CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

BeiYau nodded, he approached BaiYing and pulled the boy’s hand up, there was no more tenderness in BeiYau’s hand like usual, because he thought now BaiYing just an ordinary boy and moreover, a swindler, he grabbed BaiYing’s weak hand and pushed him towards the two guards who’s ready to hold him.

“Take him to jail!”

BaiYing could still see BeiYau looking at him with his hateful eyes, maybe he got everyone in big trouble including him.

“Guard Bei! What about my maids? Are they okay? Guard Bei!” screamed BaiYing before his gaze on BeiYau disappeared when two guards pulled him towards the detention house. Since the beginning he was in the warehouse near the detention house, they already knew about the fraud he’s done, then, what should he do now? What about his revenge? He could still hear Mu’er’s laughter as he entered the detention house.

“Hahahahaha”

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Dark. Stuffy and almost no air, BaiYing was only given food that it wasn’t clear what’s and the taste, a glass of water which tasted so strange too, he didn’t expect the Crown Prince’s palace prison to be this pitiful, he could only sit against the cold wall even though he was sitting on the pile of a haystack, staring deep into the holes above the prison walls where the view of the round moon that night, the round moon, if at that time the moon was that big, that means he had been there for days, did not expect, the full moon he saw with the Crown Prince at that time, was the last most beautiful moon, and a kiss under the moon, heh, who said that kissing under the moon will have long lasting eternal love? Now he was even on the verge of death, alone, with no one to accompany him, let alone hold his hand.

While BaiYing was still lost in his thoughts, a familiar voice came from the direction of the entrance.

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“Your Majesty!” Yan and Bi voices, his two maids, voices that made BaiYing instantly raise his head, although he was weak but tried to pull his body up to welcome the two girls who were now running towards him.

“Your Majesty! Huks” his two loyal maids, even though he’s now as suspect both of them still came to visit him, BaiYing was so worried about their condition and couldn’t hold back his tears when he saw they were in good health, although, something was different.

“S-Sis Yan, Sister Bi?” BaiYing’s hands trembled, slowly raised to touch Yan’s face who was now squatting right outside his bars, faintly, the dim light showed their faces.

“Sister Yan, y-your eyes” one of Yan’s eyes were bandaged, her face full of scratches, her sweet smooth face, now, she has become an ugly girl who can’t stop crying with her one eye left.

“Ems, sis, what happened to you?” BaiYing asked in a shaky voice, glancing at Bi, where her hand was wrapped in a bandage around her wrist, her left face, right below her eye had a long sharp scratch mark across the cute girl’s face, her hand, what happened to them?

BaiYing couldn’t help himself, he covered his mouth and cried, it felt like the world around him was falling apart, this was the most terrifying thing he’s not wanting to happen, he didn’t care if he himself died a silly death, but why should his two servants feel the punishment that should only be given to him?

“Ems you guys, what have I done?”

Yan and Bi shook their heads at each other, both smiled even though the tears couldn’t stop flowing from their sad eyes, BaiYing’s heart was shattered, shattered into pieces, his chest constricted with constant pain seeing the suffering of his two maids, imagining what they were going through.

“Huks” Yan and Bi held BaiYing’s hand which was behind bars.

“Who did this to you guys?” asked Bai Ying.

Yan held his breath for a moment so she could answer.

“Ems Y-Your Majesty, The Crown Prince”

BaiYing’s eyes widened, that madman, he had promised not to hurt his maids, now what has he done to them?

“That evil, ems, why didn’t he keep his promise? Why did he lie? I, the one who harmed you guys to become like this, oh what have I done?”

“Your Majesty, this is not Your Majesty’s fault, we are willing to do anything for Your Majesty, ems, but, we may not be able to do it again,” Yan said in a trembling voice, Bi nodded, wiping her tears that would not subside.

“Huks Your Majesty, we are no longer palace maids, ems, His Majesty the Crown Prince, are still kind enough to let us go, so, we have no other choice if we still want to live,...”

