a little maid has just entered the palace a week ago and now she is anxious to serve anyone inside the palace, every night the maid is a brave one to clean the place and serve the ones who sleep late at night, but this time she is no timid but anxious
the hallway is long and empty and she's tasked to take a tea herb to a far away corner of the palace
she knocked inside a chamber door as gentle as she can and entered
"M-Master Mistress! your tea is ready I'll leave it here" she clumsily slammed the tea on the table causing a rampage and disturbance
"I-Im sorry" she stuttered shaking
"oh- why is the new maid anxious!" says Mingjie making way towards her direction, the little maid is even more agitated as she showed herself
"are you afraid I'm gonna do something to you?" she grinned
"N-No Mistress!" she said and bowed
"it's alright, tommorow night bring me another at the same time as today I'm starting to like this tea!" she smiled at her and gestured to leave, the little maid walked away
Mingjie sat down on the couch like she owned the whole palace barely covering herself
"ah~ why is the new maid anxious about everything, do they already know we ate all the past maids!!" she said, Mingfu came out of the study and sat at the opposite side
"sister, we had a deal with the emperor not to kill the maids that are new, let's not eat them at least we are stronger now than before" he smiled, Mingjie is bored and took a sip of her tea, twirling them in mid air
"besides, brother and I absorb sins inside this palace walls-" she smiled viciously
"indeed my sister, there are people here sinning behind the emperor's back and people trying to kill each other"
"what do you expect from humans, this is a palace walls, it means it's all about power so they are mostly attracted to it" Mingjie sat politely and showed her body
"brother why don't you come to me-"
"no, not tonight! I had plans in mind on how to give the emperor power to expand a demon armies and I have just the perfect guy for it!" Mingfu rested his chin on his arms and had all his head in deep thoughts
"that sly weak emperor wants power-"
"yes, he wants to bring down his brother who is the catastrophe, it's not easy, after all he commands the palace soldiers, and within many months we could finally see the real catastrophe which is his son, I have always wondered about him!" he paused and looked at the window and spotted a quarter moon
"they said Catastrophe Prince brings wrath to this world that means he is on our side, if we dig deeper into his ability he could be our key to win a war and bring demons back here on earth, what more wake up our sleeping master!"
Mingjie smelled his brother's plans and he is patiently waiting for an answer while letting the emperor do whatever he wants, they always helped him frame Fei Xu to commit crimes but always end up solving them himself, what more the king never does his duty and dump it all to his remaining brother Fei Xu, Zhu state never has peace, because the law is like a leash for every person, the crimes had increase and guards turn a blind eye and close ears for those yearning for justice, food supplies and clean water is barely given to the people but is given to the palace directly, what the palace dumped will be given to its people
Fei Xu got mad once from not handling such shit the emperor is doing, and even if he does something nice to the people, like giving them their needs, people would still look at him as the curse of their land so Fei Xu could only disguise as some official who wants to help, but that's no use since the people will never trust officials
officials are the ones corrupting everyone and they put the money in their pocket for their own selfish ways, the death of people dying from hunger is nothing in their eyes, no one could even escape the Zhu territory, because if one could be caught, that person and his family will be beheaded out of mercy
"Fei Xu, this is cruel and madness of the people inside the palace, even the people of this city has no guts to believe or accept you as their provider- this city is a load of shit!!!" Liang slammed her palms on the table reading all the paperworks send by the emperor
"Liang, I tried my best to get the attention of people, I tried to provide them food, save them out of poverty but nothing works, people inside the palace does not care and is corrupt by their own will-" he said and humbly picked up a folder and work on them
Feng came inside with a stack of paper on his hand and slammed them on the table
"this is bull crap my lord, those officials is so useless, they even planned to sell some slaves to another country to gain money!!" Feng slammed down on the opposite side of the table and work with his highness
"Feng it's time I plan to kill vultures circling my ego!!!" Fei Xu had a gloomy face and hearing those from Fei Xu, Feng was exited
"send my orders, gather the shadow men and secretly kill officials who corrupted the last fund money for people, dig their background and the wherebouts of the silver and gold they stole, kill them and their family, free the innocent and children and send their descendants to slavery!!" Feng's face was priceless and could not wait for Fei Xu to say go
Liang grinned and saw Fei Xu's mad face which is silent but deadly
"the fund is for the people, how dare they!!!" he grinned his teeth and slammed his clenched hands on the table full of folders
"calm down, I'll help with the investigation, I'll make my own plan of washing out the officials of the palace!!" says Liang and left
Fei Xu's eyes is red and meditated in his chair to ease his anger, it's time he plan out his purpose as a prince, for the past years all he had in mind is to keep feeding the people and protecting them, he tried to gain their trust by showing his kindness, save those who are about to be killed but human's mind can never trust someone they thought could break them
What his people had in mind is that, he is the Catastrophe Prince who brought wrath in their life, it's because that's their belief from the time Fei Xu was born
"Fei Lin, I'll make sure you and your officials will die in my hand from giving me so much sufferring, everyone is just the same, instead of them appreciating my gratitude, they are worser than I expected!!!"
