Finally, it's done "My lady what do you plan on doing?" Cheng Chin question with her head tilted, baking back at her I replied "Becoming stronger, can you please retire to bed early. This is something I need to do on my own" she lowered her head in a bow and left the garden.
I waited for ten minutes before I started speaking with Angel "Angel how do I activate this thing?" I asked with a confused look directed at the chibi Angel form. Angel grinned "You have to make up the spell" he replied sheepishly.
"What there's no proper way of doing this?" I asked him making sure he wasn't pulling my tail here. He shook his head no before relaxing his bottom on some flower hedge "Fine then, I'll get started" I murmured with a grumble.
I guess I'll say the first thing that comes to mind…
"Oh, waxing crescent moon high up in thy sky may your pour your power into thee lowly one soul" I raised my hand and blush from embarrassment, no way this is going to work. Wait is the moon shining brighter than a moment ago?
I looked down at my body and without realizing it I have started to glow as well "Angel am I collecting the moon magic?" feeling doubt I looked at the formation and sure enough it has a bright glow and was spinning.
If I focus and closed my eyes I can see a moon the size of my pinky "wow, this is beautiful" I uttering out my feeling unknowingly. I strangely felt calm while watching the moon in my mind grow to the size of my palm.
Opening my eyes slowly I had noticed the moon place has changed and its probably around two o'clock. I looked down at the ground where the moon formation should be only to find wilted moon bell flowers and completely used candles.
"Angel after I wake up can you explain how to use my magic?" I looked over at the chibi Angel who just casually sits on the flower hedges. He nodded his big head and flew off into the pavilion, I sighed and cleaned up my mess not wanting anyone to come across this. That reminds me do they have witch trials here?
I rubbed my temples as fatigued slowly settles in making my eyes droop low, once I have finally made my way back into my quarters I landed face-first into my pile of pillows. The next thing I knew someone was shaking me awake roughly, with a groggy mind I lifted my head from my pile of pillows.
"What time is it?" I asked with a cracking voice "My lady you have to leave and head to Guiying" the voice of Cheng Chin declared in a rush. Rolling over I prompt myself onto my side and face Cheng Chin with my eyes still half shut.
Another maid is inside my room as well, she seemed to be in charge of packing up my jewelry and clothing. Despite being unable to cultivate, I had many clothing and accessories that have been given to me as gifts or what I have myself bought with the small allowance that I had.
"Make sure to pack my purple cheongsam that has the golden flowers, along with some of my gold color jewelry" I order the maid before getting out of bed to head to my dining room. I am pretty sure I have the messiest bedhead in all of Qaihong and it looks like I had forgotten to change into my nightgown last night.
At this point I don't care, I just want something to quench my thirst and satisfy my hunger. I passed by many of my maids and eunuch eyed me with astonishment at what I assume is because of messy behead.
With sluggish steps, I have made my way to my spot in my dining hall and sat down with a sigh escaping my slightly plump lips. A eunuch rushed over to me with a pot of tea, I scowled at the eunuch 'something is off with this fellow I just can't place it' I hid my caution behind the scowl currently plaster on my features.
He places down a teacup and poured the newly brewed tea into the cup, I picked up the teacup and sniff it. It smells like my usual steep tea, I toss a glance at the eunuch that has yet to leave my side and took a sip, and started to swish the tea around in my mouth a bit.
My scowl deepen by hundredfolds, I spit the tea back into my cup and focus my whole attention on the eunuch who looked beyond frightened. Punching him square in the nose I call out for the guards "Someone takes this scoundrel to the prison" many buffed-up guards appeared out of nowhere and picked up the man and left.
Poison, how did my tea get poison? I have a taste tester for a reason. If I didn't know how poisons were tasted from my previous life and how to identify the poison before drinking or eating I would have died a whole lot earlier.
I then storm my way into the kitchen and slammed the door open "Where's my taste tester? I want him to re-taste test my breakfast" I barked out an order that spooks the whole kitchen staff soulless.
One of the kitchens helps enter a side room where I had usual kept my taste tester and brought out a skinny young man "M-my lady is something wrong?" he stuttered with his whole body shivering from terror alone.
"Taste test my food again, please Bo Ping" I ground my teeth in annoyance, he shakily nods his head and started tasting the dishes that has been prepared once again. On the fourth plate his whole body stiffen up and his eyes go wide "Moonflower poisoning-" he soon fainted and started foaming at the mouth.
"There's no saving him, someone tells the guards we are going to need a new taste tester" I stopped one of the kitchen hands from helping the poor boy whose body convulsed violently before going eerily still.
I went to the kitchen fridge which is a giant box with some sort of formation on it, I took a loaf of bread and walked out of the kitchen with the loaf in my mouth. Did my servants start whispering about the whole loaf of bread that I am casually munching on? Yes, they did.
I walked back to my room where Cheng Chin upon spotting me dropped the few books she had in her arms, her mouth gape open "M-my lady why are you eating the whole loaf?" she asked in disbelief while blinking her eyes numerous times.
I took the loaf out of my mouth "My whole breakfast is poison" I replied curtly and began eating my loaf of bread again like a street rat. Cheng Chin rushed over to me and began checking my body for any signs using her qi to search my body.
From the previous Qaihong Gho, almost all of the servants have cultivated but are usually stuck in early Qi gathering stages. Cheng Chin for example is currently at Qi gathering stage 9 and unlike the others, she is close to the Qi refinement stage.
I smiled bitterly at the memories and patted Cheng Chin's head to snap myself out of the dark place "Cheng Chin can youtube my bath and bring me some herbs?" I asked gently, replacing my scowl with a warm smile and gentle eyes.
Cheng Chin looked up at me not long after a pink blush crept across her cheeks "of course my lady, Cheng Chin will do whatever her lady tells her to do" Cheng Chin spoke proudly, leaving soon after to gather her herbs.
"My child you can use your moon magic on the bath along with herbs to help enchant any type of effect you want on the water" Angel spoke up out of nowhere. I raised a perfectly arched brow at him "And let me guess I'll have to make up the spell words again right?" I asked in sarcasm.
Angel gave me an apologetic smile and then flew off to who knows where, I sighed again and began to browse my mini bookshelf full of the old Qaihong Gho favorite books. A purple book with golden letters spelled in in golden letters stood out to me than all of the others books.
I pulled it off of the shelf and browse through the purple book "Dear Dairy, Why does everyone keep calling me useless since I can't cultivate like everyone else?" the year this entry was written was 1XX. By the messy handwriting, you could tell a five-year-old child wrote these questions in the hopes someone would write them.
Dear Diary
Someone had trashed my whole pavilion, the individual who had done it is still unknown. A lot of my herbs have gone missing though maybe it was just a thief? 1XX Someone tried to kill me today! Having about thirty plant pots trying to crush your skull open ain't normal.
I continue to read through the dairy with black lines on my forehead, Qaihong Gho you have truly lived a missable life no wonder why you became two-faced.