CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

Very calm atmosphere in the Plum pavilion which Lan’er now occupied, at BaiYing’s request she stayed there to be closer to the West Dragon pavilion where he was living now.

The sound of the wind blowing slowly, the sky was not so bright even though it was just past noon, the air was still warm even though the wind was blowing quite cold.

Lan’er brushed BaiYing’s long hair who was sitting in front of her, the two of them sat on the wooden deck in the backyard of the pavilion overlooking the fish pond, BaiYing’s favorite place from all the place there.

Lan’er smiled as she held a wooden comb combing through BaiYing’s fine and long hair, his long and shiny hair, which was blown by the wind, gently brushed down to his cheeks.

“Your hair is so pretty and soft, big sister is worried, living in the medicine valley will make your hair unkempt.”

BaiYing smiled.

“Hehe won’t Sis, I have sister Yan and Bi accompanying me, Ying’er will be very well taken care of there”

Lan’er stopped her hand movement, BaiYing didn’t know that, she who was sitting combing his hair behind him tried hard to keep herself from smiling, although actually, her heart ached a lot, what ShinYa and ChenMing said earlier this morning, she could hear it very clearly.

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In the courtyard of the Eagle pavilion where Lan’er had just finished attending her class, of course without BaiYing who recently wasn’t doing well enough.

“Your Majesty, have to go there, or else....” ShinYa stopped his speech, ChenMing held his shoulder.

“XiaoYing will be fine, why do you always say bad things? Look what you saw yesterday, you said his aura disappeared but he is still alive until now”

MasterShinYa raised his head, looked at ChenMing for a moment.

“Prince, His Majesty the King’s aura is indeed gone, and I’m not lying when I say that his aura did disappear, and even now, it’s not as bright as before, it’s fading ”

Lan’er covered her mouth, her body almost falling were it not for her two maids holding her back.

“Your Highness”

Lan’er who was now sitting behind BaiYing couldn’t help but cry in front of the child, everyone said that right now what BaiYing needed was support from everyone, and he would not be happy if he saw others sad because of him.

“Em, brother, sister, come along, okay? Even though Sis Lan’er can’t do martial arts, but I can cook a little, um, I’ll cook your favorite radish, lotus root bone soup, or make candied fruit, Sister is quite painstaking now”

BaiYing smiling, he was about to turn towards Lan’er but the girl held his shoulders.

“Face on the front Big Sister hasn’t done yet.”

“Em, Ying’er doesn’t want to go, but, according to the Crown Prince, this might be Ying’er’s chance to learn how to control my inner strength, so that Ying’er can become strong and can help others later, the citizens of WahYe, and perhaps YueYang as well, along with Crown Prince Ying’er will protect this country together.”

Lan’er restrained herself, but she couldn’t help but sob, her hands trembled, she finally burst into tears.

BaiYing turned his body, held Lan’er’s two trembling hands, and saw the girl crying.

“Sister, why are you crying?”

“Ems, you still asked why? Why you’re so silly always thinking about others, what about yourself, look at you now? Huks, your body is getting thinner, your face is getting paler, how can you protect others if you can’t protect yourself? This stupid kid.”

Lan’er’s chest hurt, imagining how much that kid had done, even nearly died while helping her, how many times had he done it.

She remembers what happened last time at the Dragon field’s battle.

“Sister, please don’t leave Ying’er behind.”

Lan’er almost closed her eyes tightly when she felt the warm energy in her wound, it felt warm and very comfortable, all the pain was gone, she saw BaiYing’s worried face supporting her head.

“Brother”

BaiYing calmly opened his palm over Lan’er’s wound exerting a healing aura against her wound, Lan’er’s hand tried to hold hers.

“Brother, what are you doing?”

“Don’t move Sis, Ying’er will never let anything bad happen to Sister”

Back to the Plum’s pavilion.

BaiYing tried not to cry, looking at Lan’er who was crying as if he was going to die.

“Sis, stay calm, don’t cry”

“Huks huhuhu stupid boy, why are you so stupid, how long will all bad things stay away from you, why do all misfortunes always happen to very good people, why not just me?”

BaiYing chuckled, wiping away tears welling up in the corners of his eyes.

“Hehehe this big sister, it’s nothing, Ying’er will live Sis, Ying’er has sworn to His Highness the Crown Prince to live with him until he is old and ugly, and become a very fussy Ying’er, how could Ying’er go and leave him? Big sister stops crying now.”

