Location: Rong residence
Beneath the Rong residence lies an underground training chamber, customized for his grandchild who is currently laying tired to death as she had a duel with his best men who are also tired but heavily injured.
Xian Rong Looked at her with happiness as she was the one who had asked him to train her, she is not lazy at all she just hates it but these past few years period she was taking the training sessions deadly serious as she had heard about the war closing in on them.
He remembers how she was dropped off his doorstep under a heavy snowstorm with one letter and a necklace attached to her name, he may not be her real grandfather but he had grown fond of the girl.
"Grandfather Rong, do you think we could defend this land?" he was brought out of his thoughts by Chán Juān who had finally caught up with her breathing, she was sitting on the floor with her legs crossed and her arms placed on her knees with zero emotions visible on her face.
He sat down facing her having the same seating position as he had sent the men away to clean themselves up and keep gourd outside the hidden door.
"I do, once the young emperor cleans up his lousy attitude towards his country and took the situation seriously then maybe we have a chance to defend against Yuanxi" He huffed angrily as he remembered Cheng Huo.
The previous emperor had died of an illness 5 years ago right after that Cheng Huo who was 15 at the time took the throne as the emperor, with the help of his wicked mother.
It is said that the emperor was poisoned by small doses of the dead flower nectar, which is the kind of poison that takes effect slowly inside the body, there is a cure to it, but it's tough to find it.
To the politicians at the time suspected who did it but they were apart of it, think about this if Cheng Huo takes the throne at the age of 15 he is prone to become a puppet to their own games.
Foul plays have been happening sometimes hidden from the ordinary people, but some of them happened in plain sight, making it almost impossible to trust anyone.
Chán Juān stood up and walked to the tea set that had been prepared beforehand by the maids, she takes out a needle while pouring the tea onto the cup and put the needle inside, looking if it had been tampered with.
Seeing the needle not changing color, she pours another cup and puts one in front of her grandfather before sitting down and take a sip out of it, the tea being mint tea, mint teas are full of relaxing effects, helping to soothe the body and calm the mind.
They both sit in comfortable silence as they enjoy the tea while occasionally talking about politics and the rumors about the Yuanxi oldest princess part taking in the war, it is said that the current emperor loathes her because of the younger princess.
Chán Juān had no comments towards it, but she did have this weird feeling deep down whenever she hears the mistreatment Ying Yue has to deal with.