how will you fix it? a country that is descended with pain and suffering, people hate the emperor for the law and small amount of food provided for them and they hate prince Fei Xu, because of the belief that he is the one who cursed the land, even if he is the one doing his best to help them stay alive from the hands of deadly rules
Nobody is trusted, nobody has a low sense of pride and put trust in Fei Xu who won the war for Lin, some are even a family of theif to steal life and money, a country where there is no peace, a country where nobody trust each other, they are all selfish and mad
one of the official of Zhu state is Yao Tze, he handles the food management and distribute them to the people, but he never does his work right, the farmers to him is just nothing but a provider for their stomach, and in his own selfish ways he only gives food that is spilling out of the bucket to the other people, it's like they never cared at all that the people are suffering and hungry
Yao Tze kept himself safe and tell the emperor lies or frames his workers about their corruption and imbalance distribution of food crops from farmers, thus Lin will kill them without hearing their side story
"Yao Tze, we get to eat so much meals as we can with this big amount of food, you better ask the chicken industry to breed as many chicken as they can to produce delicious meat for us I'm sick of those veggies given by farmers! what more it's bitter!! I can't handle it!" complained the handler of taxes, Wu Qing
Taxes are supposed to be at the right amount of what the emperor set as people's pay but Wu Qing adds higher amount so he could fill his pocket for himself
"I did, but right now those farmers of crop complains hard, they ask for their share but I did, I gave them a sack enough to feed their family for a year what more do they want tse!!"
5 sack per family out of a thousand sacks the farmers planted with their sweat and blood, a year could not feed them with that small amount of food, not to mention they also need to pay the land that belongs to them as a tax share for the king, no one wants to live there anymore but they can't leave or they will be beheaded, farmers are also becoming lazy and lazy because they themselves are cheated by the government
Feng's spies are all around the area, their ears are on the walls and eyes are looking at them behind their head, privately they are workers secretly they are servants and it become clearer that the more Fei Xu will sit and play concern he will lose and let the officials kill the people little by little
"this can't go on forever!!!" Fei Xu got up from his seat
"take my orders, set a frame for those officials and summon one of my assassin leaders to replace Yao Tze and Wu Qing, leave no trace of their family background and send their childrens to slave house"
"Yes Diánxià!" a voice on the shadow spoke and disappeared on thin air after hearing Fei Xu's orders
"Lin, you put your ass on that throne but not doing any justice for your people, you leave me no choice, I will slowly replace them all with my soldiers and devour you little by little!!!" Fei Xu's eyes were red, he felt the wind dance in mid air and hear his heart palpitate.
For a second he could hear his heart but as he dig deeper into the sound he hears Fei Jin's heart palpitating in happiness
"son, are you prepared to face all this?" he mumbled
It's been a month since Yuan is doing jobs and tree cutting with Yi Ce and finally she is able to train with him a little, Yuan is really cheeky and does her works often, her chubby shape no longer exist and in just a month it burned and made her a shape
Yunxi in the other hand is still practicing with her fan and asks Fei Jin to explore the temple more or collect herbs in the forest, Shao Qi cooks a lot for everyone and masters his skills in making the most delicious dessert he could ever make, Master long is still practicing some new sound to control the wind of tiger beast which is a hard process to control
everyone is planning, exploring and practicing, preparing for their own country which they will save out of the hands of the people who sit and make everyone suffer, but Fei Jin faces the most challenging part of all in his life, he does not care and just wonder what will happen, he just watch as everyone work on their own, Fei Jin is clouded with thoughts picking between good and evil, he is sometimes recovering memories from the past and enters dreams of answers
Him being the Catastrophe is not proper at all, he is in between dark and light picking if people will appear to be good to him or not, nobody wanted Fei Jin even when he was born, he also knew his his father suffered a lot to bring him to the world he never wanted to enter, but it's him who is odd