C12 - PART 81 – THE LOVE REVELATION

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MY EVIL PRINCESS: Chapter 12: The Crown Prince’s Obsession

PART 81 – THE LOVE REVELATION

-But it has been more than two years, Hou Lei! – Tian Liam said.

-You can leave me every time you want, as I used to tell you many times. I don’t force you to be with you, you can even return me to the West Land or do something…

-Stop! – He cut her sentence. – You know I’ll never do that, I’ll wait for your answer.

He stood up and walked out of the room. She sat down on a chair and looked at his shadow faded.

“Sorry, Tian Liam, I can’t let anything stop or interrupt my plan, even you. I must accept that through time, the feelings for you in my heart are getting bigger and bigger. However, I have a mission to finish here and that is the only reason I’m here. My tribe is waiting for me to rescue them from the endless space.”

That night, Tian Liam did not come back to Hou Lei’s room. He stayed in his reading room for the whole evening and night. She cooked dinner and waited for him, she thought he would come back. The food became cooler and out cold, she returned the food to the kitchen and walked back to her room. She laid on her bed and continued to think about him. Should she give him a chance? But after that, what was next? She might kill his father for having the Hou Ma gem back and he would never forgive her. And their love would come to an end? The thoughts made her tired and slowly fell into a deep sleep. The next day, on the way to greet the Queen, Hou Lei met a sentry who was close to Tian Liam. She asked the sentry about him.

-Ah Jiang, you go to the Queen’s room first. I have something to ask this guy! – She said to her maid.

-My Princess, you want to talk to me? – The sentry surprised.

-Do you know where Tian Liam is now?

-Sorry, my Princess, he got out of the palace very early this morning. – The sentry replied.

-Does anyone know where he goes to?

-He said he had some important works to finish outside the royal city.

-Important works? Did he met the Emperor yesterday or before he left?

-Nope, my Princess, he spent yesterday’s evening and the whole night in his reading room. He seemed to be upset, forgive me, my Princess, did you two argue something?

-Oh, nothing, just some husband and wife’s small things.

-From the time you were here, I can see that the world of the Third Prince has been narrowed around you, so each time I saw his upset face, the first one I think of is you.

-Actually, I don’t have that power to make him upset easily.

-I know that I shouldn’t care much about you two’s lives, but my Princess, the Third Prince is a very good guy. I’ve been with him for more than eight years, he treats people very well, not the same with the other Princes and bureaucrats.

-I know that… you know, he has the ability to make everyone love him. He treats people too well to have anyone dislike him. – She said with a smile.

-So you love him much, too? Oh, sorry, I shouldn’t ask that.

-No problem, I don’t care much about the level with nice people. – She gently replied. – Yup, who can resist the love with him? He makes me feel living in this palace as my home. He gives me the feelings called being loved. He wraps me with the safety of a family.

-Well, why you never said that in front of me? – Tian Liam walked to her place from behind.

-Tian Liam, you… - She was wordless.

-You can leave now. – He said to the sentry. – Should I be happy to hear that from the conversation between you and a sentry, not with me?

-How long have you been here? – She wondered.

-Long enough to hear what I should hear. – He replied.

-So what do you want to do with me now? Punish me?

-Of course. – He turned to hug her tightly. – Punish you for letting me wait so long to listen to those sentences from you.

-You don’t yell loudly for everyone to know as the time you knew I did care about you?

-Nope, I just want to spend this information for my self. – He gently smoothed her hair and tears of happiness came from his eyes.

-Okay… Well, could you please send this hug in our rooms? We’re in right the middle of the royal garden. – She gently pushed him out of her.

-Okay, spend for later. – He nodded continuously.

-Did you cry? – She touched his cheek to clean the teardrops.

-I just can’t hide my happiness to hear that, you know, for more than two years, my effort is giving the best result. I finally can make you love me.

-And what’s next? You will find another woman to win over her heart? You won my heart, so I won’t be an ambitious prize anymore.

-Nope, you’re kidding? The next move is I’ll keep you right by my side forever.

-Okay, let’s see. Do you want to go to meet the Queen?

-I have something to discuss with the Emperor, I’ll meet you later in your room.

