"What do you mean, Xue Er is missing?!" Feng Huang Di roared. His royal palace guards quivered, their heads lowered. None of them dared to raise their heads up to meet his gaze. All but the chief of the palace guards.
"We suspect that she has run away, your majesty. There was no sign of struggle in her room. No ransom, nothing, so it is unlikely that she has been abducted or kidnapped. There was no violence or blood, so we do not believe it was an assassination. The servants report that her storage device is absent, and that a few of her clothing and half of her savings were gone. It is very probable that her highness the seventh princess left on her own accord."
"She would never disobey me!" Feng Huang Di snapped. "I told her to stay in her room…"