Lan’er finally opened her arms wide to hug BaiYing, still shaking from her sobs.

“Hush stupid little brother, don’t dare to leave me, Big Sister will go with you, don’t ever do anything stupid again, Huks, Brother”

In front of the entrance, the Crown Prince who was about to enter stopped his steps, the guards almost shouted his name as he entered rushed to pick up BaiYing but he raised his hand to prevent them from screaming.

BeiYau was standing not far behind him, the young guard trying to avert his eyes so as not to be carried away by the emotions of seeing Lan’er and BaiYing hugging each other while crying, and he knew how much the Crown Prince had been holding back at that time. The Crown Prince clenched his fists, his eyes filled with tears at the situation in front of him, immediately the young man turned his head and headed towards the gate, without saying a word, BeiYau immediately followed him, the two of them quietly entered and quietly left as well.

.......

Not long after crying, BaiYing finally laid his head on Lan’er’s lap, the girl didn’t stop stroking the young man’s hair.

“What are we going to take with us there, Sis? According to Grandpa Ou in Medicine valley, it is very cold, unlike in the palace which is sometimes warm, according to him there is almost no sun if we don’t go up the cliff to look for it”

Lan’er thought.

“Em, we brought a lot of coats, of course, Sister will bring all of the my coats”

BaiYing raised his head to see Lan’er’s face which is calmer now.

“Hehehe sister will complain a lot after a few days there, there is almost nothing fun, you should just stay in the palace”

“Then do you think that the palace is not boring too? It’s nice to have you and others here, but, if Ying’er leaves, things will become very boring, heh, after all, Sister really wants to go outside, to go to the place sister has never been to, the Medicine valley is located near the city border of KuiZang and LuZhou, I heard that there is a famous herbal medicine for beauty and youthfulness, Sister will learn the technique of making it too, Her Majesty the Queen will definitely like it so much”

BaiYing nodded.

“Yeah, Ying’er heard about that too.”

Lan’er nodded as BaiYing put her hand on his chest.

“Well”

“Thank you, for being Ying’er’s Big Sister, even though Ying’er gives a lot of trouble, and always troubles Sister, but, you always being there for me”

“Don’t talk about stupid things, Sister doesn’t want to hear anything” Lan’er was about to withdraw her hand but BaiYing buried his head while hugging her hand tightly, rendering Lan’er unable to move. The child’s body is shaking, is he crying? After he tried so hard to persuade her to stop crying but why was he the one crying now?

“Brother” Lan’er is really a crybaby too, she started crying again.

“Brother, don’t cry again”

“Ying’er misses them, Sister BaiYen, in the past, Ying’er also often sat on her lap, even though she often pushed me away, but she didn’t mind Ying’er lying on her lap until I fell asleep, even though Ying’er is sleeping, but Ying’er can feel Sis BaiYen’s caress, she, maybe still angry that Ying’er took her position as Crown Prince’s concubine, don’t know, will Sister Yen’er forgive Ying’er when we meet later? She will scold me so bad”

Lan’er lowered her head hugged Bai Ying.

“Stupid child, of course, she has forgiven you, Your sister is surely felt sorry for saying such a bad thing without knowing what happened, she must be regretted, Ems Ying’er, just think me as your sister, I’ll replace her to take care of you yeah?”

“Ems Sister”

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Outside the Plum pavilion.

Since a while ago before the sky darkened until the sun slowly began to set, the Crown Prince just stood in the middle of the road with his eyes far up, looking up at the sky that had been orange in color and was now starting to get dark gray.

BeiYau was standing not far behind him, the guard didn’t dare to move, or even speak a word, the Crown Prince’s feelings must now be very confused and upset, whatever it was, it had to do with concubine Hua. His mind drifted far away, his eyes filled with tears but couldn’t shed any tears, not since his mother died that year, all of LuoXiang’s tears seemed to dry up, he didn’t know what it was like to cry anymore, but, what was this like? As the thousands of hands gripping so tightly squeezed his heart making it hard for him to catch his breath, imagining, if he might lose, no matter how hard he fought, would, becoming the Crown Prince, or the Heavenly King give him no power over BaiYing’s life at all? How can such a beautiful and holy soul, could have disappeared from him, without him being able to control it.

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