True Empire'S (True Empire)

True Empire's 06th Anniversary of the Meeting of Kings and Princes

The King's pavilion

King Quan Zee Lan and all his sons except JinHu. They were discussing, at first they were just reporting their duties because there was someone eavesdropping. After a few hours, the person who dared to eavesdrop finally left because there was no sound inside. The four men stayed for a while for the eavesdropper to leave because what they discussed was useless to him.

"I think he's gone" muttered ZaYun who was possessed by the others.

"Since these two weeks Ze'er has banned everyone from visiting her. What the hell is it? Do you know the real reason?" Asked King Quan to start an actual conversation with the Crown Prince.

"Tell me what really happened? Are you keeping something from the three of us?" The jolt of King Quan when he saw his first son was quietly enjoying his tea.

ZaYun flinched but he quickly controlled his emotions back. He put his tea back down gracefully then looked at his father.

"Well... If I say that, ZaYun hope father and sister are not surprised what else screams" he asked.

"What's really going on? So is it true that first brother is hiding something from us?!" Sahut YangXun looked at her probing brother.

"All this at Ze'er's personal request. Zezee made me promise her to keep it a secret about her condition"

"Is Ze'er okay, brother?" Ask YangXin worried.

"He's fine. Even his condition was much more than good" ZaYun replied.

"What?!" The three of them were shocked to hear ZaYun's words.

"Dad doesn't have to worry about Ze'er anymore.-"

"What do you mean Zay'er?! Ze'er daddy's daughter! How could a father not worry about his daughter!" The Furious King Quan.

ZaYun looked sadly at his father. "Ze'er isn't the Ze'er you used to be" he said as he shook his head.

The three of them did not understand. "What do you mean?!" Ask King Quan.

ZaYun wasn't sure to say this. But, he had to say what happened.

"Ze'er has been mumbling for a few months. Exactly eight months ago"

the three of them were shocked because this sort of thing was kept secret by ZaYun. "Why don't you say it Zay'er! Why are you just quiet!" King Quan was angry.

"He asked Zay'er himself to promise not to tell anyone this".

King Quan Xing Yu closed his eyes tired. He had no idea what his daughter was really doing.

"When he regained consciousness, his body was very weak and very difficult to move. So he decided to hide his condition and keep his secret. He thinks like that so that people who don't like him will think that he will never wake up again and he has time to recover" ZaYun explained.

'I can't say this to them if our Zee Lin is gone and now the one occupying that body is the other Zee Lin. But at least I've told them that the current Zee Lin is different from the previous Zee Lin and I also have to hide ZeZee's incredible abilities. Otherwise, ZeZee will be in big trouble.' murmured ZaYun inwardly.

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The Orchid pavilion

A soldier on guard inside the gate ran over to Fu Len who was currently standing outside the Zee Lin residence. "What's wrong?" Fu Len asked in astonishment as the soldier arrived in front of him.

The soldier caught his breath before speaking. "Prince Jin Hu forced her to enter Miss Fu Len"

The girl thought hard so that her brother JinHu would not enter her pavilion or she would know and would make her brother wretched if he accidentally hit the trap. "Tell him to meet me at the lake usually" Zee Lin broke up.

Fu Len nodded then came out to tell the loyal soldier who was still standing outside.

Zee Lin decided to change his clothes like a man's clothes so that when there are others who see him will not realize if he is a princess and the clothes he had prepared long ago.

As Zee Lin walked out from inside his residence, Fu Len stared dumbly at Zee Lin not knowing what his master was thinking.

"Princess why are you wearing these clothes?" He was confused and shocked to see his lord look very handsome like a prince.

"I can't go out in the clothes I normally wear. If I wear clothes like this, outsiders won't notice me" she said.

"But..-"

"You want to argue with me Fu Len?!" Cut off Zee Lin with the gaze he used to give first to the warrior who dared to defy him.

"Ti-no princess" Fu Len fluttered as his lord gave such a look.

"good. You stay here to keep watch. I'll go alone. No objection Fu Len!" Zee Lin exclaimed then out through the secret passageway that he ended up directly coinciding with the forest. And that path was known only to him and his personal servant.

Zee Lin walked quietly despite wearing only the illumination of a torch. At the end of the tunnel there is a large stone that becomes the entrance.

Zee Lin pressed one of the stones so that the boulder blocking the exit shifted itself opening a path in front of which there was a dense forest.

When he was outside, the stone shifted back to seal the secret passage. No one would be aware, if the stone was the entrance to the palace. Because the stone is made like an ordinary stone overgrown with moss and also vines.

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The forest is very dense and there are also wild animals that inhabit the forest behind the palace. So, no one would dare to enter the forest if that person was indeed looking to die or had a thousand lives.

In front there, precisely in the depth of the forest there is a lake that is very beautiful and certainly very dangerous if not careful. Zee Lin saw a man standing quietly looking at the extremely calm lake water. It was as if the lake was safe to dive.

Feeling that there was an approaching movement, JinHu started to be alert by grasping the handle of his sword just in case.

The closer it got until finally the prince of JinHu drew his sword and pointed his sword at something approaching it.

'Sringgg' his sword made a sound as it rubbed against his sword sheath.

Prince JinHu was startled when he saw who was approaching him. "Who are you?!" shouts alert with the figure of a handsome or beautiful man?.

"Who are you?!" exclaimed Prince JinHu who was still loyal to brandish his sword

While the interlocutor just stared flat at the tip of the sword that was very sharp towards his neck.

Unexpectedly the man actually pulled out his sword without the slightest sound and then fended off the sword of prince JinHu.

That sword swing looks like a life-revoking angel. Prince JinHu was made a mistake to dodge, fend off and counterattack. Until finally the sword of the prince JinHu detached from his grasp.

"I don't think the prince of JinHu who is famous for his medicinal talent is great at playing the sword" the man exclaimed. 

Prince JinHu calmly looked at the man "Who are you really?!" tanyanya alert.