[A/N: I am referring Hualing now as "Elliana" in order to not cause any confusion.]
'Ugh. My head feels heavy. On second thought, my whole body feels so damn heavy.' Elliana (Hualing) complained with a scrunched-up face.
"You fraudulent fairy! I remembered you saying that my new life would be fun. How is this fun?! This is torture ah! Torture, I tell you!"
"Oh my, princess. Are you that excited in meeting your Father Emperor?" Nanny Josy went to Elliana's crib and bent over to pick her up. And then, she looked at the little princess in her arms and gasped in realization that something was very different from the little princess.
Her eyes went wide and mouth hanging open. It was full of utter disbelief and then horror surfaced on her now pale face.
"Hey, why are you looking at me like that?" Elliana asked her nanny. She was also a bit nervous that the nanny would drop her pretty little self on the floor because she can feel Nanny Josy's trembling hands.
'I am only more than a day old and yet I am already finding myself in a life-threatening situation?!' Elliana tried her best to move her hands in hopes of getting a hold of her nanny's clothes. She gritted her nonexistent teeth together. 'Fck this unruly short hands!'
Good thing that her hands gripped on the clothes of Nanny Josy.
"Oh no. What...what happened? Why is it like this?" Nanny Josy asked herself in utter shock and fear. She was really now afraid of what had happened. Her honey-colored eyes showed all the fear she had that was good for a year. It was that disturbing to her. Her eyes even turned red as she was about to cry and faint.
"What are you talking about? Did I grow more beautiful after sleeping for a day? Is that why you are too shocked to see how I bloomed? Is that it?"
Still, Elliana was blabbering about in her baby language in which, of course, her nanny did not understand at all. Her big glimmering eyes that was brighter than the sky outside was looking curiously at Nanny Josy.
She was indeed a pretty child but Nanny Josy was not enthusiastic at this time. She bit her lower lip and looked pale. Still, she chose to calm herself down and started to get Elliana ready to meet the Emperor.
After getting ready, Nanny Josy picked her up. Although there was a small smile on her face, there was still a little apprehension in her eyes. But Elliana was not bothered with this as she was directed toward the mirror.
"Oh~! I'm going to see myself. I'm excited. What do I look like?" Elliana excitedly said with "Oooh~ uuyaaa~~". Then she remembered that the man who was her father was really a good specimen of a man who had been blessed with such a perfectly sculptured body and mouth-watering face. She then was eager to see her face and wished to look just like her father.
'If I can have my father's looks, wouldn't that mean that I'd be able to get myself a handsome man?' This little thought of hers was making her more excited and forget that she was still a baby and was far from an age that would think about such things.
"What do you think, princess?" Nanny Josy asked while looking at Elliana through the mirror. Even though she knew that it was useless to ask this on a baby who can't understand her, she still thought that it was alright. Somehow, she felt that the baby in her arms had a bright eyes as if she can understand every word she said.
"Ahaaa. Oohh~" Elliana touched her face, mesmerizing her cute chubby face. Even with only being a baby, there was already an indication that she would be a beauty when she grows up.
"Oh. I don't have that same eyes as father. Mine is a dull-blue eyes. What a let down." She said to herself. She also don't have the same eye color as her mother. So where did she get this eyes from?
But other than that, she has the same hair as her father. So doesn't that mean that she would look like her father? That would be awesome.
"Let's go." Nanny Josy said to the other four maids attending Elliana and went out to head toward the Emperor's Palace. And this time, the more they got closer to the palace, the more apparent her shaking was.
"Nanny Josy, what are we going to do?" The maid with freckles on her face asked with clear nervousness and fear in her eyes while looking at the head maid of the seventh princess. Her voice trembled, clutching her dress.
Nanny Josy pursed her lips. She also doesn't know what happened that made the princess change like this. It was unexplainable.
After pursing her lips, she answered through gritted teeth, "I don't know. We just have to hurry and meet the emperor."
They hurried their steps and all five of them were pale and sweating with cold sweat. It did not take long before they arrived in front of the tall wooden doors of the palace.
"The seventh princess is here to greet the Emperor."
One of the guards nodded his head and went inside. Not long later, the tall doors opened and Elliana accompanied by her maids entered the hall.
The hall was huge. The ceiling was so high that their necks would hurt from looking at the very top of the ceiling. There were knights surrounding the hall; some with their spears on one hand and some with their sheathed swords in the their waists. But what was more eye-catching was the robed people standing on the side with medals hanging around their necks.
What was different from them was that all were wearing brown robes but their medals were different in color and in Elliana's eyes, it was even glowing somewhat. She blinked her eyes and the glowing vanished and was just plain medals.
"?" Elliana does not know what that was but then just brushed it off and turned her attention at the man sitting on the most lavishly adorned chair at the center of the hall. He was sitting there with two ladies in their imperial gowns on both sides just standing there.
Both were very beautiful in their own way but still, in Elliana's opinion, her mother was still far more beautiful than these two.
While the other four maids just went to a corner with their heads hanging down, Nanny Josy went forward in front of the Emperor with her heart on her throat and body visibly trembling.
"Greetings to His Majesty, the Emperor. Glory and honor to all of Gratiae Empire." Nanny Josy curtsied with her back bent forward almost in a ninety-degree angle.
Elliana looked at the emperor sitting stoically on his high seat without much emotion. She was very familiar with the look on his face because she too had experienced this in her previous life; it was that of a look of total boredom and nothing in this world can put life in his dead eyes.
And then, as if sensing her stare, the emperor's ruby eyes locked with Elliana's. There was not a ripple in his eyes but his brows were slight furrowed.
"Bring her to me." His monotonous voice without any fluctuation in his tone sounded from the silent hall and traveled in all corners of the room.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Nanny Josy obeyed respectfully while also hiding the fear she had for the emperor in front of her.
'The emperor noticed.' Nanny Josy bit her lip and worry filled her eyes while looking momentarily at the little princess in her arms. 'Princess, I'm sorry I can't help you with much.'
As soon as Elliana was closer to the throne, the two Queens and the elderly robed man looked at her with shocked eyes. They could not hide it as if they had seen something they never thought would exist. And then, the two Queens had seemed to smile warmly now at Elliana. There was even pity in it.
"Your Majesty, this..." The elderly robed man started, looking at Elliana and then to the cold-faced emperor. His wisened eyes were full of disbelief and then confusion.
"What happened?" He nonchalantly asked with a wave of his hand and just looked at Elliana.
"This..." Nanny Josy knew what the emperor was talking about but she also doesn't know what happened.
The emperor did not waste his time from waiting because he already know that he would not get anything from the nanny. He turned to the elderly man and asked, "When I visited her yesterday, she was full of magic flowing in her which was evident in her eyes. Mathias, explain to me what happened."
"Do you mean that she had the same eyes as you, Your Majesty?" Mathias, the elderly robed old man asked with widened eyes, but he was only looked at coldly by the emperor before swallowing his words and turning to the little princess and walked toward her. 'The princess' eyes were once ruby red but it changed into blue?'
"Please let me check on her first, Your Majesty." He said and went to reach out his hands, "Princess, excuse my rudeness."
Mathias placed his hand to rest on Elliana's head before closing his eyes and concentrated his consciousness into Elliana's whole being. On his hand, a white light slowly glowed out of it and enveloped Elliana's whole body.
"Oh sht. What the hell? Does he have some sort of flashlight in his hand? Why is it glowing?" Elliana's eyes widened. She was really lost in this. Was there something wrong with her? So it was not about her beauty?
"?!" And then she realized that her whole body was also glowing white.
"What exactly is happening?! Can someone please tell me?!"