-Agree! I’ll go first.

She continued to go to the Queen’s room. From a little bit far from the Queen’s room, she heard the Queen’s laughing voice loudly. Ah Jiang was waiting for her at the door of the room.

-My Princess, the Queen is with the Second Prince. – Ah Jiang informed her.

-Okay, I know. Get in with me! – She said.

-My Queen! – She walked in and greeted the Queen. – Oh, Second Brother, you’re also here.

-Well, Hou Lei, sit here. – The Queen pointed to a chair. – Tian Liang is telling me many interesting things he met on the journey to the other countries.

-Sister-in-law, you look emotional! – Tian Liang said.

-Oh, nothing, I just met Tian Liam right before getting here.

-And you two talked the sweet things to each other? – He laughed. – Those things made you too emotional, even get here, that feeling is still with you.

-Tian Liang, don’t talk like that with your sister-in-law. – The Queen reminded him.

-Well, just kidding, never mind that, sister-in-law. – He smiled.

-Return to your story, Tian Liang, what’s next? – The Queen asked with excitement.

-I planned to go to the forest in the West to find out something about the Hou Ma tribe. But the tribe was destroyed before I got there. I heard that the Princess of Hou Ma tribe was very beautiful. I just wanted to see her beauty, however, I never had that chance. People also said that Hou Ma tribe was very mysterious, they knew magic and I also wanted to witness how they carried out a ritual or made something magical. Unfortunately for me! I wished I could get there earlier, maybe I can prevent the battle between Main Land soldier and the tribe. What a pity! The one who gave the idea of Hou Ma tribe wanted to conquer the other country still live peacefully.

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C11 - PART 80 – THE CROWN PRINCE’S OBSESSION

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PART 80 – THE CROWN PRINCE’S OBSESSION

A day later, Liu Han got into a horse wagon with the maps from Xiao Ming. She came to the store of Er Wang. The Minister wanted to check the maps to have a protection plan for the bureaucrats in the in-coming party of the royal family. He looked for the maps in the reading room, but he could not find them. He called all the maids and the soldiers to his room and asked them if they saw anyone had taken the maps from his reading room. No one dared to say that Xiao Ming and Liu Han. The Minister was very angry.

-I will punish very heavily the one who took the maps from my reading room!

Xiao Ming listened to the sentence with a scare, but he knew that now Liu Han had brought the maps to the place she wanted and no one would know about that.

-Oh, my Lady, you’re back earlier than I think. – Er Wang greeted Liu Han.

-I must take action as fast as I can. – Liu Han replied. – You know, I can’t stand that to see Hou Lei and Tian Liam are together every days.

-I know that feeling, me the same. But we need time, and the one we want will be ours.

-I hope that your plan will go well! My father must be very angry now, I stole the maps from him for you. So, you must win the game!

-Absolutely, my Lady! I won’t make you disappointed.

-I need to go back to my home, or my father will think that I stole the maps.

-Goodbye, my Lady, I will let you know if I start my plan.

From the trip of Tian Liam and Hou Lei to the South Province to help poor people suffered the strong storm, the fame of the couple was known by almost the people in Main Land. That made the Emperor and the Queen satisfied with what Hou Lei was showing. They even praised Hou Lei much in the meetings with the bureaucrats. And the Queen seemed to be very happy with the choice to let Hou Lei get married to Tian Liam, instead of the Crown Prince, Tian Leong. Day by day, Tian Leong could not forget about Hou Lei, from the first time he met her or the things she did in the palace, everything about her seemed to be a star in his eyes. Although he had tried many ways to take over her from Tian Liam, he failed from this to that time. Even he had tried to kill his brother, he could not have Hou Lei. The desire of having her beside him was bigger day after day. He would give a glance at her every time he could, despite the presence of the Emperor, the Queen, Tian Liam or the bureaucrats. He just did not care about them, there was only Hou Lei in his eyes.

After many days of missing Hou Lei, Tian Leong decided to have a painter to help him draw a picture of her. The man was sent to meet Hou Lei as Tian Leong wanted to present her the talented painter.

-Hou Lei, I bring this painter here to introduce you to our Main Land talented people. – Tian Leong said.

