Looking out towards the members of the court, I could see disgust in their faces as they looked at me. "Liu Ju, son of Great General Liu Kang, you have been found guilty of; treason against the State of Zhao, espionage activities for State of Wu, and the attempted kidnapping of the Royal Princess Yin Lihua. Per Great General Liu Kang request and by his majesty grace you shall be strip of all your titles and statues. You are to be execution at midday tomorrow at the main outer square by boiling." Came the proclamation by Prime Minister Dong Zhuo in a booming voice.
I should be thankful that the King spared my father and his family. Treason and Espionage huh? I never committed those 2 crimes, but I did try and kidnap the princess on her orders. Thinking back there was one person that had a smile on their face once during the entire event. Wonder what is his deal, he should be the Left minister 3rd Son. Thinking about it carefully, if I was really set up by the left minister faction then the King going to walk into a trap if the state of things doesn't change, I never before care about what happened to the state but. "Having the state that my father devoted his life to being destroy would leave a bad taste, but who going to believe me if I say anything" thinking aloud since I was sure that the guards would be too far away to hear me.
"I will. I've always believed in you." Came the sound of a sweat, melodious voice. "Lili, you shouldn't be here." I shouted as I saw that Princess Yin Lihua was standing outside my jail cell, dress from head to toe in a stealth uniform and a bag with a blanket hanging out at her side. I had an idea that she was going to come but I didn't want her to come. If she was here then there was no going back for her, she had already taken that step.
"Aren't you happy that I'm here Ju Ge [1]?" She said with a low voice as if she had done something bad. "Stop being coy and; are your personal guards, and the jail guards dead?" I inquire with a curious tone in my voice. Princess Lihua public image is one of beauty and meekness but for me, who knew her best, she was always a happy trouble maker with a personality of freedom and exploration.
"No, the guards haven't done anything wrong, they're just going to be sleeping for the next 10 plus hours. The potion of night poppy and ..." I don't think I had heard anything else she said after that, because while Lili was talking, she was undoing her face mask. I was mesmerized when the moonlight from my cell window illuminated her and made it seem like an angel had just descended, her face was glowing from the moonlight, with her long black hair braded into a ponytail falling to shoulders and her bright brown eyes giving bit of extra charm to her slightly puffy cheeks.
I only snap out it when she opened the jail gate, she came in fully prepare for a picnic. Placing her picnic bag down for a moment, she took out 2 small vials out and stretched her hand out to give me one. In an anxious voice she spoked "Ju Ge, years ago you promised that you'll always protect me this life and the next. You are the only one I want by my side in this life and the next, because of me, you won't have this life for much longer. So…."
Seeing the small vial and knowing her ability as an herbalist and alchemist; I could guess that the small vail contains a slow poison. I took the vial from her and a drank it without saying anything. Lili had the brightest smile when she saw me drank the vial and quickly began to drink her vial.
"How long more do we have and what you got to eat?" Knowing how long more we got is very important to us right now and I haven't eaten anything that can be consider food since I got placed in jail.
"3 hours and I brought Lemon cakes and tea, sorry I could save anything else." Lili begun to spread her blanket that was sticking out from her bag across the jail floor, a Moon-lit picnic." During our meal, Lili explained to me about her final letter to her father. In the letter it explained her feelings and everything that had happen the past few weeks. It also advised her father to be vigilant for the person holding a knife behind their back.
Feeling a bit lazy after finally eaten something good, I begun to lean on the wall. See this Lili decide to come over and lean on my chest. "You have to practices martial art in the next life also, so I don't miss this sculpted body of yours."
We spend the rest of our time talking about our past moments up until the point that Lili fell asleep. After a while, I began to feel tired myself and I notice Lili breathing and heartbeat was beginning to slow down until it stopped. At that point, it was hard for me to keep my eyes open and I slowly close my eyes.
Feeling a bask of sunlight hitting me face, I woke up with my back falling onto something soft. Looking around it seem that I was lying down on a cloud, with Lili now waking up and in front of us was a glowing figure. The person was too bright to be seen but the silhouette seems to be of a woman.
"Ju Ge, is it morning already" Lili said while rubbing her eyes, clearly not noticing what going on around us.
"You two truly understand the concept of love, and so I will grant your wish, I will entangle your souls together." In the next life and the lives after that your souls will seek the other out and remember everything that happened during this life." She spoken with a heavenly voice, it was not high pitch and it commands admiration but at the same time the voice feels very smoothing.
After she said that the area surrounding us seem to grow brighter and brighter, until I close my eyes. While I had my eyes close, I heard Lili whispered, "If you already got another woman by the time I meet you in the next life, I castrate you myself…... I love you."
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Vzzzzzt! Vzzzzzzt! Vzzzzzzzt! I began to wake up upon hearing my alarm going off. That dream again, every time moon light is shining thorough my bed room window, I always have that same dream. Why am I dreaming about a Liu Ju? I look nothing like him but Yin Lihua really is cute. As always, the dream began to fade away immediately after I wake up.
