LEGEND OF THE CROWN PRINCESS

Episode 3 - Your future wife

As far as the eye can see, the tavern bearing the Japanese script is still quiet. The morning sun that began to shine some of Asahi's grandfather's shop increasingly made the place highlighted by men passing by in the region.

As usual, Akira was helping his grandfather clean the tables and chairs in the shop. While Ryu, still in his room staring at the window while holding a clasp of pheonix hair of Wen royal emblem. He let out a long sigh, asking himself will he be able to avenge that? Destroying her stepmother and sister. Not long after the sound of knocking on the door, Ryu turned towards the source of the sound.

Akira's head poked slightly from the outside. "Sister, hurry and help me! I'm having trouble sliding the tables. Moreover, outside there was already Huo Sijue!" Akira lowered his voice in the last sentence.

Ryu's eyes are round, Huo Sijue was his best friend during his stay with Asahi's grandfather. The man was always beside him and most often brought the hands of his family who were merchants in the Middle East. The last memory Ryu remembers is that Sijue gave up his life to save him. Ryu could not remember the bitter incident, he shook his head trying not to meet a man so good to him.

"Let's just say I'm not feeling well!" close the woman.

"Sister! Get out!" Re-speak Akira, then the door of his room opens suddenly. It turned out that it was Huo Sijue who pushed the door of Ryu's room. The man shook his head slowly looking at Ryu who was sitting beside the window. Ryu could only faintly grin.

"You avoided me because of what happened two days ago?" Sijue scrunched his forehead.

"What events? Nah! It's me getting ready to go out." Ryu put his banana flops back under the pillow.

"Grandfather Asahi said you failed to tell people again right?" the corner of Sijue's lips shot up mocking Ryu.

"Hey Huo Sijue! I never failed in predicting anyone! So don't talk too much!" Ryu stood up while pointing at Huo Sijue.

"Then predict me, I'm having a restless feeling. There's something I have to ask this great psychic Grandpa Asahi's favorite granddaughter."

"Curtain! You praised me for just wanting to get a free prophecy right? You are shameless!" Ryu walks past Sijue and also Akari. He immediately took a lap and cleaned the rest of the table that had not been on Akari's lap.

Sijue immediately sat down where Ryu was cleaning up. "You have free time ’ right? Please ramal me!"

"I'm nervous." Sijue pursed his lips, Ryu who saw the man snorted softly while placing the lap roughly.

"What's wrong?" Ryu raised his eyebrows.

"I like someone, I'd love to express this feeling to him. If I express my feelings.. Does he want to accept?"

"Here let me see your hand line!" Ryu pulled out Sijue's hand then checked the man's hand line.

"This line of hands blocks one way and the other. So most likely it is impossible, it seems like it will fail. All I see is, she must have had another idol in her heart." Ryu stood up and ignored Sijue's response to his prediction.

"Hey Ryu! You are so cruel! Why do I believe in the prophecy of a con man like you, ah just wasting my time!"

"Huo Sijue is a jerk!" Ryu's eyes were round, he growled and clenched his hands. Sijue who saw it immediately ran away to avoid his best friend, but Ryu was more alert than the man, they ended up circling the Asahi tavern.

The grandfather and Akari only looked at the two flatly, "why are they always fussing like cats and dogs?"

"Either kek, Akari doesn't understand."

Not for not tuk

The sound of horses coming towards the tavern made Ryu and Sijue stop playing. They were now standing staring at the men who had just come to the tavern, that man was Hu Yazhu the warlord of the Wen kingdom. Ryu instantly turned his face away from Yazhu who was staring at him, while Huo Sijue looked at the man flatly.

"Welcome to the commander!" grandpa Asahi seemed to welcome Hu Yazhu warmly.

He let Hu Yazhu in. After a while chatting inside with Asahi's grandfather, Ryu was asked to enter and join the chat. The woman stepped her feet in doubt, she greeted the burly and sturdy Hu Yazhu with a cloth wrap on her forehead. He is like a true warrior.

