Abandoned without much explanation in that strange environment, Mulan was lost. The idiot dragon talked about making friends, but she didn't quite understand what that was supposed to mean. From the moment she arrived until now she just got carried away by the situation.
To recap she woke up in a strange bed, she was dragged by two strangers to a strange house and the only creature that seemed to know anything about her situation was an equally strange dragon.
That is...
It was all a dream!
If the situation is too strange to be real, it isn't real.
Bingo!
Just wake up now! Or not....
Mulan tried everything to wake up. She lay down on the small bed in the bedroom and tried to sleep again, pinched herself in all the possible places and with as much force as possible, hit her head against the wall and even considered breaking a vase that looked quite expensive and cutting herself.
They said that in the dream we don't die. Either way, she felt like she needed to get out of this place as quickly as possible or things would just get messed up for her. So she picked up the vase, and when she was about to break it....
- Wait! – Hong appeared from somewhere and was floating in front of the mulan with a serious face – This is not a dream. If you die, you will die for real!
- How can it not be a dream! – Mulan shouted – I was in my apartment and all of a sudden I'm here, being carried around by strangely dressed men in a strange place and talking to a snake!
-Aff! – Hong sighed – First of all I'm not a snake; secondly this is what you asked for; thirdly calm down woman!
- Easier said than done honey! – Mulan was almost screaming – You weren't the one who was sent to a strange world out of nowhere!
- I already said that's what you asked! – Mulan stopped and looked at the dragon absurdly – When did I ask for this?
- And I really need to keep reminding you of everything again and again! – On New Year's Eve you said yourself "If I could save the world I wouldn't be alone"
Hong spoke imitating a whining female voice and then looking seriously at Mulan.
While Mulan and Hong discussed the absurdity of the girl's situation in the palace, the Emperor tried to control a chaotic situation. A dragon appeared in the skies and that could only mean two things; blessing or curse. The ministers and women of the Harem were in an uproar, and there was only one emperor to manage the situation.
-I'm glad I hid that girl in the general's house – The emperor thought and was almost sure that that mysterious girl had something to do with the dragon in the skies.
While the empire's highest authority thought of a way to calm everyone down, a eunuch came to report.
- What! – The emperor shouted losing his composure – Repeat that again!
- The concubine Ling, daughter of the third councilor of state gave birth the moment the dragon appeared in the sky.
The emperor's face darkened, and the little eunuch did his best to diminish his sense of existence.
Concubine Ling, daughter of Ling Hua, third councilor of state and a thorn in the side of the emperor. This woman's child was born the very day a dragon and a mysterious girl appeared. The emperor felt a sense of crisis.
Until now the emperor had two sons and a daughter, the struggle for power was balanced. But now, it could shake the country's foundations. The real problem was that this child was only due a month from now, he was sure that woman had done something.
Dismissing the eunuch, the emperor began to think. His cold face gave no sign of what he was thinking, but his eyes glittered dangerously. The empress was summoned together with the chief eunuch.
- Control the situation in the palace - These were the words of the emperor - Tomorrow I will resolve everything in the council of state.
The empress looked like she wanted to say something, but decided to keep quiet and the eunuch just lowered his head, prepared to follow the emperor's orders.
In concubine Ling's crystal palace everyone was happy. His mistress had given birth to a handsome prince and even a dragon appeared in the sky, symbolizing that that child was special. Yet only that woman knew how unfortunate that child was who should have died today.
In short, that child had the misfortune to be born into the imperial family, it's a shame he would never have known that