-Wow, I’m very interested in the paintings. – She was very excited.

-So… do you want to have a painting by him?

-Of course, if it doesn’t bother you and him!

-No problem, I bring him here to show you his talent, what should be better than he will draw a painting of you, your beauty!

-Thank you so much, Big brother!

-Now, sit here and let the painter do his magic!

The painter took out his paper and colors. His windy brush spread on the paper making Hou Lei excited. She could not hide her excitement to see his finished work.

-Just calm down, my Princess! – The painter said. – I will finish painting soon.

-I just want to see me in your painting. – She replied.

-You will see it soon. – Tian Leong smiled and said. – You’re very beautiful today.

-What makes a crowd here? – Tian Liam came back from his work.

-Oh, Tian Liam, Big Brother brings a painter here to draw for me! – Hou Lei answered him.

-Big Brother, you didn’t attend the meeting with the bureaucrats today because of this?

-Well, I just know this painter some days ago, and you know, he is very famous, so it’s hard to invite him here to draw for us. The bureaucrats can wait, anyway, there were you and the Emperor, it was not necessary I should be there.

-But Big Brother…

-Okay, I finish! – The painter stood up from his chair.

-Let me see the painting first! – Hou Lei ran to the painter’s place.

-Wow… - Tian Leong could not hide his amaze. – The painting looks alike Hou Lei very much.

-Tian Liam, look at this, look like me much! – Hou Lei held Tian Liam’s hand.

-Okay, look like you much! – He replied with a jealous voice.

-Could I keep this painting? – She asked Tian Leong.

-Of course, it’s your painting! – Tian Leong replied.

-Tian Liam, why you don’t give a look at this beautiful art? – She shook him.

-Well, I don’t care about the painting, I only care about the real one. – He pointed at her nose and walked into her room.

-Thank you so much, Big Brother! – She said to Tian Leong and ran into her room. – Tian Liam, wait for me, you think where we should hang this on?

-Do you remember her face well? – Tian Leong asked the painter.

-Of course, My Crown Prince, that’s my job! – The man replied.

-So come back to my place and draw art for me!

Before they left, Tian Leong looked into the opening door of Hou Lei’s room, she was dancing around Tian Liam with the paintings on her hands. He shook his head and walked following the painter. When they came back to his room, the painter drew a painting similar to the one of Hou Lei with a bit different. Tian Leong looked at the art and smiled.

He paid well for the painter and asked him to get out of his room. He sat on a chair and looked at the art hanging on the wall with desire and obsession.

-Hou Lei, at least, I can have a piece of you for myself! No one could separate you and me. Someday, I believe that, someday, you will be mine.I don’t know how, but I’ll find the way to have you by my side! No one is more important than you to me, Hou Lei, you’re the only one in my world now. – He fetched a sigh. – Tian Liam, I’m sorry, but I must fight you if I want to be with her.

-Tian Liam, you look not happy with this painting? – Hou Lei stopped dancing around Tian Liam with the art and asked him.

-Nope, but I don’t feel comfortable when Big Brother was near you! You know what he planned to do with us from the past, do you forget all of them?

-I don’t forget, Tian Liam, but I think he didn’t have bad ideas with us anymore. He seems to accept the truth that I’m your wife now.

-How about you? Do you accept that truth? – He asked and looked deeply into her eyes.

-I think you’ve already known my answer. I don’t want to repeat that sentence from day to day with you. – She replied. – Maybe someday, I will know what I should do with my situation.

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C11 - PART 79 – LIU HAN & ER WANG’S PLAN

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PART 79 – LIU HAN & ER WANG’S PLAN

-Don’t be rude like that! – The Queen shouted at the sentry. – I’m sorry, Miss, did he hurt you?

-I’m okay, sorry for recognizing you as my friend, I shouldn't do that. – Lei Hwa said and left.

After Lei Hwa left, the Queen continued her walk back to the palace. On the way, there was sadness in her eyes, they shined sparkly.

-Lei Hwa, it’s nice to see you’re still good, long time no see! – The Queen said to herself. – But I couldn’t say that we used to be friends. Haizzz…

She fetched a sigh and stopped thinking about the meeting.