"Ryu, tell yourself your terms!" said Grandpa Asahi.

"Um, I want to come to the Palace not as an ordinary lady. I want to come there and be introduced as your future wife!"

Hearing Ryu's crazy terms, Hu Yazhu immediately stood up by grasping the sword he had placed on the table.

"I'm not going to kill you! But your requirements are pretty crazy!"

"You know the outside term, win-win? Which is often used in gambling? Think of it like that, I will come to the Palace to help you and take care of King Wen, you facilitated my life in there. I don't want to be looked down upon, at least I should be honored in the Palace." Ryu smirked with confidence.

"I will say that you are my cousin," said Hu Yazhu who had other solutions.

"No! We are not alike, it is very difficult for people to believe. That's enough, introduce me as your wife-to-be!"

"No, what if it's my personal servant? I'll guarantee you a happy life there!" hu Yazhu said giving it another option.

Ryu shakes. "Just be your wife!"

"I.. I have a wife!"

Instantly the atmosphere became silent, Ryu was stunned and looked directly into Hu Yazhu's eyes. He was curious about the future wife the man was referring to. "Who?"

"You don't need to know! He's not in this area!"

"Is she officially your future wife? If not I can still be your future wife!" Ryu glared towards the warlord.

"Ryu, stop! You can't force a royal warlord to lie like that. Even if you're a great psychic, you can't do it!"

Hu Yazhu looked at Asahi's grandfather who was advising Ryu. The man thought for a moment, there was no harm in taking Ryu and introducing him as his future wife. After all, the prospective wife he was referring to did not really exist. "Grandfather, I'll accept Ryu's terms."

Ryu and Asahi's grandfather widened, they threw each other a look of disbelief. "You're serious Commander?"

"Isn't it like you said it's a win-win. We are mutually beneficial, I want you to take care of the king until he recovers. But I also cannot introduce you as a lady-in-waiting or a psychic, because it is forbidden in the Palace. If I introduce you as my future wife, you will be very warmly welcomed at the Palace. One thing you must take care of, you must not be discovered, no one should know that you are a shaman!"

"Of course I'm ready, but I don't want to live there. I mean, I still want to go home to Grandpa." Ryu looked at Asahi's grandfather.

"Ryu, why so many conditions? You're troubling the commander son!" sahut Asahi's grandfather.

"Again, I'll take you home once a week to Asahi's grandfather's house. Besides, you will stay in the palace with me."

Deg

Hu Yazhu's manly demeanor in Ryu's eyes was so impressive, the man was completely charismatic and shone in Ryu's eyes. After the deal ended, Hu Yazhu went home with his men. Tomorrow, he will come back and pick up Ryu to go to the Palace. Then Huo Sijue who was still there immediately approached Ryu who was staring at Hu Yazhu's departure.

"Who is that guy?"

"Hu Yazhu, the warlord of the Wen kingdom" Ryu replied.

"Huo Sijue, you better go home. Take good care of yourself, if one day I am in danger, do not think to save me. I don't want you to get hurt." Ryu continued.

"Hey the bodong fortune teller! Are you possessed? Why are you suddenly acting like this?"

"Aish, you really want me to hit ya?"

Huo Sijue immediately ran away and waved his hand at Ryu. "Well, I came home a con man!" he laughed out loud seeing Ryu annoyed. Ryu snorted softly then entered back into the shop, he looked at Asahi's grandfather who was now grinning.

"One message, be careful! If you were from there, you would gradually recall your memories again."

Ryu nodded, honestly he already remembered everything. Even all these repeated occurrences he remembered vividly. It was just that this time everything was according to Ryu's plan. By becoming Hu Yazhu's future wife, it meant that the man was not married to his half-sister, Wen Jia. With that, one of his stepmother's plans had failed him. Ryu smirked thinly.