BaiYing nodded.

“Yeah, you have to go, go far away, as far as you can, what I have done to you, I will pay for all my sins later to both of you.”

Bi shook his head.

“No Your Majesty, it’s not Your Majesty’s fault, we are willing to do it for Your Majesty’s sake.”

Shortly after, the three of them calmed down, Yan and Bi brought BaiYing dinner, one last time as both of them would be leaving the Crown Prince’s palace after this.

While holding back his tears, BaiYing enjoyed the food that Yan specially cooked for him, it was his last meal, how could BaiYing stop himself from crying?

“Originally, Her Majesty the Queen was planning to behead both of us, but, His Highness the Crown Prince said, would only cut off our limbs and let us out of the palace, since we were not directly involved, that, according to His Majesty the Crown Prince, was because of him, At least the two of us can still live,” said Yan.

BaiYing raised his hand to caress Bi’s cheek where there was a scar so deep that it almost showed her cheekbones, tears fell again, even by touching it BaiYing could tell how much pain the poor girl suffered when her cheek was slashed so deep.

“Then, who did this to your face?”

Yan and Bi looked at each other, their eyes were already swollen from crying all the time.

“This ems, Your Majesty, concubine Ye did it” Yan replied, Bi nodded.

“Yeah, she told Tu to do it or else she will get punished too, ems”

BaiYing clenched his fists in anger.

“Concubine Ye, Sis Mu’er”

Yan raised her face.

“Next week, there will be an inauguration of concubine Ye’s to become the Crown Prince Consort.”

BaiYing opened his eyes wide, that fast?

“T-the consort of the Crown Prince?”

Yan nodded.

“Yes, Your Majesty, it has said that Her Highness Concubine Ye is already two months pregnant”

“Tw-two months?” Two months, that means before the Moon festival, His Highness the Crown Prince had slept with Concubine Ye, whereas he said he had never touched them, that impudent pervert, everything he said was just a lie, he lied so sweetly to him.

The next night, BaiYing was now completely alone, there was no one else in this world for him, not his family, not the Crown Prince, not even his two maids who just had left him, then, what else was left for him? Grandpa Po, does he still want to accept him at his house? But, will he be able to escape from this place alive? He must stay alive if he wants to avenge his family, he must somehow get out.

BaiYing glanced at his surroundings, he definitely have to find a way to get out of that prison.

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Duarrr duarrr!

Lightning flashed violently as if nothing could be more dramatic than that, rain fell so hard that night followed by a hurricane that waved the big tree easily.

Exactly a week when BaiYing thought of the best time to escape, and he succeeded, during the shift changing of the guards and when no one was looking, BaiYing with the remaining strength of his thin body lifted the heavy prison door and it released it from its hinges, the weight was so unfathomable to the point that BaiYing had to rack his brains by putting a lot of stones under the door bit by bit. He had never expended that much energy before, all this time he had been living too comfortably until his energy started to fade, but, he couldn’t live like that anymore now, his sweet, and cute like a girl’s face become so shabby, covered with dirt and sweat that it is almost impossible to see the true color of his white sparkling skin. He has to survive, even if it means he will be a fugitive or whatever, at least he has to survive until he fulfills his revenge.

BaiYing who was already wearing a little guard’s outfit crept towards the exit of the palace, he had to get out as soon as possible, this heavy rain certainly wouldn’t be too many guards, he hopes.

BaiYing was almost at the exit gate when he passed the front of the Peony garden, he saw a person standing in the middle of the bridge where he and the Crown Prince kissed, it was the Crown Prince, standing still under the rain until his body was wet, only looking far away and stayed by the pool, does, he’s thinking about him?

But, is that possible? BaiYing already got hurt, that Crown Prince didn’t keep his promise, he broke their promise, he should have asked him why he did that, but no, what if he shouted at all the guards and they found him, then his plan of escape would be failed.

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