Some days later, Liu Han came to Er Wang’s store to buy some new fabric for her clothes.

-My Lady, there are many new kinds of textures here! – Ziam Jun presented her with his new delivery.

-Wow, they don’t make me disappointed. – She looked at the rolls of fabric. – I’ll take this, this, and this. Oh, all of these!

She pointed at the rolls on the table with excitement.

-I can see you like them much, it’s my honor to serve you, my Lady.

-Well, just bring all of the beautiful rolls you have and I will choose as much as I can.

-They’re almost here, my newest delivery.

-That’s good! I’m very satisfied with your goods!

-Oh, excuse me, my Lady, you buy all of them for you only? Or for your beloved guy too?

-I don’t care much about him anymore, he made me disappointed many times.

-But if I say that, I have a plan to help you, do you want to give a try?

-What’s your plan? Tell me, and I may concern.

-I can’t tell you all, but you know, I like Hou Lei much, and if you can have Xiao Liam, Hou Lei will be mine. It’s a double benefit.

-Well, sound interesting. What can I help you with your plan?

-I need a map of the palace and the royal city, they will be necessary for me easier to do my plan.

-It’s simple, I will ask my father for that!

-But you shouldn’t let him know about me, your father is a careful person, he will always have doubts about everyone and he can interrupt my plan.

-Okay, I know that! Do you need any other information?

-I need some info about Xiao Liam, like his routine works, his daily activities, his behavior to other people, as much as you can tell me.

-Well,… let’s see. Tian Liam’s routine works: he needs to meet the Emperor every morning to discuss some important works in the palace and the royal city. Then he comes around the city to solve the problems and maybe he goes further a bit to capture some thieves. In the afternoon, he usually helps his father solve the documents from the bureaucrats, or spending time to reading some books. In the evening, he always has a look around the palace with the Soldier General.

-How about his activities not relating to his works?

-He comes to meet his trustworthy soldiers to have martial arts practice with them. He often goes to the kitchen to help his wife in cooking. He also checks his musical instruments daily to ensure they are okay and not broken.

-What a peaceful life! How about his behavior to people around him?

-He is such a good guy, he is very lovely. He treats everyone very well, that’s one of the reasons I love him much. He doesn’t easily get angry with people, even the maids and the sentries doing things wrong with his words. He cares much about people around him, but from the time Hou Lei was here, all of his care spends for her.

-That’s easy to understand, she is his wife anyway!

-But she stole him from my hands! – She said with anger.

-My Lady, please calm down, I believe that my plan can separate them.

-Can you tell me any details about your plan?

-You will know it when I finish separating them. I think that’s the only way to destroy the love of Tian Liam and his wife. And then, we will have the one we always want!

-Okay, I believe you, don’t make me disappointed!

-I assure no one can interrupt my plan, they have no idea until I finish it.

They both laughed. Then, Ziam Jun packed the rolls of fabric Liu Han had chosen for her. She got back to the palankeen and returned to her home.

-Call Xiao Ming to meet me! – Liu Han sat down on a chair in her room.

A moment later, Xiao Ming got into the room.

-My Lady, you want to meet me? – He greeted her.

-All the maids get out for me! – She said to the maids. – Xiao Ming, come here.

-Do you have some important works for me? – He sat down on a chair next to her.

-Of course, do you know that if my father has the maps of the palace and the royal city or not?

-The Minister surely has them, in his reading room! What do you want to do with them?

-I have a plan to get back Tian Liam, and I need those maps to carry out my plan.

-So you want me to get those maps?

-You’re very smart, that’s why you’re my favorite!

-But it will take some time to find them, you need to help me, my Lady!

-Okay, just tell me what I need to do!

That evening, Xiao Ming got into the reading room of the Minister. He found the maps in everywhere he could, in the cabinets, in the trunks, on the shelves. Suddenly, the Minister came back from his works and was going to his reading room right as Xiao Ming guessed. Liu Han was waiting for her father in the yard in front of the reading room, when she saw him, she immediately ran to his place and prevented him from opening the door.

-Father, I know that you’ll be here right after you finish your work.

-What do you want, my trouble daughter? – The Minister asked.