I picked up my phone to turn off my alarm, oh s**t! The time was 6:45, it seems that I've slept through my alarm three times already, well there goes my morning run. Since I was small, I've always tried my best to stay fit and healthy. If I go for morning now then I going to be late for my classes at 9:30. I decide to see if any manga or light novel got update and open discord to see if anyone was online and see if any manga got updated. 'Buffing before the raid?' Guess the developers trying to be funny, wonder how many people read those lines at the start up?
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Princess_bodyguard: Morning everyone
TheFirstEmperor: sup, it's 1 here already
Moonlight_pharmacist: morning <(^.^)>
Juggernaut: you, up early
pink_kitten: what's for breakfast?
Samuria_joe1994: slept well?
Moonlight_pharmacist: already finish your morning run? 0.o
Princess_bodyguard: Slept in, didn't had time for my morning run.
TheFirstEmperor: What kept you up last night, got lucky?
Moonlight_pharmacist: (-_-* ) you're going to get fat.
TheFirstEmperor: @princess_bodyguard always had good luck
pink_kitten: my bet is that he had to pay to be lucky
TheFirstEmperor: yeah that seems more likely
Samuria_joe1994: How did she looked?
Juggernaut: Now we know that he really ment by 'Do Not Disturb'
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I only said that I woke up late and these guys begin to speculate that I was out with a hooker and the only reason I wasn't on discord with those guys was because I had to focus on my history presentation. The discord group is a group of friends that I met a few years ago on a manga scanlation site. In the beginning all we did was talk about anime, manga and light novels but then we started to play online games together and then as we mature, we began to discuss other topic but it was mainly us making fun of each. As the years gone by, we became close friends, to me those guys are closer to me than some persons I known since I was a kid. Some of the members are currently offline and other are still sleeping because of the time zone difference. Seeing the conversation going off the rail is not to going to benefit me, so I change my account to idle and read the few manga that got updated when I was sleeping since I got a few minutes to spare.
After reading a chapter or two, I started my normal routine. As I got out of the shower, on my phone I notice a Direct message from Moonlight_pharmacist. Moonlight_pharmacist is always someone I feel comfortable talking with for some odd reason.
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Moonlight_pharmacist: Hey :)
Princess_bodyguard: Hey, you seem to have some time on your hand.
Moonlight_pharmacist: Waiting for biology class, so what's for breakfast?
Princess_bodyguard: Hungry, didn't you just eat lunch?
Moonlight_pharmacist: wanted to give you advice on your cooking, I still remember when you burned the curry last time.
Moonlight_pharmacist: and yes, I just ate lunch. :@
Princess_bodyguard: Pancakes and a cup of coffee
Moonlight_pharmacist: Add some mashed banana to the pancake batter, gtg class is going to start now. Bye bye
Princess_bodyguard: Good luck.
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I took her advice and the pancakes really did taste a lot better. Seeing that it getting quite late after my breakfast I decided to leave for classes, I've been late a few times already so I should show up on time occasionally. Seeing that it a beautiful spring day I decided to take the bus instead of the metro, I began to re-prepare for my history presentation on the bus to university since I already checked up on my manga, anime and LN updates.
On reaching my auditorium it seems that Alvin, one of my few friends I.R.L was already there. That strange since he usually tardier than me. "Yo Alvin, you're early" I said as I approach to fist bump him.
"Jason, sup bro. I heard a transfer student is going to come today, and from what I heard through the grape vine, she a babe" Alvin was always know as a lady's man but he usually gets dump by every girl that goes out with him.
After our fist bump, we went in and took a seat around the right edge of the auditorium. It was then I remember that Alvin was dating a girl in Economics department. Looking at him with my face full of suspicion I asked. "Why are you so interested in this new girl, aren't you dating Stacy?"
With a calm face he replied "She dumped me two days ago, saying that it not about me it's her."
Alvin and I was at our usually spot at the left corner of the auditorium next to the entrance/exit. When the lecture was just about to start, I began to notice an ambrosial scent to my right. Standing there was the most gorgeous girl I've ever seen "Hi, my name is Lucy, is this seat taken" *Ba-Thump *Ba-Thump. Her voice sounded so sweet. Trying my best to stay calm, I replied "Hi, feel free to sit there. My name is Jason and this here is Alvin". Lucy give a cute nod of acknowledgement to Alvin and took a seat. She got to be the transfer student that Alvin mentioned. Seeing that she was paying attention to the lecture, it would've been rude to disturb her. Just sitting next to her made my heart race, in the past I would always think that I was asexual since no matter who it was, I never felt any attraction to another person but towards Lucy it felt as if my soul was burning and it felt like it was being pulled closer to her.