LEGEND OF THE CROWN PRINCESS

Episode 19 - Acupuncture special

The day has passed and the sun will soon be drowned, changing with the darkness of the night. The deciding round will be announced soon, all the participants from the Wen Kingdom have already gradually returned from the forest. It was seen that Ryu Ito was also Princess Long entering the announcement area first then continued Wen Jia and her other older cousins, the last of the royal Princesses who had joined the practice.

"Daughter, what's wrong with your clothes?"

"Shut up!" wen Jia snapped at one of his servants. "Rapidly replace me with the best clothes! All of you don't dare start the announcement before I return!"

"Well Princess," everyone had no other choice but to follow Wen Jia's wishes. No one dared to fight him with such a temperament, there were almost twenty-five people who had lost their lives just because of trivial matters. He and his mother were as cunning and cruel as snakes.

Ryu laughed a little. "Princess Hong must have been surprised to see the nature of this Royal Princess."

"Miss Ryu was right, I barely knew that she was a future Crown Princess."

"When we wait for Princess Jia to change clothes, how about we eat a dish that has been provided by the Kingdom?"

"That's a very good idea, let's fill the stomach first after getting tired of practicing."

The two then walked to the royal dish area that was deliberately provided to entertain the participants who had been practicing all day. Ryu's gaze focused on the man who was now approaching him, the suit made her good looks double than usual and her black hair tied neatly with a few strands left hanging forward made a plus on Hu Yazhu's appearance today.

"I took this for you, this plant is very rare." Hu Yazhu handed over the red root that was usually used as medicine to complement the healing of one's spiritual realm, the man specifically looked for it within the forest.

"Instead of giving me flowers, you gave me tree roots instead? Ck!" Ryu shook his head slowly, but when seen now Hu Yazhu's cheeks were so flushed as if he was holding back embarrassment.

"I'm sorry, next time I'll drop the flowers too."

"Not necessarily, you should learn that 'other times' are uncertain. Here I picked a beautiful peach flower just for you!" Prince Long handed over a few peach blossom stalks to Ryu, Hu Yazhu's attention then directed towards Crown Prince Long he thought, not just because the man is a Prince then he would feel defeated. It won't!

"Is this what the Long Royal Family taught his Crown Son? Giving flowers to other people's future wives in front of their future husbands?"

"Only candidates, I will not be afraid. How about we fight for Miss Ryu's heart?" Hu Yazhu was still inexhaustible, why did Prince Long like Ryu so much he was so unhappy considering the man before him should be Princess Yijin's future husband.

"Please take care of Prince Long's attitude! Miss Ryu is my future wife!" Hu Yazhu emphasized the fact that Ryu has now been known as his future wife, even though it is just a lie but why did he feel so unwilling that his woman was seduced by another man?

"I'm sorry without compromising my respect, can you please shut up?" Ryu glared an annoyed look at the two, he chose to return to the announcement area with Princess Long who was sculpting due to seeing the quarrel of his brother and Royal Commander Wen. "We have to go back, stop arguing about the pointless."

Ryu understood, since childhood they always fought endless arguments as if in their previous lives they were mortal enemies. Between Hu Yazhu and Long Chen always had one thing that made the two of them attack each other. At that time, only Wen Yijin was able to mediate the two of them making them both friends when together with him even though Yijin knew behind him they would be like that again.

Ryu let out a long sigh, he could not shout at the two of them like he used to. Because of his current status that only an ordinary citizen would not be able to do that much less towards the Warlord and the Crown Prince of Long Kingdom.

"The announcement of the participants who will represent the Wen Kingdom is Princess Wen Jia and also Miss Ryu Ito. Since the results of the two were the same, so the King decided to send the two to the Continent's annual archery competition."

Cheers of applause and congratulations were given to Ryu and Wen Jia. The two exchanged glances, Ryu also did not forget to pay his respects even though he felt he was fed up and wanted to immediately eject the woman but, instead, a rash action would only worsen the position of her who was now a nobody.

Ryu's feet stepped cheerfully in rhythm as he walked back to the Pavilion. On the way, Warlord Hu Yazhu deliberately waits for him to greet and congratulate Ryu. Ryu's eyes narrowed as he watched the man before him as if there was something strange about him. Hu Yazhu who became misbehaved then retreated and smiled subtly towards Ryu Ito.

"I'm here to congratulate Miss Ryu on her election to the Kingdom."

"Did you say the same thing to Princess Jia?" Ryu deliberately teased Hu Yazhu to see the man's reaction.

The faint red hue on Hu Yahzu's cheeks began to appear. "Um, not yet."

Ryu nodded slowly then smiled faintly towards Hu Yazhu. "You are the best, thank you. I have to go back to the room to freshen up."

Ryu came to a halt upon hearing Hu Yazhu's words. "Regarding your meridian points, if I may wish to perform acupuncture to unleash the Qi energy within your body."

"Commander, I've said that you don't have to. I'm fine" Ryu said cut off.

"Is there anything you don't want me to know? I was just wondering why you could get so badly hurt and almost ruin all your energy points?" Hu Yazhu paused for a bit, then continued his words again while focusing on Ryu Ito's eyes. "And about your hairpin, I caught a glimpse of it."

Ryu's eyes are round, lest his best friend begin to realize that he is Wen Yijin, however no one should know that she is the Crown Princess who has been rumored to die. Recalling how terrible her previous life was when she came as Crown Princess as if all the tips of the sword were pointing at her and at that moment not only herself was the victim but all her loved ones were affected. Ryu would never let that happen, again.

"Commander, I think you've been too involved. You even attacked my family to hide my identity as a psychic, and now you are exaggerating by asking about the accident that happened to me.

I don't know why you're so interested in a psychic you say is this lowly. Or are you in love with me?"

Hu Yazhu was speechless, she was seen sighing deeply. "I just want to help you recover so that you don't disappoint the Kingdom when the archery competition takes place. Your opponent is not an arbitrary person, as a woman known as my future wife you must not humiliate me.

I'm known as the greatest Commander in Chief of all the kingdoms that follow this event. So if you lose and are not maximal because of your unstable energy then it will tarnish the name of our Kingdom as Host."

Ryu felt uneasy because he had misinterpreted Hu Yazhu's concern for him, he was too worried that Hu Yazhu would know his big secret but it all made him look ridiculous in front of Hu Yahzu.

"But if you don't want to, I won't force you anymore."

"Commander Hu Yazhu wait!" Ryu Ito held Hu Yazhu in his arms. "I don't want to disappoint the Kingdom and don't want to embarrass you, so please help me heal my unstable meridian points."

Hu Yazhu stared at Ryu's hand for a while, Wen Jia was so upset from a distance after noticing the two lovebirds were like they were drunk in love. He would not stay silent, he planned to immediately ruin the relationship of the two.

Hu Yazhu nodded the moment he heard Ryu ask for his help, he would be happy to help recover Ryu meridians. The two of them entered the Pavilion, where three of Ryu's servants immediately helped him change clothes and left only a soft twisting cloth on Ryu's body. Slowly, when he was ready to do acupuncture therapy Ryu immediately lay on his stomach.

Hu Yazhu applied the medicinal oil from the sunflower seeds to Ryu ito's back thoroughly. He began to puncture the needles into the points that were the source of the problem. This time, however, he had just clearly seen the birthmark that was on the back of Ryu's ear, it reminded her of Crown Princess Wen Yijin who had the same birthmark on the back of her ear.

"Miss Ryu, are you Grandpa Asahi's granddaughter?"