-I’ve bought some new rolls of fabric, I think that you will like some of them.

-Okay, I’ll go to your room later, now, I have something to do.

-Wait, father! – She held his hands, did not let him open the door. – Just come with me first, your daughter is more important than your work, right?

-Well, I don’t need new clothes, you can keep them all for yourself.

-Please, father, just a moment, come with me.

She led him to her room while Xiao Ming just found out the maps and opened the door after a while, looking around before leaving the room. Unknowing about Liu Han and Ziam Jun’s plan, Hou Lei and Tian Liam were still in their normal life without any concern.

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C11 - PART 78 – THE QUEEN MET LEI HWA

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PART 78 – THE QUEEN MET LEI HWA

-No. – Ziam Jun replied. – I’m serious. I and my guys saw that lady very clear, but we couldn’t define if she was your wife or not.

-Well, as I said, my wife is very innocent, I don’t believe that the lady was her. – Tian Liam continued.

-However, Xiao Liam, you can believe me or not, but have you ever seen some strange actions of your wife without any explanation?

-I believe my wife, she doesn’t need to do anything to prove some kinds of stupid things like that.

-Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to say bad things about your wife, just want to tell you about what I saw, and that lady looked like your wife, that’s all.

-Anyway, thank you for sharing the story! I’ll go first, I’ll be back some days when you have new rolls of fabric. Goodbye!

Tian Liam said and walked out of the store. He got onto his horse and rode to the palace. Ziam Jun still sat on the chair next to the table.

“Well, I can see you really have doubts about her now, you are trying to reject my questions, huh? Your people always say about the big love, the love bigger than the sky, but with very little difficulty, you can easily forget all the promises you make. However, I must say thank you, Tian Liam, for the farther distance you create between you and her, the smaller distance for me to separate you two.”

Tian Liam rode the horse into the palace, he got down off the horse and gave it to a soldier. He walked to Hou Lei’s room. She was watering the plants in her garden, he silently got to her place and prepared to hug her from behind.

-Tian Liam, I know you’re there, don’t need to give me a surprise! – She put the bottle of water on her hand to the ground next to the roses.

-You have no fun! – He sat down on a chair.

-So you should go to find someone who can accept your surprises all day.

-Why do you say that? Did someone make you uncomfortable?

-No, I’m normal, you can see that. – She poured some tea from the teapot for him.

-Hou Lei, I have something to ask, but please don’t be angry with me!

-If you know that will make me angry, why you still want to ask?

-I only want to make sure that you’re still the one I know.

-Come on, Tian Liam, the one who is strange now is you, not me.

-Whatever, I think I should ask you this… In the night you make me drunk, what did you do in the period near midnight?

-Well, let me have some time to remember. – She touched her forehead. – I helped you got onto the bed and then I had a basin of water to clean your hand and your face. After that I couldn’t stand with the wine smell, I went to the medicine room to get some herbs and got into the kitchen to make the alcohol detoxification for you.

-That’s all? – He wondered.

-So what do you want me to tell more? Your brothers are the same, like to investigate the other.

-My brother? What did he do with you? Did he make you angry?

-The one who makes me angry now is you. Okay? Your Second brother also asked me many things this morning, but I can accept his questions and forgive him because he is handsome. – She laughed. – But you, you make me so disappointed. I don’t think that you can ask me some kind of questions like you’ve just asked. They let me feel that you don’t believe in me, you always have doubts about me. As I said many times, don’t put too much belief in me, but don’t try to discover my world, it’s not good for you. We just met at the wrong time, wrong place and wrong situation.

-Why do you always praise my brother as he is the most handsome man in the world?

-It’s just my opinion. You…

-Wait, wait… - He interrupted her sentence. – You said “wrong time, wrong place and wrong situation”, so that… I’m your “right person”?

-You can think whatever you want. I don’t want to talk to you more.

She stood up and walked into her room. He sat there and smiled to himself.

“So I’m her “right person”, can’t believe that someday she will tell me something like this. Don’t worry, Hou Lei, if we are in “wrong time, wrong place and wrong situation”, we just need to fix them from wrong to right. As long as you are with me, I’ll do my best to fix all the wrong things.”

