes.” She put the herbs into the pot, added some water and put it on the oven. She walked around the room, there were many bookshelves there. She touched some of them and read some pages in those books. She then stopped at a book written about Hou Ma tribe. She sat down and read carefully about the content of the book.

The book contained some information about Hou Ma tribe in the history of more than two hundred years ago when they had still lived peacefully with the Main Land people. Although the book had many wrong events about Hou Ma tribe, she still read each page. It reminded her about her village, her family and the life she used to have. She had a desire to come back that life, no worry, no mission, no revenge plan. Suddenly, she stopped in the last sentences.

“Hou Ma tribe wanted to come back to the Main Land and destroy the normal human. The Emperor asked the West Soldier General to bring thousands of soldiers and some priests to destroy them. That battle occurred on a full moon night when the Hou Dark Door was weakest. The Hou Ma tribe was all destroyed, no one was alive. The two precious things of them were lost, the Hou magic gem and the Book of Hou Ma tribe. People said that from those two things, there would open the door of immortal life by using Hou magic. Until now, no one knows about the realistic ability of that, but it seems to be that the battle was a mistake of the Emperor.”

Tears dropped down from her eyes. The mistake of the Emperor made her now homeless, and alone in this big world. But she believed that she could find the gem and the book back to help her tribe. She then looked at the pot on the oven. Should she save the wife of the one made her into this situation? Should she marry the sons of that guy? Should she continue to live in this Palace?

-No, I must live here. – She shook her head and said with sharp eyes. – I must find out where the gem is, and find my mother with the book. I must bring back the Hou Ma tribe. No one can stop me, including you, Wang Tian Liam! Anyway, the Queen treats me well, and I believe she had no relation in the idea with the battle. I should save her.

She added more water into the pot and chanted a spell to make the herbs become the medicine. The status of the Queen had to be cursed by Er tribe, this was a kind of drugs coming from them. Hou Lei had to use Hou magic to fight with the curse.

At that time, Liu Han looked for Tian Liam. The sentries did not let her get closer to the Prince’s room. She got angry with them:

-I’m Liu Han, why you don’t let me meet the Third Prince?

-What happens here? – Tian Liam was coming back from the meeting with the Emperor.

-Tian Liam, you’re here. They don’t let me go inside. – She told him.

-Of course. – He answered. – I asked them to protect here.

-Huh? Why you do that? I’m not a stranger!

-Yup, but this is my place, even the Crown Prince can’t pass through without my permission. So please, go back to your place, I’m tired now. I need to take a rest.

-Is Hou Lei inside your room? I know that you hide her in there!

-That’s not your business. – He then said with the sentries. – Watch out carefully, if anyone disturbs me, you already know the punishment.

He walked through the door, the sentries still kept Liu Han outside. He got in his room, sat on a chair, drank some tea. He took a deep breath and opened the window, looked to the direction of his reading room. He wondered what Hou Lei was doing there, but he did not want her to get angry, he only knew to look through the window.

At night, he could not sleep, he worried if there was something bad happening to her. He got his clothes and opened the door, walked to the reading room. When he walked closer to the room, there was no light, he thought she was sleeping, he did not want to disturb, so he came back to his bed. Inside the room, Hou Lei still awoke, she spread some of her magic into the pot. After she finished, she fell down to the floor, she had spent much magic into the medicine. She got a deep sleep and unknown for what happened to her medicine. The fire still was very hot and heated the pot. The mysterious lady Hou Lei had met at Er village appeared outside the room, she silently opened the window and used her hands move a bit, the fire was extinguished.

The next day, at noon, Tian Liam came to the reading room as Hou Lei said. He knocked on the door and called for her:

-Hou Lei, is everything okay? I’m back as your recommendation.

No answer. He opened the door and saw Hou Lei laid on the floor next to the oven. He ran inside the room and caught her up, shaking her body.

-Hou Lei, are you okay? Hou Lei! – He got worried.

She slowly opened her eyes and raised her hand to touch his face.

-I’m okay. I’m just too tired.

-I will ask the doctor to take an examination. Wait for me!

-No, they can't treat for me. Just need to sleep a bit. The medicine is done. Tonight, I will bring it to the Queen. Don’t worry, your mother will be okay. – She then closed her eyes.

He brought her to his room, put her on his bed. Then he came out to get a basin of water and a towel. He used them to clean her face and hands. She had to have a hard time with the medicine. He guessed she had to feel very hungry, she had been eaten nothing for more than a day. He came to the kitchen and asked the chefs to prepare some special food which could help her get her health back faster. When he came back with a tray of food, she had already woken.

-Did you do anything bad to me? – She wondered.

-Of course, not, I just go out and bring some food for you. You were too tired, right?

-It’s better now, bring the pot of the medicine to me, I want to check it before bringing to the Queen.

-Let have your meal first! – He put down the tray. – I’ll get the pot for you.

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