It was sunset in the kingdom of light and no one has gotten any news of Lu Mouxian's whereabouts. Ning Xi was worried that he may be lost, so she ordered the royal guards to follow the same directions that Lu Mouxian followed and search for him.
They got equipped, got on their horses and rode towards the forest. As they got closer to the Tea tree forest, the distinct smell of blood caught their attention and in an instant, they became more aware of their surroundings.
There were...dead people around them and those dead people were their very own comrades. One of the guards burst out in tears as he saw his comrades laying on the dirty ground dead. One of them said to him
" There's nothing we can do about this situation. They are dead, they are dead and won't come back to life even if you want them to. Would Yuan Bo be happy if he sees you crying because he's dead?"
He shook his head in response. He wiped his tears and said to the other guard " thank you for making me understand sir."
The leader of the royal guards, Qi Wei looked around the area and said to his fellow guards. " we are getting closer to that country called Japan. I'm sure that we I'll find the king as we move forward. Be careful as you move as we do not know what lurks in this forest, understood?"
" Yes sir!" they answered in unison.
They got deeper and deeper into the forest and the stench of blood became more and more unbearable.
" Ugh why is there so much blood" one of the guards asked.
QI Wei sighed " Can't you see the amount of dead bodies around us? It seems like there was an attack over here. We just have to find the carriage first and make sure that the king is safe."
The other guard bowed slightly in embarrassment as he didn't take notice of the dead bodies around them. Instead he was thinking of the spinach noodles that he would have when he returns home from this search.
The carriage was in sight, so they all dashed to the carriage. The doors of the carriage was stuck so it had to be broken down. The carriage doors flew open, but the carriage was...empty.
QI Wei called out " Master Mouxian, Master Mouxian where are you sir?" But he got no response in return.
He got in and searched inch by inch, but the king was no where to be found. He hopped down from the carriage and delivered the news to his fellow comrades.
" since the king is not in here, he must have escaped these attacks by running north, so let's go north too."
"Yes sir!"
The guards were led by Qin Wei towards where they think that Lu Mouxian must be hiding.
A stream was seen in the distance, one of the guards began to run towards the stream as he was very thirsty.
As he reached the stream and was about to go in, he accidentally tripped on something strange. He turned around and looked down. When he did look down, he was terrified by what his eyes had seen at that moment. He let out the loudest scream and all the other guards' attention was driven to him.
" Th-This is m-master Lu-Lu Mouxian? What is going on. Why is he lying down here?"
The other guards' came rushing towards him and when they caught a glimpse of Lu Mouxian's face, they were dumbfounded. They didn't expect him to be in that position. Qin Wei shook Lu Mouxian with all his might
" Master Lu Mouxian, please wake up. Master Lu Mouxian?"
After all the attempts to wake him up, it was realised that the king, Lu Mouxian is dead. They bowed down their heads in grief.
They lifted Mouxian and placed him in the carriage, fed the horses with water, then headed back to Fujian.
As they arrived, the villagers where so happy to finally see the king, but something was strange. He wasn't waving to the citizens from the carriage.
The royal guards looked more devastated than ever as they had to deliver the corpse back to the Lu mansion, where the royal family stays.
They reached the mansion's gates and opened them. Qin Wei sighed heavily as he didn't want to ruin the joy and happiness that filled the mansion.
They brought out Lu Mouxian's corpse and carried it to the front of the mansion's door. Qin Wei opened the doors and all the singing and dancing stopped as they saw the corpse lying in front of the mansion doors.
Qin Wei began to speak
" Lu Mouxian,the king of this kingdom, Fujian has been killed in an attack on his way to the meeting. He was stabbed in the chest and was found beside a stream in the tea tree forest.
Lu Mouxian's mother rushed towards her dead son crying
" My son. Why did this happen to him." She kept crying and crying then asked
" Who was the one that killed my son. When I find that person, I'll kill the person myself."
Lu Youran heard what his mother said from the balcony and smirked
" she wouldn't kill me even if she found out. But she should never find out that I'm the one that killed Lu Mouxian"
Ning Xi was upstairs, dressing Wang Li and Wang Jing for bed as it was their bedtime. She heard noises downstairs and Wang Li asked looking at her mother
" Mummy, what's going in downstairs?"
Ning Xi looked back at her and said
" I don't know what is going on downstairs but when I'm done, I'll go downstairs together. Maybe your father is back and the people that have been waiting here for him are rejoicing."
Wang Jing and Wang Li said in unison
" Father is back!"
Ning Xi chortled
" Yes he is back"
She put them to bed and kissed their foreheads bidding them a good night.
Happily, she went down the stairs. When she got down and saw no one in the kitchen, she carried a tray full of Lu Mouxian's favourite dishes and went into the sitting room, where all the other people were.
When she finally got there, there was a crowd of people at a particular side of the sitting room.
Murmurs were heard from all sides
"She is so young and now she has lost her own husband"
Another person said
" yes, but who will rule Fujian now"
She was confused by what the people were saying.
She carried the tray of food through the crowd and got to where the gathering was.
She looked down at what others were looking at but instead of seeing Lu Mouxian, she saw a corpse.
She couldn't identify the man as his face was covered in blood, so she asked the guards
" who is this man and where is Lu Mouxian?"
QI Wei gulped and pointed at the corpse.
" This man is Lu Mouxian"
She looked at him and laughed hysterically
" This cannot be Lu Mouxian, what are you saying to me"
She went closer to the body to have a closer look.
" Look, this isn't the same clothes he wore to leave the mansion and this isn't the same scabbard he carried too. So how can you say that this dead man is my husband, Lu Mouxian.
QI Wei brought out a bracelet from his pocket and said
" This was found on the kings wrist."
Ning Xi looked at the bracelet, the same bracelet that she made for him herself.
"Th-This is the s-same bracelet" tears fell from her eyes.
" That I- I made for him" she was breathing heavily, so she collapsed and the tray of food fell from her hands.