-Hey! – She called him from the window. – Do you want to go to the kitchen for helping me cook our dinner or you only want to sit there and smile?

-Okay, I’ll be right there! – He yelled with happiness.

Two days later, as the instruction of Tian Liam, the Queen went to the store of Ziam Jun. She wanted to have some roll of fabrics, with the kind of strange textures as Tian Liam and Hou Lei had.

-Mrs. Wang, nice to meet you! – Ziam Jun said to the Queen as his workers packed the rolls of fabrics for her. – It’s my honor to serve you!

-Well, I can see that your store has many kinds of strange but beautiful fabrics, Xiao Liam was right to introduce you to me! – The Queen smiled.

-Thank you! Your fabrics are all here. – He gave her maid the pack.

-Next time, if you have new fabrics, just inform Tian Liam and me, I want to have some more.

-I must do that, my Ma’am, you have the fashionable eyes, your choices are the most gorgeous we have here, I will ask the maker to produce more, and I believe that they will be sold out very soon.

-Okay, pay for him. – The Queen said to her maid. – I’ll go first, Mr. Ziam.

-Goodbye, Ma’am, see you again!

-My Ma’am, do you want to use the palankeen? – The maid asked the Queen as they left the store.

-No, I want to walk some more, it has been a long time I’ve not to visit the market in this royal city. I want to see if there are many differences…

They walked for a while, the maids and sentries brought the palankeen following the Queen’s footsteps. The Queen stopped in front of a decoration store. She wanted to walk into the store but ran into another lady. That was Lei Hwa.

-Oh, sorry! – Lei Hwa said to the Queen.

-I’m sorry, too! – The Queen said and looked at her.

-You’re Mei Ting Lan, right? Long time no see!

-Sorry, Ma’am, you get the wrong one, that’s not my name!

-You look alike her much. I haven’t met her for almost 25 years, but we had been friends from childhood, I can’t ever forget her image!

-What a nice friendship! But I’m not your friend!

-Your eyes, your cheeks are very like her! – Lei Hwa touched the Queen’s face.

-How dare you touch her like that? – A sentry pushed her hands out of the Queen.

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C11 - PART 77 – THE WORRIES OF TIAN LIAM AND HOU LEI

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PART 77 – THE WORRIES OF TIAN LIAM AND HOU LEI

-Well, you were an exchange of the peace for West Land? – Tian Liang continued.

-You can say that, but I’m feeling happy here. The Emperor, the Queen, and the people here all treat me very well and make me feel this is my second home. – Hou Lei replied.

-All the people? – He wondered. – Including Liu Han?

-Of course not, as you know, she never accepts that I’m Tian Liam’s wife, I think you must know that well. And some other people, urh…, who don’t like Tian Liam.

-I see. However, you can win over Liu Han, you must not be a simple Princess. – He laughed. – From our childhood, she thought many plans to separate Tian Liam with me and the Crown Prince, then, she would have private time with him. You know, both of us liked her, but she only had her eyes on him. Oh, sorry, I don’t know why I’m telling you this.

-No problem, I’m familiar with these kinds of stories.

-I can see in my brother’s eyes that he loves you so much, there must be some significant differences between you from the other Princesses and Ladies.

-I’m just a normal girl, don’t think too big about me like that.

-Anyway, hope that you love her as much as he does.

-Sorry, brother-in-law, but it’s the problem between me and Tian Liam, I think you shouldn’t discuss it with me or him. – Hou Lei started to feel uncomfortable with him.

-Just express my thoughts, I don’t have any bad meanings.

-Excuse me, I need to go to meet the Queen, I’ll go first!

-Goodbye, hoping to have some time to drink a cup of tea with you!

Hou Lei left, Tian Liang still stood there and looked at her footsteps until she disappeared behind an entrance. He shook his head and said to himself.

“I don’t think that you forgot everything. Hou Lei, I know both you and Bei Yiu, and of course, knowing that you’re not Bei Yiu, the Princess of West Land. I don’t know why you’re here with the title of Bei Yiu, I think I will find out what you’re hiding. Better that you don’t have any bad plans for Tian Liam or my family, if you have, I can’t forgive you even we knew each other.”

