The next morning Mei-ling woke up to rays of sunlight reflecting into her bedroom.
She smiled and turned to the side and continued to sleep.
"My mistress?" A voice said. "Your servant has brought you your breakfast."
Mei-ling frowned in her sleep.
Mistress? Why was someone calling her a mistress?
She wanted to sleep because she was on vacation away from work in a hotel in Bali.
She slowly opened her eyes and saw someone hand her a tea.
She smiled and sat up, then she sipped the tea.
It was so lovely! This hotel she was in was perfect!
The room service gave her tea in bed!
"Do you like the tea?" The voice asked.
Mei-ling nodded with a smile still partly sleeping. "It's lovely. You know I just had the strangest dream."
"What was it about?" The voice asked her.
"Just that I woke up in ancient China and then I was a supporting FL, and then I was going to become a concubine."
"My mistress." The voice said. "What is a supporting FL?"
Huh?
Mei-ling froze and shook the sleep from eye and saw Li-na's big eyes staring down at her.
She screamed and jumped up to her feet!
Oh no! It was not a dream! It had all be real!
All of it!!!!
Ohhhhh whhyyyyy???!!!!!
"My mistress." Li-na said as she picked up the spilled tea.
Mei-ling went down to the floor on her knees and begged the ceiling.
"Oh spirits." She begged in whispers. "Please get me out of here! I don't want to die! Anything that you tell me to do I will do it! Even if it's to be a monk! I swear it! I will never sin!"
"My mistress!" Li-na said rushing up to her. "What are you doing? Your servant is scared."
Mei-ling quickly realized that she was out of character.
She couldn't let them think she was not Mei-ling.
"I was just praying and thanking the stars that we are alive." Mei-ling lied.
Li-na looked at her suspiciously. "Yes we made it alive. We were very lucky."
Mei-ling scratched her hair like a mad woman wondering her next move from here.
She took a gaze around the surroundings since she had been so tired last night.
It was simple small and lovely.
There was a window overseeing a garden a stream outside, while the room itself had simple but nice furnitures.
She knew that Mei-ling despite how beautiful was a second class concubine which meant that she didn't get to have the luxuries as the other concubines.
In fact she had been the most beautiful and the only second class concubine.
This was because her family had promised her as a concubine to the royal family after her father had been saved one day by guards of the imperial palace.
She was a commoner but a concubine to the ML, Jia Hao who was the future emperor.
What she didn't understand was the scene with the bandits that shouldn't have happened.
In the book Mei-ling had come to the palace without any troubles so what really happened?
"My mistress you look tired I would go and ready a nice bath for you." Li-na said. "If we had gone earlier maybe we won't have met the bandits on the way."
And then she bowed and left.
Mei-ling gasped and snapped her fingers!
That was it!
They hadn't gone at the appropriate time because when she was supposed to have left, Mei-ling had spent over two hours begging her mother not to go and then thinking of how to escape being stoned to death!
She hoped that it didn't make the situations catastrophic.
Mei-ling thought about the handsome man she had saved last night.
She would want to marry him. Sigh!
Li-na returned to the bedroom. "My mistress!The empress and queen mother want to see you!"
Mei-ling dreaded this!
Now that she had made that one mistake the book wasn't going how it was supposed to!
She knew that the Royal family had spared her from greeting them due to the trauma of being attacked by robbers last night.
If not she would have had to greet them the moment she had stepped in to the palace.
"And also, his Royal highness, prince Tai-hua demands your presence too!"
Mei-ling had completely forgotten!
The ML had a brother from a different mother who acted as the emperor while the ML went from war.
Mei-ling swallowed heavily. Gulp!