The Wicked lady went to her room and seated on the mattress, she wrecked her brain out trying to figure out a new scheme, she then finally decided, "Hmm. This can't be delayed any further. Tonight, I have to take away Zhang Wei's prowess!"
After deciding to take away his prowess, the Wicked Woman restless heart settles down for a while. When her mind quiets down for a moment, the Wicked Woman notices a weird smell flowing around in the air, her nose sniffs throughout the area and the smells leads to her own body. It was the stinky smell coming out from her body and her dress. Upon finding it, the Wicked Woman sighed and spoke, "Tch! This body stinks! I almost forgot that I needed to take care of the body"
The Wicked lady, then got up and strolled around the place, looking for a new dress to wear. Her memory brings her to the times, when she was a close friend with Zhang Wei, "That Zhang Wei, he used to keep a beautiful red dress, somewhere near here!"
Remembering the Old days, the Wicked lady started searching for the dress at the closet, finally, she found the beautiful red dress, carefully wrapped up by a shiny sky blue cloth. She took it out and grinned, "Ha! Zhang Wei...Zhang Wei! You never failed to amazed me. This was meant to be a gift for the teacher's daughter. He was so madly in love with her back then. Hmm, that poor girl, she never did turn her gazes towards him. She died without knowing, how much Zhang Wei loves and adores her!"
The Wicked Woman then continues, "Since, that woman would never turn up again! Let me do a favour for him. I'll wear it for her!"
The Wicked Woman took the beautiful red dress and went to take a bath.
She pours down the warm water onto the wooden bathtub, then pours scented dried herbs and flowers. She then took out the stinky dress and went inside the warm, hot tub. Her smelly body felt satisfied at the warm water, she soaked her body for a while, splashing the fresh, aromatic water onto her body. Making her feels fresh and clean.
Soaking her body into the warm cosy water made her fall sleepy that she floats on the water making her fell into a deep unconsciousness.
That deep seconds of unconsciousness made her dive into the subconscious of the owner of the body. In a whiff, she saw the image of Xialin's brother, Xulan being pierced down by a sword right through his heart. She then saw Xialin crying her eyes out. It broke the body owner's heart that the subconscious follows the pain and made a tear falls from her eyes. The vivid scene in her subconscious made her sweat. Not wanting to stay in the sorrowful scene anymore, the Wicked Woman ran out from there and finally woke up. In a split second, she opens up her eyes in a flash.
Soon after she was done bathing, she came out from the tub, dried her body with a clean cloth then wore the enchanting beautiful red dress. She then turns to the mirror, admiring the enchanting face glowing up in the beautiful red dress, the Wicked Woman smiled, feeling pleased with her new face. She then returned to her room.
On her way back to her room, the Wicked woman grabs an elixir, which can hypnotise a person's mind. Hiding the elixir onto her sleeves she came back to her room. She then carefully hide the elixir on a safe spot and made up her mind, "When the night comes, I'll make sure to take your prowess, Zhang Wei"
The Wicked Women seated before the mirror and made a retouch to her beautiful milky white face. She put a bright red lip colour on her soft lips. Her hair was beautifully decorated with the stunning ornaments that were there. She looks like a bride ready to visit his groom's home.
The Wicked lady waited there in her room, for the night to come and for Zhang Wei, to finally return from his work.
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On the other side of the story...….
Scene 1:
The General's men who went to pursue the bird in the Dark forest lost their direction. The Pigeon went vanished into the thick dark forest. Unable to find the sight of the bird, they immediately slow down the horse to a trot. The men look at each other and nod their head. One of the men spoke up, "Men, be watchful, we might be very closed to the enemy's camp".
Before the other men could even respond, a bunch of arrows flew by, making it bring down the General's men one after another. Unable to make their escape or gave a strike back to the enemy, they were eradicated one after another. The horses jump in shocked and terror.
Soon, after they were all cleared, a group of the Eagle bandit members came by wearing all-black robes and pants with boots to search the dead body. They checked the body, one after another, after confirming that all the men were dead and not a single soul were alive. One of the Eagle bandit member, which looks quite older than the rest, took off his masks. He has a deep scar on his chin, which looks like a scar made by a sharp claw. He finally made his statement, "These are the General's men. Looks like they are after us, quick send a message to our master"
The rest of the members replied, "Yes!"
They then quickly left the spot.
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Scene 2:
Five of the General's men who went towards the east of the Black Market following the bird had stopped their pursue at the new Brothel House. The bird stopped there and was sitting at the corridor of the Brothel House.
The General's men came down from their horses. They kept their eyes on the bird but no one came to receive the messenger bird.
Upon finding not even a single clue of the owner of the bird, the men barge inside the Brothel House. When they went inside the Brothel House, they find the Brothel House in a huge celebration.
The famous dancer was dancing in the main hall and the high and rich class peoples were enjoying the scene. Some were drunk on the other side, it was quite vibrant and there were many kinds of peoples staying inside the Brothel House.
It would be hard to spot the Eagle bandit amongst those huge crowd. The General's men begin their search inside the Brothel House. They barge in the room after room, some scene was too uncomfortable to look at. They immediately get out from there. Unable to find the culprit they talk amongst themselves, "What shall we do?".
One of them replied, "Since we are not able to spot the culprit it's better to not make any commotion here, for now, let's leave the place and returned to the General's Mansion. We needed to report this to Master Yutao"