On the way to the Queen’s room, Hou Lei also thought about Tian Liang’s words.

“He said to me as he knows I’m the Princess of Hou Ma tribe, he seems to know many things. I should be careful with him, can’t let him find out anything about my plan, he will destroy it and I will lose everything I have now. He knows my father’s name, the Hou Ma tribe hadn’t contact to Main Land for more than 200 years, it must be somehow… somehow he knows my father. Anyway, I should ask Tian Liam some information about this interesting brother.”

-Did you meet Tian Liang on the way? – The Queen asked Hou Lei.

-Yup, he gave me a belated congratulation for me and Tian Liam’s wedding. – She replied.

-Tian Liang is also a good guy, you will like him, but don’t love him.

-I know that mother, although I don’t know much about Main Land’s tradition, how to keep the happiness in the family is the basic thing everyone should know. Despite the acceptance of having many wives by a man, I think that it is a should-not-do thing. One wife and one husband will keep us far away from jealousness between the wives if they don’t have the same consideration from their husband, and from the fights between the wives for the love of their man.

-What a kind of thought! But you know, I like your opinion.

-Thank you, mother, it’s not I want to fight with the tradition, it’s just my opinion.

-You can see that, I have peace now, no other wives of your father is here. It’s not because I killed all of them. – The Queen laughed. – The reason is your father loves me, and he thinks that one wife is enough for him, different from the previous Emperors or the other Kings.

-My father has three wives in West Land, and their fights make him have headache every day. But who knows, someones like this and some like that.

-Anyway, I must say Thank you, for the delicious food at yesterday’s party. Your father was very satisfied with the food and the bureaucrats praised you much. That proves you are the best choice for Tian Liam, you didn’t make me disappointed.

-Thank you, mother, that’s what I should do.

At that time, Tian Liam finished his works in the royal city, on the way back to the palace, he rode the horse passing the store of Er Wang. He stopped in front of the store, got down off the horse and walked into the store.

-Good morning, Xiao Liam! – Er Wang greeted him.

-Hi, Ziam Jun, do you have some new rolls of fabric?

-Well, not much, all of them are here, my next delivery will be here for the next three days.

-These are also good. – He looked at the rolls.

-You can choose as much as you can, or wait some days for the new ones. I’ll get you some tea.

-Uhr… I think Hou Lei won’t like these rolls of fabric, they are too colorful.

-Come here and get some tea. – Ziam Jun led him to a table. – You look a little bit tired.

-Thank you. – He took the tea. – So good, this tea tastes well!

-It is made by the South Province people, you know made from the pure rain, the bright sunlight, the carefulness of the farmer… to become a good taste.

-You’re right, I can feel all of those things in the tea.

-Xiao Liam, I heard that your wife came from West Land?

-Yup, she is… - He stopped before saying that she was the Princess of West Land. – She comes from a wealthy family and she is good at many things.

-What a good wife! She must be a good cook, I can see that you’ve gained some weights from the last time we met. – Ziam Jun laughed.

-Well, her food … I can’t use any words to describe them, very delicious, very nice, very well-decorated, very tasty… oh, you make me miss them, although I eat them many times.

-Do you ever think how a wealthy lady can cook well like that?

-She learned to cook when she was ten, and she also knows how to paint, how to do the sewing. She even has knowledge about herbs and medicines.

-Wow, impressive! You’re too lucky to have a wife like that! Does she know anything more interesting? Like magic, spells, drugs, poisons?

-Of course not. She is very innocent, she can’t know anything like those. – He laughed.

-Just asking, I think you know your wife well. So that the person I met some days ago wasn’t her!

-Who is the person you’re mentioning about? – He stopped laughing and wondered.

-Well, I don’t know exactly who she was, she looked like your wife. I met her at the near midnight when I turned back from my delivery of fabric rolls to my customer in the Northern Province. I saw that lady flew from the top of this tree to that tree. I and my guys followed the lady to a large field and she chanted a spell in the middle of the field, a wave of light appeared and she faded into the air.

-You’re telling me some kinds of fairy tales, Ziam Jun?

To be continued...